July 5, 1942

EVERY one has been saying that with the rationing of gasoline, dimouts and whatnot the Summer theatre season this year would be grim. The facts, such as they are, do not seem to bear out this dire contention.

Child Placing and Adoption Com benefit plans

NYC School Supt sets 4-day registration period; supplemental appeals to be made by mail

US air forces join RAF in raid on Ger airfields and patrol ships, Netherlands; Capt C C Kegelman awarded DSC for exploits; por; Air Marshal Harris sends message to Eisenhower, lr; illus; map

BOTH these books deal with a subject of wide popular interest on which there is a lamentable dearth of direct first-hand information: the Soviet Red Army. Russia's ability to hold the field and begin a second year of war against the Nazi military machine which has ground to pieces every continental European country that attempted to resist has attracted widespread sympathetic attention in America and England.

AVG dissolved; most members absorbed into US Army 23d Pursuit Group; new unit downs 5 Jap raiders over Hengyang in initial action; Chinese retake Wuchen and check Jap drive from Paotow, Inner Mongolia; Tokyo radio claims Inner Mongolia gains; Chinese check Jap column driving from Shumchum; heavy fighting reptd, central and eastern Kiangsi

Motor Transport Div: bicycle squads used to supplement work

tells of fierce fighting, El Alamein

A series of events commemorating the fifth anniversary of the start of Chinese resistance to Japanese invasion has been planned for the near future by the Greater New York City Committee of United China Relief, under the co-chairmanship of Mrs. Robert Low Bacon and Frederick H. Wood.