Evening star. [volume], September 10, 1944, Page 12, Image 84

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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THE MORE WOMEN AT WORK —THE SOONER WE WIN'
Wallen’s Little Lamb
BY MURIEL R. RATTNER
FREE RIDE. She
can do everything
but drive a truck
Mere you meet htida,
donkey extraordinary.
She's a (il’s pet . . .
obabi.y the most famous female in Italy
is a small, brown-eved. long eared crea
ture who answers to the name of Kdda. Par
ticularly when her owner. Sgt Dick Wallen,
calls her The Sergeant bought her for $10 when
she was only a couple of weeks old. raised her
on a bottle and patiently taught her tricks for
almost a year. She became such a famous (>1
donkey that "Yank.” the Army weekly, dis
covered her. made her fame international
Kdda happened because the (IPs in Wallen's
outfit wouldn't believe he came Irom a famous
horse-training family, was a trainer of show
horses himself before l 'ncle Sam sent him greet
ings Wallen had Itcgged to In- put in the
catalry. hut mmhat engineers was the
hraneh that needed recruit*. So llorsc
Kipert W alien was made a eomhat engineer.
All the way to Sicily Wallen's pals ribbed
him Finally the distraught Sergeant bought
the baby donkey, named her for Mussolini's
daughter, and set to work teaching her new
tncks of his old trade
Edda was a gold-star pupil In no time at
all she knew how to goose step, open the knot
of a handkerchief tied to tier hind leg, remove
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M.T. JOHN HAN", YANK
a eigarette from the Sergeant s mouth and
eat it She became so devoted to Wallen that
she turned into a bigger, daiker version of
Mary’s Little Lamb, followed him wherever
he went.
The skeptics were eventually convinced the
Sergeant was an expert. and when it came time
for the outfit to shove off for Salerno, they were
just as broken up as W allen at the thought of
leaving Kdda behind Hut the CO solved that
one Kdda went right along.
She Likes Camp Shews
In i>t i- time the combat engineers, and Kdda.
reached Naples There Wallen heard about a
remount outfit and he and Kdda hurried over
to investigate. They found it much to their
liking although Kdda considered herself far
superior to the IfOO mules who arrived at the
remount center, went out a week later clipped,
inoculated, disinfected and branded pack
mules Hut Wallen convinced her it was okay,
got himself a transfer, ended up as a first ser
geant of mules in a month.
Now he and Kdda are happy. She’s happiest
of all when she and her partner put on shows
for (I I s at their camps. Or when the two of
them get a one-day pass, hire a carnage and
ride all over Naples both of them inside, of
course And. obviously, nobody can laugh at
Sergeant Wallen's horse-training tales: He has
the proof with him.