Monday, Aug. 28, 1944
Divorced. By Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, Los Angeles broker; after three years of marriage, for each the second, one child; in Los Angeles. Said she: Crane's quarreling kept her nervously unraveled.
Divorced. By Paul Derringer, 36, veteran pitcher, now with the Chicago Cubs: Eloise Brownbach Derringer, 30; after eight years; in Chicago. Hulking, gag-loving Derringer claimed that his wife threw cocktails and plates at him but asked no alimony.
Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen.
Killed In Action. Marine Corps Sergeant Peter Brook Saltonstall, 23, son of Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Salton stall; while leading a patrol in the jungles of northern Guam. Peter raised his father's share of his Marine Corps pay from $25 to $50 last year. The day after he got the news of Peter's death, Governor Salton stall spoke at a Boston memorial service for Marine Aviator Lieut. Robert M. Hanson, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Died. Lieut. Colonel Melbourne W. Boynton, 39, medical chief of the Air Forces' Office of Flying Safety,in a 42,000-foot fall, when he failed, for reasons unaccounted for, to open his parachute while making a test of high-altitude jumping conditions; at the Clinton County Air Base near Wilmington, Ohio.
Died. Gustave Meyer, 68, self-styled "American scientific astrologer -- counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor.
Reported Dead. Mme. Draja Mihailovich, wife of Yugoslavia's supplanted chieftain, mother of the Chetnik guerrilla's five children, two years, five months after she was seized by the Germans as a hostage. According to Polish underground sources, she died in the Nazis' notorious Oswiecim (Poland) concentration camp.
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