The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-13
B0BBS-MERRILL
BOOK AWARDED
! PULITZER PRIZE
Scarlet Sister Mary Is Ad-
Judged Best Published
in Past Year.

NEW YORK. May 13.-For the
third time Rolln Kirby. editorial
cartoonist of the New York World.
has won the Pulitzer prize awarded
by the trustees of Columbia Uni
versity for the best newspaper car
tOon.
The prize winning drawing was
his cartoon "Tammany. published
at the height of the presidential
campaign last fall Il depicts a
bulky man. representing the Re
publican party. lifting his hands in
horror and saying "Tammany-'
In the background adorned with
prison stripes and angel wings, are
such Republicans as Colonel Thomas
Miller. former alien property
custodian. former Governor War
rem T. McCray of Indiana, Colonel
Charles B. Forbes. former head Of
the Veterans bureau. and others.
In 1921 Kirby won the Pulitzer
award for his cartoon On the Road
to Moscow" and in 1924 for News
From the Outside World He re-
ceives $500 cash prize.
Pick Peterkin Book
Pulitzer awards in the field of let
tiers went To.
Julia Peterkin. whose novel Scar
let Sister Mary" was adiudged the
best American novel of the year,
81 600. The book was published by
Bobbs-Merill Company, Indian
spolis.
Elmer Rice. for his play Street
Scene" current at the Playhouse
here. $1,000 It was published by
Samuel French. New York.
Fred Albert Shannon. author Of
~The Organization and Administra-
ton Of the Union Army" for the
best book of 1928 on American his
tory. $4,000 published by Arthur H.
Clark Company. Cleveland.
Burton J. Hendrick, author Of
'The Training of An American; the
Earlier Life and Letters Of Walter /
H. Page" for the best American
biography. $1,000 Published by the
HoughtOn- Miflin Company, Boston /
and New York
Stephen Vincent Benet, author OF |
"John Browns Body for the best |
volume of verse. $1,000 Published !
by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Garden /
City. n. Y.
World Is HOn0red
other prizes in Journalism were. /
To the Evening World New York, /
9 $500 gold medal for the most dis /
interested and meritorious public /
service rendered by an American /
newspaper. The Evening World won F.
the medal for its effective campaign
TO correct evils in the administration
of justice including the fight to
curb ambulance chaserS.
Honorable mention went to the
Chicago Tribune for its work in con-
nection with the primary election:
and to the St. Paul Dispatch and
Pioneer Press for its campaign for
conservation of forests.
To Paul Scott MoWTer of the /
Chicago Daily News. $500 for the /
best example of correspondence dur |
ing the year-Which shall make |
clear the subject covered, or which |
shall promote international under |
standing and appreciation MoVrer !
is director in Europe of the Daily |
News Foreign Service.
To Louis Isaac Jaffee of the Nor |
folk Virginian-PilOt, Norfolk. Va, /
$500 for his editorial An UnSpeak- /
able Act of Savagery,' which was
called typical of a series of articles |
written on the lynching evil
Best Reporter Chosen
To Paul Y. Anderson. Washington !
correspondent of the st. Louis /
PoSt-DiSpatch. $1,000 for the best |
piece of reporting.
Anderson won for his highly ef- |
fective work in revealing the dispo
sition of Liberty bonds purchased /
and distributed by the Continental
Trading Company in connection +.
with naval oil leases.
An annual scholarship of $500
10 lUt SiuQttlb III AlilCA 10 uNNAiACNl
the most talented in music went to
Carl Bricken. former student at the
Names School of Music
Herbert Sanborn of New York,
student at the National Academy of
Design. won an annual scholarship
of $500 for the most promising
and deserving art student in
America
Helen r. Fairbanks Great Neck, (
N. Y; Prescott FreeSe bennett, /
Bangor. Me: and Will Cramer
Weng. Terre Haute, Ind, won the
travelling scholarships of $500 each
for distinctive scholarship at the
Columbia University school OF jour
naliSm. AlternateS are Wayne VIII
liam Parrish. Decatur, Ill; Herbert
Anderson Yocom. Arcata, Cal, and
Josephine Russell, New York.