The Pittsburgh Press (April 16, 1944)
Hoosiers acclaim writer Ernie Pyle
New York (UP) – (April 15)
Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard war correspondent and columnist, has been designated the outstanding Hoosier of 1943 by the Sons of Indiana of New York and will be awarded a scroll of honor, in absentia, at the club’s annual reunion May 5, B. K. Moffitt, president of the organization, announced today.
Mr. Pyle, a native of Dana, Indiana, attended Indiana University and began his newspaper career in that state. Previous winners of the outstanding Hoosier award have been Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Joe Cook, Wendell Willkie and Elmer Davis.