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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEHI, UTAH 1 PIT:, ry v!K STORY THUS FAB: The Amerl-Wtroopi Amerl-Wtroopi arrived in Adano, with Major olo, the Amgot officer in charge. rs,eant Borto wai In charge o! lecnri-'WithThe lecnri-'WithThe Major wai determined to hold jonBdence o! the people and to re-their re-their bell stolen by the Nazis. De- . uruers isiucu vj wwtw ......, jmg carts from the city, Joppolo re-jd re-jd the order, to permit food and' wa-p wa-p enter the city. Lord Runcln, high in official on the Amgot, cauea upon r Joppolo, and alter receiving re-. re-. on the work done at Adano, ex- l hlmialf J11 iHcflril With the drfress made. The Major wa naturaUy J ed. Lord Runcln told the Major he might get a bell. CHAPTER XVI ffor'ound that your barbarians had jhed my terra cotta head, it 'J1 done by the Florentine Camil-in Camil-in the sixteenth century. What mgthie can you place on that? They DojRmy Venus; it was by Giorgione. h is the price of that? They I inched the glasses in which my tamer drank her bridal toasts in 'f ee. How many lira do you Sh- they were worth t0 meV tor ytattrocchi began to cry, and be- : Incoherent " , fior Joppolo was furious. He loin id up Captain Purvis and said: vis, what's the matter with men? Did you know they'd ,d behaving like a bunch of wild in their billet? This fellow good enough to let them use his IRI s and some of the stuff in It, lortthe hell did they have to abuse want you to find out who bust-0.SO bust-0.SO the stuff down at your billet have them in your office in d minutes." And he hung up ut waiting for the astonished tin to take a deep breath. jor Joppolo walked around to " Tther side of his desk and pat- I . i ii ii U "" he sobbing Quattrocchi on the der. He said: "Come, Quails Quai-ls pi, let's go down to your house ee exactly what they 'did." ESS.the two men walked down the to the beautiful house. Quat- led the Major through the on the second floor and d him the broken things. SfUinr .Tnrmnln urns tprrihlv de- ,t - " v' " " " d by what he saw. "There is jcuse for it,'" he said softly to irocchi, who was beyond lury. ior Joppolo took Quattrocchi the M.P. headquarters. Cap-Purvis Cap-Purvis had Chuck, Bill and Po-85rthere. Po-85rthere. As soon as the Major nge in, the three boys stood at ease," Major Joppolo said, listen." . , idi - three boys stood at ease. u fellows ought to be sent t to the States," he said. "What D K)f an example do you think you '''are for the people here? How iW)u think we'll ever persuade orTS that we're decent people if K$enave like we ail ve n ne j"! and have shaggy fur?" ick said: "We didn't mean no Major." " Major said: "Your Intentions make the slightest bit of dif-:e. dif-:e. It's the result that mat- ick said: "We was doin It for Major." lat do you mean, doing it for 3ow could you think I would oueiyou to do anything like that?" J0ick said: "We was lookin' for :ment:sent for you, sir." Polack ke it it that if the Major stacked ciea- an the boasting Chuck Schultz 3 one about him the night be-J be-J he ought to be able to talk ?way out of this fix. Major said: "Why would you fl to get me a present? I've fes seen you before." pek said: "We're just enlisted We seen you before." or Joppolo said: "I still want bw how you thought you were g me a present, and why you ck said: "It was goto to be i2' V-away present" Major said: "Who's going ?l)ck said: "Well, Corporal this, Polack." Hash or Joppolo turned on Corporal mi:z: "Say. what Is this all about illar C'y -Wck Schultz saw that there was gy out. He said: "There wasn't on j:use for what we done. Major. ""as very drunk. I think Polack , still a little drunk." -jick raised a threatening fist and "Why you ..." or Joppolo said: "What's all bout a present?" ck said: "Sir, we lust cot some vTf a drunk ldea that you was ii the best officer we ever seen, fld re figured we wanted to give t , present We thought maybe .oftMuld find a present for you In ,i,use. We knew you was Ital-nore Ital-nore or less, and we thought l like something Italian from Juse. That's all there was to ,weU;!or Joppolo said, and his voice izIlB rj;nucn sorter: 'Tm not Itahan. r. I m American, and some- oro uul BS Pr0U(J or it as I to be." d Tt. the MaJi" turned to Quat- KiU. . - - ivoru, and he said in Italian 'I Know what to teU you. no apologies and no m can ever return what von lost I wish to tell von tho IA Bell for AaWol i tt -a -r -w , TT n nerseu W. these men who committed the crime are sorry for what they did, now that they realize how cruel they were to you. I wish to tell you, Quattrocchi, that I feel less proud of being an American than I did yesterday. These men will be punished pun-ished justly and severely for what they have done. I want you to file a claim for payment for what was destroyed, de-stroyed, and I wouldn't blame you for doubling the prices. That'a all I can say, Quattrocchi." Quattrocchi said: "I don't know about most Americans, but I know I can always get Justice from you, Mister Major." The Major said: "Good day, Quattrocchi. Quat-trocchi. From now on your house will be kept nicely, I can promise you that." Quattrocchi left. The Major turned to the three boys. He said: "I don't know whether you realize yet what you've done to this Italian. It's as if you had cut his arm off. He loved those things you busted up. Now I just told him that you three would be punished severely -as severely as you have hurt him." The three boys stiffened up a little.' lit-tle.' The Major said: "I'm going to make this your punishment: to have this man's unhappiness on your conscience, con-science, and from now on to keep his house as clean as if everything' in it belonged to your own mother. That's all. You're dismissed." Chuck said: "Yes sir, thank you, sir." Polack said: "Thank you, sir." Bill said: "Thank you, sir. We'll take care of the house." Polack said: "Yes sir, we sure will." As soon as they were outside. Major Jopollo was terribly depressed de-pressed by what he saw. Chuck said: "What'd I tell you about that guy?" Polack said: "That's the best guy I ever seen in this Army." Bill said: "The thing that got me down was what he said about my mother. Mom was always so proud of her glass. , Cut glass it was. I feel like I busted it last night" Having weathered eighty-two winters, win-ters, Cacopardo was not the least cooled in his desire to help the Americans by General Marvin's behavior. be-havior. Every two or three days he would send a note to Major Joppolo. Many were silly suggestions. Many were about things Major Joppolo had already al-ready done. But one day he sent a note which caught Major Joppolo's interest The thing which Interested Major Joppolo in this note was the fact that old Cacopardo blamed the black market on Fascist graft. Now Major Ma-jor Joppolo was acutely aware of the black market He had intended for some time to investigate it Now he did, and what he found was disturbing. dis-turbing. The black market was not the fault of corrupt Fascists. It was not even the fault of the merchants who jacked their prices out of all bounds. It was the fault of the invaders. in-vaders. Demonstrably, it was the fault of the Americans. There were two reasons why the Americans gave Adano its black market and the inflation which Inevitably In-evitably went with it One reason was American generosity. Apparently Appar-ently the Italians thought the Americans Amer-icans were coming to their soil armed mainly with cigarettes and candies, for every grown person asked for cigarettes and every child shouted in the streets for candies. And the Americans gave what was begged. They also gave C Rations both cans which they had opened and had been unable to finish, and unopened cans. When they bought anything, they figured the price by their heart And the second thing was that when they bought anything, and could not find an Italian-speaking pal to dicker for them, they just paid what they figured they would have paid in the United N.O. ftATUMS Fttgjr--TnR. States. Here are four examples that Major Ma-jor Joppolo dug up, which show exactly ex-actly how the black market and Inflation In-flation grew up: He traced the black market in wine to the house of Carmelina, wife of the lazy Fatta. The very first person who bought wine from Carmelina, on the very first night of the invasion, was Corporal Chuck Schultz. Carmefina's story to the Major was that the Corporal had Just handed her a dollar and walked away. Schultz's story was that the Italian lady had haggled and shouted shout-ed and threatened to call the police. po-lice. In any case, Schultz paid a dollar. , The regular price for that grade of wine before the invasion had been twenty lira, or twenty j cents. I Four soldiers sauntered . Into a j barber shop one morning, and made motions with their fingers around their skulls that indicated they wanted haircuts. None of them could speak Italian, so they based their payment on what they had last paid for haircuts in the States. Each plunked down a fifty cent piece and said: "Keep the change, Joe." The regular price for haircuts had been three lira, or three cents. Shaves had cost two lira. Here in one morning's work, the barber had made two hundred lira. He retired to a life of leisure, and refused to cut any hair for three weeks, till his money gave out. To stop, or at least to curb, the black market. Major Joppolo did three things: he put the town out of bounds to American soldiers, who from then on could enter only on business; he had the Carabinieri stop, all foodstuffs from leaving the town; and he fined anyone caught selling over-price or under-measure three thousand lira a lifetime's savings for a poor Italian peasant. Sergeant Trapani's having addressed ad-dressed the purple slip reporting the countermand order on the carts to the wrong person did not help much. As soon as the wrong person opened up the envelope and read the slip, he forwarded it to the right person. The right person was Lieut. Col. W. W. Norris, G-One Officer of the 49th Division. The wrong person put the purple slip on his desk. Col. Norris, who was burdened down with much too much paper work, did not even read it all the way through. He just read the first part, about General Marvin's issuing the order that carts should be stopped on the outskirts of Adano. . Then he wrote in pencil on the upper left hand corner of the slip: "Usual copies for Division files. One extra copy to be sent to Colonel Middletori marked 'For General Marvin's Information.' " And then he tossed the slip in his outgoing basket. A couple of hours later a Technical Techni-cal Sergeant emptied Col.' Norris's outgoing basket, and in time got around to making three copies of the purple slip for the files of the 49th Division, where they would be buried, bur-ied, never to be seen again. One copy went under M.P.'s, one copy into the Personnel file, and the third into the Intelligence files under Occupied Oc-cupied Territory, Disciplinary Measures. Meas-ures. The Technical Sergeant re-copied re-copied the purple slip, so that he could make a clean top copy for Colonel Middleton and the General. He wanted to get ahead. He didn't want to do anything sloppy. He was so careful In his typing that he didn't even notice what the purple slip said. The Technical Sergeant put the four copies and the original purple slip into Col. Norris's incoming basket. bas-ket. It happens that CoL Norris had an assistant, one Lieutenant Butters, But-ters, who was very Inquisitive. He annoyed the Colonel often by reading read-ing over his shoulder. He always wanted to know what the Battle Order Or-der was the moment it was drawn up, before it even went to regimental regimen-tal commanders. The only advantage of Lieutenant Butters' curiosity was that he usu ally read Colonel Norris's mail more I carefully than either Colonel Norris or his Technical Sergeant. The morning after the Technical Sergeant put the purple slip and the four copies into the Colonel's incoming incom-ing basket Lieutenant. Butters got up bright and early, dressed, shaved out of his helmet and before breakfast break-fast went to Colonel Norris's desk and went through his Incoming basket bas-ket When he came to the purple slip and the four copies, he took the papers, pa-pers, out of the pile, read until he had finished, put the pile back into the incoming basket, and then tucked the purple slip and the four copies Into a portfolio on his own desk. Later In the day, when the Colo nel was out to a conference. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Butters took out the purple slip and the four copies. He called the Technical Sergeant over to his desk. "Did you see these?" the Lieutenant Lieu-tenant asked. The Technical Sergeant who was afraid he had made a mistake in ' typing, said merely: "Yes, sir." "Well, that Major was right" the ' Lieutenant said. The Technical Sergeant who hadn't the faintest idea what the purple slip was about said: "He was? (TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: Dorft Be Someone Else BU Syndicate. WNU Teaturet. v i v r ir 17 r i ; l . a ii tLi i j - ji She never saw the beauty of the rolling wavet or the brilliance of the happy crowd of loldiers and $ailort and their girlt streaming up and down the boardwalk. By KATHLEEN NORRIS DON'T spoil your life longing for something just because someone else has it. This is a real fault in American women, partly because they have so much, and because their leisure time lets them think about their neighbors. If life was a little more real for us, if grim necessity more often knocked at our doors, we would be cured of thi& weakness. The women of the Orient don't know it at all. They drive straight ahead, each one planning and working for the comfort com-fort and protection of her own little group, not embittered by the fact that luxury and leisure and all the prettiness of life are denied her forever. for-ever. But the days of many an American Ameri-can woman are darkened by constant con-stant watching and comparing her neighbor's fortunes to her own. She doesn't appreciate at all what she has all that matters is that the Browns have more. For example, I once knew a woman named Sally. She was healthy, beloved, a happy wife and mother. I met her when she had her three small children at the seaside. She and I had rented neighboring cottages for a fortnight's vacation. We were within a block of the shore and all the wild delights of childhood child-hood merry - go - rounds, dodge-ems, dodge-ems, popcorn, slides, whirls, museums mu-seums and sandy beach were close at hand. Nobody could call it an aristocratic resort but it was Inexpensive, In-expensive, joyous and wholesome as only the shore can be. Craved for Luxury Resort. However, to Sally, the blight was that she had a friend who had taken her child to Tahoe remote, refined and, in spots, very dull But Tahoe Is fashionable and Santa Cruz is not, and Sally kept comparing the two places until her vacation was ruined by fretting and discontent. If Sally had been a child, how simple it would have been to say,' "Now, not another word about Tahoe or what Nancy is doing. If I hear any more of this nonsense, Miss, you go straight to bed!" But Sally isn't a child, so we had to put up with it She never saw the beauty of the rolling waves or the brilliance of the happy crowd of soldiers and sailors and their girls streaming up and down the boardwalk. She never smiled when everyone was In the glorious salty surf, clinging to life lines, lying wet and breathless on the float She didn't brighten when we gathered for a delicious hot breakfast in the coffee shop or took hamburgers and buns down on the beach. Not Sally! Nancy was at Tahoe, where everything was elegant and expensive, expen-sive, so there was no pleasure for Sally anywhere else. Nancy, as it happens, came back with a bad case of hay fever and her little girl was sent off to camp, but that didn't interest Sally. She continued to remark frequently that she wished the holiday was over. Ninety-nine women out of every hundred in the world would have thought her crazy. Some would have wondered why she wasn't struck dead for Ingratitude, stupidity and blindness. Had Almost Everything. For if there are 100 good things for a woman of 30 in this world, Sally surely had 88 of them. Sally had OS ? 2 .... Watching the fortunes of her meighboru ... ENVY AND DISCONTENT Foolishly longing for what others have blights the lives of many women. That yearning to "keep up with the Joneses" makes life miserable for women wom-en who have all the essentials for happiness. If they could only curb their childish envy of other people who may be a little richer, or more fortunate in some other way, they could be much happier. , Sally was one of these silly, discontented women. She had health, beauty, a loving husband, hus-band, three children, and a middle-class family income. But these blessings were insufficient in-sufficient for Sally. Her friend Nancy could afford to go to an expensive and exclusive resort, for instance. Sally had to go to an ordinary seaside cottage colony. The only difference. as far as pleasure was concerned, con-cerned, was the social ranking of the two places. This dis tinction, nevertheless, bored into Sally's spirit and spoiled her vacation. Miss Norris compares the lot of the average American woman wom-an with that of the European or Asiatic woman, for whom life is a constant struggle just to maintain existence in a war-torn war-torn world. How trivial would most of the American woman's difficulties appear in such a setting! health, youth, beauty, love, protection protec-tion and plenty; she had a home, car, water, heat clothes, food, pleasures, leisure, radio, telephone, gas stove, electric light. Sally had wifehood and motherhood, companionship, compan-ionship, responsibility, a keen mind, an active body, bright eyes, good hearing, strong legs and clever fingers. fin-gers. She had, even In this rented cottage, cot-tage, a comfortable bed and good books to read; she had white sheets and fresh blankets; she had a strip of garden, the sight of great trees, the nearness of that eternal miracle of healing, the sea, and that other miracle to which men have turned since the, earliest days of Biblical history the great line of rising dark mountains. But it Is ridiculous to attempt at-tempt to list what she had and it would be tragic to compare M, detail de-tail by detail, with the bitter need that millions of women overseas are facing. These women, frightened, destitute desti-tute and desperate, have traveled dusty roads looking only for water first rest and then perhaps a little dark bread and a few boiled turnips or cabbages. They have reassured terrified children, promised them security, se-curity, shelter, milk and food, only to have the little feet falter, the little lit-tle hearts break and the children lie down beside the road to rest, not even rating a grave. They have known that their men were gone forever for-ever and with them all the dear old life of home, garden, kitchen, familiar stove and beds and home treasures never to be found again. One week with them might turn the mirror around for Sally and let her see not what she hasn't but what she has. Handle Strawberries Carefully Strawberries are scarce, so if you are lucky enough to have some on your menu, handle them with'care. Do not wash them until ready to serve. Water clinging to the berries ber-ries starts unnecessary spoilage. If you hull berries a long time before be-fore using, they may soften. If the strawberries must be held overnight, over-night, spread them on a flat plate and store uncovered In the refrigerator. refrig-erator. Don't hesitate to can the berries, ber-ries, though, even though sugar Is scarce. Can without it if necessary. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Scallops Trim Junior Two-Piecer Tot's Dress for School or Play Mnli i im m 1354 mqm L. j ;t i. ,.4. i 3 11-18 W.'l Two-Piece Frock A SIMPLE and very pretty two-piece two-piece frock for juniors that will capture many an admiring glance. Soft scallops make an effective ef-fective finish on the figure-whittling jacket, A teen-age "must" for summer festivities. Pattern No. 1354 is designed for sizes 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 18. Size 12 requires 3 yards ot 39-inch material for the ensemble. en-semble. OUSEHOLD Grass stains on white materials can often be removed by sponging with ammonia and water. Clean wicker furniture by scrub bing it with a stiff brush and warm salt water. The salt keeps the wicker from turning yellow. Scrub carrots with a stiff brush. It is easier than scraping or paring par-ing and saves vitamins and minerals min-erals as well. When screws and bolts in implements imple-ments or iron become rusty, soak them in gasoline for 30 minutes and they will come out easily. When washing windows, use an tip and down stroke on the outside, and the side to side stroke on the inside. This way, you can easily determine which side needs more polishing. To save that last bit of shortening shorten-ing which clings to a jar container, contain-er, fill the jar with just-under-boiling water. By the time the water is cold the shortening will have risen to the top and returned to its unmelted stage. Easily removed. Resolve to go easy on the vacuum vac-uum cleaner motor by emptying the dust bag after every use. Shake out the loose dirt, tie the bag inside out on the clothesline and let the breeze do the job thoroughly thor-oughly for. you. An electric refrigerator can be defrosted in a few minutes by this method. Turn power off in refrigerator, refrig-erator, remove ice cube trays, fill them with boiling water, and return re-turn them to place. Leave refrigerator refrig-erator door open during defrosting. defrost-ing. Tour little girl's dress can be given a professional touch, quickly and easily, if you use pretty handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs for trimming. Two, which are alike, will be needed for each dress. The handkerchiefs may be edged with lace, embroidery embroid-ery or have colored hems. Perhaps they have only embroidered corners. cor-ners. Cut and use for collars, cuffs and the little pocket tops. They make a dainty and pra&tical finish. INTSlI I Good and Crisp f j In Sfl fj "ThsC-alnjArBGreatFoods" Ul of fumenydo m m At SrJw Kenogj"! Rice Kripi equal Ml mr the whole ripe grain in nearly VI inn m . ' i ag the protective food tie- T jfl X P f 1 I menta declared eaaenrial to Ji J L " human nutrition. tHl llLlvtiLi $fyM 'h b Puffed Sleeve Dress CHE'LL look as bright as a new penny in this adorable little dress with pert pulled sleeves, round yoke and full swinging skirt Make it for school or play in gay checks or polka-dots, and trim with bright ric rac. Pattern No.' 1322 is designed for sizes 3. 3, 4, S and 8 years. Size 3 icaulre 2',i yards of 35-inch fabric; 3 yards rlo rao ior trimming. Due to an unusually large demand and current war condlUons, illghUy more time li required in filling orders for a few ol the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery St San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Nam Address First Microscope The first microscope is said to have been invented by a Dutchman in 1590, but its invention has been attributed to Galileo in 1610. The microscope has been perfected until a millionth part of a grain of blood may be detected by means of the spectrum lens. Frozen Vegetables Remember to cook frozen vegetables vegeta-bles the shortest possible time. This will require from one-half to two-thirds two-thirds the time for cooking fresh vegetables. Use as little water as possible and have It boiling when the vegetable is added. Homemade Bread Extend the cheese flavor by adding add-ing grated cheese to bread dough. Another variation that adds nutritive nutri-tive value and flavor to homemade bread Is chopped nuts; pecans, walnuts, wal-nuts, peanuts or hickory nuts make good nut bread. Light Generation Only about 2 or 3 per cent of the electrical energy used by Incandescent Incandes-cent lamps is converted into visible light rays. In sodium and mercury lamps, the amount of visible light generated is somewhat larger. Canning Hint Don't use rubbers a second time, and always boil new ones in soda and water, using one tablespoon of soda to one quart of water for each dozen jar rubbers. Boil 10 minutes. Tasty Seasoning Tasty seasoning for puddings, pies, coffee cakes,, baked apples and the like can be made |