ring in all lengths with characters of the clean, wholesome, not the rough-neck type; and for North-West Stories, a Northern and a Western serial, each of 40,000 to 60,000 words. HALE, CUSHMAN & FLINT-Statler Building, 20 Providence Street, Boston, Mass., a new firm, plan to publish a general list and are interested in seeing well-written, booklength manuscripts of fiction, travel, biography, history, poetry, etc. IVAN BLOOM HARDIN COMPANY-3806 Cottage Grove Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa, do no play publishing whatever, but are always in the market for clever short stories, either humorous or dramatic, suitable for readings. They should be from ten to fifteen minutes in reading length. JAPM-107 So. Mansfield Ave., Margate, ЈАРМ Atlantic City, N. J., whose curious title stands for Just-Another-Poetry-Magazine, is the new poetry weekly edited by Benjamin Musser, also chief editor of Contemporary Verse. The latter is issued from the same address, and will become a monthly again with the January, 1929 number. Poems will be considered as submitted to both magazines, unless otherwise designated. LOVE AFFAIRS-Fawcett Publications, Robbinsdale, Minn., offers one of the increasing numbers of markets for short short-stories, asking for one-page love stories with a twist to the plot. MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE-280 Broadway, New York, wants the "best fiction available in the wide field of romance and adventure," which may be taken to include "any dramatic situation in our complex civilization." THE NEW YORK WORLD-Cornelia Strassburg, Fiction Editor, New York City, uses one 3,000-word story each Sunday with a love interest and a deftly turned plot, paying a minimum rate of $100 for first rights on U. S. and Canadian newspaper publication, including syndicate rights. RUST CRAFT PUBLISHERS, INC.-1000 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., are asking for brief, catchy, humorous prose sentiments suitable for birthday, illness, Christmas, and New Year's cards. For short sentiments, the rate of payment is two dollars, the same price as for a four-line verse. SCIENCE AND INVENTION-230 Fifth Avenue, New York, wants radio articles of a constructional nature. SECRETS-104 West Forty-second Street, New York, is in the market for confessional and third person stories from three to five thousand words in length, novelettes of seven thousand words, and two-part stories of 5,000 words to the first part and 4,000 to the second. Surprising to relate, a "good old-fashioned moral" is desired. Orphan Annie, neglected wife, mother-love, father-love, brother-love, and sister-love are suggested as profitable themes for Secrets stories. A cent and a half per word is paid promptly on publication. SPARE-TIME MONEY MAKING-22 E. 12th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, is in immediate need of articles concerning new, novel, and ingenious methods of making money in one's spare time. Payment for accepted articles is made shortly before publication at the rate of one half to one cent a word. WETMORE DECLAMATION BUREAU-1304 South Newton Avenue, Sioux City, Iowa, will be glad to consider material for dramatic readings; such as, humorous stories, monologues, poems, and short skits or brief plays for two or more characters, fifteen to twenty minutes in length. Prize Offers and Awards CHATTO & WINDUS, PUBLISHERS-97 and 99 St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.2, England, announce a competition for historical novels in which American and Canadian writers may compete. The novel may be concerned with any nationality, and any period prior to 1850. Actual "historical" characters may be used, but such use is not obligatory. The first prize will consist of an advance payment, payable on the date of publication, of £300 on account of a royalty of 20% of the publishing price of the first ten thousand copies sold, and 25% on all copies thereafter; the second prize will consist of an advance of £150 on account of royalty of 15% on the first five thousand copies sold, and 20% thereafter. The minimum length of the novel should be 65,000 words. The closing date of the contest will be May 31, 1929. The judges will be E. M. Forster, author of "A Passage to India," Prof. George Gordon of Oxford, and R. H. Mottram, author of "The Spanish Trilogy." DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY - Garden THE FRANCIS BACON AWARD-c/o Simon & sored by these publishers and the Forum, has been postponed for a year, to April 15, 1929. The award of $7,500 and a special medal is to encourage the production of books which "carry on the conscious adventure of humanizing knowledge," that is, which clarify and humanize specialized knowledge. THE MARK TWAIN ASSOCIATION Mrs. Ida Benfey Judd, 1 West 69th St., New York, offers a prize of $50 for the ten best quotations from Mark Twain's works, the total number of words in the ten quotations not to exceed three hundred. Quotations on the Mark Twain calendar for 1926 may not be included. Contest closes October 1. LISHERS THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOOK PUB-25 West 33d St., New York, offers two sets of prizes to stimulate interest in summer camp libraries: prizes of $25 and $10 for the best essays by campers who are Girl Scouts, on "What our camp library has meant to us," with a photograph of the library; and similar prizes for essays on the same subject for campers who are Camp Fire Girls. Only one entry may be made from each camp. The contest closes at midnight, Aug. 31. The Girl Scout prize winners will be announced in the October American Girl, and the Camp Fire winners in their magazine, Everygirl's. PRIZE STORY MAGAZINE - 33 West 60th St., New York, offers three sets of prizes in their August number: (1) $1,000 in prizes of $500, $200, $100, 4 of $25, 5 of $10, and 10 of $5 for the best letters from readers, in not over 200 words, on the story in the August number considered most interesting, this contest closing Aug. 10; (2) $1,000 in prizes of $500, $150, $75, $50, $25, 10 of $10, 20 of $5 for the best solutions of the mystery story, "The Purple Dagger," received by Sept. 25; and (3) $1,000 in prizes of $500, $250, $150, and $100 to authors of the stories in the August number receiving most votes from readers, this contest also closing August 10. SCIENCE AND INVENTION-230 Fifth Ave., New York, will pay $10 for "Hints for the Mechanic," pictures and descriptions of devices for mechanics in general, and $5 for "Phoney Inventions," mirth-producing devices with unexpected results. THE SCOTLAND YARD PRIZE CONTEST Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, N. Y., will be continued to Oct. 31, in order to give contestants more time to prepare material. This $2,500 prize is offered for a book-length MS. of a mystery or detective story. THE STRATFORD MAGAZINE-289 Congress St., Boston, Mass., will award a prize of $100 for the best poem submitted to the editors by October 1. SUNSHINE-P. O. Box 1439, Honolulu, Hawaii, U. S. A., a new magazine, offers prizes of $25, $10, and $5, and $1 for each contribution published, for the best lies, suggesting Baron Munchausen as an example of an excellent liar. Contest closes Sept. 30. THE YALE SERIES OF YOUNGER POETS Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., is open to American writers under thirty who have not previously published a volume of verse. Competitions are held twice each year, closing May 1 and November 1. The best MS. is published at the expense of the Yale University Press, the author receiving the usual 10% royalty. Each volume contains 50-75 pages, with one poem to a page. The Bookman prize of $100 for the best news story for April was awarded to W. A. S. Douglas of the Washington Bureau of the Baltimore Sun for his report of the burial of Floyd Bennett. The selection was made by Caspar Yost, editor of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The judges in the recent Cowboy Stories short-story contest for prizes of $2,500, $1,000, and $500 were unnecessarily harassed in coming to their decision, for when the sealed envelopes were opened, the same au thor was found to have won both first and second place. The choice between the two stories was so close that one judge had split his vote for first prize, giving a half vote to each of the two winners, "Shod Hoofs" and "On Circle," both by Stephen Payne. "Purple Loco" by Francis W. Hilton won third prize. The prize of $1,000, offered by Reilly and Lee of Chicago for the best title for Edgar Guest's new book of verse, has been won by Rev. Merton S. Rice of Detroit for the title, "Harbor Lights of Home." PRIZE OFFERS STILL OPEN: THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION - 1140 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. The Justin Winsor prize ($200) in American history, offered in even years, the Herbert Baxter Adams prize ($200) in the history of the Eastern Hemisphere, offered in odd years, and the annual George Louis Beer prize ($250) for the best work upon any phase of European international history since 1895. Contests close April 1 of each year. MSS. should be sent to the Secretary of the Association. Details, Jan. WRITER. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE - 250 Park Avenue, New York. $30, $20, and $10 monthly for letters on assigned topics. Contests close the 20th of each month. AMERICAN POETRY MAGAZINE Wauwatosa, Wis. $25 for the best poem in each issue. Preference in publication to members of Amer. Lit. Assoc. See June WRITER. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS-8 Arlington St., Boston, Mass. $5,000 for the most interesting biog. raphy or autobiography, submitted before May 1, 1929. See June WRITER. BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE 36 So. State St., Chicago, Ill. Five monthly prizes of $100 each for true stories of real experience in 2,000 words. See June WRITER. THE BOOKMAN 452 Fifth Avenue, New York. $100 monthly for the best printed news story in the opinion of the juror for that month. Details, Jan. WRITER. BOZART - Box 67, Sta. E., Atlanta, Ga. $25 for the best rhymed lyric of 8-12 lines published in Bozart during 1928. Details, March WRITER. CHATTANOOGA WRITERS' CLUB. $20 for the best nature poem, not over 36 lines, by any one, and $10 for the best by a Southerner. Closes Nov. 1. Address Miss Martha G. Barnett, Chairman, c/o The Chattanooga News, Chattanooga, Tenn. See July WRITER. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO. $2,500 plus book royalties for the best religious novel submitted before Oct. 1 to Religious Novel Contest, Christian Herald, Bible House, New York. Details, May WRITER. COLLIER'S-250 Park Ave., New York. $5 each for Nameographs (drawings made from the letters of a word, illustrating the word) and a gold pocket-piece for 4-5 line jingles on golf. See June WRITER. CONTEMPORARY VERSE 107 So. Mansfield Ave., Margate, Atlantic City, N. J. Encouragement Prize of $5 for the best poem submitted each month by a poet who has not yet appeared in a magazine of national circulation. Details, March WRITER. COSMOPOLITAN CAMP DEPARTMENT 57th St. at 8th Ave.. New York. $300 and $100 for the best 400word essays by parents on "How Camping Has Benefited My Boy or Girl." Closes Nov. 1. Use special blank from above address. See July WRITER. DODD, MEAD & CO. $5,000 plus serial and motion picture rights for the best novel by a U. S. or Canadian author who has not had a novel published before. Closes Dec. 1. Blank to accompany each MS. from Curtis Brown, Ltd., 116 W. 39th St., New York. Details, May WRITER. DRAMA LEAGUE-LONGMANS, GREEN PLAY CONTEST. Publication by Longmans, Green and advance royalty of $500 for a full-length play, $250 for a Biblical play, and $125 for a one-act play plus 50% of royalties from amateur production. Productions, also, by professional groups, if plays meet requirements. Closing date, Sept. 1, 1928. Biblical plays to Drama League of America, 59 E. Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill. Others to State Centers of authors, of which list may be obtained from the Drama League, (see above) or Longmans, Green & Co., 55 Fifth Ave., New York. Details, April WRITER. DREYFUSS ART CO., INC. 137 Varick St., N. Y. Bonuses of $25, $20, $15, $10, and $5 for the Christmas, Valentine, Easter, and Every Day sentiments selling best during the year following publication. Details, June, 1927, WRITER. FORGE - 5746 Dorchester Ave., Chicago, Ill. Devoted mainly to poetry. Annual prizes of $100 and $25. See June WRITER. THE FORUM-441 Lexington Avenue, New York. $5 each for definitions printed in the definition contests closing the 25th of each month. THE FORUM - First Short Story Editor, 441 Lexington Ave., New York, is featuring first short stories at regular space rates. See April WRITER. GRAHAM-PAIGE LEGION - Detroit, Mich. $1,000 and 10 prizes of $100 each for the best dramatizations by college students of the ideals and purposes of the Graham-Paige Legion. Closes Sept. 1. See July WRITER. GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS - Henry A. Moe, Sec., Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2300 Pershing Sq. Bldg., New York. Fellowships of $2,500 for research or creative work abroad. Applications by Nov. 15. See July WRITER. - HARPER & BROTHERS 49 E. 33d St., New York. $10,000 prize novel competition, open to American authors who have not published a novel prior to Jan. 1, 1919. Closes Feb. 1, 1929. See June WRITER. HARPER & BROTHERS AND THE AMERICAN GIRL. $2,000 plus book royalties for the best book of fiction for girls. Closes Dec. 1. Address Contest Editor, Harper & Brothers, 49 E. 33d St., New York. See May WRITER. LITTLE, BROWN & CO. -34 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. $2,500 plus royalties for the best book-length MS. on American history. Contest closes Oct. 1. Details, Feb. WRITER. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. Contest Editor, Children's Book Dept., 55 Fifth Ave., New York. $2,000 plus royalties of 10% for the best book MS. for boys or girls from 12 to 16. Closes Dec. 31. See July WRITER. LYRIC-1401 Stockley Gardens, Norfolk, Va. $25 for best poem in issues for 1928. See June WRITER. MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS' FEDERATION SONG Contest 15 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. $50 each for words and music for a Mass. State song. Words by Sept. 25; music for words selected, by Jan. 25. See July WRITER. MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW FUND Prof. Grover C. Grismore, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. $500 and $250 for best essays on "American Institutions" submitted before Oct. 1. See June WRITER. NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS Dansville, N. Y. Two series of prizes - $300, $150, $100, and $50 in each to teachers, principals, etc. for stories of travel experiences during the summer of 1928. Contest closes Oct. 15. Details, March WRITER. PHELAN PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST - Mrs. F. H. Colburn, 757 Sutter St., Apt. 305, San Francisco, Calif. $1,000 and $500 for essays interpreting California history from 1850 to 1905. Closes Nov. 15. See June WRITER. PALMS-Aberdeen, Wash. $1,000 for best poem by a subscriber published in Palms, Oct. 1928-March, 1929. $50 for best poem by poet who has not yet published a book in Palms, Oct. 1928-March, 1930. $25 for best poem in Palms, Nov. 1928. $25 for best poem in Palms, Feb. 1929. $100 for best poem in Palms, March, 1929. See June WRITER. THE POET AND PHILOSOPHER MAGAZINE — 236 West 55th St., New York. $500 for the best dramatic poem, not exceeding 5,000 words, on the subject of Washington. Time and place, a crisis in the American Revolution. Contest closes September 1. Details, March WRITER. POETRY-232 East Erie St., Chicago, Ill. Levinson Prize of $200, John Reed Memorial Prize of $100, Guarantor's Prize of $100, Young Poet's Prize of $100, to be awarded for poems appearing in Poetry during the year; three prizes of $100 each, conditions not yet specified; Award of Honor of $500 to some American poet of high distinction or distinguished promise. Prizes to be awarded in November. POETRY REVIEW - Mrs. Alice H. Bartlett, AmerEditor, 299 Park Ave., New York. $50, $25, $15, $10 for poem about flying achievements, by a subscriber, contest closing Oct. 1. $100 for "poems packed with thought," by any one, contest closing Oct. 15. See June WRITER. POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHY -250 Fifth Ave., New York. $10 monthly prize plus space rates for "Kinks that will Help your Car." See April WRITER. PULITZER PRIZES IN LETTERS offered by the Columbia University School of Journalism. $1,000 for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood; $1,000 for the original American play, performed in New York, which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standard of good morals, good taste, and good manners; $2,000 for the best book of the year on the history of the United States; $1,000 for the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish service to the people, illustrated by an eminent example; $1,000 for the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author. Also, prizes in journalism, amounting to $3,000 and a $500 medal, and three traveling scholarships having a value of $1,500 All offered annually under the terms of the will of Joseph Pulitzer. Nominations of candidates must be made in writing on or before February 1 of each year, addressed to the Secretary of Columbia University, New York, on forms that may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the University. each. RADIO BROADCAST Garden City, N. Y. $10 monthly prize for experiences in using radio apparatus for department, "Our Readers Suggest." Address Com plete Set Editor. See April WRITER. RUGGLES & BRAINARD - Graybar Bldg., New York. $1,000 each for ideas for advertising campaigns in color for products for men. See June WRITER. SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE-25 West 45th St., New York. Bi-weekly prize of $15 for the best contribution on an assigned subject to the department called "The Wits' Weekly". Consult the current issue for the subject. The essence of the Plot-boiler is the new turn to a character or event, the swift spark that sets the imagination flying; not, necessarily, the complete plot, for such is rarely to be found in the day's news, or, indeed, in life. One dollar each will be paid for clippings published. None can be returned. Send each pasted on a sheet of paper containing the name and date of the newspaper, and the name and address of the sender. Address "Plotboilers," THE WRITER, 1430 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts. SWIMMER FACES DILEMMA OF SAVING WIFE OR CHILD New York Nels Johnson was faced with one of those ordeals that all men fear; the necessity of saving one of two persons he greatly loved. Johnson, his wife and son Charles, and three friends started late in the afternoon for a row on Silver Lake in Park Summit. About nine o'clock at night Johnson was pulling for shore when about two hundred yards from shore something happened. Just what, Johnson does not know. The boat tipped over. The six occupants were thrown into the water. The boat drifted away and those who attempted to grasp it, failed. In the intensity of the darkness no one seemed to be able to help another. Nels found himself splashing in the darkness, near him his wife and child crying frantically for help. Neither could swim. In the blackness of this little world, Nels made his decision. He felt his wife reaching toward him. He saw through the darkness his son go down once and then come up. He heard their cries. He grabbed one of them. Swiftly he moved to the shore, shouting to the others to come quickly. He heard the splashes of his companion reaching for the loved one he had left behind. After what seemed a decade he reached the shore, and then turned back to get his other loved one. He was too late. It was his son he had saved. His wife sank to the bottom of the lake and her body later was recovered. Buffalo Courier-Express. (Sent by Clarissa M. Bailey, Silver Creek, N. Y.) ADVERTISEMENT IN WASHINGTON EVENING STAR Grandson of Czar Alexander II of Russia seeks immediate employment. Anything within the law. Desperate. French, Russian. Secretary, salesman, gentleman-chauffeur. Go anywhere at living salary. (Sent by Mary F. Anderson, Washington, D. C.) BANDIT ROBS LADY OPERATOR BY TELEGRAM Chicago - Miss Natalie Bartalan got a telegram yesterday advising her that she was being held up and to keep still about it. Miss Bartalan manages a Western Union Telegraph Company branch. She was busy managing it when a man entered, stood at the counter composing a telegram, and then handed it to her. It said: "Office being robbed stop Don't scream stop One cry and you will be shot stop." Cash and checks totaling $273 were taken. Desert News, Provo, Utah. (Sent by Fern Wittwer, Provo, Utah.) FRENCH PHRASE BOOK FAILS Valence, France An American woman traveling toward Paris, seeing from the train window the crash of an airplane in the distance, pulled the alarm and stopped the express. Gesticulating, she attempted to explain her motive. She was about to be arrested on charge of violating the railway regulations when the guards noticed the plane. Several passengers went to the rescue of the pilot. The American woman was warmly thanked. Her French phrase book apparently neglected this important situation. - Boston Evening Transcript. (Sent by Carolyn Wentworth, Cambridge, Mass.) re FLUFF ON CLOTHES LEADS TO ARREST OF THREE MEN ON MURDER CHARGE How the discovery of fluff on the clothes of an injured man who afterwards died, led to the arrest of three men on charge of his murder was told at Brighton yesterday when three men were manded, charged with the murder of Mr. Ernest Smith. It was alleged that brown, white, and green fluff was found on Mr. Smith's coat, and later, when the three men sold a motor car, material of the same description was discovered in the cushion packing and on the floor mats. — London Daily Sketch. (Sent by Gerald Franklin, Hampshire, England.) TRAMP PREVENTS WRECK OF FLYER, THEN VANISHES Sioux City A heavily loaded passenger train on the Milwaukee railroad was saved from certain wreck late last night by an unidentified tramp. As the train sped toward Sioux City on a high grade, the engineer noted a man in the glare of his headlight, several hundred yards ahead, vigorously waving his hands. The train was stopped and it was found that a large section had been broken from one rail by a train that had passed but a few minutes before. |