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...cadets, who have visited Italy, Egypt, India, Australia, Samoa, and Henolulu, were full of tales about their adventures on this long training cruise. Stories of past days, of palm trees and of sand, of native girls and southern nights, fought for expression in this horrible language along with questions and comments, wondering and, admiring, questioning and sometimes politely criticizing on these Vereinigten Stasten von Amerika...
...force the fighting into the western Pacific for a clear decision, the U. S. suffers a severe and costly reverse when it unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits...
Films used in Professor Dixon's course on Oceanica depict the intimate lives and habits of the Polynesians, Melanesians, and inhabitants of the East Indies. Tribal dances and customs such as fire walking in the Fiji Islands, and tatooing and tapa making in Samoa, are shown in detail...
...Passed a bill establishing civil (instead of Navy) government in American Samoa; sent it to the House...
...Mahatma Eilshemius ceased to shout his scorn of every other painter in the world, his disdain of every art gallery that does not recognize the importance of his work. But he stopped painting in 1920. A few have suspected that he realized then that his pictures of Samoa, his ruins by moonlight, his strange nude ladies bathing in improbable streams were as far as he could go. Last week he grew suddenly frank with his press agent. "I won't paint again," said Louis Eilshemius, "I'm just a comedian...