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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1941
Page
2
Col Charles L Sheridan Montana highway patrol released May auto fatality figures showing 16 persons lost their lives in auto accidents during May bringing the year to date toll to 58 deaths. The May toll exceeded the previous year’s count of 47 deaths for the same period.
Deluges of rain flood the southwest and midwest with the death toll rising past 30. Drownings in Albany Texas, bus and train crashes, and widespread high water close roads and drains as Oklahoma Nebraska and Kansas report floods and waterborne threats. Public health warns boil-water due to contaminated supplies.
Helena high school vocational education will conduct an advanced school on tourist attractions next year. Department head Fred Robinson said the results this year were very good, with 22 men and women enrolled and about 90 percent attendance each session. The school, backed by the chamber of commerce, targets Helena’s strong tourist season and will be conducted through toop funeral services for Anton J. Finstad of Helena. He died yesterday at 89 and is survived by his wife, three sons Lowry Maurice and A L Finstad of Helena, two daughters, and other relatives. funeral at 2 00 oclock Thursday at the Conrad chapel with burial in Forestvale cemetery. He was born in Trondheim Norway in 1872 and came to the U S in 1893. He farmed in Iowa, homesteaded at Wolf Point, and moved to Helena in 1923.
Helena Lions elected H. M. Al Johnson president at a weekly luncheon at the Placer hotel. He succeeds Earl Jacoby. Thomas M. Robinson was named director, vice presidents named, and installation set for later. Don Fraser showed reels of colored Idaho winter views.
Peter Graversgaard H A Johnson and Eddy Bernhardt were charged in justice court yesterday with selling liquor to minors. They were released on 300 bond each by Justice A J White and a trial was set for 10 oclock June 23.
The state board of examiners approved a trip for five agri cultural economics department members at the State college at Bozeman to Salt Lake City June 24 to 28 for a Western Farm Economics association meeting. Attendees are C A Parsons G H Graig C F P Kraenzel H F Hollands and R Renne. A separate trip was approved for Margaret H Tuller home management specialist to Fort Collins Colo June 30 and July 1.
John Cudahy former U S ambassador to Belgium recounts a long interview with Adolf Hitler. Hitler said invasion of the Western Hemisphere was fantastic and showed hostility toward Cudahy. The talk lasted an hour and a half with Hitler calm and ungesturing.
Washington June 10 Representative O'Connor of Montana urged continuation of the work relief program to aid 10 000 families unable to find work. He told a House appropriations subcommittee during 1942 relief hearings that Montana has reached a peak in private employment and unemployment will rise when seasonal work ends.
A fragment describes an inventor proposing a self sufficiency method in the Philippines by using charcoal from coconut shells to run automobiles. The note hints at a 18revent concept and a device enabling engines to operate on coconut charcoal.
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