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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1918
Page
4
L J Molumby, a Riverside California aviation cadet, reports six extra weeks added to the course and higher standards. Only the best finish the program, with risks of busting for poor landings, misjudged takeoffs, or bad winds.
Paris dispatch reports Germany, short of materials, motors, and petrol, seeking engines in Switzerland and Scandinavia and scouring Germany for aluminum and fine woods. Aviators are ordered to cut flights and curtail photography, with joy riding deemed a serious offense. Germany has pushed to regain air supremacy, noting new Halberstadt and Siemens-Schuckert biplanes with powerful rotating motors.
A Scotch minister and his friend walk home from a wedding. The minister asks if he is walking straight and worries the wife might notice. Sandy replies the minister is fine but questions who accompanies him.
Colonel William B. Thompson once a Montana businessman and Red Cross head in Russia spent a week in the state. He built a memorial library in Virginia City and presented Butte with a park in his father’s memory. Thompson, also a Helena resident, praised Russia and aided the Russian commission with a $1,000,000 fund through Raymond Robbins.
A Montana alert urges citizens to report disloyal acts during wartime. It warns of propaganda and subversion and outlines penalties for false reports, incitement, and aiding enemies. The piece cites government vigilance in Butte and calls readers to cooperate with law enforcement.
Charles Covey a Montana sheepherder flags a caved in tunnel at the western entrance of a railroad tunnel near Garrison. He saves a passenger train, is hailed by passengers who donate $25, later spends it on booze, ends in jail briefly, then gains a U S employment office job in a Helena hay field.
The pumps are in the hands of the Pershing reception committee but not approved by the Germans. They claim the weapons violate the Geneva convention.
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