Tokyo mission to Brazil aims to sway ultra nationalist Japanese
Reports say a class in Tokyo plans a mission to Brazil to convince ethnic Japanese there that Japan lost the war. Speculation grows that prominent government officials may be sent for the assignment though concrete actions remain unknown. Cooperation with officials in Brazil and Peru continues as Japanese groups cling to belief in invincibility amid occupation debates.
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B 17 Returns Home from French Skies to Briggs Plant
Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. received a B-17 stabilizer piece returned by Lt. Col. W. Lee Edwards. The fragment from a B-17 shot down near Paris in early 1944 was sent by Villers-Cotterets officials and the French resistance to honor the crew. Parish officials and residents plan a memorial at the crash site.
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Old Spanish Swindle Seeks Suckers Again
Chicago reports the returning Spanish prisoner scam targeting businessmen. Letters promise millions hidden in a border truck, asking for $10,000 to bribe guards. Twenty Chicago businessmen have received the letters, per postal inspector Samuel A. MacLennon. Fraud orders have been issued against six Mexican officials. many Japanese newspapers supplied.
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