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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH See Here, Private Hargrove! nargrove lltvict i-iu- riun THE STORT SO FAR: Private Marion Hargrove, a newspaper mam before his Induction into the army, has been recelv-U- ( his bade training at Fort Bragg, N. C. He bat gone through the "hardest" weeki of his army career and has been classified at a cook. Ia addition, he has spent a considerable share of his spare time ob KP duty. He Is familiar with the fiagr points of "goldbrleking" and "shooting the breeze." He has mastered most of the army slang expressions and has rather completely adjusted himself to training camp routine. As we pick up the story Private Hargrove and some of bis buddies are having supper and are about to hand the mess sergeant his hare of the day's abuse. CHAPTER XII . Orville D. Pope, Mess Sergeant of Headquarters Battery and master of all he surveys (so long as he stays in the kitchen), strolled past our table like a happy night-clu- b owner inspecting his saloon. Photographer Bushemi lifted a forkful of creamed potatoes to his mouth, made a sour face and inserted the potatoes as if they were with liniment. Don Bishop, the public relations reporter who sometimes shows a streak of sheer sanity, lifted his coffee, held his Dose and drank it. "Sergeant Pope," I said in a small voice, "earlier in the course of this supper I told you that I had never tasted anything harder or drier than the bread you served us tonight. I want to take that back, Pope. When I said that, I. hadn't tasted your sea-Bon- ed peanut butter." "You're the only ones I ever hear griping about the chow in this battery," said Pope. "You're the only ones I ever have trouble with. You three and Mulvehill. If I'll pay for your food, won't you please take all your meals at the Service Club?" "Let's leave Mulvehill's name" out of this," I said, "Poor, poor, old Mulvehill. We knew him well. He was a good boy, was the Lieuthom-as.- " "I noticed the place is so quiet toBu- night that you can even hear shemi eating his celery," said the sergeant. "Where- is your dear friend Mulvehill, the bum?" "You have run him over the hill," said Bishop. "Your food and your mess hall and your brutishly foul mouth have driven him away. He has deserted from the Army and his guilt is upon your hands." "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal the one thing that would make it perfect?" asked Bushemi. "Ice cream?" asked the mess sergeant. "Chloroform," said Bushemi. Pope slapped his forehead mightily. "Why couldn't I have been a a horse valet, a suicide submarineman anything but a mess sergeant? Where is Mulvehill?" He wrinkled his forehead. "Say! He wasn't here at break- dud-picke- Gay Felt Applique and Vivid Contrast Perk Up Velveteens r, cap on the corner of his desk. "I just came in to see if the War Department is mad at me. They haven't given me a cent of salary since the first of October." "What in the sweet name of heav en are you talking about?" the top i kirk rirvitoJ V,., nanumg me udlKi. UlC cap. "We've had two regular paydays, including the one today. And we've had two supplementary payrolls for people who missed the regular paydays." "Mind you," I put in, "I'm not complaining. I eat regularly and I have a roof over my head. I can get haircuts and movie tickets and cigarettes and shoe polish on credit, but I certainly would like a little cash spending money from time to time." "Well," he groaned, slapping his desk wearily, "here we go again, Hargrove, the boy who makes a top kick's life exciting! Hargrove the hopeless the sloppy bunk on inspection day, the soap in the soup, the thorn in the side. Hargrove, the boy who can take the simplest problem and reduce it to its most confusing form. Now let's start at the beginning and take the whole thing slowly. You haven't been paid since October first. How come?" "That was because when the November first payday came around, I had just got here. I signed the October payroll in my old battery." "All right," he said patiently, counting off a finger. "That's one payday. That brings us up to November tenth, the day of the supplementary payroll, when you should have got the pay you missed on the first. Did you sign the supplementary payroll for that occasion?" "Yes, sir," I insisted. "Then when the supplementary payday came around, something happened. Or to be more correct, nothing happened. I still didn't get paid." "That's two paydays you missed," the sergeant sighed. "I will check into the second later. Now what about today's pay?" "I missed out on that one too. The battery commander couldn't find my signature on the payroll." He patted me on both shoulders, a little , heavily, and I cowered. "Wait just a minute, Private Hargrove," he said sweetly. "Let see what he can find out about the nasty old payroll." He returned in a few minutes, frowning wearily. "Private Hargrove," he sighed, "dear Private Hargrove! You didn't draw your pay on the tenth of November because you weren't here on the tenth! You were on furlough! And you didn't sign the payroll for today because you were on furlough while it was being signed. Your modest pay fast either." "Nor lunch," said Bishop. "Nor supper, nor lunch, nor breakfast yes- terday." "He has gone over the hill," I said, gloomily. "He has deserted." "Let's see," said the sergeant. "He wasn't here all day today and he didn't come in yesterday and he didn't show up for supper the night before last. Is he sick?" "He would have been," said Bishop, "if he hadn't got a decent meal soon." "I can remember Mulvehill just like he was right here with us even now," I said. "He was a fine, noble, sensitive lad. He had a beautiful career before him in the Army. Fate can ruin any of us by tossing in the tiniest little monkey wrench or the toughest little biscuit. I hated to see Mulvehill go over the hill." "Cut the clowning," the sergeant wailed, convinced at last that Mulvehill had flown. "You can't make me think that he left because of my food. Where is he?" "That," sighed Bishop, "is what the War Department would like to know." Pope began drumming unconsciously on the table. "I know my food is as good as any in the Center. That ain't it. Did he take offense at something I said to him and start eating at the Service Club?" Acton Dennington Hawkins the Third, chief cook, passed by. "Where's your friend Mulvehill?" he asked us. "Oh," said Bushemi, forgetting the play, "Mulvehill's on furlough." The mess sergeant rose with a roar. "The day shall come!" he screamed. "You'll all be on KP one of these days! Oh, will you suffer and will I enjoy myself! Finish your supper and gev out of my mess hall! Get out! GET OUT!" "Wait just a minute, Private Hargrove," he said sweetly, "Let see what he can find out about our nasty payroll." for October has been in the battery safe for three weeks, just waiting for you to get around to picking it up." He took a small envelope from bedollars hind his back. "Twenty-on- e neighbors yank the covers back on. Private First Class Bishop, unofficial guardian of the public relations staff, rises from his bunk which is next to mine. "Hargrove! Bushemi! Get up! Salute the morn!" Then he yells down the length cf the squadroom to the bed of Private First Class Thomas ("Thoss") Mulvehill. Mulvehill, every morning, has already been forcibly ejected from his bed by his wild neighbors. He is, by this time, sitting on the edge of his bunk, with his great head sunk between his knees and his fingers fumbling with his shoelaces. In a thick and fiery Irish brogue he is berating whatever forces of destiny put him. in this mad corner of the squadroom. I stick a cautious toe out from under the covers. The outer air isn't cold but, then again, it isn't warm. I roll over and lock at the next "Git out of there or I'll dump you out." brief." "Sergeant," I began, "when I hear people say a soldier can't live on the pay he makes, I'd like to show them myself as a living proof that he can." "Quit beating your gums," he said, "and get to the point. You didn't come in here to compliment the Army on its pay. And take your cap off when you're in the orderly room." "I didn't come to compliment nobody nor nothing," I said, laying my .i.R. MEAT AND PROTEINS h, good-for-nothi- Mm has caused more concern than any other single food. Most food experts will agree that not only is meat an important food from the standpoint of nitrogen or body building, but in the 1 5 HO 7 ' f -- two-fort- y first-clas- ss 7 r .LaasMIMIMs -41 AS For Class or Date X.:. terial and it contains a large amount of lymphoid or spongy tissue (similar to tonsils and adenoids) which is QUESTION BOX ? Q. Is brewer's yeast the same as is used in making bread? A. It Is the same as in bread Your druggist can supply you with brewer's yeast in tablet form. It is not expensive. Q. Please give me a definition of the word "thrombosis. A. Thrombosis is a closing, or partial closing, of a blood vessel supplying the heart muscle vith blood. y display of color and design. If you are clever at sewing you can whip up your own peasant jumper of cotton velveteen and trim it with floral cutouts, worthy of a real Swiss Miss, whose picturesque and colorful garb is proving such an Inspiration to American designers these days. And now for the big news all the colorful flower and leaf motifs appliqued on this jumper and matching bonnet (also the pinafore dress) as here shown come cut out and ready to sew on! You can buy them g t the department, including flower and Jeaf designs in separate pieces, together with guide and pattern for appliqueing. And if you are really resourceful, you can arrange according to your own idea working out a versatile design. What clever home sewers will be able to do in way of perking up "tired" clothes with these felt fantasies can scarce be told, for the uses to which they can be put are endless. One of the novelties in applique is felt rickrack. Outline the edges and pockets and collar of a flannel jacket you happen to have on hand and it will work wonders in giving it a "new" look. Makes a smart trimming on hat and bag sets too! As to maneuvering the - flower can scheme all types out pieces, you of decorative motifs, such as a single bouquet at the shoulder with a corresponding floral on the skirt, or you can apply the wee flowers in a conventional border design or in necklace design at the throat, or forming epaulets over the shoulders or on immense pockets to adorn the dirndls. Velveteen used in vivid contrast is another technique employed by designers this season in most original ways. Note the attractive dress to the right. Here a most unique yoke is in one color velveteen with the body of the dress in another, thus highlighting the frock with striking color contrast This yoke also develops deep pockets at the front in most unusual treatment. dress-trimmin- Released by Western Newspaper Union. New Trick Ways of Wearing Sweaters We have with us this fall the sweater girl in all her glory. She glories in the fact that she has "caught, on" to all the tricks in teaming a cardigan with a pullover and she simply dotes on achieving color contrasts. She does not hesitate to top a baby blue, n shell pink or pullover with a red cardigan or sweater jacket. She likes the contrasting of a raspberry-re- d top sweater worn with a parma violet, navy blue or sooty black pullover. From her standpoint, a bright yellow pullover is keen under a scarlet or dark blue or deep purple cardigan. There is a new featured color out this season called "brass" and it contrasts smartly with midnight blue in the sweater realm. Smart to wear with a black skirt is the new d pullover sweater, this sweater being the latest "rave" with college girls. No doubt the high school crowd will soon be adopting thig campus hit. lime-gree- particularly easy to infect. Because there is "always" the chance of infection present, Drs. Boyce and Nelson believe that any attack of appendicitis should be considered and treated as a serious attack. "The problem of acute appendici tis would be solved and its challenge met if the public could be taught and if physicians would remember (1) that any abdominal pain may be the first symptom of acute appendicitis: (2) that food, fluids and particularly purgatives should be withheld in every case of abdominal pain until it is definitely decided that acute ap pendicitis is not present, and (3) that prompt operation should be per formed as soon as the physician is reasonably sure that acute appendi citis is present. e "'" i Infected Appendix Constant Threat long-draw- for services rendered through the month of October. Harrumph! Mifor theater tickets, mi- mine in Charlotte, drives a street nus nus a dollar for haircuts, minus bus. Before he began his service seven dollars for canteen checks. as a driver, he served a hitch in men, Private Hargrove, I present to you the Army. Like all your October wages ten dollars and he's ready to drop everything and just shoot the breeze any time the sixty cents!" I took the money, looked at it ten- conversation turns to the Army. s "There was a young derly, and crammed it into my got on my bus last week," private pocket. -- Pihe told me, "and he sat in the Winter,' at last, is upon us, in the long seat behind me, so we got rear ranks, the surest indication is started talking. Well, I thought I'd snow him under, telling him about to be found in reveille. the time I was in the Army. So, summer late and the All through to start the ball rolling and get just the fall, we hopped out of bed as talk turned to the Army, I asked soon as the whistle blew. Now we the how him long he d been in. crawl grumblingly out when the ser" I've been in for well over 'Oh, geant puts the whistle to his lips for he said, like he was months,' is Since it still eight blast. out!" a "fall dark when we stand reveille, and just starting his thirtieth year of Then he started wiping his since we are aided occasionally by a service. so I'd be sure to notice heaven-sen- t fog, there are many sa- sleeves stripe. viors of democracy who slip on his "I thought I'd let him blow off merely a pair of shoes (partially laced), a pair of trousers, and a about his stripe, so I asked him, field jacket. The field jacket, when 'Say, what does that stripe stand buttoned all the way to the collar, for?' " un, itmax,1 f ne saia, as mucn. as hides the absence of shirt and tie and the sergeant is none the wiser. to say Battery, the That just means I'm a sergeant.' In Headquarters " 'Is that right?' I asked him, in the mornof up getting process sort of widemouthed at him. of rut a into looking sunk repetition. ing has " 'Yessir,' he said, real casual. It's .the same procedure every morn'in the Army only eight months and ing. already been made sergeant.' Sergeant Roughton, platoon lead- I've " 'Well, tell me,' I said, 'what o'clock six at brass his toots er, and a few energetic soldiers at the grade of sergeant are you? I've other end of the squadroom rise seen some sergeants have three stripes and then I've seen them have and begin the morning with sicken-inglcheerful horseplay. They yank as many as six. How come that? (TO BE CONTINUED j the covers off their neighbors. The y ! While the rationing of sugar, but ter, tea and coffee caused considerable dismay, the rationing of meat minds and the digestion of the majority of us, nothing quite satisfies the stomach and the appetite as does meat. Dr. Barton What then is likely to happen to the health of the in dividual and the nation if we cannot obtain all the meat we need? The reason that meat is so important to health and strength is because of its richness in protein and the protein of animal food meat is richer and is more completely digested and absorbed into the blood than is protein from vegetables. However, there are two points that make us more satisfied to eat protein as furnished in fish and eggs (other animal proteins) and the proteins in vegetables, especially peas and beans. In Hygeia, the health magazine, Phoebe Mayo Walters, Corona, Calif., explains that while it is the protein in meat that is necessary to life, it is not the meat itself because other foods rich in protein may be made to do almost as well as meat in furnishing the necessary protein. Fish is one of those foods, as is also cheese in any form. Other foods high In protein are those of the dry bean family white, navy and. kidney beans, soybeans, peanuts and peanut butter. The second point is that there is no reason why we should buy the expensive cuts of meat, because there is no difference in the amount or quality in expensive or cheap cuts. For years, physicians have been advising patients with thin blood to eat more of the gland meats kidneys, liver, heart which foods are not usually rationed. Finally, there are food substitutes designed to resemble various common foods which are really rich in food value and are not rationed. The thought then is that we should all eat our full ration of meat if we are well and about on our feet, eat more fish, eggs, cheese, and green and yellow vegetables. If, then, we feel that we want or need more meat, remember that it is the protein that the body needs and there are plenty of other foods that are rich in protein. nmmrm wmmw" ui JUPW.iiwiK, TO smart and pretty fash- lorn that "click" with the teenage, career and college-gir- l set, it's the perfectly charming dresses made of either black or colorful cotton velveteen, fashioned ever so cunningly, as pictured, that have gone "tops" in the new fall collections. This present rage for velveteens definitely offers most convincx ing evidence as to the continued outstanding importance of cottons in the fabric realm. t You can see by the Intriguing models Illustrated that designers are doing fascinating things with velveteen this season. For instance, they are making it up in adorable pinafore styles, as shown centered in the group. A velveteen pinafore is really something to think about for it's strictly "new" and out of the usual The modern girl's wardrobe that does not include a pinafore dress of velveteen or corduroy this fall will be the proverbial "exception to the rule." And how the teenagers and their older sisters do love this new version of a jumper frock! Perhaps the biggest talking feature in regard to the new and beA loved velveteens is the spirit with which designers are perkThe story is told of two British ing them up by appliqueing arrestdecoration, in way of mining engineers about to go on a ing surface cutout felt flowers and other prospecting trip. Both were in ex- gaily ' cellent health but as they thought of artful motifs. It spreads glamour a over all dress of the pinafore type, their destination, its distance from e bib and civilization, they decided to enter a when itstakesuspender-likon individualistic felt pockets rethe have and appendix hospital flower decor, as here shown. moved before starting. The peasant Jumper, afi shown to Most physicians would agree that the left in the group, is also an these "engineers were wise. outstanding number in the hit paFurther, physicians are agreed rade of velveteens, which this seathat while the appendix must have son .is making a most spectacular had some use in the body in pre historic times, there is at present no definite use for it. The appendix is just a remnant or trace of a once useful organ that has not completely disappeared from man. It is a blind pouch that may rest or lie in vari ous positions about the last part of the small and the beginning of the large intestine. It has its own blood supply and a closing or obstructive arrangement at its base. Even in 't Bill, a friend of Bushemi's and health it is filled with infective ma- bunk, where Private Bushemi is snoring gently. I roll back, get comfortable, and pull the cover over my head. "Hargrove!" roars Bishop. "Get your; lazy bones out of bed! It's five after six!" "Call me at ten after six," I mut ter. "Better still just sing out when my name is called at reveille." Private Bishop reaches over sud denly and rips the blankets from the. bunk. I rise, cursing him sound' ly. Private Bushemi is still sleep ing, with a sweet and childish smile on his face. I lift a foot and give him a firm shove in the posterior. "Git out of there, you blankerty-blanke- d dash-dasshiftless, bum!" I shout, giving him two or three more shoves. "Git out of there or I'll dump you out!" I reach over and grab the edge ol iJushemi's bunk. I joggle it slight ly to give the impression that I am just about to overturn the bunk. Bushemi bounces out of bed, swing "Youre going to get ing wildly. funny just one morning too often, and I'm going to beat the eternal perdition out of both of you. It's getting to the .point where it ain't funny." Then he begins mumbling aimlessly under his breath as he steps into his trousers. Somehow, we manage to get into the second shoe just as the whistle blows to call us outside. We shiv er in the dark cold as section lead ers call the roll, mostly from mem ory. The second section of the first platoon is always the last to finish roll call. We stand there listening. "Hyoh!" "Pulver!" "Here!" and then the piece de re- sistence: "Peacock!" Always the answer comes in the same way an n unbelievably deep bass, out and rumbling: "Heeeeeeere!" The second platoon snickers and tit ters, just as, it did the day before, and the top kick shouts, "Dis missed!" Bushemi heads straight back for his bunk. "Call me at chowtime, will you?" private-first-cla- "As if I didn't have enough trouble on my hands with payday," said Top Sergeant Tate, "now I have to be exposed to the sight of you. Be By CHERIE NICHOLAS Keleased by Western Newspaper Union. beige-colore- - s ; -- , , i i t Mexican Filigree Jewelry Is Staging a Comeback Exquisitely wrought Mexican Jewelry is again in fashion. Look over Ideal for the school fall wardrobe your heirloom treasures and you is this bolero suit in gray will no doubt discover a silver flannel. The jacket has a doubutterfly, such as grandma ble breasted row of buttons, slit brought out on special dress occapockets bound with green wool and sions. If you fall to locate one of a little-bocollar. It is characthese pretty silvery whimsies, hie teristic of the newer suits that many to your favorite costume Jewelry of them are highlighted with sprightcounter where your eyes will be ly color touches done in unexpected gladdened with the sight of all types ways. Note the sprays of red felt of dainty pieces done in lacy MexiYou can get applique hearts and flowers that add can silver filigree. such a gay little touch to the skirt. charming ensembles of bracelet and Young girls take keen delight in earrings, also lapel or jabot pin in these color flashes. this attractive technique. lacy-design- y |