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Brooklyn Eagle Wins Pulitzer Prize for Crime War i Donald and County Judge Sam Chases Youth, 24, Lurking in Store And Captures Him uel S. LeibowiU Joined forces in TEXT OF PULITZER a move which empowered the seized him and held him until Wins Top Honor Of Journalism For Public Work 1049 Kings County Jury to con police arrived. Smith Is a re duct an intensive Investigation. CITATION OF EAGLE A 24-year-old Brooklyn youth was arrested early today after being found in the Gerta Department Store, 16210 Jamaica Jamaica, where he en- tired policeman, police re The results now are a matter of public knowledge. potted.

"The Eagle is proud to re The night watchman, Leonard Smith, 50, was making his rounds pf the store when he saw a man standing on a fourth-floor landing. When the, watchman approached the suspect, he was hit on the chin, after which the man ran downsvairs and out in a fight with the night ceive professional recognition Tie ysatUt. skat YOUNG MISS watchman and was chased through the store. The prisoner, booked on charges of burglary and pos BROOKLYN. EliiaW.

Lin for the part it played. But it Is also necessary to point out that full credit must go to Brooklyn's public servants and the people themselves who acted In jfaikieas, teat aae fascia far ta Brook- Continued from Page 1 complete probe into the allegations published in this newspaper. Mr. McDonald recruited a ataff of investigators from the Police Department and went to Work. By the Summer of 1950 gamblers who operated out the city in various schools a rear door.

session of burglar's- tools, was Ira law aatcat if. tat Breoklya EagU. Roaldo Mondonia of 690 Ever Smith overtook the man in a parking lot behind the store. the face of great difficulties to perform a fine puhlic green Ave. were put out of business, the District Attorney had rolled up four convictions ana a flock of Indictments and "secured the first records of pay-offs to po lo Obrnenl's Club QfeL come Text of the Pulitzer annoutwement of award to Brooklyn Eagle: On Dec.

11, 1949, the Brooklyn Eagle opened a year-andahalf campaign against organized crime with the first of a series of articles running eight consecutive days. Written by the veteran Brooklyn Eagle reporter, Edward Reid, the series made the dramatic point that organized crime was reaping millions of dollars annually out of gambling and rackets in Brooklyn. This huge take was made with the connivance and paid protection of police officials, Reid'g articles charged. Even before the series was completed, Kings County District Attorney Miles F. McDonald began investigation of the Eagle's charges.

That investigation is still going on today and has resulted in nation-wide publicity. Through the resulting report and public hearings of the Senate Kefauver Committee, the entire country has been made aware of organized crime's influence on our economic, political and social life. The charges made by the Brooklyn Eagle nearly a year and a half ago have been confirmed several times over. During that entire period the Eagle has kept at the job, running scores of exclusive articles. Senator Estes Kefauver paid tribute to the Eagle's public contribution In the following words: "I want to mention the wonderful job the Brooklyn Eagle did in bringing to light the situation which Mr.

McDonald set about to investigate. Without your newspaper it never would have been done. It is true in any city that, with an alert and honest press, crime and corruption have a hard time of it. Without a conscientious press, a city can be at the mercy of dishonest officials and gangsters." CONRAD RICHTER, win- D. I CI VII I UIIIACI I I I I mittee's award for his novel, "The Town," a story of early 1 9th century U.

S. frontier. and corruption have a hard time of it. Without a conscien tious press, a city can be at the mercy of dishonest officials and lice. The latter were obtained in a Bay Ridge bookie parlor and the 16th Division of the Police Department found itself in hot water as a notation of $1,200 In "ice" payments to police were uncovered by raiders led by Chief Investigator William Dahut.

McDonald's trojan work soon found disfavor in City Hall and the then Mayor, William (TDwyer, castigated the whole probe as a "witch hunt," but the unrelenting investigation went on. As evidence piled up' against the Police Department, culminating in the playing of records in Kings County Court of the voices of bookies and plain-clothesmen in intimate conversation, Mayor O'Dwyer resigned from his post and was kicked upstairs to the Job of Ambassador to Mexico. gangsters." The investigation Into the bookie-cop ring that operated in for your Group Dinners and Other Social Affairs The private facilities of this well known club for executives in Bush Terminal Buildings Nos. 5 and 6 can now be reserved, by special arrangement, for group dinners, receptions, wedding parties, and other social affairs. Available week-days after 5 P.M.

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There was no award for national reporting despite the acknowledged fact that Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent of the New York Times The 34th annual awards were LTf announced at Columbia by Dr. notified the Brooklyn Eagle it had won the award, Robert M. Grannis, managing editor, commented in a statement: "A newspaper has an obligation to the community that goes beyond the simple process of printing the news. It must be aware of all thinngs that affect the general welfare of its readers. "Late in 1949 the Brooklyn Grayson Kirk, vice president In September, 19o0, Boss and acting head of the univer Bookie Harry Gross was arrest ed and disclosed the existence and a Pulitzer nrize winner for sity during the absence of President Dwight D.

Eisenhower. national reporting twice before in 1935 and 1938 might well have been a winner again. Both the Brooklyn Eagle and Eagle learned of a situation the Miami Herald were cited for the "most disinterested and meritorious public service" in Columbia Acting President Kirk A which threatened to undermine foi iid the nationwide fight on crime. CLEMENT, law enforcement in Brooklyn. Organized rackets and gambling flourished with the connivance 0ULUD A $1,500 scholarship In art was awarded to Arthur H.

Han explained that the committee had found Krock's exclusive interview with President Truman the outstanding achievement of the year in national reporting, but Krock is now a member of the Pulitzer Committee advisory board and the of some dishonest members of 926 Third Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. sen of Seattle, and 5 of a $20,000,000 gambling syndicate paying over a million a year in graft to operate with the protection of police. Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien resigned almost immediately, followed by Chief of Detectives William T.

Whelan. In its citation to the Brooklyn Eagle, the Pulitzer Prize Committee quoted U. S. Senator Estes Kefauver, who declared that the newspaper did a "wonderful job in bringing to light the situation which Mr. McDonald set about to investigate.

"Without your newspaper it W. 62d St. The awards in journalism and NOTIi For details tad dates-telephone STerling Special menus may be arranged. letters by the Pulitzer committee include the following: the Police Department. The editors of the paper assigned reporter Ed Reid to unearth the facts.

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