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oy @-19 (Flev. 12-14-64) JohnChanéellorofN.B .ClNamed ~ Director of the Voice of America iy Johnson Selects White House Newsman in the Post 1 By, LLOYD camnisont I" Special to The New York Times - WASHINGTON, July 23— John WwW. Chancellor, White House correspondent for the National Broadcasting Com- “)Pany, was named by President Johnson today-to head the Voice of America, The 38-year-old reporter and broadcaster succeeds Hen *:. Loomis, the long-time director} { John W. Chancellor that news commentaries reflect Mable sources said that he and and reinforce Administration President Johnson had talked|PUties and de-emphasize dis. senting opinion. the head of -Carl T. Rowan, would be free to emphasize the U.S.LA., countered that news re Ports of the Voice had the same the treatment of United States| Judicial balance” of the tavor- airs, * . able and unfavorable “that a In a fatewell address to Voic e responsible newspaper Bives.” employes, Mr. Loomis contended USIA ae: as Jectivity was being undercu Mr. Johnson. named Le = M a Washington communi. cations lawyer, ta succeed|him, ormation Agency, which h In announcing Mr. cel- en ee . ver-all responsibility for over cess hroadcasts, was insisting [72 tPPyintmen cer) conference—wioday, “President? J a pal Me 32) ley agen, Both ea Ques’ ohnson waids ti -4< St te ase Lage Men thw es aes, “ST, have ‘confidence *t Voice of America ts. goir be in” imaginative, Seompetent, reliable Vand’ Celwdys\"truthfil hands » ~ [opening ‘statement, "page 12.) “4 ly girs ‘Reached - at . his ‘Cleveland ment, Mr. Propaganda as being “a two- way word." sae rr: ot, “Of course we want to-pro- ject American policy, “he said. “But wa’ also have to admit our own problems. If we try to brush something under the rug and Radio Moscow is covering it . in their broadcasts then. we loose our audience.....- - own mistakes and solve our own|: open. We} 2 problems out in the can’t be Buddha-llke.” Admired by Johnson | Mr. Chancellor first came tof the President's attention as the : White House correspondent for N.B.C,, an assignment hé las held for the last year, - : Newsmen who have worked]. with Mr. Chancellor both here] ’ and abroad have long rated him aS an outstanding, enterprising to share this judgm ‘House recount’ - one - oceasion| ; when “President Johnson took : thinit of anyone I enjoy talking te more than John Chancellor. ' Being director of the Voice is a $24,500 a year job of over- seeing the writing and broad- casting of news, commentaries In announcing Mr. Chancel- lor’s appointment, Mr. Johnson said that the new director agency. . ; A native og Chicago, Mr. Chancellor quit the University| of Dlinois in his junior year to work asa copy boy for The Chicago Sun-Times. +132. 0°" Be joined N.B.C.'s.. Chicago a man who killed a policeman. Mr. Chancellor made the ‘report lying on his back insthe street while ‘policemen andthe | cor- nered man. shot it out ‘over ~ going “to ‘reporter. The President is known H Tolson Belmont _ Mohr DeLoach —___ Casper. Callahan Conrad “2 Gale ae Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes — Gandy The Washington Post and ——— , Times Herald The Washington Daily News ___. The Evening Ster New York Herald Tribune —_ New York Journal-American ee New York Daily News New York Post ee The New York Times Pat The Baltimore Sun — The Worker ————_ The New Leader aE The Wall Street Journal . The National Observer -—_—- 7 —_ People’s World Date