The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Soldier’s Medal to Private Jesse R. Compo (ASN: R-1209955), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while serving with Battery B, 64th Coast Artillery, near Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 18 November 1930. During a violent cloud burst, an automobile containing three occupants was swept over the Mcanalna Bridge into a swift, turbulent stream in which debris of every description was being carried downstream. The occupants of the car succeeded in gaining temporary safety among the branches of a tree in the midst of the flood but their lives were imperiled b the rising water. After several attempts had been made to rescue them, Private Compo, with utter disregard of his own personal danger, voluntarily ventured out into the deep razing current and had almost reached the persons he was endeavoring to help when he was swept downstream and barely escaped being drowned. Although Private Compo was unsuccessful in rescuing these persons, the attempt to do so under such unfavorable circumstances characterizes it as an act of outstanding heroism.