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Show Logan Pilot Tells of Experiences In Africa, Sicily an d Malta Lieutenant Wendell (Sandy) Morrell in Action the span they were buried in. It seems that a family or group of families, would build their j own individual catacomb and whenever anyone died or was about to die they were measured meas-ured and the hole in the wall was cut out. "In the construction of the receptical for the body they would build a stone pillow with a place in it cut out to receive; the head. After death the body would be placed in the grave with a vase of food and water, J whatever they thought the dead person would need on his long journey, and then hole was sealed with a large, flat stone, cut and fit to the outside of the grave and some kind of mortar sealed it around the edges. "Each catacomb has a large room with a stone table in the middle where the people held the; funeral services and had the burial pact , in honor of the dead. "We watched some people make the famous Maltese lace and from the way they worked and the speed they go, I imagine that they knew pretty . well what they were doing. The lace they have now is the same design as always al-ways but of courses they can't get the same materials and as a I result they don't have very much linen and most of the lace is cotton or silk. I bought some for you and will send it on as soon as I get a chance. "We had to learn the English system of money and exchange there and now it is Jtalian. I'll be glad when .we get back to using the good old U. S. method there is some .'cents' to that." Lieutenant Wendell (Sandy) j Morrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. MurreU, pilot of an aUuck bomber operating in the Italian war theaier, is doiii-,' more than his .share of "defeating the Axis" work. Bcs'ldes his flying work. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Morreli in a letter home, tells his parents to put $200 of his next pay allotment into war bonds to help the Third War Loan drive. Other interesting parts of the letter, including a trip to Malta, follow: "I haven't written for the past few days because we have been on the move again. We are living liv-ing close to the ground again and that always means a lot of work. You said you wanted to trade' a crust of bread for an Arabian loaf. Well, take It from me, one of your crusts is worth more than all the Arabian bread in Africa. "I don't think you would like the stew and ice cream we make. . Sometimes we can eat it and other times we don't dare. And as for not getting caught while acquiring the vegetables, well, once in a while the "gook" catches us, but we would give him a pack of cigarettes and he seemed well pleased. I put my cigarette ration in the mess fund for the tent and we (get along pretty good. There are two others in my tent that don't smoke, so -with their rations too we usually have a well supplied mess fund. "The first day on Sicily we could get six eggs for 1 pack of cigarettes, but the price has gone up a little and now we get only three. While on Sicily we were based near a large grape vinyard and we had a lot of grapes as well as fresh figs and almond nuts. "We were in Malta (the most bombed place in the world) for a while. That is the first place since I have been but of the state that I would like to return to. The people were very friendly and most interesting to talk to. They speak broken English. I was very much surprised when we landed there. I expected to see it practically wrecked but instead in-stead it was in very good shape. One large church had a 1000 pound bomb go through the dome but it didn't explode. They said the. morale of the people went up 1000 per cent after that. "The streets are very narrow but not as dirty as they are in North Africa. The people clean the streets and the people themselves them-selves are very much cleaner than those in Africa. , "The people like bright colored color-ed clothes and during the day they can't be found, but at 6 or 6:30 p.m. they all come out and walk up and down the main street. They pick out a path about 150 yards and I'll bet they walk 10 miles every night. The entire family turns out. If they are too young to walk their parents par-ents push them in a buggy. We would igo down each evening and watch them walk and admire the young girls. "The place we lived in was built in the year 1560 and was made of solid stone. Some of the other buildings were built before that. One of the Monks gave us a lecture on the history of the island and the place really has --an interesting past. Most of the large stone walks are still stand- ing and down near the harbors the large walks on each side are marked and really show their age. "The town of Valletta was interesting in-teresting and perhaps showed the results of the bombings more than other places. While we were there we took a ride in one of the native gondolas and went around the harbor looking at --everything that was there. We visited a large battleship and aircraft carrier. They surely are large. "The Medina, or holy city on the island, had some old and "beautiful churches. St. Paul's cathedral, the largest one in the holy city, has been rebuilt three times. The first and original structure was built soon after the time of Christ. It was beautiful beau-tiful inside, having a great amount of marble work and paintings. Some of the more valuable val-uable pieces had been taken away for protection from the 'blitz'. "We also saw the third largest larg-est Roman Catholic cathredal in the world. This is one that was hit by the large bomb. "I visited the catacombs twice and they certainly axe amazing. The ones I was in were built during the days of the Roman empire. They believed only in cremation of the dead and the other people on the island, in order to keep from cremating their dead built the underground cemetery or catacombs. They were built outside of the city limit; and are cut out of solid rock in a systematic arrangement. The people evidently were small ir stature judging from the size of |