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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY-27, 1940
TACK
... a sa ss 3 s‘aa s a a a *, * s as s sa
Troops Rush Both Flanks On Franco-Belgian Front
GERMAN LOSSES
ARE ‘TERRIFIC’
IN ALL SECTORS
Famous Military Expert
Analyzes War for Press
Today in adjoining columns The Press presents the first daily
war interpretations by J W. T. Mason, famous military expert Mr.
write "Todays War Move." for the United Press each
morning as noon as the communiques and developments at the fight-
ing front furnish the material to be discussed.
The daily exposition of war de-" -
Boer War. Since the end of the
first World War he has ob-
served closely at first-hand all
phases of the European situa-
tion as they developed in both,
a military and political way.
velopments which he wrote for
United Press newspapers from
July. 1914, until November, 1918.
gained world-wide recognition as
the outstanding analysis of the
movement* of the armies of the
World War This column was
widely used in new spapers in the
United States and abroad and
became accepted aa authoritative.
′ Mason arrived in New York
last Saturday, after extensive
travels in the Far East and Eu-
rope.- J
Mason has been a student of
military strategy ever since the
His study of German. British
and French military strategy and
tactic* and the development of
the new form of warfare, together
with a knowledge of the military
terrain of Belgium and northern
France the scene of the present
great battle, qualify him to eluci-
date and translate the signifi-
cance and importance of the mili-
tary move* day by day.
J. W. T. Mason
* ROOSEVELT ASKS:
Industry To
Build Defense
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Germans Pipe Stem' Sweep to Channel
No Great Threat to Britain, Mason Says
Ry J. W. T. MASON The Allies are massed along the of the pipe, enclosing Allies
hundred miles of thia outer side, within the circle.
trying to keep the Nazis within But, even then, the position
I of the Allied troops would not
be desperate as long aa the Ger-
man troops occupying the chan-
! nel coast were no stronger than
Unitied Press War Expert.
Germany’s occupation of parts
of Boulogne and other center*
along the channel
coast has
| come from the wrong direction
to possess valor for any attack
1 on Great Britain. Unless the
i Germans can break the strong
| line of the Allied armies farther
■ east, the present German post-
| tions along the channel must be
| considered aa having question-
| able offensive importance as far
I as the British Isles are con-
[ cerned.
The combat area in- Flanders
the bowl.
The pipe stem joins the bowl
la the vicinity of Cambrai, Val-
encienes and St. Quentin and
follows the Somme westward to-
ward the channel, swinging
northeastward at Abbeville and
trying to follow the channel
coast line. Through the pipe
stem the German* are sending
comparatively small bodies of
mechanized troops, who have
present reports indicate.
The desperate fighting that
ha* been taking place in the
district about Valenciennes,
Cambrai and St. Quentin rep-
succeeded in swinging along the
and northern France somewhat coast as far sa Boulogne and
| resembles a wavy drawing of a near Calais. (
If thia turn backward of the
| huge distorted pipe The bowl
I* occupied by the German*,
I with the outer side curving
| from Antwerp to the Somme.
. pipe stem toward the bowl were
to be continued it would bring |
the item back to the upper rim 1
resents an attempt by the Al-
lies to cut the stem from the
bowl of the pipe, isolating the
Germans who have gone
through the stem toward the
channel. Only partial success
has rewarded this movement.
Today’s announcement that
the French have retired from
their V alenciennes positions te
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Nazis Gain Some Ground In Savage
Drives to Destroy Trapped Army;
French Forces Now ‘Re-established’
By United Press.
LONDON, May 37.—British infantry, aided by French tanks,
counter-attacked German troops In violent fighting on both flanks
- of the northern Franco-Belgian sector, British general headquarters
reported today.
' MAPPING SECOND WEEK OF TOTAL WAR
U. S. to Pay Bill
President Says Fifth
Column Dangers
"No Idle Dream
By LYLE C. WIL SON
United Press Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May 27 Pres-
ident Roosevelt proposes a part-
nership of Government capital
with private industry in the vast
national defense program in which
the nation is engaged today.
He said it would be accompanied
by great re-employment
The purpose of Government ad-
vances for plant expansion and
other purposes evidently would be
to relieve private capital of the
risks of sudden peace— sudden ces
ration of war orders.
The program was outlined by
the President last night in a fire-
side talk ominous with warning
that the United Rtatey must deal
vigorously with “spies, saboteurs
and traitors."
Fifth Column No Idle Dream
The Fifth Column the Trojan
Horse—is no idle dream. Mr
Roosevelt said.
“New forces are being unleash-
ed," he said, “deliberately planned
to divide and weaken us in the
face of danger as other nations
have been weakened before."
He repeated that our own
American Hemisphere is threat-
ened by forces of destruction.”
Would Continue Benefits
To labor Mr. Roosevelt promised
no sacrifice in the Administra-
tion’s social objectives — Wage-
Hours Act, old age and unemploy-
ment insurance and labor’s rights
British prepare feverishly for
first invasion * 900 years. J
government given dictatorial
powers, allied ring defends
trie »i target channel ports.
is lilds ire
NORTH SEA
GERMAN Troops
ALLIED Troops'
LONDONDoURS’S
ENGL AND „*
“ AMSTERDA
ROTTERDAM-
City Industries
Prepared For 1
WarEmergency
Ry UNITED PRESS - J
In savage attacks today waves of German troops squeezed
the trapped Allied Army into a smaller circle in Flanders, drove a
deep wedge into the enemy flank in Belgium, advanced closer to
Ypres and forced the Allies to retreat near Valenciennes.
The Nazis paid a tremendous price in dead in their effort to
keep the offensive from stalling.
Hitler must keep the offensive moving forward or face the
loss of all that ho ha* gained. The:
Germans, by their blitzkrieg tae-
ties, have cut through to the
BOULOGN
ABBEVILLE v
.E HAVRE
French build sold defense line
against drive on Paris, shoot
out counter attacks against
German wedge.
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17 Local Factories
Hold Contracts For
Supply of Materials
Fort Worth manufacturers were
channel and encircled the Allied
armies of the north but If they
now fail to destroy these armies
or if they even permit the lines to
become stabilized, they face loan
of much that they gained at a
The War At
A Glance
By UNITED rasas.
ARRAS
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BELGIUM
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STRICT
FRANCE PARIS
. Lone Nazi parachuter cap-
: tured, equipped with bicycle,
incendiary chemicals
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NAMUR /y
British blast oil stores
at Hamburg, Bremen:
bomb Aachen, West-
wall and Nan supply
lines in rear.
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It
swift .German columns, asing
dive bombers, chute and cycle
troops, drive spearhead to
channel ports, battle fiercely
with allies trapped w pocket
north of Cambrai.
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Map highlights spread of German legions across Belgium and northern France. First day of second week: Germans take
Brussels and Namur, break French lines, bring General Gamelin’s "Conquer or Die" ultimatum. Second day: Germans take
Antwerp, head for channel ports in France. British bomb Gar man fuel supply stations in Rhineland. Germans mop up in Neth-
erlands. Weygand succeeds Gamelin. Third day: Germans announce reincorporation of three Belgian provinces into Reich,
advance toward Oisa River in France. Fourth day: Germans begin laying trap for Allied forces in Belgium, continue on toward
English channel. Fifth day: German spearhead reaches Abbe ville on channel, large Allied forces trapped in Belgium. Germans
bomb British and French channel ports. British bomb Aachen. Sixth day: French form main defensive line behind Somme and
Aisne livers. Allies launch local counter-attacks. Seventh day: Germans spearhead to Boulogne on channel, say invasion of Eng-
land is near. French retake Arras, intensify counter-attacks. Allied pincer threatens German salient to channel.
in general but he warned that;
minority strikes should not dis-
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Services Today For
William McMillan
Funeral service# for William M
McMillan. 905 W. Central, who
died at his home Friday, were to
be at Robertson-Mueller-Harper
Funeral Home at 2 p m today
with Rev. G. Weldon Gatlin of-
ficiating. Burial was to be in_ □ i>i * .
Greenwood. Mr. MeMilian was 81 - - - .— , - Boyds Calls For Half In Overproduction;
Pallbearers were to be W. R. A military axiom, new-learned
Ross, Parker Jameson, D H Per- on Europe* battlefields, struck
home to peaceful Tarrant County
today with death of two pedes- This country's oil exports dropped 10,000.000 barrels during the
trians in week-end traffic, first seven months of the European War under those of the cor-
shall, Ed Ward, E. V. Taylor and
John C. Hicks.
THE WEATHER
Pedestrian
Mounts As:
“A man afoot la no
machines."
Dead were the ----
FORT WORTH AND VICINITY -
Cloudy with occasional rain and thun-
dershowers tonight and Tuesday: min- ___
imam temperature tonight 64 degrees trian victims of
maximum Tuesday 83 degrees
EAST TEXAS (east or 100th merid-the year...
lam) Mostly cloudy, scattered thun- William
dershowers Tuesday and in west and Thomas Ball,
north portions tonight. .ear re.
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th mer
fan).—Fair southwest scattered thun-tired Collin
dershowers early tonight north and County farmer,
east portions Tuesday thundershowers who succumbed
southeast fair north and west por-2-. .
tions Somewhat cooler south .portidiigenterday te •
Tonieht slowly rising temperature fries received
north portion Tuesday. Friday near his
Naremetrte Premere .......won me 4015 E
county's 11th
and 12th pedes-
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES Father
Times YearAgo Yes day Today sencio
12 Midnight - " —
2 a m...
r Ino-
Martin,
rises
API Is Told That War Has Democrats Face
Slashed U. S. Oil Exports Cnirited Fight
OPHliEU Palit
Says Emergency Demand Could Be Fulfilled
Hy GORDON K SHARER
United Press Correspondent.
FRANCE—French admit loss
of Boulogne but claim still to
have a hold on Calais and ether
channel ports, despite German
claims to the contrary. Allies
forced to retire from hotly-con-
tented Valenciennes sector north
of Cambral. French report fierce
German assaults in two sectors
near French-Belgian frontier,
with niter disregard of losses.
BELGIUM — Germans renew
attack on Allied northern army,
isolated in Flanders. Heaviest
fighting of war reported in
progress along River Lys in -
Belgium.
GERMANY — Germans hi
mass attack claim to he squeeze
ing trapped Allies to Flanders
into a corner, and to have drive---
en through Allied front near
Ypres, threatening Lille.
GREAT BRITAIN — Scotland
Yard continues “Fifth Column”
drive, rounding up suspects in
preparation for expected Ger-
man invasion. Air force reports
successful raids on German
comm un lea tions and airdromes
LONDON, May 27.—The Ex-
change Telegraph News Agency
reported from Rome today that
ready for the "war emergency the British Embassy in Rome
today, with U. s Army contracts had advised British residents to
in the office safes of 17 factor Are Italy. _____
lem. • terrible price and might even thee
| The preparedness organization disastrous additional reverses.
here is a part of a nation-wide Lile is Enetreled.
industrial setup which, at a sigh The German strategy is to hem
nal from Army headquarters, the encircled Allies in the north
would start turning out shells, into as small an area as possible
pistols, artillery harness, yentage, so that they might be more easily
- gun carriages, shrapnel, uniform destroyed by fleets of Nazi dive
| cloth, airplane parts, and so on bombers and masses of charging
In Texas, are 222 plants ready Infantry
contracts signed, to swing into Therefore the Germans attacked
Army materials production. The ths enemy left flank so that ths
| contracts involve $36,000,000. Nazis north of Menin could ap-
| Confirmation of the plan, proach the historic battlefield of
launched by the Army last Sep- Ypres, encircling the big French
teniber, was made today by Maj. city of Lille from the north and
| Ray M. Hare of the Quartermas- threatening to turn the Allied line
ter Corps in Washington. or push it back to the Yser River
Speedy Production The Ypres drive also appeared
- a designed to cut off the Belgian
. Army is nt yet channel ports of Ostend and Zee-
through with its efforts to speed brugge, which havs been held by
the production of Its essential ma- the Allies under constant German
terials and equipment . If war aerial bombardment.
should come. The Chamber of Claim French Repulsed
Commerce here is co-operating The Germans also said that they
with Army officials in gathering had repulsed attacks by French
still more useful information on colonials (possibly the famous
the ability of Fort Worth plants Senegalese) with bloody losses in
to produce war goods. | the center of the trap northeast
The Texas, "war orders" would (Turn to Page B)
be turned out "If, as and when---------------
they are needed,’’ Major Hare (Ce .■ 1 a , E I
04 Orders Allceated Sixth Column for Home
Fourteen of the 222 Texas con- T A 1 TE
tnete are tor Navy goods: 208 tor Defense Advocated Here
In Houston 30 factories have
been allocated such orders, and
suggestions have just been made
to the War Department by Rep.
Albert Thomas of Houston for
adding nine more to this list.
Orders havs been placed with
sight factories in El Paso: 23 to
factories in San Antonio, 47 to
threatening to turn the Allied line
And the
in Holland and Belgium.
ITALY— Preparations for war
increase, including such mess-
ures as ban on use of gasoline
and transportation, and regis-
tration of all supplies of wool
and rollon. Newspapers predict
decisive battle, might occur in
I Egypt.
Plan of George Hill Jr., Houston Oil Man, Is
Before Senate's Military Affairs Group
factories in Dallas, and the re-
mainder are spread out over the as . tan - —
state. Alate Alorm L nr
The cont racts st ate no prices, Yd/1 IdITT |
nor any set times for delivery, **" "- ■ Me
these stipulations depending. upon:
when and if the, materials are
George Hill Jr. thinks the man with a pick or a shovel might
just as well carry a gun along too these days . . just in case.
The wealthy Houston oil man. In town for the AFI sessions
here, today asked public approval of his plan for a National Indus-
trial Defense Corps , , , a sort of home “sixth column" is check
actually wanted
Could Make Shells
The contracts are for so-called
rne _____________.._____.... ............ .... .......... .... , ,„ WACO, May 27.—State Demo-
match for responding period in 1939, W R. Boyd Jr., executive vice president cratic Chairman Eugene Ger-
the American Petroleum Institute, said today, many today warned the ntate ex;
Here for the Institute’s 10th annual mid-year convention, the ecutive. committee that
' executive leader of the nation’se----------------------------would be an attempt made by out;
siders to take over tomorrow*
major petroleum organization vig-.u. . Democratic convention He an-
orously warned against continued Syndicate nounced plans to prevent the pro-
over production IIIUIUQI Pat posed coup by force if necessary
Says Predictions Wrong L AThere are very definitely some
Contrary to predictions of many MeieIS ConemeD movements to bring into the con-Rain Again--Unless
“economic authorities that the IOHBOL • WIIUUIIHIvention tomorrow a blitzkrieg to ’
war would bring a sharp boost NEW YORK. Mav 27- Harry take the meeting over," Germany Forecast If Wet
in exports Amenecan petrole- (Happy) Maione and Frank (The mid. ' already have been
um products, the industry has suf- P ..
fered a disappointing decline, Mr. Dasher) Abbandando, first mem-
Boyd said bers of Murder, Inc., to be brought
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This Date
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after he was
& C. M. F., who
65 died early yes-
86 terday shortly
E struck by an auto in the 2000
* block Crump.
1 1 A negro driver, whose I auto
* struck the priest, was to be
charged today with failure to ren-
der aid. Police Homicide Officer
VMM Man MI
A. C. Howerton said. '
Third Victim Critical
A third traffic victim,
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U. S. Ship Mounts
By DANA SCHMIDT.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
""mate any "fifth column" activity.
Mr. Hill’s plan, now before the
Senate Military Affairs Commit
tee. la being pushed by the Hour-
ton Chamber of Commerce and
was incorporated in A bill by Sen-
"problem items — items, that is,
on which some advance notice has
to be given manufacturers, and German quarters said today that
which are more or leas difficult signs were increasing hourly that
"the British planned some manip-
ulation to harm the American
to get
in addition to these contracts,
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BERLIN, May 27.—Authorized
The greateat decline, be added, to trial and convicted, today were
is in gasoline and heavy fuel oils, sentenced to be electrocuted dur-
■ with exports in lubricating oils ing the week of July 7
and greases reflecting an in- Maione and Abbandando, both
crease.
Consequently, Mr. Boyd pointed
out, all regulatory officials must
pursue a more vigorous policy of
keeping production within demand
and to urging refiners to draw
on the increasing surplus of gaso-
line stocks
30, were found guilty by a blue
ribbon jury May 23 of the murder
Don't trop to stop Weatherman
H. P. Adams if you've heard this
Loud applause met Germany’s forecast before-
statement that “others are not go- This afternoon: showers.
ing to be permitted to take Tonight: occasional rains,
charge' . Tomorrow: thundershowers
it drizzled
thio morning
Y e sterday
brought a trace
of moisture-
ator Morris Sheppard. Mr. Hill
appeared before the committee
last week.
Mr. Hill, who believes American
intervention in the war may be
imminent, would organize work-
ers, possibly both men and women,
Into a homa defense organization
to prevent sabotage, combat sub-
versive activities and provide for
home defense in general.
Once In Cavairy
The Houston visitor, once a cap-
tain in the Texas Cavairy and new
an honorary colonel on the gove
ernor’s staff, comes from a fame
ily long identified with independ-
ence. Hla grandfather was at San
Jacinto at 16 and a great grand-
father and several great grand
uncles were on the Mier Expedi-
tion.
. In Fort Worth he loot no time
in enlisting support for his plan.
Gen. John A. Hulen of the war-
time 36th heartily endorsed R.
“Public support to what we need
now . . " Mr. Hill said, “we must
actually create a demand for suck
legislation.”
Tee Late La Europe
Mr. Hill said similar plans were
started in Europe but the were
w.M. must not ba caught
. (run to rage a) *
steamship President Roosevelt"
and to throw the Mams on Ger-
many “to arouse war fever la the
United States." .
Earlier the official German
news agency D. N. B. had warned
the United States at a “dastardly
British plot” to sink the President
Roosevelt on its return journey
from Ireland with Americans flee-
ing the war lone.
The news agency said its in-
formation came from “credible
quarters in Boston,” and charged
that British Prims Minister Win-
ston Churchill seeks to “entangle
the American people in the war
by criminal methods” by ordering
the ship sunk and blaming it on
Germany.
The dispatch did not specify
which Boston was referred to in
ths charge. The German con-
“We are going to control the
convention,” he said. “And we are
going to see that none but those
qualified get in If it take* all the
Waco polices force.”
The convention will have 2229
votes, and it* wa* estimated there
| will be approximately 3500 dele-
the day before
10 inch
Total Fort
Their conviction and sentence to gates. Worth rainfall
the death penalty were the first Germany said seats have been for the month
results of Brooklyn District At- provided on the basis of votes, and rose to 4.84
-inches, the first
of George Rudnick who, they be-
lieved, bad turned informer on
them.
Their conviction and sentence to
Could Meet Emergency 1
Mr. Boyd wea highly optimistic, torney William O’Dwyer’s drive to
however, over the ability of the break up the gang which made a
..oil industry to meet this coun-business ef murdering for profit
MAC TASAS P IFOleur S enumE* MA Ipone ” t*
will be distributed to the counties ..... . - ------
in proportion to their convention May to reach normal since 1936
vote. --------:
Fred Rucker of San Antonio, 64 degrees with tomorrow’s
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, .. ....... .....________sulate at Boaton. Mass. said
Minimum tonight will be near “there must be some mistake” and
as'-suggested the 20
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