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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Legion 10 Present
Congress With Broad
Veterans Aid Plan

A comprehensive program to pro-
vide for the security of the more
than 100000 members of the
armed forces after they are mus
tered out of the services will be
submitted to Congress tomorrow by
the American Legion, 1t was an
nounced last night.
The program. described as &c.
I. Bill Of Rights" would provide
muster-out pay, adequate and
prompt care of the disabled, COM
pletion of interrupted schooling,
more liberal unemployment COM
pensation, placement in jobs and
extension of hospital facilities. All
aspects of veterans problems would
be vested in the Veterans Admin
istration.
The committee which prepared the
proposed omnibus legislation was ap-
pointed by Warren H. Anterior,
national Legion commander, and
head by John STEELE, former Gov
ernor of Illinois. Those who served
with him were Francis M. Sullivan,
national legislative director; T. O..
Kraabel, national rehabilitation d.
rector; Bruce Stubblefield, execu-
tive secretary, and DR.. A. N. Baggs,
medical consultant, all of Washing
ton; Carl c. Brown, Arlington, Va,
chief of claims; Robert w. Sisson.
national rehabilitation chairman, and
Sam Rorox, national executive COM
mitteeman, both Of Little Rock, Ark:
Robert McCurdy, Pasadena, Calf,
national rehabilitation vice chair
man; w. Bea Waldrip, Detroit, ma
tional executive committeeman and
Harry w. Colmery, Topeka, Kans.,
past national commander.
Points Outlined.
: Exofficio members are Past Ma
tional Comdr. Louis johnson, Maui
rice Devine, Manchester, N. H., ma
tional legislative chairman, and
Fenlon, Chicago, national
chairman.
Principal points embodied in the
proposals are:
l. Opportunity for education or
vocational training of veterans with
allowances of $50 month for single
men and SIS for married men while
going to school.
2. Muster-out pay according to the
following schedule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Liberotor Blasts Jap Ship
In Southern MorshoIIs

PEARL HARBOR. Jan. 8 (P).-
japanese shipping at Jaluit Atoll OF
the Southern MarshallS was hit
again when "a Navy Liberator
bombed small merchant ship near
labor, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz'
headquarters announced today.
A naval spokesman didn't elabo-
rate on the formal statement except
to say that the ship was chit" in the
raid Thursday.
Army heavy bombers from the 7th
Air Force also resumed their bomb
ing Of Taroa and Wolfe Islands in
the Central Marshalls. The results
of the attacks, made Thursday, were
not disclosed.
No fighter opposition was en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
) Months Time Limit
For Court Appeals Set

The United States Court of Ap-
peals has issued an order increasing
to three months the time in which
an appeal may be taken from final
Judgment in District Court, it was
announced yesterday. Previously the
limit was 80 days
The new rule will apply to appeals
from District Court judgments
handed down on and after JAN
uary Is.
An exception to the new rule viii
be appeals from District Court de.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

tricts and might negotiate the return
of Lwow. Wilno Wilma would re-
main in the Lithuanian area and
Russia would retain other former
Eastern Poland areas, but would
agree to extend the Polish frontiers
westward into present German ter
ritory.
The proposal was reported to rep
resent the utmost concession the
Soviet government was prepared to
make, and was said to have been
made before Russian troops crossed
the line into old Poland this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
conferences in Washington with
Federal officials.
Johnston Presses Prof ect.

conferences in Washington with
Federal officials.
Johnston Presses Project.
Meanwhile, Eric Johnston, presi-
dent of the United States Chamber
of Commerce, last night asked men,
Der bodies to take every necessary
step in helping to find rc-employ-
ment. for returning servicemen. g
Wouapmoach to this prpblem.,,'
hes said, VIII, of course, be in ac-
cordance with your local situation,
which may suggest several methods
OF procedure-a special committee,
participation in your clearing house
committee setup, or other activities.
The point is that all our organization
manpower and brainpower should be
fully utilized to facilitate the re-
employment of our servicemen."
Mr.. Johnston pointed out that the
problem will get down finally to the
ability of individual employers to
provide jobs He suggested that
every employer who can do so make
known to former employees in the
service that a place awaits them
upon their return.
Mr.. Johnston said that muster-out
pay will be helpful" but that what
the returning veteran really wants
Is "a productive job"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

cisions in patent infringement cases.
In the latter, where the District
Court decree is final except for the
ordering Of an accounting, appeals
must be made within 80 days.
The order was issued so Court of
Appeals rules would conform with
the time generally allowed in APP
pealing a final judgment Of other
Federal district courts to circuit
court of appeals, 1t was explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
New Zealand Minister
Returns to U. S. Post

By the Associated Press.
Walter Nash, New Zealand's Min
lister, has returned to this country
after nine-months' visit at home,
the legation announced last night.
Mr.. Nash, a member of the Pa
ciflc War Council and frequently a
spokesman for that organization,
arrived Friday by plane in San
Francisco and was scheduled to
complete his trip to the Capital last
night. He was accompanied by John
Reed, New Zealand government
official.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Perfect 49, at Navy Yard
Gets OPA Aid in Findinq Size

A portly woman war worker in the
Washington Navy Yard, who has
BEEN running short of Stacks, shirts
and coverails to cover her perfect
No. 49, has enlisted the aid of the
District OPA in solving her problems
and buyer was seeking to aid her
in New York yesterday as a result.
Il work in the Washington Navy
Yard" she wrote, land have for the
past IA months. 1t has always been
hard to get Stacks, shirts and cover
alls, but now it is almost impossible.
I wear size No. 48.
Il request the name and address
of a manufacturer who makes or
would make Stacks. shirts or cover
ais in large sizes at reasonable
prices.
L am not the only large woman
in the yard and the business would
benefit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Coast Guard Photo.

The request reached the desk OF
Sherwood Dodge. acting price ex-
'ecutive of the District OPA. He
surveyed the local size No. 4S work
clothes situation and hastily en-
listed the cooperation of the price
control director of a local depart
ment store. He in turn enlisted the
aid OF clothing buyer already in
New York.
II the buyer Is successful, Mr..
Dodge wrote the war worker, he will
communicate with her Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

countered over either of the two air.
fields in contrast with the last raids
there last Sunday when so Zeros
appeared and 10 were shot down..
All of the bombers returned safely
from their latest foray.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Mail Service Marked

With appropriate ceremonies Cuba
recently celebrated the 18th ami
versary of the establishment of its
national airmail service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

the way he and Julie had met She'd come in
looking for job He'd seen her out in the
reception hall getting the brush-off from the
girl at the desk. "Mr. Andersen never sees
anybody without an appointment"
And he never makes an appointment"
Julie had answered.
Ion had heard it as he was waiting for the
elevator and had grinned to himself Then he
got on the elevator and she was standing
beside him, slender blonde with crisp bow
tie and a sweet intelligent face - and nothing
wrong with the rest of her. He saw the damp
ness come to her eyes, saw her hang her head.
Okay. he thought, I'm sucker.
Were you waiting for Tom Andersen"
he asked solicitousiy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

She nodded, yes She didn't trust herself
to speak.
Il happen to know he'll be back at two
thirty Why don't you try him them"
She didn't answer until they got to the
street floor and the elevator door opened.
Il wouldn't waste another nickel on that
stuffed shirt" she said I'll bet he's the
meanest man in town." She hurried out.
He started to laugh. 1t would be good
story to tell at the next meeting with client.
Then he found himself hu1ying after her,
taking her arm Look" he said, I'D like
to buy you lunch"
She was startled, little frightened. Tears
were still in her eyes. And although some
thing in his face treasured her and she smiled,
she was going to refuse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

She began TREMENDOUSLY, Thanks, but 81
I'm Tom Andersen" he said.
She had an envelope under her arm and
during lunch he asked if it was full OF sam
pies of her copy. 1t was slim envelope, but
what there was in it wasn't half bad. 1t really
showed promise. He told her that.
But before lunch was over he was trying
to talk her out of the advertising business.
He said it was full of schemes and intrigue,
tough even for man.
She had an answer that foored him:
Women were used to intrigue, and maybe a
girl could stand it better than men.
He laughed. I'm give you job but
you're nice girl - ought to get married.
They we're married soon after that. She
still wanted to work in the office, and in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

way it was fun to have her there A few
months later he was in uniform. She'd been
working there with Chef Graham ever SINCE.
They got out of the cab, and he let Julie
do the honors about saying good-by to Roy
Holt. He didn't bother to wish Holt good
hunting or tell him to behave himself, or
indulge in any of that retail humor the way
he might have once
He tucked the bundle of layouts under his
arm and led the way to the Office building.
And as Julie followed him to the elevators,
she was making her explanations about that
campaign. 1t seemed the Crown company
really had been worried: you know, about
getting a rehash of last years campaign"
Holt had tipped her off. There was talk of
finding another agency. And the copy he'd
sent her, OH she was sure it would have been
fine campaign, But Tom, it really was kind
of close to the series we ran last year"
When they got off the elevator, he said,
I'm take this stuff around and get it in the
works See you later in my . :. =. IN the office."
He WENT to the space buyer first. 1t wasn't
until he opened the door Of the space-huye1's
Office that he remembered Hank wasn't there
any more, that he was m the Army. There
was a woman sitting at Hanks desk.
woman space buyer. Tom did some quick
thinking. Why not? 1t was war. And why not
anyway? 1t was free country. 1t was one
of the things we were fighting for
I'm Tom Andersen" he said He gave her
the schedule for the new campaign But
somehow he couldn't help feeling that he was
giving it to the space-buyer's secretary.
Then he went to the art department. He
kicked open the door of the Art Directors
Office, grinning, thinking. Sam Costigan -.
and the grin left his face. There was woman.
where's Sam Costigan?" he asked.
There must have been something she didn't
like in the way he asked that question.
Somewhere in submarine. What can do
for you, Bub? I'm kind of busy"
He took deep breath. my name doesn't
happen to be Bub It's Tom Andersen
1t didn't help much when she called him
Lieutenant" and said she'd thought he was
another model, that one had been in this
morning, getting in her hair. He left there
feeling like rooster that had lost fight and
went to Chef Graham's Office.
He asked Chef to stand up minute.
What the gag?" Chef asked, standing up.
mo gag. just wanted to make sure you
were wearing pants" He started to slam the
door but Chef called him back. laughing.
"Chet," he asked, were they jules idea,
those two women?"
Its hard to tell. I'd been going nuts try
ing to get a couple of men half as good as the
two we had, and Julie. But don't kid your
self, Tom. They're doing fine" Then he
added. Il thought you were the guy who was
all for women having equal rights with men,"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23
Rinniinii Falls
During Storm

ROME. Sept % GNS)-Cap-
ture of the Adriatic port city Of
Rimini. eastern anchor of the Ger
men-held Gothic Line, by the AL
lied Eighth Armv was announced
today by headquarters of Gen.
Wilson.
The bresk-through at Rmini
opens the gateway for drive by
Allied forces into the Pc River
valley.
A smash across the plains Of
Lombardy from Rimini will enable
the Allies TO strike forward
against industrial cities in the
north of Italy and toward the
Bremen Pass through the Alps.
The Eighth Army victory was
won during fierce rain and
thunderstorm
Nazi Field arshal Albert
kesselring, showing utter disre-
gard for human life. threw in his
last reserves in a desperate effort
10 avoid development of the
Gothic Line and a crushing defeat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23
..Hu(hoW Falls
To Jap Army

WASHINGTON. Sept % CUP)
President Roosevelt said today
that the Chinese military situation
is not at all satisfactory, but
added that American officials are
working closely with Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek and are
getting along as fast as they can.
CHUNGKING, Sept % (UP)-
The fall Of Huchow 10 a force of
10000 japanese pushing north
west from Canton and Of Jungh-
Sien 10 a column driving north
from the Luichow peninsula in
southern China were announced
today by a Chinese military
spokesman.
The loss of the two towns
Wednesday left a gap of only %
miles between the two Japanese
forces.
North of Kweilin. where the
l4th L. s. Air Force recently
Withdrew after destroying It's base
another japanese force pushing
south 20 effect Juncture that
would cut China in two Was re-
ported stalled 30 TO 40 miles from
the city. ReinfOrcementS were re-
ported being drawn from the right
flank for a center column striking
south along the Hunan-KwangSi
railroad.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23
High School Post
IoNegfo Teacher

The first Negro teacher 70 be
an assistant principal in
Detroithsis1 Mrs Beulah Cain
Brewer, who today assumed her
duties at the fiiggiubotham
School.
Mrs. Brewer is q member OF
Supt. Warren + Bows commit
tee on inter-raclal relations
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23
Wrong Call
Autoisf Picks Policeman
Who's Seeking Him

OF all the people Robert Con-
nelly could have asked about
changing the address on his driv-
ing license, II had TO be Officer
Charles jackson. who for two
months had been seeking HIM with
a warrant
Connolly, Who is - and lives at
1854 Frankfort had been sought
by jackson for an alleged traffic
violation.
He was TO have been sentenced
July IS for an oncnse committed
July 7. On July y, he became in
volved in another accident which
resulted in injuries 10 two girls.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23
Nations Press
EaVOrs Dewey

NEW YORK, Sept. p GNSD-
Gov. Dewey enjoys support OF
$40 per cent of the nations daily
newspapers. representing 63.7 per
cent of the total daily circulation
of the country, survey by Editor
and Publisher revealed. -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23
No New Polio Cases

No new cases of infautiie pa.
ralySis were reported yesterday
Health Commissioner Douglas re
vealed today. This Is the first
such day since the last of June
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-23

TWIN BUTTERFLIES" in
black sequlns on whizzy
back-button rsyon two-piecer
dress. Green, gold. blue. red
and black. Sizes from 9 to Is.
JUNIOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30


that Kentucky feudists losing the fine old
spirit that used to send them charging into battle
over any cause ranging all the way from an
errant wife to a purloined pig.
But any such rash conclusion becomes OBJ
Vously untenabIe in the light of the casualty fig
ures duly certified by the Appellate Court
There's nothing wishy-washy about feud in
which, as the court says, more than 80 persons
have been killed" over period of seven or eight
years. Not to mention the barns burned and the
houses shot into. In their palmiest days. the Hat
fields and McCoys didn't do better than that.
The decision listing the casualties was handed
down by the Appellate Court, sitting in the state
Capitol at Frankfort, as part of an opinion reVers-
ing the lower court conviction OF Ernest Benge,
who charged with burning The barn OF Dense
Philpot, fellow feudist.
But the barnburnng was only minor Incl
dent in the stormy history of this deadly modern
day Kentucky vendetta.
The region where the feud has ragged is
mountainous county in the southeastern section
of the state, adjoining the leRg-faFheus @3ieedy
Brcathitt' County.
The chief feuding families as listed in court
have been, on one side, the Greers, Philpots, Mar
tins, Buttreys Thackers, Hammonds and Bundys;
and on the other side the Benges, Cupps Fraziers,
BTittains, HamptonS and Houses.
OF course this has not excluded relatives and
friends of the main participants. Kentucky feuds
are very social affairs and anybody who is inter
ested always take hand-provided he is
prepared to suffer the consequences.
There's rarely any authentic record of how
feuds start in Kentucky, and this one is no eX-
a few hot words with liberal sprinlling of that
potent elixir sometimes referred to as mountain
dew, but better known locally Sometimes
the dead can be counted on the spot. Sometimes
there is short delay
George Cupp had been in of those argu-
ments. On Saturday afternoon, April II, 1881,
he was ambling slowly on his mule along a trail
beside Little Goose Creek, Petersburg,
little community about eight miles from Man
chester, the county seat of Clay County. Spring
was coming to the Kentucky foothills and George
was communing geniay with nature
From a laurel thicket beside the trail the black
snout of rifle poked its way cautiously between
the leaves. 1t rested steadily for a moment and
then pinged sharply. George Cupp topped 10
the fresh green grass with small hole in his
forehead, almost directly between the eyes. His
mule hestated, turned and then started back up
the trail. There a slight rustic in the laurel
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press the trigger bullet had pierced his brain.
Nerves were taut and trigger fingers were
still twitchng the Saturday afternoon almost a
year later that Ernest Benge dropped in at the
home of his brother-in-law, Monroe Greer, for .
spot OF corn. II was July l, 1899 Monroe sterieis
out TO the yard leaving his wife. his brothay
Steve, and the guest in the cabins main room.
Three visitors arrived-Staney Young Woodrow
Feltner and Dan Cupp. They had hardly stepped
into the room before the shooting started. When
II was over, Young and Feltner were dead
Telling the story at the next session of the
Grand Jury, Ernest said that someone" in the
house fired the fatal shots, adding that someone"
in the yard firing, too. Steve was indicted on
April 10. 1914
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Two years later, to the day, another Benge
brother Charlie was ambushed his way 10
Manchester He fell within rifle shot Of the spot
where Newt had passed in his checks.
Although four of his barns have been burned
down. Bill Benge, the patriarch of the family has
managed 10 keep his skin whole But he had
narrow escape one afternoon. Several friends had
dropped in for nip at the bottle and were sitting
in the Benge living room. Two sounds inter
rupted the revelry. One was the crack of rifle
the nearby mountainside The other the
SCATTERING of glass in a window pane
There was third sound, too the thud of the
body OF Alex Hampton as IL fell to the floor He
had been sitting next 10 hospitable Bill Benge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30

AT the same time, the appellate
Judges called attention TO the fact
that the feuding families weren't
fighting it out entirely with squir-
rel rifles these days. They're bat
Ting in court. too.
Good feudiSts down kentucky
and Tennessee way used 10 Spurn
the la44- AS Il device of weak-sptned
townsfolk, too lily-livered to de
fend their rights by the natural
means OF powder and bullet. In
the current Clay County vendetta,
however, it appears the judges
gavel banged almost as often as
the feudists' shooting irons.
II MIGHT no argued from this
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30

AdlllC DdAhs AAN Ab0AA ~
body be sid G his rifle,
which was cooked and
ready for action.
One by one the fami-
lies in the neiehborhood
were drawn into the
lethal dispute and pri-
vate graveyards began to
fill up rapidly. Not even
the judiciary a i'm
mune. Police Judge Pit
Stivers Of Manchester,
hadn't taken sides open
~, but one of tn Q sc
spontaneous S h ootin &
matches broke out sud
denly one afternoon in
the county scat and when
il was over the judge was
among the fatalities.
The Ben e es were
among the first of the
clans TO join in the
saturnalia of hate. Newt
Benge, a brother of Err
est, had been a proud
father only a couple
of weeks when, on the
last Sunday afternoon in
May 1884, he started on
a tour of the district 10
spread the glad tidings.
He got as far as Byron,
on Little Goose Creek.
Someone was waiting for
him there. One OF his
kinsmen found his body.
Two years later, TO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30

1.-THE petition and supporting affidavits
name some u families who have
4 been engaged in violent feud in
Clay County during the preceding seven or
eight years in which more than so persons
have been killed, more than p barns have
been burned feloniously, and a number OF
inhabited dwellings shot into"
In the foregoing dry phraseology, the
august Court of Appeals of Kentucky re-
Gently accorded rare and startling legal rec
ognition TO one Of the "shootinest" feuds
in the long and bloody history of such Ken
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30

thicket-and that was all.
The Cupps were favorite tar
gets for a while. Howard Cupp
was shot and killed from am
bush early one evening as he
was nearing his home. James
Cupp went hunting and never
came back. They found his
LoJ,. J. n O. Il n bic ,.it1a
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April 40, 1874
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30

hidA JtdA NtAtN - hlAfs hA
their homes, IN their COTU-
fields, on trails and roads,
representatives OF both fac
tons unwillingly and uncN-
pectedly added their names
TO the growing list
On the early evening Of
Aug. D, 1888, Dan Martin
and Dan Cupp We're riding
down steep mountain trail
near Dripping Springs Both
were on mules. They were
friends, even though their
families were on opposite
sides OF the county war.
II w8s-a, -lhfte5ttsesttiiff4t- that
time.-PerhapS the light was
too dim for certain aim
with a rifle The charge
struck Martin fun in the
chest and killed him in.
stantly. A few of the buck.
ShOt sprayed Cupp. lie
turned his mule and dashed
back up the trail.
That same night the feud
guns blazed again. Bill
Phiipot thought he was safe
as he stumbled along the
trail in the darkness on his
way home from a visit TO
relatives. Two ShadoWy
figures rose before him.
He cursed and pulled his
gun TO position. But ne was
too slow. Before he could
Illet had pierced his brain.
and trigger fingers were
aturday afternoon almost a
ST Benge dropped in at the
in-law, Monroe Greer, for Q
-