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December 24, 1940

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KHIMARA CAPTURED; Seaport Taken After 48Hour Battle--TroopsDriving on ValonaAIR WAR IS INTENSIFIEDBritish, Attacked by 50 FascistPlanes, Shoot Down Eight-- Albanian Towns Bombed

By Unknown Author

Greeks take Khimara in drive on Valona; capture Blackshirt battalion; Athens celebrates; air battles rage on Albanian front with biggest over Argyrokastron; Brit claim 8 Ital planes downed; Brit bomb Kuvoca oil wells; Tepeleni-Klisura battle continues; Ital communique repts Greek attacks repulsed

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MANNHEIM BLASTED STEADILY BY R.A.F.; Nazis' Rhine Traffic Disrupted and War Plants in Area Are Fired in 34th Raid There

By James MacDonald Special Cable To the New York Times

RAF bombs Mannheim, French coast invasion points, Flushing, Dunkerque and Calais

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ROOSEVELT WEIGHS MASS PLANES PLAN; Talks Over Use of Auto Plants With Philip Murray, but He Does Not Commit Himself

By Louis Stark Special To the New York Times

Roosevelt conf with Murray on Murray-Reuther plan

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Prince Olaf Arrives in Clipper; Says Nazis Take Norway's Food; Heir to Throne, Traveling Incognito, Visits Roosevelt at Capital--To Stay in U.S. Five or Six Weeks--Dixie Brings 13

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Purvis returns to U S

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PRESIDENT TO GIVE EMERGENCY FACTS TO NATION ON RADIO; In Broadcast Sunday Night He Is Expected to Rouse People to Urgency of Rearming AID TO BRITAIN A FACTOR Morgenthau Works on This as Roosevelt Devotes Day to American Defense

By Frank L. Kluckhohn Special To the New York Times

Repr Engel asks Munitions Control Bd for aircraft data

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Notable Births

1940Janet Carroll, American actress and singer (died 2012)^[†]

Janet Carroll was an American film, stage and television character actress.

1940Anthony Fauci, American physician, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases^[†]

Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR.