The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 20

SATURDAY, APRIL 19,1958. Russians Stepping Up Trade By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Pritt Staff Correspondent LONDON (UP) --Soviet Russia Is stepping -up a world-wide trade- offensive which officials here believe is hurting the West than the Sputnik successes or the propaganda offer to halt nuclear tests. 'Its main targets are the "under developed" and "uncommitted" countries. Chief among them are the Unit- Arab Republic, Afghanistan and Indonesia.

Wtatern of ficials are convinced the Soviets' main foal to puifc'their political influence in 'these- countries at the West's expense. But Moscow's tireless carpet' baggers and aid dispensers are striving to extend it to a a which the West hitherto has regarded as its own economic preserves including Latin America, North Africa, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and independent Ghana. Moscow also is working unflaggingly but with less spectacular results--to step up its trade with Western Europe. In 1956 this totaled $3,349,300.000 or 4.1 per cent of Western Europe's total trade. Incomplete figures for 1957 show the percentage iast year slipped Back to 4 per cent.

Only Finland and Iceland sharply increased their trade with Russia. THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELLSVILLE, PA. PAGE NINETEEN. But 1M may show a MW up- partly as a result of a new commercial pad: Just aigaed by Russia with Wett Germany, under which trade between the two will be almost doubled this year. The U.S.

State Department estimated last January that the Soviet bloc has handed out a total of 11,800,000,000 in the past two years'in aid to under developed countries. Most of this has been in he form of long-term credits at extremely low interest rate of 2.5 per cent. far the biggest chunk, 760 million dollars, went t6 Egypt and Syria, now the United Arab Republic. Egypt's economic tie-up with the Communist bloc, which began October, 1955, has been full of iokers for the Egyptian's. irice of goods shipped to Egypt the Soviet bloc has jumped 40 Jeet to delays of up to and prices more than doubled aft er orders were placed.

Ruuia reportedly baa fallen far behind schedule in oil deliveries to Egypt. Recently Russia renewed an of fer of 28 million dollars in-aid Libya--an offer that was rejected two years ago. Reports reaching Britain last week said more than 100 "Communist bloc" technicians currently are working on con struction of a new port on thi Red Sea coast of Yemen. Indonesia has received 110 mil dollars worth of economic ai from the Soviet'bloc in the pas: two years. Brazil, recently received an of fer from a Russian trade agency for a 560-million dollar reciproca trade and payments a al though Brazil no longer has diplo per cent within a year.

Deli very or trade'relations with Bus on some machinery has been sub-'sia. THIS IS THE MEETWO IS ADJOURNED, AMBROSE I WANT- TO SEE YOU A POOR YOUNS MAN'S LIFE IS AT HIS NAME IS DESPERATELY IN NEE0 Of A JOB I US SatOKY, GROSS $600,000 ON THE FISMT WITH ZOOMER AND SO, We MUST ALL PUT OUR SKOULPSRS TO THE WHEEL YES, HAD THE RIGHT IDEA ABOUT THAT MAGPIE HIDING THE IT'S WILL YOU NAUSHT BUT HOME A BOY HIS DAWS! MISTER! LOOKING A-YELLIN A-CQMIN ONE OF THOSE GAN8STER THINOS, I GUESS! WE'RE GOW TO WHAT'S IT COIN'TOM A FKJHT PICTURE? ANfiWEftEP AN AD IN THE PAPERS! I STILL SAY IT'S A NONSENSE! CVEHV PICTURE TM A DOZEN REASONS! HCV tOTTKH FBMTCAU.CFFTVC 9KS NKStnOM JUST ABOUT IWTVIALI.TWI5JUST SOICANGOALCNCS SHOT WE CONT SHES CRAZY ANOLP CAN TAKE AMP OO ARE1CU6OIN6 TO fCRK fKUCH HOT KXACTLY THINKING I CAN'T 6ET IT CUT.Of MY iflNP H3W ABOUT ON TM6. OTHER Two U. S. Juveniles Win World Wide Fame DOC QUIGG Press Staff CorrHpwtdent NEW YORK we can yapping about juvenile delinquency long enough, it might be well to ponder the fact that a couple of our juveniles are inter national sensations.

One is Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, who at 14 set the chess world on its ear by defeating grand masters to win the U.S. championship. He now is entitled to a crack at the world chess title, field by Smyslov of Russia. The oher is Van Cliburn of Shreveport, and Kilgore, Tex who at 23 set Moscow on its ear Jus week by winning the Tchaikovsky international piano compe- ition. This extroverted Irish-Texan (both his mother and father are of Irish descent) gave his irst public concert in Shreveport at the age of three.

When' he was six, he and his mother, a concert. pianist, recitals together. On his irst-day in school in Shreveport, he teacher asked him if he could ead. 'Yes." ead music." he' said, "I can When, he came here in 1954 io ompefe for the coveted Edgar Leventritt award, they laughd hn he sat down to play (honest, hat's what -I'm told by hose who were here). He looked like a misplaced" basketball, player.

He' -feet-4 but has a mop of curly that springs up so that -h obks about 6-feet-7. His hand spans 11V inches. He valks with a gangling lope. His iano style is as Rusian a hi ialect i east Texan. When he 'inished playing, he had won the award.

Mrs. Leventritt decided to a reception for -him. after lis first New York philharmonic appearance. She told him to bring along any friends from home who had come to hear him. Came reception, and Mrs.

had to fight her way nto the room through a mob of strangers. said Van, sweeping an arm toward ans, "see 'ire are a these people These fw man frinds." federal Reserve Board Culs Rates To Member Banks WASHINGTON (UP)-- The Fedral Reserve Board late Thursday noved to stimulate bank lending iy authorizing five Reserve banks the interest rate on loans member: commercial banks. The new rate of per cent is he lowest since'August, 1955.The wevious rate was ZYt per cent. At the same time, the Board educed to a 22-year-low the re- erves which central Reserve city janks and Reserve city banks nust maintain against demand leposits. Like the interest ilash, this was designed to continued availability of unds." SAYS DEFENSE CENSORSHIP NOW ALARMING By LOUIS CASSELS Unittd Prttt Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)- John E.

Moss chairman of the House government information subcommittee, told newspaper editors here that censorship of. Defense Department information "has reached an alarming degree." He charged President Eisenhower with a "dangerous" move impose even tighter controls, over the flow of defense informa- ion "to the public and the Confess. Moss made the statements in a speech prepared for delivery at the opening session of the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Some 400 editors of "daily newspapers in all parts of the country are attending the three-day President Addresses Meeting President Eisenhower was scheduled to address the editors at a lunch meeting today. i speech defending his defense reorganization plan was to be nationally broadcast and telecast.

The society has waged a continuing battle for greater freedom of information about public affairs. Members were heartened on the-eve of the convention by House passage of legislation, strongly endorsed by the society, to amend a 1789 "housekeeping" statute which many federal agencies have cited as authority for withholding information from the public. The which House by voice vote and sent to the Senate Wednesday, states that the 169-year-old law cannot be used as authority for suppressing, news to which, the public is otherwise "This is-a great victory for the people, of the United States," said ASNE President Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dsip'atch: A Significant Victory- Herbert Brucker of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, chairman of the ASNE's freedom of information committee, called the House action "one of the most significant victories in the battle for the people's right to know. I Dr. Harold Cross, the society's freedom of information counsel, reported both "gains and losses" during the past year in removing unjustified curbs on news.

H. B. GARLICK MASONRY CONTRACTOR Relations Worst BttWMfh Rmsta, Rtd Yugoslavia WARSAW, Poland (UP)-Yugoslav relations with Russia have once again become so bad that President Tito may cancel a scheduled visit to Poland, sources here said. They said renewed friction within the Communist camp also threaten! the position of Poland's independent Communist a Wladyiltw GomuJka, who turned to power here in EVERGREEN DRIVE-IN-THEATRE VALLEY LAST TIMES TONIGHT "DEVIL'S HAIRPIN" (Technicolor) With Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace AND "THE TIN STAR 1 (VistaVision) With Henry Fonda and Betsy Palmer CARTOON IN-A-CAR SPEAKERS 711 Indian Head LAST TDIES TONIGHT "GUNS OF FORT PETTICOAT' In Color Starring Audie Murphy PLUS MOMBASSA" In Color Starring Cornell Wilde SUNDAY, MONDAY, AND TUESDAY 'BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI' With William Holden. and Grace Kelly Mickey Rooney PLUS GAME" (Cinemascope) With Doris.Day and Eddie Foy Jr.

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