Show v L El A. A BAN fT AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN IS DEAD Envoy Dies Dies' After f J Brief Illness at Mountain Re Resort July Edgar 29 AP Edgar AP-Edgar Edgar Ad- Ad gt ton on Bancroft American ambassador ambassador ambas- ambas lador to Japan died this Wednesday Wednes- Wednes day daj morning g at Ambassador Bancroft was taken ill ill-at nr illat a popular mountain moun mountain moun- moun tam tain In central Japan where he was vi spending the summer about three weeks ago At t first u it was suffering i in indigestion indigestion in- in thought he heas was as from digestion buthis trouble was later diagnosed as s a small duodenal ul ul- ul Instructions for his his treatment were cabled to Japan by a Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington specialist Mr Bancroft was appointed ambassador ambassador am am ambassador to Japan last August and assumed his bis' post in November He was vas 68 years of age Prior to his appointment he already ady was widely idely known as a distinguished lawyer coming from a an American family which had been traced nearly years rear IMPRISONED DEBS As legal representative of the Santa Fe railway system Mr Bancroft Bancroft Ban Ban- croft first came to public notice In 1894 when he procured the first In Injunction Injunction injunction In- In junction against the railway strikers ers and participated in the contempt case which resulted in the imprisonment imprisonment imprison imprison- ment of E Eugene gene V. V Debs and other officers of the American Railway union During the V World war he was active active ac ac- ac- ac tive the in patriotic affairs He held the decorations of the legion of honor hon hen or from France St. St Sava from Jugo Sl Slavia via and of at Leopold II from froni Bel Bel- I Bel-I glum gium He was chairman of the Chicago race commission commissi n which Investigated the race riots there In 1919 He also was author of a number of monographs WASHINGTON July 28 AP AP- AP The Tile death of Ambassador Bancroft w was s unexpected Je ted at the state de department department department de- de here where the last advices advices ad ad- vic vices s. s received sev several ral days ago from Tokio said he was convalescing convalescing cing from the illness s which has afflicted him Mr Bancroft had consulted by cable a n. physician Jh here Dr VilIam Wi- Wi Vi lIam Ham Gerry Morgan but at Dr Morg Morgan's Morgans Morgins Morgin's Mor Mor- g gins gan's ns n's office no direct word had come through from Toldo Dr Morgan was out of or the city when the word of the ambassadors ambassador's death was received SUCCEEDED WOODS The stay sJay of Mr Bancroft In Tokio and in the diplomatic service had been heen brief his his' appointment paving having been been announced August Angust 16 l last st year He succeeded Cyrus E. E Woods The ambassador was a lawyer awyer of or great prominence at at the time of his selection for the diplomatic post which is eone of those to which the Washington government invariably gives the most careful attention In selecting men He was born at Galesburg III Ill in November ember 1857 He went to Chicago after his graduation graduation graduation grad grad- from Knox college and be became became became be- be came a practicing attorney In 1884 of continuing in the active pursuit his profession up to the time of hiS nis entry into diplomatic life Jfe He was president of ot both the Illnois Illinois Ill Illi nois State Bar association a and of Chicago Bar association and ana tho the of or the author of a number was books including a study of the he question of regulation or destruction corporations as aa a measure meas- meas of great of government policy ure |