Show THE GARLAND TIMES John Hersetj STOKT THUS FAR: The with Major troops arrived la Adano Joppolo the Amfot odlcer la eharie Serjeant Borth wai la charge of security The Major was determined to hold the confidence of the people and to place their hell stolen by the Nazis Marvin spite orders lamed by General barring carts from the city Joppolo called the order to permit food and ter to enter the city Cacopardo tried to furnish the General with information on German but was troop movements tossed out Tina told the Major about her sweetheart a prisoner of war and asked the aid of the Major In locatlnj him The Major felj tome Jealousy hut promised help CHAPTER XV Polack said: "A lousy unfair war” Bill said: “Le’s go to bed” So they went to bed Polack heard Chuck crying In his bedroll and he laid: "Smatter Chuck feel sick?” Chuck sobbed: “Hell of a war” Polapk said: "Yeah hell of a war Chuck go to sleep” When Major Joppolo arrived at his office next morning two visitors were waiting for him One was Quattrocchl owner of the house where Chuck Bill and Polack were had to billeted But Quattrocchl wait because the other was Lord Runcin one of the Amgot The Allied Military Government was and still Is a joint affair and aa In the higher echelons of the military command and British offAmerican icers were sandwiched In with each other Lord Runcin was near the top Lord Runcin was a man of about fifty He had wavy blonde hair and bright eyes which seldom looked straight at whoever he was talking with He took snuff Aside from the fact that he had a purely colonial point of view toward the Italians he was considered to be a pretNot the ty good man for Amgot least of his attributes was his enOn this particular morning It ergy was only five minutes past eight and yet Lord Runcin had been on the road since six thirty had taken breakfast on American rations in a wheat field and had been waiting patiently for his Amgot representative In Adano for fifteen minutes He was making round of Interviews to try to pick up the best examples of Amgot work from each of the occupied towns Major Joppolo showed him Into His his office "Wizard quarters” Lordship said Lord Runcin affected the slang of his subordinates but he always seemed to use American slang when talking to his British men and vice versa so that many of them understood very little of what he said This was the first time Major Joppolo had ever had a tele a tete with a real honest to goodness He was surprised to find him wearing shorts and an open collar and no hat at all His Lordship's deferential manner as he sat on the other side of the Major's dek made Major Jopasking questions polo who had once been a clerk in the Sanitation Department of New feel York City quite Important By way of making conversation His Lordship pointed a thumb In and said: direction Quattrocchl’ “Your Italian friend is In quite s flap” The “What former Sanitation clerk said: was that Lord? I didn’t get that” “Never mind” said His Lordship “Well what kind of a Job have you been doing here Joppolo?” The former Sanitation clerk said: I’ve been doing all right” “Well "Doing all right eh?” His of smiled Mid made a note the for expression In his notebook “What hre the best things ture use done?” to show how the town was financing itself there was the musA Liberty Ship had come Into lin Adano harbor and had discharged bulldoza cargo of war materials— ers bridge girders tents and some ammunition Down In the bottom found six unloaders the of one hold The skipper bales of white muslin It of the ship said he had to unload The Quartermaster on the beach would not take it There were no no muslin the consigpapers for nment The muslin had U S Treaswas obviury markings on it so it and It was obously lost Major Joppolo heard viously the and rags on the seeing about it town he said he could people of his He called his Civil Supply use it director and told him about the muslin and the director gave permission to sell it at a fair price Major for sale Joppolo put two rolls up and held the other four in reserve of cloth There was such a shortage rolls were In the town that the two gone In that many hours Hia “Good work Joppolo” said "What else?” There was the refugee problem there On the day of the Invasion were only six or seven thousand peothe other had all town ple in the Within a few days run to the hill you’ve Well 4 there were or three The town got badly crowded were and one reason waa that there the town of a lot of refugees from had come Vicinamare These people the Allies down to Adano because had been bombing Vicinamare pretNow the invasion ty hard before that the battle had gone beyond J V4NU- UTAH Pretty Vestees for ell Jbr Adano THE GARLAND Classroom Wear rtATUM His Lordship was getting a wee Vicinamare they wanted to go home bit bored Ha dipped more and more but there was no transportation One day the Major saw a frequently Into his snuffbox and "Fine show German bus driving down the street looked out the window fine show” hs said An American soldier was driving it “Anything bad Major Joppolo said to himself: ”1 In this town?” could use that bus” He asked “Yes there is Lord” the Major around and found out it belonged to said "One thing” the Engineers So he called the “I wish all of our towns had Just Motor Officer and said: “I’d like to one thing wrong Joppolo” use that bus of yours one day a “Well this isn’t exactly bad Lord said it week” The Motor Officer and mayba it'll sound a little silly would be okay with him if the Major to you” : had proper permission So Major "My Job” said Lord Runcin takJoppolo called the Adano base comsnuff grandly “is to make sense mander who said it would be all ing out of silly things What is It Jopright And a few days later one busload of cheering laughing peo- polo?" — “Well sir this town needs a bell” ple' had started home' Now Colonel I heard "A bell? Why Major Sartorius head of Amgot for the auch of bells st eight Province of Vicinamare heard o’clock a jangling this morning might you and about the bus a few days later have thought It was Christmas day" he got sore and told Major Joppolo “Yes but this is a special bell not to do that any more “Sometimes ” Major Joppolo said "I think Lord” “I didn’t know they had any speColonel Sartorius is an awful dope” Lord Runcin said “Do you mean cial bells" "This one was seven hundred you think he takes harmful drugs?” It was just about the And his Lordship dipped Into his years old most Important thing in the town to snuffbox Mussolini these people talk hear I no “Oh said? Major Joppolo ” And Major Joptook it away Just mean he’s stupid” polo told how the beU had been "Dope eh?” His Lordship said and shipped away to and put the expression down In his crated up make gun barrels and how the peobook "Very good what else?” ple had come to him about It and Well Lord the people of Adano how he had tried to track It and were so contented under the Amerihad found that it was almost cercans that they offered of their own and at any tainly melted down without accord anybody suggesting rate was In unoccupied territory it to maintain the little American attitude Lord Runcin's colonial cemetery on the outskirts of town cropped up he said “Surely” So they built a fence around It and "these people can get along with old the Russo It white and painted the bells they have We can’t afford stonecutter was making headstone to be too sentimental you know and every Sunday the people took Can't afford to let these Joppolo flower up and put them on the too be happy you know graves of the boys who had died people Can't afford to let discipline get too taking the town loose” said "I say” Hia Lordship "Lord I can’t see that happlnesa "touching What elae?” and discipline don’t go together" Food was pretty good In the first "Young man” said Hia Lordship five found cars days the Major had taking a sniff tor emphasis “I think I’ve had a little more experience in these things than you have” "Every time I’ve done something for these people” Major Joppolo aaid'‘Tve found they did two things for me just out of thanks” “Well what do yop want me to do about this bell?” ”1 just wondered Lord if you could suggest a way to get them another belL Not Just any bell you know but one that could take the place of the one they lost” “Every time I need something out of the ordinary” His Lordship said ”1 make application to the United States Army They have the most you know extraordinary things a me gave They Jeep They gavs me my choice of pipes good briar went from Scotland to the too USA and all the way back here to Algiers by way of the US Army Some one told me about these electrical razors and they even got me one of those but I can’t use It because of this Italian current wrong current you know not like our current I suggest you try the U S Army Joppolo” “I haven’t had quite the same kind of luck with the Army Lord You got some friend or something? Who do you ask for aU these fancy things they get you?” "Just write General Wilson W B Wilson Quartermaster Depot AlGeneral Wilson told me he’d giers try to get me anything I wanted Just use my name Joppolo he’ll find you a bell I'm sure of it” "Can’t afford to let these people Major Joppolo wrote down Genbe too happy you know” eral Wilson’s name and address of wheat on a siding at the railroad "Thank you Lord” the Major said station had had it ground into flour "That sounds like it might work and had been able to spare some I sure want to get a bell for this town” for the neighboring hill towns which Lord Runcin clapped his snuffbox He had given one were starving “Well Joppolo shut and stood up baker a very heavy fine three thousand lira for baking soggy bread sounds to me as if you were doing a Keep It up If for refusing to sell it on credit for wizard Job here have invasion troubles to take just give me any American you refusing a buzz” And His Lordship left on lira and for having dirty hands and since then the bread had been the vehge of a delicious sneeze pretty good from all the bakers He which he had been saving in his had taken steps to send the fisher- nostrils for ten minutes Major Joppolo stared out of the men out He had arranged for the and he waa wonderfully window people to have pasta which they had not had for eight months Food happy with the double happiness of and praise for It accomplishment was all right "Good” said Lord Runcin Every He was drawn back from his pleastime Hi Lordship took snuff Major ant daze by a torrent of Italian from came It out Quattrocchl eyes nearly popped Joppolo’s “You Americans think you are so of his head and he almost forgot civilized you think you are doing “Anywhat he was talking about a favor by disembarking on our us else?” thing You are no better than the “Oh sure Lord” he said "this shores The Germans never did Germans town is much better off than it was before we came in You can’t Im- anything In this town such si your agine how these people were ground men haveI donenot I gave you my did mind giving you house down Why they’re so used to beand so used my house I thought the Americans ing afraid of officials were civilized You are th one out forms and being to making hauled up to court and having cara- who told me they are civilized You binieri ask them their names that said they would take care of my house as If they owned It You they all put their last names first and their first names last the way are a liar” Having been praised so recently it goes on official papers all the Major Joppolo was stung by this time Just like the Chinese "Lot of them have told me that dispraise "What do you want?” b said they’re better off now than they For one thing they sharply "Stop this babbling and tell were before can congregate in the streets any me what you want” "I don’t want anything What I time they want and talk about whatever they want to They can listen have lost I can never get back so to their radios They know they how can I want anything?” ”If you don’t want anything why can get a fair trial out of me They can come to the City Hall and talk are you taking up my time?” Quattrocchl spoke sarcastically: to me any time they want Mayor Nasta had office hour from twelve "I’m aorry If your time is so valuable Your Worship” And then he to one each day and you had to apad"I have lost some in weeks audience angrily: an spoke for ply told you about the streets things which were valuable to me vance to my house this mornbeing clean Oh there are lots of too to went some had left and if I have anyget Lord ing things ways And what did I find? 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