Evening star., 1936-01-20
THEODORE WALLEN
SUCCUMBS HERE.
Was Chief of Capital Bureau
of New York Herald
Tribune.

illness. He had undergone q major
operation in Georgetown Hospital five
weeks ago and had been taken to Gar
field after several days at his home,
1908 Alaska avenue.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 am. tomorrow in Hines funeral
chapel, 290l Fourteenth street. Rev.
DR.. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor Of New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, will
officiate.
Burial will be in New Britain, Conn.,,
where Mr.. Wallen was born on No.
vember 27, 1894.
He joined the staff of the Hartford
Courant in 1915, after getting his first
newspaper experience at is by pub
fishing the Sporting Gazette on a
hand press.
He came to Washington in April,
1929, for the Herald Tribune after
long experience in covering Connecti-
cut, New York and national political
events. On May q, 1929, he was
named chief of the bureau.
Roosevelt Expresses Regret.
President Roosevelt. informed in
New York of the correspondents death.
sent the following telegram to Mrs.
Wallen:
Have just learned OF your hus-
bands death, and Mrs. Roosevelt and
1 want to extend to you our sincere
sympathy"
From many other high offlcials came
expressions of regret and coincidence.
His success as reporter of govern
mental affairs led George Washington
University in Februarv 1885, to con-
fer on him the honorary degre OF
doctor Of laws. The citation made by
the university at the time read:
Clear minded student, able in re-
porting public action. good citizen
who tempers judgment with high
loyalties. The mould of his life be-
speaks strength dedicated to right
thinking"
Mr.. Wallen received his early edu-
cation at New Britain High School,
where he played tackle on a State
championship foot oaE team. and at
Trinity College. Hartford which he
attended when he joined the Courant.
Rise on Courant Rapid.
His rise on the Courant was rapid.
BY 1917 he had been assigned to cover
the General Assembly That same
year he entered the Navy After
short tour on the supply ship Kiowa
he was transferred to the United
States cable censor's Office in New
York City, where he served with the
United States Committee on Public
Information.
He returned to the Courant and
became, successfully, assistant city edi-
tor, political editor ana assistant man.
againg editor In 1927 he became
associated with the New York staff of
the Herald Tribune. Soon he was
sent to Albany to cover the last ad-
ministration OF Gov. Alfred E Smith
and the first Of Gov Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Some of his biggest stories included
President Coolidges famous Il do not
choose to rum statement in the
Black Hills in 1921: Gov. Smiths
25,000-mile presidential campaign trip
in 1928; the London Naval Confer
ence of 1890; Presidert Hoover's trip
to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
in 1880; President Roosevelt's trip to
Hawaii in 1884, and national conven-
tions of both major parties since 1918.
Mr.. Wallen is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Gladys Elizabeth Thomas Wallen;
three children, Virginia Hope, Is;
June Elizabeth. 8, and John Thomas,
3. and his mother. Mrs. Ellen Nord-
strom Wallen.
Club Memberships.
He was a member of the Gridiron
Club, the Overseas Writers Associa-
ton, the National Press Club, the New
York Press Club, the Hartford Press
Club, the Sherwood Forest Club of
Annapolis, the Legislative Correspond
ents' Association Of Albany and the
Laurel Club of Hartford.
George w. Simpson. president of
the National Press Club. appointed the
following committee to attend the
funeral:
J. Fred Essary. Bascom N. Timmons.
Albert L. Warner. Charles o. Gridley,
Coleman B. Jones, Samuel w. Bell,
Phelps H. Adams, Harold Brayman,
Lyle c. Wilson, Eugene Meyer. Robert
S. Allen. Walker S. Buell., Elliott L.
Thurston, Carlisle Bargercn. j. Harry
Cunningham. Raymond Clapper. Ar
thur G. Newmyer, George L. Tarry.
Lewis Wood, John O'Donnell. Mark
Foote, Erwin D. Canham, Theodore
c. Afford, Kenneth Crawford, Charles
A. Hamilton, Cecil B. Dickson.
Thomas L. Stokes and Lee Poe Hart
To Attend Funeral.
The White House Correspondents
Association appointed the following
committee to represent 1t at the
services:
j. Russell Young, Francis M. Ste
phenson, Frederick A. Storm and
Charles w. B. Hurd
President Edwin w. Gableman of
the Gridiron Club, announced the
appointment of the following mem
bers to represent the club:
Uric Bell, Harold Brayman, Ash
nun Brown, Walker 8. Buell., J. Fred
Essary, Mark Goodwin, Charles S.
Groves, Jay G. Hayden, Arthur Sears
Henning, Arthur Krock, G. Gould
Lincoln, Byron Price, Mark Sullivan
and James L. Wright.