NEW YORK, May 7 (AP) — Royce Brier of the San Francisco Chronicle today was awarded the Pulitzer prize of $1000 for the most distinguished example of a reporter’s work during 1933 in his dramatic account of the lynching of the Hart kidnapers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond at San Jose.

Brier worked continuously for 16 hours in covering the lynching for his newspaper. Blinded by tear gas, menaced by flying bricks and manhandled by the mob which dragged the slayers of young Brooke L. Hart from the Santa Clara County Jail, Brier and four assistants telephoned a running story from a garage across the street.

The mob threatened to “string up newspaper men alongside the kidnapers,” but Brier mingled with the crowd and obtained the details.

At 12:30 a.m. on the morning of November 27, 1933, after many strenuous hours of effort in covering the developing story, he went to a telegraph office and in three hours wrote the comprehensive dramatic account which won him the honor.

Brier, together with other Pulitzer prize winners, received his award at a banquet at the Men’s Faculty Club of Columbia University here tonight.

The complete list of winners follows:

For the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American newspaper during 1933, a gold medal, costing $500: The Medford, Or., Mail Tribune for its campaign against unscrupulous politicians.

For distinguished service as a foreign or Washington correspondent during 1933, $500: Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times.

For distinguished editorial writing during the year, limited to the editorial page, $500: “Where Is Our Money?” by E. P. Chase, published in the Atlantic, Iowa, News Telegraph.

For a distinguished example of a reporter’s work during the year, $1000: Royce Brier of the San Francisco Chronicle for his account of the lynching of the kidnapers, John M. Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond.

For a distinguished example of a cartoonist’s work, $500: Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun for his cartoon “California Points With Pride–!”

For the best novel published by an American author, $1000: “Lamb in His Bosom,” by Caroline Miller of Baxley, Ga.

For an original American play, performed in New York, which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage, $1000: “Men in White,” by Sidney Kingsley of New York.

For the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, $2000: “The People’s Choice,” by Herbert Agar, now in London, England.

For the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people, $1000: “John Hay,” by Tyler Bennett, a professor at Princeton University.

For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, $1000: Robert Hillyear, a professor at Radcliffe College.

Three traveling scholarships, valued at $1500 each, to graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism, to enable them to spend a year of study in Europe, were awarded to: Betty Turner of Oakland, Cal,; Fred Gruin of North Bergen, N.J., and Harold A. Bezazian of Chicago.

Percival Price of Ottawa, Canada, was awarded the annual $1500 scholarship to the student of music who “may be deemed the most talented and deserving.”

The $1500 annual art scholarship to an American student was won by Cathal O’Toole of Long Island City, New York.