Evening star., 1944-04-23
Associated Press
And ANPA 10 Meet in
New York This Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 22.-News-
paper publishers and their represen-
tatives will meet in New York next
week to discuss war and postwar
questions at the annual meetings of
the Associated Press and the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers As
sociation.
The 44th meeting of the Associ-
ated Press, non-profit newsgather-
ing cooperative, will be held Mon
day, and the 58th convention of the
ANPA will continue from Tuesday
through Thursday. The meetings
will be held in the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel.
The AP will elect seven directors
at business sessions, and will hear
three high-ranking officers of the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps at
the annual luncheon. They will be
1t. Gen. Alexander A. VANDERBILT,
Marine Corps commandant; Rear
Admiral Dewitt Clinton Ramsey,
chief of the Nays Bureau of
Aeronautics, and Col. John r. Alison
Of the Army Air Forces. Robert
Mclean, AP president, will preside.
The first day of the ANPA ses-
sions will be devoted to editorial,
mechanical and business topics of
interest to newspapers of less than
$4,000 circulation.
Noyes to Make Address.
Linwood I. Moves of the Ironwood
fMich) Daily Globe, ANPA presi-
dent. will open the Tuesday ses-
siors which will be under the chair
manship of Buell. w. Hudson of the
Woonsocket (R. H. Call.
Mr.. Noyes will deliver his annual
address as president at the start
of the general convention sessions
Wednesday morning. Committee re-
ports will be received, including one
from Edwin S. Friendly of the New
York Sun, national chairman of the
waste paper drive.
The Wednesday afternoon session
will be in charge of the Bureau of
Advertising with Frank E. Tripp,
general manager of the Gannett
newspapers and chairman of the
committee in charge Of the bureau,
presiding.
The ANPA general sessions will
resume Thursday morning. The
afternoon session will be devoted to
a discussion of frequency modula-
ton broadcasting.
Dewey, Johnston to Talk.
The ANPA meetings will close
with the dinner of the Bureau of
Advertising Thursday night at
which the speakers will be Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Eric
A. Johnston, president of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce, and
Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill, new
director of public relations for the
Navy. Charles P. Manship, pub
Usher of the Baton Rouge Oa)
State-Times and Morning Advocate
viii be toastmaster.
The ANPA will elect officers and
five directors Thursday noon. The
officers, besides President Noyes, are:
w. G. Chandler, Scripps- Howard
Newspapers, New York, vice presi-
dent; Norman Chandler, Los An
geles Times, secretary, and MIR.
Friendly, treasurer.
The directors whose terms expire
are: George .Riggrs, Atlanta ,Jour.,
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aid tribune; E. M. Dealey, Dallas
News; j. L. Stackhouse, Easton
(Pao Express, and S. r. Winch.
Portland (Oreg.), Journal.
associated Press Election.
ThesAssociated Press Nominating
Committee has made 10 nomina-
tions to succeed the five directors
from larger cities whose terms ex-
pire. Those nominated are Frank
B. Noyes, Washington Evening Star:
Robert Mclean, Philadelphia Eve
ming Bulletin: George F. Booth,
Worcester (Mass) Telegram; Paul
Patterson, Baltimore Sun, and E. H.
Butler, Buffalo IN. " Evening
News, whose terms expire. and Nor
man Chandler, Los Angeles Times;
Alanson c. Deuel., Niagara Falls IN.
Y) Gazette; Mark Ethridge, Louis
vile (Ky) Courier-Journal; Rich
ard j. Finnegan, Chicago Daily
Times, and Dwight Marvin, Troy IN.
" Record
Josh L. Horne of the Rocky Mount
IN. c. Telegram, and Howard Rice
of the Brattleboro CVt) Reformer,
have been nominated for director for
cities Of less than $4,000 population.
Mr.. Horne is the present representa-
tive Of the smaller communities.
A successor to w. H. Cowles, pub
Usher of the Spokane CWash.)
Spokesman Review, who resigned
from the A. P board for reasons of
health will also ha alacted