Southern Oregon M iner, Thursday, July 19, 1945
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T H E STORY T H IS P A R : The A m eri­
can troops arrived la Adaao. with M ajor
Joppolo. the Amgot offlrer la chart«.
Sergeant Rorth waa la ch a rt« of tecurl-
ty. The M ajor waa determined to hold
the conAdenc* of the people and to I
place their bell stolen by the N atla. De­
spite orders Issued by General M arvla,
barring carts from the city. Joppolo re­
called the order. Io perm it food and wa
ter to eater the city, facopardo tried
to furnish the General with Information
on Germ an troop movements but was
tossed out. Tina told the M ajor about
her sweetheart, a prisoner of w ar, and
asked the aid of the M ajor In locating
him. The M ajo r felt some Jealousy but
promised help.
CHAPTER XV
WAN. u .
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N ovelties to Crochet
In Pineapple Design
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GOOD
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Y o u r G re a te s t Possession
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Regain It fay be Ina relieved
Vicinamare, they wanted to go
home, but there was no transpor­
tation. One day the M ajor saw a
German bus driving down the street.
An American soldier was driving it.
M ajor Joppolo said to himself: “ I
could use that bus.” He asked
around and found out it belonged to
the Engineers. So he called the
Motor Officer and said: " I'd like to
use that bus of yours one day a
week." The Motor Officer said It
-would be okay with him if the Major
had proper permwsion. So M ajor
Joppolo called the Adano base com­
mander, who said it would be all
right. And a few days later one
busload of cheering, laughing peo­
ple 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 M ajor Joppolo
not to do that any more. “ Some­
times.” 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.
M ajor Joppolo said: “ Oh no, I
just mean he's stupid.”
“ Dope, eh?” His Lordship said,
and put the expression down in his
book. “ Very good, what else?”
Well. Lord, the people of Adano
were so contented under the Am eri­
cans that they offered of their own
accord, without anybody suggesting
it. to maintain the little American
cemetery on the outskirts of town.
So they built a fence around it and
painted it white, and Russo the old
stonecutter was making headstones,
and every Sunday the people took
flowers up and put them on the
graves of the boys who had died
taking the town.
“ I say,” His Lordship said,
"touching. What else?”
Food was pretty good. In the first
days, the M ajor had found five cars
Polack said: “ A lousy unfair
w ar."
B ill said: "Le'« go to bed."
So they went to bed. Polack heard
Chuck crying in his bedroll, and he
said: "Smatter, Chuck, feel sick?”
Chuck sobbed: "H ell of a war.”
Polack said: "Yeah, hell of a war,
Chuck, go to sleep.”
When Major Joppolo arrived at his
office next morning, two visitors
were waiting for him. One was
Quattrocchi, owner of the house
where Chuck. B ill and Polack were
billeted. But Quattrocchi had to
wait, because the other was Lord
Runcin, one of the Amgot higher-
ups. The Allied M ilitary Govern­
ment was, and still is, a joint B rit­
ish-American affair, and as in the
higher echelons of the m ilita ry com­
mand, American and British offi­
cers were sandwiched in with each
other. Lord Runcin was near the
top.
Lord Runcin was a man of about
fifty. He had wavy blonde hair and
bright eyes which seldom looked
straight at whoever he was talking
with. He took snuff. Aside from
the fact that he had a purely colo­
nial point of view toward the Ita l­
ians, he was considered to be a pret­
ty good man for Amgot. Not the
least of his attributes was his en­
ergy. On this particular morning, it
was only five minutes past eight,
and yet Lord Runcin had been on
the road since six thirty, had taken
breakfast on American rations in a
wheat field, and had been waiting
patiently for his Amgot representa­
tive in Adano for fifteen minutes.
He was making a round of inter­
views, to try to pick up the best ex­
amples of Amgot work from each of
the occupied towns.
M ajor Joppolo showed him into
his office. "Wizard quarters,” His
Lordship said. Lord Runcin affect­
ed the slang of his subordinates, but
he always seemed to use American
slang when talking to his British
men, and vice versa, so that many
of them understood very little of
what he said.
This was the first time Major
Joppolo had ever had a tete a tete
with a real honest to goodness Lord-
ship. He was surprised to find him
wearing shorts and an open collar
and no hat at all. His Lordship's
deferential manner, as he sat on
the other side of the M ajor’s desk
asking questions, made Major Jop­
polo, who had once been a clerk in
the Sanitation Department of New
York City, feel quite important.
By way of making conversation.
His Lordship pointed a thumb in
Quattrocchi's direction and said:
“ Your Italian friend is in quite a
flap.”
The form er Sanitation clerk said:
" C a n ’ t a ffo rd to le t these p eo ple
“ What was that. Lord? I didn't get
be too h a p p y , you k n o w .”
that.”
“ Never m ind," said His Lordship. of wheat on a siding at the railroad
“ Well, what kind of a job have you station, had had it ground into Hour,
been doing here. Joppolo?”
and had been able to spare some
The form er Sanitation clerk said: for the neighboring hill towns, which
"W ell, I ’ ve been doing all right.” were starving. He had given one
“ Doing all right, eh?” His Lord- baker a very heavy fine, three thou­
ship smiled and made a note of the sand lira, for baking soggy bread,
expression in his notebook, for fu­ for refusing to sell it on credit, for
ture use. “ What are the best things refusing to take American invasion
you’ve done?”
lira, and for having d irty hands;
Well, to show how the town was and since then the bread had been
financing itself, there was the mus­ pretty good from all the bakers. He
lin. A Liberty Ship had come into had taken steps to send the fisher­
Adano harbor, and had discharged men out. He had arranged for the
a cargo of war materials—bulldoz­ people to have pasta, which they
ers, bridge girders, tents, and some had not had for eight months. Food
ammunition. Down in the bottom was all right.
of one hold the unloaders found six
"Good,” said Lord Runcin. Every
bales of white muslin. The skipper time His Lordship took snuff. Major
of the ship said he had to unload it. Joppolo’s eyes nearly popped out
The Quartermaster on the beach of his head and he almost forgot
would not take i t There were no what he was talking about. “ Any­
papers for the muslin, no consign­ thing else?”
ment. The muslin had U. S. Treas­
“ Oh sure. Lord,” he said, “ this
ury markings on it, so it was obvi­ town is much better off than it was
ously Lend-Lease, and it was ob­ before we came in. You can’t im ­
viously lost. Major Joppolo heard agine how these people were ground
about it, and seeing the rags on the down. Why. they're so used to be­
people of his town, he said he could ing afraid of officials, and so used
use it. He called his C ivil Supply to making out forms and being
director and told him about the mus­ hauled up to court and having cara­
lin, and the director gave permis­ binieri ask them their names, that
sion to sell it at a fair price. Major they all put their last names first
Joppolo put two rolls up for sale, and their first names last, the way
and held the other four in reserve. it goes on official papers, all the
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
gone in that many hours.
they’re better off now than they
“ Good work, Joppolo,” His Lord- were before. For one thing, they
ship said. “ What else?”
can congregate in the streets any
There was the refugee problem. time they want and talk about what­
On the day of the invasion, there ever they want to. They can listen
were only six or seven thousand peo­ to their radios. They know they
ple in the town; the others had all can get a fa ir tria l out of me. They
run to the hills. Within a few days can come to the City Hall and talk
there were thirty-two or -three thou­ to me any time they want. Mayor
sand. The town got badly crowded, Nasta had office hours from twelve
and one reason was that there were to one each day and you had to ap­
a lot of refugees from tfcf? town of ply for an audience weeks in ad­
Vicinamare. These people had come vance. I told you about the streets
down to Adano because the Allies being clean. Oh, there are lots of
had been bombing Vicinamare pret­ ways, Lord, and if I have any­
ty hard before the invasion. Now thing to do with it there'll be lots
that Die battle had gone beyond mor» ”
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sure. F istu la , H e rn ia (H up
bit bored. He dipped more and more
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merit w ithou t ho en ltai op
frequently into his snuffbox and
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looked out the window. “ Fine show
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in this town?”
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"Yes, there is. Lord,” the Major
said. "One thing.”
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“ Well, this isn’t exactly bad, Lord,
and maybe it ’ll sound a little silly
to you.”
;
“ My job,” said Lord Runcin. tak­
ing snuff grandly, “ is to make sense
f a
out of silly things. What is it, Jop­
polo?"
“ Well sir. this town needs a bell."
“ A bell? Why, Major, I heard
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such a jangling of bells at eight
when you use it fo r m u llln or
o'clock this morning, you might
waffle batter. I t w ill m uke p o ll­
have thought it was Christmas day."
ing sm oother.
“ Yes, but this is a special bell.
Lord."
Ripe tom ato ju ic e w ill remove
" I didn't know they had any spe­
fresh in k stains.
cial bells.”
“ This one was seven hundred
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wobbly
years old. It was just about the r IK E to crochet the pineapple | j . w
most important thing in the town, to
design?
H ere’s a group
of
gloup ui i ;ongt nn{j use ¡J na a p|ay taß|e for
hear these people talk. Mussolini sm a ll pieces—ju s t rig h t fo r a
r» L y ild
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taa moved
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be
took it away . . . " And M ajor Jop­ —each made of odds and ends I of tilt' ch
easily fro m room to room and
polo told how the bell had been cotton.
taken also on trip s.
crated up and shipped away to
make gun barrels, and how the peo­
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ple had come to him about it, and handkerchief case, sachet, plncushtom.
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had found that it was almost cer­
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people be too happy, you know.
Can't afford to let discipline get too
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"Lord, I can't see that happiness
and discipline don't go together." Gentlemen If ere Hungry?
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“ Young man,” said His Lordship,
taking a sniff for emphasis, " I think
A famous French composer was
I've had a little more experience in touring the U nited States, and his
these things than you have.”
itin e ra ry included a v is it to the
"E very time I've done something m usic school of one of the large
for these people,” M ajor Joppolo eastern universities. One of the
said, 'T v e found they did two things professors o f the school had been
for me just out of thanks.”
delegated to m eet h im . He sud
“ Well, what do you want me to denly realized th a t he knew no
do about this bell?”
French and th a t possibly the m u­
" I just wondered. Lord, if you sician could not speak E nglish.
When the F renchm an stepped
could suggest a way to get them
another bell. Not just any bell, fro m the tra in , the professor could
Although rubber I t o rd in arily
yoir know, but one that could take re ca ll only one French phrase;
considered
non - conductive,
and so, as he shook hands, he
the place of the one they lost."
B. F. Goodrich hoe perfected
said,
“
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foie
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“ Every tim e I need something out
an electrically conductive rub­
of the ordinary," His Lordship said, foie g ra s !”
ber used in the form of •
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looked
at
him
“ I make application to the United
"shoo” fo r de-icing airp lan e
propellers.
States Army. They have the most in p e rp le xity, then exclaim ed,
extraordinary things, you know. “ Ros b ifI Ros b if ! ”
Bathing tuih that won't get wet
They gave me a jeep. They jjave
oven when the wearer goes In
me my choice of pipes, good briar,
swimming are a good possibility.
too, went from Scotland to the
The waterproof bathing suits ora
U.S.A. and all the way back here
coated with B. F. Goodrich Koroseal.
to Algiers, by way of the U.S. Army.
''B ullet-proof” tiros are so
Some one told me about these elec
designed th at •
punctured
trica l razors, and they even got me
tiro can bo run fo r 40 miles
one of those, but I can’t use it be­
b efo re It is ruined.
cause of this Italian current, wrong
current, you know, not like our cur­
Almost every modern weapon
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has some rubber in it.
rent. I suggest you try the U. S
Army, Joppolo.”
“ I haven't had quite the same
kind of luck with the Army, Lord.
You got some friend, or something?
Who do you ask for all these fancy
things they get you?”
“ Just write General Wilson, W.
B. Wilson, Quartermaster Depot. Al­
giers. General Wilson told me he'd
try to get me anything I wanted.
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Just use my name, Joppolo, he’ll
— is n ’t s t i f f o t s tic k y l S o ft — it
find you a bell. I ’m sure of it.”
spreads like face cream.
M ajor Joppolo wrote down Gen­
— is actu ally soothing) Use right
eral Wilson's name and address.
a fte r s h a v in g —w ill not Irritate.
"Thank you. Lord," the Major said.
— has light,pleasant scent.N o sickly
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"That sounds like it might work.
sm all to cling to fingers or clothing.
I sure want to get a bell for this
— w ill not spoil delicate fabrics.
town."
Y e t testa in the tropics— made by nurses
Lord Runcin clapped his snuffbox
— prove that Yodora protects under try ­
shut and stood up. “ Well, Joppolo,
In tub»» or ¡an, 10c, 2Jc, 60c
sounds to me as if you were doing a ing Me conditions.
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you have any troubles, just give me
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a buzz." And His Lordship left, on
the verge of a delicious sneeze
which he had been saving in his
nostrils for ten minutes.
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my house. I thought the Americans
were civilized. You are the one
who told me they are civilized. You
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M ajor Joppolo was stunjj by this Evansville,
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dispraise.
"What do you want?” he said
sharply. "Stop this babbling and tell
me what you want."
Do you suffer
" I don’t want anything. What 1
have lost I can never get back, so j
from MONTHLY
how can I want anything?"
" I f you don’t want anything, why
are you taking up my tim e?"
Quattrocchi spoke sarcastically:
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able, Your Worship.” And then he
at such times— try this great medicine
spoke angrily: " I have lost some
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too. I went to my house this morn­
against such distress. Also a grand
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behind. And what did I find?
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I F IT in necessary to keep an old-
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In the dining room it m uy do dou­
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it is shown in a liv in g room. The
full s k irt m atches curtains and slip
covers, und tile scalloped fe lt top
err
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that serve as lam p stands und the
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The difficult problem le to m ake the lop
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lone here with a rem ovable top of p ly­
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>arl of this top and the cover Is tacked to
It. The whole thing may be lifted off
easily when It Is (line to use Ihe machine.
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