Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 8

DONALD A. CRAIG, NEWSMAN, DIES Former Star Staff Writer Was Capital Manager for New York Herald. Ronald Alexander Craig, 52, veteran Washington newspaper man and au- thority on Capital history, died last night at his residence, 21 Seventh street southeast, after a long ill- ness. Mr. Craig was born in Brook- ville, Pa, No- vember 24, 1883, the son of Wil- liam Franklin and Mary Fields Craig. He was graduated in 1903 from the old ‘Washington High School and later “studied at George ‘Washington Uni- versity Law School. The year he left high school, Mr. Craig joined the news staff of The Star, becoming a member of the con- gressional and political staff four years later. He left in 1909 to become a mem- ber of the Washington staff of the New York Herald. He was corres- pondent for the Herald and the Louis- ville Courier-Journal and the Tor- onto Evening Telegram until 1913, when he became manager of the Her- ald's Washington Bureau. Before rejoining the staff of The Star in 1927. Mr. Craig was affiliated at various times with the Paris Herald, New York Evening Sun, Press-Herald of Portland. Me., and the Neéw York Herald-Tribune. Aided in Bicentennial. In 1931 he became director of spe- | eial activities and foreign participa- | tion of the United States George | ‘Washington Bicentennial Commission, | a position he held for two years. From 1933 to 1934 he was special agent for the Secretary of Interior in carrying out enforcement of the oil | code, and also aided in investigations of the Civil Works Administration. Up until last year he was employed in the executive office of the National Emergency Council. Injured in West. In 1923, while traveling with Pres- ident Harding's entourage through the West, Mr. Craig was injured when Donald A. Crais il his automobile ran off s mountain road in Colorado. He had been a member of the Na- tional Press Club for many years and was chairman of the Silver Jubilee Committee when the club celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. His widow, Mrs. Elisabeth May Craig, to whom he was married in 1909, also is well-known in newspaper work. A son, Don Craig, Jr., is dramatic editor of the Washington Daily News. A daughter, Mrs. Albert A. Clagett, also survives. Funeral arrangements have not peen completed. — s W. J. VOSS NAMED AIDE TO A. F. G. E. PRESIDENT William J. Voss, former newspaper | man and more recently in the Labor Department, today was appointed ex- | ecutive assistant to Charles I. Stengle, newly elected president of the Amer- ican Federation of Government Em- ployes. He will take up the post | Thursday. Voss, who was with the A. F. G. E. in its early days, has been doing public | relations work in the Labor Depart- ment after 15 years on local newse | papers. 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Harry Slattery, assistant to Secre- tary of the Interior Ickes, has made his peace with Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone With the Wind.” The Slattery family has llsved in Greenville, S. C, for nearly a cen- tury, and when Miss Mitchell’s story of the South appeared in print, one of the principal characters was a “vil- lainous” carpetbagger named Slattery. There were circumstances which led Ickes' assistant to believe the author had deliberately libeled his family name, which is an uncommon one in the part of the country in which some of the scenes of the nove! are laid. He had gone so far as to con- sult an attorney, but the auther in correspondence that followed explained that the selection of the name was accidental. Now they are friends, and Slattery is satisfied, he said, to drop his proposed suit. Miss Mitchell's husband, John Marsh, is an employe of the Georgia Power Co. 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