Evening star., 1933-05-02
PULITZER AWARDS
FOR '3ANNOUNCED
Thomas R. Henry Of Star
Staff Wins Mention for
Bonus Army Stories.

Thomas r. Henry, member of the
news STAFF of The Star, has been
awarded honorable mention by the
Pulitzer prize jury for the series of
feature articles he wrote for The Star
on the hectic activities Of the bonus
army here last year.
Francis A Jameson, staff correspond
ent OF the Associated Press at Tren-
ton, N. j., won first prize Of 81 900 for
the best example of a reporters work
during the year, the test being strict
accuracy and terseness, the preference
being given to articles that achieve the
accomplishment of some public good
commanding public attention and re-
spect." The award was made in
recognition of Jamieson's coverage of
the Lndbergh kidnapping case.
$500 gold medal was awarded the
New York World-Telegram for the
most disintTested and meritorious pub
newspaper during the year." The Kansas
City Star won $500 for general editorial
excellence.
Edgar Ansel Mowrer Berlin corre-
spondent of the Chicago Daily News
and The Star, received $500 prize for
the best example of correspondence.
The award was based on Mowers stories
Of the German political crises.
H. M. Talburt, cartoonist OF the
Washington Daily News. was given $500
for a cartoon. The Light of Asia"
which was adjudged the best cartoon
published in any American newspaper
during the year.
Five Reporters Mentioned.
Henry was one of five reporters re-
ceiving honorable mention from the
advisory board of the School of Journa-
liSm of Columbia University, which
judged the competition. The others
were Lee McCardell, of the Evening
Sun. Baltimore. Md, whose articles on
the B. E. F. also impressed the jury;
Edward J. Neil of the Associated PresS
for his description of bob sled race
and accident at Lake Placid during the
Olympics; Chester G. Hanson, of the
Los Angeles Times, for stories on the
transient unemployed of the Southwest.
and Carl Randau. for new accounts of
the Hofstadter legislative inquiry in
New York City.
Mr.. Henry's vivid descriptions of
the rise and fall of the bonus army en-
campment at Anacostia attracted wide
attention and won him special COM
mendation. His gripping account of
the battle of Camp Marks when
regular Army troops drove the bed
raggled remnants of the B. E. F. from
the flaming camp on the Eastern
Branch. was regarded as a particularly
creditable piece of reporting.
Henry. who is 80 years old. joined
the staff of The Star in 1923 and has
remained with the paper ever since ex-
cept for one year devoted to editorial
work on a magazine. He has special
lied on scientific articles cOuched in
language that may be understood by the
lay reader and has won the confidence
of leaders in the world OF science
through his unfailing accuracy and his
clarity in discussing complicated tech
nical subjects.
CO-AuthOr Of a Book
incidentally. Henry Is co-author of a
book. just published, on life among the
mountaineers of the Blue Ridge The
volume, entitled Hollow Folks" is
based on material gathered by Henry
during several assignments in the Blue
Ridge area The collaborating author
is Mandel Sherman, of the University
Of Chicago. The publisher is the
Crowell Co.
In awarding Jameson first prize for
reporters, the jury said: ''Mr. Jameson
produced prompt, full, Asilltul and pro-
longed coverage of news Of the kidnap-
ing of the infant son of Charles A.
Lindbergh on March /. 1892, from the
first announcement Of the kidnapping