The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-26
"A. P" ELECTION
Annual Meeting of Associated
Press Members in N. Y.
Toast to Wilson; Late Col. w.
r. Nelson EulOgized.

New York, April 26.-In toast Of
fered to President Wilson at the an
nual meeting of The Associated Press,
here late yesterday, Frank B. Noyes,
of Washington, D. c., president of the
organization, rendered our affection
ate sympathy and our loyal support
to the man who, by virtue of his great
office is our spokesman to the world
and who speaks for our right and our
honor as God gives him to see our
rights and our honor"
Mr.. Moves audience included news
paper publishers and editors from all
parts of the country. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia uni
versity, made the principal address at
the meeting.
Resolutions were adopted at the
meeting today expressing regret be-
cause of the death of three former di-
rectors-Col. William R. Nelson, pub
Usher of the Kansas City Star; Charles
w. Knapp, treasurer of the New York
Times. and Herman Ridder. publisher
of the New York Stats Zeitung. The
first of these memorials declares that,
we attest our sense of the
service of Colonel Nelson rendered to
his profession. to the city and state in
which he lived and to the whole coun-
try during his long and successful ca
reer as an editor and publisher"
Name Board of Directors
Victor F. Lawson, publisher of the
Chicago Daily News, addressed the
meeting upon the death of Mr. Knapp,
whom he described as conservative
TO the light of new thought and ac-
tfon, possessing always the coura &c.
of his convictions"
At the annual meeting of the Asso-
clated Press held here today the fol-
lowing directors were elected:
Charles
Dispatch; Charles Hopkins Clark,
Hartford Comm Courant; Clark
Howell, Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: V
5. McClatchy, Sacramento (Cal.) Bee;
Ebert IL: Baker, Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer; Oswald Garrison Willard
New York Evening Post
me following advisory boards and
committees were elected:
Eastern Division.
| ADVISORY board-Theodore Boden-
vein, New London Comm Day; G. Ed
ward Buxton, Jr, Providence (R. ~
Bulletln; George L. Cooper, New York
Evening Telegram; Walter F. Dunser
Reading (Pa.) News-Times; Joseph
Bancroft, Wilmington (Del) Every
Evening
Nominating committee = A. p.
Moore. Pittsburg (Pa.) Leader; VIII
nam H. Dow, Portland (Me.) Express
and Advertiser.
Auditing committee-E. E. Smith
Meriden (Conn) Record
| Southern Division,
Advisory board-James H. Grav. At
lanta (Ga.C Journal; H C. Adler.
| Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. M f.
roster, Houston (Tex) Chronicle:
Bruce Haldeman, Louisville XIV
| Cour1er-Journal; Robert Ewing. New
Orleans States.
Nominating committee. G. Bell.
Savannah (GaO News. T NJ Tho,,,
son. New Orleans Item.
,,,. Audlting committee = Frederick 1.
Thompson. Mobile (Ala) Register.
Central Division.
Advisory board-E. P. Adler. Dav-
| export Qa.) Times; ]. L. Sturteva nj.
Wausau CWis) Record-Herald: A. c.
keifer, Terre Haute (Ind) Tribune
E: Burton, Joplin (Mo.) News
Herald: J. c. Seacrest. Lincoln (Neb.) }
| Journal
Nominating committee = H. V.
| Jones, Minneapolis (Minn.) Journal;
Z. c. Marquis, BLOOMINGTON Gll)
Paragraph.
Auditing committee. d. Bran
oenours, Madison (Wis) Democrat
Western Division.
Advisory committee-M H. De
; foung' San Francisco (Cal) Chron-
lcle; A P. Mckay, Salt Lake CITY
| (Utah) Tribune; S. A Perkins, Ia
coma (Wash.) Ledger: J. r. Know
land, Oakland (Cal.) Tribune; Scott
G. Bone, Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intel-
Hgencer
Nominating committee. H. Cal
lister. Salt Lake City (Utah) Herald
Republican; c. B. Blethen, Seattle
! (Wash.) Times
Auditing committee-John F. Car
roll Portland (ore.) Telegram
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