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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1940
Page
2
A German correspondent recounts the Somme crossing as sappers din the bridge and prepare for noon. Tanks cross upstream while gunfire and air reconnaissance ring the river as German troops push toward the enemy positions and seize the heights.
A new highway cutoff north of Paved With Gold California is being surfaced partly with gold silver and platinum according to prospector D. F. Strobeck. He traces the gravel to a mineralized deposit valued at 1.40 to 15.30 dollars per ton.
Paris June 6 Premier Pau Reynaud seized control in a compact cabinet, removing Daladier and Monzie and sidelining capitulationists. He now holds foreign and defense posts, naming Gen. Charles de Gaulle as first aide to push mechanization and a stronger armored force amid German aggression.
Coronado's white horse struck a piece of scenery during a dress rehearsal in Clovis New Mexico and suffered a cut leg. The injury was deemed minor by the veterinarian and the horse would recover quickly. Spud Lynch started Coronado in the Entrada performances on the $30 000 stage.
Japanese planners shift Peiping civilian airport into the largest air facility in China. Built two years ago by coolie labor, the old field is deemed too small for expanding air activities. The new airport is projected to become the major hub for North China air travel.
Lavoptik offers prompt relief for sore inflamed strained and burning eyes and helps granulated eyelids. Promises 25 years of success with soothing formula available at all druggists.
In California Col Robert C Murphy notes flight surgeons must be pilots as well as physicians. He explains pilots require medical checks to reflect flight dynamics and weapon handling. Regular exams protect pilots and safeguard the government's aviation assets. A separate note from Nevada City reports three locals opening an abandoned mining safe and finding gold nuggets valued at 88 dollars.
In Wichita Kansas Paul Shenk disputes the claim that a mule recently died at 36 years old is the world’s oldest. He says Jenny from Hesston Kansas is at least 36 and still going. Jenny hauls in a milk cart and was bought by the Hesston College and Bible School in 1908. In Salem Oregon Lester Pear Mine a high school youth finds a puffball edible specimen measuring 11 by 19 inches and weighing 30 pounds 8 ounces on his grandfather’s farm.
BERLIN June 6 Two of nine American ambulance drivers captured by the Germans have been located by the U S embassy. Lawrence A Jump 86 of Nantucket Mass and Dartmouth College graduate is in a Nazi prison camp without a passport Jan Glowacki 32 of Jersey City N J was captured May 15 near Laon on the Somme front and was released in Frankfurt where Consul General Emil Sauer supplied money to buy clothes and a Zurich ticket. Captured with Glowacki were Albert Raymond 82 of Chicago Murray Shipley 45 of Cincinnati and Louiss Ehrie 44 of Berne or Fort Wayne Ind whose whereabouts were unknown.
In Aarau Switzerland the criminal court sentenced two brothers to six months in jail each for highly specialized robbery, after stealing nearly forty beehives complete with bees. The case highlights an unusual crime wave in the region.
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