Evening star., 1942-08-28


pered by any artificial or unneces-
sary restraints, public or private,
upon their choice Of and free COM
| petitive access to the various sources
of news, including agencies engaged
in assembling and transmitting
daily news reports of world events.
ut is further corollary of such
national policy that the public in
terest is promoted by the establish
ment and continued availability to
the public of as many responsible
newspapers, representing differing
and varied points OF view, as can
successfully participate in the busi-
ness of disseminating news and re-
lated comment"
The complaint cited both the
Sherman Act of 1890 and the Clay
ton Act of 1914. 1t contended that
provisions for acquiring member
ship in the AP violate the Sherman
Act by undue restraint of trade in
interstate commerce, and that the
Clayton Act was violated in the
acquisition of Wide World Photos.
The Sherman Act declares illegal
every contract, combination in the
form of trust or otherwise, or con-
spiracy, in restraint of trade or
commerce among the several
States"
A section of the Clayton Act for
bids the acquisition of control OF a
business in the same field where
the effect is held to substantially
lessen competition.
The complaint listed the defend
ants as follows:
The Associated Press-A COOP
erative incorporated in New York
in 1900.
The members of the Board of
Directors-named individually:
Paul Bellamy of Cleveland, Ohio;
George Francis Booth, Worcester,
Mass; John Cowles. Minneapolis,
Mimi; William Hutchinson Cowles,
Spokane, Wash; Edward King Gay
lord, Oklahoma City, Okla; Hous-
ton Harte, San Angelo, Tex; Josh
L. Horne, Rocky Mount, N. c.;
Clark Howell, jr., Atlanta, Ca:
Joseph Russell Knowland, Oakland,
Calf; George Baker Logan, Kan
sas City, Mo; Robert Rutherford
Mccormick, Chicago, Robert Nc
Lean, Philadelphia; Leonard Kim
ball Nicholson, New Orleans, La;
Frank Brett Noyes, District of Co
lumbia; Paul Patterson, Baltimore,
Md: Stuart Hoffman Perry, Adrian,
Mich; E. Lansing Ray, ST. Louis,
Mo; Edward Hubert Butler, Buff
falo, N. Y.
Newspapers In Suit.
The newspapers and newspaper
ownerships with which the direc-
tors are affiliated-hsted separately
from the individuals named:
The Adrian Telegram. publishing
the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram; the
A. S. Abel Co., publishing the Balti-
more Sun; Bulletin Co., publishing
the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin;
the Cleveland Co., publishing the
Cleveland Plain Dealer; the Con-
stitution Publishing Co., publishing
the Atlanta (Ga), Constitution; ;
Cowles Publishing Co., publishing
the Spokane tWash) Spokesman
Review; the Evening Star Newspaper
Co., publishing The Washington
Evening Star: the Kansas City Star
Co., publishing the Kansas City Star;
the Oklahoma Publishing Co., pub
fishing the Daily Oklahoman, Okla
homa City, Okla: the Register and
Tribune Co., publishing the Des
Moines 1owa) Register: Rocky
Mount Publishing Co., publishing
the Rocky Mount IN. c. Telegram;
Globe Democrat Publishing Co.,
publishing the ST. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat; San Angelo Standard, Inc,
publishing the San Angelo Tex)
Evening Standard; the Times-Pica-
yune Publishing Co., publishing the
New Orleans Times-Picayune; Trib-
une Co., publishing the Chicago
Daily Tribune; the Tribune Pub
fishing Co., publishing the Oakland
(CalifD Tribune; Worcester Tele-
gram Publishing Co., publishing the
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.
Present members of the Associated
Press not specifically made defend
| ants were named "as class"