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Russell Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for Job
Of Reporting During Uprising in Hungary
New York :-U.Pj United
Press staff correspondent Rus
sel' Jones was awarded the Pu
litzer Prize for international re
porting Monday for "his excel
lent and sustained coverage of
the Hungarian revolt against
Communist domination."
Jones, the only American
newspaperman in . Budapest
from Nov. 11 until he was ex
pelled Dec. 6, already had re
ceived two other awards for his
coverage of the Hungarian free
dom fight the George Polk
Memorial Award and a Sigma
Delta Chi citation for distin
guished service in foreign cor
respondence. Chicago Paper Honored
The Chicago Daily News won
the award for meritorious pub
lic service by a newspaper for
its exposure of fraud in the of
fice of Illinois State Auditor
Orville E. Hodge'. The exposure
resulted in a jail sentence for
Hodge.
Wallace Turner and William
Lambert of the Portland Ore
gonian won the prize for dis
tinguished local reporting with
out pressure of deadline time.
They were cited for their expo
sure of vice and corruption in
volving Portland municipal of
ficials and officers of the Team
sters union. Their exposes began
an investigation that reached
into the top echelon of the
Teamsters Union and since has
moved to Washington.
Local Reporting- Honor
The staff of the Salt Lake
City Tribune received the award
sure of edition time for cover
age of the collision of two air
liners over Grand Canyon. "This
was a great team job that sur
mounted great difficulties in
distance, time and terrain," the
citation said.
The prize for the best play
went posthumously to Eugene
O'Neill, the fourth Pulitzer
prize for the dramatist. The lat
est citation was for "Long Day's
Journey Into Night," now play
ing in New York.
The prize for biography went
to Sen. John F. Kennedy CD
Mass.) for his book "Profiles In
Courage," a study of political in
tegrity using as ' examples a
number of past American politicians.
The history prize was award-
for local reporting under pres- ed to George F. Kennan, former
Lambert, Turner Thrilled Over
Reward for Local Reporting Job
Portland, Ore. (U.R) "It's
a wonderful feeling," chorused
William Lambert and Wallace
Turner when they learned they
had been awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for distinguished local re
porting without pressure of edi
tion time.
The two reporters on' the
Portland Oregonian were cited
for their expose of vice and cor
ruption in Portland involving
some municipal officials and
Teamsters Union officers.
The award was based on a
series of articles Turner and
Lambert wrote linking Team
sters officials with attempts to
take over vice and gambling od-
erations in the city.
grand jury investigations which
led to indictments of city and
county officials and Teamsters
bosses and to a Senate Rackets
Investigating committee hearing
on conditions in Portland.
A chance remark by racket
eer James B. Elkins, later a
star witness before the Senate
committee, led to the investiga
tions by the Oregonian reporter
team.
Turner said he had heard
"rumbles" in the fall of 1955
about Seattle Teamsters officers'
attempts to "get to" certain city
and county officials.
He said he was talking to El
kins about another matter when
the racketeer let drop that he
The series sparked several had been having troubles with
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as assistant to the director of publicity of the GOP Na
tional Committee the. past 17 years.
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Portland (U.R) Fire late
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who wouldn't answer when
Joan Beckett (Miss Cali
fornia of 1956) is on the
calling end. Joan makes a
mighty pretty picture
splashing in the surf with
famed" Diamond Head in the
background. A United Air
tines official predicts a 15 to
20 per cent increase in
travel to Hawaii this year,
certain Teamsters. This prompt
ed Turner to start checking out
his sources.
. The trail began to warm up
and Lambert teamed with ' Tur
ner to work full time on investi
gating the reports.
"We did some digging here
and there," said .Lambert, "and
the pieces began to fall into
place."
Slory Pieced Together
The pair worked day and
night for weeks, checking out
tips, following leads and piecing
their story together. They were
away from the newspaper office
most of the time, . doing their
writing from hotel rooms' so that
even other members of the staff
didn't know what they were
working on.
The Oregonian began publish
ing Hhe series in April, -1956.
A year later, more than. 100 In
dictments had been returned
against scores of persons, in
cluding Mayor Terry D. Schrunk
and District Attorney William
Langley.
- The series also gained the
Heywood Broun Award for Tur
ner and Lambert and the Sigma
Delta Chi meritorious public
service award for the Oregonian.
State Department policy advis
er, for "Russia Leaves the War."
Kennan now is with the Insti
tute of Advanced Studies at
Princeton, NJ.
Other prizes included:
James Reston of the New
York Times for "distinguished
national correspondence ... an
outstanding example of which
was his five-part analysis of the
effect of President Eisenhower's
illness on the function of the
executive " branch of the gov
ernment." Reston won the na
tional affairs reporting award in
1945.
Buford Boone, president
and publisher of the Tuscaloosa
(Ala.) News for "his fearless and
reasoned editorials in a commu
nity inflamed by a segregation
issue, an outstanding example
of his work being the editorial
entitled 'What A Price For
Peace,' published on Feb. 7,
1957."'
Cartoon Awarded
Tom Little of the Nashville
Tennessean for his cartoon de
picting a boy on crutches and
wearing leg braces watching a
neighborhood football game.
The captain read, "Wonder why
my parents didn't give me Salk
shots."
Har.-y Trask. of the Boston
Traveler "for his dramatic and
outstanding pnotograptuc - se
quence of the sinking of the
liner Andrea Doria." The prize
winning pictures were taken
from a plane flying 75 ' feet
above the water, nine minutes
before the liner sank.
Richard Wilbur for his vol
ume ' of poetry entitled "Things
of This World." Wilbur is asso
ciate professor of English at
Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Conn.
Kenneth Roberts, of Kenne-
bunk, Me., a special award for
"his historical novels which
have long contributed to the
creation of greater interest in
our early American history.!'
Norman Dello Joio, Wilton,
Conn., composer of his "Medi
tations On Ecclesiastes," first
performed at the New York
School of Music in April of last
year. Dello Joio was . the com
poser of "The 'Trial At Rouen,"
an opera about Joann Arc per
formed over NBC-TV last April
8.
Jones Says Budapest
Place for Reporter
During Soviet Assault
New York (U.R) Russell
Jones of the United Press, Pu
litzer Prize winner in interna
tional reporting for his cover
age of the Hungarian - revolt,
said today he stayed in embat
tled Budapest "because I thought
that was the place for a reporter
to be."
Jones got into the Hungarian
capital on Oct. 29, witnessed the
crushing Russian assault of
Nov. 4 and was the only Ameri
can newspaperman remaining in
Budapest from Nov. 11 until
Dec. 6 when he was expelled.
Jones said in an interview that
he felt telling the Hungarian
story to the Western world was
the most important opportunity
he had ever had.
Minimises Peril
"There; was no great personal
danger," he said. "The fighting
in the city was confined mainly
to isolated pockets and anyone
could move around the other
areas without much peril. The
secret police and the Soviets
were out to kill the Hungarian
rebels, not Western reporters..
"Part of our profession is to
cover the news. I didn't realize
how important, how much im-
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pital, according to Dr. Robert H.
Buck, pathologist.
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pact, the j story was having at
the time, but it was obviously of
tremendous . significance. And
from a human standpoint, that
these people should be doing
what they were doing.
' "I stayed because I thought
that was the place for a reporter
to be."
To get his stories out, Jones
telephoned UP bureas around
Europe Stockholm, Vienna,
Frankfurt, London, Paris, Bel
grade, Prague and even Moscow
There was no censorship as such
although the Russians cut off all
communication from the outside
from Nov. 4 to 11, the day a
convoy of some 150 other West
ern reporters departed.
Back China Entry
Remaining with Jones as the
only correspondents then 'were
Endre Marton and Ilona Nyilas,
the resident Hungarian corres
pondents of the Associated Press
and the United Press, and the
correspondents of Reuters, and
Agence France Presse.
Jones said he thought the
story of the Hungarian revolu
tion pointed up the vital need
for Western correspondents to
be on the scene wherever some
thing is going on, "including
Communist China."
Jones has now been transfer
red to UP Vienna headquarters
with the assignment of chief rov
ing reporter for Eastern Eur
ope. He will return to that post
shortly,
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Seventh Traffic Fatality
Portland -r- (U.R) The sev
enth traffic death of 1957 in
Multnomah county " outside of
Portland was recorded today
after Norns Adolph Nelson, 34,
Gresham, died from injuries suf
fered Sunday in a traffic acci
dent on Highway 30 about ' a
mile east of the Sandy River
bridge.
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studies at Stanford University, Calif. The rare metal,
worth about $80,000, is a loan from the Atomic Energy
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Air Force Observes 50th Anniversary
Eglin AFB, Fla.-XU.R) The
Air Force began celebrating its
50th birthday Monday with a
powerful display of speed and
striking power.'
The fastest and newest jet
fighters and bombers bared their
deadly knockout punch in a se
ries of "bombing and strafing
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The occasion was the Air
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golden anniversary. It also gave
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over the test area. Normally, a
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from 50,000 feet.
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30 Wyssa high school students
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Monday afternoon and three bus
passengers suffered slight in
juries. Ada county sheriff's officers
said the bus, driven by Wayne
Stites, 37, Nyssa, had passed the
truck and apparently pulled in
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