Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1941 — TRENDS [ARTICLE]

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AIRPLANES—At San Diego, Consolidated Aircraft corporation announced a $14,000,000 building project doubling its present capacity. WINE At Livermore, Calif., Schenley Import corporation gave impetus to the American wine industry by purchasing the Cresta Blanca Wine company. PRODUCTION—At Washington, the Federal Reserve board reported that during November industrial production hit a record high,/132 per cent of the J 935-39 average. ARMS—At Washington, British officials completed a master list of $3,000,000,000 in new war orders to be placed in. the U. S., including 12,000 combat planes. GREEK: Aims Revised The Greek war cry of “Tirana by Christmas” had to be revised, when Italian resistance stiffened, and the skirted Evzones had to fight ahead every inch of the way at, bayonet point. Whether it .was German reinforcement or not was not clear, but-as the Italians neared the hopping off places they fought harder and the Greek advance, while continuing steady, was not as spectacular. The Greeks reminded one of a football team nearing the goal-line and ! meeting a stiffened defense. Enormously important objectives had been achieved, however, Pogradetz on the north,and Argirocastro on tlie south, Porto Edda and other vital points having fallen into their hands. ■ Maps, showed a good third of Albania taken back from the Italian invaders. Immediate objectives were the port town of Valona, and the inland bases of Te pel ini and Chifnara.

Greek generals claimed the Italians had moved out of Klisura, but that the Greeks -were not entering the town until the Fascists had been stormed from their positions on the heights to the rear. Former Greek army officers now in the United Slates placed utmost importance on the conquest of Tepelini, an important road junction point. They stated categorically that if the Greeks capture Tepelini, further Italian resistance in Albania would be impossible. On the other, side, experienced military men pointed out that beyond Tepelini and toward the coast line the Albanian plains, and it was in this territory that the Fascists’ mechanized forces, especially, if aided by German tanks and dive bombers, might succeed in halting the Greek advance. The British fleet boldly ranged up and down Italy’s private Adriatic, bombing Valona with thousandpound naval shells and receiving no answering fire. The outcome still was in doubt, though dispatches continued to favor Greece. HOOVER: Speaks Again Herbert Hoover, announcing himself as definitely and forever out of politics, took the speaker’s stand again to appeal for a general U. S. sentiment in favor of making plans to feed Europe’s hungry—without letting any of the food get into German stomachs. The former hero of Belgian relief told the people he believed this could be accomplished, but that it would not be the work of a week or a month—but would require months of planning before it could be carried out.

Millions of men, women and children in the overrun, countries of Europe will be facing real hunger, cold and starvation before the next harvest, and if lives are to be saved, said Hoover, America must do the saving. HooverLs statement as to the imminence of starvation went unchallenged, and news dispatches from Shanghai, for instance, told of 12,900 bodies being found, dead from star vation, more than two-thirds of them Chinese children, in six months alone in the one city.