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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1940
Page
39
Out of town owner seeks sale of plastered Summers Addition house with hardwood floors fireplace breakfast room and strong value. Herrington contact 2 5561 9952. Also 6 room brick with basement closet space and servants quarters priced below replacement cost. Duplex brick large lot close in trade options 2 5561 Van Aw. Prices around 275 to 700.
June reports from Stockholm describe the capitulation of Norwegian forces in the north. King Haakon Crown Prince Olav and government leaders evacuated to Allied ships while Gen Fleischer ordered surrender to avoid Allied defeats. Gen Ruge urged Norwegians to understand the withdrawal as necessary to halt a broader Axis advance.
Allied dispatches describe German forces crossing the Bresle and advancing along the Seine corridor from Amiens to Rouen and Vernon as the Paris region braces for further pressure. French counterattacks, air battles, and sustained bombardments mark a widening offensive across Oise and Aisne valleys with American and British air support.
President Roosevelt urges Americans to defend democracy at home and abroad and warns against isolationism. Congress moves to expand the Navy by $655 million and grow the air force and regular army as part of a broader armament program.
Washington June 10 reports growing calls for reconciliation with Japan as World War II shifts focus to the Pacific. Senators Vandenberg Pepper and King urge a new trade treaty with Japan tied to a defined Far East policy and restoration of Chinese territorial integrity.
The 84 year old cowpuncher Jess Stevenson died at his Modesto California home after retiring five years ago. He worked in the Panhandle Texas until 1884, then New Mexico Arizona and California. He had two nephews in Amarillo and left a daughter and three sons.
Planning engineer S W Waight outlined a plan to establish 171 new airports in Texas. Airports would be classified by priority and the construction program gauged accordingly. The state now has 106 airports, with J J Hurley of Fort Worth as advisory board chairman.
The state department reports Alfred Paul Ritter eight was killed in an air bombing at Klingenstein near Ulm Germany shortly after midnight in June. His mother Marie lives in Collingdale Pennsylvania and the boy had been living with grandparents in Germany since 1997. His father was German-born and is dead.
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