Fourth Kidnap Victim Flees Car at Santa Ana
Harvey Glatman of Los Angeles confessed to police after a lie detector test that he murdered three women he met at a lonely hearts club. He was arrested in Orange County after his fourth intended victim fought him off near the Santa Ana Freeway and drew the attention of a passing highway patrol officer. Names include Shirley Bridgeford, 24, of Sun Valley. Judy Anh Van Dorn, 19, of West Hollywood. and Rita Mercado, 24, of Los Angeles, all missing in 1957 or 1958.
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Harvey Glatman
Los Angeles
Orange County
Shirley
Ann Bridgeford
Sun Valley
Judy Anh van Dorn
Judy Dull
West Hollywood
Rita Mercado
Beach Bandit Shootout Leaves Teen Wounded in Tunnel
A teenage assailant opened fire in the pedestrian tunnel from the beach to Ocean Boulevard at Moline Ave wounding Edward Motsenko 46 of 231 Wisconsin Ave. Motsenko struggled with the gunman who fled in a sedan with a second teen girl accomplice. Authorities link the suspect to prior kidnappings and rapes, with one alleged victim found near India and another identified as Judy Van Dorn. Detectives pursue the other suspects in Riverside and San Diego counties.
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Cally
Beach
Ocean Blvd
Moline Ave
Edward Motsenko
Wisconsin Ave
Long ‘Beach
Insp
A? Myers
Oiean Blvd
Three Victims Targeted by Photographer Grauman
The Los Angeles photographer Harvey Glatman lured models with promised work, abducted them at gunpoint, and strangled three women in deserts near Santa Ana and Escondido, revealing details of the assaults and his methods. Lorraine Vigil, a secretary known as Barrie Beck, testified she fought him along the Santa Ana Freeway.
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Los Angeles
Lorraine
W. Blt St
Wilshire
Jorg Fet
Harvey Glennan
Santa Anza
On Grange
Ileus Grove
Atomic test at Nevada site shakes world with huge blast
Across the nation reports a massive underground explosion at the Nevada test site described as Hiroshima scale, about 20 000 tons of TNT, with seismographs recording shocks 2 300 miles away from Fairbanks to Cleveland. In Cleveland four workers die and 36 injured in a blast at Erica Proéuts Inc. plant mixing room. Authorities name four dead: Ronald Turner 23 Lakewood Ohio Nat Handle 42 Melvin Reidak 35 William Ramsay 66. In Indiana two Lowell men held for narcotics mail order from a trailer with tablets seized. In Mississippi a major general court martial rests its case in the Army base.
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APT
Blanca
United States
Canala
Fairbanks
Alaska
Cleveland
Ohio
UPT
Erica Proéuts, Inc
Cuyahoga County Garoner
Samuel Gerber
Ronald ‘Turner
Lakewood
Nat Handle
Melvin Reidak
William Ramsay
Crown Point
Ind
Lowell
Lake County
U.S. Treasury
Forrest P. Tavernier
Herman McCarter
Indiana
North Carolina
Tennessee
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Tinos
Demon jet engine causes Boca Chica fire damage
A demon jet engine on a test block at Boca Chica Naval Air Station broke loose Thursday night igniting a fire and causing about 50,000 dollars in damage. Four sailors received slight injuries and were treated at the dispensary. names were not immediately available.
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Key West
Fla. VII
Boca Chica
Re Ued
Students Give Demos Easy Win in Long Beach Poll
Statewide results show Democrats sweep state offices and defeat Propositions 16 17 and 18 in a Long Beach College student poll. Voter turnout among 467 voters split with 238 Democrats 215 Republicans 83 independents and 9 prohibitionists. Brown beat Knight 324 to 223 in governor race Engle defeated Knight for Senate 281 to 259. Anderson over Powers 285 254 for lieutenant governor Lopez over Jordan 200 238 Grits over Button 281 221 Cranston over Kirkwood 264 256 Mask over Mings 332 198 Nevins over McDavid 293 214 Board of Equalization race. Propositions 16 17 18 votes shown above.
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Long Beach
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
William F. Knowlatd
Clair Engie
Guv
Goodwin J. Knight
U. S. Senate
Glenn M. Anderson
Harold J. Powers
Henry P. Lopez
Frank M. Jordan
Bert A. Grits
A. Ronald Button
Alan Cranston
Robert C. Kirkwood
Stanley Mask
Patrick J. Mings
Richard Nevins
Robert F. McDavid
Knowland replies to open letter in PT
Independent presses quote Sen Knowland replying to an open letter published in the I edition page A-22. Three Americans have been named Nobel Prize winners for medicine as reported on page A-8.
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Knowland
I, PT
Violinists Union Plans Night Strike on TWA Dispute
Kansas City report says the International Association of Violinists abandoned hopes of settlement with Trang World Airlines and will strike at 10:42 p.m. tonight. Cliff Miller, district chairman, called TVA's Thursday trial offer unacceptable.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
International Association of Violinists
Trang World Airlines
Cliff Miller
Wnmaw
TVA
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Dex
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Miss Vigil
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Shirley Bridgeford
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