The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 8

Eight Eight Floyd Once Fired From Local Job, Fame as War Radio Floyd P. Gibbons, former who was catapulted to fame and later became known to radio talks, died last night at 10 miles from Stroudsville, Pa. Lady Luck, who was kind to him just as he was contemplating a war. He had recovered from a recent go abroad when he suffered the heart Old timers in the Minneapolis and fire departments knew police "Gib" well. Though he covered the police run for an afternoon paper, he spent most of his nights browsing through the loop, picking up what news he could for the next day.

And it was this night brows. ing which cost him his job here and sent him on the way to fame. Working one Saturday night on the police run, "Gib" was pretty well tired from lack of sleep the night before and early in the evening he crawled up onto a table in the old police reporters' room at the city hall and went to sleep. About 11 p.m. the fire alarm over his head banged out a call.

And for 10 more minutes it continued striking in special calls and second and third alarms. Its clang could be heard throughout the building, by everyone except Gibbons. And the blaze, a 3-11, was just a block from fire headquarters and As firemen battled the flames, "Gib" slept peacefully on that table and his paper that Sunday tained not even a mention of the fire. The opposition carried a column on Page 1 with pictures. Monday morning, a new police reporter was on the job in Gibbons' place.

Gibbons then went to Chicago, got a job on the Chicago Tribune, and several months later was sent to Europe to cover the World war. With every newspaperman in the United States praying to be aboard a liner attacked by a German submarine so he could write the first eye witness account of such a happening, Lady Luck stepped in again and rode with "Gib" when he booked passage for Europe on the S. S. Laconia. That vessel was torpedoed and sunk and to Gibbons fell the glory of writing the eye witness story that SO many newspapermen had hoped to write.

And a swell job of it he did. The irony of it was that the city editor who had fired Gibbons for sleeping through that 3-11 fire had to splash Gib's account of the Laconia sinking all over the first page with a by-line. And a year or two later, when Gibbons came back to Minneapolis for a visit, the man who left town because he was fired from his job was met at the station by the police band and escorted to his hotel by cheering thousands. Gibbons lost an eye at Belleau Wood when he dragged a wounded soldier to safety. Ever afterward he wore a patch over the eye.

He was decorated by the French for bravery. Later, he covered other big news events in all parts of the world, wrote two books which brought him small fortunes and then became a radio commentator. He was noted for his staccato delivery, often averaging 230 words a minute against the Gibbons Dies 23 23 23 23 Monday, September 25, 1939 MINNEAPOLIS Man Knocked Unconscious, Robbed of $3 Three Sluggings Occupy Attention of City Police Three sluggings today occupied police attention, while a slugging suspect was returned here from Grand Forks, N. to face charges. Iver Johnson, 50, 213 Nicollet avenue, reported two men strongarmed him at Eighth and Washing.

ton avenues taking $1. Emil Peterson, 310 Lyndale avenue said that on Lyndale near Sixth avenue a Negro slugged him and took $12 to $15. The third case was that of T. K. Sorenson, 722 Twenty-sixth avenue found unconscious at the rear of a school at Nineteenth avenue and Two-and-One-half street by Mrs.

A. A. Mortensen, 19.3 Washington avenue S. When he recovered consciousness he said he had been slugged and robbed of $3. William Roth, alias George (Whitey) Lewis, 33, was in city jail here to face charges in connection with robbery of Carl Stromberg, from whom $40 was taken in a slugging case in May, 1938.

He was returned by Detective Supervisor Charles Van Rickley from Fargo, where he was arrested for allegedly threatening his wife. An altercation in a cafe at Nicollet and Second resulted in serious injuries for Chester Bowman, 41, Washington avenue S. He was stabbed three times in the back and several times in the chest by an unidentified, man. Three robbers who did not get out of their car, compelled Frank Ninneman, operator of a filling station at 4301 Cedar avenue, to hand over $17. They held a gun on him.

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From the RemingtonRand office, 631 Marquette avenue, in cash was taken. Cigars, cigarets and change were taken from a cafe at 204 Tenth street S. Rabbi to Discuss Effects of War Rabbi David Aronson of Beth El synagogue will speak on "The Effect of the European War on Our Palestinian Homeland" at 8 p.m. today at a meeting of the Minneapolis district of the Zionist organization of America at the Dyckman hotel. Officers will be elected.

J. G. Schwartz, chairman, will preside. Oliver Church Will Have Mission Rally The annual fall mission rally of Oliver Presbyterian church, Bloomington avenue and Twenty-seventh street, will be held in the church 7:45 p.m. Tuesday.

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"Gib" throughout his lifetime, failed trip to Europe to cover the present illness and was making plans to attack which took his life. He was the fastest talker on the air. Born in Washington, Gibbons was educated at Georgetown university and began newspaper work here in 1906. He married a Minneapolis girl but divorced her in Paris some years later. Surviving are two brothers, Don Gibbons, 4845 Fourth, avenue and Edward Washington, and two sisters, Zelda Mayer of Boston and Mrs.

Margaret Chapman of Chicago. Examine Men for 'U' Corps Three officers from the Great Lakes naval training station today began giving physical examinations to applicants for admission to the new Naval Reserve Officers' Training corps at the University of Minnesota. They will continue throughout the week. Seventy-six men will be admitted to the corps at the university this year, according to Lieut. Commander H.

F. Pullen, is in charge. At the end of four years when the corps is completely organized it will total 200 men. To Study Methods of Keeping Peace Methods for keeping the United States out of the European war will be discussed tonight at a meetling of the St. Paul Council Peace Education at the St.

Paul hotel. Prof. Lester B. Shippee, head of the history department at the University of Minnesota, will speak, and Prof. Milton D.

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