Evening star., 1950-02-18
Army, Navy Journal
Announces Trustee
plan Of Publication

Will De published uIlOeT q trustee
ship accepted by the executiv,
committee of the Gridiron Club.
1t was announced also that th'
trustees have elected Samuel H
Kaufman to represent them OF
the board of directors of the Jour
nal. Mr.. Kaufman is presiden
of The Evening Star Newspape,
Co.
The trusteeship was set up unde
the will of Col. John Callal
OLaughlin, late publisher of tn
authoritative journal of the armed
services. He bequeathed the pub
lication to the Gridiron Club will
the stipulation that profits shoult
be used for charitable purpose
and for journalistic education an,
awards.
The announcement by the trus
tees, as published in the curren
issue of the Journal, follows:
The Army and Navy Journal,
spokesman of the Armed Serv-
ices since 1863" will be operated
under trusteeship accepted by
the executive committee of the
Gridiron Club of Washington,
D. c.
Proceeds of the famous serv-
ice journal will be devoted to a
fund for charitable and educa-
tional activities ordered by the
terms of the will of the late
Col. John Callan O'Laughlin,
publisher, who died on March
IA, 1949. Col. OLaughlin, for
merly correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune and Assistant Sec
retary of State, was a member
of the Gridiron Club. He con-
veyed the property, in trust. to
those Washington newspaper
correspondents making up the
membership of the executive
committee of the club.
Samuel H. Kaufman, presi-
dent of The Washington Eve
ming Star Newspaper Co., was
elected to the board of directors
OF The Journal to represent the
eight trustees.
The trustees are: Thomas L.
Stokes. president of The Grid
iron Club, United Feature Syn
dicate; James T. Bergman, vice
president, cartoonist of The
Washington Evening Star;
Walker S. Buel, treasurer,
Washington correspondent of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer;
Paul r. Leach, secretary, Wash
ington correspondent of the
Knight Newspapers; Lewis G.
Wood, historian, Washington
Bureau of the New York Times;
James L. Wright, Washington
correspondent of the Buffalo
Evening News: James Russell
Virgins, managing editor of
The Washington Post; Benja-
min M. McKelway, editor of The
Washington Evening Star.
The trustees announced that
there will be no change in the
policy of the publication. In
accordance with the plan of
Col. O'Laughlin the masthead
will be changed at an early date
from Army and Navy Journal
to The Army Navy Air Force
Journal. u
Mr.. Stokes, for the trustees.
said: "The staff which served
under Col. O'Laughlin will con-
tinue to edit and operate The
Journal in the same authorita-
tive, accurate and unbiased way
as in the past.
"They will have in mind the
interests of all the services as
well as the common interest.
and will continue to carry out
the policies of Col. OLaughlin
which earned the publication
such great respect in the serv-
ices.
Before his death, Col.
OLaughlin placed the opera
tion Of the publication in the
hands of an able staff, fully
schooled by experience in the
requirements and interests of
the Army, Navy and Air Force.
THE trustees have been for
tunate in obtaining for The
Journal, in addition, the advice
and counsel of Mr.. Kaufman.
as a member of the board of
directors.
After an expression of approx
al by The Gridiron Club, the
executive committee voted last
December to accept trusteeship
OF the property. Col. OLaugh-
lin planned for at least Is years
before his death to ask in his
will that those newspapermen
currently making up the execu-
tive committee accept the pub
lication in trust.
His will provided that the pro-
ceeds be used for a wide range
OF charitable and educational
activities including the relief
of needy journalists, scholar
ships in universities and COL
leges, awards in Journalism for
articles or books on military
and international affairs.
Mr.. Stokes announced that
the trustees are considering es-
tablishment of a charitable and
educational foundation for the
distribution of such funds as
may become available from The
Journal. a
Management of the publica-.
ton will be carried on under
the Board of Directors: Mr..
Kaufman, Joseph H. Hines,
former member of the United
States Congress. outstanding in
business and financial services,
and an executor of the O'Laugh-
lin estate; Joseph P. Tumulty,
jr., counsel and executor of the
estate; Leroy Whitman, edi-
tor, and Mrs. Dorothy M. Brown,
secretary.