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Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 72

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F-2 Honolulu Stor-butietin Wednesday, September 11, 1974 78 Unsolved Murders ack to 1 938 eac LIT i iff a mm i at Sr 9 i-fM -rf -K t. ,,,1 it- George S. B. Chung, 35, shot on Maunakea Street on July 14. Gangland slaying.

1966 Rufino Bargamento, 36, shot in Steve's Pool Room at 2111 North King St. on July 6. -1965 Mrs. May Albright, 42, stabbed in her Keeaumoku Street home in December. Rolf A.

Stempf, 48, beaten to death in his Keeaumoku Street apartment. Jack E. Wadsworth, 46, a bank cashier, beaten to death and strangled. His body was found in Honolulu Harbor on July 25. Reno Abellira, ex-boxer and gangland strongarm, shot in a Pauahi Street poolroom on March 18.

Gangland slaying. 1962 Joseph K. L. Hong and Joseph Y. S.

Hong (no relation) were found bound and shot in the heads on Kalanianaole Highway on Aug. 21. Gangland slaying. James Kong, Oahu Prison inmate, stabbed in his cell on Aug. 6.

1959 Leonocio Resuelio, auto mechanic, beaten with a mallet in his shop on Smith Street on Nov. 28. Seichi Goya, shot in a parking lot at King Street and Ward Avenue on Sept. 23. Hiroshi Harada, an employe at a Keeaumoku Street bar, shot while trying to prevent a robbery on June 18.

1958 Mrs. Elizabeth H. Trager, a missionary, stabbed at her Wahiawa Door of Faith Church on Aug. 22. 1957 Augustine Corpus, taxi driver, beaten in an empty lot on Kalihi Street on Dec.

23. 1956 Phillip M. Valenciano, found with his skull smashed behind the poolhall which he operated at Smith and Pauahi streets on April 26. 1968 MURDER SCENE A lone motorcycle patrolman stands by the scene of a gangland slaying near Lanakila Park, where Joseph P. Gahan died from gunshot wounds in 1968.

1955 Francisco Laparadis, found buried near Sandy Beac shot twice in the head on Sept. 21. Kenneth K. M. Chong, shot during a robbery on Beach Walk in Waikiki near his restaurant on Nov.

11. Hee Ching Tim, 82, beaten in a robbery in his Maunakea Street rooming house on Jan. 31. 1946 Domingo Ibarra, taxi driver, stabbed in Kalihi on July 1. 1945 Karl V.

Johnston, war worker, beaten and left dying in Moanalua Gardens on Nov. 2. 1942 Mrs. Rannie Jenks, housewife and mother of five, raped and beaten to death. Her body was found beneath Kauluwela School on May 27.

1938 Matsusuke Takara, waiter, beaten in a vacant lot at McCully and Ala Wai on March 1. Continued from Page F-l both shot in the head after being bound and gagged in the Waikiki Biltmore Hotel on Sept. 7. Their deaths were attributed to the syndicate's attempts to increase its share of the prostitution market. Police last were looking for a man to whom the room was rented.

Manuel S. Sanchez, 47, strangled on a street bench in Kalihi on Sept. 2 a few blocks from his Ahuu-la Street home. Albert F. Gomes, 40, shot in a Waimanalo farmlot on Waikupanaha Street on Aug.

19. Farm occupants heard a guarrel and three shots during the night. James Staveskie, 22, shot and his head crushed by an automobile on Pearl Ridge near a water tank on June 1. The body was badly decomposed, so identification was not immediately known. Honolulu police never released his name and details of the case, but the information was published three months later in his hometown newspaper in Loraine, Ohio.

He deserted from the U.S. Army in 1970, was caught and given an undesirable discharge on May 23. The Ohio newspaper said he was slain two days later. Charles H. Venable, 21, shot as he slept in a Koa Cottage bedroom in Waikiki on May 21.

A roommate said he slept through the shooting. Isaiah "Ike" Shon, 54, well-known realtor, shot in a drainage ditch in Hawaii-Kai on April 28. His abandoned Cadillac was found two days later on University Avenue with the engine running and $100 on the front seat. Carl N. Tabaranza, 16, high school student, apparently pushed off the Waikele Gulch overpass on the H-1 freeway in Waipahu on April 23.

Gilbert R. Pacheco, 37, bartender, strangled in his Cleghorn Street apartment in Waikiki on April 11. Joseph "Chocolate Joe" Kang, 42, known gambler, shot near Salt Lake Boulevard and Lexington Drive close to his home on April 9. He was awaiting trial with six others on federal gambling charges. Gangland slaying.

Nancy Anderson, 19, drive-in countergirl, stabbed in her Aloha Drive apartment in Waikiki on Jan. 7. Her roommate in the next room last saw her talking with two men and heard no screams. Melvin J. C.

Cameron, 39, visitor from Ottawa, Canada, beaten to death in a Kunia canefield on Nov. 5. Edmund Leroy Mara, 36, stabbed in a Waipahu driveway on Oct. 19. Julia Pang, 46, housewife, stabbed in her Booth Road home in Pauoa Valley on April 28.

A large amount of money was found in the house, untouched. Anastazio Cenido, 73, parking lot attendant, shot in his son's parked car in Halawa Housing on March 13. Also discovered in the car was $200. 1970 Larry Kuriyama, 49, State senator and lawyer, shot outside his Aiea Heights home on Oct. 23 by a gunman with a silencer.

Suspected gangland slaying. Harry T. Otake, 46, flower grower and gambling junket organizer, found strangled in the trunk of a friend's car in Kalihi on Feb. 12. Police say the prime suspect in the case committed suicide the next day.

Gangland slaying. 1969 Mataua Palepale Tua, 41, shot in an alley off Pauahi Street on Nov. 4. Ronald Y. Kakuda, 33, killed by a shotgun blast in the face on Sept.

8. Gangland slaying. Andrew J. Miranda, 36, underworld strongarm, shot in Kakaako on June 30. Gangland slaying.

Richard "Dickie" Johnson, 47, narcotics pusher, found burned to death in the Kapalama incinerator in June. Gangland slaying. 1968 Joseph Gahan 34, shot in Palama on May 9. Henry Kamiyama, 45, known gambler, his body was found in a forest outside Hilo on Jan. 31 wrapped neatly in canvas.

He had been shot in the head and S200 was found in his shirt pocket. Gangland slaying. 1967 Gasoloiluma Uperesa, 36, shot in front of Max Pool Hall on North King Street on Nov. 18. 1954 Carlos Valdez, truck driver, beaten alongside Webb Lane in an apparent robbery attempt on April 18.

1948 Bung Hing Wong, peddler, robbed and bludgeoned to death at Puea Cemetery on Sept. 4. mi in us? Bgfi aw im ALL PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU JOSEPH CAMPBELL'S CHICKEN THIGHS (Back Portion on) U.S.D.A. INSPECTED CALIFORNIA CHICKEN Whole Fivers rp Xsv fJJ box We Reserve the right to limit quantities Master charge and Bank of America Charge Cards Acceptable Refer to store manager for information regarding Delivery Service in most Residential areas Diamond Head of Piikoi area. BARS 3vJ iC v.

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Phone 923-9831 Jar t2 10NMN IROIlSU 72) The three were arrested and Miss Kekuewa charged with first degree. burglary. The other three cases occurred in Sunset Beach, Makaha and Waianae. In all three, the assailants were wearing nylon stockings as masks and were armed with guns or knives, Young said. All occurred at about 10 p.m.

In the Sunset Beach case, a 17-year-old girl was raped by five men, who stole about $600 in cash and checks. The two male occupants of the Ke Nui Road house were tied up. In the Makaha case, four men armed with a shotgun and rifle tied up three men, raped a woman and stole two cars from the Lahaina Street home. The cars were later found in Makaha Valley. In the Waianae case, a family of four was bound' and $2,000 in cash and jewelry taken by two men.

yJ r-FRESn PRODUCE I U.S.!Y0.1-Viiie Ripen-Firm Sweet HUNT'S TOMATO SAUCE U.S.D.A. GOOD BEEF CHUCK STEAK fiAOTM0IPE niiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwii Police advise people to be careful about who they open their doors to, after a rash of forced break-ins on Oahu recently. There have been four cases in the past two weeks in which an occupant has answered a knock at the door and then been pushed aside by armed bandits, who then tied up the victims and robbed the home. In two of the cases, female occupants have been raped. "People should always make some identification before opening the door by voice, by peephole, or with the aid of a chain guard," said police Major Fred Young, head of the detective division.

HE SAID the method of operation was quite similar in three of the cases, but Young said police aren't sure if they are related. In the fourth case, which occurred at a Koko Head house, the three suspects were arrested. Charmaine Kekuewa, 19, and two 17-year-old boys allegedly knocked on the door of a Kii Street home on the pretense of selling sweetbread, police said. They tried to tie up the male occupant, but were thwarted when neighbors came to his i lUJ cans 1 -b ff Food Pantry ONO LOA BUTTER Del Mont CHUNK TUNA REGULAR MARGARINE 69' A cent Xy Mb. Pkg.

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