Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-23
A. P. REFLECTS
FOUR DIRECTORS
Frank B. Noyes Again Is
Named President of News
Organization.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 23.-The Asso-
ciated Press has reelected four of its
directors whose terms have expired and
chosen Frederick E. Murphy of the
Minneapolis Tribune to fill the vacancy
on the directorate created by the death
of H. v. Jones of the Minneapolis
Journal
The results of the election, held at
the annual meeting of the news gather
ing organization at the Waldorf Astoria
yesterday, were announced today.
The directors reelected were Frank
B. Moves. Washington Star; Adolph S.
Ochs, New York Times; B. H. Anthony.
New Bedford (Mass.) Standard, and
Robert Mclean, Philadelphia Bulletin.
p Officers Are Elected.
The board of directors elected the
following officers: President, Mr.. Moves;
first vice president, Col Robert Ewing,
New orleans States; second vice presi-
dent, John Cowles, Des Moines Reg
lister; secretary Kent Cooper; assistant
secretary, Jackson S. Elliott; treasurer,
j. r. Youatt.
The following were elected members
of the executive committee: MeSsrS.
Moves, Ochs, Mclean and Anthony;
Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution; E.
H. Baker, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and
E. Lansing Ray ST. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Radio Question Discussed.
The Associated Press yesterday au-
thorized its board of directors to make
a study of the problem of broadcaSting
news dispatches of the organization and
report its findings at the 1880 meeting.
The question has aroused wide dis
cussion among the newspapers con-
pr:sing the association. Victor F.
Ridder, speaking for the st. Paul Dis
patch, recommended that the board OF
directors, in authorizing chain broad
casting, be requested to eliminate sta
tionS in cities where any member OF
the Associated Press objected.
After a general discussion Josephus
Daniels of the Raleigh IN. c. News and
Observer offered a substitute motion,
calling for the board to study the ques-
ton, and his resolution was adopted.
The following were named members
of the nominating committee for the
election yesterday: Chairman, w. Y.
Morgan, Hutchinson tKan) NewSHer-
aid; secretary, Henry Waller, Hazleton
tPa) Standard-Sentinel; Samuel E.
Reporter: Frank H. Hitchcock, Tucson
(Ariz) Citizen: o. S. Warden, Great
Falls (Mont) Tribune; John S. Cohen,
Atlanta (Ga) Journal; Curtis B. john
son. Charlotte IN. c. Observer, and
Paul A. Martin, Lansing Journal.
Auditing Committee Named.
New members of the auditing commit
tee were named as follows: Chairman,
S. A. Perkins, Olympia (Wash) Olym-
plan; secretary, r. T. Bayne, Duluth
(Minn) News-Tribune; Allison Stone,
Providence (R. H. Bulletin, and Eman-
uel Levi, Louisville (Ky) Courier-Journal
and Times.
President Hoover, who addressed the
members of the Associated Press at the
luncheon yesterday, paid tribute to
Melville E. Stone before he began read
ing his prepared address on law OBJ
servance and enforcement. Mr.. Hoover
said:
1T would be impossible for me to be
present with this association without
some word as to my great friend, Mel
vile Stone. He was great American.
He has, in a large measure, con-
tributed to the building of this institu-
ton, and through it he gave to our
country a great force of enlightenment
and of progress, and not the least of his
services was the establishment of this
institution and the foundations which
guarantee its continuance"