Rats rub out big gangster Higgins in Brooklyn shooting
Vannie Higgins, a major figure in the liquor racket, was shot four times on a Brooklyn street while with his wife and eight year old daughter. Eight assailants opened fire from two directions as he approached his car, and he died hours later after vowing revenge on his killers. Police hunt the attackers. Higgins, in his early thirties, had earlier been knifed in a brawl and rarely ventured out without a bodyguard.
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Vannie Higgins
Higgins
Brooklyn
Mrs. Higgins
Knights of Columbus Club
Montpelier Woman Injured in Utah Car Crash
Mrs. E. A. Williams of Montpelier Idaho suffered a fractured arm in a collision near Lehi Utah Saturday night. Four other passengers incurred minor injuries. The crash occurred when David Davis of Lehi came from a side street causing Johnson of Salt Lake City to overturn.
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Lehi
Utah
E. A. Williams
Montpelier
Idaho
Here
Williams
O. G. Johnson
Salt Lake City
Johnson
David Davis
Local Births and Distances in Pocatello Area
A son was born to Mr and Mrs James E Willard at Lynn Brothers hospital Sunday. Otis Miller recovers from emergency surgery at General hospital Sunday. Mrs R E Westcott discharged after major operation. Roof fire damages Bob Early home due to defective flue. T C Powell treated for fractured jaw from ball game. Fred G Taylor visits Pocatello. secretary of National Confectioners Association. F A Gross improving after emergency operation. Buddy Gates treated for cut back. discharged. Jess Ray returns from Stanford after studying at Palo Alto. Over 150 delegates expected for TI OO F district 2 session at Soda Springs June 25. Paul Nash of Pocatello chamber confers with Idaho fair board. George Demico bitten by dog. under observation 10 days. Business and Professional Women convention reports at Pocatello picnic. Forfeit day in police court. several violators including speeding and stop sign. A Mexican arrestee jailed for intoxication.
Relics Exhibit To Feature Samuel Shove Visitor
Samuel Shove a former national officer of the United Spanish War Veterans will display relics from the Manila Bay battle era. His collection includes medals from every Spanish War Vet era and American Legion convention except four in 31 years. The exhibit will be in Rowles Mack windows during the Fort Hall July celebration with other locally loaned Spanish war artifacts. A flag from the Isla de Cuba ships the day after Manila Bay is among the items.
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Pocatello
Samuel Shove
United Spanish War Veterans
Shove
U.S
Manila Bay
American Legion
Fort Hall
Shore
Rowles-Mack Company
Isla de Cuba
Cervera
Utah Pioneer Matilda Winters Dies at 96
Mrs. Matilda Duncan Winters, 96, a Utah pioneer who arrived with the 1849 migration, died at her Bountiful home after 15 weeks in bed. Born 1836 in Belleville Illinois, she crossed the plains at 12 guiding oxen to Salt Lake City. She outlived two husbands, taught school, and was considered Davis county’s oldest pioneer.
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Bountiful
Utah
Matilda Duncan Winters
Mrs. Winters
Belleville
James Duncan
Joseph Smith
Latter-Day Saints Church
Nauvoo, Ill
Winter Quarters
Duncan
Plains
Matilda
Sweetwater
Wyoming
Salt Lake City
Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail by Jennie Broughton Brown
Caxton Printers released Jennie Broughton Brown’s Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail, a history title of interest to eastern Idahoans. The Pocatello author, Mrs. Royal A. Brown, earned degrees from Kansas State normal, University of Colorado, University of Minnesota and the University of California. The California work includes her master’s thesis on historical investigation.
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Caxton
Old Fort Hall tribute and civic notes from Pocatello
The excerpt highlights a boost for the chamber of commerce in a letter to President Nate Black from C. W. Hastings of R. C. Hadley Inc. praising the association and noting six months of dues prepaid. It also remarks on Pocatello homeowners and lawn care, celebrates Tommy Coffin's oversized twenty gallon hat for Days of Old Fort Hall, and Boise’s ambiguous status as it climbs up or down.
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Chamber of Commerce
Nate Black
C. W. Hastings
R. C. Hadley, Inc
Wheeler
Tommy Coffin
Red ink and whiskered visitors spark town campaign
A local row over finances and whisker regulations spirals into political boasts and Legion enforcement. Frank Burroughs mocks rival mayors while Boise, Dennis and Bob Hamilton figures loom. The piece notes John G. Tyler and F. C. Winters visiting Pocatello without beards and facing arraignment. Hack Culbreth of Charlotte hits over .400 in 114 at bats in the Piedmont league.
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Legion
John G. Tyler
F. C. Winters
Los Angeles
Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange
Tyler
Winters
Annapolis
Pocatello
J. L. Downing
F. M. Bistline
Ralph Jones
A. J. Pierce
Hack Culbreth
Charlotte
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Little Daughter
New York
NBC
Enna Jettick
Florida
Enna Jettick Shoes
James E. Willard
North Main
Lynn Brothers Hospital
Otis Miller
North Arthur
General Hospital
R. E. Westcott
Fountain Court Apartment
Bob Early
T.C. Powell
West Center
St Anthony Hospital
Fred G. Taylor
Yellowstone National Park
Taylor
National Confectioners’ Association
New York City
F. A. Gross
Fort Hall Indian Reservation
Buddy Gates
St. Anthony Hospital
C. F. Gates
Buckskin Valley
Jess Ray
D C. Ray
Palo Alto
Stanford University
Ray
Pocatello High School
Soda Springs
The
Aberdeen
Blackfoot
American Falls
Malad
Rebekah
Paul Nash
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Idaho State Fair Board
Carl Johnson
Idaho Falls
J. C. Sorenson
H. C. Toeuvs
D. W. Hagenbroth
George Demico
Nicholas Demico
North Eighth
Business & Professional Women's Clubs
Ross Park
Chamber of Commercce
Rose Enke
Martha Evans
Gretta Wright
Elizabeth Hughes
R. T. Williams
Leonard Johnson
P. C. Goethe
FP. P. Shumaker
Fred
Matilda Winters
Ing
Addison T. Smith
Old Fort Hall
Pocatello Tribune
Boise
Poky
Frank Burroughs
Charlie Brown
Bob Hamilton
B. A. McDevitt
Main and
Lander
Style Shop
LEA ‘Air Ie
Hesterfield
Cheste Mon
Thur
Boswell Sisters
Nat Shilka
Radio
FA Gray
WED
Uthetting Okenshire
Lionstr
Myaas Tosacca Cay
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