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THE ENQUIRER AND NEWS Battle Creek, Oct. 27, 1943 Sweden Seen Unlikely to Go To War Over Plane Incident Group Nay Void Action on Taxes Home Front Forecast BY ANN STEVICK NEA StaH Correspondent by mistake. They used the regular DC-3 plane, our standard airline piane in this country, painted orange with huge letters identifying Move to Reconsider Higher P. O. Rates, Liquor Levies.

it as Swedish. But in darkness a THE CHEERFUL SERVICE STORE" WASHINGTON Heads have just German patrol along the coasts of ueen put togetner on the shoe situa tion. It is likely that the outcome BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON Newspapers in Sweden blame the Nazis for shooting down a Swedish airliner and are demanding satisfaction. Relations between Stockholm and Berlin are considerably worst than they were when I was in Sweden in May. Since then the Swedes have stopped the trains carrying German troops and war supplies through Sweden to occupied Norway.

They have given refuge to 5.000 or more Jews fleeing from Denmark to es- will be more children's shoes The decision was to offer a 25 percent production quota bonus to any manufacturer of men's and women's shoes who transfers to WASHINGTON A fear that they had acted hastily in approving higher postal rates and new excises on liquor, beer and wines was voiced by several members of the house ways and means committee today. As a move developed to reconsider the action, which would vielci onlv about Sl.439.500.000 of the new revenues sought by the Administration. Remesentative Rob cnimren shoes. Reports from OPA regional rep lesematives showed that synthetic rubber soles on children's shoes Norway and Denmark, noting the American silhouette, might attack it as an Allied plane. That is why flew very high, needing oxygen masks for a considerable part of the trip, and why we flew in the dark in a heavy cloud screen when we were going through the area of German patrols.

Once in a while a plane was fired at. But real trouble began last summer, after the Swedes protested the sinking of one of their submarines, and after the Sweciish press had taken a strong pro-Allied position. The pilot who flew me out of Sweden was shot down and lost with his plane full of passengers going back a short time later. Now a few weeks later a second plane is shot down and it-s passengers lost. I cape the terror recently begun in what had been a model Nazi occu-ipalion.

Some other actions un- rioubtedly have been taken which. 'w were finding a ready market. It is Coat Month rwura mat more of these will si LIT-. ertson told fellow com-) mittee members that he would call! be used to relieve the leather sole or a showdown on a federal mail 'MUM "'i. snoi lage.

Safety shoes are still a problem some places, but production is if they could be discussed, would show that the Swedes have moved a lone way from the cold impartiality which marked Stockholm's earlier policy. The dominant Stockholm newspaper, Dagens Nvheter, ha.s struck out bitterly at the Germans over the shooting down of the Swedish airliner, saving Sweden's ciro is expected to keep up with essential demand. Men's and women's street and dress shoes are nut i Wl I 1 lriS sales tax. probably tomorrow. One committeeman said privately I that several members felt thai jumping the liquor tax from S6 to $10 a gallon, as proposed by he i group, would result in Representative Carlson Kan!" i a ways and means member, said he would the committee to reeon- III I I most areas.

1 1 Recently the German press ha.s Remember that a special shoe stamp is available, almost for tun ana mat protests, aixiiogies. ana I been sneering violently at the i ciaroases are not They say Swedes. Quite likely the Germans me asking, from your ration board wnen your child has i trie Germans must change their be- have changed their nolicv and outrun the i are iamiiy ration stamps. trying to break up the airplane connection between Sweden and the Wool-Gathering These coats were hand-picked for beauty smartness and value, plus traditional Grant Quality for our an-ual Coat Month Sales! Come in and see these values tomorrow! snortages for old. WPB has a new department to avert cotton snortage for civilian sheets and other household goods.

In the mean outside world. But instead of giving nubiic warning, they are just shooting down the planes. Although Swedish indication is liiuh. we should not expect Sweden to enter the war so long as the Allies are unable to give her direct assistance. The Swedes are inside the Nazi blockade and very little outside help could reach them.

siaer its vote raising postal rates, especially as they affect newspapers. He interpreted the committee action as doubling publishers" second class rates on and magazines and said: "I consider the act ion ill-advised, especially at a tune whin people need information through the press and when many newspapers have suffered revenue due to less advertising in wartime. I believe the freedom of the is The postage change would not affect free-m-county mailing of newspapers. Representative Disney Okla.) time, the once precarious wool supply has grown with imports from navior. Swedes have a right to be bitter.

Although this airline traffic was in deliance of the German blockade, the Nazis knew it was going on and made no effort to stop it. I went in and came out, of Sweden lat spring over this airline. It operates from Bromma airfield just outside Stockholm, which is used also by passenger planes to Berlin. I was at the field several times and always there were Nazi passenger planes there, as there was the night we took off to return to the British isles. Thai night the Australia.

Patch pockets may re appear on men's wool suits, so part oi me layon lining may be omitted All-wool rugs have a chance of re rurtnermore. regardless of turning if the supply keeps building i 1 ill- a in a strong pro-Allied sentiment Sweden now. there still exists up. Fair Fur Price strong national desire to keep out Last words on the price of your said ne would seek reconsideration airport waiting room was full of. tin- wut: iu jaise me airman rate; pa engers.

and friends to see them irom six to IL' cents an ounce. off. and Nazi spies could have ob- nu com. are oemg said in a meeting between fir dealers and OPA experts. The ew prices will be generally lower overall ceilin" The postal revision, if approveo i tained the whole passenger list with by congress, would leave unchang-1 little trouble I was delayed about ea trie three-cent charge on first! 10 prices put on from the skin out oays waning for favorable joe oiu sjstem oi ireezmg prices ol the war.

Aged King Gustave is determined that Sweden shall remain neutral as she was in the last war. The crown prince is strongly pro-Allied and married to the sister of Lord Mountbatten. We can expect increasingly closer relations between Sweden and the Allies and a steady deterioration in their relations with the Nazis. But a declaration of war against Germany, or even a break in relations, seems hardly in the cards. L.a.v, K-iirs out boost weather in this ease heavv clouds the local letter rate from two to were wanted for cover and the as oi March.

1942. caused confusion between skin dealers and manufac uuee tents, class rates i Nazi newspaper in Stockholm would be doubled, with large in-j ported my departure a day or turers. Oilds and Ends Here are coats lavishly trimmed with Fox, Mountain Sable, Wolf, Fitch, and many other smart fur sets. Sizes, Misses' and Women's. Colors: Black, Blue, Brown.

100 wool. More paints and varnishes for ci eases also in enarges lor money prematurely. orders, registered, insured and C. The Swedes took every possible O. D.

mail. I precaution against being shot down In its tirst major action toward; 5. civilians will appear before long victory gardeners are going to be bringing in new revenue, alter turn 3f Father of 5 Admits nig down one administration 1 asked to produce twice as much next year Synthetic rubber will in time increase production of gar piuposai anotner, tne com mittee approved higher excises on ters, suspenders and girdles. Slaying of Divorce f53 KILLED IX (RSII GRAND RAPIDS hV, Nathan Mochmer. 58.

of Kalamazoo died i many so-called luxuries furs, jewelry, lipstick, general admissions to amusement places, bowling, billiards cabarets, club dues and traveling. However, it rejected all proposals to increase taxes on cigaret.s and other tobacco and refused to recommend new taxes on soft drinks, candy and chewing gum. Monday of injuries suffered when a what was happening, and called police. Mergner was arrested at his home. Barrett said the accused pulled an unloaded pistol when the police arrived, then was overpowered.

His car was bloodstained and Mrs. Robinson's purse was in Mergner's bedroom, the detective added. Barrett said Mergner confessed. At the arraignment before the U. S.

commissioner yesterday. Mergner, shouting he was "drunk," denied the charges then pleacied: "Please take care of my kids." The arraignment was postponed, because of Mergner's condition, until next Tuesday. truck crashed into an automobile Use Our Convenient Lay-A-Way Plan in which Mochmer was riding. The car was in a funeral procession. Four others the car were injured.

AnyrtlTISKM KNTi i WASHINGTON A father of five, pictured as a jilted suitor, was listed by police today as the man who shot to death an attractive red-haired divorcee and dumped the body onto a rain-soaked street almost in the shadow of the Capitol. Held on a murder charge was 45-year-old Frederick C. Mergner. a widower. The victim was Charlotte W.

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