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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1940
Page
2
Secretary Ickes announces a seven member committee to marshal the Interior Department for defense. He orders every bureau to prepare for fuel and resource movement, stressing action readiness and the department’s role in guarding minerals, power, and rentals.
Sydney June 16 Prime Minister Robert Menzies has ordered a special session of parliament for June 20 to approve vital and drastic measures to support Australia’s war effort. External Affairs Minister John McEwen said the burden now falls on the empire and all citizens must realize the implications.
Joseph Leo Turner, pianist and composer from Boston, will perform in a piano concert at the Marlow Theater Wednesday evening at 8 o clock. Turner studied with Svidor Snipa Noel Galion Boulnoir and Gau nerl in Paris and was an honorary member of the National Conservatory of Music. He is working on a volume of spirituals and an oratorio The Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments and recently returned to America in 1935 after a time in Paris with concerts in New York City.
An early war dispatch describes German air attacks on Turin industrial areas and notes Allied efforts to dismantle the enemy’s military capacity. The report cites strategic aims, recounts shifts in French leadership, and details German advances across France and into the Low Countries as Allied and Axis powers maneuver for position.
The article discusses Mexico facing great peril ahead of the July 7 presidential election. It notes foreign policy, economic outlook, and wartime effects driving calls for close collaboration with the United States on military and economic fronts. Officials reportedly seek to ease strains from petroleum losses and tensions with Great Britain amid a crackdown on what is dubbed the "11th column" elements as crime sweeps the nation.
Three fires broke out in a single house last night, damaging two other rooms and threatening the structure. Firemen said the house, owned by a man named Palmer, had been unoccupied for some time as authorities investigated the cause. The report also notes Allied wartime observations and political-military tensions across Europe, including Russia, Britain, Italy, and France, with ongoing air raids, naval actions, and civilian measures amid the conflict.
Declaration after cabinet meeting in London with French ambassador present emphasizes a united empire effort and increased American support. It notes British and French resources, ongoing war in Normandy, four enemy submarines sunk, and weather hampering bomber activity while fighters were deployed.
Margaret Wilson, daughter of the late President Wilson, has joined a religious colony in Pondicherry, India, led by a Cambridge-educated Hindu reformer. She says she will never return to the outside world. Nakashima, an American-born Japanese architect, describes the sect’s attire and vows. Wilson, who sang with major orchestras and appeared in public years ago, remains in seclusion with about 200 adherents.
A dispatch reports renewed Soviet pressure on Latvia Estonia and Lithuania with demands for free passage stationing troops and forming new governments to honor mutual defense pacts. Moscow accuses Latvia of aggression while defending its right to naval and air bases abroad amid broader East European tensions.
The Associated Press recalls Marshal Philippe Petain, 84, longtime French soldier and diplomat, famed for Verdun, who warned against war with the United States and helped organize American war dead cemeteries in France. He led France in World War I and later steered postwar diplomacy, remaining a key elder figure through the era's upheavals.
Washington reports the U S Reclamation Bureau announced a broad program to serve a region with 9 to 16 million people. It would expand irrigation to create about 2.5 million acres for 70 000 farming families and add mineral development for national defense, with plans for 4 250 000 kilowatts across 20 projects to energize industrial, agricultural areas.
A Georgia train crash kills six youths and injures others as a convoy of a military supply effort prompts Wall Street speculation that Allied war needs will drive rapid arms and industrial spending. Reports detail victims from Shawmut and local towns, with the crash near LaGrange noted while another fatal mishap at North Platte and a bomber crash near Timon Bay are also reported.
Philadelphia June 16 The G O P faces a power struggle over seating the South Carolina and eight other delegations at the Republican national convention. Tolbert faces rival J C Hambright as contest committee hearings loom. National leaders arrive to prepare strategy and the party platform with possible outdoor nomination plans at the University of Pennsylvania.
Senator Pitman urges Colonel Lindbergh to end political fear mongering and offer US expertise for defense. He accuses Lindbergh of provoking panic over aid to England and France, arguing the war is Germany’s fear, not US conquest. Pitman notes open US markets aided Hitler’s war machine and stresses preventing German conquest in the Western Hemisphere.
Baltic reports indicate Russian troop concentrations near Kaunas and borders, with Sweden's Aftonbladet describing Lithuania as a potential flashpoint in a broader European war. Provisional Lithuanian leadership debates exile to Germany or Sweden as Moscow advances.
Democratic hopes for adjournment fade as Republicans push for a quick Senate vote on the defense tax bill. Debate considers extending the session up to six to eight weeks if adjournment fails, with possible three day recess if stalled. Proposals to tax reform and war profits are debated, aiming to raise funds for national debt and defense needs.
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