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Show HORATIUS HAD NOTHING ON HIM Tony Held Mountain Pass When Austrian Hordes Attacked At-tacked It. BODIES IN HEAPS ABOUT Ml Stood All Alone Working Sputtering Machine Gun Until Italian Army Arrived Another Chicago Italian Ital-ian Wins Medal for Valor. New York. Out on Sixty-third street, Chicago, Tony Bruno used to wrap hot towels about men's faces and soliloquize about ..the benefits . of a hair singe. That was four years ago, writes C. V. Julian in the Chicago Tribune. . When Austrian hordes were beating against a certain mountain pass in the Trentino on the holding of which depended the fate of an Italian battalion, there stood, all alone in the pass, working a sputtering Italian machine ma-chine gun, Tony Bruno, barber on Sixty-third street, Chicago. Tony wondered whether the Italian army was ever coming up to help him, nnd if it didn't well, Tony wondered who was going to buy macaroni and cheese for the four little Brunps at 528 West Twenty-eighth street. His Mind Relieved. Four hours later when Austrian bodies bod-ies lay in heaps about Tony his mind was relieved. The Italian army arrived. ar-rived. And now he's on his way home. "Why, you're a regular Horatius," said some one on the" pier, who had learned the story of Tony and the mountain pass. . "Aw; uaw," said Tony. "I'm just a barber." About the time that there is a wondrous won-drous home-coming at the Bruno home, domestic cheer will also reign at 1028 West Toik street, where little Ulanda Iteali, aged seven, will see her daddy for the first time In four years. Corporal Cor-poral Mike Reall came back wearing the Italian silver military medal for valor, the Italian war cross and two wound stripes. Wins War Cross. Like Sergeant Bruno, Corporal Re-all Re-all left his wife and family In Chicago and hastened to repel tho Austrians who threatened Italy in 1915. He won the war cross a year later, when, after af-ter having his . right leg broken by shi'apnel, he walked ten miles to deliver de-liver a message with which he had been charged. Corporal Beali captured an Austri- an machine gun single-handed, after many of the men in his platoon had been killed, by leaping Into the pit and bombing the crew with some of their own hand grenades, which he seized from a pile near by. |