Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
APP. IN BROADCAST
DEPICTSITSW WORK
Gigantic Task of Gathering
and Distributing News of
World Told.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.-The Asso-
ciated Press in action was depicted for
newspaper readers tonight in Nation
wide and ocean-spanning broadcast.
Direct from the general news room of
this cooperative organization came a
graphic recital of the story behind the
news, to the background of clicking
automatic printing telegraph machines,
telegraph saunders and typewriters.
Men and women who every day re-
cord and transmit to 1900 member
newspapers the important happenings
OF civilization told from their desks the
parts they play in this gigantic task
The present as we'll as the past was
portrayed. From the pages of history
there came new dramatization of the
take-of from Roosevelt Field by Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh of his nonstop
flight to Paris.
Late News in Broadcast.
News just developing and being trans
mitted was used as a basis for part of
the broadcast. Even the functioning of
the news photo service was described.
Kent Cooper, general manager of the
Associated Press, opened the broadcast
which was made by more than so sta
tionS of the coaSt-to-coast chain of the
National Broadcasting Co. and by two
short-wave stations.
Mr.. Cooper was introduced by M H
Aylesworth, president of N. B. c., speak
ing from Chicago. The two announcers
were George Hicks and James Walling-
ton.
Starting at the desk of j. M. Kend-
rick, night executive news editor, they
described what was taking place.
Gaudhi ScOon Cited
The Associated Press scoop on the
release of Mahatma Gandhi from
prison in India was recalled when
James A. Mills. A. p. correspondent,
waited 96 hours at the gate of the
prison to obtain an exclusive story and
pictures.
An example of how the Associated
Press covers spot news was the Lind
bergh take-off. A cast of NBC actors
and @. d. Seymour, regular member
OF the A, P. staff, depicted how James
Macdonald and Brian Bell flashed this
epoch-mak1ng news to the world
The announcers then met Hazel
Reavis, who interviewed Lindbergh
when he landed in Paris; Edward j.
Neil, sports writer, who told what was
current in sports; M. H. Duhamel, night
city editor, who reported the Wall
street bomb explosion on September 16,
1920; Lorena Hickok, staff writer.
Then to the news photo room, where
A. l.. Murphy, news editor, explained
the function of his department.. At
That point Mr.. Kendrick announced
that word had just come from San
Francisco that photograph of the
broadcast, transmitted by telephone,
had been received there.
Presses Are Heard.
AS the end of the half-hour ap-
preached, loud speakers all over the
country were filled with the roar of
gigantic presses in the Offices of the
New York Herald Tribune printing the
news OF the night, including the stories
referred to over the microphone. The
broadcast closed with the cry of the
newsboy on the street: "Paper-paper
morning paper"
In opening the broadcast, Mr.. Cooper
said:
with the aid Of the National Broad
casting Company, the Associated Press
Is tonight bringing you to its general
offices in New York for a brief visit in
the hope that in what is said and what
IS portrayed you will get some idea Of
the magniture of the task OF getting the
news. There is no activity of mankind
that produces something which it Is as
impossible to observe at all its sources
80 PAOoANbAOAAs VIC Cd141lOb GdkkaG YOU
in this brief period for a visit 70 the
hundred Associated Press bureaus in
this and foreign lands, or to any Of the
1.3O0 newspapers which are members
OF this cooperative organization, each
Of which Is in itself the scene Of activ-
3ty on behalf Of the Associated Press.
Routine Is Described.
you are hearig tonight the mechani-
cal and manual telegraph instruments
that are rcSounding simultaneously in
the off1ces Of the Associated Press news
papers in your vicinity. You can go to
these offices and see the news coming
in. You can see 1t edited, rushed to
the composing room, linotyped, matted,
cast and printed on mammoth presses.
You can realize that the Associated
Press wires that are connected into that
once from a network Of 100000 miles,
covering all of North America, and in
addition TO that mileage ocean cables
and wireless connections with telegraph
systems for message tranSmissions
throughout the world
81 regret, however, that you cannot
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