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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, August 16, 1945 JA Bell jér Adanol • w"“ .M» JoH ti H er s eu s T H K STORY T H IS T A R : The Am erl ra a troop« arrives la Adana, « Ilk M ajor .oppolo. the Amgot officer la charge. ► <rgeaat Borth was la charge of aecarl- I . The M ajor « as determined to hold tne conOdeace of the people and to re place their hell etolea by the N ails. De spite orders tziaed by General M arvin, barring carts from the city, Joppolo re called the orders, to perm it food and wa ter to enter the city. The M ajo r found out that the American generosltv was re sponsible for a troublesome blach m a r ket. To stop this condition he placed a celling on all prices. M ayor Nasta was placed In the prisoner of w ar cage. He swore that he would get even and that the Americans would suffer. CHAPTER XVIII **H -U . riA T U M I» Sergeant Borth slapped him sharp ly in the face, and for a few sec onds he was silent. But when he was seated in the jeep, and the Jeep began to move. Mayor Nasta began again. "Don’t shoot me in the back. I will do any thing to be shot from the front, where I can see the gun. I will tell you everything I know. I can give you names. Don’t do it from behind.” Borth said: “ How can I shoot you from behind when I am in the front seat and you are in the back seat?” Since it was the noon hour, scores of people had drifted to the Doppo Lavoro clubs along the street near the Albergo dei Pescatori to listen to the radio and wait for lunch. When they saw Borth’s jeep, with a man tied up in the back seat, they clustered around, and called for their friends. And when they saw that Borth's cargo was Mayor Nas ta, and that after all these years the Mayor had a gag in his mouth, the, cheered and laughed at the man. These noises increased Mayor I Nasta’s terrors, and he kept twist- ! ing and trying to look behind him. L ife in the p.w. cage was not very pleasant for M ayor Nasta. None of the men had blankets, and the nights were pretty cold, so they slept in close rows, keeping each other warm with their bodies. But no one would sleep next to the Fas cist Pig. They said he had a pecu lia r smell. As a m atter of fact, he did have a peculiar smell for sev eral hours each morning; it came from being a mistake. At last M ayor Nasta found a man who would talk with him. This was Borth went into Jhe restaurant and a German who spoke Ita lia n . found M ajo r Joppolo and brought Mayor Nasta told him that he him out. was still Mayor of Adano. that he M ajor Joppolo held up his hand to had been treacherously arrested by silence the crowd. " I want to speak the Americans, that he was trying to do all he could to help the Ger mans win and that, in short, he was a pretty important person who ought to be helped. The Ita lia n speaking German told his friends all about M ayor Nasta, and they de cided they ought to help him escape. For a couple of days M ayor Nas ta moved over and lived with the Germans. They made plans for the escape. There was nothing elabo rate about the plans. They just decided to lift the M ayor up over the wall. They asked him if he had the courage to sit on barbed w ire for a few minutes. He said yes, anything to escape. They asked him if he had the courage to jum p down twelve feet on the other side. He said yes. So in the middle of a dark, cloud ed night, the Germans made a pyra mid of their bodies and let Mayor Nasta climb up it to the top of the wall. He sat on the barbed wire on top of the wall, quiet as a cat, until he was sure that the sentry outside had marched to the other end of his beat. Then he turned facing the wall, let himself down as fa r as he could, and let go. He hurt one knee a little; it hit the wall as he landed on the ground. But he was able to get up and run off silently. The Top Sergeant at the p.w. cage called up Sergeant Borth at eighty-thirty the next morning and told him that Nasta had escaped. Sergeant Borth borrowed Corporal He let himself down as far as he Chuck Schultz and a jeep from the M .P .’s and went hunting. By this could and let go. tim e Sergeant Borth had so many voluntary informers and informers- on-informers that the job of tracing M ayor Nasta was not too hard. He soon found out that Mayor Nast: had been sheltered for a few hours in a house on Via Favem i. He had then left town by the Via Roma. He had stopped in at a fa rm e r’s house near the Casa Zam- bano to change into peasant dress. This was ore of the easiest things to check, because the peasant turned up wearing Mayor Nasta's loud pow der blue suit, which was dusty from several nights on the ground. M ayor Nasta had then been seen at several points along the Vicina- m are road. One farm er had given him a lift in his cart. Mayor Nasta had evidently had enough of the hills, and was trying now to get to Vicinam are. where friends would be able to hide him. Sergeant Borth picked him up three miles short of Vicinam are, at about ten-thirty. Jeeps had been passing Mayor Nasta all morning, so that he was not particularly alarmed when Ser geant Borth's jeep drove up along side him. and even when it stopped, he waved crudely and shouted: "Good day, good day." in what he thought was a thick peasant ac cent. Sergeant Borth mimicked the ac cent: "Good day, good day, fa rm e r.” M ayor Nasta, who still did not recognize Borth, shouted again: "Good day.” Borth shouted: “ Good day You are the first farm er I have ever seen with pince-nez glasses on.” Then M ayor Nasta knew Borth. M ayo r Nasta's spirit, which had been strained by the arrest and by the days in the cage and by the es cape, suddenly broke. He turned and ran out across the fields, squeal ing crazily, just like a soldier who had broken under shellfire. Sergeant Borth got out of the jeep and went out onto the fields. He did not hurry, because Mayor Nasta was running in circles, wishing to run away from himself more than anything else. By the tim e Ser geant Borth caught him, he was ex hausted and lim p, and his eyes were m ilk y with fear. As Borth half walked, half car ried him to the jeep. M ayor Nasta jabbered and mouthed his fear. “ If you are going to shoot me, tell me first. Don’t shoot me in the back. T e ll m e if you are going to kill me. I want to know, I want to know . to Nasta,” he said to Borth. "Can he hear me with that thing on his face?” "Y e a h ,” Borth said; “you’ve got the rare pleasure of being able to speak to Nasta and he can't talk back." M ajo r Joppolo said: "Nasta, you are a disgrace to your people. There is goodness in your people, but not in you, not a bit. The world has had enough of your kind of selfish ness." It was one of M ajo r Joppolo’ s greatest attributes in his job that he could speak pompous sentences with a sincerity and passion so real that his Italian listeners were al ways moved by what he said. Now all the listeners except Nasta were moved by his words to shout: "K ill him! K ill him! K ill h im !” Here was one tim e when M ajor Joppolo's sincerity and passion bounced back on him, because the people’s shouts frightened Mayor Nasta so badly that he fainted, and M a jo r Joppolo was the first to see the ridiculousness of trying to spell bind an unconscious man. There was nothing left to say ex cept one sentence to Borth: "W e'll have to send him to A frica." And to the music of Adano’s de lighted cheers. Borth and his limp companion drove down the street. There was no better index to the state of mind of Adano than the ac tivities of the painter Lojacono. If one had made a graph of the spirits of the town and then put beside it a graph of the number of commissions Lojacono received, the two would have exactly corresponded. When ever the town was optimistic, Loja cono worked. When the town was blue. -Lojacono was idle. Lojacono could paint anything. He could paint a house or he could paint a saint. He was the one who paint ed panels in the churches. He was the one who painted the fat and holy people on the fat Basile's two wheeled cart. The white-haired Lojacono suf fered when he painted. First he suf fered the pangs of creation, then he suffered when the people of Adano criticized his work. His work was beautiful and everyone in the town loved it, but for some reason they always criticized it first. M ajor Joppolo had not been in Adano very long before Lojacono was busy. His first efforts were a little crude, because the town had been depressed, and his right hand m g -y S EITIN G CIRCLE N EEM Æ C R A FT Made from _ idle, for so very long But soon he warmed to the town's happiness, he did things he had never been able to do in his life, which had not been short. The same morning that the crowd stood around Borth's Jeep in front of the Albergo dei Pescatori. anoth er, smaller crowd stood on the Moto Ponente in the harbor and watched Lojacono work. He was painting new names and little figures on the bow surfaces of the fishing boats, and the crowd consisted of fisher men and their fam ilies. Except for Lojacono's work, the boats were all ready to go. Their seams were calked, and they were tight as wine-bottles. The barnacles and the whiskers were off, and the bottoms had been given a little lead paint. The rigging was sm art, for M ajor Joppolo had persuaded the Navy to give the fishermen some bright cable and some unsoaked hemp rope. 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He pointed at his work and said angrily: "Have you ever seen a porpoise less messy than that one?" * Agnello said: "The porpoise is not bad. but he will die of loneliness unless you hurry and give him some company. Porpoises like company, you know that. Lojacono. Have you ever seen a porpoise play alone?” "H e w ill have company,” Loja cono said im patiently. "The Mister M ajo r is going to be riding on his back. If you would be silent, I could get on with my work." Kool-Aid ra m p H E smart hostess wears a cro- * cheted apron when she enter tains. This one combines mesh and petal stitches; easy, inexpen sive to make. a • as. 6 FIAVÛRS 4© IIS * a Wear this crocheted apron when you serve refreshments. Don't be surprised at the excitement you createl Pattern 1407 has Instructions. Tire conservation Is Im p o rta n t on the fighting fro nts, to e . W i n n i n g «logon In a swwtest conducted by Stars and Stripes, A rm y n ew sp aper, w as “ Bring victo ry, end the figh t, Before starting to polish leather- seated chairs, wipe off the seats with a cloth dipped in sweet milk. You will be surprised at the dirt that will come off. Polish as usual. Merendino said: "W ork then, old man. do not be so slow.” The old man went back to his work. Tomasino, sitting with his head in his hands on the afterdeck of his boat, which was moored next to Agnello’s, said gloomily: " I can not see the point of all this painting. It is frivolous. M y boat has been named Tina since the g irl was born. It w ill rem ain Tina. The leaves and the fruit which dangle from the name are good enough for me, even if they are not new." Agnello shouted to Tomasino: "What is the m atter with you, sour one, this morning? 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If " In the next century," said Tom a sino glumly, "a fte r a ll this painting is finished.” Lojacono stuck his head up over the side of Agnello's boat and shout ed: "Be quiet, Tomasino, you know that the only reason you are so im patient is that you like what I did twenty years ago and you have no desire for anything new.” Tomasino said: " If I have to wait another day for the slow painter I w ill blot out the name Tina and the leaves and fru it with some lead I O W H W INDOW paint I have, and I w ill go fishing SHADES NEARLY TO alone in a nameless boat.” THE SILL PLACE tanglefoot Lojacono started painting the M is R.Y PAPER WHERE ter M ajor, and the ln tle crowd came E arly morning in closer to see the details. He re LIGHT WILL solved a difficult point by making ATTRACT fues the M a jo r’s hat rather big and by TO IT tilting it so that it covered most WORKS LIKE of his face. At least the hat was A CHARM definitely American. “ His leg is too short. The leg of the M ister M ajor is longer,” Agnel lo said. “ I was about to say that the leg is too long,” Merendino said. “ In other words,” Lojacono said, The old relieble ths* sevsr fsils. “ the leg is precisely right.” Economic«!, not rationed. For tele at "H e does not have a hunch-back C A T C H f l TW f O6RM AS W i l l AS T N I P i t like th at,” said Sconzo, another of Agnello’s helpers. "H e is bending forward because of the speed of the porpoise," L oja cono said. 12 Sheets 2 5 c "The color of his skin is too TH t TA NfelfFO OT COMPANY, < Mich white,” said the wife of Agnello. "His skin is more Italian-colored.” “ You are dull,” Lojacono said, “ you do not see the symbolism of the white skin.” Do you suffer This is what the criticism was a l ways like. And this shows the pur from MONTHLY pose of the criticism : it was not so much that the people did not like! what Lojacono was doing, as they wanted to know exactly what was in with I»» weak, «red Feeliagt ? his mind. 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Lojacono attributed the o f H a rm fu l Body Waste form er highness to good spirits and Your kidneys are constantly Altering the latter highness to the way the waste matter from the blood stream. Bui name American had been raised in kidneys sometimes lag is their work— do not set as Nature intended— (ail to re everyone’s esteem by the Mister M a move Impuritiee that, if retained, may jo r; and everyone went away satis poison ths system end upeet tbe whole body machinery. fied. Symptoms may be nagging backache, The next morning the boats went peraiatent headache, attack* of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness out. M ajor Joppolo went down to under the eyee— a feeling of nervoue the harbor to see them off, and the euzlety and loee of pep and strength. Other signs of kidney or bladder dis people in town were all excited at order ere sometimes burning, scanty of the prospect of eating fish. too frequent urination. 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