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English: Title: 12 year old girl wins Medal of Honor, Washington, D.C., Sept. 12. Photo shows Miss Kathryn Van Horn of White City, Ohio, leaving the White House just after President Roosevelt had presented her with the medal and the certificate for her brave act of saving two boys. Photo shows Miss Van Horn holding the certificate and the Medal is pinned on her dress.

"CLAIRE KATHRYN VAN HORN of Somerset, Ohio has won a place among the illustrious women of Ohio. She is the proud possessor of the Army and Navy award for valor which was presented to her in September 1936 by President Roosevelt for her courageous deed of the previous winter.
Two of the young girl’s companions, both boys, were coasting down hill, speedily approaching a railroad track unaware that a fast train was approaching. The young heroine, seeing the danger, threw her body in front of the sled between its path and the railroad track. Though Kathryn received some minor injuries, she escaped actual harm. And she saved the lives of the boys."

(September 13, 1936). "Roosevelt Presents Medal To Ohio Girl For Heroism". Dayton Daily News. See also clipping of article.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— President Roosevelt cruised the Chesapeake bay tonight seeking relief from heat that sent the mercury soaring toward the nineties.
 Aboard the yacht Potomac the chief executive sailed from the Washington navy yard, planning to he gone until late tomorrow or early Monday.
 Mr. Roosevelt's program called for both work and pleasure during the week-end cruise. He took with him several baskets of unfinished administration business and a sheaf of notes containing data for the speech he will deliver Sept. 18 at the 300th anniversary celebration of Harvard university.
 Before he closed his White House desk, however, he ran through an unusually heavy Saturday engagement list. He conferred on TVA power with David Lilienthal, power expert of the TVA; Basil Manly, of the federal power commission and others.
 Highlight of the day, however, was presentation of a gold medal to 12-year-old Kathryn Van Horn of White Cottage, O., for extraordinary heroism in saving the lives last February of two boys who faced death under the wheels of a train.
 The youngster, small for her age, threw herself in front of the boys' sled, thus deflecting its course and preventing an accident.
 She received the medal as the gift of the Legion of Valor, an organization composed of persons holding the congressional medal of honor and the American distinguished service cross.
 Veterans bearing scars of battle stood ranged about Kathryn, who in blue dress and a big pink hair ribbon, walked shyly to Mr. Roosevelt's side.
 When it was all over, he turned to her and said:
 "Well, now that wasn't so scary after all."
 Embarrassed, she murmured "thank you."
 As she was leaving the office, the president called her back and gave, her an additional present, a stuffed mickey mouse that for some months had adorned his desk together with a half dozen miniature Democratic donkeys.
 In presenting the medal the president praised her for resourcefulness and quick thinking and observed "that from your name you must come from old Dutch stock the same as I."
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Date Taken on 12 September 1936
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