Evening star., 1954-04-20
Associated Press
Picks New Directors
And Reflects -Four
By the Assoeioted Press

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bers of the Associated Press re-
elected four directors and elected
two new ones at the annual AP
meeting yesterday.
The board meets today.
Directors reelected were:
John S. Knight. Chicago Daily
News; James M. Cox, jr., Dayton
tOnio) Daily News; Mark Eth
ridge, Louisville CKy) Courier
Journal; and Dolph Simons.
Lawrence Kans.) Journal
World.
The new directors are Harold
A. Fitzgerald, Pontiac fMich)
Press. and Bernard H. Bidder,
jr., Duluth CMinn) News-Trib-
une.
Mr.. Fitzgerald and Mr.. Ridder
replace Roy A. Roberts of the
Kansas City Star and Palmer
Hoyt of the Denver Post, who
were not eligible for reelection
becausue they had served three
consecutive terms.
Nominated in November.
Results of the election were
announced early today The can
didates chosen were first nomi-
mated by the APPS nominating
committee last November.
Mr.. Simons, director for cities
of less than $4,000 population.
won his new term in this CLASH
fication with a vote of 6.327 to
1882 for Clyde E. Palmer of
the Ell Dorado (Ark) Daily News.
The voting results: .
Mr.. Knight, 9,021; Mr.. Cox.
6,651; Mr.. Ethridge. 6.970; Mr..
Fitzgerald, 5,248; Mr.. Ridder,
4.867: Clarence B. Hanson, jr.,
Birmingham (Ala.) Sunday News,
1858; Oscar S. Stauffer. Topeka
(KanSO State Journal, 3,436;
James Kerney, jr., Trenton IN.
j. Evening Times, 2,702; James
A. Guthrie, San Bernardino
(Calif) Daily Sun. 1,741: J. Hale
Steinman. Lancaster Pa) In
telligencer-Journal, 3,276.
The AP Board of Directors has
18 members. elected for three
year terms. Terms of six direc-
tors expire each year. The AP
bylaws require that at least three
members of the board represent
newspapers published in cities
of less than $4,000 population.
Is Papers Get Service.
Sixteen newspapers were
elected to regular AP member
ship at yesterdays meeting.
They are:
Mountain View (Calif) Daily
Register; Durango (Colo.) Her.
ald-News; Loveland (Colo.) Re-
porter Herald: Delaware State
News of Dover, Del; Leesburg
(Flao Commercial and Ledger;
Panama City (Fla.) News; Nor
ris (Ill0 Herald; Lebanon GndD
Reporter; Spencer Ua) Daily
Reporter and Sunday Times;
Glasgow (KyD Times; Midland
(Mich) Daily News; Clarksdale
(MiSsD Press Register; Ironton
(Ohio) Courier; Norman (Okla.) }.
Transcript; Pryor (Okla.) Daily
Times, and Mount Carmel CPaD
Item.
Four AP staffers participated
In a panel discussion at the an
nual meeting at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel yesterday after an
address by Henry Cabot Lodge,
Jr., United States Ambassador
to the United Nations.
Four Answer Questions.
The four staff men, who an
swered questions from publishers
about foreign affairs, we're:
Frank Noel, Pulitzer Prize
winning photographer captured
by the Communists in Korea.
Relman NORM, who won
Pulitzer Prize for reporting of
the Korean war.
John Hightower, Pulitzer
Prize winner for international
reporting.
Thomas Whitney, who spent
seven years in Moscow as an AP
correspondent.
Moderator of the discussion
was Benjamin M. McKelway,
editor of The Washington Star
and an AP director.
Mr.. Noel told the AP members
that there is a schism between
the Chinese Reds and the Rus
slams and he expressed hope that
the United States would exploit
1t. Mr.. Noel, who was released
last year after the Korean truce.
said the schism began develop
ing about two years ago
Russians Bringing Families.
The Chinese Communists. he
said, want the Russians to get
out"
But, instead of getting out"
he added, they are bringing their
wives and children in. The Chi
nese don't like it."
Mr.. Noel said the new type
Chinese soldier has been sub
Jected to intensely nationalistic
propaganda. He declared Amer
lean prisoners of war reused
their Chinese interrogators to
fury by suggesting that the Chi
neSe were tools of the Russians
Mr.. Noel was asked his opinion
of Fifth Amendment Commu-
nlStS" in the United States. His
answer was: II don't care how
they dig the Commies up. think
the best way to deal with Com
mics is at the open end of a As"
A person either is or is not an
American, he declared, and any
one with doubts as to where he
stands should visit a Communist
country to see what it is like to
live under Red domination.