Evening star., 1941-06-23
Death Ends Career
OF Paul Block, 6,
Newspaper Publisher
Headed Many Papers and
Won Wide Success in
Advertising Field
- the Associated Press

- tne hSSOClaIeQ freSb.
NEW YORK, June 23.-Paul
Block, SO, one-time advertising solic-
itor, who became a leading American
chain newspaper publisher. died yes
terday in his Waldorf Astoria tower
apartment. He had been Ill several
months.
President of Paul Block and Asso-
ciates, national advertising repre-
sentativeS for 16 newspapers, Mr..
Block at his death also was pub
Usher of the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, the Toledo Blade and the
Toledo Times.
In 25-year career as publisher,
begun in 1916 after he already had
won wide success in the advertising
field, he headed numerous other
papers at various times.
These included the New York
Evening Mail the Newark IN. j.,
Star Eagle (his first publishing ven-
ture), the Brooklyn Standard
Union, the Los Angeles Express, the
Detroit Journal, the Duluth Herald
and News Tribune. the Memphis
NeWs-S s-Scimitar, the Lancaster (PaD
New Era and the Milwaukee
Sentinel
Was Friend of Jimmy Walker.
Besides his newspaper activities,
Mr.. Block took an active part in po-
litical affairs and was a close per-
sonal friend of former Mayor James
J. Walker of New York City, whose
cause he espoused during investi-
cations climaxed by Mr.. Walkers
RESIGNATION.
In 1882 during the Hofstadter
Committee investigation OF munich
pal government, Mayor Walker gave
testimony acknowledging he had
realized between 1927 and 1929
S246692 profit without investment
from a brokerage account with Mr..
Block
The publisher later testified he
had established the account after
his 10-year-old son Billy, waiting to
60 for an auto ride with the Mayor,
asked how Mr.. Walker could live
on his $4,000 salary.
HE was my friend, Jimmy
Walker, and not the Mayor to me"
Mr.. Block declared.
Mr.. Block, a critic of the New
Deal, strongly supported Republican
Candidate Alfred M. Landon in the
1896 presidential campaign and
urged denomination of Herbert
Hoover at the 1910 Republican con-
vention.
Urged Conservative Party.
He many times expressed belief
that the Roosevelt administration
was delaying business recovery. Re-
turning to America in 1884 after
trip abroad to study European die
tatorships, he said America needed
strong conservative party. Hitler,
he predicted, would remain Ger
many's ruler not more than two
years.
Mr.. Block was born in Elmira,
N. Y. He entered the newspaper
field as an advertising solicitor for
the Elmira Sunday Telegram in
1893 He organized his first New
York firm. Paul Block, Inc, in 1897.
For several years he was the ad-
vertising director of Pictorial Re-
view Magazine. He also once owned
the Newark Bears baseball club.
Mr.. Blocks philanthropic activ-
tiles were numerous. His news
papers aided many charities and the
publisher himself gave a 100000
chapel to the Hotchkiss School at
| Lakesville, Conn, and in 1880 en-
dowed the Paul Block Foundation,
a public lecture course at Yale Uni
versity, to trace the relation Of the
newspaper to contempory affairs.
Funeral Tomarrow.
His publishing career was marked
by numerous sales and consolida-
tions of newspaper properties.
Surviving are his widow, the for
mer Dina Wallach of New York;
their two sons, Paul, jr., and Will
liam Karl; a brother, Max, active
with him in the publishing field,
and three sisters, Miss Mollie Block
and Mrs. Gerson K. Liveright, both
OF New York, and Mrs. Gilbert Falk
of South Orange, N. j.
Funeral services will be held at
l pm. tomorrw in Temple Emanu-
el here. Burial will be private.