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r f ^ IjffTT Pf pFair tonight and Sunday; coldertonight.FULL PICTURE COVERACOUNTY AREACITY TEMPERATURE«* *** **t * * # * *Highest yesterday f,nwr*t last night8 o'clock today —,12 o’clock today ~.........„..# # * mmmwM404044FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESSflip i||*:O IT* IO MI37.1VYSEVENTH YEAR, NUMBER 131.CENTRALIA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1940EIGHT PAGES—THREE CENTS A COPYVANDALIA TO GETThey Contributed To Success of Fiddler*’ Contest.Paul MallonINGTON. Dec. 7—Cold of* enee froze those now fa-eord* of Jesse Jonee, I ritain I* a good risk. ItTreasury Secretary M or* grunted a couple of terse when newsmen pressed d for comment on the lict, hut Mr. Morgenthau ibvious pain when he did iht between the alter n a-indorsing or repudiating w cabinet officer, he could irm and assent.her government flseal au-rather generally dieavow-mpllcations of the Joneait in private. One inquired: » any way of keeping JonesDEMO NOMINATINGMEETING DEC. 27GOP CHAIRMEN WILLMEET MONDAY TODECIDE THEIR DATEp record denials were made r quarter to the Inference government was adopting 1 policy to make large newbillions to the beset Brit-just as the still unp a 1 d ere made in the last war. i of furnishing any really •y financial assistan c e •ing canvassed under Mr. thau's direction. It was icially. but the negotiators iparently trying to steer om unsecured non-interest gifts under the name of , such as the old unpa i d igations now seem to rep-soothing interprets tl o n at least partly confirmed manner in which the Jones »nt was made. Such an an-ment was not In the materi-h he had privately prepared ouncement at hia presa con-that day. He Juat blurted lertion when a news man him the direct question. A mites later he told hia hear-don't know how I could*i stronger statement. The lion of hia audience w a a subled that he was wholly ir of lending the Brit 1 s h ig they wanted, is one inaccuracy they willable to blame on the press.wholly Mr. Jones’~~and in-y-The Democratic nominating convention for Second district Justice of the Illinois supreme court was set for Dec. 27 at Vandalia at a meeting yesterday of the 21 party county chairmen of the district inCarrollton.The convention will select t h e Democratic candidate for the Judgeship left vacant by the death last month of Chief Justice Norman L. Jones.Republican county chairmen will meet Monday at Hillsboro to plan for their nominating conclave.Both parties will hold county conventions at least ten days prior to their district convention* to select delegates to the latter meetings.The candidates selected at the district conventions will oppose each other in a special election to be held Feb. 2ft.Representatives of 14 bar association* in the Second district metyesterday at Vandalia and a n-nouneed that a bar primary might be held in advance of the nominating conventions.The county bar associations of the district would poll their memberships on Republican and Democratic choices for supreme court justice.Such a poll, to be conducted if eight county bar associations I n the district favor it, would have no official hearing upon the nominations.Fascists FleeingFrom Last Bases inHigher MountainsATHENS. Dec. 7 f/P»—G r • * k . troops were reported striking full Oil A I/m I in,orc. tod.y - fore. r. lTAI V SHAKES UPJESS C. SHANNONOF XENIA SWEEPS*#FIDDLERS' MEETWINS GRAND TROPHYIN CONTEST BEFORECAPACITY CROWDCIVIC CONCERT TOBE GIVEN SUNDAYSYMPHONY AND CHORUSWtLfe HEARD INVARIED PROGRAMdisturbed the other e a u-working administration offi-irtieularly was that it came Umax to a aerie* of loose i with deceptive intonations ave been bandied arou n d sy those who are propagan-emotlonally for violent proaction. out of all reas o n mmonsense as to what the are asking or really need, idea that Britain is a good -isk in hanking terminology fr. Jones i* a hanker) ob-bore some aspect* of offi-cetiouaness, The British fi~ I condition is no secret and alnly considered far fr o m story or sound by the Brit-London. Official acceptanceh a flat inaccuracy cou Id y he a wedge whereby the the war could be borne here-n large part by the United»*the others are working on to he something entirely dif-I have reason to believe the * commission, the state dent. and even many sections treasury are opposed strong-arge long te*n loans, e are many ways in whichstraightforward finan c i ali be given: Lending money itralian wood stored in thisthe purchase of raw ma-and futures, including gold; rchase of more needed d e-Final rehearsals for the firstconcert of the season by the civic symphony and municipal choru s will he held Sunday afternoon, a short time before the program.The chorus will assemble in the high school auditorium at 1 o'clock and the orchestra will meet at 1 45. The concert is scheduled t o begin at 3 o’clock.The chorus, directed by C. Scripps Beebee, will present a widely varied program ranging from Adoramus Te Christ#*’ to the modern My Moonlight MadonnaThe orchestra's first numbe r will be Beethoven’s First Sy m-phony. The group will prese n ttwo lighter numbers. Mor ton Gould's Pavanne, and Viet o r Herbert's Selections From Sweethearts.”Tickets at 10 cents each will he available at the door but may be obtained from members of either the orchestra or chorus prior to the concert.William Stephens, ticket chairman, has asked that members of the two groups be prepared t o turn in their tickets tomorrow afternoon.A mild mannered man fromXenia. Jc** lt;\ Shannon. fiddled his way to the hearts of a capacity audience at the Gr a n d theater last night to win the sweepstakes trophy in the second annual Old Fiddlers Christmas contest, sponsored by Centralia merchants, the City recreation department and The Sentinel.Shannon received the swee p—stakes trophy, a gold cup, presented by The Sentinel from the chapman of the contest, W. H. Wade of Vernon. In addition he was first in footwork and third in fiddling among contestants i n the under ftft age group. Second in sweepstakes competition was Hubert Hutson Central**,Dave Datightery—King Dave-annexed top honors n fiddlingalone for the under 50 group, andHutson was second.In the 50 to 69 division for fiddling first place went to L. C. Stonecipher. another Xenia entry, second to T. W. Olson. Centralia, and third to George McBride. Centralis.■ mmm- ■lt;mSI;40.000 PLANES AYEAR DUE IN 1942treating across the lie* mountain rldg«a toward the Albanian foothill strongholds ot Chimara, Tepeli n 1 and Elbasanf.Beyond these key towns the Jumbled ridges through whien t h e Greeks have driven their flerc e counter-invasion of Albania d r op away quickly to the coastal pla*n and lowlands along the Adriatic.A government spokesman d e — clared today that Greek advance uni** were push’itsr sUndlly hevond smoldering Por.o Edda In Ughtirg contact with the Dalian re .i-giard which sought to cov.'r ‘he Fiiscist withdrawal up to the coastal road to Chlmara, 20 miles north.COMMAND AGAINfFOOD TIGHTENEDNEW CHANGES MADEAS BLOCKADE ANDGREEKS HIT HOME* %AS PLANS EXPANDAUTO FACTORIES WILLFlee ArglrocastroItalian forces were reported to have abandoned Argirocsatro, leaving parts of tho inland Albanianba*e in flames.BE USED TO STEP UPNEW PRODUCTIONWASHINGTON. IVe. 7 JP~ Pro.-pective use of automobile factories in the manufacture of milita r y aircraft today boosted to 40,000 plan** s year the production rate which defense officials expect to I attain sometime in 1942.Four huge plants to assemble Into finished units airplane part s mada in motor car factories are to he constructed west of the Mississippi river, tinder plans of theThe fiddle frolic at the Grand treater Friday was presented to a capacity audience. Some of the prize winning contestant* and other* who contributed to the aucces* of the meet are shown aho\r. Left to right.top row, Charles Newcomb, R. R. 5. Centralia, first in the 70 and oser war department and defense rnm-dlvision; L. C. Stoneclphftf, Xmla, first In the fto to on group; OscarHone, Centralia, winner of the clogging contest, lr*. Charles Orrcll,Boulder, one of the accompanists, and Noawrll Pflurger, Centralis, another accompanist. In the bottom row are Jess C. Shannon, Xmla, left, the sweepstake* winner, and W. II. 4Ve.de, Vernon, chairman of the contest, who Is bolding the gsreepstakes award.Comet That May be Rivamission Site* for two with a combined capacity of 2400 mediu mtwo-motor bombers a year wer e announced yesterday. One will be built at Kansas City. Mo., and 1 the other at Omaha, N*b.The oCldk^wa plant* plai Hwas reported, will turn out four-motor bombers at the rate of 1200a year. The locations of these twoTo Hailey s Coming in ViewThe Greek* itilt made no claim of capturing the artiUcry-bat t eied Fascist base at Arftrocastro, 15 mile* northeast of Parto E d d a I The apokesman said, however.I Italian forcea there had auffer e d | heavy losses’’ and were in full flight toward Tepelenl, 15 mile* north, after ' strong but fruitle** resistance He indicated that o;flcial a n — nouncement of the '**1 of Argiro-castro was expected hourly. «The city * capture by Greens was unofficially reported yesterday from the Jugoslavian border )Tepelenl. where th* road north, like that through Chlmars, le a ds to the important port of Vatona. wae reported menaced also by a Greek thrust from the east.The Greek* were said to he driving a spearhead toward Tepe-leni from Premet. les» tnan 2ft mile* east along the Vilt;*« valley road. *' *? / * *Fre%« Toward Capita!The spokesman claimed otherBT J. HUGH PRUETT 1Pacific Director, American Meteor Society.RENEWAL OF OILterritory in this hemisphere.ese and similar legitim ate fail eventually to meet Brit-luirements, there are a u-'s here who believe money be donated as an open gift not called a loan to deceiveblic as to the real meaning advance of money that canbe repaidCOMPACT SOUGHTTUIJ4A, Okla., Dec. 7 JP-The Interstate Oil Compact, which expires next September, probably will be resubmitted to congress In its present form for a two-year extension, it w’as officially announcedtoday.Secretary Charles Orr of the compact commission, now in session here, said there was no indication the compact would be rewritten to give the commiss t o n broader powers.The commission’s legal committee recommended that ano t h er meeting be held later to give further consideration to a model oilBone Win* At CloggingIn Class C., those 70 or over, Charles Newcomb of R R 5 Csn-tralia was first, J. W. Thompson. Patoka. second, and Joseph Rench, Greenville, third.A floor stamping, clogging contest which brought waves of applause from the audience, ended when Oscar Rone of Centralia wasdeclared winner with Hutson City second, and Norman Hooker, Centralia, third.The footwork competition, in which all those who fiddled were judged, wound up with Shann o n first, George McBride sec o n d, and Tom Sligar, Centralia. third.Judges were John Clark, Jo h n Crittenden, Hugh Barker, all o f Centralia, and William Took e r, Odin. Prizes winners were read by Howard Johnston, director of the recreation department, and the awards w-ere made by Z F. Rankin, representing the merchants.and Glen Boner, manager of the Grand theater.Standing Boom OnlyThirty minutes before the contest began the nearly 700 seats of the theater were filled and by the time fiddlers appeared on the stage spectators were standing in the aisles and in the lobby hack of the auditorium.As the contest progressed both the audience and fiddlers warmed to the occasion and an hour after the meet started fieldlin’ fans were demanding encore after enco r e from their favorites. It was 9 30 before the event was brought to an end with the presentation ofprizes.The Bone family was well represented during the evening, Oscar Bone eclipsing the field in the clogging contest and his two aons.(Continued on Page 7)IAny night now..probably by Dec. 10. what may prove the most spectacular comet since Hailey s comet of 1910 will become visible to the naked eye.Cunningham's comet, discover#! Sept. 15 last as a faint object on a photograph made at Harvard University, could be seen with strong prism binoculars by Nov. 1, and by Nov. 25 could be viewed with ordinary field glasses.Practically everyone can soon have a look on clear nights by just glancing westward. In the de e ptwilight of Dec. 12 the head ofCunningham's comet will he high in the west, by Dec, 28 it will be well up in the west, Jan. 5 low and slightly south of west, Jan. 9 almost on the horizon considerably south of west.Best views can be obtained right after darkness falls. At its nearest approach to earth, 55 million miles away in mid-January, the comet may possibly become sls bright as the planet Jupiter.A well-ordered comet consists of nucleus, coma and tail. The nucleus is the bright central part of the head, probably a swarm of meteorites- chunks of metal and stone. The coma is the hazy portion surrounding the nucleus and is probably dust and gases. The tail—W’hich may be 100 mill i o n miles long-is a spray of extremely rarefied gas and dust constantlyforced out from the head by thesun’s light pressure and eventuallylost to the comet.Don’t be afraid, by the way, that the earth will become entangled int •*'•COMETmvi:iwet* not announced but It was for Greek mountaineer regunderstood that one site at Tulsa.j Okla , was und*r consideration.Official* estimated that fifteenmonth* would be required to get the new assembly factories Intomass production. Their output, it was explained, will he In addition to that of regular airplane fae*| tories, expanding now toward a production rate of 36.lt;W plan e s a year by early 1942.iments converging toward Elbaaa-ni, 25 mile* from the Alhan i a n capital of Tirana, along the Pog-i adetz-Elbasanl road and up the Devol river valley northwest from Moskopolis.Rv the Associated Prese Harassed by the Greeks. Italy made another change ia her command today, replacing Gen. Cesara Maria de Veccbi Count Di Val Cismon. commander of tb* Aegean foieea and governor of th# strategic Dodecanese islands, with Gen Ettnre Baatieo. commanderof the army of the Po.There was no official comment on what the change meant, but its importance was not lessened by the fact that the man who relinquished his command was oneof the highest-ranking Fascists in Italy, a World War veteran who took part In the march on Romein 1922Surprise to Italians ^His resignation cam# 24 hours after Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief of the Italian general suULhad r signed to be succeeded byGen Ugo Cavallero.Radoglio's resignation wag notunexpected De Vecchl's ca m eas a distinct surprise to Itali Th* British Broadcasting Co r poration announced shortlyaft e r De Vecchi s resignation was made public that neutral sources were saying Gen Cavallero was going to confer soon with General Field Marshs! Wilhelm Keitel, chief Si the German high command. 1Decree Hits Farmer*Another announcment. Indicative of the effects the war is having on Italy after only six months of participation, was made i n Rome; decree of imprisonmentfor a year and confiscation o f crops for any Italian farm e r w;io withholds his products fromKNUDSEN URGESDEFENSE SPEEDDiagram shows position of comet when at perihelion (nearest sun) on Jan. 16, 1941. Orbit it Is traveling has not been determined-CALLS ON INDUSTRYThe Greeks reported that in ad- compulsory storage. dition to large quantities of s u p- A United States department of plic* found undamaged by fires agriculture report a week ago the retreating Italians were said empasized the seriousness of to have stalled in Porto Ed i i. the food situa^on in Italy becauso vast stores of war equipment and | of the British blockade and ob-munitions had been discovered hidden underground at Koritza. Thisserved that the poorer classes are facing malnutrition. Spaghetti, ricecache was said to include several and flout have been added to thethousand tons of equipme n t of which the Greeks declared 50 percent could be used immediately a-gainst the Italians.ration lists. 9The regulations affecting Italian(Continued on Page 7)TD HURRY IN ORDERU. S. HELP TO GREECEBRITISH ANSWERSto ASSURE u. s. peace IS PLEDGED BY FDR ARE DUE MONDAYthe comet's tail with dire results for us all. That cataclysm is merelysomething dreamed up by our more sensational writers. Actually, both in 1861 and 1910 our planet was engulfed for a short period in just such a celestial stream, with no noticeable effect aaide from a slight auroral glow in the sky.FIRST 1941 AUTOLICENSES ISSUEDONLY THREE CHANGESDETROIT, Dec. 7 *.IP Accelerated production of defense materials as Insurance against American involv'ment in war is being asked of the nation's Industrialists by National Defense Co-ordinator William S. Knudsen.Before a group of Detroit manufacturers, among them the pr e si-dent* of three automotive comp a-nles and the production chief o f another, Knudsen last night urged speed and more speed” in filling defense orders.I’m no worrieT,” he told a dinner of the Adcraft club of Dettoit, but 1 feel that if we can Improve our setup, quantity and delivery of defense items, it would be the best(Continued on Page 7)• •WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 JP-In an exchange of messages with King George II, President Roosevelt today pledged American aid to Greece.Answering a message from the Greek king thanking the Uni t ed States for Aid already rece i v e d, President Roosevelt said in a message released through the state department:As your majeety knows, it is the settled policy of the U n i ted States government to extend aid to those governments and peop 1 e s who defend themselves against aggie. sion.I assure your majesty thatsteps are being taken to ext endauch aid to Greece, which is defending itself so valiantly.FSRLY NEED OF CASHmmAID TO BE PUSHEDBEFORE CONGRESS* tMADE IN NUMBERSUNDER 100P. KRAMER NEWSFRVIGE OFFICERSPRINGFIELD, III., Dec 7 UP —One hundred 1941 Illinois 1 1-cense plates today were listed as “sold” by Secretary of State Ed-t fs.awU ass.The Week in OilAt a GlanceOil Basin ReviewOn Page SWASHINHTON WIT .Dr* AT Xf A V DR DDT TUir WnrrvWASHINGTON. Dec 7 .*P—A series of blunt questions put by Secretary Morgenthau set Sir Frederick Phillips, undersecretary o f the British treasury, to work today at the British embassy on * detailed accounting of his co u n-try's assets for waging war wit?tGermany. -ijjOn the answers, which Phillips is expected to deliver to the U-nited States treasury chief Monday may depend the form and timing of any proposals for the Unit e dState# to bulwark Britain’s f i ghtwith American dollars. #Primary PurposeWhile no officials here are oft record with commitments for ea-tension of loans or other financialaid to the British, it was generally accented in both administractive and congressional circles th*t
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