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THT PULITZER PRIZE FOR 1928 IS AWARDED TO THE TIMES The Indianapolis Times today was awarded the Pulitzer prize in journalism for gold medal costing SSO0 the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year. The award was made to The Times for work in exposing political corruption in Indiana, prosecuting the VOTING SLOW AND HEAVY MOSTOFCITY Balloting About Normal on South Side: Women Out in Force. (More Voting Detail on Page Two) Slow, heavy voting in the north and east sides and only normal balloting in the west and south sides marked primary election in Indianapolis. Women were energetic and numerous about the polls, thousands of them heeding the admonition to vote during the morning and clear the way for men coming home from factories and offices late in the day. The vote started with the usual rush, the line-ups in north side precincts being heavier than usual, slowed up through the middle of the day, and started in heavy again In the afternoon.

Indications were that the strong fight to clean out the George V. Coffin Republican county organisation, and the intensive campaigns waged by the candidate for President, Governor and United States Senator had stirred north side voters to a pitch seldom before equalled. Booths Are Swamped So heavy was the voting in many precincts, especially in the Fourth ward and Washington Jthat the county election board authorized the precinct boards to put in tables for the use, the booths being swamped. In some precincts there were as many as six booths, but these were not enough to accommodate the voters, who stood patiently in line for an hour or more before they get inside the voting places. No physical violence had been re, ported to the election board at a late hour this morning, but there were the usual tangles over absent election officials, switches in voting places and controversies over who were members of the precinct boards.

Workers around the polls said that never before have they seen voters come to the polls so certain as to whom they wanted to vote for. 4 Apparently the political problem of the county and State had been studied carefully. This was cated by the large number of voters, particularly women, who came with slates already made out. Fight for Committeemen The interest in the Republican candidates far overshadowed that in Democrats, due to the bitter fight within the Republican party the faction desirous of a cleanup and the present corruptionsmeared leadership desirous of retaining control. The workers for Herbert C.

Hoover and James E. Watson, rival presidential candidates, and for the various Republican senatorial and governorship candidates were active around the polls, but in most places the battle between rival Republican candidates for precinct committeeman was just as vigorous. Voters appeared to be takfn'g more pains to ascertain is among the committeeman candii dates. Ordinarily the organizatin Is able to put across whomever it pleases for committeeman because of apathy. Long Ballot Slows Vote This time the voters appeared deeply interested in ascertaining which candidate was the man surrounded by Coffin.

The precinct committeemen elected today meet next Saturday to elect a county chairman to replace Coffin. The law allows voters three minutes inside the booth, but precinct officials reported that many were taking longer. In some places the officials were hustling the voters out at the end of their three minutes, but in others they were urging them to hurry but letting them complete fc their marking. The Republican ballot alone bears more than 200 names and the necessity of wading through this list slowed up the voters. Official Protests One citizen complained that in the Fourth precinct of the Seventh ward, 413 N.

New Jersey members of the board were taking voters who complained they did not know who to vote for into the booths and helping them mark their ballots. The law states that aid only is to be given those physically incapacitated. Call or Dial 211 obtain the new Hold-the-Line long distance telephone service to Complete Wire Reports of UNITED PRESS, The Greatest World-Wide News Service The Indianapolis Times Increasing cloudiness tonight, probably unsettled Wednesday; warmer. VOLUME 322 Large Vote Is Reported Over State Unusually heavy voting in the larger cities and the most populous counties of the State, although the farm vote was gave indi- cations this afternoon that primary balloting would sur pass normal pro portions. ons id ence oi forces supportin Herbert candidacy for the presidential reference vote in-; creased with the report I heavy balloting.

It was taken as an indication of an aroused interest in a political house-cleaning, although backers of Senator James E. Watson were prompt to claim a heavy vote would not be detrimental to candidacy. Word from many rural communities that farmers were scurrying to the voting places, casting their ballots, and getting back to their fields, encouraged Watson forces who had Watson and Ft. Wayne, its county seat, indicated an abnormally heavy vote. Reports from Decatur said Adams County was voting heavily.

In Kokomo the vote was above normal, with the day half gone, but a light response was the word from the surrounding counrtyside. Muncie reported an unusually heavy vote in the north half of the city, with a light vote on the south side. Heavy voting was the information from Bedford and Anderson, the latter reporting the largest primary balloting in years. Only an average vote was said to be recorded at Terre Haute, with the same condition true at Evansville. Rushville.

Senator home town, wa? voting light, reports said. The balloting was light at Lebanon and Frankfort, said early advices. Hamilton County farmers went to the polls early in large numbers, H. G. Brown, of Noblesville, president of the State Adams-for- Governor club, reported.

Farmers drove to Noblesville, Cicero, Arcadia, Westfield and Sheridan, he said, "as they never turned out One factor discouraging a heavy rural vote was the absence of any contest for township offices. BLAST RAILWAY BRIDGE New York Central Span In Ohio Is Dynamited. Bu United Press DILLONVALE, Ohio, May New York Central railroad bridge at Piney Fork mine, near here, was dynamited today, halting traffic between Dillonvale and Alliance. County officials attributed the blast to striking coal miners and sympathizers. Construction crews were ordered to the scene immediately.

Three bridges in this area have been destroyed within the last three weeks. Hourly Temperatures 6 41 10 a. 61 7 a. 45 11 a. 64 8 a.

52 12 64 9 a. 57 1 p. 66 Congra tu la tions Boyd Gurley, The Times, Indianapolis, Hearty congratulations to you, your staff, and The Times on the splendid recognition that has come to you in the Pulitzer award. This honor from the best informed and most unprejudiced jury American journalism can assemble is not only a tribute to you and The Times, but it is an evidence of the faith in Indiana. If your work had been regarded as mere agitation and muck-raking, it would have been valueless and would have received little consideration.

The award of the Pulitzer committee, which is for constructive, not destructive, effort, shows its faith and belief that as the result of you and The Times giving light, the people of Indiana will find their own way. ROY HOWARD. guilty and bringing-about a more wholesome of affairs in civil The award was made by the trustees of Columbia University on recommendation of the advisory board of the school of journalism. The board consists of the following: President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia JAPAN SEIZES RAILWAY; WAR HELD CERTAIN Act Regarded as Official Start of Conflict With Chinese Nationalists. Bu United Press PEKIN, May gravest move in recent Chinese histosy was made today when Japan formally announced her seizure of the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway in Shantung, where Nationalist troops are driving toward Pekin.

The seizure was regarded by foreign military observers here as a virtual declaration of war. Simultaneously with the announcement came news that fighting had recommenced at Tsinan between Nationalists and the 3,000 Japanese troops defending the foreign quarter. It was announced officially that had compelled When fighting was resumed, dispatches said, the Japanese expeditionary force destroyed the Chinese barracks with explosives and delivered an ultimatum demanding immediate evacuation of Tsinan and a zone extending for seven miles on each side of the Tsinan-Tsingtao railway. Chinese Start Attack flu United Press TOKIO, May hundred thousand Chinese nationalists have started an attack on Japanese troops at Tsinan and Gen. Chiang Kai Shek, the nationalist leader, has fled to Taian, Nichi Nichi was advised today.

The Chinese general, according to the advices to the newspaper. Tied when he found he was unable to control his troops. Severe fighting is continuing in Tsinan, the Asahi Tientsin correspondent reported, and the gravest of fears are felt. Communications between Tsinan and Tsing Tao have been severed, it was said, after they had been reestablished Monday. Only the most meager details were received here.

The war office lacks official advices of the new attacks, but are qaaintaining a careful watch. The Japanese in Tsinan are greatly outnumbered. At present twenty transports with troops are being held in readiness for dispatch to the Chinese area as soon as the cabinet makes a final decision on the need of their being sent on to China. Some Japanese reinforcements were said to be en route to China today. Eleven destroyers and two torpedo flotillas were due to leave from Sasebo this morning.

Six armored airplanes already are en route from Ping Yang for Tsing Tao. TWO BOYS, GIRL MISSING School 26 Pupil and Book Binder Gone Several Days. Police were notified Monday that Willis E. Reed, 14, ran away from his home at 1536 E. Eighteenth St.

last Wednesday. He left for School 26 that day as usual, but failed to return. His mother said he wore a blue suit, sailor trousers, shellrimmed glasses and light cap. Frank Schrader, 17, of 3321 W. Walnut has been missing since last Friday, his mother told police Monday light.

He was employed as a book binder. Mrs. Mary Dykeman, 2102 E. Forty-Ninth told police her daughter, Lourene Frazier, 20, disappeared Friday night. When last seen she wore a green sport dress, black satin coat and hat.

Ia Hoover feared the ideal weather might act against them. Lake County, which gave Watson the support which meant victory over Albert Stump, Democratic nominee, in the senatorial election two years ago, reported an abnormally heavy vote today. Reports from All en County, INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928 History of Crusade Waged by The Times Against Corruption in State Government Attempt by Ring to Hush Stephenson and Balk Expose of Misgovernment Thwarted: Cleanup Won Only by Long and Determined Fight. AT7HEN D. C.

Stephenson, former dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan for Indiana and its political dictator for a time, issued from his prison cell a letter declaring that he had documents which would prove vast political corruption, there was a significant silence on the part of officials and political leaders of the Republican party. Stephenson is in the penitentiary for the rest of his life. He had been convicted of the muider of a girl under revolting circumstances. He had not exepected to remain in prison long. He had elected Governors and dictated nominations of all.

save one, of the State officials. He had boasted, only a few weeks before his arrest that "I am the law in His letter was sent in a spirit of reminder to those who had received his favors that he was getting peevish at the delay in his deliberations. That letter, smuggled out by guards who were later discharged for this act, started the Indianapolis Times on the trail of the truth behind his charges. Official interest was directed in suppressing Stephenson. On the day following the publication, Governor Ed Jackson refused to give permission to Times and to all reporters to visit the prison.

The board in charge of the prison met hurriedly at the bedside of a sick member and brought to light what was claimed to be a rule forbidding interviews with prisoners. The former warden, who had held ofllce for 14 years, denied the existence. of any such regulation. BUB OILENCE on the pari of officials and absence of denials cf the truth of the charges seemed to The Times to be more suspicious than the letter of Stephenson, an adventurer who easily would be discredited. There was a hurried visit by an agent of the Department of Justice, Jack Maroney, and after the visit the officials grew cold enough to deny.

The lips of Stephenson had been closed. Later it has been revealed that he was promised liberty if he kept still until after election which was but a few months away. The task of The Times, therefore, was to unearth the facts and to follow the trail into the past; to produce indisputable proof of corruption of elections, of bribes and threats, of force and fear, by which a great State had lost its political birthright. FTER the visit of the Federal -UV agent, there were denials that Stephenson had ever had any documents, that he had ever given checks, that he had forced candidates for office to enter into written contracts with him under which they delivered all patronage in return for his support. The power of Stephenson was so unique as to be beyond the understanding of those in other States.

He had been a coal salesman in Evansville until the Ku-Klux Klan began to organize. Very soon he had received a contract under which he was named for twenty-three States. His percentage of the initiation fees brought him sums estimated at anywhere from two to five millions of dollars within 18 months. He was only known fix the very few. To his following he had adopted the title of Old under which he was reverenced.

He had his secret service department which unearthed embarrassing facts in the private lives of those he wished to terrify. He had the adoration of 450,000 members in Indiana who believed ir him implicitly. He turned that confidence into political channels and dictated to the Republican State convention. WHEN the existence of checks and contracts was denied. The Times discovered a photographer who, with his wife, had made copies of checks and contracts while Stephenson was in jail after his conviction.

Even then he began to suspect that those he had put in power would turn against him. He gave the originals to a close business associate. The photographs, it was later developed, were turned over to a trusted henchman. Many of them were purchased from these men, who turned traitor to Stephenson. The chance finding of a note written by Stephenson disclosed to The Times that the trustees of the University; Melville E.

Stone, the Associated Press; Ralph Pulitzer, the New York World; Arthur M. Howe, Brooklyn Daily Eagle; John L. Heaton, the New York World; Robert Lincoln Boston Herald; Joseph Pulitzer, St. Louis Post-Dispatcli; Rollo Ogden, New York Stephenson documents was L. J.

Julian, the business associate. A gand jury had been called, two i of whose members reported regularly to the law offices of friends, a member of which holds one of the highest political offices in the gift of the State. WHEN The Times asked for a subpoena for Julian, that man, a highly respected citizen of Evansville, rushed hurriedly to the penitentiary, was closeted for two hours with Stephenson at a time when all others were barred, and then disappeared from the State until the election was over and the grand jury was about to close Us term by time limitation. Later The Times was responsible for the delivery, unaer orders of Stephenson, of two strong iron affairs, and filled with documents, by Julian. Other witnesses mysteriously were spirited away.

The stenographer whom Stephenson trusted was taken to Cincinnati, registered under an assumed name in one of the finest hotels, and kept away from the jury. A succeeding grand jury, which finally acted on the facts produced by The Times, recommended the prosecution of one of lawyers, who, according to one of the men indicted with Stephenson, had been in the employ of State officials interested in suppressing all the facts. This was the situation at the beginning of 1927, the groundwork for what happened later. DIGGING into following clews, The Times proluced evidence under which Mayor John Duvall was indicted and convicted of violation of the corrupt practices act. He was forced to resign, pending his appeal.

Then evidence was produced under which six of the city councilmen were indicted for accepting bribes. All had been elected by the political machine created the days of Stephenson. These councilmen recently pleaded guilty to a minor charge and paid fines and resigned their jobs. The ctiy administration of Indianapolis, heir to the days of Stephenson, a product of his Klan control, was completely changed and a new council elected under recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce, acting with the City Manager League. In its major work The Times produced the original of a check drawn by Stephenson, in favor of Ed Jackson shortly before he was elected Governor and while he was a candidate for office.

Attached to it was a note written by Stephenson in his cell, stating that it was one-fourth of given to Jackson personally for his campaign expenses. The Governor, after three deliberation, said that the check was payment for a riding horse, with the suggestive name of The (Turn to Page 2) CARDINAL TAKEN ILL His Eminence William Confined to Home. By United Press BOSTON, May William O'Connell was ill at his residence here today. Physicians said his illness was not serious. Because of the condition of HI Eminence, however, the annual ordination ceremonies have been postponed from May 18 to May 25.

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Call MA 3500. You can charge it. Entered as Second-Class Matter at Indianapolis Boyd Gurley, Editor of The Indianapolis Times Knowledge That It Has Served the Public Is Real Reward of Times TO be selected as the newspaper which has performed the disinterested and meritorious is an honor and a distinction in which The Times takes a most, pardonable pride. There is a great satisfaction in the knowledge that The Times has been of such outstanding service to this State and to the community that its work is recognized by the great leaders of journalism who composed the jury of awards in the Pulitzer prize. There is a satisfaction, too, in the words of citation, its work in exposing political corruption, in prosecuting the guilty and in bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil It is needless to say that the work of The Times was Inspired by n6 hope of winning prizes or recognition.

At the masthead of this newspaper is a pledge and a promise to its readers: Light and the People Will Find Their Own That is the rock upon which the policy of The Times is built. If it is not true, there can be no honest journalism, no public service. The Times believes In the ability of the people to rule themselves. It has faith in the honesty of the people. It believes in the great heart of the common man and woman.

A condition of public affairs existed which The Times believed was intolerable. The Times believed that it could not exist if the people knew the truth. It was to the purpose of informing the people, rather than filling the jails with those who had been recreant to their trust, that The Times devoted its efforts. There is no satisfaction in jail sentences for mayors and shamed Governors hiding behind the statute of limitations. There is no satisfaction in seeing the head of a great political party in stripes for his crimes.

There is a real pride and satisfaction in the fact that the people of Indiana have the facts and can go to the ballot boxes with truth as their guide. It was necessary to unearth the story of shame, of conspiracy, of plots. It was necessary to tear the mask from hypocrisy and hypocritics. It was necessary to tear down the curtain of respectability behind which crime had hidden itself. It has not been an easy a pleasant nor a safe one.

The forces of evil always are desperate. There have been efforts to destroy the editor of this newspaper through manufactured and forged affidavits. It has been necessary to laugh away the malicious falsehoods and shameful stores that have been circulated with an intent to discredit and to. destroy. The service rendered by The Times has been, at all times, just what the great Pulitzer jury said it The Times has sought no private gain, has had no selfish purpose, no private vengeance to satisfy, no personal ambition to advance.

It has kept the faith. It has followed always the guiding beams from its own lighthouse. It has kept the faith in the people and with the people. The Pulitzer medal is, of course, a proud badge. But the greater pride and the greater satisfaction comes from a realization that The Times has been able to bring about a wholesome state of civil has been of real aid and service to the State.

That was our pledge. That is our purpose. The Times gave the light. and the people will find their own Times; Holman, San Francisco; Casper S. Yost, St.

Louis Globe-Democrat; Stuart H. Perry, Adrian (Mich.) Evening Telegram; Julian Harris, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun, and Frank R. Kent, Baltimore Sun. The Pulitzer prize is the most coveted honor in journalism. HOME Outsi'lo Marlon County 3 Cents TWO CENTS PEAK HONOR IN JOURNALISM IS VONBYTMES SSOO Pulitzer Prize Given for Most Meritorious Public Service.

Bu United Press NEW YORK, May Indianapolis Times has won the SSOO Pulitzer prize, a gold medal given annually for most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the The judges announced that The Times, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, had received the highest honor in American journalism its work in exposing political corruption in Indiana, prosecuting the guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil Thornton Wilder was awarded the Pulitzer prize of for the American novel published during the year shall best present the whole atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and Fantasy Is Best Seller novel, Bridge ot San Luis became a best seller soon after its publication by Albert and Charles Boni. It is a philosophical fantasy depicting the lives of five old and young individuals to the point where they are destroyed together in the fall of a bridge at San Luis Rey. Eugene long distance dramatic innovation, was awarded the Pulitzer prize for the plav performed in New York which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standards of good morals, good taste, and good The Pulitzer prize judges thus split sharply with the attorney for Lee and J. J. Shubert, New York producers, who attempted to have the police padlock as indecent.

It was produced by the Theater Guild. Hall Wins Editorial Prize The SSOO prize for the editorial written during the was awarded to Grover Cleveland Hall for his editorials in the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser against gangism, floggings, and religious intolerance. Nelson Harding, cartoonist of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was awarded the SSOO prize for the best American newspaper cartoon of the year. Entitled His Shadow Never Grow cartoon depicted plan flying over a hilly section of Mexico. The shadow formed a cross in which was inscribed on Earth, Good Will to Partington's History Best The $2,000 Pulitzer prize for best book of the year upon the history of the United was awarded to Vernon Louis Farrington for his Curents in American in two volumes; "The Colonial Mind.

1620-1800," and Romantic Revolution in America, Charles Edward Russell was awarded the prize for best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish service" (Washington and Lincoln biographies barred as too obvious) for his American Orchestra and a study of the founder of the Chicago Symphony. Edward Arlington Robinson, the poet, who like is no stranger to Pulitzer prizes, again carried off the poetry palm with his LEGION POST TO MEET John H. Holliday Jr. Unit Holds Dinner Tonight. The John H.

Holliday Jr. post, American Legion, will hold Its monthly dinner tonight at, 6:30 at the First Presbyterian church, N. Delaware and Sixteenth Sts. Mrs. E.

F. McClintock, wife oi Major McClintock, Ft. Benjamin HarlSSn, will tell of her experiences as a nurse in Mesopotamia during the World War. SSOO Reward The Hoover for President State committee today offered a reward of SSOO for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone interfering with an honest vote and an honest count in any preftinct in Marlon County. Hoover headquarters telephone number is Lincoln 9444..