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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 194S. MOINES TRIBUNE, 2 PAGE TWO Axis' Fear of a Crumbling Italy Shown by Duce's Purge Getting Around TED ASHBY AFTER UflOO-MlLE TRIP Eye Results 17 Axis 'Chutists Executed by Allies LONDON, ENGLAND Seventeen Axis parachutists who were wearing civilian clothing when captured in Allied territory in French North Africa have been executed, the Algiers radio an Of Shakeup By Victor Gordon Lennox. Mrs. Cosson's Rites Monday Services for Mrs. George Cos-son, who died Wednesday in San Francisco, following a sudden attack of pneumonia, will be (Special Cable to tne Chicago Dally Nwi ana rne ucs juoines inuuue.

EXCLUSIVE. AS THKY ATE dinner, ho observed Hint his wife was unusually thoughtful. The point, though he didn't know it at tho moment, was that ho had forgotten something important. "Well." she finally ventured, "apparently forgotten what day this is." And then it came to him. He thought quickly.

"Didn't the flowers come?" he asked, pretending to be surprised. "Are you kidding?" she remarked, icily. He pushed his chair away from the table and hurried to the phone. He dialed the number of a florist here he knows well. "Say," he exclaimed In an Irked tone, "what happened to those flowers I ordered this morning as an anniversary greeting for my wife?" The florist got the Idea Immediately.

He apologized, said the posies would be right out. They came. nounced Saturday. LONDON, ENGLAND at 1:30 p. m.

Monday at Dunn's Mussolini's dismissal of a funeral home. number of his leading min Dr. Clifford C. Bacon, pastor of the First Methodist church, and isters enhances the mounting Dr. Edwin E.

Voigt, president of impression here that the Simpson college, will officiate. situation in Italy is causing They were among four groups of parachutists dropped east of Constantino Jan. 21 and captured with co-operation of the Arabs, the broadcast said. Those executed were said to have included Germans, Arabs and Fascist Frenchmen who had been In France as recently as November. Two enemy agents convicted of YOU RECALL when the boiler In the basement of the Eddy D' kO Coast Visit.

At the time of her death, Mrs, apartments blew up? It caught Frenchy Graffolier, band leader, without a shave. The faucets gave no water. What Cosson was visiting her son, Capt. Clarence Cosson, who is stationed in San Francisco. Captain Cosson the Axis leaders concern.

The ousted men Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Clano, Justice Minister Count Dino Grand! and Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon dl Revel were 100 per cent Fascists and 100 per cent out for themselves. and his family, and Miss Mary Kathryn Cosson, a daughter who to do? Graffolier fell into a deep study, slightly injuring one knee. Then an idea struck him and down he went again. HE REMOVED ALL THE ICE CUBES FROM THE REFRIGERATOR, BOILED THEM, SHAVED. PATIENTS AT Veterans hospital not only heard Benjamin Kaufman, national commander of Jewish War Veterans, address them over the loud speaker system there, but also heard a five-minute discussion of themselves (none of which was teaches in Coachella, will ac spying were executed Saturday morning after conviction by an Algiers military court, the Morocco radio reported.

company the body to Des Moines, i Ay t1 Wi' 'W I I I II II Ml Hvtr a- Hvr. fSL arriving Sunday. Mrs. Cosson was an active lead It is not known how their personal policies have been evolving er of many civic and club groups in Des Moines and throughout the recently, but there have been An Advisory Group Named rumors in Axis Europe suggest ing that any one or those three, state. She was a charter member ancf one of the founders of the Ladies' Legislative league; a trustee of Simpson college, of which she notably Grandi, might believe he could play the role of an Italian was a graduate; a former presi Darlan.

Force. dent of the Des Moines Women's club; a member of Chapter of P.E.O., the Sans Souci club and the Lawyers' Wives club. She If that is the case, the Germans who control Italy and are well aware "of the deplorable condition WASHINGTON, D. C. VP President Roosevelt Saturday named a five-man interdepartmental committee within the justice department to consider and advise the government on cases of alleged subversive activity on the part of federal employes.

also served several years as a of Italian morale, may have insist member of the city park board ed that Mussolini remove these Intended for their ears) by Kaufman, Ell Shapiro and William Nugent, manager of veterans administration, when the circuit, unknown to the three, had been open for five minutes. Production of fishhooks has been cut in half. And three-fourths of all sports equipment now being produced is going to men either fighting or being trained to fight. MRS. BESS PUGH, 3622 S.

W. Third, wasn't satisfied with the part she was playing in the war effort. She doesn't have much time, what with a grandson to care for, a flock of chickens to bring up properly and a husband to get off to work. Tho thought occurred to her that probably men eneatred in war work es Surviving. men from positions where they After a trip from far-off Iran, land of Omar the Tentmaker, Hossein Soroosh has met his pen friend, Miss Peggy Lipscomb, with whom he has been corresponding for four years.

Soroosh met Miss Lipscomb in Benton, on his way to Austin, here he will take a course In radio engineering at the University of Texas. Four years ago, Peggy, a high school junior, selected his name at random from a list provided by the American College of Teheran. She's now attending college in Benton. WIREPIIOTO CrP). The committee members are: Herbert E.

Gaston, assistant sec She is survived by her husband, could influence policy. the Des Moines attorney; two retary of the treasury; Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of sons, captain cosson and Lieu tenant George Cosson, Kan the interior; Rudolph M. Evans, sas City, two daughters, member of the federal reserve Miss Cosson and Mrs. Allen Hey-wood, of Philadelphia, two For example, Clano could operate through Italian diplomatic staffs abroad while Grandi could use his position as minister of justice in collaboration with Mayor of Naples Umberto Albini to control popular movements on the home front. board of governors; Francis C.

Brown, solicitor of the Federal .1 -1 Deposit Insurance and John Allied Troops Driven Off Strategic Tunisian Hill sisters, Mrs. Harriet Biddje of Long Beach, and MVs. Nellie Riggins, Cleveland, Ohio; and a Q. Cannon, legal adviser to the civil service commission. brother, Tom Riggs, Mercedes, The committee is expected to MRS.

BESS PUGH. (Hit the Deck, Mister.) Tex. consider and advise disposition of Mussolini now assumes full re Mrs. Heywood and Lieutenant sponsibility for all home and for complaints such as those filed by the Dies committee on un-Ameri Cosson also will come to Des Knox Stresses (By the Associated Press.) A German counter-attack eign functions, operating through apparently insignificant puppets, Moines for the funeral. can activities.

The Dies group has sprung in the face of weather much like Hitler did not long ago when he made himself supreme published 1,200 names of government employes it accused of connections with subversive Pallbearers. Active pallbearers will be Don U-Boat Peril L. Berry of Indianola, Alex so bad that aerial activity over Tunisia virtually was justice for Germany. In what appeared to be a fur Fitzhugh, Gen. Charles H.

Grahl, Frank H. Mackaman, Shirley Fer- WASHINGTON, D. C. (P) Court- clval, Dr. Reuel H.

Sylvester. There are now more Ger GAINS KHARKOvi (V -PS vV- A I RUSSIA NVW J-b, oi- A. suspended has forced Allied troops to relinquish their hold on the strategic height of Honorary pallbearers will be Continued From Pago One. Gardner Cowles, Judge Charles A. thcr move to tighten his grip on the domestic situation, Mussolini has ordered the mobilization for war ihdustry of all Italian men between the ages of lk and 70, all women between 1 and 60, a Rome broadcast recorded by Reuters said man submarines at sea than there were even last June, Diebel Mansour, 20 miles Dewey, Dr.

Walter L. Bierrlng, 'go along on any judgment of southwest of Pont du Fahs, when they ran up their high Justice H. J. Mantz, Senator Albert J. Shaw, Representative Henry W.

Burma, Mayor John Mac- the court," he added. officials disclosed Saturday. est record of merchant ship Jesser's attorney, H. Wheatcraft, Saturday. The action followed a sinkings, Secretary Knox said Vicar, T.

S. Stevens, Dr. Voigt The British captured the height, similar decree by Adolf Hitler. said that Jesser is "ready, willing, and able to go into any branch of service." and Mark L. Conkling.

known as Hill 648, in an action re Saturday in declaring that the Appointments. ported last Wednesday and until pecially those who work a lot of overtime, weren't finding it very easy to wake up in the morning. That gave her an idea. She would go into the business of seeing that those men got to work on time. Her husband has had his first physical and may be called to the army any moment.

Ash found out those things after he taw her ad In The Tribune. For half a buck a week she'll phone you any time of the day or night In time for you to get to work. "The phone's been ringing all morning," she said when Ash called. "I'm trying to do a washing and Just got my sheets out on the line." IT SHOULDN'T happen to such nice peoplt as Mr. and Mrs.

Arche Koop. underwent an operation for a cyst which had formed in his abdomen. Then he caught scarlet fever. After being taken home, he had a severe coughing spell, causing th incision to burst. Now Mrs.

Koop has scarlet fever. And it's hard to get help particularly with scarlet fever. WHILE THEY APPRECIATE THOUGHTFUL TELEPHONE CALLS AND WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING SO CONSIDERATE, THE NURSE AND ARCHE'S MOTHER REALLY ARE TOO BUSY TO KEEP RUNNING TO THE PHONE. TODAY'S GRAB BAG: Two pups, six weeks old. One's a male.

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Box 195, Editor and Publisher." It is noticeable that two pre That offer is "not merely to get Friday had resisted every Axis ef fects the equivalent of mayors U-boat remains this country's moat serious menace in the Atlantic. fort to dislodge them. out of this predicament," Wheat-craft said, and he showed Judge from the heavily bombed cities of Boy's License Is Revoked Vital Passes. Milani and Naples, one of the great Charles A. Dewey a card written center of the northern industrial The see-saw struggle for the hill a year ago turning down Jesser's application to get into the army.

is part of the campaign being waged for vital passes through the region, the other fully representa' tive of southern opinion, are in eluded among the replacement ap Gains of the last seven days (black areas) have left Rostov menaced from three directions north, east and south, Ar-, rows locate places of main Red" pressure. Dotted line shows position of Nazis before Russian offensive began Nov. 19. Russia- Continued From Page One. He explained that the rejection Municipal Judge Harry Grund was because of a forgery charge mountain range running parallel with the Axis supply line along pointments.

Saturday revoked the driver's li Knox told a press conference there was "no question at all but that Hitler is counting on the submarine war in the Atlantic for his major sea effort of the war." He is devoting all available construction facilities to submarines, pending against Jesser in district They are the new corporations the Tunisian coast. court. cense of Michael J. DePhillips, 18, of 2345 E. Thirty-eighth court, Comment.

Judge Dewey commented that minister, Carlo Tiengo, formerly prefect of Milan who replaces Renato Ricci, and the new under East High school senior arrested on a charge of speeding 64 miles Saturday'r. communique revealed that the docks at Blzerte had been bombed Thursday night, all planes returning safely. secretary of the interior, Umberto Knox said, and is putting more and the falsifications "indicated he wanted to get out (of army serv Albini, formerly prefect of Naples, an hour on University ave. ice) pretty bad." more of the craft into operation. "Every Effort." Voroshilovgrad and other Donets The judge, refusing to assess a cities were said to be badly out fine because the burden of it would To offset this threat, Knox said, It also said that of the 10 air flanked from the north, and the "we are straining every effort to Possibly Mussolini hopes thereby to instill a greater measure of popular confidence that the people's voice will influence national policy.

capture of half a dozen or more craft reported missing Friday four have returned to their bases fall on the boy parents, sentenced the youth to 30 days in the county jail and then paroled him key towns poised a critical threat "We've -got to get him In," the judge said. "If he's trying to beat it, the thing to do is to see that he gets in. Sending him to prison will not help that." The judge said that court costs and the pilots of two others are to the vital German strongholds A BIG PLACE safe. Twenty-six Axis planes were to F. P.

Welsh, a neighbor. Farewell. of Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov produce anti-submarine craft." "You are all familiar with discussion on priorities," he said, "the navy is pressing for completion of antl-sub-inarlno craft of all kinds." shot down in that action. London circles especially mis trust Grandi, who served as am The German radio reported that should stand against Jesser as a One report said Russian assault troops were advancing within 50 nil Ins of bassador here durLng a number of DePhillips, oldest of nine children of a city streets department American and British troops launched wave after wave of at judgment, and officials later were employe, has been working part pre-war years. (CnpyrlRht.

J943.) tacks against Axis strongpoints Knox said that one of the things that had to be kept in mind about time nights at the Iowa Packing checking with draft headquarters again to see whether Jesser csji be inducted if draft charges are UNITED Besides the spectacular Russian Co. When arrested, however, he Morale sweep from the north, Soviet operations of tho U-boats last June was that there were still, at was driving some youths to a fare dismissed. southwest of Pont du Fahs, 30 miles below Tunis, and had torn small breaches in the German lines. The broadcast said the attacks had been repulsed. well party for a friend leaving for forces were rapidly closing in on some 200,000 Axis soldiers cut off that time, some U-boats operat WASHINGTON, D.

C. CP) Premier Mussolini's cabinet military service. The four-year term was given to ing off the American east coast, whereas at present a combination shakeup was interpreted by "Truthfully, I think I was only going about 50 miles an hour," the state department spokesman Sat in the northwest Caucasus below Rostov. Spilt. Red army columns were report Stanley Manning, a 35-year-old farmer of Birmingham, who was indicted for failure to report for induction into the army.

Hard Task. While Nazi Field Marshal Rommel moved to his battered legions with the of air and surface patrols has ended tho difficulties in coastal waters at least for the time being. 4 youth told tho judge. Reply. urday as an attempt to bolster low morale among Italians clue ed only 12 miles from the Sea of to the loss of Libya and destrue I Contour of Ntw GuinM, 1600 milt in I Ungth, iteond Urgoit iiUnd in th Axis Tunisian armies, dispatches tive bombing of Italian cities.

Azov in this break-through to split the Axis Caucasian armies, Sinkings. Knox did not say, and there was "Even if you were traveling 'only 50', you were endangering the lives of others and yourself. If we 'ri It is, of course, apparent that trn Unittd Mttl to Show rltivt from Allied headquarters in North Africa gave a revealing any sucn moves oy Mussolini must. no other information regarding the picture of the difficult task con only give you a slap on the wrist have had Nazi approval, the subject, whether sinkings in the and London military analysts suggested that the Germans might abandon Rostov Itself rather than risk another Stalingrad entrap for your first offense, you will re fronting Allied armies headed by spokesman added, saying that turn here the second and third this country is not deceived by time as a law violator," the judge Ciano's removal. Manning explained that he had sought a conscientious objector's clarification which would have sent him to a civilian public service camp.

He said that thin request was turmsl down by Ms draft and appeal board and, without appealing on to the president, he therefore refused to appear for Induction. Manning, who is single, said said. Such a movo would not affect The youth's parents appeared in Italy's foreign relations, It was said, nor in any way remove the court with young DePhillips, who had spent the night in the city ment. German field headquarter acknowledged that the Russians were attacking "in the region of the Don estuary" and thus officially conceded the danger to the great Nazi base. A map of New Guinea, second largest Island in the world.

Is superimposed on the map of the United States, to give an idea of the size of the Isle Allied troops are winning back from the Japs. General Eisenhower. Wes Gallagher, Associated Press correspondent on the Tunisian front, disclosed that in tho past few weeks of mud-bogged fighting, the Axis forces have swelled to a veteran army of perhaps 170,000 troops and that the Allied army "probably Is considerably less In stigma attached to Clano for his initiation and support of collab jail. month of January were approximately equal to, less than or in excess of thoso of last June. The navy has constantly declined to disclose any indication of tho extent of losses.

The navy chief said, as Secretary of War Stimson previously has stated, that there are fewer losses now on the North Atlantic route to Russia, but he supplied no reason why this is true whether it is due to better defensive tactics or to a change in German strategy. Concentrations. and his uncle have been operat oration with Germany. City Clinic Asks ing a general farm of 300 acres which they rent. He said he had mentioned this to the draft board Rostov lies on the Don estuary Will They Blame Hitler? 25 miles from the Sea of Azov Blood for Serum but not asked a farm deferment.

The Germans also admited that Moreover, Gallagher said, fully one-third of the German air force He added he supposed his uncle sea-borne Russian troops had made The city health department Sat will turn part of the farm over new landings near the Axis-held urday announced it will have By Victor Gordon Lennox. port of Novorossisk, on the Black sea just below Kerch strait, but clinic Monday morning to collect blood for processing into serum to fight scarlet fever, measles and The principal U-boat concentrations are in the North Atlantic (Special Cable to the Chicago Dally News and The Des Moines Tribune.) LONDON, ENGLAND Is the German high command preparing to fix the full blame for the Stalingrad and Caucasus disasters on Hitler personally? asserted that they had been en circled. whooping cough. south of Iceland, on the route to Britain, Knox said, and a second About 100 letters have been sent out to persons who have had the diseases, but others who have Prisoner Gets 2 De Gaulle Scans ary concentration is along the route to North Africa, although the subs cannot operate too close high command wanted to withdraw to a shorter and wider line several months ago. to somebody.

Manning told the court that a week in jail had not changed his mind, and Judge Dewey gave the sentence with the comment, "Whether it's right, nobody knows," but adding: "We're in a war." "Manning said he attended country Methodist church as a child and was taught by his grandmother that "God's word teaches war is wrong." He said he had been a Witness only about two years. is apparently massed in the Mediterranean for the showdown battle, and the German high command has poured its best material into Tunisia including new giant tanks never seen on the Russian front. Frontier Area An Algiers radio broadcast said Saturday that General Montgomery's troops now are "a good 60 miles inside Tunisia" and are swiftly bearing down on the Mareth line, where Marshal Rommel was expected to make a stand. had them recently may get $5 for Hospital Trips to Gibraltar because of sea-air pa a cupful of blood by bringing Setup in Africa LONDON, ENGLAND CP) trols from there. physician's certificate.

To be eli Two trips to Broadlawns Gen Why? What Is the purpose underlying era! hospital within four hours Sinkings are continuing off the northern coast of South America Prospects for a working ar gible, a person must have had scarlet fever or measles in the last seven months or whooping were necessary by police handling Gen. Dietmar's dark hints? rangement between Gen. Charles and off Brazil, Knox said, although the case of Russell Rogerson, 44, a painter, who gave his address do Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud cough in the last three years. much progress is being made toward making that region con appeared better "in eome re Passages from Friday's broadcast of Gen.

Kurt Diet-mar, German military commentator, raise that point in many minds here. Causes. Gen. Dietmar declared: "The time has not come to answer the question of how it all happened. To probe into and clarify the Etrategic causes is impossible for the time being.

"We will ruthlessly draw every lesson necessary from this experience. We will probe Its deepest causes and take all necessary spects" as a result of the revised siderably safer. Honorary Degrees. French administration in North Allied and Axis planes fought as 3120 S. Union st.

Rogerson was arrested at 17 S. W. Park ave, at 9:04 p. m. Friday on a charge of intoxication and was to be held for investigation by O.

B. Devine, county humane Africa, De Gaulle's Fighting French headquarters said Satur at a slightly increased tempo Fri L. H. Anderson, 49, Name Firm Here In Sales Tax Suit The state tax commission has day over the Tripolitania-Tunisia frontier area, but ground activity PHILADELPHIA, PENN. CP) The University of Pennsylvania awarded honorary degrees Saturday to Lieut.

Com. Mildred H. McAfee, director of the WAVES; Joyce Maxtone-Graham People are also wondering what is the purpose of emphasizing the Stalingrad disaster by four days of mourning. Here it Is not thought that Hitler has been bumped off. But it is not excluded that the high, command wants to put him in cold storage for a period while peace soundings are being taken.

(Copyright. 1943.) Dies in California again was confined to patrol reconnaissance, the British an Leonard H. Anderson, 49, for officer. However, Rogerson first was filed a petition in Polk county district court asking judgment for $3,325 against the Mayflower Dis mer Des Moines resident who taken to the hospital suffering (Jan Struther), author of "Mrs. Miniver;" William L.

Batt, vice chairman of tho war production board, and H. W. Prentis, former president of tho National Association of Manufacturers. "bloody nose" which he got tributing 1420 Locust st, charged with failure to pay the "fighting with officers," the po day. The announced policies of General Giraud's new war committee met with the general approval of De Uaullists.

But De Gaulle's adherents said he would continue his objections to the presence in Giraud's committee of men who had co-operated with Vichy and who were members of the late Admiral Darlan's Imperial council. 'The retention of these same state retail sales tax. lice accident report said. Certainly, the German high command, which is responsible for General Dletmar's talks, fully LONDON, ENGLAND (JP) A Reuters dispatch from Zurich said Saturday reports had been nounced in Cairo Saturday. Palermo in northern Sicily was raided Friday night with both explosive and fire bombs by Allied planes, the Italian communique disclosed.

Supply Blow LONDON, ENGLAND CD-Three more Axis supply ships and a tanker have been sunk and another supply ship left in flames by British submarines in the cen Case Continued. The case of Sylvester former cashier in the internal moved to California a month ago, died unexpectedly Friday in San Francisco, relatives here were informed. Ho had lived in Des Moines 37 years. Mr. Anderson is survived by his widow, two brothers, Julius, of Des Moines, and Reynold, of Og-den, and three sisters, Mrs.

Henry W. Carlson, Luther, Mrs. Anton Wnuck, Candy, and Mrs. J. R.

Andrews, Los Angeles, Cal. Services and burial will bo in San Francisco Monday. knows the causes. Strategy. received in Switzerland that Adolf Hitler was at his military headquarters and recently had Placed In Jail after treatment, Rogerson was again taken to the hospital at 12:36 a.

m. Saturday for treatment of "a cut on head," which he got as he 'fell off a bench In the bullpen," a section of the jail, the accident report said. Tho petition states that the unpaid tax up to Dec. 31, 1942, totals $2,050 in addition to a $375 penalty. It says that the tax accrual since that date now totals approximately $675.

The Polk county sheriff's office Friday afternoon served a writ of attachment for $4,000 against the distributing firm, and seized mor than 25 slot machines. Hitler's bad strategy alone is revenue bureau, who has been indicted in connection with shortages discovered in the office, has been been photographed receiving responsible and Foreign Minister prominent visitors. men in the new regime will con continued until Feb. 27. Perman Ribbentrop's bad information on stitute a stumbling block to com tier was scheduled to appear in tral Mediterranean, the admiralty plete rapprochement," a De Saturday Rogerson was being the state of Russian military strength contributed to that.

The Help down the Axis! Save waste kitchen fats for explosives. federal court Saturday. Gaulle follower said. held for investigation. announced Saturday,.