Evening star., 1951-09-29
Restraints on News
Abroad and in i. ).
Draw Fire Of Editors
BY the Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 90
The men who run many of Amer
ica's leading newspapers today
complete an intensive four-day
study of news problems with at
Itention sharply focused on news
gathering barriers IN this country
as we'll as overseas.
The final session of the Asso-
Iciated Press Managing Editors
Association was scheduled to ad-
journ today.
Corn Elected President.
The APME elected as its presi-
dent for next year Herbert F.
Corn, managing editor of the
Washington Star. He succeeds L.
r. Blanchard of the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle. Wallace
Lomoe of the Milwaukee Journal
was elected vice president; Frank
Eyerly of the Des Moines Register
and Tribune, secretary, and Wal
ter Lister of the Philadelphia Eve
ming Bulletin was reelected treas
urer.
Last night the editors were en-
tertained at a Fairmont Hotel
banquet by Bob Hope, Tony Mar
tin and Monica Lewis of Holly
wood. After adjournment today
they we're to see the Stanford
San Jose football game at Palo
Alto.
Before ending their meeting the
editors were to act on draft reso-
lutions condemning the imprison-
ment of Associated Press Core
spondent William N. Oats at
Prague by Communist Czecho-
Slovakia.
Security Regulations Opposed.
A special committee headed by
y. Russell Virgins. managing edi-
tor of the Washington Post, also
drafted a response to the contro-
|versial new order of President
Truman extending tight security
regulations on information dis
Ipensed by civilian as well as mill
Itary agencies.
The order aroused immediate
Imisgivings among the editors
when it was announced this week
James S. Pope, chairman of the
Committee on Freedom of Infor.
nation of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors. predicted
the order would smother legiti.
mate information about the oper.
alton of our Government"
He disclosed that his COMMITTEES
had protested the order when i
first was proposed. more than two
months ago.
The security order was designed
to prevent information from ei.
william agencies leaking to poten.
tial enemies.
It was filed by Senator Bricker
Republican, of Ohio. who de-
Iscribed the Presidents action las
Tuesday as censorship"
Warning on Censorship.
A written report of the Per.
iformance Committee of the APNE
headed by David Patten, Provi.
dence. R. l., Journal and Bulletin
warned that there is more thar
one iron curtain" 1t said APME
committees have been "allergic'
ito domestic problems of censor.
ship, misleading or obstructiv,
handouts, and to "every methoe
open or hidden to distort thu
news"
The report said the creates
supervision of news was inside
Iron Curtain countries and thai
"the condition is getting worse"
The APME was concerned with
la wide range of technical prob.
Ilems during its meeting. TIL,
problems had come under thu
continuing study of a dozen com.
mittees during the year. These
were mostly an analysis and rec.
concentrations on the handling o.
foreign and domestic news, OF
writing and the content of tn,
l millicn-word daily report Of tn
Associated Press. 1t flows II
papers which in the United State.
Ialone have an average daily circu'
lation of IS million.
Next year the editors will NEE
in Boston, on a date still to b.
fixed.