Evening star., 1955-04-02
Rites Sci Monday
For Col. McC
Tribune Publisher

NdUc 1uIlcId1 oCIV4CCo WILL UC ilCl0
Monday for Col. Robert r. Nc
Cormick, editor and publisher of
the Chicago Tribune and for
/ years one of the Nations out
standing newspaper executives.
The Presbyterian services will
be held at Cantigny Farm, his
suburban Wheaton home, where
he died yesterday from a COM
plicatiofi of diseases. The vet
eran publisher was IA and had
been ailing for nearly two years.
| Col. Mccormick will be buried
on the grounds of his Cantigny
home. The home was named for
one of the great, battles in World
War in which the 1st Division
| participated. Col. Mccormick
was an artillery commander with
the division.
Military Honors Planned
A firing squad Of eight 5th
Army soldiers and a bugler will
perform the last military honors
for the colonel.
Col. Mccormick is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Maryland Math-
ison Mccormick, and two nieces,
Mrs. Ruth Mccormick Tank
ersley. OF Montgomery County,
Md, and Mrs. Courtland D.
Barnes, jr., daughters of his late
brother, Medill Mccormick.
Details of the future manage
ment of the Tribune will be an
nounced after the funeral. Col.
Mccormick several years ago be-
gan making preparation for the
management of the Tribune aft
er his death.
President Expresses Regret
Col. McCormick's death brought
expressions of sympathy and re-
gret from President Eisenhower,
newspaper and news executives.
members of Congress and hum
dreds of ether persons.
President Eisenhower, in COM
menting on the deaths of Col.
McCormick and Joseph Pulitzer,
publisher of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, who died Wednesday
night. said:
"In the passing of Joseph
Pulitzer and Col. Robert r. Nc
Cormick, American journalism
has lost the services of two of its
outstanding publishers. Although
frequently on opposite sides of
public issues, both were staunch
champions of a free press so es-
sential to our freedom.
Mrs. Eisenhower joins me In
extending personal sympathy to
their families for the great per-
sOnal loss they have suffered"
Other Comments
In other comment, Robert Nc
Lean. president of the Associated
Press and publisher of the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin, said
the impress of Col. Cormick's
vigorously personality and his
ability will last many years be-
yond his lifetime"
"His passing takes a great deal
Of the color and some of the ex-
citemeHt out of the newspaper
business" he added.
Frank Starzel. general man
ager of the Associated Press,
said:
"Col. Mccormick believed in
vigorous and fearless news re-
porting. He was always ready to
share the fruits of his publica-
tions' initiative and enterprise
with fellow publishers through
the Associated Press, of which he
was an ardent supporter. An
outstanding individualist, he has
left monumental record of
achievement"
Associated Press Director
Col. Mccormick was a director
OF the Associated Press from
1927 to 1948.
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey made this comment
on the publishers passing:
The death of Col. Robert r.
Mccormick takes from the
American scene an outstanding
publisher whose views have been
influential among large numbers
of our people for many years.
His contributions to the develop
ment of this great Nation will
long be remembered"
Attorney General Brownell
said: America has lost an out
standing figure. Col. Robert r.
Mccormick stood unf1inchingly
for our form of government and
for the freedom of the press so
necessary to the preservation Of
our way of life"