Evening star., 1926-04-24
FEATURE AGENCY
NOW WORLDWIDE
North American Newspaper
| Alliance Expands to al
/ Countries.
spedal Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 24.--Expansion
Of the North American Newspaper
Alliance to the four quarters of the
globe was announced to the mem
bers of the organization at their an
nual meeting in New York yesterday,
when Maj. Loring Pickering, gen
eral manager of the alliance, read to
the assembled editors and publishers
the names Of 46 leading foreign news
papers who have Joined the alliance
as foreign members. This list of new
members included some OF the most
distinguished names in world jour-
nalism.
The North American Newspaper AL
lance now numbers 10 members in
IL countries. Sixty-four Of the news
papers are situated in the United
States and Canada.
Worldwide Membership.
Following are the new members:
Neue Freie Presse Vienna, Austria; L.
'Etoile Beige. Brussels. Belgium; Ceske
Slovo, Prague, Czechoslovakia; Ber-
lineske Tidende, Copenhagen, Den
mark: Uusi Suomi, Helsingfors, Fin
land; Le Petit Parisien. Paris. France;
Berliner Tageblatt, Berlin, Germany;
Eleftheron Vima. Athens. Greece; Az
Est Dailies Pesti Naplo MagyarorsZag
Azest, Budapest, Hungary; Corriere
Della Sera, Milan, Italy: Nieuwe Rot
terdamsche Courant, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, Tidens Tegn Oslo
Aftenavis, Oslo, Norway: Gazeta
Poranna Warszawska. Warsaw,
Poland: Diario De Noticias, Lisbon,
Portugal; Presna Espanola Blanco v
Negro, Madrid, Spain: Dagens Ny
Xeter. Stockholm, Sweden; Neue
Zurcher Zeitung. Heurich, Switzer.
land; La Presna, Buenos Aires. Ar
gentina: Bermuda Press. Hamilton,
Bermuda; La Republica. La Paz.
Bolivia; A Noite. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Barbados Advocate, Bridgetown, Bar
bados, British West Indies; Ell Mer-
curio. Santiago, Chile: Eltiempo, Bo-
gotta, Colombia: Diario de Costa Rica.
San Jose. Costa Rica; Diario de Ia
Marina, Havana, Cuba: Listindiario,
Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic3
El TELEGRAPH. Guayaquil, Ecuador;
Diario de Guatemala, Guatemala,
Guatemala; Ell Universal. Mexico
City, Mexico; Star and Herald. Panama
City. Panama: Ell Diario, Asuncion,
Paraguay; Ell Comercio, Lima, Peru;
FL Mundo, San Juan, Porto Rico: Ell
Diario, Delialvador and FL Salvador,
San Salvador; Ell Dia, Montevideo,
Venezuela: Auckland tSar, Auckland,
New Zealand; Lyttelton Times, Lyttel-
ton, New Zealand; Melbourne Herald,
Melbourne, Australia: Sun, Sydney,
New South Wales Brisbane Daily Mail.
Brisbane, Queensland; the Egyptian
Gazette, Alexandria, Egypt; De Lo-
comotief, Samarang. Java; De Deli
courant, Medan, Sumatra; Hochi Shin
bun. Toxic, Japan; Palestine Bulletin,
Jerusalem, Palestine.
The expansion announced at yester-
days annual meeting was the result
of the directors decision last year to
open the membership list to foreign
newspapers. The first member to join
was La Prensa of Buenos Aires. LIE
Petit Parisien, which has the largest
circulation in France; the Berliner
Tageblatt, the Neue Freie Presse of
Vienna, the Rotterdamsche Courant
American. Central American, Asiatic
and Australasian journals, listed
above, followed in quick succession.
Organized in 1922
The North American Newspaper
Alliance was organized in 1922 by
strong independent American and
Canadian newspapers as a non-prof1t.
cooperative agency to acquire for its
members the most important outstand-
ing newspaper features. Only one
member in each locality was taken.
The Evening Star is that member in
Washington.
Five directors were reelected and
two new directors. They are East |
ern district, Richard Grozier of the
Boston Post; Southern district. Clark |
Howell, jr., of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton; Western district, w. H. Cowles |
of the Spokane Spokesman-Review;
central district, John Cowles Of the |
Des Moines Register-Tribune; direc |
tor at large. Paul Patterson of the |
Baltimore Sun. E. j. Lynett Of the |
Scranton Times was elected a director
for the Eastern district and Walter |
A Strong of the Chicago Daily News |
was elected to fill the unexpired term |
of the late Victor F. Lawson, director
at large.
The following officers were elected |
by the board of directors: President, |
George E. Miller of the Detroit News;
first vice president, Newbold Noyes !
of the Washington Evening Star; sec |
cnd vice president, Ernie c. Hopwood |
of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer; secre- |
farv and treasurer, Ralph Pulitzer of
che New York World; assistant secre. |
tsry and treasurer, John Fletcher of |
the New York World.