European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Wednesday october 4, 1967 the stars and stripes they declared dependence on the Crown new York a mos americans Are familiar with the declaration of Independence but How Many have heard of the declaration of dependence the document in question was written in rebuttal to the Ameri can declaration of Independence of july 4, 1776, and signed by 700 new York citizens. They included most of the City s clergymen landowners and merchants and Many of it most distinguished citizens. The Parchment document dated nov. 28, 1776, affirms in ringing terms their fealty to the British Crown condemning the revolution As the most unnatural unprovoked rebellion that Ever disgraced the annals  the tory declaration called for Quick restoration of the Union Between great Britain an the colonies. It is now in the archives of the new York historical society and went on display tuesday. Martha Raye Tours Vietnam new York a Martha Raye and a cast of 18 actors singers and dancers left Mon Day for South Vietnam to per form hello Dolly for Ameri can troops. New cars houses appliances Page 5 increase in buying forecast Washington a Ameri can Consumers expect to step up their purchases of new cars houses and household appliances through the Middle of next year a new Commerce department Survey indicated Mon Day. Officials said the Survey indicated a Strong demand for new cars the rest of this year and into 1868, but with a lagging used car  More bullish consumer attitude was gleaned from Survey made by the department during july and covering con Sumers intentions for 12 months ending next july but this is the first time one has been published the department said. The department also announced the development of a new Index of buying expectations derived mathematically from the Survey findings an abandoned the old system of re porting expected purchases As percentage of households. Economists at the depart ment s census Bureau averaged the results of the surveys of Las january and april and As signed the number 100 to that averaged purchasing expectation As a base  to the january april level the Index for new car purchases for example was 111.1 in july compare with 96.1 in april and 105.6 in january. Is 32 35 49 53 25 19 16 27 44 54 57 28 51 20 29 45 ii 23 41 8 14 n 52 58 34 10 30 31 48 horizontal1. Enraptured 6. Greek letter 8. Fruit preserves 12. Roma Road 13. Decay14. Oklahoma indian15. Harte beest16. Kimono sash17. Above 18. A charm20. Most rational22. Compass direction abbr 23. Those i office 24. Insects27. Pampered 32. Fuss33. Cardinal number34. Self 35. Bach or Mozart 88. Rim89. Middle 40. To spar42. Entreat 45. Wild a 49. 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Undivided the department said these indexes represent Only consumer expectations and should not reviewed As a prediction of actual  department said develop ments unforeseen by consumer sin july could alter their buying expectations but the relatively High Index suggests that the de Mand for new cars will be Strong for the rest of this year and in Early 1968. The used car Index however was 96.7 in july compared with 95 in april and 105 in january the estimated number of new cars actually purchased during the second Quarter of this year the department said was 3.3 per 100 households compare with 2.9 in the first Quarter and 3.2 in the last two quarters of1966. The Index for household appliances and other hard goods was 104.1 in july compared with 97.1in april and 102.7 in january the department said. No seasonally adjusted Index is available for expected Pur chases of houses but the depart ment said its raw figures showed a similar upswing Dur ing july106.6 compared with 101.9 in april 98.1 in january. In the new Survey a Sample of 12,000 households is asked to estimate the chances for Pur chasing big ticket items on a scale from 0 to 100. If there Isno likelihood of a Purchase Over the next 12 months the estimates entered As 0. The greater the likelihood of a Purchase the higher the rating. Household items surveyed include Wash ers dryers refrigerators air conditioners radios i i equip ment color and Black and White television sets stoves furniture carpets and other floor cover Ings. Nugent baby blessed Pat Nugent baby bottle in hand and wife Luci Johnson Nugent look on As the Rev. Wunibald Schneider blesses their son Patrick Lyndon in Stonewall Tex. The Nugentq took the child to mass while spending the weekend at the lbs ranch. Up executed by nazis i Hob statin s Fate probed Munich up the state prosecutor s office said tuesday it is investigating whether Jose Stalin s eldest son Jakob was executed in april 1944 at the Sachsenhause concentration  state atty. Karl Weiss said former is . Kurt Eccarius has been arrested in connection with shooting of Russia prisoners at the Camp and it is possible that Stalin s son played certain role in  he said it is not certain whether Jakob Stalin is alive. In the official documents it i mentioned a few times that Stalin was liquidated in the shooting of russians Weiss  have not deter mined whether 57-year-old Eccarius had witnessed or taken part in shooting he  Stalin was captured by German troops in 1941 while commanding a howitzer Battery. Josef Stalin is reported to have spurned Hitler s offer to Exchange his son for a Ger Manfield marshal held by the rus sians. According to the newspaper Bild am sonntag the nazi Lead ers then decided to have Jako Stalin murdered. Bild am sonntag said its source was a former is Corporal Wal Ter us Slepp who told his Story in a sworn statement to the news paper after Reading that Stalin daughter Svetlana had said in her memoirs that she refuses to give up Hope that he for alive. Us Slepp claimed the nazis hoped Jakob Stalin would agree to broadcast for them and in the Spring of 1944 several Gestapo men took the prisoner to  they returned that eve Ning us Slepp said they were 2 robbers in Toronto flee with $70,000 Toronto Canada a two armed men with stockings mask ing their faces held up the Cash office at a shopping Center Mon Day getting away with $70,000. The bandits fled just As the burglar alarm sounded and As Ana Mored truck was pulling up to take the Money away. Angry and had beaten  the next exercise period us Slepp said Stalin told me everything. He had been taken to a Large Berlin factory to make a speech before Russia forced labourers and the German employees. The workers were sit Ting on machinery cannons and tanks jamming the great  stood up and cried out i am supposed to say that Sta Lin and the soviet Union Are a putt and that Hitler is great but i say to you Stalin is great. Hit Ler is kaput " us Slepp said he is unable to recall the Day Young Stalin was killed but that it was at the be ginning of april 1944. Eccarius who commanded the prison Block in which Stalin was held appeared there about 4a.m., us Slepp said. He and two other is me walked rapidly to cell b3, occupied by Stalin opened it an woke the occupant. Us Slepp said he heard Eccarius order Stalin to hurry saw them March Down the corridor and into the court Yard and seconds later heard several pistol shots