NEW YORK, March 4, 1953 (UP) -- Josef Stalin is on his deathbed, two American physicians concluded today from studying the medical bulletin of his eight attending physicians.Even 80 physicians could not save him, they said. Although the Russians spoke of "a series of therapeutic measures," the Americans said, there was little that could be done by medicine.

MOSCOW, March 4, 1953 (UP) -- Premier Josef Stalin lay paralyzed and unconscious from a brain hemorrhage today, and the stunned Russians -- from whom the news had been withheld for 48 hours -- learned that state and party leaders had taken over his duties.

LONDON, March 4, 1953 (UP) -- As Premier Josef Stalin lay gravely ill in Moscow, the western world today asked two vital questions.

1879: Born Iossif Vissarionovich Djugashvili on Dec. 21, at Gori, Georgia, son of an alcoholic cobbler and a serf's daughter.

Behind his bland dark eyes, the "man of steel" had a hard mechanical brain that never hesitated at mass murder in its driving ambition to dominate the world.

LONDON, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- Russia, which probably will be without a premier for a month or two, today warned her enemies not to try to take advantage of the crisis caused by the death of Josef Stalin.

Premier Josef Stalin, who ruled Russia since 1924, saw the Soviet empire spread eastward through China and westward through half of Europe.

WASHINGTON, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- The Eisenhower Administration launched a top secret psychological warfare offensive against communism today in an effort to capitalize on Stalin's death.High-ranking Administration sources revealed the plan was whipped into shape immediately after Moscow announced that Stalin was gravely ill. The plan now has been put into effect.

NEW YORK, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- The Voice of America warned Communist-dominated peoples behind the iron curtain today that the death of Joseph Stalin promises no relief from the "extermination and suppression" he fostered in the Kremlin."Soviet Communist imperialism and not any one man is the real enemy," the Voice said in broadcasts beamed throughout the world.

LONDON, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- Radio Moscow today "advised" editors of newspapers throughout the Soviet Union how the death of Premier Josef Stalin is to be printed.Material will be published on Page One. The page will be bordered in black, with a portrait of Stalin in military uniform taking up three columns on the right, the broadcast said.

MOSCOW, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- Moscow's millions swarmed to the trade union building in the center of the city today to view the body of Josef Stalin as it lay in state awaiting the greatest funeral in Russian history.