The four-day celebration is without any American music or movies. The theaters, just warned by the new government to stop overcrowding, have gone from Standing Room Only to almost empty. There's nothing interesting in the radio either.

The Daihon-ei take on the Rabaul raid says of 200 attacking planes, eight were shot down and four were "seriously damaged" by their planes; five were downed by anti-aircraft fire. Japanese losses are only fifteen planes — "crashed into enemy objectives" — and one ship.

Bessmer was tired after a busy day helping Graemiger build a pigsty. (Almost anyone who can is raising hogs nowadays.) "Darn it," he said, "tomorrow I'm going to the office to have a good rest." The fact is, many importing houses are doing nothing but biding their time; selling what's left slowly.