Howe, James Pomeroy, 1879-1970

American journalist; Associated Press correspondent in Europe and China.

James P. Howe, an Associated Press foreign correspondent for 21 years, was the son of famous Kansas writer and newspaper publisher, Edgar Watson Howe, of the Atchison Globe. An editorial in the Emporia Gazette, called James Howe "the most famous reporter Kansas has ever developed--one of the world famous reporters." In 1906, James Howe wrote about the San Francisco earthquake and fire, sleeping the first night on paving bricks still warm from the fire. Joining the Associated Press in 1914 and assigned to Europe, Howe served in London, Paris, Warsaw, Berlin, Moscow, and Peking, covering battle fronts in Germany, Russia, and Poland. He was on the German line when the surrender came in World War I; in Russia during the Revolution; in Warsaw when the Poles fought the Russians in 1919-1920; in Shangai when there was fighting; in the Ruhr during the French occupation; in the Japanese war zone of Manchuria, and in India covering the rise of Ghandi. Howe retired from the Associated press in 1935, and eventually settled in Walnut Creek, California, where he made wine and became known as a raconteur. He died April 14, 1970.

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American journalist; Associated Press correspondent in Europe and China.