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SIMMS SAYS:
Italy Will Not Enter__
The War At Present
Conditions Point to Italian Neutrality But
People Will March When Duce Gives the Word
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
ROME. May 17.- While the situation indisputably is very grim,
my strong impression after 48 hours here is that lUly will stay out of
the war for the immediate present.
One word from one, man —Mussolini,may
change everything without notice any day. But
personal observation and contact with many who
are in. a position to know all that mere outsiders
can know —and there are no insiders here—lead
me to believe that the word will not be spoken
FDR Intends
To Remodel 35
Warships
Solons Work Rapidly
On Defense Program;
Okeh Seen In Week
By United Press.
WASHINGTON. May 17.- Pres-
| Ident Roosevelt revealed today
| that he is planning to recommis- |
sion 35 more old World War
destroyers and is exerting pres-'
sure on airplane manufacturers
| to move their new plants away
Mapping the German Onslaught
( Brussels ©
rmentiars o
orchiesc
le Quesmogo
MezieresC
efenders Fear Trap
GERMANS WIDEN BREAK
IN MAGINOT, PUSH TO
100 MILES FROM PARIS
12,000 French
Prisoners Taken, The War At
French Drop Tons
Of Explosives On
Enemy Positions
By UNITED razes
Berlin Claims A Glance
By FREDERICK < OKCHssyn a oerment nem
United Press Correspondent
BERLIN, May 17. Germany’s : Whom
shattering offensive towaa the aermans unreaten to sever *.—protecting Brussels.--
English Channel was reported — *
officially today to have broken in neigium France Defend
the main Allied defense lines in ers beaten buck at Cathedral
Belgium, captured the fortress of ciry or Lmuivain, west of Liege,
Namur and “deeply pierced and alone River
France s Maginot Line along a
62-mile front GREAT BRITAIN — Military
The High I Command common spokesman admits situation in
Ique said the German forces had France to “very serous aye • . . ,
smashed into France on a front German claim that 12,000 French Brussels Government,
extending from the French troops captured sounds reason- Due to the Allied retreat the
town of Maubeuge in Carignan able. Declares reports that Belgian Government was compell-
(south Of Sedan), then broaden- Nazis have overrun many front ed to leave, Brussels, Belgian
ing their break through west of positions in the extension of the Minister of Interior A. Vander-
I the River Meuse. Maginot Line are true, but says poortro announced over the Brus-
Should U, S. Aid Allies? -------- *: =====
iero field headquarters, said the *
| German airplane, tank and in- "**
fantry onslaught against Brussels FRANCE—Germans attack
Hand Antwerp had broken the Dyle. Allied armies on three sorters,
• River defense lines to which the the closest only 100 miles from
ORheims
l yet awhile :
i One reason for delay is that Italy is now-help
ing Germany quite as much •* staying out as she
i could by going in.
The whole Mediterranean area is frozen tight
by uncertainty over what II Duce has in mind.
The Allied fleet dares not move until it knows cassnum , -
what he is going to do The French must retain 1 day, Mr. Roosevelt said that any Map shows how the mighty German Army has extended lie
large forces in Morocco, Tunisia and elsewhere in North Africa, pend- immediate threat to this country battle line deep into France. Berlin claims—and guarded admis-
. inis decision and must hold as many troops in southern France as if would make necessary an infinite- sions by the French High Command partly confirmed the claims-
W 6 . (Turn to Page 8) ly larger program. that Nazi forces have smashed the Maginot Une along a 62-mile
.... • • • Marshall Addresses Solons front extending from the French town of Maubeuge to Carignan and
0 WLlIALc CAVE. Gen. George C. Marshall, Army possibly Longwy. German troops have reached Bethel,-just north
MAJOR WILLIAMb SA TS: chief-of-staff, appeared before a west of Rheims, and only 100 miles from Paris. This afternoon the
secret meeting of the Senate Allies were reported to be withdrawing from the defense lines pro-
T T C A • T) CY 7.NL.T T Military Appropriations Subcom- testing Brussels as Germans threatened to split Allied communica-
g 1A T Y A 190 Y a 1 1 ( | mittee, tion lines between France and Belgium.
U.l/U I UOl A/CUCEC | The subcommittee conclude d 4-9 =-........................•--—
Be A Separate Force
from exposed seaboard areas
Reviewing details of the $1,-
182,000,000 defense program which
Simms he submitted to Congress yester-
ne. .... ... ...._____________-__day, Mr. Roosevelt said that any
forces in Morocco, Tunisia and elsewhere in North Africa, pend- immediate threat to this country
I hearings in less than three hours
and prepared to send the bill to
the full committee Monday.
Overdun
Allied troops tonight were with-
drawing from the defense lines
©Paris
The heavy German forces which
broke through the Allied front
between Mezieres and Sedan have
swung sharply to the northwest
where their advance threatens to
cut off the Allied armies in Bel-
gium from their lines of supply
and communication in France.
The House Military Affairs
Committee also acted to expedite
the program. Chairman Andrew:
May introduced an Army bill
clearing legal obstacles for gen- •
eral expansion, acquisition of
planes, and training of more
pilots
Would Cost Six Millions
12 Representative Fort Worthers Express Views
On One of Nation’s Most Perplexing Problems
By DELBERT WILLIS I Allies forces had elung in at re Paris. Tank fleets, motorized
"How far should the United States go in helping the Allies stop mendous battle in Central Bel
Hitler?" gium.
Twelve average persons, representing a cross-section of the city | French tank units also were
The President said the recom- were asked that question by a Press reporter. | defeated west the nrican
Seven replied we should give them all material assistance, such : town or pinant, on the scuse
i as money, war supplies, armaments,, but we should not send them River near the French frontier
, American soldiers.
i There's time to build America's airpower, but Dis ce u sin g the $200,000,000 Two answered that we should rush troops to stop the Hitler and se r aumtuns the
A only 0,1 * sound foundation and not by erecting the "blank check” item in the pro- | war machine. * neaine mi. -twar lery
* ca roof first and working down. The 50,000 planes gram which he asked be left to The other three said we should mind our own business. Let (Turn to Pace
recommended by the President is as revolutionary, (Turn to Page 9) 1 — ----.... . -------- ’ "E"
Msei and "radical an upset of Army and Navy defense —------- .........
Williams tradition in this country, as the defeat of British
a power by German airpower in Norway and domination of land ATTO eke Mara
______( Turn to Page 8)______________- WILL ASKS MVOTC
By MAJOR AL WILLIAMS
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance Writer.
WASHINGTON, May 17.- The President's message to Congress
visualizing 50.000 airplanes as American airpower means organization
pr-ryeu of a separate air force, comparable in-autonomy
and administrative structure, to the existing Army
and Navy departments Whether he knows it or
not, it means overhauling an antiquated national
defense system into three departments— Army, missioning of the 35 destroyers
Navy, and Air. Immediate attack from Europe is will cost approximately $6,000,-
isaM I in the President’s mind alone. 000.
, Roosevelt Evades How Tax Study Groups
We Will Get Results
By LUDWELL DENNY
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance Writer.
By DAVID LEAVELL
Press Staff Writer.
BJG SPRING, May 17. — The
West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce, cheered by announcement
of a 13 per cent rate reduction on
by WASHINGTON, May 17.—The Presidents defense message re-Iclass freight shipments within
is peated the obvious and evaded the essential.------------—----— Texas, today held a huge Ameri-
a He repeated what moat of Congress, the press, and the public canism rally with Gov. W. Lee
4 have been saying since Hitler knifed through Poland last September — O’Daniel as speaker, and staged an
■ and what many others have been saying since the days of Billy all-youth parade
■ Mitchell- that defense depends on •--------------------------—
■ aviation and mechanization which billion will only dupe the public,
t we lack.---------------------and further glut the production
■ But he evaded the essential-machine, unless there is establish-
■ organization to get results, ed
■ He asked only for money, more'
a than a billion dollars But money
$ alone cannot do the job. He has
‘ spent seven billions and has not
J done the job.
■ He has two billions already
■ given him for the next 12 months,
■ and still no provision for spending
" that money effectively and fast.
The generals have just testified
that the best they can do in get-
ting deliveries is a year and a half
to two years, and the admirals
longer.
There ie danger that another
• honoring Boy
Scouts and 4 H Club members.
A resolution before the con-
ventinn—In line with the theme
mela radio.
Thursday our troops repulsed
a German attack,” he said. “How
ever toward the end of the day a
partial change of positions occur-
red and Belgian troops occupied
new positions in A most- orderly
manner "
The Exchange Telegraph Agen-
1. A bi-partisan Congressional
defense council to investigate
and help perfect policy.
2. A separate unified air de-
partment and corps.
S. The best civilian production
board obtainable to speed out-
put of all fighting equipment.
That this three-fold organization
is essential is proved by the costly
of patriotic duty — called for
extension throughout West Tex-
as of local public expenditures
committees such as the one
which has been operating in
Fort Worth for the past year,
checking public budgets and tax
matters.
J. S. Bridwell of Wichita Falls,
independent oil man, well known
In Fort Worth, was, favored by
the nominations committee to head
the West Texas Chamber next
units, infantry and airplanes The Exchange Telegraph Agen:
hurled into great battle. Ger- ley had said earlier that the Bel-
man s using 2000 tanks and gain Government had moved to
3000 airplanes. Paris made mill- Ostend
tary zone. J Main British Lines Broken
GERM ANY - Germans claim 1 The Germans, using two or three
to have broken main Allied de- heavily armored divisions in the
tense line in Belgium, to have push through the Mezieres-Sedar
captured Namur fortress and gap. broke the main British de-
penetrated the Maginot Line fense lines along the Dyle River
Line over a front st miles wide, in front of the Belgian capital.
Germans say 8,000,000 men are The Allies also were driven out
engaged in “greatest battle in of Namur, Belgium, but the forts
It IC UIUCI nlulllld history," there were believed to be still hold-,
ing out. But when the defenders’
Tvsial SWITZERLAND — French lines yielded near Louvain, the
THICK correspondence report • contin- Germans swarmed through UM
Iiuun Upul CHUI a used German troop concentra- second line of defenses around
tions on Swiss frontler. Brussels and predicted the capital
Convention Delegates ITALY—Rome plastered with would fall quickly. .
e L anti-Allied posters, urging Italy $ others Invadingruwere
Say They Will Fight to seize French inland of Cor- smashing westward down the
. , , Sambre River into the French
Proposed Reductions , . Maginot defenses from Maubeuge
1 to Montmedy. . * '
Texas truck operators, alarmed I 1A/ I On French soil, according to UM
at a U-per rent reduction in class War German high command, the Nam .
-arkt m red venterday by P forces widened their break into
******* deereeyentrA Ny py the Maginot—Line west at the.
the Railroad Commission, planned Bulletins Meuse River so that they now
stringent opposition end threat- claim a 62-mile front from Mau-,
ened legal action against the order By United Prema beuge to Carignan, south of Se-
today as the Texas Motor Trans- ROME, May 17. - American dan, from which flying mechan-
portation Assn, convention entered consular officials today denied ized columns have stabbed deeply
its second day at Blackstone Ho- reports that they had been er- into French territory.
tel dered to prepare to destroy , Nazis 100 Miles From France
Class freight rates cover less- their codes on a moment’s "e In Paris, it was admitted that
than-carload shipments the bulk tice. The reports were derib these thrusts had reached Rethel,
or the truck lines’ business ed as “most sensational but 100 miles from the French capi-
| An injunction against the com- without foundation ital, and that tremendous German -
MRS. LOREEN CUNNING- mission’s order would be tiled by . power was being thrown into the
HAM, 1976 Rea—Walt until the association’s executive com- .FABiil, May 11—A Paris main offensive in an attempt to
they come over here before we mittee but the association itself Midi correspondent on the win the war by a quick and devas-
jump in and start fighting. Give may adopt resolutions paving the Swiss German frontier asserted tating blow
the Allies supplies and equip- way for such , step today that German troop epn- The Allies fought back with
ment if it looks like they are intoin in centrations continued on the everything they could throw into
going to be defeated. order ud frontier and that belief was the battle along the Maginot de-
-......-*--------~ taeny took top pie on the 2= rowing that a move into switt tenees. Paris dispatcher said that
Student__vention’s order of business reblae. erland might come soon. The Allied planes and guns were hurt
student- * Germans were reported to be ing tons of high explosives into the
1 the dl dirn which moving barbed wire barriers in German positions around Rethel to
_______*™r" order to make . possible point en effort to collapse Uto Nazi
of departure for troops, salient.
Can Antonin The British publie tonight was
, ZURICH, Switzerland, May being prepared for bad news
.‘1A German bomber was from the fighting lines... The
forced down by a Swiss pursuit British Press Assn. distributed
41 UNI SESSION plane after a brief air battle a dispatch to hundreds of British
1, last night. Two of the bomber’s newspapers dedanag
Daughters of the Republic of crew attempted to eneape in- press must inform the publie
Texas were en route to homes" . . - that “the present situation must
throughout Texas today after neoain be regarded aa one of extreme
closing their 49th annual conven- P - eaviv."
tion at Hotel Texas yesterday by
selecting San Antonio as the 1941 Showers Due Tonight
convention city onewer
Three delegatee Mrs I. 8 Myer
of Belton, Mrs J. L Utile of
Beaumont and Mrs. N. P. Sander-’ E
son of Texarkana, were named to going to come in handy....
serve three-year terms on the ex-.. Thundershowers are forecast by Great masses of heavy artillery
ecutive board They succeed Miss the Weather, Bureau for. Fort and powerful anti-tank guns were
Victoria Freis of Huntsville, Mrs. Worth tonight Cloudiness is due brought up through the night is
s A Collom of Texarkana and to continue tomorrow, an effort to box in the spearhead
Mi B P Lewis of Paris | Maximum temperatures yester-of the German advance which was—
7 2 ... day set an all-time May 16 record led by tanks and armored ears.
VAULDEN MATTHEWS. , Oieer" elected Taat year wet high with 90 degrees. The previ- Thousands of fresh troops were
20, business college student, of re-elected as * matter of formal ious mark was 89 in 1911. sent into action against the Ger-
toe Taylor.—ra may give the ity. They were elected to serve two Cooler weather to forecast for man positions.
Allies our moral and financial terms. Fortworthe At tomorrow, with the mercury’s Blasting through defenses at
support, but we shouldn’t be ETOUP, are Mrs . maximum near 80 degrees. Mini-
shipping over soldiers. Not now, ’—“ " **** *--. -
at least. Of course events may
cause me to change my mind.
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England and France take care of themselves, they said
Here’s how the 12 Foil Worthers answered the question:
see i.ee
Mother—
Stenographer—
MRS. EVA MAE GOERTE,
1233 Lowe, office clerk and
mother of a 16-year-old boy —
Naturally, 1 have the selfish
point of view, having a son who
is just becoming of, "war age."
We should send supplies, no men.
Bank Guard
experience.or all other major.ne: Announcement of the - freight
rate reduction, effective July 1,
was made by Railroad Commis-
sioner Jerry Sadler in an address
here as the W.T.C.C. three-day
convention got under way yester-
day afternoon.
The news gave fresh impetus to
the W T.C.C.'s major objective —
the ultimate elimination of all un-
fair freight rate differentials in
the Southwest
tions of the world. The United
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EXCLUSIVE
. Grouped in these two columns are three stories
backgrounding highly important phases of the.
aift moving international scene. Three stories by
eminent authorities on their subjects—William
Philip Simms, Major Al Williams and Ludwell
Denny, top-notch Scripps-Howard writers all.
ONE WORD FROM ONE MAN-
may put Italy into the war any day. But Mussolini,
the man who must speak that word, probably will
withhold it for a while get, cables Mr. Simms,
foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers.
• Mr. Simms sailed for Europe a few days be-
fore the Nazi invasion of Holland and Belgium
began. Distinguished as a correspondent through-
out the first World War, familiar with every coun-
try in Europe, one of the few American journalists
ever accorded a personal interview by Mussolini,
Mr. Simms has the highest qualifications as an in-
terpreter of events on the swiftly-changing Euro-
pean scene.
1
Major Williams, today’s Billy Mitchell, no
longer in the military service, can say what he
thinks of our antiquated defense system.
And Ludwell Denny knows the Washington
scene from one end of Pennsylvania Ave. to the
other.
ONLT in THE PORT WORTH PRESS can
gon follow the writings-of these three experts.
The freight rate equalization
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THE WEATHER
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showers Saturday partly cloudy. Cool-.-----n
er north portion tonight. W.T. LEE, of B118 NW 26th.
—We did a lot of good in the
i Barometric Pressure .........29.123
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
Time- YearAge Yes day Toda
, 12 Midnight .... 69 67 76
a. m.
68
67
63
64
67
70
85
74
last war, but H cost us a lot of
lives and a lot of money. I be-
lieve we should lead all possible"
assistance to England and
gravity.”
Allies Move Up Artillery
The situation was described by
observers as the most serious
since the great German drive of
March, 1918, when the Germans
Roll out the rain barrel its threatened to crumple the whole
_ * - . Allied defense system in France.
nerve unree-year___________PA-1. Thundershowers are forecast by
ecutive board They succeed Miss the Weather, "purest
Tracht: who is fifth vice presi- mum tontent
dent, and Mrs John D Covert Mm
who is parliamentarian.
Before adjourning, the dele- Brooks Opens Office
gates passed a resolution praising r
Congressman Dies for his work in With war threatening, the con-
the investigation of un-American servation of the great natural re-
activities and adopted “Flower of sources of Texas is of the utmost
WASHINGTON. May 17.—The today, 70 short of the necessary Texas” ae their official song. Writ- importance, Plerce Brooks, Dallas,
4 ,. -ALL--PA- ----1... — .----i— -----ten by Mrs. Evelyn Hornsby Mime candidate for railroad commission-
of Deltas who formerly lived in er. Mid Here today. Mr. Brooks
France but should not give them
manpower.
Lanham Signs Hatch Discharge Petition
With war threatening, the con-
petition to discharge’ the House 218 to become effective.
... Judiciary Committee from further nep. Fnun Lannon or roruos vanas, who sovseny uvou me, moou neve wuny. mu. uswnm
consideration of Senate-approved Worth added his name to the pe- Fort Worth, the song was put to spent the day here fitting up are-
•• amendments to the Hatch “clean tition yesterday. (See clean pol- music by Mrs George Ovum of gional campaign headquarters
rises tomorrow SM. sets 5:2a. politics’ bill had 148 signatures ities honor roll on Page 14.) Fort Worth, which will handle his campaign in
Rep Fritz Lanham of Fort
p. m.
Fort Worth
which will handle his campaign in
various points. Nazi armored col-
umns dashed through the Belgian
Ardennes and the country west
to the Meuse with unparalleled
speed.
French Caught Off Guard
This drive, it was said, caught
the French at least partly off
guard since British and French
forces had been deployed into Bel-
gium to avert any chance of a
German flank attack such as e
As rpiz rteSman col-
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