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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-12
Obituary
John McPfERSoN SITToN

JOHN MCPHERSON SITT0N
John Mcpherson Sitton passed
away July 10th at the Pasco hos
pital, at the age Of SO. Mr.. SIT
ton was born on June 5, 1875,
in Alney Missouri, and came to
Kennewick about ten years ago
from Adams County.
He is survived by his wife,
Ester May and four sons, and
four daughters.
Everett Sitton, Of Washtucna,
Cpl. Frank Sitton is with the
army and is stationed at Van
couver, Herbert Sitton c. Phi. N.
stationed at Great Lakes, ILL.,,
Donald Sitton, Navy Fireman lie
is in the South Pacific.
Mrs. Bertha Denton Of st.
John, Mrs. Beulah Schaffer, Of
Seattle, Mrs. Grace Bake Of
Leavenworth and Mrs. Maxine
Peters of Kennewick. Also elev-
en- grandchildren, and a sister
Mrs. Anna Little, Of Walla Walla.
The funeral will be at 1:30 Fri
day, July 18th from the Mueller
Funeral Chapel.
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With tie Clerk Of this court, together with
proof Of such service. or they shall be
forever barred.
Dated at Kennewick. Warrington this
10th day Of July. 1875.
u. II. Moulton. Administrator
By AOULTON q POWELL
Attorney Tor Administrators
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-07-12
VISITS GRANDMOTHER

Ruth Reese, daughter Of Prof.
and Mrs. A. w. Reese of Mexico
City, Mexico, arrived on Saturday
for an extended visit at the home
of her grandmother, Mrs. E. +.
Reese. Doris Foster guest at the
Reese home for the past month
returned to Hood River, Oregon
on Monday.
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6. LAND OWNERSHIP The ap-
proximate percentages Of the own
ership Of the district lands is as
follows:
Kennewick Irrigation District 1870
Privately owned mot irrigated
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 (through knowledge of the language and a kind of treatment Amatos, numbed by FaSicm, are enusued to) gain the confidence of his relatives and their neighbors.
 He works on the farm helps solve their problems. Eddie, in his own way, Is outdoing the AMG in cementing relations with the Italians in that area. when Solemnly 1n- formed by them that Mayor La Guardia has most certainly been lynched because of his Italian blood, Amato arranges for the farmers to hear one of LaGuardia's Sunday shortwave broadcasts. Hundreds show up, and the scene that follows is tense and genuinely dramatic. BLACK SHIRT DIE-HARD
 Wly in this pleasant ointment is Ricardo, Gennaro's ex-Black Shirt son, who cannot forget that he was an officer in the Italian Army. De- spite his hatred for his American Causin, and his nearly disastrous plot to discredit him, you cannot but feel a pang for the tattered and disillusioned Ricardo"
 Lieut.. Amato's teammates are ex- cellently characterized. his romance with Nina is handled with com- polling touch, and the authors pie ture of democracy at work in a Fascist country IS revealing and convincing. Tomorrow Will Sing" is soundly- reconstructed, well-paced, and one of those hard -to-put-down novels which happen along only too Subsequently,.
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POLES

Today is the last opportunities that Waterbury theatre-goers have of seeing the dynamic and thrill ing film, now current at this the atre. The sensational film from the none less superb book, The Keys of the Kingdom" one of the most be- loved films that has been present. ed in town in a long time and if you are not one of the many that has already seen this film get down before it is too late to see the final showings. A program of selected shorts is also on tap to round out your enjoyment.
 Thursday brings the screen of the Loew-Poli theatre, & film that will be the talk of the entire New Eng land States when they get the op- portunity of seeing 1t, which will be later than Waterbury as we will have the New England premiere here on Thursday of the latest effort of the famed Selznick studios, "I'll Be Seeing You" with Ginger Rog-
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characters are stock stuff, and stuffed with sawdust. The sawdust may be the by-product of the lum- Der mills which helped build the fortune of the Melendys, the Sev- eral-generation, utterly too-too fab- ulouS family which once owned half of Seattle, but even that essence of the Ferber- adopted Northwest fails to give them breath of life. No even a pine-scented one.
 Madame Exact Melendy is a quaint old matriarch who smokes 8 pipe and grossly demands her daily snort of rye. Son Vaughan Is a Six-foot young-at-70 ex-Klon- diker, his daughter-in-law Lima in the familiar stage-happy, vain, shal- low, selfish number, and her son Mike is 8 bouncing, bright-eyed Jack Armstrong who naturally becomes D pilot following 8 scene we seem to have read somewhere before. The family Is sitting round the radio, when comes news of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 Again the historical interludes are good. The scenes from the Gold Rush are worth reading, as is the advanture of the Mercer Girls, young settlers. More of this material would
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CTS and Joseph Gotten in the lead ing roles and also along with them to make the film all the more en- joyable is Shirley Temple, now a full grown little lady and a very capable actress at the same time.
 Here is without a doubt one of the most original love stories that you have ever seen or heard on the screen, it isn't the usual honeyed one, like Cinderella and the Prince, 1t has heard and tough moments not the honeyed usual ones, but straight to the point, we would spoil your enjoyment of the film If we were to give you the story of what happens, to this totally different love scene and romance, but doubt- less we will state that it Is one of the most enjoyable that you will have seen before 1t is entirely un- folded.
 Ginger Rogers is the heroine of this film and Joseph Cotton has the romantic leading role, and the new factors and trials, tribulations and factors that arise, make this TO- nance the like of which you have never seen on the screen before and it took the guiding prsonality of the great Selznick to get this
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STRAND

An exciting and timely new thriller, Columbia's "U-Boat Pris- oner," with Bruce Bennett and Erik Rolf, at the Strand theater closes tonight. John Abbott, John Wen graf and Robert Williams are also seen in the film.
 The story of this action yarn was written by Archie Gibbs, an Amer ican merchant seaman who was captured by the Nazis when his own ship was sunk. Lew LanderS directed for producer Wallace Mac Donald.
 The companion feature closing tonight at the Strand is "One Mysterious Night" starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie."
 Happy combination of story music and gorgeous ice rink se- quences brings delightful enter tainment to the Strand tomorrow where Republics Lake Placid Serenade" is starring Vera Hrubs Ralston, with Robert Livingston and a brilliant cast.
 The supporting cast, with hand some Livingston in the lead. in- cludes such notable players aS Eugene Palette, Walter Catlett William Frawley, Vera Vague, Ruth Terry, Stephanie Bachelor and Lloyd Corrigan.
 In addition there are spectacular numbers by Harry Owens and Ray Noble. with brilliant musical ac-
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SPIES, CYANIDE
MANNING co

MANNING COLES, who gives British agent Tommy Hambledon little rest, has him back in Berlin again in Green Hazard" (Crime Club: $2.OO). Posing as Professor Ulseth, a chemist who is de- veloping & devastating eXplo-
 sive for der Fuehrer, Hamble- don becomes a favored guest of the Reich, but he violates that hospitality by going around blowing up things. Among the principal characters are Dr. GoebbelS and medalman Goer- ing, the latter almost lkeable. Excitement and guffaws un- rationed.
 Agatha Christie, fans will welcome her latest whodunit, "Demembered Death" DOdd, Mead: $2.OO), in which 8 beau- tiful young matron with the brain of a hen" succumbs to a glass of champagne laced with cyande at 8 fashionable London supper club. Who would murder Rosemary? Anybody and every body, 1t seems, as her secrets are gradually raked from the ashes. The motives are mani- fold, the means pose sa pretty problem. The Christie touch is still delft, and she knows how to cause a scratching of the head.
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sort Of Work over tne years. The 4yI
 It IS exactly what the title tndi- catss, a story about Central Park. The time period is 1s70-72 and the villain of the piece is Boss Tweed and his notorious ring of city treas ury plunderers. In this case they are making millions out of refur- bishing the city's "big back yard" and a writer for the New York Times and the great Harpers Weekly cartoonist, Thomas Mast, are hot on their trail. The romance involves the fictional Times man with the daughter of petty ch1ef in the Tweed circle. She finally casts him off for marriage with one of the chief Tweed robbers, who makes her stage star, but after the eventual expose ruins the ring, she goes back to him.
 This tale is spun out 8 bit long in spots and the show would be bet ter with judicious trimming, but all in all 1t is an enjoyable evening in the theater. The Romberg tunes are properly melodic, and couple. such as When She Walks in & Room" and Close as Pages in a Book" are easily memorable.
 Todd has spent lavishly to pre- sent a production pleasing to the eye in a Currier & Ives sort of way. The settings were done handsomely by Howard Bay and the costumes are the work of Grace Houston ana Ernest SchrapS.
 The cast is excellent. Wilbur Evans is the hero, Maureen Cannon the heroine and Noah Beery, Sr., of the movies is Tweed Others in important roles are Betty Bruce, the dancer who Is fast becoming an eX- cellent comedienne; Walter Burke, Charles Irwin, Maurice Burke, Paul Reed and Fred Barry.
 THE TEMPEST" is the work of Margaret Webster, who sometimes does fine things with the Bard's plays in the way of making them exciting theater rather than some thing taken down from book shelf. However, "The Tempest" is play that never should see footlight so far as I am concerned, and despite the bowdlerizing she did on the script and her direction, I wound it a very dull evening in the theater.
 There are some excellent people involved. Arnold Moss as ProSpero. for example. There are few better actors around than Moss and am sure that whatever can be done for Prospero and the play he did. Can ada Lee. the former Negro prize fighter. is the Caliban and does a creditable job for the most part, al- though given bit too much grunt- ing in spots. Vera zorina, the ball let dancer, has the role of Ariel and looks wonderful. doubt tho wisdom of casting her in the part as far as acting goes. however. ] was interested in the work of George Voskovec and Jan Werlich, two famous Czech comedians mak- ing their first Broadway appearance They played Trinculo and Stephano for all the slapstick in them and made their presence enjoyable. How
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film done, in the manner that he had figured out.
 Preview audiences and critics all along the line in the few spots where this film has been previewed, are unanimous in stating that this Is . film that will rank with any that will be considered for the top honors in screendom for this year
 On the same program here will be a companion feature this one is 8 mystery thriller with Paul Kelly in the leading role and 1t bears the title of "Grissly's Millions"
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have made Great Son" @ better book.
 A TANK IN ITALY
 ELLIOTT ARNOLD, author of "The Conmandos, which was well-received two seasons ago, has since enlisted in the Air Cpros, be- comes an officer, and as an intelli- gence observer enough in addition to his military duty to provide the background for "TOforrOw Will Sing" (Duell, Sloan & Pearce: $2.5O)
 Lieut.. Arnold tells the story of
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ever, the comedy scenes stick out like sore thumb and certainly do not help the play as well-rounded drama. "The Tempest" is said to contain much of the best of Shake speare's poetry, but in this produc- ton there is little poetic flow ir treatment of the dialogue.
 Cheryl Crawford is the producer of record. It has been handsomely mounted by the Motley organiza- tion and David Diamond contributed some interesting incidental music.
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GOOD NEWS

Hollywood-People who don't like night club floor shows in pictures will be pleased with RKO Radios Those Endearing Young Charms" :" Producer Bert Granet handles the matter very nicely.
 A waiter. seeing Laraine Day and Robert Young leaving, depiores the
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compartment for McGowan and Mack, the famous figure and speed skaters, Felix Savosky. former ball. let dancer of the Warsaw Opera company and his dancing partner, Janina Frostova, Twinkle Watts, the juvenile skating star, Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys" and lovely Janet Martin, the youthful singer.
 Steve Sekely. famous throughout Europe, was the director.
 The panion feature is "Thoroughbreds," starring Tom Neal.
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RRnNa1RR

Hollywood-The Ballet Can-Oan number in RKO Radios "0ooFRo Whites Scandals of 104S" should be something to look forward to. All the costumes for the chorus of % were delivered in a single medium- sized suitcase.
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RUDY RETURNs

Hollywood Rudy ValIee returns to RKO Radio, where he made his film debut, for Man Alive" stare ring Pat OBrien. Rudy's first pics ture, The Vagabond Lover" was made in 193O when the fair sex Was swooning over him and Sinatra Was unheard of.
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at his new base in the Foggio- Bari area to find that he is not among strangers. Gen n a TO, his fathers brother, has @ farm near by-a farm that belongs to Eddie,
 since 1t was mere ly left in the care of his uncle. Gen.
 naro insists, Eddie refuses to accept, h,n1t ha does
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fact that they are missins tiA fIocg show.
 Best news I've heard all days Young replies and they consinrS on out.
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and manages to convey her en- thuSiasn for the romantic back ground of Seattle, and its growth from a fishing town to a port of authorization for
 the Alaska Gold Rush. The book is "a novel of char acter." The plural would have been m ore accurate, and her many
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Up And Down Broadway
By JACK GAVER United Press Stan Correspondent

NEW YORK-UPThe classical thing to do would be to discuss ahead musical comedy but since better entertainment than Ie Tempest the nod this occasion
 up lush show with music by stmund Rom story Dorothy Apert than their share Of this sort of fworkoY The lyrics Miss FeldS
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TALENT REWARD

Actress Ann Doran gets the best dramatic role of her screen career in Paramount's Here Comes the WAVES" starring Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton and Sonny Tufts.
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BOOKMARKS

reading public reputation pended upon her novel, Doubleday $2
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By Robert Duncan
Ferber Novel Of Northwest Fails To Make Par
ELLIOTT ARNOLD WRITES FINE TALE OF OCCUPIED ITALY

bombardier Eddie AInato, Long Island farm boy of Italian extrac-
 tinn- Whn arriYeS
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8 producer" commented Scott, kicking me in the face on my way lnnO
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novels who file into oblivion each publishing season.
 To put best things first, she has dished up some interesting history,
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NO GREATER LOVE

Overheard at the Biltmore Bowl:
 "Of course he loves her-didn't he give her whole package of cigar ets?" Tony Romano, on tour with Bob Hope. is mixing all film offers, preferring to remain on the comedians payroll. Climbing rope for scene in Captain Kidd," Randolph Scott was kicked in the face by a stunt man. "He must be
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= M Hollywood
By ERsKINE JOHNSON
 NEA Staff Correspondent

Hollywood - Exclusively yours: Opera star Lauritz Melchior will sing several bar-room ditties in the new M-G-M movie, Two Sisters From Boston," with Jimmy Durante singing opera in the same flicker |. Judy Garland and Director Vincente Minnelli have moved their wedding date up from fall to late summer. Comic Rags Ragland, who can't pass a Seafood restaurant without getting seasick, will play a hard-boiled torpedo boat sailor in They Were Dependable" |. Gloria Nord, the roller-skatlng champ, is being screen tested at 20th Century-Fox. Shirley Tenn pie asked for, and received, two days of from the Kiss and Tell" set-to cram school exams.
 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, active in the juvenile delinquency fight, made an air appeal for youngsters not to be bad boys" |" They pointed out that the perfect crime is impossible. One of their listeners took issue. He wrote: I've figured out some perfect crimes only got to figure out how to get the hel lout of her first" The address was San Quentin prison.
 TURHAN OBSERVES
 Watching Lana Turner walk into Ciro's, Fred Brady commented: "If her gown was cut any lower she'd be barefOOted." Turhan Bey, by the way, is constant visitor on the Weekend at the Waldorf" set-watchlng Van Johnson make love to Lana. Several major studios are bidding for Producer Lester Cutters -Four Freedoms" ,. Sonny Tufts just completed work in eight new mOvies-The Virginian, Here Come the Waves, Love Soldier, Bring On the Girls, Miss Susie SIagle, Duffy's Taven, Too Good to Be True and The We'll GrOomed Bride. Other day Vince Barnett passed him on the bOule- yard and yelled, "Hey, Sonny, I saw picture last night you weren't in!"
 At a party Bill Goodwin watched an actress flirt conspicuously with another man to attract the atten- ton of her ex-husband. Bill sidled over and whispered, Don't look now, darling, but your motives are showing" Sherman Billingsley of New York's Stork Club and his nephew, Glenn Bilingsley, are feuding over the latter's use of the Bilingsley name for a Hollywood cafe. Glenn told sherman: T can't help 1t If my father is your brother"
 NO GREATER LOVE
 Overheard at the Biltmore Bowl: "Of course he loves her-didn't he give her whole package of cigar ets?" Tony Romano, on tour with Bob Hope. is mixing all film offers, preferring to remain on the comedians payroll. Climbing a
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Four Oecrees Granted Here
 Judge Daily Presides
 Al Short Calendar

Four divorees were granted by Judge Edward J. Daly following hearings at a short calendar Ses- sion of Superior Court yesterday.
 Jennie Davis Hallock of Water bury was granted divorce from Joseph Hallock of Andover, Ohio, on the ground of desertion The couple married Feb 26, 1923 and the plaintiff claimed she was deser- ted May 20, 1930.
 A. charge of cruelty was the basis of the decree obtained by Hazel L.. Savoy of Waterbury on her con- plaint against Charles F. Savoy of Brewster, N. Y. She was awarded custody of their five children and provision was made for payment of $25 weekly for their support. The couple were married Feb, 9, 1885.
 Margaret Stevens Partridge of Waterbury was granted a divorce rom Francis L. Partridge of New Britain on the grounds of intem- perance, and was given permis- sion to resume use of her maiden name. The marriage was performed May ', 1942 at New Britain.
 Custody of two children and SUD- port allowance of $15 weekly were granted to Lorraine Lariviere Slap lkas of Waterbury who was given divorce from Stanley Bronis Slapikas, formerly of Waterbury and now In the armed forces Tho couple were married Oct. 13, 1885, nd the plaintiff claimed she was deserted April 19, 1942.
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Detention in San Francisco of A. L. Cline (bOttom) on suspicion of forging his dead wife's name to valuable securities, brought an inquiry into the recent death of the 73-year-ol woman. Mrs. Delora Krebs Cline, pictured at top. Also being prObed are strange deaths of nine other persons as- sociated with Cline, an ex-convict, since 1881. Photo of Cline was made in 1883, when an investiga- tion was being made into myster- ious death of former wife, Mrs. Bessie Van Sickle Cline.
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Local Drivers FoceHeorinqs qs
 l2 Waierburians
 On List Summoned

Twelve Waterbury drivers. one whose license has been suspended are among the 19 western Connec- tlcut motorists who will appear be- tore Elmer s. Watson, commissioner of Motor Vehicles at a special hear ing in City Court. Thursday, De- cember 20, at 10:30 a. m. The list follows:-
 Alois Wendler, Bucks Hill road suspended Oct. 21, 1887; Simon Corkin, 140 Columbia Blvd; Clar- ence Jennings, Torrington; Ray Johnson, Plymouth; George White 176 Cooke street; Chester Canoes Thomaston; Walter Zawadzkas Torrington; Edward Manthey ,256 South Main street; George Wortel 4l SuncreSt avenue; Richard Var sanelli, AT Bradley avenue; Ben jamin Bergin, Torrington; Stephen Benedetti, 1154 Bank street; Elias NeJame, 271 William street; Rich ard Fields, Torrington; William ShukaitiS, 339 Wilson street; Al phonse Roy, Winsted; Gabriel Ar curi, 210 South Leonard street; Dominick zarrella, AT Wilson street and Thomas zilaro, Robinson street
 Three other drivers are sched- uled to appear at the same time for informal conferences with MT Watson: Martin J. Cirello, Water bury; Oliver A. Titus, Northfield and Richard D. Weigand, Wood bury.
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Dear Editor:-
 Now that the war is over the civilian is apt to be passed over in the passing out of glory. He served in no famous division, had not the uniform of one of the service branches, has no medals, campaign ribbons, no honorable discharge buttons and to him the names of the European, African and Pacific campaigns are still mysterious phrases. Many civil ians have suffered, and died too, but there were no military fun erals or pomp and ceremony. There will be no convenient fi- nancial programs for the ease ment of his future ills.
 No, the civilian is ever the for gotten element - comparable to the buck private in the ranks and yet facts speak out so force ably that one must recognize and do honor to their services. Out of the foggy night as you walk a. sentry post comes a figure swing ing a lantern-the railroad man and in the darkness of winter mornings you note hurrying fig ures of men and women report ing to their tasks in the war plants.
 On furlough, or on hike, you note long freight trains lumber ing by and, and invariably the train hands would wave to you as they sped by again, the rail- road man, perhaps a veteran of the last war. You get assigned to depot area and there you see hundreds of civilians going at top speed all day long at their var ious war tasks. A person is amaZ- ed at the tasks women took-up- running all kinds of motor trucks, heavy shop cranes and most sur- prtsing of all the testing, loading, and firing of some of the largest artillery pieces of the armed forces. You see them coming in to all shifts - haStening through the early morning gloom or wait ing around to get in on the day or evening shifts. Not much glamor but they did it.
 was in a position to see some of the work done by civilians in our depots here in America, but it remained for my overseas as- signments to realize more fully what they had done. The quality and quantity of the material was amazing, with the packing of it an expert performance in every de- tail. What interested me most was the huge amount of material coming from Connecticut indus tries and, naturally, that from Waterbury in particular. It was quite a thing to boast of to your comrades and in particular bring ing to their attention, the Wa terbury made buttons on their uniforms. It pleased me greatly to show the name of Waterbury, Conn.,, to some Arab or French soldier and say in halting French that that was the name of my city. But you couldn't drop a note home to tell the folks about this due to the strict censorship in the early days of the war. When in France, though, I came