European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                September 1958 the stars and stripes Page 7 ii Aisig hit for emphasis on defences Washington a the Gen eral accounting office Gao said the chinese nationalists Are More interested in a military buildup than in a self sustained Economy for in a report to Gao listed this and other problems which it said have influenced the economic Aid program total ing million to the Chiang Kai Shek government from 1948 through but the Agency said officials feel the Large scale assistance has accomplished the main aim so far of bolstering Formosa defences and Economy in the face of a grow ing the Gao report delved into a number of economic bul did not Deal with arms help to the nationalist wants settlement the spending watchdog called for prompt settlement of million Worth of chinese Dol Lars it said were in arrears on amounts the chinese were sup posed to put up to match Grant in also suggested that the Aid program would he More effective if the chinese government raised it Exchange rate to a More or at least put into the Aid program As much local cur Rency As it receives from Salton Aid Gao said the chinese legislature controls Many prices on Formosa and has kept them too Low to cover it added the besides providing the necessary support for the military has emphasized the development of a self sustaining Economy in Taiwan f Formosa by encouraging increased Industrial Anil agricultural particularly in the private the chinese government is inclined to give greater emphasis to the military building up on Tai because of its concern with strengthening the military establishment and orienting the econ omy toward this the Chi new government has maintained substantial control Over Many of the vital Industrial facilities of Taiwan since they were taken Over from Japan at the end of the the report said Aid officials favor a shift from state to private ownership because they believe it would Speed economic development and reduce the Chinosi governments Finan Cial Groves fears nation in world opinion said losing prestige in arms new York according to it Gen Leslie Groves is being As far As world opinion in the Field of scientific weapon develop Groves can speak with authority on this he was formerly head of thu wartime atom bomb project and is now Vic president of Remington a division of Sperry Rand with offices at when asked for comment on world Groves what can one say today then he added we certainly Are being out As far As world opinion in the Field of scientific weapon the major objective of our military establish ment should be to prevent a particularly an fallout and the secondary objective is to win any War that comes our the Best Way to avoid he is to have the leaders of other nations particularly i convinced that if War comes they will be we will strengthen Thia feel ing in the if the leaders and the people of other nations feel that we will Groves with military defeat bearing such tragic results on any no Leader if he can prevent scalped in Detombe victim of a Scalp engr attack by five teenage Rose Marie 17yearold shows the hair that was Cut from her head and the Black Eye she received in the the who also Are said to have torn her wedding pleaded innocent to the police believe the attack occurred from a name Catling hassle in the Home of one of the foreign Trade off 20 per cent from Peak brought by Suez crisis Washington up Amer ican Trade with other countries in the first half of 1958 dropped 20 per cent from the Peak established in the comparable period last the government re a Commerce department re port on foreign Trade attributed Ute decline largely to solution of the 1956 Suez canal it said the canal crisis had resulted in Unlusu tinally High Levels of raw materials ship ments to Western Europe and the far East in Early the departments Bureau of foreign Commerce said exports in the first six months of this year dropped to an annual rate of billion compared to billion in the same period of this years level was about the same As there were indications that the downward trend had ended by the end of purchases abroad fell from an annual rate of billion in the last half of 1957 to Bil lion in january through june of this this was blamed in Large part on the recession and resultant liquidation of invent the department said that while raw material imports declined purchases of foreign foodstuffs and manufactured goods increased american con s u m c r expenditures continued commercial shipments from the to Western Europe and the far East were Down about 25 per cent in the first six months of this year is compared with the same 1957 imports from Western Europe and chief source of manufactured goods from held close to or Rose above the Levels of a year earlier although tapering off from the record rate for the last half of imports from latin America held up relatively with de Clines in crude and semipro Essed goods and Coffee largely offset by increases in purchases of other imports from far Eastern countries other than con sisting largely of raw were reported to have shown greater dec the report said foodstuff imports increased by about 9 per cent generally despite a Sharp cutback in receipts from most of the gain was registered in Merit and cattle in manufactured goods imports showed a percentage Rise nearly equal to the foodstuffs with foreign made passenger autos leading the these came mainly from the United kingdom and West the report Ever choose the losing this Means if the Kremlin feels that the other nations Are convinced that we would then the Kremlin will count on other nations supporting us in the time of and the likelihood of War will be Groves is known nationally and internationally for his service in connection with the Manhattan atomic bomb which he headed beginning in almost from its he remained head of the project until As one who is no longer fully informed on advanced military i cannot say who is but i do nay that i am quite disappointed in the Way that our leadership in such matters seems to have frittered he As to Why this has the blame cannot be As some have attempted to place on the people of thu United such matters Are too complicated and the facts too closely guarded for the average citizen to the responsibility lies with the administrations which have Vixen in Power since greatest Wantage the in Groves has come from the successful attempts to remove Mili tary influences from this and in fact any Field dealing with Mili tary it is interesting to Groves to not that when a matter of prime importance involving the defense of our country is looked into by a commission of distinguished invariably there will never be More than one or at the most two men of sound military background on the com on the other if education is involved the committee will be composed almost entirely of professional we dont ask a baseball fan or even the Bat boy to manage the but when it comes to our very existence As a then we insist on the Amateur rather than the professional for and today even of dad grounds soloing 2 a t sgt Charles Cade left his son and daughter j3 o r e n 18 in the family car while he reenlisted at Fard wild air Force base the boy released the emergency Brake and pressed the starter the engine didst but Many starter hops later the car had crossed a 300yard Parade ground and banged into a the lad tried to get additional mileage by keeping his Finger on the but All the car did was the Only damage reported was to the backside of the Young Driver when his airman father removed him from the quite a card up a burglar who broke into a shoe store Here ignored hundreds of pairs of shoes and stole four boxes of Christmas cards Leslie sunken Hulk May be 1847 disaster ship army specialists have discovered at the Bottom of Lake Michigan the remains of a ship believed to be a four master that ill years ago with a loss of about 250 the men Are sp4 Richard Black of los Angeles and sp4 Harry of they Are with an antiaircraft artillery unit at Camp Haven near the feet off Sheboygan believed to be the which was sunk during the Winter of nearly All 6t the 300 passengers were dutch immigrants who were headed for they had boarded the ship at panic follows fire bad weather forced the ship to pull into wis4 where it took on when the High winds the Phoenix started out in the dead of night for about an hour out of the fire Bell the boiler room was a mass of and the passengers became there were Only two Small life most of the passengers leaped Over the Side to an icy Blackman and Laviguer discovered the sunken ship one Day while skin according to their the wreckage appears to be a four masted ship about Iso feet Long and Down about 20 they said there was do doubt that the ship burned before but they had no positive evidence that it was Tho clerk takes snipe at people who Gripe a a clerk at the traffic desk at police Headquarters Here had he posted a sign Over the window which read the tickets were but not by so dont come Here and fume and have to be at work on time then better get a can opener new York carrying this Canning business a bit too far first the supermarkets announced plans to sell Nylon stockings now it is alarm clocks that Are getting the Container grand Union is bringing out the alarm clocks in tins resembling the traditional on Pound vacuum packed Coffee the clocks Are made by the Gilbert clock it now is possible to buy everything from chop suey to hot dogs in cans on supermarket