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Show DEATH CLAIMS 1 FLOYDGIBBOIIS STROUDSBURG. Pa- Sept 23 CUP) Floyd Gibbon. 52, internationally-known war correspondent and radio commentator, died of a heart attack at hit Cherry Hilli valley horn last night. Wearing a whit patch over his left eye, which was shot out while ha was covering the World war. Gibbon had fone nearly every when that big events war taking place during the past quarter century. cen-tury. Ha also appeared In motion pictures a sponsor and narrator for his true adventure stories, A native of Washington, he moved to Dee Moines, Iowa, with his family when he was a boy and was educated In De Moines and Minneapolis. After studying law at Georgetown university, he Joined the staff of the Minneapolis Daily News In 1907, and later worked for the Milwaukee Free Press and the Minneapolis Tribune. Trib-une. Gibbons' first war assignment was the Mexican revolution led by Pancho Villa and he covered the Naco battle on the Arizona frontier. Aboard the S. S. Laconla when It was torpedoed off the Irish coast In 1917, Gibbons was rescued and he sent a cabled story of the disaster dis-aster to the Chicago Tribune that made him famous. He became the London correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and was a war correspondent In France In 1918. At the battle of Chateau Thierry, Thier-ry, he was struck by a machine-gun machine-gun bullet and lost his eye. Gibbons Gib-bons covered the Irish revolution, German and Russian trouble, the Riff war with France In Morocco, the Shanghai-Japanese war, the Ethiopian war and the recent Spanish Span-ish civil war. Ha wss planning to return to Europe to cover the present war when he died. |