Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-04-19 | Page 4 | Noted News Man Is Dead

NOTED NEWS NEWSMAN NEWSMAN NEWSMAN MAN IS DEAD DEAI c 0 T Thompson Foreign Supt of A P Had Long Career NEW EW YORK TORK April Charles 18 1 Thaddeus Thomp Thompson on nt of foreign servIce of The Th As- As As Press who had been con con- connected connected with the th organization cop cop- for tor the thc last 27 37 years year died today In St Lukes Luke's hospital ot at the th age ace of 81 67 T lIe He H had been beert In ill health for tot some Sonic months month but was at his desk up to a 0 few days daya ago Mr Thompson had a dl Un career with The Associated A Press In the th United States Slates and an abroad Ho lIe reported scores score of not not- notable notable notable able events among amone them being the conference In 1906 deal deal- dealIng deal I Ing with the th disposition of Morocco co the death of Pope Pop loCo Leo the disaStrous eruption of Mount ves-I ves In 1 the marriage an and 1 Attempted assassination as a tit of icing 1 Alfonso of Spain In Madrid While I with the th Italian armies arm Ie In lii the world war he wrote some somo of the tho thoI I most graphic dispatches of o that epochal conflict AT PEACE rEACE I His Ills last lut foreIgn assIgnment was wasat as at the tIre Ver Versailles peace l In 1919 1119 HI His Impressions of o that thai event ent ate are given In his book The Th I Peace Conference Day b by Day published In 1920 1120 Daj Mr Thompson was held In at nf regard by hl his associates sl Frank 12 Noyes of the tho Washington I Star pre president of Tho The ASsocIated I Prose Press eo said Id will be bea b ba Mr Ir Thompsons Thompson's passing a II very ery real loss to The Associated I Press He Be H served long brilliantly loyally and with unbending Integ-I Integ Integ- Integ Integrity rity rity His Ills command of o English En ll h was wa great Treat and his dispatches were mod mod-I modIel mod el eli els of literature SIMS HAH COLLEGE DEGREE Melville E Stone for tor many years year general manager of The Associated Press Preas and now Its Ita counsellor said I l 1 am grIeved beyond expression at the tb news concerning Mr Thompson His ills service orvic In the th ranks tankA of the tho employee of Thi Tha As- As Associated sedated Pre Press wa was n as lone long as myown myown my own and the tho th respect and which I felt for him knew no bounds bound lie If H wu was wa a II gentleman of ot rare Intelligence peculiarly fine tine J and of or unspotted et In In- In teSTily Ills His loss Ion will be bo deeply felt not only by his hll hi associates but by the tho newspapers and th the read read- read read-In- In public whom he so faithfully and competently served Thompson was Will born In De- De Detroit troll troit roil 19 1 It the son of Jonothan and Harriet ster ter Thompson lie Ito was gradual gradual- ed I cd from tho th University of Michl- Michl tan gart in 1879 1819 and receive received the tho de- de I de-I deere greo gree ere of bachelor of e f laws law In 1880 I