The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-09
SAYS HEARST
PLUMBERS NEWS
Associated Press Asks Perma-
nent Injunction Against In
ternational News Service
in District Court.
ANOTHER CASE OF LEAK
Charged That esy.sen. Of $40 Per
Week to Employee Of Cleveland
Newspaper Was tho
Method Used.
ANOTHER CASE OF LEAK

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NEW YORK. Jan. 9.-Chsrg!nS that
Hearst's International News Service
gets the news which makes up it's
daily reports, and especially import
ant foreign news, in large part by
bribing and corrupting employees" of
its members, the Associated Press has
filed suit IN the United States c;srrict
court here asking for permanent
injunction against the international
News Service to prevent slch prac'
tices
In his affidavit Melville f. Stone,
general manager of the Associated
Press says:
1T appears from affidavit of F. w
Agnew, submitted herewith that this
has continued at least from January
1914 to the present time and under it
important news gathered by the Asso-
ciated Press at heavy cost has been
appropriated by the defendant and
sold by 1t at a great profit as If pro.
|perty gathered by itself from original
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 Associated Press foY
betraying the interests Of their EN-.
ployers 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. This order has been served
on Solomon S. Carvalho, president OF
the organization.
The complaint comprises affidavits
r. Frv~v ~
manager and telegraph operator OF the
land, and 10y three local employees Of
the Associated Prses.
Referring to the practices alleged in
his affidavit Stone says:
This has been done, as the de-
ponent is informed and believes. in
the city Of New York, in Detroit, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleve-
land and no doubt elsewhere; but for
some time as the deponent is inform
ed and believes. the principal and
most fragrant case Of such corrupt ar
and the principal source Of
such leakage Of news has been through
an arrangement between the Cleve-
land Office Of the International News
Service and employees Of the Cleveland
News, which receives the service of
the Associatd Press. For a consid-
eraE%e time heretofore the Cleveland
office Of the international News Ser
vice has he'd an arrangement with tele-
graph editors of the Cleveland News
by which for consideration regularly
paid, such Cleveland Office of the de-
fendant gave tmportsnt news received
by the Cleveland News from the Asso-
ciated Press, promptly as the same
was received. This has been done I'M
der an arrangement clearly shown by
the following letter dated November
81, 1916. from Barry Faris, the day
of the International News
Service in the city of New York to
+. II. Ward, manager of the Cleveland
office of the International News Ser
vice. viz:
|" Gable address
"'Hearstite.
"'Copy.
" international News Service
"'23S Williams Street, New York.
Nov. 81, 1916.
'' Mr.. F. H. Ward,
"'720 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Mr.. Ward:
"'Agnew had an arrangement some
where in the Cleveland office whereby
he could tip us off on big news stories
that the Associated Press was carry
Ing. l wish you would find out from