European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                2 Ohio mute Brothers spared death in chair Columbus Ohio a the priest s fingers flew As he delivered his important message in sign language. A puzzled look passed Over the faces of two deaf mute Brothers. Father Bernard j. Mcclory made the signs again this time More slowly the Brothers watched incredulously. Slowly one of them repeated the priest s signals. Father Mcclory nodded vigorously. The bewildered looks turned to ones of hysterical happiness. Joseph Buza 21, and his 17-year-old brother Bert had been in the Shadow of death. The message gov. C. William o Neill had spared their lives Only 11 hours before their scheduled electrocutions in Ohio s electric chair. The Brothers on thursday became catholics in a ceremony pre sided Over by father Mcclory up reported the governor acted Only 11 hours before the Brothers were to pay with their lives for the stabbing stomping slaying of Margaret Den Ham 76-year-old confectionery and gasoline station operator. The european edition army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 17, number 210 d 5 cents Dally 10 cents sunday saturday november 15, 1958 Mcelroy to go ahead on army Marine cuts Stassen says Nixon aided gop defeat Harrisburg a. A Harold e. Stassen said vice president Richard m. Nixon sent a secret Telegram to re publican congressional Candi dates advising them to attack the democrats As  move he said helped to defeat republicans throughout the nation. The former presidential disarmament adviser made the stale men on a television news panel show in a renewed bid to Lead a reorganization of the Republican party in Pennsylvania. He said the Nixon Telegram sent out a month before the nov 4 election set the tone of the re publican Campaign. He added that the action was ridiculous and re mindful of the 1936 presidential Campaign when Kansan Alfred Landon carried Only two Stales Afler his alack on unemployment compensation pay ments As an example of socialism Stassen said he planned to work with  Hugh Scott in re building the Republican party in Pennsylvania but parried questions As to whether such an Effort would require the removal of George i. Bloom As Republican state chairman. Stassen said he would use both volunteers and members of the re publican organization for his plans to Stop Nixon in Pennsylvania in 1960. But he declined to go into the specifics of that plan. Asked Why he opposed Nixon for president Stassen replied in effect that he believed the vice president would be a losing Candi Date. Educational shakeup in Arkansas capital Hoover wins medal again new York up former president Hoover has received for the second time the National Institute of social sciences Gold medal for distinguished service to  dead French aviator married to Parisienne Paris up a 25-year-old woman was married to a Young French aviator who died in Al Gerian combat last year. The marriage was authorized under a French Law which per mits such unions after the death of soldiers who have fallen in operations for the maintenance of order in North Africa. In Friday s somber ceremonies at a Paris town Hall Monique gue Gueno became the wife of Guy be Nestor a 25-year-old Pilot who was killed in Algeria in july 1957. They had planned to be mar ried shortly before he was killed. Wayne Upton left president of the Little Rock school Board announces that superintendent of Ark. Judge blocks ,741 claim by fired school chief Little Rock Ark. A a state judge has blocked payment of $19,741 to school superintendent Virgil. T. Blossom whose contract had been terminated prior to a mass resignation of five school Board  Murray o. Reed signed a temporary restraining or Der asked in a suit filed by John b. King a fruit company employee with two teen aged daughters. King s suit alleged the payment would be an illegal misuse and diversion of Public funds and amounted to collusion Between the Board and Blossom. The retiring Board apparently took the action because it Felt a new Board would not Deal fairly with the superintendent who has been blasted by segregationists As author of the controversial Little Rock gradual integration plan. King said he was not a member of any segregationist organization. His employer Theo a. Dillaha sr., is vice president of the capital citizens Council and a Board Mem Ber of the Stales rights Council. Board tired of being Faubus whipping boys Knoxville Tenn. Up the Little Rock school Board resigned its former president said Friday because we were tired of being gov. Orval Faubus whipping boys he had identified us As an integration school Board Wayne Upton said and had used us to win or help win three elections we were tired of  schools Virgil t. Blossom right has been Dis missed without cause. Up photo East regime negotiation Laid to Bonn minister Bonn up a political storm broke around the head of West German minister of Justice Fritz Schaeffer alleged by the communists to have attempted two years ago to negotiate a settlement with the red regime of East Germany. The storm is particularly violent because All West German parties oppose formal recognition of or Negolia lion Wilh the Easl German government on the ground it was installed and is kept in Power by the Soviel army. I Gen v i n c e n z Mueller East German Security chief stated in an article in the communist Ber liner Zeitung Hal Schaeffer visited him twice on june 11, 1955, and on ocl. 20, 1956. Mueller claimed Hal Wesl Ger Bank manager killed in $8,000 . Holdup new York a a 55-year old Bank manager was Shol and killed As three robbers look $8,000 to $10,000 from a Bank. A customer in the Bank was wounded in the leg. Police identified the manager As James f. Duggan. The robbery Afler which three bandits escaped by car was staged shortly before 11 am Friday at the United National Bank of Long Island located at a Busy shopping intersection in the Richmond Hill Section o Queens. Man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was aware of both conversations. He claimed that he and Schaef Fer thought a confederation of the West and East German govern ments the Besl Means of reunification and said Schaeffer cited the Benelux arrangement among Bel cont. On Page 2, col r weather forecast continued Cloudy with persistent morning f a. Maximum  45, minimum  weather service May step up plan for . Icbms bases Washington up defense Secretary Neil h. Mcelroy has announced that in shortly will order the army and Marine corps too ahead with delayed plans of slash 55,000 men from heir forces. Mcelroy also disclosed that he Pentagon May drastically Hir Lail i s plans for sending inner Media to Ranic ballistic missiles inroad in favor of slopping up development of intercontinental mis Iles based in the . Mcelroy conceded thai the Mil itary manpower cuts which were delayed by the Lebanon and Quemoy crises come at. A time when the free world is being pushed aggressively by the communist world at a number of  pm Phasis on air but he told a news conference the lessons Learned in Lebanon and Quemoy underscored the wis Dom of placing chief . Emphasis on air and sea Power while this country s allies Are building up their ground forces with american help. Sen. Henry m. Jackson cd Washa member of the Senate armed services committee registered a prompt dissent. He called Mcelroy s announcement Amaz ing and said Tho defense chief s reasoning is unsound if he s rely ing chiefly on the Navy and air  Jackson a staunch advocate of a bigger defense Effort said every study made so far clearly Indi Cates that we do not have ground forces to support our current worldwide treaty  he said Mcelroy apparently assumes there will be no More Small wars whereas All available evidence is to the contrary. Under Mcelroy s forthcoming cont. On Page 21. Col. 2 Biff 3 Confer in Berlin await next soviet move Berlin a Western big three officials conferred in West Berlin Friday on How of Cope with soviet Premier Nikolu s. Khrushchev s threat to oust Allied troops from this divided City. U.s., British and French officials met in an atmosphere somewhat less tense than when the russian Leader exploded his Bombshell. Khrushchev monday demanded an end to the four Power Slatus of Berlin and said soviet troops would hand Over their occupation functions to satellite East Ger  do not expect the russians to withdraw unilaterally from any of the four Power agreements on Berlin said a . Mission spokes Man after the big three meeting. The timing of the next red move May be revealed soon after the Soviel ambassador to East Germany m. G. Pervushin returns from Moscow. The russian envoy is in the so Viet capital according to an embassy spokesman to Allend the meeting of the Central committee of which he is a member. But Western officials arc cer Tain thai Pervushin is going Over soviet plans for Berlin with for eign minister Andrei a. Gromyko and other russian bigwigs