Evening star., 1925-04-20
KENT COOPER NEW Il. p. MANAGER ;
SUCCEEDS FREDERICK X. MARTIN
Promotion Comes After
Is Years Service With
Organization.
Frank b. NOyes Observes
25h Anniversary as
Its President.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associ ated Press
NEW YORK, April 2O.-The ap-
pointment of Kent Cooper as general
manager of the Associated Press, sue.
ceeding Frederick Roy Martin, re-
signed, is announced. Mr.. Martin s
resignation takes effect on Wednes
day.
Mr.. Cooper has been assistant gem
eral manager for years. He en-
tered the service of the Associated
Press Is years ago in a subordinate
position.
The Associated Press today begins
observance of the twenty-fifth ami.
versary of its orga niZation in its pres.
ent form and of the presidency OF
Frank b. Moves.
A preliminary meeting in the Wal.
dorf at 2:30 pm. today will precede
tomorrow's regular annual meeting
which will begin at 10 am.
Dawes Main Speaker.
Vice President Dawes will be the
principal speaker at the annual lunch
con tomorrow at ] pm, and is ex
pected to discuss his program for
changes in the Senate rules. Mr..
Noyes will preside and John McCor
mack will sing. The proceedings will
be broadcast by stations WEAF and
WOO, Philadelphia. Broadcasting
will begin at . pm.
The board of directors of Is mem
bers, including five to be elected to
morrow. viii organize Wednesday.
Mr.. Cooper's advancement to the
position of general manager comes
after many years of wide activity in
the Associated Press. He has had
experience in every phase and detail
of press association work, with the
advantage of 3 years of intimate as
sociation with President Noyes and
Melville +. Stone, former general
manager and now counselor of the
organization.
Given Rowing Commission.
Fundamentally and essentially a
news man, Mr. Cooper's earlier actiyi
ties in the Associated Press had to dc
with another field. He joined the
staff in 1910 at the invitation of Mr.
Stone, who gave him a rowing com
mission as travelling inspector. Thus
there were afforded to him unlimited
opportunities for observation of and
participation in the service through
out the country. the work later taking
him into the broader field of the en-
tire world.
He visited all of the 20 Associated
Press bureaus in the United States
not once, but many times, as well as
many of the larger bureaus abroad.
He also has visited hundreds of the
Offices of newspaper members of the
Associated Press, gaining intimate
personal knowledge of the require
ments and wishes of the members.
This knowledge furnished means of
applying practical solutions TO many
of the intricate problems Of this spe-
cialized branch of newspaper work.
The personal contact with the staffs
of member newspapers at their daily
tasks also helped to bring closer CO.
ordination in this great cooperative
endeavor at news exchange.
Speeded Up Service.
The progress in the development of
newspa pers. the increase in the num-
Der of daily editions and the fact
that in recent years there is an edi-
ton of some Associated Press paper
going TO press almost every minute
of the day required greater speed in
the delivery of news. Never wishing
TO jeopa rdiZe accuracy of speed ac-
curacy being the first and cardinal
principle of Associated Press work,