Show Webb Miller Killed in London Londona By Fall a From Train rain in in Blackout LONDON May 8 UP Webb UP-Webb Webb Miller famous United Press reporter who flew miles for news and risked his life under fire in four major wars was found dead dea Wednesday be beside beside beside be- be side a a railroad track track apparently apparently the victim of a prosaic accident accident accident acci acci- dent during the London blackout He had just covered Prime Minister Min ister Chamberlains Chamberlain's historic statement statement statement state state- ment in commons on the British withdrawal from Norway but his war correspondents correspondent's kit was packed and he hoped soon to be back on the firing line in the latest war of his long and brilliant career It was presumed the accident occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc some time after 9 o'clock last night Miller was on his way to the country to get a good nights night's rest before returning for Wednesdays Wednesday's Wednesdays Wednesday's Wednesdays Wednesday's Wednes Wednes- days day's session of commons Blackout Blackout Blackout Black Black- out restrictions require that lights i on trains be ex extinguished when approaching a st station tion Police said they believed Miller planned to change trains at Clapham junction junction junction junc junc- tion and stepped off the coach he was near the plat plat- form Miller was only 48 years old but buthis buthis buthis his 30 years of newspaper reporting reportIng reporting report report- ing carried him from a Chicago police police police po po- po- po lice beat to the capitals of or the world and td Id the front lines of the wars a a career which earned him Continued on Page Seven Column Two Webb Miller Diller Loses Life In fall From Train Continued from Page One a reputation as the ace of war correspondents ts He saw kings and dictators rise and fall he saw the start and finish finish finish fin fin- ish of wars and revolutions he saw peace made and scrapped His career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer was summarized in 1936 in his book beok I Found No Peace an autobiography regarded as one of the best of its kind Miller was born bern and attended school in Dowagiac Mich In his first year he covered 33 murders and six executions by hanging With Pershing in Mexico In 1916 Miller went to Mexico to cover the Pershing expedition against the bandit Pancho Villa It was while on an the border berder that Miller started to work wark for fer the United Press In 1917 the United Press sent him to London Landon and it was there during the last World war years that he had his first taste of af re reporting reporting reporting re- re porting from frem a city under udder the constant constant con con- stant threat of air raids He went to Ireland reland often aften during the Sinn Feinn uprising and visited the British front A year later he joined the Paris bureau of the United Press and was a war correspondent on an the American front frent during the battles of af the summer and fall fail of 1918 Bureau Manager During the four faur years rears after 1921 he was manager of the Paris United United Unit Unit- ed Press bureau Miller scored one ane of his greatest journalistic feats at the start of Italy's invasion of af Ethiopia in 1935 He was the first correspondent of af any nationality to reach the Ethiopian holy city as it fell to the invaders Then came the Spanish civil war with Miller again on the front cevering covering covering cov cov- ering siege and relief of the Alcazar Al Al- cazar After that came the series of af fateful conferences and events that led up to the present war Miller covered the historic Munich conference between Adolf Hitler Mussolini Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain and Premier Edouard of France He watched German troops march into Czecho Back on Battlefront L Last st fall he again was back on the battlefront First he went to the western front with the British forces farces at the outbreak of af the war When war broke brake out m m in Finland he hastened to Helsinki arriving in time to cover cever air raids on an that capital And this week he was preparing to go to Norway with the British Miller is survived by his widow Marie and a son san Kenneth 18 both bath of af whom wham are in New York |