Bombers Hit Ruhr in Bad Weather Raid
Royal Air Force bombers attacked several targets in the Ruhr Valley and Western Germany last night. Four heavy explosions were reported at Essen near the Krupp armament works, while other RAF planes cruised over Bonn and started at least one large fire.
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Associated Press
England
Germany
Royal Air Force
Ruhr
British War Ministry
RAF
Essen
Krupp
RAP
Rhineland
Bonn
Holden to Coast Flight Takes Three Dusengers to Hirst
Alex Holden flew from an Alaska Air Transport Lockheed to the coast today with C. L. Saintsbury Max Behr man and Vincent Anderson aboard the same plane, all bound for Hirst. A New Yorker wore a necktie to Fifth Avenue that showed wear since 1912 after winning it by betting on Woodrow Wilson.
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Alex Holden
Alaska Air Transport
Lockheed
C. L. Saintsbury
Max Behrman
Vincent Anderson
Hirst
New Yorker
Fifth Avenue
Woodrow Wilson
Defense Board’s limited powers spark mobilization alarm
The Defense Commission created a Priorities Board led by Donald Nelson with Knudsen Stettinius and Henderson. The board controls only distribution of planes, not production or raw materials, a repeat of the World War I error that hampered timely mobilization. Rome, Continued as Takes Four.
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Washington
Defense Commission
Donald Nelson
Sears Roebuck
William Knudsen
Edward Stettinius
Leon Henderson
World War Industries Board
Army
Navy
Rome
U S Army Units to Garrison New Bases North Atlantic Coast
U S Army units will move from New York to Newfoundland early next month to garrison the northern Atlantic Naval and air bases being acquired from Great Britain. Troops will sail before shore facilities are ready and will use transports as floating barracks until accommodations are completed.
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Washington
United States Army
New York
Newfoundland
Great Britain
War Department
British Troops Complete Surrounding of Bardia Port
Cairo dispatch reports British forces have fully surrounded the Italian held port of Bardia and prepare for a final assault. British units engaged the Italians at several points and thrust them back, though combat was described as heavy.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tiryan
Bardia
Stock Quotations and Dow Jones Averages Update
Closing stock quotes include Alaska Juneau mine at 5, American Can 86, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 4, Commonwealth and Southern 0, Curtiss Wright 8, General Motors 49, International Harvester 51, Kennecott 35, New York Central 13, Northern Pacific 6, United States Steel 67, Pound 4.04. Dow Jones averages show Industrials 128.80, Rails 27.4, Utilities 19.56.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
Commonwealth and Southern
Curtiss Wright
General Motors
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Btrel
Christmas Edition of Daily Alaska Empire
The 1940 Christmas edition of the Daily Alaska Empire will publish Sunday morning and be distributed to subscribers and sold at newsstands hotels and drug stores. It has four sections eight pages each featuring general news gift suggestions and merchant announcements with a deadline for advertising copy by noon Saturday.
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Alaska Empire
Juneau
Empire
Desert battle looms as Italian Tobruk plan eyed
British dispatches report heavy movements west from Cairo and Churchill insisting the desert offensive continues. Graziana may choose Tobruk 80 miles west for the decisive clash. Rome bulletins cite 1,500 planes and 425,000 troops with naval support along the coast. RAP Cairo says Derna suffered great damage from a fierce air raid last night.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Churchill
Marshal Graziana
Italy
Tobruk
Rome
RAP
Derna
New Threats Of Kidnap Socialites In Santa Rosa
Wealthy parents of three year old Marc De Tristian Jr faced renewed extortion threats after an ex tortionist aimed to obtain money for the child’s safety. FBI agents, using a letter from the Count and Countess De Tristian, halted the plan via Santa Rosa post office and nearly captured the suspect in a cabbage patch before he fled with a cigar box believed to contain money.
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Santa Rosa
Cal
Marc de Tristian Jr
FBI
No Germans Sent to Aid Italy Says Rome
Fascist headquarters in Rome declares no German troops are in Italy or en route to any front and none will be sent. The denial follows reports of 50 000 Germans to help in Greece, a claim met with skepticism amid Mussolini’s weakened stance. The piece notes about 1 540 railway tunnels in the United States.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
United States
New Defense Set-Up Still Under Consideration
President Roosevelt told reporters that no definite decision has been made on revising the National Defense Commission structure. He noted that a revised plan may come and dismissed circulating reports of a 3 man “High Command” as newspaper fiction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Defense Commission
Stimson
Navy
Knox
William Knudsen
Defense Commission
United States
Pilot Les Cook Survives Plane Crash Near Whitehorse
Northern Airways pilot Les Cook escaped injury after a crash near Whitehorse when fog shrouded the field. The engine quit due to a broken fuel line, spraying fuel spray across the windshield at low altitude, leaving the plane wrecked but Cook only slightly hurt.
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Les Cook
Northern Airways
Juneau
Cook
Atlin News-Miner
Whitehorse
Inventor Council Shapes U S Defense Brain Trust
A New Deal era style report describes the National Inventor Council led by Dr Charles F P Kettering. It outlines 13 members,’s mission to invent defense tech such as plastic aircraft and a five mile high rocket torpedo. It notes 6000 public ideas received and 125 new ideas daily.
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National Defense
UN Brain Trust
New Deal
National Defense Brain Trust
National Inventor Council
Charles FP. Kettering
Hopeful
Wisher
United States
AFL Members Indicted in Sacramento Creosote Attack
The County Grand Jury has indicted five AFL union members on conspiracy to commit malicious mischief charges. They are accused of daubing creosote on ten Sacramento houses built by non-union labor.
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Sacramento
Cal
AFL
British Warships Fire on Valona and Press Adriatic Sweep
British warships shell Valona in Albania as six guns volley in the North Africa fight. Mussolini’s high command confirms heavy shelling in the Bardia sector with about 20,000 Fascist troops under siege, while London reports an unchallenged Adriatic sweep, asserting British sea dominance.
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Associated Press
Mediterranean Sea
Adriatic Sea
London Admiralty
Valona
North Africa
Mussolini
Bardia
Libya
Adriatic swept by British destroyers report
British destroyers sweep the Adriatic up to Bari and Duranzo without sighting enemy shipping as Valona is pounded by British forces, while Greece reports Italian retreat along the Albanian coast toward Chimara and tightening grip on Klisura and Tepelini.
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Associated Press
Valona
Albania
Adriatic Sea
Bari
Duranzo
Athens
Palm Bay
Chimara
Klisura
Tepelini
London
Italy
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