Evening star., 1939-05-02
Pulitzer Awards
Made, The Year|ing'
Rated Best Novel
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Wins Dromo Prize; Miami
News Honored for Service

Dy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 2-Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings, who abandoned a
1O-year career in journalism in 1928
to take up fiction writing, has won
the $1,000 Pulitzer prize award for
the novel with her best-seller, "The
Yearling"
The book, simple chronicle of
q year in the life of 12-year- old
boy, is the third novel dealing with
Florida Crackers" she has written
since moving II years ago to an
orange grove at Cross Greek, Haw-
thorn, Fla.
Previously she had worked as a
journalist in Louisville, New York
and Rochester, N. Y. Her earlier
novels were South Moon Under"
published in 1933-the same year
she won the o. Henry short story
award with Gal Young Un"-and
Golden Apples" in 1885.
"Abe Lincoln" Best Drama.
IN announcing the annual Pulitzer
awards in literature and journalism
yesterday, the trustees of Columbia
University presented the $1,000
drama award for ABE Lincoln in
Illinois"
1t was the second time the prize
went to 43-year-old Robert Emmett
Sherwood, veteran American play
wright, whose idiots Delight" an
anti-war drama, won in 1886. Plays
by Eugene ONeill have won three
times and those by George S.
kaufman twice.
Other library awards:
The $1,000 history prize-To Prof.
Frank Luther Mott, director of the
University of Iowas School of Jour-
nalism, for his monumental "A His
tory of American Magazines"
The $1,000 biography prize-To
Carl Van Doren, author, teacher and
literary critic, for his non-fiction
best seller, Benjamin Franklin"
Fletcher Wins Poetry Prize.
The $1,000 poetry prize-To John
Gould Fletcher, Arkansas imagist
poet, for his selected Poems" His
wife, Charlie May Simon, is widely
known as a writer of juvenile books.
The 53-year-old poet, Harvard
graduate, is a brother of Mrs. D. D.
Terry, wife of Representative Terry.
To the Miami (FlaD Daily News
went journalism's highest accolade-
the $500 Pulitzer Gold Medal for
"the most disinterested and meri-
torious service rendered by an
American newspaper" during 1888.
The medal was awarded for cam
paign which led to the recall of
most of Miamis city commissioners.
The Waterbury Comm Republi-
can-American was given honorable
mention for its exposure of NUM-
cipal graft"
Other Pulitzer journalism awards:
The $500 cash award for dis
tinguished service as foreign cor
respondent to Louis P. Lochner,
for II years chief of the Berlin
Bureau of the Associated Press, for
his dispatches from Berlin.
Patriotic Editorial Wins.
The $500 cash award for dis
tinguished editorial writing"-to r.
G. Calvert of the Portland Ore
gonian, for his editorial MY Coun-
try 'Tis of Thee"
The $1,000 cash award for "a dis
tinguished example of reporters
work"-to Thomas L. Stokes of the
Scripps- Howard Newspaper Alli-
ance, for his series of articles link
ing the w. P. A. to politics in the
Kentucky senatorial campaign.
The $500 cash award for "a dis
tinguished example of a cartoonist's
work"-to Charles Werner of the
Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City.
His prize winning cartoon, titled
Nomination for 1885," pictured
tomb labeled Czecho-Slovakia and
before it scroll with the words
"Nobel Peace Prize"
The $500 annual music scholar
ship-to Danti Fiorillo of West
wood, N. j.
The $500 annual art scholar
ship-to Peter Cook Of Kingston,
N. J.
The Miami Daily News waged a
nine-month campaign Ito make
Miami freeholders free men by re-
opening the ballot boxes"
Fought for Recall.
The News went into action when
the three-man commission major
ity resisted a movement for a re-
call election. Day after day the
newspaper, through editorials, news
stories and cartoons, demanded "the
restoration of suffrage by estab-
fishing the right of recall" After
months of legal battles the Florida
Supreme Court upheld an order of
Circuit Judge H. F. Atkinson for the
election.
The three commissioners-Mayor
Robert R. Williams, John D. Dubose
and Ralph B. Ferguson-were re-
called two months ago.
James M. Cox, former Ohio Gov
ernor who was the Democratic pres
idential candidate in 1920, is pub
Usher of the Miami Daily News, of
which Daniel ]. Mahoney is general
manager and Hal I. Leyshon editor.
Mr.. Calvert, whose editorial in
the Portland Oregonian won the
Pulitzer prize, recalled he almost
turned the subject over to an asso-
ciate to write.
There was one of those crises IN
Europe" Calvert related. The
strained situation made me think
of our peculiar position here, and
1t occurred to me that the idea
would make a good editorial for
Ben Hur Lampman to write.
II was on the point OF asking
Ben to write it when realized
it was time for Ben to start his
regular week end trip to the beach,
so rather than delay Ben, I wrote
1t myself"
Both Calvert and Lampman are
associate editors of the Oregonian.
Won Immediate Attention.