Word: pettus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliberate Reloading. Last week he almost met his equal-but not quite. He went to the town of Pettus on a tip that two bum-check suspects might be going that way. They were. Vail got them in front of Houston Prewet's filling station, handcuffed them and pushed them into the station office while he made a phone call. One of them whipped a .38 revolver from a shoulder holster and put four slugs in Vail. That was his mistake...
...staff of the Pacific Stars and Stripes had been fighting its own little war-mostly against its superior officers. In January the G.I.s publicly accused the "brass" of trying to muzzle their Tokyo daily. A month later Sergeant Kenneth Pettus, the managing editor, and Corporal Barnard Rubin, the star columnist, were fired from.the paper, ordered to Okinawa for reassignment. Explained an officer: the two had flunked a "loyalty check...
That made the staff even madder; they scribbled out a protest direct to General Douglas MacArthur. Last week MacArthur's inspector general, Colonel E. J. Dwan, answered them. Said he: "There is abundance of evidence that reflects adversely on the 'discretion and integrity' of [Pettus and Rubin]. It is evidenced that each has held membership in the . . . Communist Party and has at times flavored his public writings with Communistic thought...
...Pettus said he never had been a Communist. Rubin said he had, but quit before he was inducted. Their staff seemed to be with them: seven Stars and Stripers immediately asked to be reassigned...
...colonel's eagles over to another woman. Then she embraced her staff, patted her carefully coiffed, blue-tinted hair and, moist-eyed, departed. Awaiting her in Houston, Tex., were her collection of Georgian silver and rare books, her private life with her two children and husband William Pettus Hobby, 67, the executive position she had left on her husband's Houston Post. Her reason for resigning: "My mission . . . has been completed." The strength of the WAC stood at 100,000; WACs were serving capably around the world...