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Sued for Divorce. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60: Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, late of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment...
...Solomons. From the fighter runway at Empress Augusta Bay, from new bomber dromes on Bougainville and Treasury Islands, Allied planes ranged north. They raked Jap barge traffic coming down the Pacific islands to Rabaul. Daily they swept over Rabaul's five airfields, flushed as many as 80 Jap Zeros in one day, knocked down as many as 18. Nightly they struck farther: at Kavieng, on New Ireland, a way station between Truk and Rabaul. U.S. carrier-based planes pounded Kavieng's shipping. On New Year's Day they left two cruisers, one destroyer blazing; three days later...
This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole heard some shooting and saw some Japs...
Into the Jungle. One night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
This kind of fighting wrenched the jungle from the Jap, slowly enlarged the Empress Augusta Bay beachhead. Now, after six weeks of fighting, it runs roughly 10,000 yards along the shore, 8,000 yards inland. Last week came the announcement that U.S. engineers had completed a runway within the beachhead. The Allied command could now count on better fighter cover for air and sea attacks on Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific strongpoint...