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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1953
Page
8
Police report two men robbed a Torrance bar on 190th Street and Hawthorne Avenue after claiming to want the best in the house. Owner Louis Milovich said they threatened him with a carbine and forced surrender of about $36 from the register before fleeing in a car, ordering silence for 15 minutes.
Cavet Hunter Houghton, 44, told police he witnessed a barroom dispute at Coolidge near the fairgrounds last February that left a cotton picker dead. He claimed the killer, nicknamed Skippy, bashed the victim with a tire iron, then the group returned to the bar and dispersed. Houghton said he would waive extradition while sheriff deputies plan to question him.
U S Civil Defense Chief Val Peterson said during a European tour that no western country is ready for an atomic attack. He cited general fear of atomic weapons and labeled American civil defense preparations as inadequate overall despite some good local efforts. He will report to President Eisenhower on Western Europe Civil Defense readiness.
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