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1 11 I i Editorial Page Daily Cartoon ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PART THREE ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1947 PAGES 114C PULITZER PRIZE AWARDS FOR 1946; WHO'S WHO ON WINNERS Society Wants. Two Correspondents Get Awards For Dispatches on Russia, Amateur Photographer's Fire Picture Wins Baltimore Sun Gets Public Service Medal Expose of Communist 'Front Groups Brings Reporter Recognition Novel Based on Huey Long's Career. li 1 A VI I XSiii 1 L3 LJ Hrr bv-- Post-Dispatch Specially Cited For 'Constructive Leadership' NEW YORK, May 6.

THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH was given a citation yesterday at the annual awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes. The resolution follows: "The advisory board of the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University, in the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Pulitzer and the thirtieth anniversary of the Pulitzer Awards in journalism and letters, expresses its gratitude to the university and to the school for their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing these awards, and especially cites the Post-Dispatch for its unswerving adherence to the public and professional ideals of its founder and its constructive leadership in the field of American journalism." It was the ninth time that the Post-Dispatch or members of its staff shared in the awards. The newspaper was cited for public service in 1937 for its exposure of wholesale fraudulent vote registration in St. Louis and in 1941 for its successful campaign against the smoke nuisance.

Charles G. Ross, then chief of the Washington Bureau, now President Truman's press secretary, shared the prize for correspondence in 1932. In 1940, the late Bart Howard won the award for editorial writing and Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, cartoonist, received it in his field in 1926. Two reporters of the paper, Paul Y.

Anderson and John T. Rogers, before their deaths, won awards for reporting in 1929 and 1927, respectively. Last year, Edward A. Harris of the Washington Bureau, received it for telegraphic reporting on national affairs. EDWARD T.

FOLLIARD Of the Washington Post, for distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on na- tional affairs. FREDERICK WOLTMAN Of the New York World- Telegram, for a distinguished example of a zevorter's work. BROOKS ATKINSON Of the New York Times, for distinguished correspondence. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 6.

THE PULITZER PRIZE for the "most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper" last year was awarded yesterday to the Baltimore Sun for a series articles dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland. The series, the award committee said, resulted in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court by 93 persons. Dispatches dealing with Russia brought recognition to two foreign correspondents, Eddy Gilmore, chief of the Associated Press Moscow bureau, and Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was given a special citation for "its constructive leadership in the field of American journalism." t.

Biographical Sketches of Award Recipients in Journalism, Letters Prize-Winning: Cartoonist Once Advised to Quit Art School Drama Critic Became War Correspondent Draftee Refused to Serve. NEW YORK, May 6. the winners of the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Winners rllE following are the winners of the Pulitzer Prize awards for journalism and letters in THE BALTIMORE SUN For the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper. EDDT CIL5IOBE Of the Associated Press For a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs. BROOKS ATKINSON Of the New York Times For distinguished correspondence during the year.

EDWARD T. FOLLIARD Of the Washington Post For a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on national affairs. FREDERICK WOLT5IAN Of the New York World-Telegram For a distinguished example of a work. WILLIAM H. GRIMES Of the Wall Street Journal For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

VAUGHN SHOEMAKER Of, the Chicago Dally New Foi- a distinguished example of a cartoonist's worki ARNOLD HARDY For an outstanding example of news photography. "ALL THE KING'S MEN By Robert Penn Warren For a distinguished novel published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. "SCIENTISTS AGAINST TIME" By James Phlnney Baxter III For a distinguished book on the history of the United States. "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE" For a distinguished American biography. "LORD WEARY'S CASTLE" By Robert Lowell For a distinguished volume of verse by an American author.

"SYMPHONY NO. By Charles Ives For a distinguished of music. "STILL RACING HIS SHADOW" Prize-winning cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News. -r-n iJ. if v.

M'n M-2 XjXj Xj EDDY GILMORE Of the Associated Press, for a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs. WILLIAM H. GRIMES Of the Wall Street Journal, for distinguished editorial writing. ARNOLD HARDY For an outstanding example of news photography. (Photo in Everyday Magazine.) ROBERT PENN WARREN For "All the King's Men," a distinguished novel.

PRIZE-WINNING REPORTER CHATS WITH TRUMAN Man Whose Beat Is White House Says, 'It Was Just a Social Call." WASHINGTON, May 6 (AP) Edward T. Folliard, Pulitzer prize winning reporter, emerged yester day afternoon from a 10-minute talk with President Truman. As he has heard so many other presidential callers say during his long years on the White House run, Folliard told his colleagues 'it was just a social call." Folliard was following his daily routine of checking on White House news when President Truman heard of the award. Truman, through his press secretary, Charles G. Ross who himself shared a Pulitzef Prize in 1932 summoned Folliard to his office and chatted with him for about 10 minutes, congratulating him on the award.

The 47-year-old Folliard was honored primarily for a series of articles he wrote last November on Columbians, in Atlanta, Ga. Authorities had accused the organization of fomenting racial hatred. important documents written so far about the war," and added that he had "mastered the essentials of an awesome array of subjects ranging from the physics of radar to the chemistry of blood substi tutes." The prize for "A distinguished American biography teaching pa triotic and unselfish services to the people, illustrated by an emi nent example," went to the auto biography of the late William Al len White, published by the Mac- Millan Co. It recounts the au thor's experiences from youth. Continued on rage 4, Column 4.

i nnnjniajius I ff viS: lM- -1 Arnold Hardy, a Georgia Tech student and amateur photographer, received the award for an outstanding news photograph. Hardy was on the scene at the time of the Winecoff Hotel fire in "Atlanta. last Dec. 7 and snapped the now-familiar picture ef a woman plunging to death. His chance shot was purchased by the Associated Press for distribution to hundreds of newspapers.

It shows the woman, clothing disarrayed, in mid-air, about to meet death. She crashed to the marquee and was killed. There was no award for "The best original American despite the fact that the current season saw a record number produced on Broadway. The judges apparently felt that no production in 1946 met the standard of an "original American play, performed in New York, which shall represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Other winners in the journalism classification included William H. Grimes of the Wall Street Journal, for editorials; Vaughn Shoemaker, Chicago Daily News, cartoon; Edward T.

Folliard, Washington Post, telegraphic reporting on national affairs and Frederick Woltman, New York World-Tele-gTam, for news reporting. It was the thirtieth annual award of the prizes sponsored by the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in connection with his endowment the Columbia Graduate School ef Journalism. They ar awarded annually for outstanding achievement in the fields of journalism, letters and music. All of the prizes to individuals were, for $500, and the gold medal presented to the Baltimore Sun cost $500.

Prlz Novel by Warren. In the field of letters, the prize for the most outstanding novel went to "All the King's Men," by Robert Penn Warren. "Scientists Against Time" by James Phinney Baxter III. was voted the most distinguished book based on the history of the United States. The best in the biography group, in the pinion of the judges, was "The Autobiography of William Allen WThite." Robert Lowell's "Lord Weary's Castle" was selected as the year's most distinguished volume of verse.

The prize in music went to Charles Ives and a scholarship in jtrt to William H. Kummann of Glen Rock, NJ. Grimes's editorials in the Wall Street Journal dealt chiefly with economic topics. No single editorial won the attention of the jury. His output, however, met the requirements of "distinguished editorial writing during the year, limited to the editorial page, the test ef excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction." On March 7.

1946, the Journal published his editorial "Apathetic and Pathetic." Grimes deplored the loss of freedom under totalitarian governments. He complained nbout our own international policies. Gllmore's Exclusive Story. Gilmore's dispatches from Russia ranged from an exclusive interview with Premier Stalin to human interest stories of Russia's ordinary citizens. Throughout his ttay in Moscow Gilmore has sought to interpret the life of the ordinary Russian in human interest stories.

He attracted attention last year also with articles on they Russia's first postwarv five-year plan. The award to Gilmore marked the eleventh time the Associated Press had won a Pulitzer Prize. Atkinson, after an extended assignment in the Soviet Union for the New York Times published a series cf stories based on his experiences. On his return to the United States he wrote graphically subjects concerning Russia on which there had been little previous enlightenment. He has re-assumed his post as drama editor ef the Times.

Shoemaker's prize-winning- cartoon in the Chicago Daily News, entitled: "Still racing his shadow," shows "Labor" on the gallop, hi3 traditional square paper hat, sailing behind him. He is marked with the legend: "New wage demands." Apace with him, and object of his frantic gaze, is his shaflow, labeled "Cost of living." Exposure and continued public light on Columbians, racist hate organization in Atlanta, won the prize for the year's best telegraphic reporting for Folliard. Folliard's stories, followed by news CHARLES IVES For "Symphony No. 3," a distinguished composition of music. VAUGHN SHOEMAKER Of the Chicago Daily News, for a distinguished example of a cartoonist's work.

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE For his Autobiography, published after bis death. ROBERT LOWELL For "Lord Weary's Castle," a distinguished volume of verse. MEMBERS OF ADVISORY BOARD IN SELECTION OF PULITZER AWARDS THE PULITZER PRIZES are awarded by the trustees of Columbia University (New York) on recommendation of the advisory board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism. Members of the advisory board are: Dr. Frank D.

Fackenthal, acting president of the university; Sevellon Brown of the Providence (R.I.) Journal; Robert Choate of the Boston Herald; Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press; Gardner Cowles editor and publisher of the Des Moines (la.) Register and Tribune; Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post; Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun; John S. Knight, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and other Knight newspapers; Arthur Krock of the New York Times; William R. Mathews of the Arizona Daily Star of Tucson; Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram; Harold S.

Pollard of the New York World-Telegram and Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and son of the founder of the prizes. Dean Carl W. Ackerman of the School of Journalism serves as secretary of the board. Council of the Maryland General Assembly began a study of the unemployment compensation law as a result of the Sun's articles.

Norton appeared at a number of public hearings conducted by the Legislative Council. Following the hearings, the council recommended certain changes in the law which were enacted at this year's session of the General Assembly. The revised bill reduced the contribution rates of employers to the unemployment compensation fund. During the course of the articles the Sun stated editorially that "the object (of the Sun) in printing these articles is to bring about that public debate which Continued on Page 4, Column 4. OLLOWING are sketches of awards announced yesterday Eddy Gilmore Chief of the Associated Press bureau at Moscow, Gilmore has scored many news beats.

His biggest was an exclusive interview with Premier Stalin on the eve of the first meeting of the United Nations in the United States. In a Moscow dispatch last March 22, he reported a question-and-answer interview in which Stalin affirmed his confidence in the United Nations as an instrument for preserving peace. Gilmore, a native of Selma, is 39 years old. On his graduation from Carnegie Institute of Technology he worked nine months on the Atlanta Journal. He left the Journal to go to Washington, worked on the Washington Daily News for a time, then joined the A.P.

staff in 1935. Sent to the Associated Press London Bureau in Januarv 1941 he began his Mos cow assignment in November of that year. For three and a half years he covered the war on the Eastern fronts. Gilmore attracted attention last year also with articles on the goals of the first postwar Russian five-year plan. Throughout his Moscow career, he has sought to interpret the life of the ordinary Russian in human interest stories.

Gilmore won considerable notice writing about the lighter side of Washington before he went to Europe as a war correspondent. He accompanied the late Wendell Willkie on his tour of British defenses, then went to Russia. He is the husband of Tamara Cher-nashova, a former dancer in the Moscow ballet. Brooks Atkinson Atkinson has been writing for newspapers almost continuously for 30 years, for 25 of which he has been on the staff of the New York Times as book editor, drama critic and foreign correspondent. His newspaper career, started after his graduation from Har vard.

He served four months in the infantry in World War I. He oncfc interrupted his news paper career for a short time to teach English at Dartmouth Col lege. His first newspaper job was with the Springfield (Mass.) Daily News. He is a veteran of World War I. He was born in Melrose, a Boston suburb, on Nov.

28. 1894, and was 47 when the United States entered World War II. Despite his age and his standing as dean of Manhattan drama critics, he insisted at the time on assign ment In 1942 he was sent to China as the Times correspondent. After two years in Chungking, he re turned to the United States and in 1945 was assigned to Moscow. After 10 months he returned again to the United States and wrote three articles summing up his impressions.

They were pub lished in the Times on July 7, 8 and 9, 1946. In Russia they drew the wrath of Soviet commentators. Before joining the Times in 1922 as editor of the book review, Atkinson was assistant drama critic of the Boston Evening Transcript. Frederick Woltman Woltman, 42-year-old native of York, holds A.B. and M.A.

degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, where he later taught philosophy and ethics. Woltman has been mentioned several times previously by award juries for excellent reporting and came near to a Pulitzer prize in 1933, when he received honorable mention for reporting the status of various banks in New York. In 1931 he collaborated with Joseph Lilly, then a staff member of the World-Telegram, in a series of ar- tides exposing a real estate mortgage bond "racket." Their efforts resulted in the World-Telegram's winning a Pulitzer prize for meritorious public service. Woltman received the Silurian Award of 1946 for the best editorial staff achievement by a New York City newspaper man. Arnold Hardy Hardy, 24 years old, a student of Georgia Tech, is an amateur photographer.

His sensational news picture show a woman plunging to death in Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel fire Dec. 7, 1946. Hardy, a veteran of the Air Corps, "had bought his camera less than a month earlier to pursue a hobby. He sold the picture and several others to the Atlanta Associated Press bureau. Hardy's home is at Shreveport, La.

Vaughn Shoemaker Shoemaker is chief cartoonist of the Chicago Daily News, is 44 years old and a native of Chicago. Before he joined the Daily News his only job had been as a lifeguard at a lake front beach. Within two years he became one of the youngest chief cartoonists in the country. Shoemaker's Pulitzer prize this year was his second award. He won it also in 1933 with "The Road Back," an Armi-a war assignment.

In 1939, the National Zeitung of Essen reprinted several of Shoemaker's cartoons, labeling them as "horrible examples" of anti-Nazi propaganda in the United States. Shoemaker said later that three of the cartoons had been drawn while he was in Berlin and were smuggled out v-f Germany in a false-bottom suitcase. In 1943 he received the National Ixeadliners' Award at Atlantic City. The degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred on him by Wheaton (111.) College. In 1946, he" won an award from the National Safety Council for a cartoon on safe driving.

He likes to recall the time a director of an art school warned him: "You'll never succeed as a cartoonist. If you'll just quit now, we'll be glad to refund your tuition." William Allen White The late author of the ''Autobiography of William Allen White" brought fame to his home town of Emporia, where he was torn on Feb. 10, 1868, and died on Jan. 29, 1944. He was one of the outstanding liberals in the United States.

White left the University of Kansas before graduation to become business manager of the El Dorado Republican. He worked successively for the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas Citv Star. and then in 1895 bought the Em poria Gazette, an obscure countv- seat paper. An editorial. "What's the Matter With Kansas?" which he wrote the next year made him and his paper famous overnight.

xn iva he received the Pulitzer Prize for the best editorial of the previous year entitled "To an Anx ious Friend." His most popular novel was "A Certain Rich Man," and he wrote volumns of biography. Two outstanding features of his career were that he never left politics alone and never deserted his native town despite the fact that he received offers of high journalistic posts in New York. William H. Grimes Editor of the Wall Street Jour nal since 1941, Grimes has been with the paper since he joined its staff in 1923 when he became bu reau manager of its Washington of fice. He became the managing Baltimore Sun Articles Revealed Loopholes in State Jobless Aid Law Special to the Post-Dispatch.

BALTIMORE, May 6. THE Baltimore Sun's articles on the Maryland Unemployment Compensation law, which won this year's Pulitzer Prize gold medal for the "most meritorious public service" rendered by an American newspaper, were published to bring to public attention No award was made for an American play. services and other publications, centered national attention on the now discredited organization. Expose cf Communists. For "a distinguished example of a reporter's work during the year," Woltman was selected for his almost-daily articles in the New York World-Telegram about American Communists and their JAMES P.

BAXTER III For "Scientists Against Time," a distinguished book on history of the United States. of paying unemployment com HOWARD M. NORTON chiselers who took advantage of loopholes in the system. The articles suggested that the $20 a week maximum benefit was high enough to encourage low-wage workers to remain idle and that the payments served to delay re conversion. Evidence was obtained showing that many used false statements successfully in obtaining benefit payments.

The Sun's articles immediately brought a flood of letters, some supporting the series as a public service, others condemning them as an attack on the system. Some labor leaders attacked the articles. The last of the Sun's articles was published on July 14. basic shortcomings in the system pensation. Previously the Baltimore Sun or members of its staff had won six Pulitzer Prizes.

Its seventh award was based on a series of 18 articles written by Howard M. Norton. As a result of the Sun's series. 93 persons have been convicted of obtaining funds under false pretenses and Maryland's unemploy ment compensation law underwent numerous changes in a recent session of the Legislature to correct weaknesses suggested in the articles. Norton was assigned to make a comprehensive study of the compensation law early in the spring of 1946.

He covered all sections of Maryland in his investigation and the first in his series of articles was published last June 26. The articles pointed out two basic shortcomings in the system used at that time. The first of these was the padded cost of the administration of the plan itself. The second as the lax method of paying out the money. Under the law as it stood then, the employers of Maryland paid all the costs, both administrative and beneficial.

The articles pointed out that Maryland employers were assessed $2,980,000 in 1945 for administrative costs whereas the actual administrative expenditures were that year The remainder, nearly two and a half millions, went to the Federal Government to use for its general expenses. Loopholes In Law, The articles told of numerous instances by -which the law had been abused by racketeers and activities. Woltman, by dint of informants and personal inquiry, revealed many previously unexposed Communist "front" organization and active Communist workers in labor and other groups. His investigation of Communist activities was begun several years ago. The series resulting from his investigations dealt with charges of Communist domination of certain labor unions, of efforts to influence American thinking and of using the names of prominent persons and organizations to spread propaganda.

"All the King's Men," a novel based on the career of Huey Long, Louisiana political kingfish of the late 20s, won Warren the prize in the sphere of letters for a novel dealing with American life. It was published by Harcourt, Brace Co. Baxter's "Scientists Against Time" (Little, Brown captured the award for a book based on the history of the United States. It recounts from official documents the activities of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war. Work on the atom bomb and other unusual weapons was conducted under the auspices of that agency.

The book tells of the wartime, efforts of that agency to bring together university and industrial science for victory. The New York Times calls Dr. Baxter's work "one of the most 9 Continued on Page 4, Column 3. Subsequently the Legislative.