George Weller of the Chicago Daily News
For his graphic story of how a U.S. Navy Pharmacist's Mate under enemy waters in a submarine performed an operation for appendicitis saving a sailor's life.
The Jury
The Jury
Roscoe Ellard(Chair)
Vance Packard
Richard L. Tobin
Winners in Reporting
Stanton Delaplane of the San Francisco Chronicle
For his articles on the movement of several California and Oregon counties to secede to form a forty-ninth state.
Westbrook Pegler of the New York World-Telegram
For his articles on scandals in the ranks of organized labor, which led to the exposure and conviction of George Scalise, a labor racketeer.
S. Burton Heath of the New York World-Telegram
For his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
Thomas Lunsford Stokes of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
For his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram.
1943 Prize Winners
Hanson W. Baldwin of The New York Times
For his report of his wartime tour of the Southwest Pacific.
Jay Norwood Darling of The Des Moines Register & Tribune
For "What a Place For a Waste Paper Salvage Campaign."