Evening star., 1953-10-09
%. F. Schuetfe Dies,
Public Relations Aide
And Ex-Newsman

Oswald F. Schuette. II, public
relations counselor and former
newspaperman. died of a heart
attack last night at the National
Press Club. He and his wife.
Mary. went to a movie. had din
ner at the club and were leaving
when he was stricken. Mrs. Schu-
ette said.
Mr.. Schuette was secretary of
the National Press Club in 1912
and president in 1913. He was
said to be the oldest living past
president of the club and the
man who coined the political
phrase "steamroller.'' y
A District resident since 1908.
he lived at 1888 Ellicott street
N w and had had Offices in the
Press Club for more than Is
years.
Career Began in Chicago.
Mr.. Schuette began his news
paper career in his native Chi
cago after graduating from high
school there. He was on the
editorial staff of the Milwaukee
Sentinel in 1902 and became city
editor of the Evening Wiscon-
sin two years later. He was
European correspondent until he
became a political writer and
Washington correspondent for
the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr.. Schuette was Washington
correspondent of Leslie's Weekly
and war correspondent for the
Chicago Daily News with the
armies Of the Central Powers in
Germany. Austria. Hungary,
Russia, Belgium, France, Ro-
mania. Serbia and Turkey from
1915 until 1917. He was the last
newSpaperman to leave Berlin
after the declaration of war.
Then he represented the Daily
News in Switzerland.
In 1913 he became Washing
ton correspondent Of the Iron
Age. He wrote for the Chicago
Herald-Examiner under the pen
name "Politicus" in 1921 and
also for the Chicago Abendpost.
Edited Editorial Page.
Mr.. Schuette was in charge of
the editorial page of the Chicago
Herald-Examiner from 1922 to
1925.
He was president of the Short
Wave Institute of America in
1885 and 1896. He was a di-
rector of the Stats -Herold Corp.
and the German Herold Pub
fishing Co. of New York.
Mr.. Schuette was executive
head of the independent radio
industry in a campaign to dis
solve the 81 billion combination
OF the Radio Corp. of America,
General Electric Co., Westing-
house Co., General Motors Corp.
and American Telephone g.
Telegraph Co. The large anti
trust suit by the Government
resulted in the dissolution of
that combination under consent
decree in 1882. leaving the Radio
Corp. OF America an independent
corporation.
Mr.. Schuette wrote the Re-
publican National Committees
Handbook on the League of Ma
tions in the 1920 campaign and
had lectured on international
affairs.
Member of Clubs.
Besides the National Press
Club, he was a member of the
Overseas Writers, Palaver, Medi-
aevalists, Press Veterans in Chi
cago, Inquirendo and Milwaukee
Press Clubs.
Survivors are his widow; three
sons, James NJ, a second-year
student at Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School; DR.. Oswald F.
Schuette, jr., on the faculty of
William and Mary College, who
is now on Fulbright Fellowship
at the Max Planck Institute in
Germany, and William H. Schu-
cite II. sophomore at Catho-
lie University who was on the
eight-man Olympic canoe squad
last year.
Also surviving are two daugh-
ters, Mrs. John j. Tkacik, Fort
Campbell, KY; Mrs. Paul B. Nc
Mahon, Pawtucket, r. l.; four
sisters, Miss Martha A. Schuette,
2701 Cortland place NV; the
Misses Agnes c. and Werra
Schuette, both of Chicago; Sister
M. Florence Clare of the Sisters
of the Holy Cross in Fresno,
Calf, and eight grandchildren.