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Show YOUNG HERO WOULD COME TO AMERICA By ROBERT S. DOM A N, (Universal News Service Staff Correspondent.) "PARIS, March Tl-'if teen-yea r-ol'I Knrico Carrti. hero of the Italian a ml Krench armies and an honorary sei- Kjant in a n A mericji n coin pa ny of en -gfneers, umls a god mother or a. goij - fat her in A nien.-a who w ill look a fler ! him until he gets a start. ; Unrjen Is an orphan. J ! i;ik horn ! in Verona, Italy, in '.''.. J t is pa rent s died when lie was 4 years oh), and he was just 1 when lie ,bt a i n e permission permis-sion to tat? along with the -onrh regiment regi-ment of Italian Kersai.:1ieu. This regiment regi-ment went Into line on the I'iave front, shortly after Italy entered tin- war. Knrico Kn-rico shouldered a gun and wa s a I most, con si an t iy in 1 he t.renehes. Me wa s v. ou tided in the It a mj fid decorated for bra very. i Then the Trench came a Ion if to fight on the I; a I ia n f r ent . Knrie., ,M a im-d a tra nsf er to the j-- rwh and fought with the French Svuii:!)i inJantrv. Wlum they left for I-'ra lice 1 , r- arcmna nicd them arid fought on the Sotume. ArtT'inne, rTiampagne, Verdun and IoiTaiiie fronts, being twice, wounded, in the h ft side ami right leg-. funeral Francois awarded him the' ("mix fje fin "ire, tin citation n t t if n i i ng I his t .vo wounds and the f;,ct thai he had cantm-en" thmj- ih-rinans s i n g ! - ha nded . Tii Kreneh named him an honorary corpora cor-pora I, and he was known 1 h rough on t the regiment as the "'l.inie, ( 'otp-.i ;i i." "When t lie Seven t jet h Frcjieh I n I ;t ut rv w-.-ih changing fronts frum Lorraine m September, I'M. Knrico lost pp- outfit in "Nancy. lie appealed to th.- ,rtieih engineers, ca m uj fia ge, V. s, a rm , but while they were 1 rylng to find I atrico't-. regiment (lie urnik'Tpf was signed. Knrieo stayed wMii Hie etigmeer.- and was made t: Ivnorarv f- -rr-.t nt . fw LliC ng incurs ha v gr.n- horn.; tid Knrico Kn-rico is ai. Ing at the .Italian cons nla t at Nancy, homrig for a 'hance to re- I |