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what's happening over there? I egga -Wc. JOHN DI GIORGIO *-4|t LOUIS SEGALTwo U.S. Soldiers Seeking To Adopt Italian Orphans. GREENter?art\DQUAR-n. black-ie Correaie Purph* ved in u the inva-•vered the ►an since rka more mly news-xnade a leater. He jump at the Tu-NAPLES — Two American soldiers are preparing to Lake the necessary legal steps to adopt twc Italian children made porentlesfc and homeless by Allied bombingsPvt M L. Price. 28-year-old hospital guard from Marunsburg. W Vs., hopes to adopt a five-year-aki girl named Mans, only survivor ot a family of five.Cpi Eddie CarapeilatU, 21-year-old mail clerk of Olean. N.Y., is trying to adopt 11-year-okl Prankie Noioro, who was found wandering among the Naples dock areas aftei havmg run away from a job scrubbing floods for German troops.Price, whose own baby girl died shortly before he came overseas has already submitted a request foi adoption through Red Cross ano 6Ui Army channels He has obtained permission of Maria's aunt he» only known relative. Maria, a cute pen youngster with black lock1, ued up with pink hah ribbon, is already calling Price ’’daddy.*' Sht teaches him Itahan and he teaches her English with a West Virginia accent, Price says.I know it’s never been done before—this adopting business.’’ declared the peacetime railroad fire man, but I know Vera and I couldmake Maria very happy and we would Ike to try.” The Prices have been married — happily married, thank you”—for two years.Maria, whose last name Priee did not wish to reveal, is called theomon girl” for this five-year-old tyke was selling onions when Prise first saw her.i CpL CrapellatU is not married bat he intends to wed Miss Carmen Pabnzio. 21. of Akroo, Ohio, as soon as he returns fromoverseas' T have written her about Frank* ie and about how 1 hope to adopt linn.” said Carapeilattx. who in peacetime ran a beverage business. He met Carmen while attending voice .school in AkronFrankie all decked out tn a cup down GI outfit, is very much the lung of the hospital where Car-pellatti works The commanding officer hat given die lad permia-sion to sleep and eat at the hospital with no strings attached But Frankie insists upon paying lor. his board: he i errand boy and general handy man He has bought himself an I tali an-English dictionary end is catching on with Yankee slang. But he cannot believe that America is as good m it sounds.
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Sicily Stars and Stripes
Palermo, Sicily, IT
Tue, Nov 30, 1943
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