Father Kills Boy in Stepdaughter’s Room Murder Scene
In Los Angeles a stepfather named Johnny Reader shot a 16 year old boy found in the bedroom of his stepdaughter Mary Ethel Williams 14. Reader trusted with a hunting rifle after being awakened by voices and glass tinkle. The victim William Earl Thornton of 959 East 29th Street died at General Hospital. Reader was booked for murder.
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L A News Roundup of Shootings and a FBI Capture
A Los Angeles item reports a confrontation where a man fired at a youth fleeing a room. another shooting leaves Eugene Stone dead on West 50th Street. FBI records also note the capture of jewel thief Ted Jacob Rinehart in Granada Hills, awaiting federal arraignment.
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Reader
Louisiana
Eugene Stone
West 50Th Street
Walter Lee Harper
Stone
FBI
Granada Hills
Ted Jacob Rinehart
Florida
Rinehart
Nelson
Gene Ahern Rites Planned for Cartoonist
Westwood funeral services are set for cartoonist Eugene Leslie Ahern creator of Our Boarding House. He died of a heart attack at his home 10998 Roebling Ave Westwood aged 64 leaving widow Jane and children Nancy Hayward of Clemons NC. plus siblings in Chicago.
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California
Grace Nicholson
Caccenies Pasaoena
Milnor Oriental Art
New York
Blackstones
Sunset House
Shaefers Clothiers & Haberdashers
Tuft-Lyons Sporting Goods
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Westwood
CNS
Eugene Leslie
Gene) Ahern
Ahern
Roebling Ave
Jane
Nancy Hayward
Clemons
Donald McGurdy
Walter
Harold
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Chicago
Firemen spray water as gasoline leaks near Fisherman's Wharf
Tourists watched firefighters on Fisherman's Wharf as hoses sprayed frothy water around the pier. A leaky gasoline pipe under the shore was blamed for seeping gasoline through shoreline rocks and spreading into the water.
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San Francisco
Fisherman's Wharf
William Murray
Cancer Specialist Dies in Santa Cruz at 70
Dr. Floyd C. Turner, age 70, a prominent cancer researcher, died Saturday likely from a heart attack in Santa Cruz. He served in the U.S. Public Health Service for many years until retiring in 1945.
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Santa Cruz
Floyd C. Turner
U.S. Public Health Service
Body of LA forger found in San Joaquin River
The body of a young Los Angeles forger was found floating in the San Joaquin River yesterday. Polic e reported burglars stole about $20,000 in loot from the Encino home of industrialist Robert I. Ferer at 4612 Hayvenhurst Dr. Ferer and his wife discovered the ransacked residence when they returned Saturday night. The body was found by fisherman Dan Mellon of Manteca.
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