Viewing page 1 of 219

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

The New York
© 1955, by The New York Times Company.

Entered as Second-Class Matter, Post Office, New York, N. Y.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1955.

Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler Of the Times Is Dead at 62
[[image]]
MAJ. GEN. JULIUS OCHS ADLER

Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, retired, first vice president and general manager of The New York Times, died of cancer of the pancreas in New York Hospital at 9 o´clock yesterday morning. He was 62 years old.

The general retired from military service because of age last Dec. 31 after almost four decades of Army activity. He continued, however, to hold his management posts at The Times and was also president and publisher of The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.

Among the many tributes and messages of sympathy that arrived here yesterday afternoon and last evening were two from the Summer White House staff in Denver.

Acting for President Eisenhower, James C. Hagerty, his Press Secretary, sent a telegram from Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, to Mrs. Adler at her home, 2 East Sixty-seventh Street. Mr. Hagerty said he had personal knowledge of the "high esteem" the President held for General Adler. The message praised the general´s contributions to his country as a citizen, soldier and newspaper man.

Tribute by Sherman Adams

Sherman Adams, The Assistant to the President, sent Mrs. Adler a message of condolence. The telegram, expressing the sympathy of the National Administration, said everyone in the White House would miss General Adler. Mr. Adams said the general had been "a fine friend and a loyal, helpful public servant."

General Adler had undergone an exploratory operation last December in which a cancerous condition in the pancreas was detected. The pancreas is a gland in the abdomen behind the stomach that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine. He was discharged from the hospital in February but was readmitted in early August.

The general had been ill during World War II while serving as assistant division commander of the Sixth Infantry Division in New Guinea. He was flown to Washington in the fall of 1944 for an operation. After convalescence, he was pronounced physically fit once more for a field command.

Got Promotion on Birthday

When he reached military retirement age last year the general was commanding officer of the Seventy-seventh Infantry Division of the Reserve. He had been promoted from colonel to brigadier general in 1941 and was assigned command of the Seventy-seventh on Dec. 3, 1946, his fifty-fourth birthday. He received a promotion to major general in the Reserve on Jan. 24, 1948.

General Adler had a number of business interests. He was a director of the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company, Ltd., of Toronto, Canada; vice chairman and a director of the Interstate Broadcasting Company; chairman of the board of the Chattanooga Publishing Company, and vice president and director of the Times Facsimile Corporation.

The general is survived by his widow, Barbara S. Adler; a son, Julius Ochs Adler Jr., director of Canadian advertising for The New York Times; two daughters, Mrs. Myron L. Buchman,

Continued on Page 28, Column 8

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-26 16:38:56 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-27 03:49:42 Closed up hyphenated words. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-27 14:31:44. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-29 11:08:04