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Show Library of Congress Bans Further Literature Awards WASHINGTON. Congress has moved to avoid disputes such as that over the Ezra Pound poetry prize by ordering the Library of Congress not to hand out any more literary awards. Chairman Theodore Green (D., R.I.) who announced the decree, de-cree, said his joint senate-house library committee would not investigate inves-tigate the Pound award, as had been demanded by a group of house members, but added that there would be no more such awards. The now insane Pound, who is under indictment for war-time treason, trea-son, received the $1,000 Bollingen poetry prize for his "Pisan Cantos," which he wrote while held in a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy for broadcasting for Mussolini. Librarian Luther H. Evans announced an-nounced later that he is canceling all prizes and awards. Besides the Bollingen award, the Library had given the Elizabeth Sprague Cool-idge Cool-idge medal for "eminent services to chamber music," and three awards in connection with the annual an-nual exhibition of prints. . |