Evening star., 1939-10-16
Farmer Boy Picture
Wins Grand Award
In Snapshot Contest
Dovton (Ohio) Entront
Submits Winner;
On Exhibition Tomorrow
BULLETIN.


A photo by Julian Brown Of
1922 North Garfield street, Ar
lington, Va, won honorable men
ton and $50 in the Newspaper
National Snapshot Awards today.
His snapshot was entitled whit
tim" a study of a small Virginia
mountaineer boy using his knife
in a corner of his cabin.
A snapshot of tousle- haired boy
from the Middle West riding on the
back of hurley white farm horse
won the grand prize in the fifth
annual Newspaper National Snap
shot Awards today:
The entry was submitted by JOS
eph Guillozet of Dayton, Ohio, in
the class Of children and baby pic
lures.
Other awards were to be an
nounced later today
The grand prize winner received
$1,000, in addition to a $500 award
for winning in its class. First prize
winners in the three other classes
follow:
Pets, sports and recreations-A.
N. Bushnell, Jr., of Los Angeles,
Calf, with photograph of a small
kitten peering anXiously around q
door.
Scenes and still life studies
Charles NJ Baldwin of Flint, Mich,
showing scene of lighthouse
cloaked in mist.
Informal portraits of adults-Har-
din Walsh of st. Louis, Mo, with
a snapshot of an aged charwoman
laboring on her knees in a church.
AL of these winners received $500.
Second Prize Winners.
Winners of $3.50 second prizes
were Bert S. Mikol of Muskegon
Heights, Mich, with a snapshot of
a saw-mill; Stephen F. Harris of
Dover, Mass, with a photo of a
smiling young girl; DR.. w. A. Mo-
line, Spokane, Wash, showing a
young bird perched in the top of a
tree against the background of a
white cloud, and Minturn R. Allen
Of Hartford, Conn, with a photo of
. girl skipping rope.
Third prize, $10O, was won by ]. J.
O'Connor, jr, of Holyoke, Mass,
with picture of a puzzled architect
poring over his blueprints;; Herbert
Denton of Corinth, Miss, showing a
boy and his dog in a boat: Kate
1stter Of st. Louis, Mo, with a
photo showing men and women
uroiti,or IN, II {o{;
and w. E. Hamilton of Kennett
Square, Pa, who photographed three
downy, newborn ducklings.
On Exhibit Tomorrow.
The winning snapshots, together
with about 370 other finalists chosen
from among thousands of photo
graphs entered by enthusiastic anna
teurs from coast to coast, will be
exhibited to the public tomorrow
in Explorers Hall of the National
Geographic Society, Sixteenth and
M streets NV. The display will
continue until Saturday, October %.
Each entry was given searching
scrutiny by a distinguished board
Of judges. These were DR.. John
Oliver La Gorce,, associate editor
of the National Geographic Maya
zine; Neysa McMein, artist and il
illustrator; Walter Dorwin league,
industrial designer and photo
graphic critic: Lowell Thomas, world
traveller, news commentator and
amateur photographer, and Ken
meth Wilson Williams, photographer
and editor of amateur publications
Of the Eastman Kodak Co..
Ninety-three United States news
papers participated in the 1899 COM
petition. Each paper conducted it's
own contest and at its close chose
four final prize winners to be en-
tered in the National Awards. Alto
gether winners in the national con-
test will receive checks for $4,000.
Certificates of merit were awarded