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San Francisco Chronicle , by George De Carvalho

For his stories of a "ransom racket" extorting money from Chinese in the United States for relations held in Red China.

The Jury

Buren H. McCormick

Walter J. Pfister

Winners in Local Reporting

Edward S. Montgomery

For his series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Meyer Berger

For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J.

Malcolm Johnson

For his series of 24 articles entitled "Crime on the Waterfront" in New York City.

1952 Prize Winners

Max Kase

For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity.

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For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri-a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection.