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LLOYD A. LEHRBAS, WAR WRITER, DIES; Commissioned in 1942 and Made Aide to MacArthurBOISE, Idaho, Oct. 30—Lloyd Allan Lehrbas, a former war correspondent and Government official who served as an =aide to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in World War II, died at the Veterans Hospital here, today after a long illness.
Mr. Lelurbas, a roving journalist who covered front‐line fighting from Shanghai to Warsaw, won an honorable mention for the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for his eyewitness account of the first German air attack on the Polish capital.
In 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Army. He served as aide de camp and press officer for General MacArthur until the war ended. He later held a succession of governmental assignments.
Mr. Lehrbas was born in 1898 at Montpelier, Idaho. He attended the University of Idaho and then the University of Wisconsin.Mr. Lehrbas became a cadet in the aviation section of the Army Signal Gulps when the United States entered World War I. He became a pilot with the rank of second lieutenant, but the Armistice was signed before he went overseas.
After World War I Mr. Lehrbas was a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. He left San, Francisco to travel on an Army transport to China and Japan. He came back to the United States to serve as a reporter in Chicago for The American and The Tribune.
Mr. Lehrbas returned to the Far East, where he was a writer and editor for The Manila Bulletin and The China Press in Shanghai.
His Shanghai reporting included an exclusive eyewitness account in 1923 of a dramatic raid by 1,000 bandits who wrecked the Shanghai‐Peking express and kidnapped 150 passengers, includingMiss Lucy T. Aldrich, a, sister‐in‐law of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Mr. Lehrbas, one of the captured passengers, escaped by crawling on his hands and knees for three hours through fields of grain.
He reported: “I could see women in nightclothes and bare feet and men in pajamas walking ahead through the fields and towards the mountains. The bandits were carrying loot they had taken from the train on their shoulders.”
The kidnapped passengers Were later freed by soldiers.
Mr. Lehrbas joined The Associated Press in Washington in 1932. His assignments took him back to Europe and the Far East as World War II approached.Mr. Lehrbas covered the Sino‐Japanese war, then flew to Warsaw, arriving just in time to report on the first German air raid there.
His report said in part: “I am telephoning this dispatch to Budapest with the phone in one hand and a gas mask in the other…. From time to time I can hear the explosion of fallen bombs. They are dropping close now… Tremendous explosions are shaking the city.”
Mr. Lehrbas reported from the Italian front and from occupied France before returning to Washington in 1940 to cover the State Department. He was still with The Associated Press in 1942 when he was commissioned in the Army and sent to Australia to join General MacArthur.Mr. Lehrbas covered the Sino‐Japanese war, then flew to Warsaw, arriving just in time to report on the first German air raid there.
His report said in part: “I am telephoning this dispatch to Budapest with the phone in one hand and a gas mask in the other…. From time to time I can hear the explosion of fallen bombs. They are dropping close now… Tremendous explosions are shaking the city.”
Mr. Lehrbas reported from the Italian front and from occupied France before returning to Washington in 1940 to cover the State Department. He was still with The Associated Press in 1942 when he was commissioned in the Army and sent to Australia to join General MacArthur.in 1948 as director of the Office of Interna tional Information.
He also served as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff until 1958.
Mr. Lehrbas was a bachelor. Surviving is a brother, Mark.
