Evening star., 1923-04-25
National and DivisiOn Officers
Elected by Associated Press

NEW YORK. April 25.-The board
of directors of the Associated Press
selected yesterday at the annual meet
ing OF members. today elected the
following officers for the ensuing
year:
President. Frank B. Noyes. Wash
ington Cd. CO Star.
First vice president, Florence d.
White. New York Evening World.
Second vice president, George B.
Deally. Dallas (Tex.) News.
Secretary and counselor. Melville
E. Stone. New York city.
Assistant secretary and general
manager. Frederick Roy Martin. New
York City.
Treasurer. J. r. Youatt. New York.
The following were elected MEM
bers OF the executive committee:
Frank B Noyes, Washington Cd. CO
Star, w. l. Mclean, Philadelphia
(Pa.) Bulletin; Adolph s. Ochs. New
York On. Y) Times: Charles Hopkins
Clark, Hartford Comm Courant; Ell
bert II. Baker, Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer: Clark Howell, Atlanta
Ray. ST Louis fAIo) Globe Democrat.
Victor +. Lawson, Chicago IIL)
Daily News. withdrew as a member
OF the executive committee because
II was inconvenient for him to attend
the frequent meetings.
The Associated Press at its annual
m Meeting yesterday filled seven vacan-
cies on it's board OF directors, which
has fifteen members.
The following were elected for
three years:
BENJAMIN H. Anthony. New Bedford
(MasS.) Standard.
II. ". Jones. Minneapolis (Minn.
w. l.. Mclean. Philadelphia (Pa.
Bulletin, reelected.
Frank B. Noyes. Washington Cd.
CO Star, reelected
Adolph =. Ochs, New York On. W
Times, reelected.
formerly of the Pittsburgh Pa-) Dis
patch. resigned, Stuart II. Perry,
Adrian (Mich) Telegram. was elected.
His term Will expire in 1926
To fill the unexpired term of d. D.
Moore. Fort Worth CTex) Record, re-
signed. Frederick I. Thompson of the
Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald was
elected. His term will expire next
year.
The meeting passed unanimously
and enthusiastically standing vote
of thanks to express the appreciation
L
full and efficient service of its di-
rectors and employees during the last
year. The appreciation was voiced
by c. z. J. Mooney of the Memphis
(Tenn.) Commerciai-Appea who moved
the motion. as follows:
We have some men here in this
organization who are at cross-points
and who have the difficulty of taking
a four-wire report sometimes and
cutting IL into single-wire report.
1t is just like taking sixteen coll
umns of news and condensing it in 20
four columns: and the man on the
single wire, seeing the four wire re-
port. thinks he ought to have as
one wire as big paper gets on four.
Those men are very splendid men.
They are doing a great work
Thank Capital Stan.
''The staff at Washington does a
splendid work. And you will remenl
her the superintendent there wrote
that interview of that Day With Ex-
President Wilson, which is one Of the
most splendid pieces OF work that
ever went into an American news
paper.
And here are these men whom YOU
placed all over this country. from
Maine TO San Diego, occasionally
breaking into The Associated Press
with story, every word of which
lives in life and is splendid And
we get il and we think nothing Of il,
II we got that same story from a
special correspondent. or probably as
a special cable from some New York
paper. which makes business of