European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mcelroy orders Cut of 70,000 by forces Washington a the defense department wednes Day ordered a reduction of Over 70,000 from present Man Power  department also lowered the draft quota for january to 9,000 men 2,000 below Calls for the last several months and the lowest since december 1957 when 7,000 men wet drafted. The department announced that Secretary of de a sense Neil h. Mcelroy . Derides ordered a trim of the armed claim Berlin is spy nest Washington a the . Wednesday derided Russia s charges that the Al lies have turned West Berlin into a giant spies nest. The s Tate department branded the accusations ridiculous and said it is not Likely that these soviet charges will succeed in convincing anyone that the a euro the Star european edition ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and he Middle East volume 17, number 21.5 1� s d thursday november 20, 1958 Bee also stories on Page 2 Western Powers rather than the soviet Union itself Are guilty of interference and subversion in Ger Man  press officer Lincoln White gave the . Reply at a news Confer ence. He commented on accusations the soviet embassy made at a news conference in Berlin tues Day. 1957 recalled White recalled that at a meeting of world communist leaders in Moscow in november 1957 Russia made Clear its determination to use communist and workers Par ties throughout the world in at tempts to install the dictatorship of the proletariat in All countries. White declined to reply to an East German newspaper s charge that the allies were misusing the air corridors to Berlin. Nor would he say anything about reports the allies have agreed on strategy for meeting any communist Effort to interfere with traffic to the divided City. Services from a present 2,596,282 to 2,525,000 by next june. Spokesmen said the Cut in the january draft quota did not mean the department was working to Ward abandonment of selective service. The department said the Quoin Cut was possible because army enlistments and Grade enlistment rates have increased. Ordered in Buff to the troop strength cutback was ordered originally by president Eisenhower in the budget he sent to Congress last Winter. However the reduction program was sus Pended when the Middle East crisis occurred last summer. My Elroy s order officially dated tues Day now reinstates the reduction  proposed manpower cuts will reduce the total military strength by 75,000 from 2.6 million last june 30. The heaviest reduction31,793 will bring the army strength Down to 870,000. Next biggest Cut will be for the Marine corps a 14,361 reduction to 175,000. The air Force will Cut 13,800 to 850,000. The Navy has the smallest Cut 11,328, bring ing it Down to 630,000. On oct. 31, the latest available Date for the figures the army had a manpower strength of 901,793, Navy 641,328, marines 189,361, and air Force 863,800. Great lakes freighter lost 18 bodies found up in the Clouds Over Freedom flight tear Gas quells Virginia u. Riot Charlottesville a. A a demonstration by about 1,000 students against University of Vir Ginia regulations curbing the use of automobiles was broken up by police using tear Gas. Three students were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. One student struck of the head in a scuffle with a City policeman had 12 stitches taken in his Scalp. Weather forecast mostly Cloudy with Little change i temperature. High 48, Low so. Dag recalling Lebanon team United nations . A Secretary general Dag Hammar skjold announced wednesday he is pulling the in military observer group out of Lebanon. His action followed the receipt of two communications 1a report from the 591-Man group declaring that its presence was no longer necessary in View of the improved relations Between Lebanon and the United Arab re Public car .2a letter from lebanese for eign minister Hussein Weini ask ing that the Security Council drop the complaint filed last Spring by the government of president. Ca Mille Chamoun against the car. The liquidation of the observer grow up Means the elimination of the last  military units sent into the Middle. East during the inter Arab crisis last Spring. The . And Britain have completed withdrawal of the armed forces they sent to Lebanon and Jordan. The in still is represented in i the area by a special represent Young czechoslovak couple Zdenek and Anna Zemanek stroll hand in hand away from the Light air plane which brought them from Prague to Germany where they Aro asking political Asylum. The pair both schoolteachers and members of a Prague Aero club took off in one of the club s sports planes and landed in a Field near re Geisburg 40 Miles from the czech Border. Up photo air weather service i Tive in Jordan plier p. Spinelli. 1 . Delays last Vanguard till 959 Washington up the . Has abandoned its plan to hurl a fully instrumented basketball size Earth satellite into orbit with a Vanguard rocket during the inter National geophysical year Ign. The National aeronautics and space administration Nasa announced that it would postpone launching the last of the hard Luck vanguards until after the try ends dec. 3l the Nasa said in a state ment a study is now being made 4 f ways to increase the reliability of All satellite vehicles and it is Felt important that results of this study become known before the next Vanguard launching is at tempted. Extremely important scientific experiments in space depend on the Success of the remaining Van guard launching the space Agency said.,. It added that the results of the study during the Brief interruption in the Vanguard schedule May increase materially the chances for successful  the future wife of us air attache shot to death in Israel Jerusalem israeli sector a the wife of Britain s air attache to Israel was found shot dead near the syrian Border wednesday and Israel charged that Arab infiltrators killed her the United nations has started an investigation acting upon the israeli government s complaint. Mrs. Joyce Doran was killed while walking from the mount of beatitudes Down to the sea of Galilee. She had been staying at an italian hospice on the mount of beatitudes for a few Days Vaca  took her walk monday. When she failed to return israeli police and in teams formed search Par ties. Her husband Wing Comdr Ken Neth Doran was with the party that found her body. She was shot through the stomach. It was near the spot where the River Jordan flows into the sea of. Galilee. According to up her body was found riddled with three sub machine gun bullets fired at Short  three Cartridge cases Bear ing syrian markings were found alongside the body up said a British embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv said mrs. Doran and he husband have been in Israel of about a year. A son 8, is Here with them. Two rescued Fate of 15 men still unknown Charlevoix Mich. A at least 18 crewmen of the great lakes freighter i Arl d. Bradley drowned As heir ship Sank in a Lake Michigan storm. And the coast guard re ported two survivors of the35-Man Crew were found on a raft off High Island North East of where the 615-foot Ore ship Sank late tuesday. Hope All but vanished Tor 15 others. Hopes were momentarily raised n mid afternoon by the radio re port from the freighter trans Ontario that a body with maybe a breath of life in it had been re covered. But the freighter later reported the Man tentatively identified As Gary Strelecki of Rogers City was dead. The Only other identified victim was Paul Horn of Rogers City. Unofficial tabulations put the total of bodies recovered at 18. Gale Force winds and near Freez ing temperatures harassed efforts of air and surface searchers seek front. On Parie 2ft, col. 9 de Gaulle sets Germany trip Paris up Premier Charles de Gaulle will meet Chancellor Konrad Adenauer nov. 26 in Ger Many to coordinate the French and German policies on the deadlocked european free Trade area prob Lem and the Berlin crisis. Divergences Between France and Britain which had pushed the free Trade area negotiations into an impasse will be the main topic of the one Day conference officials said. The threatened blockade of Ber Lin by the soviets and de Gaulle ii views on the streamlining of the. Atlantic Alliance will Complete the Agenda officials added. Cyprus mommies Corhely slay no. 2 Oka Leader Nicosia Cyprus univ British troops wednesday killed Kyriakos Matsis reported to be the Oka Leader for All of Northern Cyprus. He was considered second Only to col George Grivas Oka Leader in the underground. Matsis re fused to surrender when troops cornered him in his hideout. Working on a tip paratroopers and other troops moved into and surrounded the curfew Village of a Zikomo. Surrounding a mud built Bunga Low Thev found a slab of Concrete covering a hideout under the bed room floor. Troops removed the slab and issued a surrender de Mand. Two men came up and a paratroop major yelled is Matsis there the troops then lobbed two Gre Nades into the hideout killing him two other wanted Oka Mem Bers surrendered at the hideout