Evening star., 1934-05-08

and Edward j. Kelley of the Boston
Bureau of the Associated Press for
their vigilance and accuracy" in
covering the kidnapping of Margaret
McMath, at Harwichport, Mass.
Edward J. Donohoe of the Wilkes
Barre, Pa, Times-Leader for his work
in setting forth corruption in Office
on the part of members of the pub
lie school boards in Luzerne Coun-
ty, Pa.
H. Ellwood Douglass of the ST. Louis
Post Dispatch for his accounts of the
epidemic of encephalitis in st. Louis.
Meigs o. Frost of the New Orleans
Times -Picayune for his reporting OF
the case of Pearl Ledet, accused of
causing a death in an automobile &C
cident case.
Charles J. Truitt, correspondent of
the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, in
covering the district of Ocean City
and Salisbury, Md. after the severeSt
storm in the history Of the Eastern
Shore had severed all communlca-
tiOnS.
Frederick Woltman of the New
York World-Telegram for his report
ing of the status of various closed
banks in the suburban areas of New
York after the national bank holiday.
Travelling Scholarships Won.
Three travelling scholarships, valued
at $500 each, to graduates OF the
Columbia School of Journalism, to
enable them to spend year in Eu-
rope to study the social political and
moral conditions of the people, and
the character and principles Of the
European press, were awarded to:
Fred Gurin of North Bergen. N. j.:
Harold A. BeZaZian of Chicago and
Betty Turner of Oakland, Calf.
The three alternateS are Mark j.
Ginsbourg of Shanghai. China; Je-
rome 1. Myerberg of Newton, Mass,
and Mary Joanna Durham OF Green
castle. Ind.
Percival Price of Ottawa, Canada,
was awarded the annual 81 500 schol-
arship to the student of music in
America who may be deemed the
most talented and deserving" so that
he NAV continue his studies with the
advantage of European instruction.
The 81 500 annual art scholarship
to an American student was won by
Cathal OToole of Long Island City,
N. Y.
Brier, who received the reportorial
award. worked continuously for 10
hours covering the San Jose lynch
ingS for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Blinded by Gas.
Blinded by tear gas, menaced by
flying bricks and manhandled by the
mob, Brier and four assistants tele-
phoned a running story from garage
across the street.
The mob had threatened to string
I'D newspaper men alongside the kid
naperS," but Brier mingled with the
crowd and obtained the details. AT
1890 am. he went to a telegraph
Office and in three hours wrote his
comprehensive. dramatic account.
The coverage of the McMath kid
naplng case by the three Associated
Press men who headed the list OF
honorable mention awards was dl-
rected by Ayers. chief of the Boston
bureau. Clarke and Kelley are men,
, berS of his staff
Throughout the rapid-fire develop
ments in the case, they developed the
story we'll in advance. Ayers said
that after the original beat" on the
kidnapping, the bureau was able 70
keep a close check by careful plan
ming ard vigilance.
Edwin P Chase, editor and pub
Usher of the Atlantic IowaD News
Telegraph, in his prize winning edi-
torial. asked Where Is Our Money!"
and then supplied the answer: In
one short sentence-we spent it,
Set Type at Five.
Chase has been in the newspaper
business at Atlantic since 1903. He
was born at Anita, Iowa, IA miles
from Atlantic, 81 years ago. and
learned to "set type" in his fathers
printing Offices when he was years
old.
After receiving a high school educa-