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The Fort Worth Press
VOL 19, NO. 207
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940
Government Is Doughboys Remem ber Sedan and Their Big
Offensive; 14,200 Americans Buried There
.Offered Use
Of Tech Shops
Board of Education
Co-Operates With
FDR’s Defense Plan
Termination of War
Assured With U. S.
Drive, Says Pershing
Not 25 miles from the ancient
Second Section
Features — Comics — Classified - •
Markets
Name Planners Here For State Bar Session
Committee chairmen, headed by
Committee chairmen, headed by Q Alexander was appointed
finance chairman: Baylor B.
Brown, transportation: Ernest
for the first convention of the
newly-organized State Bar of Tex-
as which will be held here July
4 to 6.
i Mr Whitmore yesterday was
named general chairman. Aubrey
May. invitations; Harry K Brown,
entertainment: J. A Gooch, golf;
Homa 8 Hill, registration, and
G W Parker, Jr., banquet.
Johnson Rites Today ,
Funeral services for Lawrence
Paul Johnson, 47, who died Mon-
day at his home near Smithfield
of a self-inflicted shotgun wound,
were to be held at 3:30 p m. to-
day at Smithfield Methodist ‘
Church and burial was to be in
the Smithfield Cemetery.
00000
By MARY CRUTCHER
in keeping with President
Roosevelt’s preparedness program,
the Board of Education yesterday
passed a resolution to offer the
facilities of Technical High
' School’s machine, electric and
welding shops to the Government
,to be used without cost to the
French city of Sedan, where the
long-awaited “great battle of the
«west ■ in the current war began,
"lies the largest American World
War cemetery—at Romagne-sous-
Montfaucon
The very crosses which mark
the graves of 14,200 Americans
buried on this peaceful hillside—
only a fraction of the nearly 200,-
000 American casualties of the
Sedan action—may soon quiver
and shatter under the bombard-
schools in training men. ment of the great cannon for!
A list of teachers and other em- whose silencing these doughboys
ployes of the schools whose con- fought and died. doughboys lie buried,
tracts sre expiring this year were Sedan, now captured by the ---—---------------------
blitzkrieging Nazi columns, was - . s»
the objective of the greatest 9
American action ever fought. L-SIOT
Its name is obscured in many = Vital J --
memories by time and famous
incidents in the great offensive
whose objective it was. To mil- TICINGU CH
linns of Americans such names 1
as the Meuse-Argonne, the Ar-
gonne (“Oregon”) Forest, the
The American cemetery at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon. near Sedan, France, where 14,300 American
Bny With
Confidence
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nuy With
Confidence
re-elected, and the negro summer
school teachers were announced.
Two' Weeks for Christmas
.A recommendation from Super-
intendent Green that the next
school year should begin Sept. 10
and end June 3, with two weeks
for Christmas, and other holidays
to be announced later, was passed.
The board approved a recom-
mendation by Business Manager
Williams to ask for bida for paper
%. Miles
: 6 io 20 J
-. BELGIUM
SEDAN
“Lost Battalion." and Sergeant
York, are bywords. Few remem-
ber the fame of these names
New Structure Will
Take Place of the
Old Wheat Bldg.
■ products for next year right away.
I Food bids will be taken monthly' stems from the push for Sedan. A modern, two-story structure,
■ because of the uncertainty of Ten miles inside the French faced with light Austin stone, will
■ prices, it was decided border from Belgium. Sedan has take the place of the old Wheat
■ - Members authorized the Recre-ylong known the meaning and Bldg., at Eighth and Main.
Nation Department to use the horrors of war. Demolition of the eight-story
■ grounds st W. C. Stripling and In 1870, the Prussians sur-landmark, which began this week,
■ schools where there sre amphi- rounded the French at Sedan, will require at least a month or
■ theaters during the summer for .There the French surrendered to six weeks.
I showing moving pictures after an Bismarck's men, Napoleon III was General contract for the new
I agreement is worked out with the captured, the second French em- building has been let to Quisle &
■ department whereby all damage to pire was overthrown. Andrews and the contractors will
I grounds is paid for. Big Job For Doughboys have 60 days to do their job. Mor-
Will Divide Profits In the first World War the row Wrecking Co., was given 48
The Recreation Department is Germans once again took Sedan, days from June 1 to raze the old
I also to divide profits made from , Through it ran the Metz-Longwy- stone structure
rs concessions with the board and Sedan-Mezieres railway. Over its, John L Ashe Co. will occupy
■ will furnish its own electricity, tracks were carried the all-im the corner store space on both the the closing days of the World
Supterintendent Green is to portant German communications first and second floors. There War. -
I make a recommendation to the with all the Reich armies west of will be quarters for snother store,...................:
I board at the next meeting for an the Rhine. Could this slim, steel with 20-foot frontage, north of the
I adjustment to take care of replac- lifeline but be severed, the jugu- corner. Chain Store Tax
ing Principal W O. Dewees of D lar vein of German resistance Mr. Ashe hopes to move into his 1 . L A 1
McRae School and other teachers would be cut . new store on his birthday, Sept Upheld by Court
who will reach the retirement age It was on the shoulders of the 18 ‘
at the close of this year, ambitious, eager, green American The owners representing the By United Press.
A letter was read from Charles First Army that the Allied High Wheat etat Despendiis an
C Ashburn, of the vicinity of D. Command put the burden of the Wheat Latal are spending an,
McRae, asking, thst an exception capture °f Sedan in those final
be made in the retirement regu’a-
tion and that Principal Dewees be
retained.
Regret Dewees Retirement
Board members expressed re-
gret of the necessity of retiring
Mr. Dewees, but said it would be
ILimpossible to make an exception
"for one and not for all.
i A recommendation that Simon
I Freese, vice president' acting in
the place of George Thompson Jr .
president, to appoint a committee
to work out a new telephone sis. „ , 1
tem for the public schools with 2:30 O clock in the morning of
Business Manager Williams was Sept. 26, 1918. During the next
passed. 47 days and nights more than
Negro summer school teachers 1,200,000 men faced the action of
announced are. J. M Jacquet, i rin- enemy fire. , During the next 47
cipal; Valerie Wilson, Marion c.Hays and nights over 200,000
Balta. Adalee Houston Benton and Americans became casualties of ‘
Joe Pinkard, high school and Wil- French Get Honor WITH June just one day off and
Nov. S. 1918, on orders fromY the brides-to-be crowding
----------—-----------the the spotlight, it seems that some .
The music of the O-Promise-Me va-
that riety should be as essential to the
season as "Hearts and Flowers"
exception capture of Sedan
months of 1918.
The doughboys started from a
base 25 miles wide, between the
Argonne Forest and the Meuse
River. Sedan was the apex of a
triangle 11 miles away. Between
the nine divisions of the First
lie Stevens and Ruby Miller, ele-
mentary.________________— ------
A modern, two-story structure.
The owners.
Buzancy
K
ept.
Sept. 26 Verdun,
Meuse R.) 3
17
AMERICAN ATTACK
(Aided by French)
Poles Say Nazis 1
Seek to Kill Race :
Being Shipped Away; ।
Many Are Starving |
By United Press. (
NEW YORK May 30 Germany |(
is attempting to exterminate the
entire Polish race to make room .
for its own people. It had been (
charged today in a Polish "black (
book" Issued here, (
The first installment of the ,
black - book was published by the
Monthly Future, a Polish-Ameri- (
can magazine. It was prepared (
Map illustrates progress of by T. F. Bennett and Anthony
American drive toward Sedan In Tarnowski, of the Polish informa-
Lion center attached to the Polish
consulate.
1,620,000 Killed
It estimates that the campaign
and occupation of Poland took the I
lives of 1,100,000 adults, 200,000
children and 320,000 officers and
Army’s 1, III. and V Corps
(whichstarted the campaign)
and their objective lay ground
which General Perishing termed
“Ideal for defensive fighting.”
_ - | AUSTIN, May 30.—State Comp-soldiers. It claimed that 4,000,000
estimated $35,000 on the new .. . . civilians had been deported from
building Foundation of the old troller George Sheppard’s eonten-their homes. the old pondh tor
structure, as well as the west and tion that the chain store tax is
South walls will be retained . ridor 100 at a time in sealed cattle i
south walls. Will be retained computable on all units where a ‘
Back taxes, amounting to $24, - [ , :cars built for 50. 1
073)5 were paid in city, school. I majority of stock 1s held by one Since the war began, 26.000 civ-
county and state taxes yesterday person or concern was upheld ilians have been executed, the
by owners of the old building. The finally by the r
city and school share was $16,393, Court in
I while the county and state collect-
The great push started with
deafening artillery barrages st
Texas Supreme black book charged, and 7,000,000 a
refusing a rehearing in persons are now suffering from 2
the contest made by ,H. E. Butts Iuns'A Forbid Marrying- •
„ Grocery Co. i The publication accused the *
. , .. I Lone Star das Corp of Dalles Nazis of. "inhumanely stopping the @
Ii. natural increase -of Polish popula-
ReepIn9 U P also has accepted the ruling as tion by forbidding young people to •
final and yesterday paid tax marry, and by exposing thousands a
since 1936 computed on all sub- - chare
sidiaries. The tax totaled $16,- were taken away "to be used
628.. military brothels " @
ed $7680.
| 4 -
With the
Records
By MARY CRUTCHER
General Pershing himself,
"race for Sedan" began. The
American general desired
"the honor of entering Sedan
should fall to the First American was to the old mellerdramer.
Army," read an official order In Victor’s June release is an
It did not. The French, eager album to fill the order whether
to wipe the spot off their na- you want to give it as a wedding
tional honor that the fall of gift or whether you just have that
Sedan in 1870 had blotted there, ispring-is-in-the-air feeling.
entered the shell-shattered city | It is Bach's "Wedding Cantata
from the Government payroll, to. first. But not until after the (three 10-inch records, $5) with
get within the June quota of 9598 war was over. Elisabeth Schumann, soprano,
mien and women for this 91 In an official history of the singing with an instrumental en-
Icogreat drive prepared by the Amer. semble under direction of Yelia
district ican Battle Monuments Commis-Pessel. Unlike the best known of
The 15 per cent reduction will sion, of which General Pershing Bach's music, ths Wedding Can-
be spread over the district as thin- was chairman, it is written: tata is gay and sprightly for the
"When the American Army, de- most part and comes in an ex-
spite, increasing enemy reinforce- quisite album.
1 a well-nigh imprea. Columbia is honoring the 100th
WPA Lifts Ax Again;
1663 Will Lose Jobs
District WPA heads today faced
the taak of removing 1663 workers
ly as possible, according to Major r
Karl E. Wallace, district director, ments and
a well-nigh impreg- Columbia is honoring ths 100th
Closing of several projects may be nable hostile defense system, had anniversary of Peter Illich Tchai-
necessary. driven forward to a position dom- kovsky’s birth with the release
Tarrant County will he allowed inating ^ German railroad com- this June of a great recording of
. County will be allowed munications in the vicinity of Se- world-popular symphony. Artur
3800 workers under the new quo- dan, the termination of the war Rodzinski conducts the Cleveland
ta: Every effort will be made to in 1918 was assured." .Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s "Sym-
make ths necessary reductions-------------- I phony No. 5 in E Minor, Op 64."
C. W. Woodman Named (Five 12-inch records, $10).
— a Peman Nameo No doubt th(, best known and
IO Dig Bend Board best loved melodies in all of the
C. W (Woodman, labor leader great composer’s music is the
and editor and publisher of the Andante Cantabile movement of
Fort Worth Union Banner today the symphony, which swing fans
became the sixth recently-appoint know as "Moon Love,” # big hit
ed director to the board of the tune of last year.
Texas Big Bend Park Assn. Highly Recommended:
A Fort Worth labor leader since JOHN CHARLES THOMAS
1913, Mr.' Woodman induced tabor recording (Victor. Red Seal 12-
organizations - to contribute a inch, $2) of “The Open Road" with
minimum of 25 cents for each “Love Can Be Dreamed" and
member to the fund for creation 1 "Mine
of the first national park
state.
here without hampering the city-
wide street improvement program.
Major Wallace said.
Several local projects are near-
ing completion, he pointed out,
and the workers on some of these
probably will be laid off when the
jobs are finished. The N. Main
re-surfacing project, for instance,
a ‘s due to be completed by June 15.
NO SISSY GAME
Star Athletes
Win Texas U.
Art Scholarships
with the release
Alone* on the other tide
M ht An are from The Gypsy Baron.
"CHORALE FROM CANTATA
Mr. Woodman, publisher of the NO. 140 ("Sleepers Awake") and
Union Banner since 1914, former- "Andante from the Italian Con-
ly was State Commissioner
Labor.
or
certo”
(Columbia
Masterworks’
12-inch, $1.50) with Edouard Com-
mette playing the organ of the
Cathedral of Saint-Jean. Lyon.
France
By United Free. - .
AUSTIN. May no - Versatility Delay Labor Session
of a star football end a boxing On ‘5+h Column" E:L4
sailor, and a former three-letter otn Column Night 1 You can’t on Colum-
high school athlete In winning the The meeting of organized union bis Spur release "Naughty
flrot University of Texas art members originally scheduled for Mint IP mentioned in euEESY
scholarships, today had tended to June %. heebeen postponed until umm per e # %record 4
prove that art is no sissy game. 2 retine, sponsor, bum «*» »0» of screamingly-fun-
Joseph F. Schwarting of Waco, ed by the Allied Printing Trades nv BEATRICE KAY rendition,
stellar Longhorn end; George Council, has been called to aid the TW--EFArenditions £
Patrick Buffington of Navasota, FBI fight against un-American 5 * n
for two years a sailor on a tank- activities in this country, C. N. knRoTAS oishtimgale"
er and now a Golden Gloves tour-Andrews, chairman of the com- nereinetor X^ent ' "
In a Lighter Vein:
nament boxer, and Luther R mittee, announced.
"Bookout Jr. of Santa Rosa, high
school athlete and now basketball
and handball intramural tourna-
. ment player, will be awarded the
$130 Harriet F. Batts art scholar-
ship for their excellence in paint-
ing and sculpture. Ward Lock-
wood, art department chairman,
announced today. .
In. the winning examples of "I have long favored military
their work are found vitality and training for Civilian Conservation
power, essential qualities of Corps enrollees,” be Mid. "and in
great art. which are often evi- the light of recent events I feel the _______----------- ..... prows-
dent in the work of men who entire country is rapidly coming dential electors at a convention
lad active and virile lives, said to a realization of the advantages in August. Date and mite of
y Lockwood. lof such instruction.” I the meeting were not announced.
Military Training
For CCC Urged
WASHINGTON, May 30.—Mill-
tary training for CCC boys is pro-
vided in a bill just introduced by
Senator Tom Connally of Martin.
FREDDY MARTIN’S “It’s a
Lovely Day Tomorrow" and "You
Cant Brash Ms Off.” It’s a Vie-
tor Bluebird.
Reds to Nominate
HOUSTON. May 30. — State
Communist Secretary Homer
Brooks said today that the state
Communist committee has filed
with the Secretary of State a
certificate of intention to nomi-
nate state candidates and presi-
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 207, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1940, newspaper, May 30, 1940; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685520/m1/13/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.