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IfiFianaL Editorial Pago Daily Cartoon Society Market: Want Ads ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PART TWO ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1943 PAGES 1 10B PULITZER PRIZE AWARDS FOR 1942; WHO'S WHO ON WINNERS i BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF AWARD RECIPIENTS IN JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OMAHA WORLD-HERALD WINS PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL FOR ITS SCRAP METAL CAMPAIGN Three Previous Individual Winners, Poet Robert Frost, Cartoonist 'Ding' Darling, and Author-Playwright Thornton Wilder Again Are Honored. Upton Sinclair's Fifty-First Book, 'Dragon's Teeth Selected as Year's Outstanding Novel George Weller Honored for Graphic Story of Operation on Submarine. fH if 0pJ HANSON W.

BALDWIN Special to th Post-Dispatch. KEW YORK, May I 7 -I' Me TMsl distinguished correspondence. VLLOWIKG are sketches of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize awards announced yesterday: anese by George Weller, special correspondent of the Chicago Daily Thornton Wilder News Post-Dispatch Foreign Service, and winner of the 1942 Pulitzer prize for a reporter's work. NEW YORK, May 4 (AP). INITIATIVE and originality of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald In planning a successful statewide campaign for scrap metal which later was used on a national acale won for it the Pulitzer award to the American newspaper rendering "the most disinterested and meritorious public service" in 1942.

Six men in journalism, four men and a woman in literature and a composer were singled out as recipients for Pulitzer accolades, announced yesterday, and three of them were repeaters. Robert Frost, New England poet, won his fourth Pulitzer poetry yrize for "A Witness Tree," Jay Norwood (Ding) Darling, cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune, won his second cartoon award for drawing depicting governmental "red tape" and entitled "What a Place for a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign," and Thornton Wilder received his third Pulitzer award for his play, "The Skin of Our Teeth." He previously had received Pulitzer awards for his novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," in 1928, and for his play, "Our Town," in 1938. His prize-winning dispatch, a graphic story telling of the appen dectomy performed on a fellow crew member by the pharmacist's Thornton Wilder's drama, "The Skin of Our Teeth," which roused Broadway critics to heated controversy by its satiric survey of the history of mankind, is his third Pulitzer prize-winning work. Now a Major in the Army Air Forces, he won a Pulitzer prize in 1928 with his novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," and then won the Pulitzer drama prize in 1938 with his play. "Our Town." mate on an American submarine as it cruised submerged in enemy; waters, was just one of many outstanding dispatches telling of action from Singapore to Australia This dramatic picture of an Indian survivor of a torpedoing in the Indian Ocean pleading for water, taken in January, 1942, won the prize for news photography for Frank Noel of the Associated Press.

and New Guinea. Weller, 36 years old, becams Balkan correspondent for the Chi Born in Madison, in 1897, Wilder received his A. B. degree from Yale in 1920, waa a graduate student at the American Academy in Rome in 1920-21, and received an cago Daily News Post-Dispatch Foreign Service early In 1941, after having served on the Balkan staff of the New York Times from 1932 A. M.

degree at Princeton Univer ff ffl fnr GEORGE WELLER SriH of the Chicago Daily News- '1VSI Post-Dispatch foreign serv- 1CC' zep0It to 1936. sity in 1925. From 1930 to 1936 he was a member of the faculty Correspondent in Greece when of the University of Chicago. Pulitzer Prize Winners rHE following are the uin-ners of the Pulitzer prize awards for journalism and letters in For the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper the Germans came, he was the only American correspondent to get a story out of Salonika after In awarding him the prize for "The Skin of Our Teeth," the An eloquent picture of an Indian sailor in a lifeboat pleading tor water won for Frank Noel of the Associated Press the news photography prize. The photograph, "Water!" was taken by Noel from lifeboat after his ship had been 'torpedoed in the Indian Ocean by Japanese submarine.

A few hours later the Indian's boat drifted off in a monsoon and was lost. Forrest W. Seymour of the Des Moines (la.) Register and Tribune was named as the recipient of the award for distinguished editorial writing which was limited to the editorial page of a newspaper. The award committee took into consideration "the whole volume" of the writer's work during the year. Pulitzer advisory board did not the Nazis struck, and he was tha last American correspondent to agree with the choice of the New York Drama Critics Circle, which leave that burning city.

chose Sergt Sidney Kingsley'a He made his way to Athens, "The Patriots" as the best Ameri where, after the city's fall, he was THE OMAHA (NEB.) WORLD- quarantined" by the Nazis and HERALD. can play of the 1942-43 season. A year ago neither the Drama Critics Circle nor the Pulitzer prize advisory board chose a "best" American taken under guard to Berlin. Two months later he escaped from Gestapo surveillance, fled to Africa and got back into reporter's har play, because that season was re garded by critics as unproductive ness by obtaining an interview with Gen. Charles de Gaulle.

of any native play meriting an award. FRANK NOEL Jlv of the Associated Press for bjR 2 -C? his outstanding news photo- "VJP-i. "-o w. -w a I 1 I olJb-i Ne? York HeraId With the outbreak of war In tha Award to Weller. George Weller of the Chicago Dally News Post-Dispatch Foreign Service, won a Pulitzer prize for "a Upton Sinclair Pacific he went to Singapore by plane, filing dispatches from there, until a few days before the city surrendered.

His next stop was Java, which he evacuated Just be distinguished example of a repor ter's work," in which its preparation under the pressure of edition Upton Sinclair, born 64 years ago tfTn was considered, for his in Baltimore, has supported him rraphic story of how a pharma For distinguished correspondence HANSON W. BALDWIN Of the New York Times. For distinguished reporting GEORGE WELLER Of the Chicago Dally News rost-Dispatch Foreign Service. For distinguished editorial writing FORREST W. SEYMOUR Of the Des Moines (la.) Register and Tribune.

For a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs published in daily newspapers in the United States IRA WOLFERT Of the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. fore the Japanese took over. For more than two weeks his where- abouts were unknown to his horn office. Finally he turned up ia cist's made under enemy waters self since he was 16 years old by writing fiction. Yet not until his fifty-first book, "Dragon's Teeth," performed an emergency appendectomy is a submarine in the Pa Australia after a hazardous trip did he enter the ranks of Pulitzer prize-winning authors.

cific and saved a sailor's life. In His prize novel has won high this award preference was given to stories for a daily newspaper of a praise from critics in the field of literature. In reviewing "Dragon's Teeth," Lewis Gannett, conductor regional or local character. of "Books and Things" in the New Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times won the Pulitzer award for "distinguished corre York Herald Tribune, wrote that through fighting zones.

His book, "Singapore Is Silent," has been acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece on the Malayan campaign. Among the important actions ht has reported in the Southwest Pacific was the Java Sea battle in which the United States cruiser Houston and other United Nations ships went down. Weller is married to the former Katherine Deupree of Cincinnati. They have an 11-year-old daughter. A Bostonian of Irish-Scotch-Dutch-German origins, Weller received a B.A.

degree from Harvard in 1929. Sinclair's "historical-fictional por trayal of modern society has al spondence" on the basis of his report of a tour of the Southwest most caught up with our present Pacific, and Ira Wolfert of the dav." For a distinguished example A resident of Pasadena, Sin North American Newspaper Alliance received an award for a "distinguished example of telegraphic clair lone campaigned for public of telegraphic reporting on national affairs published in daily newspapers in the United office as a Socialist. He was So reporting" in a series of three ar tides on the fifth battle of the cialist candidate for Congress from California in 1920, for the United States-No Award. i Solomons. States Senate in 1922, and for Gov He speaks French, German and Italian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

For an outstanding example There was no award this year for "a distinguished example of ernor of California In 1926 and 1930. In 1934, he was a Democratic candidate for the California gov Yeleerarshic reporting: on national of news photography FRANK NOEL Of the Associated Press. ernorship. affairs published in daily newspa pers in the United States." Hanson W. Baldwin Upton Sinclair's novel, "Dragon's I 'WHAT A PLACE FOR A WASTE PAPER k.

yT (:: SALVAGE vr bLjtewJf tiimiAM Prize-winning cartoon by Jay Norwood Darling. 1 UPTON SINCLAIR tJr for his novel, "Dragon's fL VllO Teeth." 45 FORREST W. SEYMOUR I I "YkA the Des Moines (la.) Reg- MX ister and Tribune, for distin- 'v i guished editorial writing. xcmj 4,.,,,.,...., -ntv lA V-v iLJ La i SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON pnPFRT VROT 4 yfp. for his biography of Colum- ROBERT FROST I 'if Jf A bus, "Admiral of the Ocean for his volume of verse, "A i L.SjkL' Sea." Witness Tree." 1 Wt For a distinguished example Teeth," was awarded the prize for Robert Frost the novel published by an Ameri can author and preferably dealing of a cartoonist's work JAY NORWOOD (DING) DARLING Of the New Herald Tribune.

The Pulitzer award to New with American life. Hanson W. Baldwin, military writer for the New York Times, received the annual Pulitzer priza for distinguished correspondence for his report of his tour of tha Southwest Pacific. The award was made on the basis of "clearness and terseness of style, preference being given to fair, judicious, well-balanced and well-informed inter England's poet, Robert Frost, for his volume of verse, "A Witness Tree," was the fourth such prize he has won. Long one of the "The Skin of Our Teeth," Wil der's fantasy currently on Broad way, won the prize for "the origi For a distinguished novel, preferably dealing with Ameri nation's favorite poets, he previ nal American play, performed jn New York which shall represent in marked fashion the educational can life, by an American ously had received Pulitzer prizes author "DRAGON'S TEETH" By Upton Sinclair.

value and power of the stage." Biographies Chosen. pretative writing, which shall maka clear the significance of the subject covered in the correspondence Esther Forbes' "Paul Revere and or which shall promote interna For an original American in poetry in 1924, 1931 and 1937, and in addition has won many other prizes, medals and honors. He was born in San Francisco in 1875, but attended New England universities and long has lived and taught in that section of the country. His homes are at Ripon, and Cambridge, Mass. the World He Lived In," won the tional understanding and apprecia play tion." Pulitzer award for a book on the "THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH" THORNTON WILDER for his play, "The Skin of Our Teeth." In addition to his work for the Wife's Challenge 'What Did You Do By Thornton Wilder.

hisfory of the nation, and "Ad' miral of the Ocean Sea," a biog New York Times, Baldwin, 40 years raphy of Columbus by Samuel Eliot IRA WOLFERT of the North American Newspaper Alliance, for a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs. For a distinguished volume of verse by an American author old, is the author of several books, including "What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy." Morison, received the prize for a About Started Publisher on Esther Forbes American biography teaching pa -A WITNESS TREE By Robert Frost. triotic and unselfish services to the people. Ira Wolfert Prize-Winning Nebraska Scrap Hunt For the first time an annual or a distinguished book on the history of the United States "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In," an account of the life and times of that early American patriot, was the first venture in award in music was made, to Wil "PAUL REVERE AND THE liam Schumann for his "Secular Cantata No. 2, a Free Song," which WORLD HE LIVED IN" By Esther Forbes.

biography by Esther Forbes, yet was performed by the Boston Sym MEMBERS OF ADVISORY BOARD IN SELECTION OF PULITZER AWARDS THE Pulitzer prizes are awarded by the trustees of Columbia University (New York) on the recommendations of the Pulitzer School of Journalism advisory board. Members of the advisory board are: Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Sevellon Brown, editor of OMAHA, May 4 (AP). HAT did you do about it?" That direct challenge of a wife to her husband inspired the Nebraska salvage campaign that won the 1942 Pulitzer it won for her the Pulitzer prize for 1942 for "a distinguished book phony Orchestra, distinguished biogra- For phy of the year upon the history of the The Pulitzer prizes are awarded each year under the terms of the United States." Prize for the Omaha World-Herald. "ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN will of the late Joseph Pulitze Henrv Doorly.

publisher of the, by newspapers that succeeded in Ira Wolfert of the North American Newspaper Alliance, who received the Pulitzer prize for "a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs published in daily newspapers in the United States," is another reporter who also has made his mark as an author. His book, "Tucker's People," a novel of the depression period In the United States, was published earlier this year and was well received by ths critics. The Pulitzer prize award was for his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons. u.n of the St- Louis A resident of Worcester, she previously had written five novels, all with early New England SEA" By Samuel Eliot Morison, gathering six million tons of scrap, two millions more than the goal. Post-Dispatch, publisher of th newspaper, remarked to his wile while they were driving to the rail settings.

Despite the fact that officials of New York World, and founder of the Columbia Graduate School of For a distinguished musical composition by an American road station last summer that the rubber salvage drive then in progress seemed a flop. Samuel Eliot Morison the state scrap collection drive told him they thought chances, for a drive was poor because Nebraska had just collected 15 pounds of scrap per capita, Doorly plunged To the question, "What did you composer "SECULAR CANTATA, NO. A FREE SONG" By Wllilam Schumann. do about it," Doorly first replied, Journalism. This year, for the second time, each winner gets $500 and the winning newspaper a gold medal costing that sum.

Previous to 1942 all prizes In letters, as well as the award for a distinguished example of a reporter's work, were Well, nothing, I guess. But on the way home from the Into the campaign. WILLIAM SCHUMANN All departments of the paper Forrest W. Seymour were told to go to bat at once. An creased after two writers in the for his "Secular Cantata, No.

2, A Free Song." $1000 each, with other prizes $500 station he read in his own paper an item telling of plans for a scrap drive and quoting Donald Nelson, WPB chief, as saying that unless Saturday Review of Literature at exception was the advertising department, which was told no paid each. Before writing "Admiral of the Ocean Sea," the story of Christopher Columbus which won for its author the 1942 prize for a distinguished American biography, Samuel Eliot Morison led an expedition which sailed the seas Columbus sailed, retracing the "Great Admiral's" voyages to the New World. Lecturer and professor of history advertising would be accepted on tempted to show that Wilder "lifted" great portions of the play from James Joyce's novel, "Finnegan's Selection or the winners was made by the trustees of Columbia scrap came in steel production would have to be curtailed, and the campaign. University on the recommendation Other Papers Join. Wake." of the advisory board of the Grad Other Nebraska papers joined In.

the Providence (R. Journal; Kent Cooper, general manager and newly appointed executive director of the Associated Press; Julian LaRose Harris, editor of the Chattanooga Times; Walter M. Harrison, formerly of the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, now a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army; Arthur M. How, editor emeritus of the Brooklyn Eagle; Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun; Arthur Krock of the New York Times; Robert Lincoln O'Brien, former editor of the Boston Herald; Stuart H.

Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram; Harold Stanley Pollard of the New York World-Telegram; Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, son of the founder of the prizes, and William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Dean Carl W. Ackerman of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism is secretary to the board. To this Wilder replied: "The that the only way to balance a deficit in steel was with the lives of American soldiers.

Thinks It Through. They used material similar to that uate School of Journalism. Awards of traveling scholarships will be answer is, let everyone interested I at Harvard University since 1915, read 'Finnegan's Wake' and de in the World-Herald, and were offered any material the World-Herald had developed. Doorly thinking the problem cide for himself." over thn? night at his home, de The winning of tfcfe Pulitzer award for distinguished editorial writing is the second honor of this type Forrest W. Seymour of the Des Moines Register and Tribune has received In recent months.

Seymour, who became associate editor of Des Moines papers Inst January, was the author of the editorial which laat September brought the Register and Tribune the American Legion's certificate in that organization's national editorial appreciation contest. A native of Aberdeen, S. and a graduate of Drake University, Seymour, 38 years old, joined the Register and Tribune organization 18 years ago. serving as state ivionson is me aurnor or many books. Including "Tercentennial History of Harvard University," which won for him the Jusserand medal and the Loubat prize.

The Nebraska plan called for prizes totaling $2000. The top county was to get $1000, to be paid to some designated charity. Synthetic Rubber for Tires. WASHINGTON, May 4 (AP). Rubber Director William Jeffers announced yesterday that in order to help tire and tube manufactur made later, it was announced.

"The Skin of Our Teeth" took second place when the New York Critics Circle voted for the best play of the year. The critics' award went to "The Patriots," by Sergt. Sidney Kingsley after several ballots had been taken. Controversy over the Wilder play, which employs new and unusual stage techniques to tell how the Antrobus family of Excelsior, survived the Ice Age, In- cided that while he couldn't do the job for the whole country, he could do it in Nebraska and set an example for the nation to follow. He began making notes.

At 1:30 a. m. he had figured out a plan for a salvage campaign to become known later as the Nebraska Plan George Weller ers to perfect processes for pro What happened in the drive will be long remembered in Nebraska. Lakes were dragged for old iron. Veterans of the last war gave their old helmets.

Counties accused other counties of coming across duction from synthetic rubber, limited quantities of Government- Since war flared In the Pacific, readers of the Post-Dispatch have ESTHER FORBES for her historical book, "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In." made and owned Buna-S would been given vivid word-pictures of and a blueprint for the October country-wide scrap collecting plan be released immediately. Continued on Page 10, Column 6. the far-flung war against the Jap- Continued on Page 10, Column 2..