Evening star., 1942-10-19
Snapshot by Soldier
Takes $1,000 Prize
lin National Contest
Winner Also Collects
$500 for Best in Class;
Entries Now on Exhibit

A photograph Of rwo soldiers
perched on top of a snow-covered
crag won $500 for Corpl. Kenneth
c. Pratt of Northvale, N. j., ip
the Newspaper National Snapshot
Awards today at the National Geo.
graphic Society.
The picture, entitled Guardians
of Our Far-Flung Outposts," was
made at or near an Army post
which could not be identified for
military reasons. The two soldiers
in the snapshot are silhouetted
against cloud hecked sky.
This photograph won $500 as the
best in its class, which was exclu-
sively for men in the armed forces,
and also took the grand prize of
1000 for the finest picture among
more than 300 entered in the con-
test by 50 newspapers scattered
over the United States and Canada.
The grand prize winner was an
entry from the New York Herald
Tribune.
The entries from this area, spon-
sored by The Star, did not place
among the first, second and third
prize winners, but they still have an
opportunity to win some of the
smaller prizes, including honorable
mention which would bring $25
The other awards were to be made
after lunch today and announced
later in the afternoon.
Other Winning Snapshots.
The four other winners in their
classes we're as follows:
Class A, babies and children, pic
ture of boy beating a drum, $500
to c. r. Schlemmer of Lincoln,
Nebr, an entry by the Lincoln Jour-
nal and Star.
Glass B, young people and adults,
four men shocking wheat in a
harvest field, $500 to Wilfrid Be-
langer, Montreal, Quebec, an entry
by the Montreal La Presse.
Glass G, scenes and still life, a
snow scene in the country, $500 to
George Goodfellow of Highspire, Pa,
an entry by the Harrisburg, Pa,
Evening News.
Class D. animals, two lambs, $500
to Florence Higgins of Grangeville,
Idaho, an entry by the Seattle,
Wash, Times.
The Glass E prize, for the armed
forces, went to Ccrpl. Pratt for his
grand prize picture.
Five distinguished judges began
their work at 10 am. in Explorers
Hall. First prize in each of the five
classes brought $500 to the fortunate
amateur photographer.
The judges were Col. o. N. Solbert,
U. S. A.; Eleanor Parke Gusts, ma
tionally known pictorialist and ex-
hibitor; DR.. Thomas w. McKnew,
assistant secretary of the National
Geographic Society; John S. Rowan,
president of the Photographers So
ciety Of America, and Kenneth Will
liams, director of Photographic
studios, Eastman Kodak Co.
The exhibit, which is one of the
outstanding Photographic shows of
the year, with its collection of the
finest amateur snapshots of two
countries, will be thrown open to the
public at 10 am. tomorrow. 1t will
be open week days from 10 am.
to 10 pm, and on Sundays from
IL noon to 6 pm. On each night
except Sundays there will be show
ings of Kodachrome motion pic
lures from to 10 pm.
Washington entries, which were
selected as result of summer
long competition conducted by The
Star, were hung among the other
photographs, with no Identification
visible to the judges.
The local entries included:
"Optimist," baby, photographed
by Harold Melnicove, 9710 Lawson
place, Silver Spring, Md; Wonder
ing Where" a young woman peru
sing a censored soldier letter, by
Martha H. Brown, 6720 N. Central
avenue, Chevy Chase, Md; pre-
serve What 1t Means" the Jeffer-
son Memorial, by M. r. Fernald, 1922
H street NV; and ''Whiskers." a
cat, by Harvey Colpe, 402 East Gus
tbs avenue, Alexandria, Va.
Uncle Sam will give you many