Evening star., 1939-04-25
Mclean Is Reelected
As President Of
Associated Press
Kent Cooper Will Again
Occupy Position
Of Secretary

Of Secretary
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Robert
Mclean of the Philadelphia Bulletin
today was reelected president of
the Associated Press.
At the same time the board of
directors elected E. Lansing Ray of
the st. Louis Globe Democrat as
first vice president and Stuart H.
Perry of the Adrian (MichD Tele-
gram as second vice president.
Secretary Kent Cooper. Assistant
Secretary Lloyd Stratton and Treas
urer L. F. Curtis were reelected.
The question of broadcaSting As
soclated Press news on commercially
sponsored radio programs was put
before the organization Board of
Directors for action, at the request
Of members
At their annual meeting yesterday
the members adopted a resolution
urging the board to consider such
broadcaStS.
They likewise approved an amend
ment to the associations certificate
OF incorporation which would assign
as one of its objects the supplying
OF news not only to member news
papers but to Others entitled to the
use thereof"
The resolution asking full
hearing concerning the broadcast
OF news was offered by Charles P.
ManShip of the Baton Rouge LAD
State Times.
Sees Competitive Disadvantage.
1t said an increasing number of
Associated Press newspapers had
been forced by the existing ban on
sponsored broadcast of Associated
Press news ito purchase" the news
OF competing agencies for such
sponsored program" and added that
the situation thus created had
operated to the Associated Press
competitive disadvantage
The meeting also favored by 139
TO SO vote a proposed grant of dis
cretlonary power to the board to
remit operating assessments against
members during periods of emerg-
ency shutdowns, including those
caused by strikes.
The proposal was advanced by
Joseph E. Ridder, publisher of the
St. Paul Pioneer Press and part own
er OF the Duluth Mimi News
Tribune, which ceased publication
for seven weeks in 1888 during a
strike by the American Newspaper
Guild.
Action Is Opposed.
Declaring such action by the board
would be start along "a fatal
road" Frank B. Noyes, of the WASH
1ngton Star and veteran former
president of the AP, said:
The Associated Press, as a news
gathering organization, can't take
sides or be aligned in one way or
another with unions or against
unions
To become operative the proposal
must be approved by a tWo-thirds
vote of the board and then accepted,
IN vote of the membership.
The meeting reelected all six of
the directors whose terms are expir-
Ing this month: w. H. Cowles of
the Spokane (Wash) Spokesman
Review; George B. Longan of the
Kansas City Star; Robert r. Nc
Cormick of the Chicago Tribune;
l.. K. Nicholson of the New Orleans
Tlmes-Picayune; E. Lansing Ray of
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat, and
- Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian
tMich) Telegram.
On Nominating Committee.
j. S. Parks of the Fort Smith
fArkD Times Record was chosen
chairman of the Nominating Com
mittee, and the following to men,
bership:
Charles P. Manship; w. w.
Knorpp of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Ga
zette; Frank S. Baker of the Tacoma
lWasho Ledger; Hugh Powell of
the Coffeyville (KanD Journal;
Frank Throop of the Lincoln (Neb)
Star; E. D. Corson of the Lockport
IN. " Union Sun and journal:
Henry Walser of the Hazleton pa
Standard Sentinel.
The New Auditing Committee:
Chairman. E. R. Stevenson of the
. waterbury tConn) American; Frank
q. HuntreSS, il, of the San Antonio
(TexD News, c. F. Waite of the San
Pedro (CalifD News Pilot and Joel
H. Bixby of the Muskogee (Okla.)
Times Democrat
Publishers See Television,
Television, both in the studio and
out, was demonstrated for the first
time to an annual meeting of the
Associated Press yesterday by the
r. c. AN. B. G. System. The spe-
cially arranged visual broadcast was
; titled Looking at Tomorrow.
From the studio came a picturized
review of world affairs since Munich
by Dewitt Mackenzie, A. P. foreign
affairs writer.
From outside mobile equipment
picked up scenes of news on the
move directly from the A. P. head
quarters in its Rockefeller Center
Building.
1t was the first time that tele-
vision had been utilized to depict
. history in the making as if it were
a single news event.
Likewise. it was the first time that
a mobile televisor had been installed
in the A. p office to show the every
day activity in keeping a Nation in
formed of news through l,400 men,
ber newspapers.
The program was transmitted
through the N. B. c. station in the
Empire State Building to 20 re-
ceivers installed in the Waldorf
: Astoria Hotel several blocks away.
Coupled with the other "firsts' in
the broadcast was the special in
stallation of receivers in the Wal
dorf Astoria. Never before had such
a large gathering. numbering more
than 200 ,,ouycoono ,,1,blic icl,n,c frCr,,