Current Events September 24, 1942; RUSSIANS DRIVE NAZIS OUT; U. S. SHIPS LOST IN PACIFIC:

             The Brownsville Herald

                             BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942

RED ARMIES DRIVE NAZIS FROM FORTS
IN STALINGRAD AS CITY STILL HOLDS
U. S. Destroyer Jarvis Reported Lost In Pacific

Willkie Says Russians
Disappointed Over.
A i d ; Australians
Hold In Pacific
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Bolstered by shell-fire
from Volga river gunboats.
Marshal Semeon Timoshcnko's
Red armies were reported
to have driven the
Germans from a series of
fortified points in Stalingrad
today, rolled up a
four-day toll of more than
13,000 Nazis killed, and
struck a sharp counter blow
northwest of the Volga
metropolis.

Transport Little
Also Sunk During
Solomons Fight
250 Men Lost; Navy
Says Today; Ships
'Disappear' A f t e r Battle
WASHINGTON — (AP)
—The Navy announced today
that the United States
destroyer Jarvis had. disappeared
in the Southwest
Pacific without leaving ^ a
trace, presumably sunk by
enemy submarines or aircraft,
and that the auxiliary
transport Little had been
sunk during recent operations
in the Solomons.
Possible loss of life on the two
ships was estimated at 250 men.
Going For Repairs

War At A Glance
By The Associated Press
MOSCOW—Stalingrad defenders
recapture some fortifications,
kill 7,200 invaders as Germans
rush reinforcement: by air.
MOSCOW — Presidential envoy
Willkie expresses Russians'
"disappointment and dissatisfaction"
over lack of a second
front.
LONDON'—British bombers raid
FIensburg submarine yards, hit
three Axis ships off Dutch
coast..
BERLIN—High command claims
submarines sank 22 Allied
ships.
PACIFIC — Australians h o l d
firmly in renewed fighting in
New Guinea, 32 miles from
Port Moresby; raiders blast
Japanese supply bases.
WASHINGTON—Navy announces
destroyer Jarvis disappeared
in southwest Pacific, auxiliary
transport Little sunk at Solomons.