INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. This news serv ice was organized in 1906 by William Randolph Hearst. It is a profit-making corporation, as distinguished from the mutual news association, and its function is to serve evening and Sunday news papers with the latest news from all parts of the world. Several hundred newspapers, in the United States and other countries, subscribe either for the full daily report, which is transmitted over leased telegraph lines, or for limited reports confined to a daily word ration or to a class of news interest, such as sports.
The Universal Service, an auxiliary, supplies subscribing morning and Sunday newspapers with special or "feature" news. The headquarters are in New York city. (M. E. P.)