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October 29, 1942

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U.S. SOLDIERS HOLD; Drive Back Some Minor Thrusts by Japanese on Guadalcanal NO OTHER ACTION LISTED Enemy Losses Not High, Navy Stresses, Although They Are Heavy Measured by Ours ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF GUADALCANAL AND TULAGI ISLANDS BATTLE SUBSIDES ON GUADALCANAL

By Charles Hurdspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Japanese losses in troops and equipment in ground fighting on Guadalcanal Island since last Friday (Solomon Islands time) "have been very heavy as compared to our own," the Navy announced today.

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Nazis' Armor Beaten Back In Egypt With Heavy Loss; NAZI TANK FORCES REPELLED IN EGYPT

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ger counter-attack in heaviest tank battle beaten back by Brit with heavy Axis losses; Alexander and Montgomery tactics discussed; RAF bombs Axis positions; Gers rept successful defense fighting; estimate Brit tank losses; illus of RAF bombs falling on Rommel positions

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U.S. Has Announced All Sinkings Of Major Warships, Davis Says; OWI Chief Pledges People All News Not of Use to Enemy -- Price Says Censorship Will Be as Limited as Possible NO MAJOR SINKINGS HIDDEN, DAVIS SAYS SPEAKERS AT LAST NIGHT'S MEETING IN TIMES HALL

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NY Times forum: Davis and Price discuss OWI and Censorship Office work, respectively, int by A Krock

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M'LEISH RESIGNS AS OWI ASSISTANT; Librarian of Congress Became One of Three Aides to Davis When Agency Was Set Up MACLEISH RESIGNS AS OWI ASSISTANT

By Lewis Woodspecial To the New York Times

A MacLeish resigns asst dir post

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Notable Births

1942Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter (died 2023)^[†]

Lee Clayton was an American songwriter and musician. He notably wrote Waylon Jennings' 1972 outlaw country song "Ladies Love Outlaws".

1942Bob Ross, American painter and television host (died 1995)^[†]

Robert Norman Ross was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States and CBC in Canada.

Notable Deaths

1942Edward S. Anthoine, American politician and lawyer (born 1882)^[†]

Edward S. Anthoine was an American politician and lawyer from Maine. Anthoine, a Republican from Portland, served one term (1925–26) in the Maine Senate representing Cumberland County. In December 1927, Governor Owen Brewster appointed him to reporter of decisions of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Historical Events

1942The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.^[†]

Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.