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...trip was costly: large sums were needed to buy a passage through Jap lines and past bandit hordes. Many an ex' hausted wife reached Chungking penniless and almost naked to find a concubine in her rightful place. Too often the concubine was herself a "modern girl," unwilling to retire and dead against accepting the traditional role of handmaiden. For some there were successful compromises, but for most court seemed the only answer. ("Two spoons in the same bowl will knock against each other.") Then courts became so clogged that a "duration" moratorium on all such cases was proclaimed...
...just a routine C-2 cargo ship when the Navy took her over before the war. Three times she ran supplies into the Solomons under the bomb bays of Jap planes. On the fourth trip the Alchiba got it. Loaded with aviation gasoline, ammunition and bombs, she was riding at anchor off Guadal when a sub's torpedo blasted her. Gasoline and ammunition started going up. Her captain, Commander James S. Freeman, decided to try to save her, ordered up anchor and full speed ahead. Listing 18°, the Alchiba crunched on to the beach...
Fires leaped 150 ft. in the air. But the crew refused to abandon her. Standing on scorching decks, they tossed explosives overboard. They cursed Jap bombers but blessed their bad aim. For five days they worked 20 and 22-hour shifts before the fire was under control. All but 300 tons of cargo was saved. "Best crew I ever had," said the executive officer. "They were licked at least five times and didn't know...
Then on Dec. 7 a second Jap submarine sneaked in to throw two more torpedoes into the Alchiba. They ripped her port side. Her engine room was flooded...
Last week Waikiki, Honolulu's most popular resort, became a deserted village overnight. A Jap air attack could scarcely have emptied more quickly Waikiki's streets, cafes and bars, which usually teem with thousands of soldiers and sailors...