Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-09

Hearst's International News Service
"gets the news which makes up its
daily reports and especially important
foreign news, in large part by bribing
and corrupting employees" of its mem.
bers, the Associated Press has filed suit
in the United States district court here,
asking for permanent injunction
against the international News Service
to prevent such practices.
In his affidavit, Melville e, Stone,
general manager of the Associated Press
says;
cit appears from the affidavit of +.
w. Agnew, submitted herewith, that
this arrangement has continued at least
from January, 1914, to the present time
and under it important news gathered
by the Associated Press at heavy cost
has been appropriated by the defendant
and sold by it at a great profit as if
properly gathered by itself from orig
inal sources of information, with all
! the labor and expense involved. when,
in fact, the same was obtained at the
trifling cost of $40 per week, paid to
employees of the Cleveland News for be-
traying the interests of their employers
and of the Associated Press.
The court issued an order instruct
ing the International News Service to
appear tomorrow morning to show cause
why the injunction should not be issued
i This order has been served on Solomon
S. Carvalho, president of the organiza-
tion. The complaint comprises affidav-
its by Stone; Fred w. Agnew, former
member and telegraph operator of the
/ International News SerN rce at Cleveland
and by three local employees of the AS
sociated Press.
Referring to the practices alleged in
his affidavit, Stone says:
FThis has been done, as the depOnent
is informed and believes, in the city
of New York, in Detroit, San Francisco,
| Los Angeles and Cleveland and no doubt
! elsewhere; but for some time, as the
! deponent is informed and believes, the
! principal and most fragrant case of such
corrupt arrangement and the principal
source of such leakage of news, has been
] through an arrangement between the
Cleveland office of the International
News Service and employees of the
4 Cleveland News, which receives the ser
vice of the Associated Press. For con
office of the international News Sery-
! ice has had an arrangement with tele-
/ graph editors of the Cleveland News by
which for a consideration regularly
paid, such telegraph editors have tele-
/ phoned or otherwise communicated to
/ such Cleveland office of the defendant,
| important news received by the Cleve-
4 land News from the Associated Press
promptly as the same was received. This
/ has been done under an arrangement
! clearly shown by the following letter
dated November 81, 1916, from Barry
Faris, the day manager of the Intena-
tional News Service in the city of New
York to H. f. Ward, manager of the
Cleveland office of the International
! News Service, viz:
I Z" Gable address
l." Hearstite.
"Copy.
- international News Service,
/ " 23S Williams street, New York
''Nov. 81, 1916.
4" Mr.. F. H. Ward,
Z" 720 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio.
Z" Dead Mr. Ward:
!" Agnew had an arrangement some
Z
he could tip us off on big news stories
that the A. p. was carrying. / wish you
would find out from him Just what this
! connection was and if you cannot make
1 use of it. 1t proves very valuable to
receive tip that the A. p. is carrying
4 as soon as it puts it out on the wire.
/ Don t mention the A. 2. in any mes
sages of that kind, but simply say: An
sonoa carrying SO dead Pennsylvania
4 wreck, Pittsburgh or whatever it may
I be. i like the way you are taking hold
Of Cleveland very much. 1 notice a big
4 Improvement in the way stories are
written. Keep it up.
n g With best regards, | am,
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) !" BARRY FARIS. +"
In the affidavit by Agnew, numer-
Gus messages exchanged between Faris
and Ward relative to what the A. p.
was carrying are quoted. Following is
an example taken from the text of the
complaint:
'dOn December 5, at 1927 p. m, the
following message was sent to Dr.. the
Cleveland office of the International
News Service, by the New York office:
'Dr.-Has yd-George resigned
war censorship New York.
% At 1890 p. nj. the following mes
sage was sent by the Cleveland office to
the New York office Of the Intemation
al News Service:
/" Ansonia says he has written his
resignation, but has not been presented
Ward
"At 12:4s P. m. on the same day the