Evening star., 1938-05-03
CANADIAN PAPERS
ARE GIVEN AWARD
Special Prize. Among Those
Announced for Years
Pulitzer Winners.
~ the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. May 3-Departing
for the first time from the routine
designation OF Pulitzer prize win
ners. Columbia University's trustees
have honored a group of Canadian
newspapers for their campaign to
protect the freedom OF the press.
A special award, the frst since
the annual prizes began in 1917 under
the will of Joseph Pulitzer, went to
the Edmonton (Alberta) journal and
e6 other provincial newspapers which
campaigned against the Alberta press
act.
The trustees said the act, now up
for review by the Privy Council in
London, would have destroyed the
independence of Albertas news
papers.
Sharing the regular Pulitzer prizes,
recognized as the newspaper profess
sions highest honors, were the Bis
narck IN Dak) Tribune. Reporter
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh
Post-Ga1ette, Arthur Krock. WASH
ington correspondent for the New
York Times: Associate Editor w. w.
Waymack of the Des Moines uowa)
Register and Tribune and Cartoonist
Vaughn Shoemaker of the Chicago
Daily News.
Wilder and James in List.
Two former Pulitzer winners
Thornton Wilder and Marquis James
were among those named for the
awards in letters.
Mr.. Wilder, whose The Bridge Of
San Luis Rey" was Judged the best
novel in 1928, re ceived $1,000 for
his current play. Our Town. desig-
mated the best American drama pro-
duced in New York last year The
play, staged with practically no
scenery, depicts in nostalgia vein life
and death in typical New England
town.
Recently the New York Drama
Critics Circle, whose disagreement
with the Pulitzer Committee has be-
come traditional. picked John Stein
beck's "Of Mice and Men as the
best play of TIE season and nomi-
mated Our Town" as second choice.
Mr.. Wilder. now in Tucson, Ariz.
said he was very proud and happy"
to receive the Pulitzer award.
Having transferred my interests
from the novel to the play, am par
ticularly encouraged by the good opin-
ion that lies behind the prize" he said.
Shares $1,000 Prize.
Mr.. James, Missouri-born author
and winner Of previous award,
shared with Odell Shepard the 1887
prize of $1,000 for the most distin-
guished American biography.
The award was for Mr.. James two
volume biography Of Andrew Jackson
and "Pedlar's Progress, the Life Of
Bronson Olcott," by Mr.. Shepard, an
English professor at Trinity College,
Hartford Conn.
John Phillips Marquand won anoth-
er $1,000 award for the best novel Of
1887 with his The Late George Ap-
ley" spirited satire on Boston life.
Paul Herman Buck. Harvard history
professor, produced the 81 1000 Pulitzer
history Of the year, THE Road to Re-
union, 1865-1900."
Marya Zaturensky,s Gold Morning
Sky" was judged the years best book
Of verse, the designation carrying q
$1,000 prize.
Reporter Sprigle's series disclosing
Justice Hugo L. Blacks one-time mem
bership in the Ku Klux Klan won the
$1,000 award for the most distin-
suished example OF reporters work
in 1887.
The Bismarck Tribune received $500
for the most distinguished and meri-
torious public service rendered by a
newspaper" for its campaign to restore
the confidence Of drought-stricken
residents of the dust bowl.
Outstanding Example. 4.
The Columbia trustees called the
campaign IAN outstanding example of
newspaper leadership and public serv-
ice"
Mr.. Krock. winner Of q similar award
IN 1885, received the $500 prize for dis
tinguished service as a foreign or
washington correspondent for his ex-
elusive interview with President Roose-
welt on the Presidents political phil
osophy.
A similar award went to Mr.. Way
mack for outstanding editorial writing
during 1887, and another to Mr.. Shoe
maker for his anti-war cartoon, THE
Road Back"
The Canadian awards included
bronze plaque to the Edmonton Journal
and engraved certificates to the 80
weeklies and six dailies in Alberta
which joined in the fight against the
press act.
The trustees. who selected the Pull
itzer winners on recommendation Of
the Columbia School OF Journalism
Advisory Board, announced the choices
late yesterday just before the schools
silver Jubilee banquet.