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When Joseph Pulitzer's great New York World fell into the hands of Scripps-Howard two years ago to be merged into the New York World-Telegram, the new owners had to reckon with the resentment that is directed at anyone who has a hand in scrapping a respected newspaper. As defense against the charge of "Munseyism"* Publisher Roy Wilson Howard declaimed: "The consolidation means not the death of the New York World but its rebirth." Last week Scripps-Howard could point with pride to evidence of its sincerity. The World-Telegram was awarded the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for "the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during the year." The public service prize (gold medal costing $500) was won not by a single exploit but by a medley of campaigns pushed by the World-Telegram last year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman; an expose of the lottery schemes of the Eagles and Moose lodges which led to Federal prosecution (TIME. Aug. 29 et seq.) by Reporter Winston Murrill; urging New York City voters to write-in the name of upstanding Joseph V. McKee for Mayor, after Tammany had rejected his candidacy. The McKee campaign resulted in 242,026 write-in votes. It was directed personally by Publisher Howard and Editor Lee Wood. Other Pulitzer prizes announced last week: Best Foreign Correspondence — to Edgar Ansel Mowrer. Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, $500 for coverage and interpretation of the political crises in Germany, especially the rise of Hitlerism. Thick-mopped, pince-nezed Reporter Mowrer, 41, is younger brother of the even more distinguished Paul Scott Mowrer, chief of the Daily News's foreign service. Brother Paul got the Pulitzer prize in 1928 for his weekly reviews of European politics, cabled from Paris. Brother Edgar is president of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, a position from which the Nazis lately tried and failed to oust him because they disliked his book— Germany Puts the Clock Back (TIME, April 17). Best Editorial—to the Kansas City Star, $500 for a series ''on national and international subjects ... an editorial educa- tional campaign which exerted wide influence in the Mississippi Valley." Best Reporting—to Francis A. Jamieson. New Jersey correspondent of The Associated Press, $1,000 for able coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping story. Newshawk Jamieson was closely acquainted with New Jersey's Governor Arthur Harry Moore, an advantage which he wisely pressed and which led to his getting a half-hour "beat" on the story's climax— the discovery of Baby Lindbergh's body. Best Cartoon—to Harold Morton Talburt of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News, $500 for his cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty— Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws editorials and is called a cartoonist." The 1932 Pulitzer Prize for books on U. S. themes: