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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-03-07
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our most sim
cere thanks to our many friends for
the many kindnesses shown and for
the beautiful floral offerings dur
ing our recent bereavement.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Weber,
Clarence and Francis, =
Mrs. Vida Erskin.
Howard McGhee says with each
issue of metropolitan papers he
wonders If they enjoy life or Just
live to print the muck they dig up
out of it.
According to Geo. Cloud we live
50 fast that "once upon a time" was
just last week.
IF we didn't have something to
worry about" believes Art Camp
bell most of us would be bored stiff
with life"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-03-07

The local diplomat is the fellow
who remembers her birthday and
forgets her ace.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-03-07

Mrs. Ben Van Patten entertained
at quilting bee both Monday and
Wednesday
Mrs. w. A. Linn. who has been
quite sick is reported as improved.
Mrs. Audie Perkins is still in q
serious condition and was given
blood TRANSMISSION Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Hembree OF Tacoma Is
a guest at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Sands.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-03-07
Electric Ironers

An electric ironer turns out prettier
finished work. Yet it uses little more
electricity than hand iron, because
It works twice as fast. Stop pushing
and lifting heavy iron. Let an cleo.
trio ironer do your hard work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12

italian reverses at the hands of
the British and the Greeks must
be reckoned with. Generalissimo
Franco is probably much farther
from actively joining the Axis
partnership than he was only days
ago. He also may wait and see
what happens in Egypt. British ap-
p%rehension over the Gibraltar bas-
ton cannot now be great.
The italian setbacks have put a
crimp of such size in fascist mill
tary prestige and potential strik-
ing ability that it is questionable
whether Italy has not been shifted
from the asset to the liability col
umn in Hitler's war books.
The jeering from Berlin at
events in Albania and Egypt, char
a~cterizing them as mere passing
episodes" of the war and not of
serious effect on Axis grand strate-
gy, ignores one vitality important
factor. That is that the British
stroke in Egypt already has cut
down imponderably Marshal Ora
ziani's chances of renewing his
own attack even if he escapes de-
struction or rout of his forces. He
is using UP precious stores of fuel
and munitions that cannot be re-
placed through Britain's sea block
ade; using them in a fight for life,
not for attack.
The same thing is happening to
fascist forces still hop7skipping
backward in Albania. Mussolini is
reported to be pouring 80, 1000 ad-
ditional troops into that Italian
Balkan bridgehead. They have yet
to find a defensible line backed
by debarkation ports, roads and
railways.
The Greek advance is pushing
the retreating Italians into the mar
row circle of the lower lying coast
al plateau Of Central Albania, sur
rounded by commanding foothills.
Again Mussolini's slender war
stocks are being used up in de-
tense, not offense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
ITALIANS ADMIT
EGYPTIAN LOSSES
Continued From Page One)

in the desert struggle with Libyan
advance troops resisting gallant
W. before their retreat to Sid
Barrani, the government communi-
que said in its first official men
ton in Rome of the engagement.
Two divisions of Italian troops
held out and inflicted serious loss.
es" on the British, it was said.
Italian General Maletti was kill
ed as he led his Libyan troops in
to battle.
On other phases Of the war there
were more encouraging reports.
An authoritative source said that
up to Dec. 10, thirty-seven British
warships and 80 merchant vessels
had been sunk against a loss OF %
Italian warships. This source said
Sc British w~arships and Al mer-
chantmen had been damaged
compared with damage to four
Italian %warships. Italian mer-
chant shipping losses were not Civ
Italian forces have shot down
667 enemy" planes, it was said.
The loss of 10 Italian planes was
acknowledged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12

considered, with the Sandy Ridge
section apparently favored. A
navy board of three officers, head
ed by Captain c. E. Rosendahl, re-
Gently inspected many sites in
coastal counties in the search for
a location for a S., 900, 900 base for
naval ighter-than-air craft.
Summer flood damage has def
nitely curtailed further farm oper-
atoms at Caledonia prison farm, it
was indicated when a committee
recommended moving the Gale
donia -four mill to Raleigh. The
committee also recommended a
new Caledonia mess hall to cost
about $4,000 and the shifting of
aged guards to other camps, in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
BRITAIN'S FOOD
SITUATION GRIM
Continued From Page One)

stores, he explained, and heavy car
goes have come through unscathed."
Lord woolton, minister Of food,
took an even more optimistic view,
telling a private all-party meeting
of MP's tonight that Britain has
satisfactory stocks of wheat and 9TH
er commodities'' as well as a two
year supply of coffee.
He said no further rationing Of
milk is contemplated and, in answer
to a question, asserted he saw no
likelihood Of having to resort to syn
thetic foods.
Later, Hudson explained to the
British Press association that his and
Lord Woolton's statements were not
contradictory.
The food minister, Hudson said,
was referring to the present posi-
ton, while he was looking ahead to
the problem of a year hence If sink
ines by U.boats continue at the pres
ent rate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12

ub;cb the Rhein started on NOV. ~
was the freighter's second attempt
to slip through the British naval
Gordon around Western Hemisphere
norts on Nov. Is the Rhein, to-
gether with the Idarwald and the
Phrveia. left Tampico to run the
blockade but sighted unidentified
va rsbips a few hours afterwards.
Rhein and the Idarwald sour
ried Jack to Tampico but the Phry-
eia's crew scuttled her in the belief
that the naval units sighted we're
enemy craft.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
MIDLANDS SECTION
RAIDED BY NAILS
CONTINUED From Page One)

ming. but toward morning there
was a lull I'D even the city's anti
aircraft fell silent.
In the town in the Midlands a
bus was hit, several homes were
destroyed and there were a num-
Der of casualties, some OF them
fatal. There were at least four in
stances of people trapped in wreck
age. Many fires sprang up, but
were reported brought quickly un-
der control.
There was a report that several
other West Midlands areas were
under attack.
Here in London, heavy anti-air-
craft fire broke a calm which, save
for an alert caused by the APP
pearance of two reconnaissance
planes before dawn today, had ex-
listed since early Monday. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
War Interpretive
Continued From Page One)

march eastward to crack the Brit
ish sea blockade. That is sharply
reflected in abandonment by Tur-
key of nightly "black out" precau-
tons against possible German or
Italian air attack.
Resisting O~vertures
The neutral Balkan trio-Turkey,
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia-already
stoutly resisting German political
and diplomatic overtures with
strong indications Of Russian back
ing, give signs Of even greater
anti-Axis leanings. If the British
attack in Egypt produces another
Italian army disaster it will clinch
that obstacle to Berlin's 6 r a d
strategy in the East.
The effect on Spanish policy of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12

view Of a so per cent reduction in
prisoners confined there.
The commission authorized the
use of 5000 for one purchase of a
mill site here or near here.
In trade with state sanatorium,
the commission agreed 10 build
SO, 900 worth of roads within the
sanatorium property to mark of
its debt to the sanatorium for care
of %tubercular prisoners the past
four years.
Swannanoa was voted a traffic
stop light instead of the projected
underpass to protect school chill
dren from US 70 traffic.
The per capita consumption OF
onions in the United States is lo
pounds annually.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
DUTCH DESTROYER
SEIZES GERMAN
FREIGHTER RHElN
Continued From Page One)

with the Idarwald early in the war
That message said:
"Rhein being followed by war
ships"
The source who revealed the
Rheims ~interception was unapie ~
say whether it occurred WITHIN d
day or two after the ship le1t pol''
Fire was observed on the freighter'
he said, when the Dutch "aie
closed in, but could not say whether
The freighter subsequently sank or
was taken as a prize.
Th. dash toward a German port
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
MAY GET
NEW BLIMP STATION
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bia, if a fve-mile highway were
provided between Columbia and
the site.
The commission voted to build
the road if the base is confirmed
within Is months. The cost of the
road vas estimated at $50, 600.
Webb said two sites we're being
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-12
WEATHER
CONTINUED From Page One)

WASHINGTON, Dec II. - Up, -
Weather bureau records of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending 8
n. m.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

formance, but she sidestepped them.
Il knew / had to have some ex-
perience." she recalls. why I had
to ask that night where left center
was, so I could make my exit"
Used to Surprises.
But in a few months she was
a top drawing card of her dozen
plays, not one was flop. Finally an
agent lured her to Director Alfred
Hitchcock's Office. He cast her as
Mrs. Van Hopper in "Rebecca" and
her movie career was launched,
auspiciously.
What's her reaction to this sudden
change in her life?
I'm used to surprises" she says,
"and I guess I've learned to take
them in stride. While I never gave
acting a thought, I see now that
everything I did before has pointed
toward this.
"As an attorney and working in
the antique shop, learned to meet
people. That's invaluable. What
poise I have I can credit to it. I
travelled great deal, to, and OBJ
served people. That helps"
She rates star billing in her third
film, Calling All Husbands" for
Warners-and some folks have even
brought out the tag second Marie
Dressler" and busted 1t of for her.
Florence Bates doesn't think she's
second Marie Dressler or ever will
be. although I'm terribly flattered." !"
She just doesn't think there ever
will be another Dressler.
"I1l be satisfied with just being
the first Florence Bates" she says.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Staircases of the Cinema Lead to Nowhere
But They Always Represent Much Care Set Designers
Knowing the Eye Is Attracted Automatically to Them

ly in Honeymoon for Three" Ann
Sheridan and George Brent will be
seen walking up and down it by some
millions of future fans. Many ship
sets show elaborate stairways, but
the new "Tugboat Annie Sails
Again" is different The stairs there
are narrow, steep and strictly Char
acter."
In THE Sea Hawk there are some
regal stairs in Queen ,Elizabeth's
castle, made of stone without pro-
tecting bannisters, just the sort for
Errol Flynn to fight on-and win.
In my Love Came Back" every
member of the cast climbs or de-
scends stairs, either cheap boarding
house steps or the thickly carpeted
stairs of Charles Wirninger's home
There, again, the stairways were
used to set the tone of the sequence.
Once in while stairway is used
for a romantic setting in a picture
Bette Davis and Errol Flynn played
a love scene on the queens regal
stairs in 1.-THE Private Lives of Eliza
beth and Essex" and the public en-
joyed it greatly.
There must be 200 sets Of steps
and stairways stored on the Warner
Bros back lot and more are added
with the finish of each new picture
Stairs to the elevated and steps lead
ing down to the subway are found
there too like all other Stl1dio
staircases, they lead exactly no place.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
To Many Director He Represents Law
Edgar Deering More Forbddng Than the Real Article,
Is Fmdom's Favorite Motorcycle Policeman

questions at the wide-eyed Wray
beauty. 1t didn't take long. With
flourish he swept long pencil
from one of his putties and began
writing the ticket. Finishing, he
stared coldly at the lady. Young
woman" he said, you're going to
be slowed down a lot during life,
so you might as well start now"
He strutted out of the scene leaving
Fay Wray in tears.
I'm proud of the job I'm doing
in pictures" said Deering, because
I think it is helping people think
in terms of safe driving. I'm sure
that the example of man or woman
being written up or taken into GUS
tody in such traffic cases always
has its effect on spectators.
Likes His Fan Mail.
OF all his 200 traffic -pinching roles,
Deering says, he likes best the one
he had in drunk driving" an
M-G-M short. II had a line to
speak," he says, that ran, I hate
to do this to a young fellow at a
time like this-but after all, two
people have been killed I think
the line shows that the traffic
officer is really the friend of the
motorist I know that, in real life,
I have always considered traffic Of
flcers the best friends a driver can
have"
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Keovy
Continued From First Page.)

Classics them. Mainly, they fall
into two classes-almost possible
and impossible. So far she's heard
from 80 Sigma Nu chapters, being
the official sweetheart of all of them.
She has an idea that the reason
SO many sailors write is because all
of the Hardy pictures, in which she
is Polly Benedict, are Navy "musts. :"
Got Away With It.
This young lady was the heroine
In a local radio serial for a year
when she got the test that brought
her her first film role. She was
going on 16 and
did I have a time convincing the
teacher on the set that was
past 18!
Il was supposed to be 80 years
old in that picture-'Waterfront
Lady, and I was her-and every
time the teacher came along to ask
me if I wasn't as young as she
thought I looked, I'd grab cigar
cite from somebody and flourish tt
like this-and tell her, oh, yes,
I'm way past 49, Somehow I got
away with it,"
Ann was Gene Autry's first lead
ing lady and she still likes horses
and cowboys.
She's been averaging nine pictures
year, four of them Hardys, and
considers she's working hard enough
for q 20-year-old.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

board on conjecture. There Is no
more style-conscious actress in Hol-
lywood than Miss Goddard. Yet
she forsook the gowns and frocks
Of the drawing room for the rough
appeal Of the North Woods. Miss
Goddard wears the same buckskin
dress-and a filthy one it is
throughout the film.
Chic, cleancut Claudette Colbert,
who haggles with cameramcn over
which side of her face should meet
the lens, is another famed star who
buried pride to let down her hair.
In Drums Along the Mohawk" she
forgot about fancy clothes, makeup
and camera angles. The Colbert of
light, frothy bedroom farces was
eclipsed by the Colbert of the plow
and the frontier.
But There Are Protests.
To further make this strange quirk
cycle instead of trend, we find
Rita Hayworth, now termed as the
"best-dressed girl in Hollywood"
deserting the glitter ranks to por-
tray frustrated, bewildered Pari-
sienne in the French drama. The
Lady in Question:" being filmed.
The spectacle of such a statuesque
and lovely Latin foregoing all the
privileges of dressup and makeup
is enough to make strong men weep
into their beer.
OF course, there are many protests.
Studios are getting them every day
but letters, shrieking the delight OF
fandom over this fast-gaining era
of realistic, down-to-earth heroines
far outnumber the complainers.
Stylists and fashion experts, In
particular, are moaning long and
loud. Accustomed to looking to the
screen for new tips, new styles, they
now find their celluloid models
cavorting in outmoded, nondescript
clothing.
Producers, pondering over box Of
flee returns, maintain the movement
is healthy, that 1t is added proof
motion pictures are growing up.
They point out that, robbed of
glamour, an actress must work over
time to sell herself. The only way
they can do this, they say, is by real,
bona f1de acting. And it takes
great actress to overcome bad make
up and dress.
It's no secret about other top ac-
tresses looking longingly at roles
that will give them a chance to let
down their finger waves. Among
them are Hedy Lamar, Joan Ben
nett. Irene Dunno, Alice Faye. Olivia
de Havilland (who wants another
raggedylike Melanie) and even the
ever-so-proper Norma Shearer.
How, for instance, would you like
to see Miss Shearer riding the
range, engaging in an occasional
fistic, hair-pulling match with the
other woman? It's not beyond rea-
son to suggest such an assignment
might actually hurry Norma back
toward the proud rating she once
held at the box office.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-08-04

4lahAoAs 0AAS laughs o4SSAA a2AA oAA
over. She even laughs at herself
and the new life she found so amaz-
ingly when many grandmothers are
satisfied with sitting and knitting.
AS Florence Jacoby, she practiced
law in San Antonio Is years ago.
She quit after a few years, but still
has enough interest in the bar to sit
down on a set and give advice to
young Lucille Fairbanks, niece of
the late Doug, ST., and an aspiring
Portia.
In 1918, she went into her fathers
antique shop. 1t collapsed in the
depression and she and her husband
went to Mexico.
Their oil lands were appropriated
just when things started to 60 well
and they headed for California
three years ago. William Jacoby
bought a bakery, although he knew
nothing about the business. It has
prospered, and now he has two
branches.
Didn't Want to Act.
His wife was quite content to stay
behind a counter and sell rolls and
chocolate cakes. She wasn't at all
interested when an acquaintance
suggested she come along and study
at nearby Pasadena Community
Playhouse. where many a seeker
after movie fame has found a start.
II knew nothing about acting and
didn't want to-" she says. "I'd
never been on a stage, not even in
a school play. The idea just left me
fiat"
But her friend insisted and finally
she yielded. She met Gilmor Brown,
the director, read one scene and
promptly found herself in a Jane
Austen play, cast as Miss Bates.
From the role. she took her stage
name. Movie scouts, who haunt the
playhouse, met her after the per-
Evening star., 1940-08-04
WoIfert
Continued From First Page)

NSOllGlIluCO TIOul Z ~ oo o6OI
style than Mr.. Hart's, but it has a
large, costly and darn tough cro-
quet course on it, trapped, bunkered,
pitted, stoppered, fretted and curli-
cued by the master himself who
would be champion croquet player
II there was such a thing.
Never Any Question.
Well, when the boys had finished
tapping out the stuff-interrupted
occasionally by groans of compost
ton from a neighboring study oc-
cuppied by Mrs. kaufman, who also
is writing a play-they move into
town, assembled the production
staff in producer Sam Harris Office
in the Music Box Theater and read
the play to them.
Ernest Truck and Jean Dixon
had been cast for it before it was
finished and there was no question
about the plays being produced.
Kaufman-Hart products are pro-
duced sight unseen. The only thing
the fellow, who puts up the money
says is, "Show me the product when
you got the time" So the reading
was for reaction.
Mr.. kaufman did the reading.
Mr.. Hart sat alongside him, facing
the production staff and scrutinizing
the faces for reactions. One who
was present tells me Mr.. kaufman
reads beautifully" His voice, 1t is
said, is good and he reads as though
he were acting and even times he
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Outdoor Amusements

MOUNT vERNON-There dancing nightly the stream
lined cruise vessel leaving at $50 for the moonlight cruise
Other scenic river daily and Sunday made Mount
Vernon and Marshall Hall Park at 930 and
POTOMACNghy moonlight cruises leave the dock Seventh
street and Main 8:45 o'clock Saturdays
two down. aun
at 1890, with name" bands supplying the music
GLEN ECHO PARK-The full complement of park
fractions includes various midway novelties dancing
pavilion and shaded picnic grove dancing nightly
except Sundays in the Spanish Ball Room,
Paul Kan, with songs by Van
sEAS1DEAmusemen park Chesapeake with mile
long boardwalk host swimming either
the Bay or in the dancing in the cool pav
ion beside the Chesapeake.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

"The greatest kick I get out Of
life" he says, "is the fan mail
get from real motor cycle policemen
all over the country. They go to a
lot of movies and are evidently
plenty critical of actors portraying
their profession on the screen.
That's why am exceedingly careful
how handle my parts. I've turned
down more than one job because
a director wanted me to handle
role in manner I knew no self
respecting officer would want a
brother officer to act. I can truth
fully say I've never played a cop
on the screen in such a way that
a resl-life policeman would be
ashamed. I'm proud of that-and
besides, you wouldn't want me to
get in bad with the cops, would
you?"
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Newspaper Alliance 1nc)
Evening star., 1940-08-04

will have one pulled out. remodeled
and put back to work.
Character" stairways play impor-
tant roles in pictures, too. The mar
row, splintery stairs in the tene-
ments where James Cagney visits
Ann Sheridan in City for Conquest"
are masterpieces of repression. They
represent the work of a designer who
would much rather build more beau
tiful stairways for more stately man.
sions.
The stairs in the now justly IA
nous Lemp home, where -Four
Daughters" grew up to be -Four
Wives and have now become
-Four Mothers" remain unchanged.
It is pleasant little stairway which
they have used in each of those pic
lures, but it has character and no
audience expects it 70 be changed.
There is one Dig broad, we'll
carpeted stairway shown prominent
Evening star., 1940-08-04
HOTI.vWOOn


For any movie directors money,
Edgar Deering is Hollywood's prize
motorcycle policeman.
1t doesn't matter that Edgar knows
very little about driving a motor
cycle or that he seldom must steer
his vehicle more than a few feet
across a process sound stage For
Edgar. the play-cop. looks more the
part of the forbidding nemesis of
speed demons than SO per cent of
those you see on real highways.
And he has all the exasperating
mannerisms and getup to match.
Just as sure as taxes, whenever
movie actor is called on by the
script to step on the gas and send
his car careening down the high
way at dangerous pace you'll find
Edgar Deering rumbling out of the
bushes at the roadside in desperate
pursuit. And he hasn't failed once
in getting his manor woman.
For more than three years Deer
ing has been "arresting" movie stars
for speeding, drunk-driving and
every type of traffic offense. He's
hard as nails, never tears up ticket
and (by his own insistence) usually
throws in a sermon for the reckless
driver.
Proud Of His Job.
Deering was performing routine
script duties at R-K-O the other
day. The picture was wildcat Bus
and a fright-simulating Fay Wray
was his victim" Sitting at the
wheel of big sedan, Fay had just
brought her car to a stop at the
screeching signal from Deering's S
siren. Deering is calm, but stern
and sometimes biting about his cel-
luloid citations. After carefully
parking his two-wheeler he casually
sauntered up to the drivers window
and hurled a barrage of sneering