Evening star., 1938-04-24
A.P.ASSOC|ATES
HONOR E.B.NOYES.
Dinner Given for Retiring
President, Sa|uting 38
Years of Service.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 23-The old
friends and associates Of Frank B.
Noyes, who is retiring as president of
the Associated Press, saluted his 80
years Of continuous service in that
office at dinner tonight in his honor
He will say his official farewell to
the presidency on Monday in the As
eociated Press annual meeting,
gathering Of men representing the
associations member newspapers -
1,4o0 Of them across the continent.
Last January he announced his
decision not to accept reelection,
saying he felt his job was done and
that now it should fall to younger
hands.
Last Of A. r. Founders.
Mr.. Noyes, now approaching IS, is
the last surviving member Of the little
group that formed the Associated
Press. ahd through all the storms of
"A years he has been a leader in the
A. P. and its predecessor corporation.
as a board member Executive Com
mittee member and president. He is
president of The Evening Star News
paper Co. of Washington.
The dinner tonight was arranged
by those who have served, at various
times during the long Noyes tenure, in
high places-officers, directors. former
directors and officers; executives and
former executives.
List of Associates,
They are: E. P. Adler, Davenport
uowa) Times; Paul Bellamy Cleve-
land Plain Dealer; Kent Cooper, A. P.
general manager; John Cowles, Des
Moines Register; w. H. Cowles, Spo-
Kane Review; L. F. Curtis, treasurer;
Charles S. Diehl, former assistant
general manager; Jackson S. Elliott,
former assistant general manager;
Frank E. Gannett. Rochester Times
Union; Houston Harte, San Angelo
tTex) Standard; j. N. Heiskell, Ark
ansas Gazette, Little Rock; j. L.,
Horne, Rocky Mount IN. c. Tele-
gram; Clark Howell, Atlanta Consti-
tuition; j. R. Knowland. Oakland
(Calif) Tribune; Albert P. Langtrv,
Springfield (Mass.) Union; George B.
Longan. Kansas City Star; w. J..
McCambridge, assistant general man.
aGer; Robert Mclean, Philadelphia
Bulletin; Frederick E. Murphy. Min
neapolls Tribune; Robert R. McCor-
mick, Chicago Tribune; L. K. Nichol-
son, New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Newbold Noyes, Washington Star;
William j. Pape, Waterbury Comm
Republican; Paul Patterson. Baltimore
Sun; Stuart H. Perry, Adra.n (Mich)
Telegram; Byron Price, executive news
editor; Joseph Pulitzer, st. Louis Post
Dispatch; E. Lansing Ray. st. Louis
Slooe-Democrat; Victor Ridder, New
York Stats Zietung; Lloyd Stratton.
assistant general manager; w. O.
Taylor, Boston Globe; Frederick I.
Thompson, formerly of the Birming-
ham Age-Herald and now of the Mont
gomery (Ala) Journal; Oswald Gar
rlson Willard, old New York Post; A. C.
Weiss, Duluth CMinn.) Herald Flor
enoe D. White, old New York World;
!. r. Youatt, former treasurer.
Six Directors to Be Named,
Mr.. Perry presided and the sched-
uled speakers were Mr.. Adler, Mr..
Dlehl. MIR. Heiskell, Mr.. Mccormick,
MIR. Ray and Mr.. Thompson.
The business of the annual meeting
includes the election Of a new presi-
dent and the election of six directors
due to expiring terms.
Also to be discussed are recon-
mendations made to the board that
member newspapers be allowed to
make arrangements with advertisers
Tor sponsored news broadcasts.