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The Herald Awarded Pulitzer Prize For Public Service By JACK T1IAIE Herald Surf Writer The nation's most coveted newspaper award the Pulitzer prize was presented Monday to The Miami Herald for most disinterested and meritorious public sen ice rendered by an American newspaper during The Herald was singled out for its reporting during the A similar award went to the Brooklyn Eagle Two Miami Herald-Chicago Daily News writers Keyes Beech and Fred Spaj-ks also were among the Pulitzer prizewinners announced by the awards committee in New York In the field of international reporting Both have been covering the Far East The Herald's tireless campaign against crime and official corruption and in behalf of good government was adjudged the nation's outstanding newspaper accomplishment by the Fulitzer committee Said Managing Editor Lee Hills who directed the campaign: praise belongs to the people of Greater Miami Public service is the heritage and sacred duty of every good newspaper Naturally we are' very pleased at being chosen for journalism's highest award of The award to The Herald marked the third time since 1913 that a Knight newspaper has won a Pulitzer prize in the field of public service Six years ago the Detroit Free Press was the winner for it3 investigation of legislative graft and corruption And last expose of the presence of 51 Illinois editors publishers and other newspapermen on the state payrolls brought the coveted award to the Chicago Daily News The steady and relentless war on hoodlum influence and official corruption dates back more than six years It dates back In a time when such a campaign was not popular in many -including some reponibJe citizens who feared if gambling were shut down the tourist would go elsewhere It reached its smoothly-geared peak In 1350 and covered such phases as the Kefauver committee hearings here and in Washington the indictment of the $20000000-a-vear gambling syndicate members the removal of Sheriffs James A Sullivan of Dade and the late Walter Clark of Broward Even before the Kefauver committee started its probe The Herald was hitting hard at the menace of hoodlum control on a national level It was The Herald that broke the story of gangland's grab at the lush Gold Coast gambling plum Stories told how Harry Russell a Chicago figure with Capone gang connections came here put the squeeze on the five-member syndicate and after backing his demands with a shut-down of the syndicate's wire service emerged as a full partner Senator Kefanrer has several times publicly commended The Herald for iis fight on crime He freely acknowledged that the work of Herald reporters in following the trail of crime and corruption had been of substantial help to his committee Probably one of The Herald's outstanding jobs on the crime front and one which set a pattern for other newspapers throughout the nation was its coverage of the three-day Kefauver committee hearings bere July 13-15 committee had held two closed sessions here in May Then in July it came back to hold the first hearings of what were to be a sensational series of stands In cities listed as the nation's crime centers The Herald staffed the Kefauver hearing with four staff writer and three photographers It arranged for a stenographic firm to take down verbatim testimony and speedily transcribe It by relays of stenographers to fill Herald columns WQAM The Herald's affiliate radio station tape recorded the entire committee hearings and re-broadcast a large part of the testimony Ten of thousand of word poured Into type a a stream of perspiring sheriff grt-uch-qulck deputies big-time gamblers and tin-horn bookies squirmed under the searching questions thrown at them by Senator Kefauver Chief Counsel Rndolph Halley and other committee members 1 And as the stream of witnesses testified under oath their testimony and more all the stories of crime and corruption that The Herald had been priming for months on end The prodigious work done by The Herald in its Kefauver committee coverage won distinction in March when the job was recognized as the outstanding spot news coverage performed by any Florida newspaper in an award made jointly by the Associated Tress Association of Florida and the Florida Daily Newspaper association Great Dav 01111112 Fair and nvld throush Wednesday Litht moderate variable utda mostly north end east MIAMI TEMPERATl'RES MONDAY iumi IBUr ThcvVc Human Too 7 In discussion of the heavy casualties suffered by the Americans and Chinese in Korea scant attention is paid to the large numbers of Koreans riving of shell shock and starvation says George Sokolsky cm Tage 6-A eifje Tuesday May 8 1951 5 Cents Florida's 3Iot Complete Newspaper Reds UN is 41st Year 50 Pages and Iteils Angry Grand Jury Ends Term Failed To Present Political-Gambling Setup To Public Foreman Declares In Asia ruman At ftussia South Koreans Hurl Foe Back 3 Milesh Extended (f By BEILNIXG Herald Starr Writer Dade county's grand jury ended its term a feeling of complete Foreman! James Hoffman reported Monday to Circuit Judge Grady Crawford Handing final presentments to the judge Hoffman declared that the jury to make public certain gamling-politicai ties which we know to But jurors by their own vote decided thev didn't want to put I those matters on record the fore-110 tlie Lmted States Monday man said that a conference of foreign Parley For jjap Treaty Latest Soviet Note Demands Red China Take Part In Talks No 156 of the Providence Journal teamed up to expose crime on nationwide basis Three Knight Newspapers The Herald Chicago Daily News and Detroit Free Press were in this group Other newspapers working alone like the Brooklyn Eagle helped break up rackets in their areas Few 'Weeks Press Wirephoto MOST COVETED NEWSPAPER AWARD the Pulitzer Prize Medal wes presented Monday to The Miami Herald for meritorious public service The Brooklyn Eagle was given a similar award This picture shows the front and back cf the medal Mntingiitg lid if nr Cilrs Long Struggle Herald Teamwork Credited For Prize-Winning Effort By IEE HILLS Herald Managing Editor We at The Herald are tremendously gratified by the Pulitzer prize recognition particularly feince it represents Sn out standing job of teamwork It is impossible to name all those who have participated but probably 23 members of The Herald staff have helped at one time or another John Knight our editor and get the great contribution papers which at the suggestion ministers including Communist China start work within two months on a peace treaty for Japan The Russian proposal vat contained in an 11-page statement handed ot American Ambasador Alan Kirk which contained Hoffman said he will go before ia vigorous and detailed Hi oral statement supple ntenting the written report gave point In runtor of friction and sharp division In the grand jury over the course of investigation undertaken in the last dajs of the term Bv Tb AtwUlU Freaa TOKYO South Korean troops smashed hard into a North Korean army corps northwest of Seoul Monday and rolled it back three miles to points 13 miles from the capital Other Allied forces in the east forced back hard fighting Reds a mile and a half Tlie-e Red setback on the flanks and a withdrawal north of Chunchon in the renter coincided with reports of dissatisfaction in Communist ranks AP Correspondent John Randolph reported some Allied officers on the western front believe Norlh Korean and Chinese Bed are angry because they feel Russia ha let them down on tank and plane for their now stalled spring offensive The Allies have won back nearly half of the ground lost north of Seoul to 300000 Red who aimed the main weight of their futile offensive at capture of the capital by May Day Is no denying that before the offensive began April 22 there were many signs that the Reds were counting on tanks and Randolph said in his dispatch from the western front their front road were widened and improved and for week there had been work on regular field and new airstrip "Further many' prisoner captured at that time told of promised Russian armament Yet when the eewtj FRANK PAC couldn't be reached Leak Speeded Firing 3IacArlIiurfs Policy Risks Gen Marshall Says (The author of th it ory vat awarded a rnlitzer Prize Monday for a ttory written while reporting the Korean war) By DON WHITEHEAD inwlilit Fnn Staff Writer WASHINGTON President Truman Monday joined Secretary of Defense Ceorge Marshall In blasting Gen Douglai MacArthur's war plans in Korea The President said uidenirg the conflict might bring down a rain of bombs on American cities The President declared the free nation stopped communism's march in Asia and a heavy Mow to the Kremlin all over the world He asserted there are sign of a crack up behind the Iron Curtain Mr broadcast speech came after Marshall told senators that proposals would risk all-out war with Russia ex-po-e Europe to attack and perhaps split the free world Into two camps The President following through on the administration double barreled counter attack said a single atom bomb exploding over an American city would cause offensive jumped off the Red in-1 more casualties than the United fantrv had help only from a sin-j State ha suffered in all the Ko-gle artillerv division that went rean war silent after the first night Russia Asks denunciation of American policies and intentions toward Japan Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bogomolov summoned Kirk to the Kremlin at noon Monday to deliver the statement It proposed: THAT a council of foreign ministers including the Chinese Communists meet in June or July Jo prepare a peace treaty with the collaboration of all countries whose armed forces took part in the Faclfic war THAT the treaty aim at demilitarizing and democratizing Japan limit the size of its armed forces and Insure that Japan would not enter any coalition against the countries which took part in the war again-t it THAT all occupation forces be withdrawn from Japan not later than one year after the conclusion of the treaty THAT the treay powers support Japan's admission to the United Nations (Russia's proposal calculated to he inacceptable to the United State Great Britain and other in terested powers came at a time when the State Department is ac- wjynirip" Russia or nists) Return Of Iceland AiwrliUt Fret United States Brig Gen Edward with the first contingent off Forces to help defend this North 1 con-i 14 111 Plane Crash Atom Attack Seen If War do not want to he respon sihle for bringing that Mr Truman said The President added these statement to a previously prepared speech for a civil defense conference Marsh 11 charged that MarAr-thur' peace appeal last March 24 to the Red commander in Korea destroyed any' chances of a Korean war settlement at that time He said the United Nations wa preparing and announcement of readiness to discus a war ett' ment the announcement to come from President Truman when MacArthur made hi peace-talk offer without approval from Washington view of the serious impart of Gen MacArthur statement on the negotiations of these Marshall said became necessary to abandon the effort thus losing whatever chance there may have been at that time to negotiate a settlement of the Koiean co A few hour afler Marshall testified behind closed door a did Gen MacArthur last week the President stepped back into the Asia policy fight Mr Truman sharply disputed the argument that the present policy in Korea may lead to another war and that thi county should it alone if necessary to force a Comma- Turn to Tage R-A Col i Where To Find It Amue 23B Kofod 21F1 PeU IB Lippman fi i Bouike 2B Merry RV Burn 4B Movie Table 2B Classified 1A-20B Pennekamp Comic 2123B Radio 22B I Corson SB Roo-evelt 22 Ciane 2'5 Sport 4-B jCroword 23B Sokol-ky i Death 9B Smokes 22 Editorial 6A Weather 23B Financial 2123A 21 Goren 21 Women 1S-21A To Call The Herald S-lill For Clarified Ade 9-S711 Warehouse for sale or lease RH Whitney Adv In the succeeding six da's of attack the Red piled up heap of their own dead trying to break the elastic Allied line with foot soldiers Joe (Stalin) old them down the river again' one officer exulted after the first few hour of the offensive showed no tank or The main Chinese resistance wa northwest of Seoul Bulky' Red force were concentrated in an area between Munsan and the Han river 20 mile northwest of Seoul Front dispalc he speculated that the Chinese might he considering an attack down the Kimpo peninsula in a flanking attempt Heavy Red truck movement were noted well behind Commu-ni-t line prisoner taken In the last few days indicated the Red attack might come within a few the new grand jury to be sworn in todav and report on matters which the body not develop to the He admonished State Attorney Glenn Mincer to tel the new grand jury that it will have nothing to do for "0 The jury which he headed Hoffman recalled was sent home for 30 days after it took office When it discovered its responsibilities and powers it was too late The written report said: freshman juror we did not at once recognize the tre niendou power for good invested in Thi knowledge can come only with time and experience We now know at the conclusion of our term that the grand jury I the one great public body which can adequately and constantly guard the welfare of the people of the The report reviewed the history of indictment voted by 'the earlier grand jury It said: raw against Ben Cohen wa summarily dismissed bv the wo ruiiiii iai i i m'ii 1 1 i SLilr'JLfSKS1 ant countv solicitor refused to go Columbia Ends Contract Tarks recently told the House un-Ameriran activities committee he once wa a Communirt The contract called for one picture a year for the next three vears ed thus far in the second quake Hundred were injured Sunday The preside! of ihe republic Li Col (War Osorio accompanied hjr high military ail civil authorities led Red Cross and other relief and rescue workers into the stricken area The government decreed three days of national mourning for the worst earthquake disaster in the country' history The greatest damage wa reported at Jucuapa a city of HOl STON (JT) Two mili-j -ph county solicitor then planes collided In the ir mjssed without trial seven other heie Monday night Four bodies iraes haed on the testimony of wcie lecovered 'George ration a former deputy The planes collided six miles northeast of Ellington Air Force Tlie grand jury re-indirted th Ellington Is about 15 miles in these £een cae! southeast of Houston adtrd "It i our thought that LAKE: SUCCESS MV- There were reports that at lra't'the-e cases snould now be-Tpe Soviet h'oc lo-t double-one crewman was seen to parachute from one of the planes Turn to Page R-A Col 3 header Monday in attempts to met Chinese Nationalists from United1 publisher has given wholehearted support and encouragement from the very beginning of the campaign 'years ago when the exposure of criminal activity in the area was highly unpopular even among some of the best citizens More than once groups of citizens called on him to get The Herald to up" In the mistaken belief that telling the truth about conditions would hurt the community Mr Knight would patiently explain that only by arousing public opinion could the fight for clean government and a clean city have a chance to succeed An equally important but not so well known fact is that Herald General Manager James joined with A Frank Katzentine of WKAT and Daniel Mahoney of the Miami Daily News and others to finance the early investigations which led to the creation of the Greater Miami Crime Comnusion The Herald's long struggle against crime ha not been a in the usual sense It has been an investigative digging job of xear-in-and-v ear-out reporting backed by a strong consistent editorial policy It began more than six years ago with the steady reporting of big-time gambling and other crime bv Henry Reno veteran police reporter It then developed Into a full-time job for Wilson McGee who ha carried the brunt of the work in recent years and ha won recognition a one of the nation's leading crime re porters Ed Lahey of our Washington bureau made some of the major contributions to the job In the 1930 state newspaper rnrte-ts The Herald submitted job done on the f-Mver hearings of our main cam- 1 i Staffers Jack rba Mve Trumbull and Bert COiicr ere given the aw ard for the year's outstanding spot news reporting The judges at that time also commented that it was an outstanding public service performance bv the newspaper However The Herald reserved its entry for the national Tulitzer contest and did not enter the state publrt serv- jfo 01l 1q Join ice category 7 The newspaper fight on crime bas been statewide and nationwide The concerted effort of all 1 easily the outstanding public service pei formed during 1 1 by the press of America The fight against crime and in behalf of good government still goes on Particularly praiseworthy Florida were the crime campaigns by The Miami Daily New and The Tanipa Tribune The public will not for- made toward better government and cleaner communities in our state Xor will they forget those other rnur ageous newspapers in the I'nit ed Mates which have waged an unrelenting war on crime National praise lias been given the group of If leading nevvs- IHore fits Due In 200 US Troops For Defense Tb REYKJAVIK Iceland McGravv landed by air Monday American Army Navy and Air Atlantic republic The Defense Department Washington said the force sisted of 200 men Icelandic new got out extra announcing the second coming of the Tank The government iMied a statement sajing the troops had arrived at the invitation of this country an independent member of the North Atlantic Alliance It was believed the force will be built up in the next few weeks Its activities will center around the two main airports Keflavik to miles from the capital and Hevkjavik but listening posts and other strategic installations about the island also will be manned American troops were stationed here from early in the World War II and were the only defense force for this island close to the Arctic Circle Iceland's airfields and bases were an important factor In the protection of convoy routes across the North Atlantic Iceland a nation of 110000 people ha no arm) navy or air force of its own The government consulted with 43 of the 52 members of parliament who all agreed now is the time to ask for defense forces the statement said The nine Communist members were not consulted Thi3 was the first time Icelanders a fiercely proud people have asked for outside defense forces Ridwav In Tokyo TOKYD Mrs Matthew Ridzway wife of the new United Nations supreme commander Korea i expected to arrive atr Wednesday night With her will he the couple's small son Today's Chuckle Civilization is only an Marshall Says Bv The iimlitrt Free WASHINGTON Defense Secretary George Marshall disclosed Monday that President Truman decided on April 9 to fire Gen Douglas MacArthur and speeded the announcement 20 hours because of a told the Senate armed services and foieign relation com- hat h'PM Army Secretary Frank Pace then in Tokyo could deliver the decision to MacArthur but race could not be reached in time The announcement of Mac-! dismissal was made by the White House at 1 a on April 11 Marshall testified that: it was derided In transmit the notification to Gen communication in Tokyo in mid i afternoon the eastern region of the It added that there were great landslide on the international highway No estimate has been given of the materia! damage The government bureau of Information gave no death toll for Chiramecn but said 200 Injured had leen removed from that city to a hospital in nearby San Miguel The government communique desrrihed the destruction at Chinameca a per cent than the damage at Jucuapa Italian Workers Called On Strike davs Other placed the date as'fijrt Nations bodies Returning to meeting of thej statistical and fiscal for the first time since their boy-' ieott a year ago the Russians April in there were inrii aliens manded ouster of Chinese Na-that the action to be taken had tionalist expert on the commis-j beome know publicly and it Finns and their replacement bywa then decided by the Presi-Chinese Communist dent to accelerate the transmission In the statistical coinmis-ion of the official notification to Gen Chairman ldenburg Nether- MacArthur by approximately 20 lands ruled the demand out of hours The exact timing of the order and the commission upheld public release wa made so a to him 10 to 3 on Eat-We-t line coincide with the arrival of the MacArthur at ni Washington time on Wednesday April the 11th that i 19 a Tokjo time ROME Nearly ionnnon government workers were railed HOLLYWOOD to strike for 24 hours hia Studio announced Monday its beginning at am Tuesday contract with Actor Larry Parks The agitation for higher wageslhas been cancelled bv "mutual In the fiscal commission the I vote wa 11 to 3 for the second time in two weeks joined workers in Communist-led and non-Communist unions The first joint action on April 27 gripped the nation in one of the tightest transport strike in years in bv advancement from shoeless toes to toeless shoes AbtU Cbsr( Xew Sltoeks Follow Calnslroplte Violent Quake Kills 1000 In El Salvador late as Mav 29 Hull Is Reported Critical Iv HI WASHINGTON Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull lwa reported in precarious conrii- tion Monday at the naval medical center at nearbv Fethe-da Md He wa admitted to the hospital on Saturday He is nearly 0 years of ge The Pulitzer Story Inside Monday wa a big day in the world of journalism letter and art The annual Pulitzer piizes were awarded Besides the top new -paper award won by' The Miami Herald and by Key? Beech and Fred Spark Miami Herald-Chhago Daiiv News wir cori e-pondent othr award are listed on Tsge U-A Other detail of the Pulitzer story are on Page R-A 12-A and 13-A Th 1 Fmi SAN SALVADOR El Salvador earthquakes were reported in southeastern El Salvador Monday in the wake of a devastating q-rake Sunday which killed 1000 person in Jucuapa alone The new tremors were reported in the cities of Santiago rie Maria and in Berlin both in Usultan department Santiago de Maria was damaged by the first quake It ha a population of 2Wo and Berlin has 15000 No casualties have been report ahout 12000 situated 90 eart of San Salvador and at Chinameca alout 17000 population two farther east Th nai by town of Nueva Guadalupe and Caaerios al-o suffered considerable damage The newspaper la Crafira reported Monday that Jucuapa Chinameaa and other nearby town were destrn) in a few minute by a aerie of three ahok The paper aaidthat "deo'a-tion ruin and death prevail In Farm Dinners Grandma' 32nd Biscaynt Blvd -Adv A i 7T.