Distant De Tristan extortionist eludes cabbage patch ambush
FBI and Santa Rosa police ambushed the De Tristan suspect in a cabbage patch after a staged drop of a cigar box. A 12 year old delivered the note guiding agents to the patch, but the suspect fled into darkness and vanished before capture.
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Santa Rosa
de Tristans
FBI
R. J. Bobbitt
Federal Bureau of Investigation
San Francisco
de Tristan
Bobbitt
Cabbage Patch
Bobbitts
Unseen man vanishes after abandoned cabbage patch fall
The man was found by tracks and swept into a rugged creek bottom near Santa Rosa outskirts. An officer said they never saw him again, implying a missing person inquiry or accident investigation.
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Santa Rosa
Import control discussed as possible U S economic weapon
A U S official outlined that import control could become a future economic weapon if needed though no imminent action was suggested. He noted Japan's raw silk exports to the United States worth about 100 million dollars and described the U S lighthouse service maintaining 27 500 aids to navigation including lightships attended lights and buoys.
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Ter
United States
Japan
Tokyo
United States Lighthouse Service
Rockwell Recalls Wartime Service and French Collapse
Rockwell, a veteran with family ties to the Rockwell line dating to 1606, recounts re joining France’s forces in World War II. He describes French government decay, Daladier and Blum critiques, and French military shortfalls versus Germany, then details evading capture and eventual return to Asheville.
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Rockwell
America
Germany
St. Malo
France
War Ministry
Paris
Bordeaux
Montpasser
Hopa
Lisbon
Vichy
Petain
Asheville
War Bullets Take Over Havas Stock Sale
War bulletins report NO YULE CARDS VICHY purchases control of Havas stock in Paris as French authorities ban Christmas cards between occupied and unoccupied zones. Stalin calls February 15 all union conference to discuss transport and industry, with organization questions noted. A BBC radio broadcast claims the French steamer Cuba was intercepted by the British en route Martinique to Casa Blanca and taken to Tristan da Cunha.
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Vichy
France
Poasi
Paris
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Communist Party
New York
NBC
Cuba
Martinique
Casablanca
Morocco
Tristan
British Island
South Atlantic Ocean
Lloyd's Register
Rome
Italy
Brenner Pass
Il Duce
Albania
Libya
Bern
Fernand de Brinon
Petain
West
Britain
London
England
Royal Air Force
Japan to Send Military Mission for Axis War Tactics study
The war office said a Japanese military mission will depart soon for Germany and Italy to study axis war tactics. The Rome Berlin Tokyo pact also led to technical commissions, with Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita named to head the mission. A Geneva report notes 30 000 French internees in Switzerland begin return home under a tripartite release.
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Tokyo
War Office
Germany
Italy
Berlin
Rome
Cabinet Information Bureau
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Air Corps
Geneva
Switzerland
France
SNEEZING VICTIM IS TAKEN HOME
Mrs. J. E. Boyd of Monroe was moved from St. Francis Sanitarium to her home on St. John street as her condition improved. She still experienced frequent sneezing attacks though doctors expect longer intervals between episodes until eventual recovery.
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J. E. Boyd
St. John Street
Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Boyd
Greeks claim Italian retreat amid heavy losses in Albania
Greek dispatches report Mussolini’s forces withdrawing from Klisura and Tepeleni under Greek artillery fire. Greek commander Papagos calls for crushing the enemy, while Italian losses are described as extremely heavy and a village area captured with many Italian dead. Six hundred Italians reportedly captured.
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Klisura
Tepeleni
Mussolini
Greece
Alexander Papagos
Wills Carry Out Minor Night Offensive Actions
Military dispatch notes that the wills carried out relatively minor activity during the night in their offensive operations, mentioning limited clashes and limited territorial gains.
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Wills
Wine Stored for Coronation in Ware Saw Cellars
In Ware Saw Poland a trove of 202 dusty cobwebbed wine bottles kept since 1806 in an inn cellar is to be opened only to celebrate the coronation of a king of Poland.
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Waresaw
Poland
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Lee Ave
Jackson St
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Com- Rockwell
General Headquarters
Chicago Daily News
Prue Durant Smith
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Mite
Field’s
Stromberg Carlson Radios
United Electric Service
Havas
Summons Conference
Struga
Yugoslavia
Adriatic Sea
Valona
Athens
Krionero
Brindisi
High Command
British Press Association
Taranto
Naples
Eastman Motion
Box Xor
News-Star
Calero
Desiard ST
Morrison
Sam
E. R. Kiper
DeSiard St. Monroe, la
Anrnop
Sinars
Osceola
Hotel Osceola
Daytona Beach
Fla
Weil
Just
Monroe's Quality Department Store
Daniel Green
Evans
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