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...youth he was an anarchist and a stalwart member of the I.W.W. During the 1930's, Culbertson collaborated with his wife to produce the system of contract bridge which bears his name, thereby providing entertainment for habitues of everything from the prep-school butt-room to the Walla-Walla chapter of the D.A.R...
Died. Thomas C. Neibaur, 44, World War I private whom General John J. Pershing called the war's third ranking hero; in a veterans' hospital in Walla Walla, Wash. Among his decorations were the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the Croix de guerre. He was credited with stopping a German counterattack singlehanded in the Argonne. Sent with two other men to enfilade machine-gun nests, he stood off an attack by 50 Germans, was shot four times, fainted, revived, faced a charge by eight more Germans, shot four of them dead, captured the others, ultimately returned...
...bomber crew forced down on the sea was rescued by tiny aborigines. They took charge of a bombardier from Brawley, Calif., a navigator from Walla Walla, Wash., primitively tended their wounds, fed them coconut and sugar cane until rescue came...
...headquarters in Washington. FBI reported that pious Mrs. Carr had a record dating back to 1891. She had done time in at least three prisons for big & little swindles. Shortly before she had married unsuspecting Mr. Carr, five years ago, she had been released from Washington State's Walla Walla. Six States were still looking for her. Some of her aliases: Mildred Marie Boniface, Mildred Sidebottom, Mabel Heavens...
William B. Ferguson, Walla Walla, Wash...