Evening star., 1939-10-13
Wirephoto Network
OF 4. P. Moves 430
Maps as War Service
Managing Editors
Discuss Growing
Picture Demand
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The an
nual meeting OF the Associated
Press Managing Editors Association
turned today to a discussion of pic
tures-a form of news being pro-
gressively more displayed by Ameri-
can newspapers.
In a panel under the chairman
ship of w. P. Steven of the Tulsa
Tribune, F. A. Resch, the A. P.'s
executive picture editor, reported
the war had brought such vast
demand for spot" maps-those
showing exact locations of the NOV
ing strife in Europe-that it ap-
peared they were not secondary in
public interest even to the most
spectacular of photographs.
Speed in Preparing Maps.
To illustrate the point, he re-
marked that thus far this year the
A. P. had moved over it's wirephoto
network some 430 such maps-many
Of them prepared with the speed
and urgency of news bulletins and
transmitted to the member news
papers right along with the dis
patches they helped point up.
For the photo service, he said,
the year had been ''the most strenu-
Gus. exciting and costly we ever had
'It has been," he added, some
thing of war of nerves ITSELF"
He recalled the visit of the English
King and Queen to this continent
as the greatest picture assignment
that ever hit these Shores" in terms
Of the immense preparation it re-
quired.
Byron Price, executive news editor
Of the Associated Press, told the
association yesterday that despite
European censorship and "demoral-
lied" communications abroad the
services coverage of the war thus
far had been saluted by the Board
Of Directors.
He explained that the qualifying
"thus far" had been adopted at the
request of the management itself,
as matter of prudence considering
the chaotic conditions overseas.
The executives of more than $50
member newspaper, he added, had
thought we'll enough of the service
from abroad to communicate their
compliments directly to New York
headquarters.
Washington News Discussed.
A discussion of Washington news
In war time, with some recollections
of the voluntary censorship" of the
World War, was led by Ben M. Nc
Kelway of The Washington Star and
Hal OFlaherty of the Chicago Daily
News.
Alexander F. Jones of the WASH
ington Post projected an expansion
of, and an accent on, background
news-the human interest equation
that lies beneath the rush of spot
occurrences-and David Patten of
the Providence Evening Bulletin
spoke of the special necessity of
keeping dispatches as terse as their
Importance merited.
John L. Morrison of the Green
vile, Pa, Record-Argus, a veteran
newspaperman, told of some of the
problems of small-city journalism.
Stresses Pro Football.
Roger Connolly of the New Haven
Register dealt with the A. P. sports
report and suggested that profess
sional football-"the poor mans
varsity" he called Inherited the
growing attention of the news
papers.
The meeting is a national con-
ference of front-line newspaper
men.
1t is a three-day forum, broad
discussion of the news, feature and
picture problems Of some 1,40O As
sociated Press newspapers across the
Continent-papers of which the Ed
itors' Association is representative.
N. R. Howard, editor of the Cleve-
land News, is its chairman.