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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Sherwood Wins Third Pulitzer Drama Prize, No Novel Cited

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941 SAILOR REFUSED NAVY RANK

GLOUCESTER, Mass, May 6 (U. P.) —Capt. Irving Johnson, 35-year-old former South Hadley farm boy who has sailed about 260,000 miles

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and recently returned here after thrice girdling the globe with his schooner Yankee, has been rejected by the Naval Reserve Officers Corps

because he has no college degree, it was learned today.

RAIN AT LAST!

U.S. URGED TO PERSUADE EIRE

Aerial Fighting Heavy From

Belfast to Iraq: Tobruk Front Quiet.

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termed the biggest raid of the war. In the Near East, R. A. F. planes hammered at and silenced some of the artillery with which Iraqi troops had been shelling the British base at Habbaniya and other

British planes swept down on the|

Iraqi at Diwaniya, 80 miles south of Baghdad, to score many direct hits on military buildings. Still other attacks were made on the Iraqi at Falluja For the moment and German intervention, the British appeared to slowly regaining the upper hand in Iraq and apparently were moving their main forces from Basra toward the capital to oust the pro-Axis Government. Native forces apparently were in control of the vital oil fields and reportedly had shut off supplies to the British in the Eastern Mediterranean A dispatch Correspondent

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LONDON, May 6 (U. P).— “We ought to thank God for President Roosevelt every day,” Leslie Hore-Belisha, former British war secretary, asserted today to a cheering House of Commons. Mr. Hore-Belisha was speaking on the seriousness of the British situation. “But it is unfair to him and i] to his country to overstate what is possible,” Hore-Belisha added.

from Albania said that large numbers of Itaiy’s veterans of the Greek war were now being moved out of the Balkans for transport “tc unrevealed sectors in other parts of the world.” The Parliamentary debate on conduct of the war started with Eden's statement in which he blamed the {quick collapse of Jugoslavia on the {former Regent, Prince Paul, who co-operated with Berlin, and said that the Greek campaign was necessary to carry out Britain's pledges.

Calls it ‘War of Cause’

Britons never would again be able to “hold up our heads” if support had not been given to Greece, Eden remarked amid cheers. He said that Greece was prepared to fight alone if Britain had refused aid and that the Allies were fighting a “war

of cause” in which they could not] ; : : again, causing some casualties, and

refuse to aid the foes of totalitarianism, Lord Moyne, Government leader in Lords, declared that the B. E. F. rescued from Greece had been completely reequipped in Egypt. The “ever-increasing” American aid, Lord Moyne said, would mean that more and more supplies could be sent to the Middle East. Government spokesmen put the total British casualties in the “Eastern” war theater at not more than 11,500, but said that the Italian losses in Africa were 380.000, including 200,000 prisoners. ’

Mannheim Heavily Bombed

Mannheim was the center of R.

A. F. Rhineland action last night,

but other objectives in Frankfort-on-Main and Heidelberg were bombed. Secondary R. A. F. attacks] were directed at Bouglogne, Cherbourg, St. Nazaire and Stavanger. | Berlin admitted the scope of the British raids, reporting that the R. A. F. was over a number of points of southern and southwest Germany, including “health resorts.” The chief German target last night was Glasgow where heavy damage was caused in a long intensive attack. Liverpool was smashed | for the fifth successive night and] Belfast was attacked for the second consecutive night. British night fighters, taking advantage of the excellent visibility, substantial number of

German airports in northern France where they caught some Nazi bombers returning home from the attack. The official figure on Nazi planes brought down was eight, bringing the total for three nights to 31.

when two German squadrons of | Messerschmitt 109s swooped down | on the southeast coast and attacked Dover and an R. A. F. base a |short distance inland which was not identified by the British cen{sorship. R. A. F. fighters engaged the Germans and fought them all the | way back to the French coast.

Prince Abdul May Return British reports indicated that the Iraq situation is still confusing al- | though British superiority in the air and superiority of equipment may be beginning to make itself felt against the inferior Iraq arms, The besieged R. A. F. garrison at Habbaniya continued to hold out and was reported to have been reinforced by troops from Basra. The British were said to be contemplating setting up Prince Abdul Illah, ousted regent, as head of a rival | Iraq Government at Basra. | Offers by Turkey and Egypt to | mediate the conflict were rejected by the British although it was said that London might accept the Egyptian offer if Iraq agreed to cease fighting. Iraq took a similar attitude and was said to be willing to allow mediation only if the British evacuated the country first. British worries were centered chiefly on Syria which was regarded as the most likely point for entry of German reinforcements for the Iraq regime. Reports from Budapest claimed that Germany had negotiated an understanding with Syria whereby German planes would be allowed to fly over that country en route to Iraq. Budapest also heard that the British had bombed Baghdad

that the Iraqi Premier, Raschid Ali Beg Gailani had ordered general mobilization and called up all reserves. Berlin understood that all oi! sources in Iraq were now in Iraqi hands and that the Iraqi are preparing to resume diplomatic relations with Genmnany, suspended at the outbreak of the war.

British Take Initiative In North Africa the British reported that land operations by Axis forces against Tobruk had come to a temporary halt although divebomber attacks continue. Rome admitted that the British had taken the initiative in patrol activity around Solum but claimed | the British had been repulsed with | heavy losses in counter-attacks at|

The air war resumed this morning

occupied six Greek islands of the Cyclades group, lying between the | Greek mainland and the Italian Dodecanese group. The Germans reported new

heavy attacks on British shipping. A 10,000-ton British cruiser was said to have been severely damaged in an air attack on Suda Bay, Crete, in which a tanker was sunk and another damaged. An 8000-ton freighter was said to have been sunk off Great Yarmouth. A 2000ton patrol boat was reported sunk and an 1800-ton vessel damaged by air attack in British Isles waters. The Nazi High Command said German troops have occupied the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios, of the Turkish coast. Moscow reported that Josef Stalin had made another of his rarely reported speeches, again emphasizing

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NEW YORK, May 6 (U. P). — Playwright Robert E. Sherwood has won his third Pulitzer drama prize. Mr. Sherwood, who won the $1000 award in 1936 for “Idiot's Delight” and in 1939 for “Abe Lincoln in Illinos,” was honored again yesterday when the trustees of Columbia University, in charge of the Pulitzer fund, gave him this year’s prize for “There Shall Be No Night.” For the first time since 1920, no award was made in the category of “distinguished novel published during the year by an American author.” No explanation was given for the omission.

Edwards Biography Chosen

“The Atlantic Migration,” by Marcus Lee Hansen, was awarded the $1000 prize “for a distinguished book of the year on the history of the United States.” Mr. Hansen died May 11, 1938, after having finished one book of a projected trilogy on American immigration. The $1000 prize for a distinguished American biography was awarded to “Jonathan Edwards” by Ola Elizabeth Winslow, and a prize of the same amount “for a distinguished volume of verse” went to “Sunderland Capture,” by Leonard Bacon. Among prizes to newspapers and newspapermen, chief attention was given to Westbrook Pegler of the Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers, who was cited as a “distinguished example of the reporter's work during the year.” He was honored for “strict accuracy and terseness,” particularly in the articles on labor union scandals. Smoke Campaign Cited The New York Times received a special citation “for the public educational values of its foreign news reporters.”

Robert E. Sherwood

most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year” went to the St. Louis, Mo, Post-Dispatch for its “successful | campaign against the city's smoke nuisance.” Cartoonist Jacob Burck of the Chicago Times was awarded the $500 prize for the year’s best cartoon. The committee cited him specifically for a drawing published June 2, 1940, and entitled “If I Should Die Before I Wake”; it showed a child praying in a bombwrecked home as planes roared overhead. Reuben Maury of the New York Daily News won the $500 prize for

The $500 gold medal for “the

distinguished editorial writing,

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president of the Building Service Employees International Union, and had him indicted on a charge of extorting $100,000 from New York Hotels and contracting firms. “I've been Peglerized,” moaned Scalise as he resigned from his union

Started Young

He was just one of many in high| places who have felt the Pegler!

sands of friends the country over, knew at a very tender age that he wanted to be a newspaper reporter. His father, Arthur Pegler, was a

porter for the Hearst newspapers, | and, like other fathers in the profession, warned his son repeatedly | to keep away from it. But, after he would leave for his | day's chores from their home in Chicago, young Pegler would scour through the drawer of the table at home where the elder Pegler kept his reporter's badge—a brass badge with red enamel letters that admitted the wearer through fire lines. Occasionally, his father would forget it. The son would pin it across his chest and admire himself in the mirror,

Young Pegler got an early start at breaking in upon the citadels of

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He was helping his father, who was covering the trial of John Chrank, who shot Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee during the 1912 campaign. He had to go into the court room after the session began. Never having been in a court before he knocked timidly on the closed door. Nothing happened. Then he kicked on the door—and plenty. Those inside thought the jury was returning and the aisles were cleared. The door was opened. Young Pegler sauntered down the aisle, The judge threatened him with contempt. He asked an explanation, “I just had to get in, judge,” the young man explained, adding, “I guess I'm just dumb.” Pegler worked for the United Press at various bureaus in the country, including New York. He was sent off to London and while there the war turned up. His father was born in England, but the son was just an American in King Arthur’s cour. Checked Cap at Palace

One day he showed up for an affair at Buckingham Palace in his regular suit and a checked cap, instead of the topper and tails that the other journalists wore in the presence of the King and Queen. He was the sort of fellow who would ask embarrassing questions, trying to tear through the veil of propaganda of those days. Soon after he was assigned to cover press

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removed at the request of the British officer.

FAIR TOMORROW,

First Fall Since April 20 Beneficial to Central Indiana Farmers.

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earth, endangered the winter wheat and lowered the water tahle through-

out the State. Edmond Foust, editor of the Hoosier Farmer, official publication of the Indiana Farm Bureau, said the ideal situation would be for the present rain to continue a couple of days to moisten the ground for corn planting followed by a letup for a few days to permit the corn to be planted. “This rain is worth millions of dollars to the farmers of Indiana,” Mr, Foust said. “The dry weather has prevented the planting of corn in many cases, although some farmers have gone ahead and worked their ground. “A long siege of rain right now might delay the planting still further. But we should have a long rainy season soon to raise the water table and moisten the deep soil.” The way the State has been] parched over a period of nearly two years is shown by a Weather Bureau chart which reveals a total | deficiency of rainfall estimated at more than 19 inches, This pro-| tracted dry spell, rather than the immediate drought, is responsible for the drying up of streams and] many wells throughout the State. Here is the chart showing the] deficiency or excess of rainfall since | August, 1939: —1039—

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He got into trouble with the censorship and with Admiral Sims! over a couple of stories, one about American and British sailors brawling at Queenstown, when everything was supposed to be so lovely, and another over a story about the| sinking of a German submarine, | news of which was not supposed to, be published.

First A. E. F,, Then Navy

Sent off to France to cover operations of the A. E. F, he complained in a letter to Roy Howard, | then president of United Press,! about the way newspapermen had been left out of a trip to the front when the first American troops were sent into the line. The letter was seized by the censors and Pegler was ejected from the American press corps. Then he joined the Navy, himself. He returned to the United States and to the United Press to become a sports reporter. His debunking stories about the great figures of sport won him a national audience, and led in time to the column he! now has been writing for several years.

His Praise Is Rare

But, as a columnist, he has refused to become an ivory tower inmate. He looks upon the American scene from the viewpoint of the average guy and keeps moving about among the species. He never went beyond high school, but he has developed a prose style peculiarly his own which is studied in the colleges. He writes in praise of practically nothing. Yet as a human being he is a lovable fellow and secretly and quietly he shares of his substance with the down-and-out and unfortunate. Only the other day he was rather taking the state of Arizona apart. And he thought perhaps he shouldn't say it. “I guess I won't tear this up, after all,” he concluded. “Maybe I will even run on some more, although it is nervous going, because some of the locals are sure to feel bitten on the hand if I don't say something real nice about hereabouts, with no discount whatever

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‘GET TOUGH,’ PEPPER DEMANDS OF NATION

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cause “the Administration and | Congress has not dared to face the issue squarely and squarely decide nr A suggestion to abandon “all| these neutrality frills” and hence=| forth to send American ships) wherever international law permits. | If Axis submarines interfere, he

said, “blow them out of the water as fast as we can.’ A demand that the United States | “quit twaddling and dodging and | cringing or trying to buy peace| with appeasement.” Senator Pepper is one of the most ardent supporters of the Administration’s foreign policy and has acted as Congressional spokesman | on many issues in advance of Ad-| ministration moves. | The Pepper speech was one of! the most belligerent made in Congress in recent weeks. It came against a background of increasing demands for naval convoys for supplies to Britain, Shipping aid for Britain will be the subject of debate in the House today when the bill authorizing requisitioning and paying for all idle foreign ships, including Italian and German, in this country is scheduled to be passed. Administration leaders were confident of sufficient strength to beat down all restrictive amendments. The major House test probably will come on an amendment to pro-| hibit transfer of the 100 odd ships|

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