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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1940
Page
8
Bakersfield May 31 F R Young a toolsmith seeks to start a hickory industry in California He plans to acclimate Missouri hickory trees to the California climate aiming to grow timber for local use and potential export
Humbert J. Clemente, commander of the Paris American Legion post, announced the creation of a LaFayette Escadrille of 1940 with American fliers and funds to aid France. Reports also said French pilots in nine American Curtiss planes repelled a German bombing raid on a railway station, claiming six German planes down to France suffering two losses.
Eyewitnesses report mass refugee flows clogging vital Allied routes in western Belgium and northern France. They describe orderly German supply movement and high morale in contrast to Allied chaos, noting refugee deaths and the Belgian army’s collapse near Leopold III’s surrender.
Police in Buenos Aires arrested Carlos Noel Jr and nine others after two anti German demonstrations sparked by news of the Uruguay freighter sinking. A bomb was improvised but caused no injuries. The crowd targeted a German language newspaper and a German club before police restored order.
Satko and family aboard the home built Ark left Tacoma nearly six weeks ago bound for Ketchikan. The craft covered about 360 miles to Vancouver Island’s coast facing open water toward Queen Charlotte Sound. Canadian officials and pilots’ union members questioned seaworthiness and court orders. Satko pressed toward Cook Inlet as his final goal.
Provincial officials study municipal election procedure in preparation for revision. Minister Eric Cross announced changes would involve councils county officials and county judges to be consulted on new rules.
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