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MINNEAPOl Hjl2l 7j 21 3 4 61 71 81 4 2 1 01-2 -3 -4'-5 -6 -S -7 -5 Highest year ago, 33; lowest, 24. 1 Vol. LXV-No. 68 MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913 Price 3 fAfo tn Twin City Area Onti El.icwher OURNAL THE WEATHER Continued cold tody and tonight. Temperatures Midni'ht to Noon by 8 Below; Cold Due to Remain 17 Is Recorded on Northern Border Hitler Hunts 'Goat' for Russ Reverses, Stockholm Claims Generals Refuse Offer to Relinquish East Front Command, Sweden Says LONDON (LP) Neutral advices from Berlin to Stock- holm said today Hitler had called a conference of his foremost generals, including Field Marshal Fedor von Bock and Walther von Brauchitsch, and offered to withdraw "temporarily" from active command of Axis armies in Russia.

'GUESS I'M CRAZY' Army's Escaped Playboy 'in' Again But Hitler wanted to remain commander-in-chief, the dispatches said. The generals, seeing he was looking for scapegoats, demanded he Army officers arrived shortly after the arrest, but WeL.h was not turned over to them Immediately. Police said until the army had proved Webb's identity, lie was Ihe city of Reno's prisoner. Mrs. W.

Seward Webb of New York and Florida, Webb's mother, was at a nearby hotel. She was informed Immediately of her sou's second arrest In a week. Km-lier she had suhl she could not understand Webb's behavior. Webb, stationed nt. Fort McDowell, as a private in casual detachment, first was arrested hoo by military police and FBI agents Fob.

6 after he appeared al swank Reno cocktail lounges In the medal-lnden uniform of an air force captain and enthralled divorce-seeking women with a tale of shooting down Jap planes. lie blamed amnesia for his troubles, and was placed in the air base hospital Instead of the gunrillnuse. Webb has been married twice. His elopement with his second and present wife, the former Lennore I.emmon, New York glamour girl, caused a mild sensation. A few weeks afler their marriage, In'llMl, Webb disappeared and his bride announced he had enlisted in the army.

RENO, NEV. tU.R) -Private Jacob L. (Jakey) Webb, wealthy New York playboy, was arrested in a fashionable Reno hotel early today still clad in the bright red bathrobe he wore when he escaped last night from the observation ward at the Reno air base, where he had been held pending court martial on a charge of impersonating an officer. Beneath the robe were white pyjamas, government issue for soldiers held under observation, lie also wore house shoes and socks. Officers Pete Keeves and Al Fiorine mailt! the.

arrest and booked young Welili, a great, great grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, on charges of desertion ami escape from an army post. lie was arrested while military police searched the air base, on the theory Webb had not left the reservation, approximately 12 hours nfler his escape. Police learned -Webb had walked the 10 miles from the air base to the outskirts of Reno and had taken a taxicab from there into town, lie registered at the hotel as "Bill Derton" and told the clerk he could not sleep at home. Ten minutes later he was arrested. When police first entered Ids room, Webb said: Poisoned Married Lover Baby, Brurtet, 18, Admits Russ Trap in Donets Narrowed Frontal Attack Made on Kharkov NEW YORK (IP) Tho CBS correspondent in Mos cow said today the Gcrman3 were reported setting fire to the entire city of Rostov.

Tho British rndio declared "Rostov is being rapidly enveloped and the (lermans who were driven out of Slinkhly, 45 miles to the northeast, did not. retreat toward Rostov, but are attempting to get away to the westward." The Moscow rndio, as heard in New York, said Rostov was being shelled from three sides but the (lerman garrison's defense "is most stubborn." Southern Front Crumbling, Says London Experts MOSCOW (LP) A great German army in the Donets basin faced the prospect of being trapped today as Rus sian forces threatened to break the two bolts that hold together the Axis defense line Rostov and Kharkov. (In London, military observers said "Ihe whole southern Russian front is crumbling and Axis troops are now In full retreat." It was unlikely, tho observers said, tho Germans even would be able to make a sland along the line of tho Dnieper Russians wcra -hod reporUxl-to be only 18 miles away from Kharkov, the Soviet republic' fourth city and center point of the southern front defense line. Northeast of Rostov the Itcil army had smashed through Axis defenses and was pouring down toward the city from both the northeast and north. (The London observers snld that eventually they expected a slowdown in the Russian advance because it Is Impossible for an army to continue al.

that rnlo "without taking a breath." There is no indication the Germans have had lime to fortify the Dnieper line, it was said, und as of now it was impossible lo forecast how far west, the Germans will be forced to retreat before making a stand.) Below Rostov, the Russians drove steadily toward the sea into which they mean to throw tho Axis troops remaining west of newly captured Krasnodar. They are tho remnants of the German 171 army which Hitler ordered to take the Baku oil fields. (A Iterlin broadcast of th rm a transocean news Russia Continued on Page Three MIIKROVO. A Ht XT- KAMKNSK H'N SMAKMTVy V. NOVO wr JV-A'IMOSHtVSK 7 Minneapolis' see-saw weather was on the "saw" side of the cycle today.

After the mercury moved up to a high of 13 degrees yesterday, it dropped steadily into the below- zero register in the early hours today and continued cold was forecast here for today and tonight. The weatherman anticipated low temperatures of -5 in the northeastern state, zero in the west, 10 above in the southeast and zero locally. The state forecast called for continued cold today, slightly colder in the extreme southeast and northeast, slightly warmer in the west tonight, with light snow in the northwest. A light snowfall here, totaling .02 inch in precipitation, performed the dual function of relieving street slipperiness in some spots and adding to hazard by masking it in others. At 10 a.m.

today the mercury stood at 8 degrees below zero and at 1 p.m. it was -3. International Falls during the night had a frigid low reading of -17, while Duluth had -14 and Fargo -11. Farther west, however, temperatures were more moderate, Bismarck reporting a low of 3 above and Huron of 4 above. 19 Convicts Flee Farm Guard Hurt Seriously in Dixie Break JACKSON, MISS.

UP) Nineteen white convicts escaped from the state penitentiary farm at Parchman early today after overpowering a night watchman and seriously injuring a guard. Four in the break were involved in a recent escape which ended when one was killed and three caught. Superintendent M. P. L.

Love said the men rushed a night watchman when he opened the door of a cage so cooks could go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Overpowering the watchman, the prisoners took his keys and shot their way from the one story building. They went to the home of a guard, a Sergeant Upchurch, just outside the wire barricade, and forced him to give them the keys to his car. When he resisted they hit him over the head with a gun taken from the night watchman. The convicts also commandeered a red state truck, Love said.

Highway patrolmen here said they had reports of the convicts from several areas, including one that they had shot into a house at Duncan in an effort to obtain more guns and ammunition. N. Y. Archbishop in Spain; Visit Stirs Speculation WASHINGTON (INS) Considerable interest was aroused in diplomatic quarters in Washington to day by reports Archbishop Fran-is J. Spellman of New York had arrived in Spain.

Stale depart- iment sources confirmed li a Archbishop Spell- man was making a trip to the Iber-i a peninsula. There was no con- Siii-llniiin firmation how- ever, of reports he would proceed to the Vatican to confer with Pope Pius XII. Catholic sources in Washington also said Archbishop Spellman had arrived in Spa'in, but refused to comment on the possibility of his proceeding to the Vatican. Possibility was seen Archbishop Spellman may be carrying a special message from President Roosevelt to Pope Pius XII. Archbishop Spellman conferred with the chief executive at the While House last Saturday, ap parently just before he left for Europe.

MAP ARMY' COLLEGE PLAN CHICAGO (INS) A three-day conference of army officers and representatives of colleges opened today In Chicago to give further study to the army's specialized training program wherein it concerns colleges and universities. if F.R. Pledges Move Against Japan Proper Invasions of Europe Also in the Book 't of President ltoMvH('ii Bil- WASHINGTON President Roosevelt held out to an embattled world today the promise of "actual invasions" of Europe following the battle of Tunisia and of "great and decisive" actions instead 'of island-by-island drives against: the Japanese in China and over Japan itself. lie also gave assurance the United Nations were in this war until they march in triumph through the streets of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo and were determined that the Nazi, Fascist or Japanese war-lord form of government shall "never again" dominate a nation guaranteed postwar self-determination. Tin chief executive matin these declarations last night in an address before the twentieth annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' association.

It was his first war review since, his Casablanca "unconditional surrender" conference with Prime Minister Churchill. He spoke of worldwide offensives stemming from that conference and of the developing battle of Tunisia with its expected "heavy" losses on the Allied side in the attempt to push the enemy into the sea and open the way for what he called "invasions" ho used the plural twice of the European continent. He described the whole world today as "one neighborhood" and said unless- the neaci--HTt-follows this war recognizes this and does justice to the human race, the germs of another world war "wi remain as a constant threat to mankind." On the home front, the President said that on his African journey lie had told American soldiers and sailors who had expressed concern over reports of labor troubles and rationing complaints at home that most of these reports were "just gross exaggerations," that the people as a whole were only too willing to give up shoes and sugar, and coffee and auto mobile riding and privileges and profits for Ihe sake of the common cause. Describing the struggle for Tunisia as one of the "major battle of the. war," he said that while the Axis had maintained its supply lines at great cost Hitler hail been willing to pay that cost for he "knows the consequence of Allied victory in Tunisia." As for the Pacific zone, the President spoke of the recently conclud ed baltle in the Solomons and de clared: "We do not expect to spend the time it would take to bring Japan to final defeat merely by inching our way forward from island to island across the vast expanse of the Pacific.

"Great and decisive actions against the Japanese will be taken to drive (he invader from the soil of China. Important actions will be taken In the skies over China and over Japan itself." The President told again some of Ihe Casablanca developments already reported by Churchill. He said the decisions reached there were not confined 1o any one war theater, continent or sea. "Before this year is out," hei promised, "it will be made known to the world in actions rather than in words that the Casablanca conference produced plenty of news; and it will be bad news for the Germans and Italians and the Japanese." Roosevelt Confers With War Advisers WASHINGTON UP) President Roosevelt called to the White House today three of his high-ranking military advisers. The three included the President's chief of staff, Adm.

William D. Leahy, and the highest army and navy officers, Gen. George C. Marshall and Adm. Ernest J.

King. $40,000,000 FOUNDATION LONDON (UP) Lord Nuffield, England's Henry Ford, announced today he was founding a charitable trust of more than to be known as "The Nuffield Foundation." Probe Labor Black Market AV.LB Hear Workers Are Sent to Ohio DETROIT UP) A roprosenta live of the regional war labor board here disclosed today the board was investigating to determine if a black market In skilled labor was operating In Del roll to supply other cities. Reports "labor brokers" are get ting men to work in the tool and die industry in Ohio and extracting big commissions In the process are being Investigated, said Ben jaiuin Aaron, special WLB ropro scntativo of the tool and die in- du.sl ry. Aaron suhl he had received "In formal complaints" from both la hor and industry such tactics were being practiced, lie said, however, "most of Ihe complaints have been very general." McNutt and Hershey on Radio About Draft War Manpower Director Paul McNutl. and Selective Service Director Lewis B.

Hershey will discuss "The Draft Status of All Americans," at p.m. today over the Blue network and W'l'CN. The two officials will talk for minutes on various phases of manpower and the draft. 1 Japs Claim 6-month Toll of 98 Ships Admit 19 Sunk in Six Months' Fighting jUy Anocltttocl Press 11 Tokyo broadcasts declared today the Mikado's forces had sunk 98 Allied warships and damaged 42 against a loss of 19 warships sunk and 16 damaged in the last six months in waters about the Solomons and New Guinea. Domei sponsored the figures after imperial headquarters had broadcast a communique purported to cover losses of both sides be-t Aug.

7, 1942, and Feb. 7 "which have not been previously Announced." The imperial headquarters communique claims were relatively modest, even conceding the Allies had an edge of 215 to 205 in planes destroyed which had not been previously reported. Following the communique on the air were Domei's "unofficial composite results," as follows: ALLIES: Six battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 36 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 13 submarines and 17 lesser warcraft sunk; 4 battleships, 4 carriers, 16 cruisers, 18 i destroyers, 5 submarines and 5 pother warcraft damaged; 33 merchant vessels sunk and 8 damaged; 1,311 aircraft destroyed. JAPANESE: One battleship, 3 cruisers, 10 destroyers, 4 submarines and 1 patrol ship sunk; 1 battleship, 1 aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers, 6 destroyers, 5 submarines and 1 patrol ship damaged; 10 merchant vessels sunk and 17 damaged; 466 planes destroyed. However, United States navy communiques show that the enemy lost 36 warships and 21 other vessels and 29 additional craft were damaged in the Solomons cam-Tpaign alone.

The American communiques have listed 28 American ships sunk. The Jap communique said Japan had suffered loss of seven warships and damage to six in fighting off the Solomons and New Guinea since Aug. 7, while Allied forces lost eight sunk and eight damaged "which have not been previously announced." The communique said three Japanese destroyers, three submarines and one patrol ship were sunk, while a cruiser, four submarines and a patrol ship were damaged, up to Feb. 7. It reported four Allied submarines, three torpedo boats and a patrol ship were sunk in the same period and three destroyers, lour submarines and a patrol ship were "heavily damaged." A Tokyo dispatch relayed earlier by the Berlin radio quoted the communique as saying Japanese losses "included three The Japanese, however, have conceded loss of only one battleship In the entire Pacific war and a translation error in Berlin apparently was involved, perhaps at tributable to the fact the major heading over Tokyo's tabulation of sunken vessels was "warships." In addition to the warship toll, the Japanese communique said Jap anese forces had sunk eight Al lied merchants vessels and heavily damaged two while losing five sunk and suffering damage to five.

One of Two Missing Cargo Planes Found EDMONTON, ALTA. (Canadian Press) One of two United States cargo transport planes which have been missing five days in the wilds of northern British Columbia was reported located today. The report was not confirmed by United States air force officials. The two aircraft were believed forced down by mechanical trouble. The plane found was reported carrying 10 passengers and it was feared some were dead.

The other plane carried three passengers. All were understood to be civilians. if'B "I must be crazy." He threw himself on the bed. "I think I inn crazy," lie continued. "After all the things the guys in the hospital have been telling nm it's no wonder I don't know what I'm doing." At the police station, while being booked, he looked ul the desk sergeant, and shrugged: "In again." Then he added, "1 hear my mot her Is here to see me.

I'd like to see her. Can I see bet The police suid no. AMMii'hiti-fl rrt'KN Irt-itlmlo 1'VT. JACOB L. WKBB tftnilln in ml Ixithrolm Mollison's Ferry 1 Plane Ducks Nazi LONDON UP) With all th" skill of his peacetime flying days, James Mollison, Britain renowned trans-ocean flier, a German fighter plane which attacked his nun combat ferry command plane this week.

When the Nazi fighter dived upon It Mollison maneuvered I Mollison machine out of the Nazi's path and thereby probably saved the lives of his eight passengers. Gandhi Has Slight Nausea Nationalists in Delhi Halt Trade BOMBAY UP) -Mohandas K. Gandhi, who began a t.hrec-wecl hunger strike Feb. 10 in tin effort to obtain release from the palace of the Aga Khan at Poona where he is a prisoner, was reported officially today to have had disturbed sleep because of nausea but the government's communique described his condition as satisfactory. NKW Partial paralysis of business spread today in Delhi, old section of the capital, in protest against the continued internment of Mohandas K.

Gandhi, now on the fourth day of a three-weeks fast at. the Aga Khan's palace al Poona. Principal markets, factories and mills were closed. More disturbances were reported nt scattered points, but it was difficult to tell whether they were connected directly witn Gandhi's fast, ilself a protest against his internment, or were a continuation of sporadic disorders in which nationalists have been indulging in ever since lust August, when mob violence led the government to intern Ganhdi and oilier leaders. Nationalist leaders called an all-India conference to meet here next Wednesday and Thursday, to urge the government to release Gandhi.

On the Inside Editorial J'age 6 Radio I'age 8 Theaters Page 5 Sports Pages 7, 8 Comics I'agps 4, 5 Markets Page 9 Oedric Adams Tage Church news Tagc 11 1 I 1 i i 1 ll i give up his ambitions entirely, it-was said, and resign himself to a purely ornamental as the late Kaiser Wilhelm had occupied dur ing the World war. Hitler was reported to have indignantly refused this demand and presumably was left to bear responsibility for Nazi disasters in Russia alone. Brauchitsch once was commander-in-chief. Hitler, moved by. "intuition," fired him, and took his job.

He also fired Bock, who once was commanding Axis armies On the northern Russian front. The problem of defending him self against the coming Allied inva sion of Europe concerned Hitler no less than the fate of his armies in Russia, these advices indicated. A German trans-ocean agency dispatch, broadcast by Radio Paris, said the Germans would begin evacuating 22,000 men, women and children from Brest, France, Monday, to "protect" the population against British attacks. Twenty-two thousand persons was almost half the peacetime population of Brest, an excellent invasion point. The Norwegian government-in-exile said the Quisling district leader, Dr.

Ilereid, had complained to his bosses no policeman in the important southwestern Norwegian counties of Regeland, VVeslagda and Eastagda could be trusted in case of invasion. The in a recently claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy to aid a British invasion in southwestern Norway, and arrested many in coastal towns. A dispatch from Stockholm said 10 young Norwegians had been sentenced to death at Kristiansand for undergoing military training illegally and possessing weapons. Radio Berlin announced women in Norway would be pressed into labor service for the first time 'this summer, "on a large scale," Another dispatch broadcast by Radio Berlin' said air raid precautions had been intensified in Sofia, Bulgaria, and evacuation had been urged for all persons not needed there. The, Balkans are another probable point of invasion.

Radio Berlin reported that 87 persons, "accused of Communism," had been sent to prison for long terms in Budapest. The British broadcasting corporation said the Germans had executed 70 Poles in Warsaw for "armed assault" on German soldiers, had imposed a 7 p.m. curfew on Warsaw, and fined the city $1,800,000. The Swedish press also reported a new German auxiliary police force called the "landwacht" was formed recently to ensure public security in German, provinces and "fight against enemies of the state." Some members were reported already killed on duty. Train Crashes Bus, Streetcar GARY, IND.

(INS) Thirty persons, most of them war plant workers, were injured today when a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train crashed into a motor bus and a streetcar at the Broadway crossing in Gary. The train threw the loaded bus in one direction and the northbound streetcar to the other side of the right-of-way as it struck. Bund Leader's Wife, Son Held as Aliens NEW YORK UP) Elsa Kuhn, wife of Fritz Kuhn, former national leader of the German-American bund, and her son, Walter, 16, have been taken into custody in a roundup of enemy aliens, it was learned today. Denaturalization proceedings against Fritz Kuhn are pending in federal court. Judge John Bright, who heard the government's first mass denaturalization case against 20 former bund members, Including Kuhn, reserved decision last night.

Kuhn is serving a five year term for stealing bund funds. Soviet Net Draws Tighter Wife's 'HunchlBare Triangle AMARII.I.O, TKXAS Dorothy Frisbie, 18, an attractive bru-net, said toikiy she put. rat poison in a baby bottle and killed Johnnie Scott, 18-month-old sou of bet-illicit married sweetheart, because the child "stood in the way of our loving each other." In a statement signed before authorities, Dorothy said she hud become pregnant while living In her mother's home with the infant's father, Homer Scott, 21, a taxicab driver. Scott was arrested on morals charge. Dorothy admit led poisoning the baby when he was left in her care by Mrs.

Scott, who was unaware of the alleged relationship between her husband and the girl. Mrs. Scott said she, too, is Dorothy also admitted attempting to poison the Scot Is' other child, (ilenila, 3, who also was left in her care. The poisonings occurred Monday, but wyi not, discovered until Thursday night when Mrs. Scott, who then had become suspicious of her husband's relations willi Dorothy, ordered an autopsy performed on Johnnie's body.

A coroner's jury previously had decided food poisoning caused the death. Dorothy said she swallowed some of the poison herself. Her mother, Mrs, Lydia Frisbie, said Dorothy suffered ill effects but recovered quickly. Mrs. Scott hud been living at i'aducah, Texas, not far from here, with the two children.

Her liushaml had been living here with the Frisbies. Mrs. Frisbie said she was unaware the two were not married until Dorothy's pregnancy became apparent. Mrs. Scott came here Sunday night with the children, authorities said, to join her husband arid find an apartment for her family.

Dorothy said she met Scott a year ago at the roadside tavern where she worked as a car-hop. She told Sheriff William Adams when Scott moved here she invited him to live at her mother's home. Mrs. Scott said she became suspicious and ordered tho autopsy because "of things I heard about my husband and Miss Frisbie." Dorothy was charged with murder and held in a hospital, because her baby is expected soon and because she swallowed some of the poison. NAZIS TO SEIZE CAPITAL STOCKHOLM UP) Walther Funk, German minister of economics, was reported by the Swedish press today to have predicted confiscation of German capital.

RUSSIA KHARKOV Ml Nf MIIO I'f. rKOV'jK. CD KHIVOI AI'OHOHf OI.HOVANSKV.:PniV ft hthM' Sea of TAMAN i SIM Hi i ANAPA' VA', lOCOl Black Se.v Broken arrows show routes of withdrawal open to Germans pocketed above Novorossisk and threatened with encirclement by Russian armies advancing northwest of Rostov. Black areas show gains reported by Russians this week. Areas captured yesterday were Krasnoar-meisk (1), Voroshilovsk and Shakty (2), and Krasnodar (3).

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