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- Chicago Daily News, Illinois, Friday, April 17, 1931
Rites Planned Here Monday For J.F. Bass
Former War Correspondent of The Daily News Saw Many Battles.
The body of John Foster Bass, well known Chicago newspaper man, war correspondent and author, who died yesterday of pneumonia in Tucson, Ariz., will be brought here for burial next Monday. Interment will be in Risehill Cemetery.
Mr. Bass was foreign correspondent in many campaigns throughout the world. In 1895 he was in Egypt with the English. In 1986 he reported the Amemnia massacre and a year later went to Greece, which was involved in the Cretan rebellion. In 1989 he crossed to America and was correspondent during the Spanish-American war.
Later wars took him to Chican for the Boxer insurrection, where he was with the allies in their march for the relief of Pekin. He was present at the Bulgarian uprising in Macedonia and in 1904 represented The Daily News in the Russian-Japanese war.
On World War Fronts.
He was correspondent for The Daily News with the Russian army in Poland and Galacia in 1914-15; with the armies in France, Italy and the Balkans in 1915-17, and with the Italian army in 1918. He went on a government mission to the Italian front in January, 1918,, and on the American and French fronts later in 1918.
He represented The Daily News at the peace conference in Paris in 1919 and was official representative of the American press with the mission to Plant that same year.
Mr. Bass was born in Chicago in 1866, the son of Perkins and Clara Foster Bass. He was graduated from Harvard college in 1891 and Harvard law school in 1894, and was admitted to the New York bar that same year.
Wrote Two Books.
He was chairman of the executive council and treasurer of the National Conservation Association in 1909, and chairman of the Illinois progressive state committee in 1913. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, London; author of ?The Peace Tangle? in 1920 and of ?American and the Balance Sheet of Europe? in 1921. He was a member of the Explorer?s Club of New York city, and of the University Club of Chicago and the Chicago Athletic Association.
Besides his widow he is survived by a son, John Foster Bass Jr.; his mother, Mrs. Perkins Bass of Peterboro, N.H.; a brother, Robert Perkins Bass, former governor of New Hampshire, and a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner of Euguene, Ore. The family home is at 200 East Pearson street.
Chicago Daily News, Illinois, Monday, April 20, 1931
John F. Bass Is Buried With Simple Rites
Notables at Bier of Famous War Correspondent of The Daily News
Simple funeral services, attended by numerous distinguished Chicagoans, were held today for John Foster Bass, former war correspondent for The Daily News, in the chapel of Rosehill cemetery.
The Rev. e. Ashley Gerhard, rector of Christ church, Winnetka, read the Episcopal service. Shortly afterward burial took place in the cemetery.
Among those in the chapel were the widow of the well-known writer, his son, John Foster Bass Jr.; a brother, Robert Perkins Bass, former governor of New Hampshire; Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner, Eugene, Ore., a sister, Perkins Bass, a nephew, and Prof. Sam Bass Warner of the Harvard University Law school, another nephew.
Others in attendance included Mr. and Mrs. Eames MacVeagh, Mrs. Maurice Casalis, Col and Mrs. George T. Langhorne, John T. McCutcheon and Anthony Czarnecki, United States collector of customs. Mr. McCutcheon and Mr. Czarnecki had known Mr. Bass as a fellow newspaper man.
The body of the former correspondent, who was also an author on world affairs, arrived in Chicago this morning from Tucson, Ariz., where Mr. Bass died.
Mr. Bass represented the Daily News at the Paris peace conference in 1919, after having served the paper as correspondent with the Russian army in Poland in 1914 and ?15, with armies of France, Italy and the Balkans in 1915-17 and with the Italians army in 1918.
Previously also he had seen wide service as a newspaper man. He ?covered,? for instance, the Boxer uprising in China and the Russo-Japanese war.
Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, April 17, 1931
John Foster Bass, Veteran War Correspondent, Dies
(Chicago Tribune-Arkansas Gazette Special)
Chicago April 16.-News was received in Chicago today of the death at Tucson, Ari., of John Foster Bass, 66, veteran war correspondent and author.
Mr. Bass served for many years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and was regarded as one of the leading American war correspondents of his generation. He followed and reported wars throughout the globe and because of his intimate knowledge of conditions held the confidence of many European war leaders and statesmen.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, John Foster Bass Jr., his mother, Mrs. Perkins Bass of Peterboro, N.H., and a sister, Mr. Gertrude Bass Warner of Eugene, Ore.
Chicago Daily News, Illinois, Tuesday, April 28, 1931
John F. Bass Will Disposes of $1,300,000
Disposing of an estate estimated at $1,300,000, the will of John Foster Bass, veteran war correspondent and author, has been filed in the Probate court. The bulk of the estate is left in trust for his widow, Mrs. Abigail Bass, 200 East Pearson street, and his son, John Foster Bass Jr.,
According to the will; the estate consists of $1,000,000 in reality in New Hampshire and Chicago and $300,000 in personal property. Minor bequests are made to friends and former employes. Mr. Bsss died at Tucson, Ariz., April 16.
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