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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1940
Page
5
Fragmented text references orphans, bicycles with bedding and bread bags, and care for children. It muses that Christianity will endure while that spirit lives. A remark about planetary beliefs credits Earth as unique and predicts a near future change.
Dorothy Prometheus argues the American spirit, energy, and industry must unleash collective effort to avert stagnation and war. He warns against passive neutrality and urges decentralized planning, mass mobilization, and generous responses to global crises to sustain progress and freedom.
The article condemns Mussolini for Italy entering World War on Hitler’s side. It warns of reduced Allied strength, Italian forces and air power, and new fronts from North Africa to Paris. It urges vigilance and defense mobilization while noting Republican sentiment in the United States and rising alarms.
A U S Forest Service will deploy 16 planes this summer to fight fires in Montana and nearby states using parachutists dropped at inaccessible sites with radios and ropes. Relief planes will bring firefighting gear. Tests show 12 foot per second descent is reasonably safe, with a peace time use for conservation. The report notes broader wartime references and cautions about Axis anger and public security.
A dispatch from Belgium and northern France describes refugees fleeing as two nuns lead a bicycle with a basket holding two people. The Sisters of Mercy historically tended the wounded on battlefields and, despite attacks on churches in the Spanish Civil War, continue to aid those in need as an ALP man arrives in western Europe.
In Washington a broad religious liberty conference begins today sponsored by hundreds of clergy from Protestant and Jewish communities. Speaker Dr. Rufus W. Weaver describes a nonsectarian effort to defend religious freedom as the backbone of democratic institutions amid global crisis. The call urges unity across faiths to resist coercion and oppression, urging action to safeguard liberty while warning against rising authoritarian ideologies.
Readers across the Rocky Mountain region discuss war anxieties and hysteria while noting measured public sentiment. The piece contrasts calm civilian response with warnings of nervous disorders and stresses the global impact of World War II on France, Holland, and Dutch East Indies and the Japan’s Monroe Doctrine assertions.
Frederic Baskin recounts a sensational fraud case told in the United States General Land Office. James Addilan Reavis, a Missouri native turned streetcar conductor, spins a Spanish grant tale to control vast Arizona lands. William S. Tipton, a Special Agent, exposes the scheme as it winds through Santa Fe courtrooms and a forged Peralta claim, with Reavis amassing wealth before a federal land court challenge.
A collage of quotes on economics security and political power includes Dr. Max Lerner Dean Virginia Glidaireleeye and Lord Lothian. The text shifts to wartime prep remarks by General George C. Marshall and a discussion of a forged parchment by Teavis with references to Bon Miguel de Pereira and Cordada. Remvin remains jailed.
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