Radio News

A newsgathering organization with correspondents in all chief U. S. cities to collect and write news items suitable for radio broadcasting, with a nationwide clientele of radio stations (one in each city and two or more in the larger centres), with 20 wavelengths in the short-wave spectrum for its own use, with a network of teletypewriter lines so that its stories would be automatically transmitted ready for use in broadcasting rooms, and with an arrangement for selling radio broadcasting for the stations on a 15 per cent commission--such was the organization visualized last week when a National Radio Press Association was incorporated under the laws of Delaware with headquarters in Manhattan.

President of the new association is Charles A. Sloan, formerly in charge of broadcasting for the New York World. Herbert Bayard Swope, retired executive editor of the World, was reported to have given advice on the enterprise but he denied having any formal connection with it. The former Swopian Secretary, Miss H. A. Millar, is secretary of the new company.