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OFFICIAL STATE NEWSPAPER OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPEB Weather Continued cold tonight. Slowly rising temperature day forenoon. ate Minna! Hue Casablanca Pictures, Page 7 OF scons A fa.ct-f tndirvQ ewspaper Price Five Cents Wi VOL. 161, NO 122. 104th Year THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF TWO MADISON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1943 16 Pages--FINAl SECTIONSSECTION ONE These Nazis Got Into Stalingrad, in Vain Japs Lead U.

S. Ships to New Enemy Base Few Nazi Handfuls Left at Stalingrad MOSCOW (U.R) The battle of Stalingrad one of the decisive engagements of "World War II drew to a close today. In and around the city were only a few hungry, ragged remnants of the powerful array of 870,000 men forming 58 picked divisions which Adolf Hitler threw against the Volga strong-hold on Aug. 23. Nine hundred Germans trapped in the northern area of the city were killed by the Russians and almost all of the remainder of the enemy in that I exchanged fire with land batteries, scared the daylights out of two Japanese destroyers and one cargo ship, and then ran a gantlet of Japanese planes 100 miles down the gulf to escape.

The bombardment took place under the noses' of the Japanese Americans Push fo Maknassy Yankees Attack in 2 Tunisian Areas -I fir Lined up among the ruins of the city they tried to smash into captured by the Russians in Stalingrad. Hitler Made Us Keep A. Capti tired General Tells Russ Drebber said, "but the fuehrer did not take our opinion into consideration." Front dispatches reported that Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, German commander of the Stalingrad sector, was captured south of the Tzaritza river shortly before 3 a. m. Sunday.

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7 9 Noon 8 By WILLIAM TYREE WITH THE U. S. FLEET, iri the south Pacific, Jan. 24 (Delayed) (U.R Ships of the United States fleet blasted the Japanese supply base and airfield on Kol-ombangara island, in the New Georgia group about 450 miles northeast of New Guinea, early today with 250 thousand-pound high explosive shells. The fleet, running the risk of being trapped in the deep Kulu gulf, started roaring fires ashore, Vice Raids Net 16 Women, Girls 32 Soldiers, Five Other Men Nabbed Sweeping weekend raids, designed to check vice in Madison, resulted in the arrest of 16 women and girls, 32 soldiers, and five civilian men.

Squads of city and military po lice raided hotel rooms where soldiers were registered and arrested 16 soldiers and 13 women. Some of the girls insisted they were engaged to marry the sol diers. In a raid at 2 a. m. today at the Venus cafe, 111 S.

Lake police seized 16 soldiers, three women, and three civilian men. Bottles of whisky and beer were on the tables, police reported. One woman and her escort in the cafe had "passed out" from too much drink and had to be carried out by po lice. Arraigned today before Super ior Judge Roy H. Proctor on charges of disorderly conduct, the girls were ordered held for med ical tests.

The soldiers seized in the raids were turned over to the military authorities at Truax Field. Ten of the women and girls ar rested gave out-of-town ad dresses, the majority from nearby towns. The remainder gave Madison as their home city. Two of the girls were 17-year-old maids in Madison homes. They were found in hotel rooms with soldiers, and were the youngest girls caught in the raids.

Japs Claim Navy Victory Off Solomons TOKYO Broadcast Recorded at San Francisco) A Japanese naval air squadron en gaged an Allied fleet off the Solo mons and sank two battleships and three cruisers and damaged one battleship and one cruiser in a two-day battle, imperial headquarters announced today. At Washington, the navy declined comment today on Japanese reports of a naval battle in the South Pacific. Imperial headquarters said Japanese air units sighted the Allied surface fleet off Renel island. Despite unfavorable weather, the Japanese force attacked just before evening on Jan. 29, the communique said.

The Allied fleet, it said, attempted to flee, but was attacked the following day. Three Allied planes were shot down during the action, the communique said. Japanese losses were given as seven planes "through suicide dives on enemy warships" and three others unaccounted for. WHAT THIS CITY NEEDS isn't a good live-cent cigar, nor even an extra pound of coffee or a new right rear tire, but a gentleman who knows enough of his stuff to bear the new and indubitably burdensome title of City Superintendent of Transportation. Funny part of it is, I think we already have him.

funny as it may sound to you when we get to him a little later. Sorrcfwful part of it is, he hasn't the title and powers which might rightfully attach themselves thereto, sorrowful as it may be to have" to go around giving anybody any more power in these days. WE AREN'T GOING TO GET any place toward solving the transportation mess and the closely allied and resulting traffic problems in this town until we entrust and directly charge somebody with the year-around, Immediate, and long-range task of planning and meeting them, somebody with sufficient training, knowledge, experience, vision, and initiative to be so charged. As it is, Madison has no long-range study and planning of either traffic or transportation. Indeed, we pay them little heed until they are ill and upon us, besetting us at so many turns of our normal, everyday existence that we no longer can avoid or ignore them.

Then, finally face to face with them, we tend to become panicky and slightly hysterical, grab out for the first solutions offered, crackpot or illy-considered though they may be, and thus find ourselves in a worse and worse mess each time we grab. Most exasperating and frustrating is the fact that every time you get sufficiently het up about it and look around for somebody at whom to make an angry speech, you find there really is no one in particular to blame. That's just Jt. There's no one to blame. There's no one to credit in case you find something to credit.

There's no one of whom you can say, Well, why didn't So-and-So see this coming and study it and get some plans ready to meet it?" You can't say that because there isn't any So-and-So not that kind, anyway. AND THAT, WE FIGURE, IS the answer. We need a So-and-So, or, as we said in the beginning, a City Superintendent of Transportation and Traffic. Call him the latter in the beginning and pretty soon they'll be calling him the former lqater. It would be about 'that kind of a thankless job.

Nonetheless, we need him. We reed somebody to sit down and study things, for a long and careful time. We need somebody who can find out how modern engineering meets modern problems. We need somebody who can go before the common council and say, "Gentlemen, we ought to do such-and-such to better bus and taxi serrlce here. We ought to put In rab stands or we ought to alternate bus stops or we ought to streamline a street here or cut down a sharp corner there." Nobody does that now.

Oh, each alterman is supposed to be watching out for the interests of the particular citizens in his particular ward, and, as any alderman will tell you whose particular constituents have frozen a couple of feet waiting for a bus, they are just that: particular. He is supposed to stand up and fight for better bus service for his ward He makes the speeches and the protests and sometimes even the suggestions. But and you may rightfully expect nothing else he is speaking for his ward and most times he cannot be expected to have the time or resources for a complete, city-wide, correlated program. THE STATE PUBLIC SERV-ice commission theoretically controls the bus system in Madison, approving or rejecting service plans, operations, fares, and schedules, i The city its citi-ens, aldermen, mayor, city attorney, or anybody else in city hall may approve or protest a proposal, an order, a change but that is all any of these may do. The council gives or denies the bus company permission to operate over certain of its streets, but there the council's control ends.

AND WHO CONTROLS THE taxi companies? Who does, indeed. The state public service torn-mission has nothing to do with them. The council has little else, except a large-sized wrangle "every time they are mentioned. Taxi line operations are an amazing hodge-podge of arrangements, deals, dickers, leases, and name-buying. Most taxi companies will readily admit and have admitted that they have little or no control over the cabs that bear their fleet and air force, concentrated north of the Solomon islands.

Our units had an "escort" of Japanese planes to within sight of the objective. Japs Guide Yankee Ships The enemy planes, resembling twin engine Mitshubishi, 97's spotted us as we neared Kulu gulf. They blinked signal lights, which our vessels ignored, then they steamed into the gulf through an opening so narrow those on shipboard thought a boy could toss a rock across it. They led us to our targets, apparently still not knowing our identity. The admiral in charge said, "We really got into something this time.

The Japs' apparently didn't know who we were and didn't think we dared to come so far north. They must have just unloaded their stores when we hit." The Japanese are using Kolom-bangara as a supply base for Mun-da, their new air field on New Georgia island erected to threaten Guadalcanal, and are sneaking supplies to it through the narrow straits between the islands. Jap Ships Scurry Away Thirty minutes after being escorted by the enemy patrol, we reached our firing line. Our main batteries fired for 11 minutes and 50 seconds, pouring shells at point blank range into the buildings sheltered by cocoanut groves and onto the newly cleared airfield. At the first blast two Japanese destroyers and one cargo ship fled at full speed into near-by Blackett strait, where we left them for our bombers to pick up later.

Japanese anti-aircraft shore batteries answered our fire and from a spot on the wing bridge aboard our leading ship, this corre- Continued on Page 2, Column 4) Japs Fading in Solomons, Knox Asserts PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 29 (Delayed) (U.R) Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, returning from a two-week inspection tour of the south Pacific front, predicted today that organized Japanese' resistance on Guadalcanal would end within 30 days and warned the enemy to prepare for new American air raids on Tokyo. Knox, who was accompanied on his inspection by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific fleet, reported that on two occasions in New Hebrides and Guadalcanal his party had been the target of heavy Japanese raids but suffered no casualties. "I think we have disposed of any threat from Japanese ground forces on Guadalcanal," Knox said.

"I believe the Japs have abandoned attempts to reinforce their troops on Guadalcanal and that within 30 days all organized resistance on the island will have ended." Asked about the prospects of more air attacks on Tokyo, Knox said he could not comment as to how and when they would be made, but that "the prospects are darn good and you can tell the Japs to get ready." "My major impression," Knox (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) White House today. The president did not submit the name of a new nominee to fill the post of minister' to Australia. He had intended that Flynn would serve as his "personal ambassador," as well as minister to Australia. The White House made public a note by the president acknowledg ing Flynn request. Dated today, it said: "Dear Ed: "Reluctantly, I am complying with your request and have withdrawn your nomination from the senate.

"I wish you would come to see me today or tomorrow. "As ever yours, "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Flynn's request to the president said: "My Dear Mr. President: "I am requesting you to withdraw my nomination as minister to Australia from the senate. I am enclosing herewith a statement (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) section were taken prisoner.

Earlier a special communique announced the liquidation of German resistance near the central part of Stalingrad. Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, commander-in-chief, was captured along with 14 German generals, two Rumanian generals, and 5,000 men. With Field Marshal Von Paulus, the Russians took prisoner at Stalingrad his chief of staff, Lieut. Gen. Schmidt.

The rest of the high officers were commanders of corps and divisions, in addition to Lieut. Gen. Otto Rinoldi, chief tne medical services. Many colonels also were taken, including the Sixth army's quar termaster general and others who, in the absence of sufficient generals, were commanding brigades or entire divisions. Including the reserves and reinforcements which the Germans used at Stalingrad, their losses in killed, wounded, and captured are estimated from 1,000,000 to Since Jan.

10 the Russians have captured enough German equipment in the fighting in and around Stalingrad to outfit a major army. The totals were 744 airplanes, 1,517 tanks, 6,523 guns, 1,421 trench mortars, 76,887 rifles, and 60,454 trucks. The German defeat at Stalingrad apeared to be only part of the Axis troubles on the eastern front. West of Voronezh thousands of Axis troops were cut off and it appeared doubtful whether they could break through th Russian encirclement. The avenue of escape for a German army of between 150,000 and 300,000 was threatened in the Caucasus where the Russian army had seized the key strategic cities of Tikhor-etsk and Kropotkin.

The special communique revealed that even the Russians were surprised at the magnitude of their victory. They had estimated the original total of the troops trapped at Stalingrad when their winter offensive started Nov. 23 at 220,000, or 22 divisions at two-thirds strength. German generals confirmed that actually the trapped army had numbered 330,000, equivalent to full strength, including auxiliary troops. All but those few remaining in the northern pocket were now dead or prisoners.

About 190,000 men remained out. of the 330,000 Jan. 10 when the Russians tried vainly in an ultimatum td induce the Germans to surrender. Of these upwards of 100,000 had been killed and more than 46,000 had been made prisoner, according to official count. Final figures were expected within a few days to give the full account of the fate of all 190,000, for only a few now remained.

And now, with the end of the battle of Stalingrad at hand, a powerful Russian army had been freed td join in the drives on Kursk, Kharkov, and Rostov, the anchors of the German southern lines. By the capture of Kropotkin and Tikhoretsk on the Caucasus front, the Russians had also won a major victory by freeing the entire Caucasus railroad to the great Baku oil fields. On the southern front where the Russians now threaten Kush-chevka, last railroad junction by which, the Germans could escape the Caucasus through Rostov 50 miles to the north, the Soviet army during the night repulsed counter-attacks and made new gains. The Russians also captured numerous new inhabited places on the north Caucasus front, where they were now within 29 miles of Krasnodar, railroad junction by which the Germans might escape to Kuschevka. AsKeemle Sizes It Up: By LOUIS F.

KEEMLE (lTnd Press War Analyst) Hitler has fallen back on the only weapon which gives him any hope of avoiding total defeat the submarine. It is estimated that Hitler will have 700 submarines by spring. He is building them much faster than the Allies can sink them. In appointing Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz to be commander of the navy, Hitler has indicated the importance he attaches to the submarine. Doenitz, a submarine expert.

Is a merciless killer. defeat are these German soldiers, Fighting, scription of the surrender of Von Drebber: German officers of all ranks filed out of a dugout outside Stalingrad. A Russian colonel was waiting for them. Von Drebber sent envoys to the colonel, and one of the German officers said: "Maj. Gen.

Moritz von Drebber is ready to lay down his arms before his conqueror and wishes to be informed about the place at which he should surrender." Surrender in Schoolhouse After discussing the terms of surrender, the German envoys, escorted by Russian officers, went to a schoolhouse inside Stalingrad to await Von Drebber's arrival. Meanwhile, the Russian colonel ordered his troops to cease firing. Von Drebber and his staff arrived shortly before 2 a. m. "Where are your regiments and soldiers?" the Russian colonel asked him.

"You know better than Von Drebber replied. "Everyone still alive is here now. I gave the or der for the troops to lay down their arms, but they had done so long ago." Russ Colonel Only 35 von Drebber, who has gray hair, expressed surprise that he should be surrendering to a colonel who was only 35 years old. "I am the first German gen eral to surrender to you here at Stalingrad," Von Drebber said. "You are the first," the colonel replied, "but I hope not the last A telephone call interrupted the conversation.

News was given to the colonel that a Rumanian general had surrendered with his entire division. Shortly before daybreak the Russian colonel ordered Von Drebber and his staff taken by automobile to Russian headquarters. The automobiles travelled through country littered with thousands of German dead, the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) FDR Tells Congressmen of Africa Trip WASHINGTON (U.R) Pres. Roosevelt today called Secretary of State Cordell Hull and a group of Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to the White House for separate conferences at which he planned a report on his just-completed aerial trip to Casablanca where he met Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The White House disclosed that Hull met the president when his train reached Washington Sunday night and went to the executive mansion with Mr.

Roosevelt for a brief conference. He was scheduled to return at noon for an extended talk with the president. Late this afternoon Mr. Roosevelt will meet a group of congressional leaders of both parties to make what White House Press Secretary Stephen T. Early described as a report on his conferences with Churchill and Pres.

Getulio Vargas of Brazil. Early said the president "looked fine" as a result of his trip and showed no particular signs of fatigue when he reached the White House. During the afternoon the president also will meet Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles and Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark, former chief of naval operations who has been in command of American naval forces in European waters recently. Mr.

Roosevelt probably will make a report soon to the nation (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa (U.R) American tanks and infantry have taken the offensive in the wastes of southern Tunisia and are driving toward Maknassy rom the north and west, an Allied spokesman said today. (Maknassy, 48 miles inland from Tunisian east coast and 64 miles southwest of Sfax, has been mentioned as the scene of fighting recently. Radio Paris and other Axis sources said last week that Allied forces had occupied the town, but the reports were not confirmed at that time by Allied sources.) Another American combat unit of tanks, Infantry, and artillery counterattacked in central Tunisia, attempting, despite heavy enemy dive- bombing attacks, to drive the Germans from strongly entrenched positions. An Allied communique reported the action as "a series of minor engagements" and said air forces of both sides were active in support of their ground forces. Nazi Tanks Repulsed The Germans started two tank attacks arlong the road from Pont du Fahs toward Robaa, but were repulsed by the British, the spokesman said.

At least six German tanks were destroyed, including two of their new Mark-VI machines weighing 52 tons-Allied planes attacked Bizerte again Sunday, starting several big fires on the docks of the vital Axis port. The air field at Gabes, on the Tunisian east coast, was bombed and a number of enemy planes destroyed on the ground. the communique said. During Sunday's operations, headquarters disclosed, 19 enemy planes were destroyed. Five Allied aircraft were missing.

Canadians Sink Sub Saturday night, Allied planes concentrated their bombing on roads supplying enemy positions. The communique gave no details. The official announcement reported that a Canadian corvette had sunk an Italian submarine in the wester Mediterranean. The corvette, the HMCS Port Arthur, attacked the submarine with depth charges and gunfire and rescued the survivors. Powerful Allied tank and in- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Gov.

Goodland Reappoints Wipperman Gov. Goodland today reappointed Richard O. Wipperman, Milwaukee, to the board of personnel, and appointed Roy Davidson, 48, La Crosse, to the state board of normal school regents. Wipperman's appo intment, which was made by former Gov. Julius P.

Heil in June, 1941, succeed Frank Chadbourne, Fond du Lac, had never been submitted to the senate for confirmation. His new term will expire in July, 1947. Wipperman is chairman of the board of personnel and is associated with the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce in the department of research and legislation. His name will be sent to the senate Tuesday night. Davidson succeeded Thomas EL Skemp, La Crosse, whose term expired today.

His appointment will expire in February, 1948, and does not require senate confirmation. Davidson is chairman of the La Crosse county chapter of the Red Cross and vice president of the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce. Feature Finder State News 5'Obituariea .9 BlonAie 9 Palooka 13 Bridge 16 Pattern IS Calendar 9 PrRlrr Clapper t. 6 Picture 7 Clam. Ads 15 Radio 13 Comics 13 Ration Guide ,...10 Crane ....16 Records ....9 Crossword 10 Round It nan Dunn ,13 Sr run bo It 1J Day bv Day Soclely Editorials 6 Sport.

11-11 fir In 4c Bear It Storks 14 Kaln ....16 This and That ...13 nirnrle Kar .....11 Mail Bag S'WeaUier Table 4 Markets Women's Pace 1 Myers 16 Yankee Ranters 11 Notes for Ton Yesterdays MOSCOW (U.R) Axis troops trapped at Stalingrad continued to fight at the insistence of Adolf Hitler after many German generals there had concluded that further resistance was "senseless and Maj. Gen. Moriz von Drebber, commander of the 297th infantry division, told Russian officers who captured him, it was learned today. "We believed further resistance was senseless and criminal," Von 30 Die in Fire at Sanitarium Flaring Match Sets 2-Hour Seattle Blaze SEATTLE Authorities intimated today that carelessness caused the ffre Sunday which killed 30 patients of a sanitarium, most of them aged men and women. Maurice Baird, 37, a plumber, was working in the basement on the Lake Forest sanitarium's two oil burning furnaces, transferring their fuel connections from an inside storage tank to an outside one.

He was assisted by an aged patient. Match Ilead Drops In Oil Sheriff Harlan Callahan said a match was struck to relight one of the furnaces when the new con nection was completed, that its flaring head broke off, and dropped in a puddle of oil. Baird tried to beat out the flames with his coat. Then someone rushed up and flung a bucket of water on the fames, spreading them over the basement. Prosecutor Lloyd W.

Shorett said he would begin an Investigation "immediately." Fire Rages Two Hours After shouting an alarm, Baird said he burned his hands and arms carrying an aged blind woman to safety. The blaze started at 1:10 p. Pacific time, engulfed the entire two-story building in two or three 1 minutes, and was brought (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) uick Action Quells Fire at Truax Field Slight damage was caused in one wing of the Truax -Field finance bldg. when fire broke out at 2:25 a. m.

Sunday. Immediate action by the post fire department kept flames from spreading to other parts of the building. Cause of the fire and extent of damages will be determined by an appointed board of officers. Senate Votes Lee Into $10,000 Job WASHINGTON (U.R) The senate today approved, 46 to 31, the nomination of former Sen. Josh Lee (D-Okla) to a post as a member of the civil aeronautics board.

Portage Fighter Wounded in New Guinea PORTAGE William Colton, 20. son of Mrs. Ethel Colton, Portage, was slightly wounded in action in New Guinea, his mother was Informed by the war department Sunday. She received a letter from him Saturday. The mercury dived to 1 above zero in Madison at 8 a.

m. today, and householders and highway workers battled with a new but relatively light dose of snow. Meanwhile, residents who believe in Groundhog day were hoping for a cloudy Tuesday. If the sky is overcast, Mr. Woodchuck will not see his shadow and retire to bed, thus prolonging winter on top of the sub-normal temperatures of the past two months.

If it's sunny, winter will last six more weeks. Military Secret' Federal meteorologists, who scoff at Groundhog day folklore, had no prediction to make on whether Tuesday wlil be clear or cloudy. Such information is a "military secret," an all that can be told about the weather is that temperatures will rise Tuesday morning after a minimum of about zero tonight. Feb. 2 also has religious significance and is observed in Catholic and Episcopal churches as Candlemas day.

It ates Christ's presentation in the temple and the purfication of the Virgin Mary. Catholic priests in Madison will bless the candles at masses Tuesday. St. Andrew's Episcopal church will hold Candlemas day services at 7 and 9:30 a. m.

and Grace Episcopal church at 7:30 and 10 a. m. Snow Closes January January, characterized by subnormal temperatures and frequent snows, ended Sunday with a snowstorm which lasted about six hours but added only IV2 inches to the amount on the ground. Mild temperatures prevailed through the storm. The mercury climbed to 27 above at 1 a.

m. Sunday but dropped steadily after that time, registering 8 above at midnight and 1 above at 7 and 8 a. m. today. Artist Curry's Father Dies at 79 Smith Curry, 79, father of John Steuart Curry, artist in residence at th? University of Wisconsin, died Saturday at Scottsdale, Ariz.

Other survivors are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Yeakley, St. Paul, and Mrs. Mildred Fike, Kansas City, and a son, Lieut. Eugene Curry, Chapel Hill, N.

C. Burial will be at Winchester, where Mr. Curry had been a lifelong resident. FDR Grants Flynns Request, Withdraws Name As Minister WASHINGTON (U.R) Pres. Roosevelt today formally withdrew the nomination of Edward J.

Flynn to be minister to Australia. The president's communication to the senate said the action was "at the request of Mr. Flynn." The former Democratic national committee chairman had asked Mr. Roosevelt to withdraw the nomination on the grounds that he was unwilling for his candidacy "to be made the excuse for a partisan political debate in the senate." Debate had been scheduled to begin today on the nomination, which faced almost certain defeat if allowed to come to a vote. Flynn, in announcing Sunday night that he would ask Mr.

Roosevelt to withdraw his name, said heated partisan debate in the senate "would imply unfortunate disunity. If I were confirmed, it would still leave me unhappy to think that my nomination would cause such debate in time of war." Flynn sent his request to the Continued on Page 2, Column 2).