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Newsman Dies3licIioisatroeto)r„son)ol1palli-[rs.bleli-Jis-I)uke Shoopairng, t h eit it iton-Duke Shoop, NotedhoHrSaa ivitvewi lies, or-tndNewsman, DiesStar CorrespondentId-litWell Known in Cityitoeaftfel1Duke Shoop, chief of the Kansa.*raisi a recdeiancr. City Star’s Washington bureau,1,, c« died there yesterday morning at the be Garfield Hospital, according to wa ml word received here yesterday. i .Shoop entered the hospital March a 23 suffering from a liver ailment.He returned to his home April 1 Df and reentered the hospital four!*‘s1ild. days later. jaj*ou He was born April 26, 1904. in lng Abingdon, III. His father, the late we Jesse C. Schoop, founded the Abing- to don Kodak, a weekly newspaper,rra that is now published by Fred W.; tee, Shoop. a brother of the Washing- ton correspondent.Assigned to Jefferson CityFollowing his graduation from Mi the University of Missouri School ter of Journalism in 1927, Shoop joined hoithe Star’s staff and was assigned,seIto Jefferson City. His real name an was Russell T. Shoop but fraternity dy brothers and friends at the univers- Pang-025 St. m, an, p s, W.arlt;Latheul ity nicknamed his “Duke, and heturkept it from then on. In 1931, heiwalie. * , A . , r]M11,w(‘nt to the Star’s Washington bur-|m . . !halo.eau, returned to Jefferson Citv inre-1932 and the following year wentofatback to Washington where he re-Jef)SSmained. He becameneStar's bureau there in 1947chief of the jtrainShoop married Miss Ruth Agee ^ 1S of Jefferson City Nov. 23. 1931. Her soa (mother, Mrs. Belle Agee, lives at,'va' jthe Bella Vista apartments. |“lv He was a war correspondent inl°( j France, England and North Africa in 1944. He was elected to the Na-;tional Press club in 1934. to the Washington Gridiron club in 1940 and was president of the latter in 1952.~ Outstanding Newsmanof- He was regarded as one of the ng outstanding newsmen in Washing-[ht ton. noted for vigorous news-getting ck abilities and a friendship withscores of high government officials. (held Most of them he called by theirhe (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5» er __I]file (is thas
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Sun, Apr 28, 1957
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