Russians Move in Stalingrad

MOSCOW--Russian armies rode roughshed over stubborn German resistance in the Stalingrad area and northwest of Moscow yesterday, capturing several localities and killing more than 7,000 Axis troops, the Soviet High Command announced today.

Fifty big transport planes with which Germans are trying to supply enriched units on the Stalingrad front were destroyed, 20 in air battles and 30 in Soviet raids on enemy airdromes, the Tuesday midnight communique said.

Heavier German resistance in battles of mounting ferocity on both of the main fighting fronts was acknowledged by the high command while reporting steady Red Army advances in most sectors, which announced that in some areas southwest of Stalingrad the Soviet troops were engaged in fortifying their occupied positions.