Evening star., 1948-04-20
Six Members Chosen
To Board Of Directors
I0f Associated Press
By fhs Asseeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, April 20.-Six
members Of the Board Of Directors
were chosen yesterday at the annual
business session of the Associated
Press. The meeting marked the CEN
tennial Of the Associated Press News
Service.
OF those chosen, five previously
have served on the board and one
was elected for the first time.
Elected to the board for three
year terms from the membership at
large. and the votes they received,
were:
Roy A. Roberts, Kansas City Star,
6,799; Palmer Hoyt,- Denver Post,
5,87l; L. X. Nicholson, New Orleans
Times-Picayune, 1854; John s..
Knight, Chicago Daily News, 5,l6S;
E. Lansing Ray, st. Louis Globe
Democrat, $3.50.
Other Nominees.
Other nominees and the votes they
received were Eugene Pulliam, Ari-
zona Republic and Phoenix Gazette,
3,754; w. H. Cowles, Spokane
Spokesman Review, 1881; George G.
Biggers, Atlanta Journal, 1850; E.
M. Dealey, Dallas Morning News,
2,279; D. Tennant Bryan, Richmond
News-Leader. 1888.
Elected a director from cities
with less than $4,000 population was
Stuart H. Perry, of the Adrian
fMich) Telegram, who received s.
807 votes. The other nominee was
Buell. w. Hudson. Of the Woon-
socket Evening Call, who received
2,124 votes.
Mr.. Knight, who was elected to
the board for the first time as a
director from the membership at
large, succeeds Col. Robert r. Nc
Cormick, of the Chicago Tribune.
All of the others were renamed
as directors.
Mccormick Withdrew.
Col. McCormick's term expired
this year. He originally was renom-
mated but asked that his name be
withdrawn. He explained he felt
the membership wanted more rota-
ton of the directorships.
Mr.. Knight now serves as a vice
president of the Associated Press.
In addition to the Chicago Daily
News he publishes the Detroit Free
Press, the Miami Herald and the
Akron Beacon Journal.
The annual business session was
held before and after the Tooth an
niversary luncheon OF the Associ-
ated Press.
The luncheon was attended by
more than 1,l00 persons, one Of the
largest attendances in recent years.
It was held in the ballroom OF the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
The luncheon was addressed by
Lord Rothermere. British newspaper
publisher.
He was introduced by Robert Nc
Lean, president of the Associated
Press and president of the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin, who pre-
S1QeQ at Cne luHCneOu.
At the afternoon business session,
Christopher Chancellor, general
manager of Reuters. was speaker.
Other speakers at this session
were two Associated Press bureau
chiefs. Wes Gallagher for Germany
and Russell Brines for Japan. They
gave of f-the-record reports on
events in the two occupied coun-
tries. -
Greetings Sent Noyes.
The AP membership voted to send
special greetings to Frank Noyes of
The Washington Evening Star, who
was president of the news co-opera-
tive for SO years. Mr.. Noyes, who
was unable to attend today's meet
ing, retired from the Board OF
Directors last year.
J. Hale Steinman of the Lancaster
pa Intelligencer- Journal. who
presented the motion to send greet
ings to Mr.. Noyes. said that the
former AP president had been i'll.
Messages of congratulation on the
APPS Tooth anniversary were sent to
the meeting by Rupert Henderson
chairman of the Australian Associ-
ated Press; Sir Keith Murdoch OF
the Melbourne Herald. Edward w
Davies, general manager of Press
Associated, Ltd, in Great Britain
and the memberships of the Cali
fornia Nevada AP Association.
H~>.& DIr.ne1 ~ %anker