THE MICHIGAN DAILY Russia Signs Trade Pact To Assist East German --- KHRUSHCHEV REPORT: Soviets Suffer Food Shortage U-- I MOSCOW (A)-Premier Nikita KMrShCOW' -(M-remie b t y !-'meat for saile in shops, as well as Khrushchev declared bluntly yes- "butter." terday the Soviet Union needs "The fact is that we simply do more food for its 200 million peo- not have er iough meat," he told ple, especially meat. the opening secret session of the He reported complaints from Communist 'Party Central Com- some cities that "there is little mittee. "The party and the gov- Republicans Vie Over Blast Leveledat John B .chers By MICHAEL HARRAH Special To The Daily NILES-Republican County Committees outst: te are beginning to show annoyance at the recent blast by the GOP S tate Central Com- mittee at "extremist organizations" (obviously the Jahn Birch Society or its companion groups). Committee members in Berrien County meeting recently repudi- ated any connection with the State Central positiicin, and key fig- ures in Van Buren, Cass, and Ottawa Counties sre talking about following suit. Berrien County Republican Chairman George A. Evers publically defended Saturday a suggestion by Mrs. Irma Collier of Watervliet ernment are concerned about this state of affairs and are undertak- ing measures to increase meat pro- duction in a short period of time." Protests System As reported by Moscow radio, Khrushchev proposed overhauling the agricultural system, including abolition of the crop rotation prac- tice that keeps large areas of So- viet soil under grass. To produce more grain, he pro- poses plowing up the grass lands in his "take a chance" program that has brought objections from some of his own agricultural ex- perts. They fear plowing up of grass in semi-arid areas may end in less grain, not more. Khrushchev called for doubling farm machinery production, for sending city youths, including girls, to work on farms, and for boosting chemical fertilizer pro- duction, now critically short. New Agency The Premier proposed a new government agency "whih would deeply investigate the needs of the collective and state farms and which would direct the individual development of each f a r m." Farmers themselves must be en- couraged to make better use of soil and machinery. Khrushchev pointed out that the pace of development of agricultur- al production-especially of stock- farming-had been slowed down. He blamed this in part on "many leaders (who) relaxed their atten- tion to agriculture and the needs, of collective and state farms." Khrushchev said "it is necessary to double or treble the output of the most important agricultural products within a short time" be- cause the demand for food is growing rapidly. He predicted the population of the Soviet Union will reach between 250 and 280 million in the near future. Kremlin Aid To Approach 825 Million Funds To Bolster Sagging Economy LEIPZIG, East Germany (W) - The Soviet Union signed a trade and aid agreement with East Ger- many yesterday estimated to be worth about $825 million, East Gelman officials announced. The agreement, covering Soviet- East German economic relations for the current year, calls for the Kremlin to grant this financially shaky country a 1.3 billion mark credit, informants said, plus about two billion marks worth of trade between the two nations. At the official rate for the mark in this country that totals about $825 million. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Anastas I. Mikoyan signed for the USSR and East German Politburo member Bruno Leuschner for his country. The East German Communist Party leader, Walter Ulbricht, Was reported present at the signing ceremony, from which Western reporters were barred. The agreement, East German functionaries said, was the result of economic talks in Moscow last week between Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and Ulbricht. Leuschner was reported, to have commented: "No power in the world can shake the firm bonds of friend- ship between our countries." Officials said that under the trade part of the contract, the Soviet Union will deliver to East Germany desperately needed raw materials, iron ore, oil and chemi- cals. In return, the Soviet Union is to get, among other things,-heavy machinery and ships. B-58 Jet Sets, U.S. Roundtrip Speed Record LOS ANGELES (P)-A 1,300 mile an hour B58 jet-leaving a trans- continental wake of broken win- dows, cracked walls and startled citizens-roared to New York and back in 4 hours, 42 minutes yes- terday. The three - man Delta - wing bomber, trailing a 40-mile-wide sonic boom that caused the dam- age, set three new speed marks: Round trip, four hours, 42 min- utes, 12 seconds; West-to-East, two hours, one minute, 39 sec- onds; East-to-West, two hours, 15 minutes, 12 seconds. Streaking at twice the speed of sound, it created a continuous sonic boom as it sped across the country-shock waves created by compression of air. that Berrien Couw ty withhold its support of State iCentral, "We can't go alo ng with Lansing on this one," I vers declared. "There are too inany members of our county paty who agree with the Birch grou p. We can't af- ford to alienate them.' Mrs. Collier, an a4dmitted Birch Society member, said she would continue her work and support for the GOP on a county level, where, Evers said, ";;he is a valu- able worker. I have no intention of expelling her." Constitutional Convention dele- gate Lee Boothby (R-Niles), an avowed conservative but not a member of the Birch ,Society, said that in his travels vutstate, he found "other sentiment similar to that of Mrs. Collier. Boothby holds that the "reluc- ,tant and half-hearted tsupport" by outstate Republicans have cost GOP gubernatorial hopefuls the election in the past, anc that fur- ther attacks on the 'extremist groups' could result in the same situation again. World News Roundup 1$ITQARE TO SEE ERP ON A TOUR?0 A Munich songfest, a London theatre party, the Lido Club in Paris, the Student Inn in Heidelberg-all are part of American Ex- press' 1962 Student Tours. This year, American Express will take students to a Bavarian songfest in Munich; a party at the famous Student Inn in Hei- delberg; on a gondola tour of Venice by night; a theatre party in London; a "Sound and Light" spectacular at the Roman Forum; open-air opera and concerts in Rome, Verona and Salzburg; a Swiss fondue dinner; on a visit to the Flea Market, and to din- ner and show at the Lido Club in Paris. Does that sound square? There will be ten student toursin all. These tours are priced from $1132 up, including transportation. Details are arranged by a regular tour escort. You needn't fuss over timetables and road maps. You'll have more time to learn, to see things, make friends and have fun. The tours will leave'New York June 8 through July 12 and re- turn July 26-Sept. 5. They last from 6 to 10 /2 weeks. Six tours feature transportation on the new S.S. France. In addition to Western Europe, itineraries include Russia, the Scandinavian countries and Israel. Each tour will be led by one or more faculty members from Yale, Harvard, Brown, Briarcliff, Radcliffe, Smith, Simmons, Notre Dame or Southern Methodist. If you'd like full information-itineraries, prices, departure and arrival dates-on all ten 1962 American Express Student Tours, mail in the coupon below. American Express Co., 1227 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Mich. Please send me literature on your 1962 Student Tours of Europe. Address City Zone_ State Also, please send literature to my parents. Name Address By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Atomic Energy Commission announced yesterday it had conducted an underground nuclear detonation of low yield at its Nevada test site. * * * NEW YORK-Police yesterday arrested 32 more demonstrators after sidewalk sit-downs outside Atomic Energy Commission Head- quarters. Their massed protest against atomic testing was the second broken up on the streets of New York within 48 hours. TOYKO--Japan protested yes- terday the United States decision to resume 'atmospheric nuclear testing, but the Foreign Ministry Got homework fatigue? Snack at the LEAGUE Serving Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks Monday-Friday 7:15 A.M.-4:30 P.M. OPEN EVENINGS 8:30 P.M.-1 1:30 P.M. Saturday Breakfast 7:15 A.M.-11 A.M. admitted "Japan has repeatedly demanded suspension of nuclear testing by whatever country it may be." UNITED NATIONS - Acting Secretary-General U Thant an- nounced yesterday the appoint- ment of Eugeny D. Kiselev, veteran Soviet diplomat as undersecretary for political and security council affairs. DOUALA, Cameroon - Search teams struggled through dense African jungle last night to re- cover the 110 victims of the worst single piane disaster in the his- tory of civil aviation-the fiery crash of a chartered flight carry- ing vacationers to Europe. CHICAGO - Railroad manage- ment proposed yesterday that it meet with labor negotiators March 20 to bargain on the basis of a presidential commission report calling for cost-saving moderniza- tion of working rules. * * * NEW YORK-The stock market suffered another slight decline yes- terday, with the Dow-Jones aver- ages showing 30 industrials down 1.01 and 20 rails and 15 utilities down 0.21. 11, I I .