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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1951
Page
6
The Veterans Administration says commercially operated schools training veterans under the GI Bill have until March 31 to meet federal standards. State approval agencies are reviewing these schools and if they do not certify by March 31, the school may not train veterans under the GI Bill after that date.
Frisky, a year old blond cock er, has disappeared leaving Police Officer Dean McLeod and his daughters Donna 13 Marilyn 5 and Dean 7, inconsolable. Neighbors urged to contact Officer McLeod at 1370 Quincy Ave if Frisky is found or seen.
Amyets Post 13 will open its Rendezvous Supper Club at 5907 E Second St tonight with Ed die Troy from San Francisco headlining the floor show. Show times are 9 pm, 11 pm, and 1 am, manager Ed Sweeney says. Chef Sarathin Gimenez will supervise meal preparation.
Two combat injured soldiers were jailed in the U.S. First Cavalry Division after leaving their unit in Japan and hitching rides to the Korean battlefront. Pie. Alonzo G. Simmons, 21, of Little Rock Arkansas, and Pvt Ronald H. Schouring, 18, of Mesa Arizona, had been on limited service with an Army supply unit in Japan and sought to join a tank company. Sgt. Lee Hooper of Washington DC escorted them back to division headquarters as officials verify their unit.
A midwestern desperado was killed and two companions captured by a mounted sheriff's posse after a two hour gun battle in rugged country near here. Dewey Battershaw 21 was fatally wounded. Victor Sweet 24 and Battershaw’s 11 year old brother Clifford surrendered after a dramatic jail escape and kidnapping spree across four states.
In Tokyo on March 16, Army combat engineers completed a 497 foot pontoon bridge over the Pukhan River in seven hours and 50 minutes, a claimed record. Col Emerson C Itshner watched and noted the operation, with the 151st Combat Engineer Battalion and 58th Treadway Bridge Company leading the effort. The 151st, a National Guard unit from northern Alabama, had not built this type of bridge before, and the floating section measured 396 feet with 32 pontoons.
Officers engage fugitives with rapid rifle fire as they threaten a concealed position. Wilhelm moves toward cover and the group finally calls it quits, signaling they will come out.
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