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Evening star., 1942-04-11
Smiths Plan Fete

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Clarendon
Smith will entertain at the Con-
gressional Country Club this eve
ming in honor of their son and
daughter-in-law, 1t. and Mrs Ar
thur Clarendon Smith, ir.
Among the other guests will be
Nine. Elvina Dresser. DR. Vladi-
mir Rybar of the Yugoslav Lega-
ton; Mr.. Rudolph Fernandez Of
the Mexican Embassy; Miss Irenee
Juno and Mr.. Gordon Kinney.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Miss Elizabeth Mayo
Wed to MIR. r. O. Clay

Cards have been received in Wash
ington from Mr.. and Mrs. R. p.
Mayo of Augusta, Ga, announc-
ing the marriage Of their daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Mayo, to Mr.. Rod
erick Oden Clay, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oden Greene Clay Of Chevy
Chase, Md. The wedding took place
in Aiken, S. C., March Is. Mr.
Clay and his bride will be at home
after Wednesday at 5801 Kirkside
drive, Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Clay attended the Univer-
sity of Georgia, where she majored
in art. She later taught at the
Lawton B. Evans Grade School in
Augusta. Mr.. Clay attended the
medical school at the University of
Mississippi and later continued his
studies at the medical school of
George Washington University.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Bay State Society
Plans Fete FRIDAY

. The annual Patriots Day Dance,
to be given by the Massachusetts,
Society of Washington, will be held
at the Wardman Park Hotel, Fri
day evening.
MRS. Esther Reilly, chairman of the
Entertainment and Dance Commit
tee, will be assisted by the Misses
Irene Bartlett, Monica Ferris and
Helen Devine. Mr.. Edward j. WAL
lin will be floor director.
This is the Anal regular monthly
dance of the society for this season.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Betrothal Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. John Scounas OF
Washington announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Anne
Scounas, to Mr.. Emanuel Cummings,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Cummings
of Richmond, Va.
The wedding will take place April
26 in the st. Sophia Greek Orthodox
Church.
Among the parties given for Miss
Scounas was q, silk and linen shower
at which Miss Demetra Demas was
hostess. The shower was given at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Scounas
at 1l13 Staples street NE. and was
attended by more than 60 guests.
A pink and white color scheme was
carried out In the decorations and
included a white umbrella from
which pink streamers showered
gifts upon the bride-elect.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Jewish Juniors
Plan Quiz Program

A "Quiz and Consequence" pro-
gram and dance will be given by
the Washington section of the Ma
tional Council of Jewish Juniors
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the Jewish
Community Center. Participants
in the program will be selected from
the audience.
Larry Marino, of Station WMAL,
will be master of ceremonies.
Dancing will follow the program
with music by local orchestra.
Miss Zelda Hyatt is general chair
man of the dance.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Temples Arrive

1t. Comdr. and Mrs. H. B. Temple
and their two small sons Timothy
and Nicholas have arrived from Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, where Comdr.
Temple has been on duty for the
past three years, and are now in
residence at the Fairfax.
Mrs. Temple is the former Miss
Priscilla Stearns Totten of this city.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Derby to Feature
KentuckianS Ball

The sixth running of the Kentucky
Derby at willard Downs" viii fea-
ture the final dance Of the season
of the Kentucky Society Of Wash
ington Wednesday evening at the
Willard Hotel.
In addition to q derby feature q
dance group will present costume
numbers. Officers will be elected
at a meeting of the society which
will be held at 8 o'clock, preceding
the ball, An members and their
friends are urged to attend.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Suburban
Social Notes
OF Interest
Mrs. Campbell
Entertains at
Luncheon

Mrs. Carlos Campbell entertained
at q luncheon yesterday in her homo
in Arlington. later taking her guests
to the narciSsus show In Alexandris.
Her guests were Mrs. j. G. Koon.
Mrs. Mary Lou Williams, Mrs. VIII
liam Ferguson. Mrs. Edgar Shefneld.
Mrs. B. p. Muse. Miss Reba Hart
and Mrs. j. b. CarpeY.
Mrs. Carper has leased her home
in Arlington and Is spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell
before going to Fort wingate. N.
Mex, to visit her son-in-law and
daughter, Col. and Mrs. Robert Barr.
Mrs. r. J. Slowie entertained at .
luncheon and bridge party yester-
day in honor Of Mrs. j. d. Lawrence
Of Edgemoor, who Is leaving within
the next few weeks to make her
home in the Middle West.
Guests whom Mrs. Slowie invited
to the party were Mrs. Raymond
Wilhelm, Mrs. Clarence Webb, Mrs.
James Lippert. Mrs. Thomas Atke-
son, Mrs. Ward Fetrow and Mrs.
Leslie Whitten.
Miss Betty Jane Eisele and two
OF her classmates at Hood College,
Miss Jane Shaffer Of Altoona, Pa,
and Miss Anne Lachenmayer Of
Baltimore. are spending the week
end at Miss Eisele's home in Chevy
Chase.
Miss Eisele's father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Eisele, have
gone to California to visit their son,
Corpl. Arthur Eisele. at the Cal
Aero Flying Academy. They will b
in California until the latter part
of April.
Miss Louise Freiss, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. william Freiss of Airing
ton. whose marriage to Mr.. Charles
Hale Of Birmingham, Ala, will soon
take place. was honored Thursday
evening by Mrs. r. L. Harrison with
surprise shower. Mrs. Harrison
was assisted by Miss Rhea Lambert,
Miss Louise Smith and Miss Peggy
Rucker who will be members of the
bridal party, and also q group of
Miss Preiss' sorority sisters.
Miss Katherine Parker enter
tanned at dinner and dance Thurs
day evening in the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. u. Parker, in
Arlington. The party which in
cluded 20 guests was in the form of
farewell to Ensign Joseph German.
Mrs. C. Russell Shetterley enter
tained at small luncheon yesterday
at her home In Silver Spring, Md,
for Mrs. Oscar l.. Chapman, wife of
the Assistant Secretary of the In
terror. Mrs. Richard Palmer and
Mrs Joseph o'Connen of Chevy
Chase.
Miss Anita Stewart of Takoma
Park, Nd, is spending the week end
in Charlotte. N. c., where she is
visiting her mother, Mrs. E. E. Stew
art. Miss Stewart came here re-
Gently from Charlotte to take a posi-
ton with the Editorial Research Re-
port and is making her home with
her aunt, Mrs. Austin B. Jeffries.
Mrs. Pierre A. Gado1 of Brooklyn
is spending the week with her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer c.
Powick, in Drummond, Nd.
Mrs. Leona z. Nesbit and her
daughter of Silver Spring are spend
ing two weeks at Miami Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Griffin of
Woodside will entertain the Fort
nightly Club this evening.
Evening star., 1942-04-11

'iic h1cIuOCiS Vi CIc TWO iduhlics
attended.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father, and she wore dress
of white faille made with q square
neckline banded with white Irish
lace, long sleeves with lace cuffs,
and full gathered skirt without a
train. Her veil of illusion was waist
length and held by a Juliet cap Of
white tulle, and she carried an arm
bouquet Of white lilacs.
Miss Alice Mendenhall was her
sisters only attendant, and she was
gowned in pale blue marquisette
made with an embroidered bodice
and full skirt and carried bouquet
Of deep rose lilacs.
1t. Robert v. Smith, brother of
the bridegroom, served as his best
man.
A reception after the ceremony
was held at the Chevy Chase Club,
where friends of the couple were
received before the fireplace, which
was banked with palms and lilies.
Mr.. Smith is graduate Of the
Friends School, attended the Uni
versity of Virginia undergraduate
and law schools, and Is a member Of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the
Columbia Country Club and the
Sulgrave Club. The bride also was
graduated from the Friends School
and from Lasell Junior College in
Auburndale, Mass. and the Rhode
Island School of Design in Proyi-
dence.
After the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith left for a wedding trip, the
latter wearing brown costume suit
with a checked tweed top coat and
brown alligator accessories.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Miss Reiehley Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry Reign
ley of Valley Stream, Long Island,
have announced the marriage Of
their daughter, Miss Mary Eliza
beth Reighley, to Mr.. David Richey
Eckhardt, son of DR.. and Mrs. John
G. Eckhardt Of this city. The we'd
ding took place at II O'Clock Sat-
urday morning, April 4, in the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Planned

A lecture on restored Williams
burg, illustrated by colored slides,
will be presented by Mrs. Jasper M.
Bean before the Daughters of the
American Colonists at pm. Mon
day at the Women's City Club, 1856
Jackson place NV.
Evening star., 1942-04-11

devices by their mother. who de-
parts after she deposits the eggs.
For two and sometimes three years
the young lanpreys reside IN the
fresh water. They search for minute
organisms. When ready to descend
to the sea they undergo = trans
formation, and when fully grown
they seek fresh water In which to
lay eggs. Their offspring will later
continue the cycle.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Natures Children
Lampreys
(Petromyzon marinus)

Lampreys are anadromus and
ascend fresh-water streams in the
spring to spawn. They arrive with
the shad and herring. The number
Of eggs produced is large-in fact,
female win lay as many as 236, 900,
but the young do not resemble their
parents. They are blind and tooth
less, and their mouths and ms are
different in shape from those of
the adults.
The young are left to their own
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Miss Martin to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. John Preston Mar
tin announce the engagement of
their daughter. Miss Arlene Virginia
Martin, to Sergt. Frank Robert
Hesse Of Boiling Field.
The wedding will take place April
26 in the Takoma Park Baptist
Church.
Evening star., 1942-04-11

when their small number OF guests
included Senor EScalante and few
intimate friends. The distinguished
visitor left on a late train for New
York and will return here next
week.
Minister and Nine. Bruggmann
Have Guests for Dinner.
The Swiss Minister and Nine.
Bruggmann had guests dining in
formally with them last evening in
their charming Legation, Single
Oak, on Cathedral avenue. Nine.
Bruggmann has expected a visit
from her mother, Mrs. Henry c.
Wallace, widow of former Secretary
of Agriculture, and mother of the
Vice President, Mr.. Henry A. Wal
lace. The senior Mrs. Wallace, how
ever, feels that Washington would
be a strange land to her in these
busy Wartimes and after the pass
ing of so many years. Mrs. Wallace
and the late Secretary made many
friends in the Capital during his
service as a member of the Cabinet.
Lupcheons Precede Opening of
Three National Gallery Rooms.
The Director of the National Gal
lerv and Mrs. David Edward Finley
entertained at luncheon today at
their Georgetown home in honor OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Dale of New
York. The other guests included
the Polish Ambassador and Mme.
Ciechanowska, the Swiss Minister
and Mime. Bruggmann, Senator Rob-
ert Wagner and Judge and Mrs.
James Foley, also of New York
The chief curator of the gallery,
Mr.. John Walker, and Lady Mar
garet Walker also were hosts at
luncheon, their guests including Mrs.
Paul Mellon. daughter -in-law OF the
late former Secretary of the Treas
urv. Mr.. Andrew w. Mellon, who
gave and endowed the gallery; Mr..
and Mrs. Murray Thompson OF New
York and a number of other out
of-town guests.
These luncheons preceded the for
NAL opening this afternoon OF three
additional rooms in the National
Gallery Which are filled with 18th
century French paintings from Mr..
Dale's collection. Mr.. and Mrs. Dale
entertained the trustees and OFF,
cials of the gallery at dinner last
night at the Carlton. Additional
guests included Judge and Mrs.
Foley and Mr.. Edward Alden Jew
ell, also of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Phillips WILL
be hosts at luncheon tomorrow in
their charming home on FoxhaH
road, entertaining in honor OF Mr.
and Mrs. Dale.
Musicale to Benefit
French Relief Council.
Cos.stess de Limur has loaned
her house on r street for musicale
Saturday evening, April Is, and in
vitations to subscribe will be IN the
mail over the week end. The IN
yitations are being issued in the
name of the Washington Chapter
of the Co-ordinating Council OF
French Relief Societies and proceeds
will be used for the work of the
council. Mile. Claude Alphand,
delightful French singer, will give
the program which will be mostly
French music and she will play her
own accompaniments. The WASH
ington chapter, which maintains its
headquarters at ITO Connecticut
avenue, has as its honorary chair
man Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss and
honorary vice chairman Mrs. Mar
earet Boncompagni.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Brownies Are Hosts

Gen. F.. w. Browne and Mrs.
Browne have as their guests at their
home In Chevy Chase their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Lytle Browne of Pasche, Tex.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Party Is Cancelled

Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Byrnne Dia-
mond of Gaithersburg have recalled
invitations for the party they had
planned to give April 10. owing to
the death of Mr.. Diamonds mother.
Evening star., 1942-04-11

During the last four years the
pneumonia death rate in the United
States has been reduced approx
laately so per cent.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Margaret Mendenhall
Wed to Mr.. ]. A. Smith
Chevy Chase Club Reception
Follows Ceremony in Home
Of Brides Parents

Before
Bouen Mendenha daughter
Chase married last evening Mr. James Arthur Smith,
and Mrs. Robert Palmer Smith Washington
Southern smiax white lilies
altar and lighted candles added the simplicity setting
o'clock which the
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Would Hang Stephan
One Less Maxi Means My Home Is Safer Says
Detroiter Seeking to Volunteer

Irving Greenberg. 2S-year-old
laundry truck driver. wants TO be
the hangman at the execution of
Max Stephan, the convicted tfai-
tor.
II can't do anything on the
other side" said Greenberg. II
feel IL Is my duty to volunteer
for the job of hanging a traitor
TO my country"
Greenberg called the Times 10
offer hts services after reading
that authorities at Essex County,
Ont. had been asked to find a
hangman.
However. II is unlikely Green
berg's offer will be accepted. Fed
eral officials wanted a professional
executioner.
Greenberg has two brothers now
serving with the Canadian army.
Carl. n, is an anti-aircraft gunner
overseas while Joe. 20, enlisted
two weeks ago, His father, Carl,
born in Russia, would like 10 fight,
too. but he is too old for the army,
Greenberg said.
"If they give me the job Of
hanging stephan" Greenberg
said. "Tll he able TO go TO bed
that night with clear con-
science. One less Nazi means my
home Is that much safer"
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Ydnks Set Attire
I Ships in Greece

CAIRO. Egypt Oct. 5 (INS).-
Two large Axis cargo vessels were
set afire by bombs from United
States army air force planes Sat-
urday in a second attack against
enemy shipping in Nayarino Bay,
Greece, il was revealed today.
1t was the second raid in force
within as hours by four-motored
Consolidated bombcrs.
Five Axis fighters challenged the
Americans who destroyed four Of
the opposing craft.
british patrols have been. ac-
tive in ali sectors of the Alamein
front a communique transmitted
by UP said. Weather conditions
limited aerial activity over the
battle area. but torpedo carrying
planes hit a medium sized mer-
|chantman in an attack on a supply
convoy bound for Libya through
the Ionian Sea-
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Schoolboy Hitchhiker Kills Detroij
Stain Confident
Of Holding NaZis
But Pleads for I'd Front Now;
Axis Anxiety Hinted on Radio

one might say a place Of first
rate.
O-To what extent Is Allied
aid TO the Soviet Union proving
effective and what could be done
to amplify and improve this aid?
SOVIET AID TO ALLIES
A-As compared with the aid
the Soviet Union Is giving to the
Allies, by drawing upon Itself
the main forces of the German
Fascist armies, the aid Of the
Allies to the Soviet Union has
SO far been little effective. In
order to amplify and improve
this aid only one thing Is re-
quired: that the Allies fulfill
their obligations fully and on
time.
Q-What remains Of the So
Wet capacity for resistance?
Al think that Soviet capacity
of resisting the German brigands
is In q strength not less, II not
greater, than the capacity Of
Fascist Germany or any other
aggressive power to secure for
itself world domination.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Boys Watch Curve,
Get Scrap Off Tires

ANTWERP, N. Y. Oct. 5 (UP).
Boys of this village cashed in on
the scrap rubber collection-with
the aid of the United States Army.
Police noticed the boys stationed
at sharp turn in a road leading
to a military reservation. They
found some youngsters collected as
much as five pounds a day Of rub
ber scraps torn from the treads of
armored vehicles as they screeched
around the curve.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Drafted Tailor
Ends His Life

Apparently worried over a notice
to report for induction into the
army Tavio r. Finley, as. a tailor
in the David Whitney Building,
killed himself today.
Throat and wrists slashed and
an empty glass had had contained
poison near by, the body was found
by Harry Young, who shared quar-
tiers with Finley on the fourth floor
of the structure.
Young said he had been in i'll
health
FinTey, a widower. lived at 1882
Baylis avenue. He had been or
dered by draft board "a to report
for induction October 13. The
notice arrived Friday.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
New Us.
Sub Lost
lin Pacific

WASHINGTON. Oct. s CUP).-
The navy announced today the
! l.526-ton submarine Grunion has
been overdue in the Pacific for
some time and must be presumed
TO be lost"
Submarines of this class nor
mally carry complement of 65
officers and men.
This was the fifth United States
submarine lost since the war be-
gan.
The Grunion. commanded by 1t.
Commander Mannert Lincoln
Abele 49, of Quincy. Mass. was
one OF our newest types. She was
launched December p.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
US. Opens
Drive i'm
AIeutianS

WASHINGTON, Oct. S (UP).-
The long-awaited drive to oust the
Japanese from the western Aleu-
tian Islands apparently Is begin.
ming.
For the present, it appears that
the offensive will be confined to
the air. Frequent aerial lombard
ment and ground-strafing are
being employed to make the Japa-
nese positions untenable and tc
force them to withdraw.
Big American bombers. accom-
panied by powerfully-armed fight
ers, are operating from newly
bases less than an hour
by air from the main japanese
base on Kiska Island.
In the week ended September
80. American army planes carried
out nine attacks on japanese
shipping and shore installations ir
the Pacific.
The new advanced bases from
which these aircraft are operating
are in the hithero-unoccupiec
Islands, part of the
American-owned Aleutian chain
The westernmost of these island:
is only 125 nautical miles from
kiska.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Reds RepuIs Sc
In Sta|ingrdd
Yield in One District
as Tanks Seek to
Blast Path to Center
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press stan Correspondent

MOSCOW, Oct. 5.-A terrific
German drive. using more than
100 tanks and hundreds of planes,
stormed at the narrowest parts of
Stalingrad's defenses today, seek
ing TO blast a path into the heart
Of the city for reinforced ground
troops.
The Volga metropolis was
ablaze again as German planes,
determined to pulverize its rem
nants, unleashed new attacks.
Front dispatches said the Rus
SLAMS repelled more than II at
tacks and yielded only at one
point. In the northwestern section
of Stalingrad. German forces drove
the Russians back in a factory dis
trict.
But inside the great bend of the
Don River. 60 TO 20 miles north
west of Stalingrad, Soviet forces
stabbed deeper into the German
left flank, rolling over heavy Ger
man defenses.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Golden BuHPfs!

BROOKLINE, Mass, Oct. )
GNS).-Into the junk pile today
went a three-ton Rolls Royce auto
mobile. The automobile cost Sl8,-
eco when it was purchased in 1924
and has gone only $4,000 miles.
1t was contributed by Mrs. Anna
L. Sears, widow Of the founder OF
the Sears-Roebuck Company.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Supreme Court Opens
Session With Va(anCy

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (INS)
The Supreme Court today begins
a new eight months term with a
vacancy existing due to resigna-
ton of Justice James T. Byrnes
to become economic stabilization
director.
The White House gave no hint
of Byrnes' successor, but New
Deal officials and members of
Congress generally expected Presi-
dent Roosevelt TO make an ap-
pointment within two months.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Their Language

OMAHA. Neb.. Oct. 5 GNS).-
Val Peters 2.400-pound linotype
machine today was headed for the
scrap heap.
For years, Peter. publisher of
the Omaha Daily Tribune and six
other German language news
papers in as many cities. said the
machine has been turning out
news and opinions for good Ger
mans. Now he added. he hoped it
would speak a language the Nazis
could understand.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
.Herriot Interned
In French Camp

ZURICH, Oct. 5 (UP). - Ed
Guard Herriot, president of the
defunct chamber of deputies of the
French republic, has been sent to
a concentration camp at Vals Les
BainS. France, it was reported
here today.
Four Dutchmen were reported
to have been executed at the
Hague for Communist activity
against the German army of &C.
cupation.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
RATS Bomb Average
500 Tons Per Raid

LONDON, Oct. 5 (UP). - The
air ministry reported today that
the Royal Air Force dropped 5000
tons of bombs on Axis targets in
Europe in 10 night attacks last
month-an average of 500 tons Of
high explosives per attack.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
PREPARES PICNIC
Oddities
Ldssoes Deer
In Atlantic

SALEM. Mass. Oct. 5 (UP).--
Arthur Daigle OF Bev-
erly today boasted of something
new in catches-a l00-pound deer
that he laSsooed four miles off,
shore while it was swimming to-
ward the open sea. A game war
den ordered the deer released.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
By LEO MACDoNELL

NEW YORK, Oct. Charley
(Red) Ruffing has been asked By
Joe Mccarthy to make this sign
/ in the New York teams clubhouse
important:
"The train leaves for st. Louis
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night"
In other words, the veteran Ruf.
fling has been assigned the titanic
task of keeping the Yankees In
the 1912 World Series.
WON FIRST GAME
He will pitch for the Yankees
against the Cardinals at Yankee
Stadium today in the fifth garne
of a razzle-dazzle autumn baseball
classic in which the National
Leaguers this morning were lead
ing. three games to one.
Ruffing was given credit for the
only Yankee victory Of the series
their triumph in the first game.
Johnny Beazley, 23-year-old
freshman sensation who hurled the
Cardinals to victory over the YAM
KEGS in the second game of the
series in st. Louis, will go to the
post again today.
HUGE CROWD THRILLED
The perilous plight of the YAM
KEGS came with defeat at the hands
of the Cardinals, 8 to 6. in q sand
bagging affair at the stadium
Sunday, wild and woolly spec
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Train Jumps Track
In Illinois; | Injured

WOOD RIVER. Ill. Oct. S (UP).
AN Alton Railroad passenger
train, bound from Chicago for St
Louis, jumped the tracks near here
today and the engine and baggage
car turned over
Joseph Hutchins, fireman, was
the only person injured.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
ltal4 Claims Allied Sub

ROME. Oct. 5 (By official
italian wireless) INST h e
Italian high command claimed to-
day that the torpedo boat Libra
had sunk a United Nations sub
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
Train Wreck in India Kills II

MBAY. Oct. 5 (UP). -
Twelve persons were killed and
40 injured when the Bombay
PeShawar express was wrecked
yesterday 200 miles northeast of
Bombay.
Detroit evening times., 1942-10-05
War Summary

RUSSIA: Soviet forces stab
deeper into Germans north
west of Stalingrad, although
Nazis gain in the city. page
IL Premier Stain says Sec
ond front holds first place in
Soviet estimate of current
situation. page II
ALEUTIANS: United States
takes the offensive. page IL
EAST: Two Axis
cargo ships blasted in Greek
harbor by American bombers.
page IL
NEW GUINEA: Australian
forces nearing backbone OF
Owen Stanley Mountains in
advance northward from Port
Moresby. page p