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Show John Herseij FAR: The Amerithe can troops arrived in Adano, with Major joppolo, the Amgot officer in charge. Sergeant Borth was in charge of securiwas determined to hold ty, The Major of the people apd to reconfidence the the Nazis. Deplace their bell stolen by spite orders issued by General Marvin, barring carts from the city, Joppolo recalled the order, to permit food and water to enter the city. Cacopardo tried to furnish the General with information on German troop movements but was tossed out. Tina told the Major about her sweetheart, a prisoner of war, and asked the aid of the Major in locating him. The Major felt some jealousy but promised help. STORY-THU- W. N. u. . , It is not practical to , unravel a If seams in flour bin or sugar sweater with side drawer arent tightly sealed, pour machine-kni- t melted paraffin over them and seams. Best you can do is treat, it like regular fabric and cut into let it harden. e small pieces for remaking. If this To brighten overshoes, rub with is done, seams must be carefully a cloth moistened with diluted am- overcast. monia, wash with soap and water, then rinse. Cereals cooked with prunes, raisins, or dates need little sugar Stitch a crocheted motif of fine to sweeten. thread over holes in tablecloths One long stitch and three acand dresser scarves. Cut away worn or damaged fabric under- companying short stitches are exneath. Additional motifs make the cellent stitches to use when crocheted work look intentional. . ' have thought it was Christmas day. Yes, but this is a special bell, Lord. I didnt know they had any special bells. This one was seven hundred years old. It was just about the most important thing in the town, to hear these people talk. Mussolini took it away And Major Joppolo told how the bell had been crated up and shipped away to SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT make gun barrels, and how the people had come to him about it, and how he had tried to track it, and A. had found that it was almost certern 527 contains pattern of doll tainly melted down, and at any rate was in unoccupied territory. only; complete directions. Due to an unusually large demand and Lord Runcins colonial attitude current conditions, slightly more time la he cropped up. said, Surely, required in filling orders for a few of the these people can get along with most popular pattern numbers. the bells they have. We cant afford to be too sentimental, you know, Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. Joppolo. Cant afford to let these t tor Pattern 16 cents be too Enclose know. people happy, you Cant afford to let discipline get too No. ... Major Joppolo said: just mean hes stupid.1 I say, His Lordship CHAPTER XV features ffHgsgy out of silly things. What is it, Joppolo? "Well sir, this town needs a bell. A bell? Why, Major, I heard suck a jangling of bells at eight 0 clock this morning, you might ?er, who said it would be all nght. And a few days later one nusload of cheering, laughing people had started home. Now Colonel Sartorius, head of Amgot for the Province of Vicinamare, heard about the bus a few days later, and he got sore, and told Major not to do that any more. Joppolo Sometimes, Major Joppolo said, I think Colonel Sartorius is an awful dope. Lord Runcin said: Do you mean you think he takes harmful drugs? And his Lordship dipped into his snuffbox. "touching, lyhat eise? Food was pretty good. In the first days, the Major had found five cars of wheat on a siding at the railroad station, had had it ground into flour, and had been able to spare some for the neighboring hill towns, which were starving. He had given one baker a very heavy fine, three thousand lira, for baking soggy bread, for refusing to sell it on credit, for affair, and as in the refusing to take American invasion higher echelons of the military com- lira, and for having dirty hands; mand, American and British officers were sandwiched in with each loose. other. Lord Runcin was near the Lord, I cant see that happiness and discipline dont go together. top. Major Joppolo showed him into Young man, said His Lordship, Wizard quarters, His his office. taking a sniff for emphasis, I think Lordship said. Lord Runcin affectIve had a little more experience in ed the slang of his subordinates, but these things than you have. he always seemed to use American Every time Ive done .something slang when talking to his British for these people, Major Joppolo men, and vice versa, so that many said, Ive found they did two things Df them understood very little of for me just out of thanks. what he said. Well, what do you want me tc This was the first time Major do about this bell? I just wondered, Lord, if you Joppolo had ever had a tete a tete with a real honest to goodness Lordcould suggest a way to get them another bell. Not just any bell, ship. He was surprised to find him wearing shorts and an open collar you know, but one that could take and no hat at all. His Lordships the place of the one they lost. deferential manner, as he sat on Every time I need something oul the other side of the Majors desk of the ordinary, His Lordship said, I make application to the United asking questions, made Major Joppolo, who had once been a clerk in States Army. They have the mosl the Sanitation Department of New extraordinary things, you know. York City, feel quite important. They gave me a jeep. They gave me my choice of pipes, good briar, By way of making conversation, too, went from Scotland to the Bis Lordship pointed a thumb in U.S.A. and all the way back here Quattrocchi s direction and said: to Algiers, by way of the U.S. Army. a friend is in Your' Italian quite Some one told me about these elecBap. trical razors, and they even got me The former Sanitation clerk said: one of those, but I cant use it beWhat was that, Lord? I didnt get cause of this Italian current, wrong that. current, you know, not like our curNever mind, said His Lordship. rent. I suggest you try the U. S. Well, what kind of a job have you Joppolo. Army, been doing here, Joppolo? had quite the same I havent The former Sanitation clerk said: of luck with the Army, Lord. kind "Well, Ive been doing all right. You got some friend, or something? Doing all right, eh? His Lord-shi- p Who do you ask for all these fancji smiled and made a note of the things they get you? expression in his notebook, for fuJust write General Wilson, W. to these afford let "Cant people ture use. What are the best things B. Wilson, Quartermaster Depot, Albe too happy, yon know. youve done? giers. General Wilson told me hed Well, to show how the town was and since then the bread had been try to get me anything I wanted. financing itself, there was the mus- pretty good from all the bakers. He Just use my name, Joppolo, hell lin. A Liberty Ship had come into had taken steps to send the fisherfind you a bell. Im sure of it. Adano harbor, and had discharged men out. He had arranged for the Major Joppolo wrote down Gena cargo of war materials bulldozwhich to have Wilsons name and address. pasta, eral they people ers, bridge girders, tents, and some had not had for eight months. Food Thank you, Lord, the Major said. ammunition. Down in the bottom was all right. ' That sounds like it might work. of one hold the unloaders found six Good," said Lord Runcin. Every 1 sure want to get a bell for this bales of white muslin. The skipper time His Lordship took snuff, Major town. of the ship said he had to unload it. Joppolos eyes nearly popped out Lord Runcin clapped his snuffbox The Quartermaster on the beach of his head and he almost forgot shut and stood up. Well, Joppolo, would not take it. There were no what he was talking about. Anysounds to me as if you were doing a wizard job here.1 Keep it up. II papers for the muslin, no consign- thing else? ment. The muslin had U. S. TreasOh sure, Lord, he said, this you have any troubles, just give me ury markings on it, so it was obvi- town is much better off than it was a buzz. And His Lordship left, on and it was ob- before we came in. You cant im- the verge of a delicious sneeze ously Lend-Leasviously lost. Major Joppolo heard agine how these people were ground which he had been saving in his about it, and seeing the rags on the down. Why, theyre so used to be- nostrils for ten minutes. people of his town, he said he could ing afraid of officials, and so used Major Joppolo stared out of the use it. He called his Civil Supply to making out forms and being window, and he was wonderfully director and told him about the mus- hauled up to court and having cara- happy with the double happiness oi binieri ask them their names, that accomplishment and praise for it. lin, and the director gave permission to sell it at a fair price. Major they all put their last names first He was drawn back from his pleasJoppolo put two rolls up for sale, and their first names last, the way ant daze by a torrent of Italian. and held the other four in reserve. it goes on official papers, all the It came from Quattrocchi. You Americans think you are so There was such a shortage of cloth time. Just like the Chinese. in the town that the two rolls were Lots of them have told me that civilized, you think you are doing on our gone in that many hours. theyre better off now than they us a favor by disembarking Good work, Joppolo, His Lord-shi- p were before. For one thing, they shores. You are no better than the What else? said. can congregate in the streets any Germans. The Germans never did in this town such as your There was the refugee problem. time they want and talk about what- anything done. I gave you my have to. men can want listen They On the day of the invasion, there ever they did not mind giving you I know house. radios. They their they to were only six or seven thousand peoout of me. They my house. I thought the Americans ple in the town; the others had ajl can get a fair trial Hall and talk were civilized.- - You are the one to the come City run to the hills. Within a few days can want. Mayor who told me they are civilized. You or three thou- to me any time they there were thirty-tw- o said they would take cate of my from hours twelve office sand. The town got badly crowded, Nasta had as if they owned it. You are and one reason was that there were to one each day and you had to ap-jf- house adin a liar. for an audience weeks a lot of refugees from the town of Having been praised so recently, Vicinamare. These people had come vance. I told you about the streets are lots of Joppolo was stung by this there Oh, Major clean. down to Adano because the Allies being I have anydispraise. had been bombing Vicinamare pret- ways,. Lord, and if What .do you want? he said be lots ty hard before the invasion. Now thing to do with it therell sharply. Stop this babbling and tell that the battle had gone beyond more." a wee me what you want. His Lordship was getting Vicinamare, they wanted to go I dont want anything. What I more and more He dipped home, but there was no transpor- bit bored. I can never get back, so tation. One day the Major saw a frequently into his snuffbox and have lost I want anything? Fine howfcan window. show, German bus driving down the street. looked out the want dont anything, why If bad you said. he Anything An American soldier was driving it. fine show, my time? up taking are you town? this in I Major Joppolo said to himself: Quattrocchi spoke sarcastically: Yes, there is, Lord,, the Major could pse that bus. He asked sorry if your time is so valuIm One thing. around and found out it belonged to said. And then he I wish all of our towns had just able, Your Worship. the Engineers. So he called the lost some have I angrily: spoke Motor Officer and said: Id like to one thing wrong, Joppolo. to me, valuable were which Well, this isnt exactly bad, Lord, things use that bus of yours one day a mornthis house to went I my too. silly week. The Motor Officer said it and maybe itll sound a little had left I some to ' things get ing, would be okay with him if the Major to you. And what did I find? had proper permission. So, Major My job, said Lord Runcin, tak- behind. (TO BE CONTINUED) sense to make Joppolo called the Adano base com- - ing snuff grandly, is When Major Joppolo arrived at his office next morning, two visitors were waiting for him. One was Quattrocchi, owner of the house where Chuck, Bill and Polack were billeted. But Quattrocchi had to wait, because the other was Lord Runcin, one of the Amgot higher-upThe Allied Military Government was, and still is, a joint s. an e, -- Doll Playmate as Big as Life Name. Address. - & as big as life and twice as Wears the size 3 clothes that a youngster has outhas yarn hair that kids grown can braid. SHES vebon LAKE e A real playmate 32 Inches tall in stocking feet! 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