Sunday Tribune, The (Newspaper) - April 12, 1964, Albert Lea, Minnesota Forecast Variable Bess cooler Sun rises Mon Sets THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE VOLUME NUMBER 87 Full on and Sunday ALBERT LEA MINNESOTA SUNDAY APRIL 12 1964 TWENTY-TWO PAGES 15 CENTS Formula for Ending Cold War Lawmaker Says MacArthur Planned to Threaten Russia By GEOFFREY GOULD WASHINGTON AP eral of the Army Douglas Arthur's plan to end the cold war involved threatening Soviet dictator seph Stalin that Germany and Japan would be completely re- armed unless the people of the European Red satellite tries were granted nation a congressman has said Rep William Jennings Bryan Dorn said MacArthur freely told him of this plan to bring the Soviet Union into line in an interview at the general's tower suite in New York Dorn said he was uncertain of the year but thought it was 1956 The gist of Mac Arthur's plan was the missing part of paper accounts this week that projected the general into a swirl of posthumous sy In a interview Wednesday as MacArthur was lying in state in the tol rotunda Bob Considine of the Hearst Headline Service dis- closed the existence of the plan and described how MacArthur tried to convince Dwight D Eisenhower then the elect to put it into effect Considine wrote that thur told him I don't feel it would be fair to reveal my plan to you It would be an unfair burden on you as a reporter Dorn said there was no such reluctance when he and two er congressmen visited thur in 1956 He said MacArthur revealed to him for the first time and I have kept it the nature of his con- versation with President-elect Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles in December 1952 les became Eisenhower's tary of state The plan suggested by Arthur to President-elect hower and John Foster Dulles was to threaten Russia with a complete rearmament of many and Japan possibly in- nuclear power unless Stalin agreed to live up to his promise of the tion of the peoples of Poland East Germany and Central Eu- rope That description was written by Dorn Monday night and in- in the Congressional ord as a minor part of a long eulogy of MacArthur It escaped notice until Friday when a re- porter interviewed Dorn about it and was given details The printed Dorn account predated the publication of the Considine account In Mankato Kan former Rep Wint Smith one of the two congressmen who accompanied Dorn said he agreed with Dorn's description except that I don't remember that thur said he had told hower those things Smith said it was his lection that the interview took place in 1954 The third congressman Rep Concluded on page 2 Stillwater Next Stop Mastrian Found Guilty Gets Life SPRING The spring weather the first of the season brought out a riety of activities for the young fry Wheat Signed by President By OVID A MARTIN WASHINGTON new stabilization program established under the farm law signed by President Johnson will retain the 49.5 lion acre national planting ment which had been set earlier for this year's crop Secretary of Agriculture ville L Freeman acting soon after Johnson signed the announced provisions of the new program as they affect growers millers and exporters Growers will be divided into two who plant and harvest within their acreage allotments and those who over- plant and ments Cooperating farmers will be eligible for price supports at national average of a el but will not Cooperating farmers will be required to devote wheat land diverted from the grain under their allotments to a conserving is not another cash well as to maintain their normal acreage in con serving uses Cooperating farmers will no be allowed to exceed allotments assigned them on other crops grown on thei farms Nor will they be permit ted to exceed the wheat allot ment on any other farm in Which they have an interest Cooperating growers will earn government issued marketing certificates on 90 per cent of the normal yield of wheat on their allotments Half of these will have a value of 70 cents a bushel and the other half 25 cents Millers and other wheat food processors will be required to buy equivalent certificates to cover all wheat they use for food products in- flour for export ning July 1 They will be able to buy these certificates from the government or from ers or from elevators which might buy them from growers But the department expects most farmers to cash their at county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offices Likewise exporters will have to buy the to cover wheat moved abroad beginning July 1 They will be able to obtain certificates in the same manner as millers and other wheat processors The wheat covered by these certificates can be sold in the market at prices expected to be close to the a bushel port level or stored as in the past under support loans Money received from sale of the certificates will go in the final analysis to the cooperating growers For the remaining 10 per cent Of their normal yield on their allotments farmers will get whatever price market of- fers or they can place it under the support loan Officials expect the wheat prices to de- cline to around the support level which is 52 cents bushel lass than the 1963 support DULUTH Minn AP man Mastrian payoff man in the saying of Mrs Carol Thompson is guilty of murder and on Monday will join the victim's husband T Eugene at Stillwater Prison both under life sentences A jury of seven men and five women reported their verdict to Judge Donald C Odden late day after just under 13 hours deliberation Asked if he had anything to say the apparently downcast prisoner replied I am innocent of this charge Conviction of first degree murder carries the mandatory life sentence John Cochrane at- torney lost out with a motion to have sentencing deferred until this morning But Judge Odden did order that the prisoner be not taken to Stillwater until Monday when the attorney said Jail Inmates Stage Riot In Florida MIAMI Fla AP Rioting prisoners smashed windows in Dade County's modernistic new jail Saturday flooded cells and corridors and hurled garbage and flaming debris through the broken windows to the yard be low Peace was restored after hours with in solitary 15 alleged leaders confinement Two prisoners were hospitalized one with severe facial cuts inflict ed by cellmates when he re fused to join the disturbance Damage was estimated a mostly smashed win dows and ripped mattresses Almost immediately the dis was made an issue in a heated campaign for Sheriff T A Buchanan or dered an investigation to deter mine if the riot was political ly inspired But he added tha he was not making accusa tions he had several motions he ed to present to the court Mastrian was convicted for having paid Dick W C son for killing the going mother of four children Anderson who has confessed the actual slaying has yet to face trial The state charged that the slaying was plotted in an effort to collect more than million in insurance Thompson had taken out on his wife in the Concluded on page 2 Seeks Decision on Sentences MINNEAPOLIS AP vin L Kline facing prison erms in both state and federal courts may be allowed to serve the time concurrently The terms are each 10 years This possibility loomed Friday when Harry H Peterson Kline's attorney reported that ences seeking such action had Deen held Kline first was convicted of grand larceny in state court for having raised his own salary illegally while serving as tive director of the Sister beth Kenny Foundation Later Horse Show Continues Here Today A two-day Southern Minnesota Registered Quarter Horse show at the Freeborn County f a i grounds being held here over the weekend will come to a close this afternoon with classes of the loosa entries parading before judges beginning at p m The Quarter Horse entries strutted their stuff Saturday with 28 trophies awarded to the winners and grand and reserve champions Twenty-two more trophies and ribbons will be given to pions today Cathy Thoen Minnesota High School Rodeo Queen arrived in Albert Lea Friday to take par in the show and present award to the winners She also will be here during the National High School Rodeo which will be held at the fairgrounds July 29 through Aug 2 Stan Cox publicity man of the national event LBJ Pushes Talks Over Rail Rules WASHINGTON UP Federal mediators resumed Saturday their efforts to settle the dispute over railroad work rules in White House talks under the watchful eye of President Johnson With Secretary of Labor W Willard Wirtz presiding representatives of both labor and management met with the mediators around a large conference table They ered in a room across a hall FOUND GUILTY Norman Mastrian right ing handcuffs is escorted down the St Louis County Courthouse steps minutes after a jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree AP Wirephoto Mastrian Behind Move Crude Plot to Poison Randall and Others Told v a federal jury found him guilty Migs m presenting of mail fraud in connection with fund raising for that agency Peterson pointed out that Kline is due to surrender soon to start his state term after the U.S Supreme Court refused to review his case Under the proposed plan a deal would be worked out by the federal sentence would be served concurrently and Kline would drop the second peal he is making in that case Saturday's Scores EXHIBITION BASEBALL Minnesota 4 Detroit 3 Milwaukee 2 New York A 1 Cincinnati 7 Chicago A 5 Baltimore 11 New York N 0 Oklahoma City PCL 4 Houston 3 Pittsburgh 16 Philadelphia 3 Chicago N 12 Boston 3 ST PAUL AP The St Paul Pioneer Press in a righted story today reported failure last summer of a crude plot to poison Ramsey County Atty William B Randall St Paul police homicide chief George Barkley and key for the state in the man J Mastrian murder case The newspaper said it knew Loss Chicks Die in Saturday Fire Loss was estimated at Saturday afternoon in a fire which started shortly before noon in the second story of the Schneider Hatchery and Produce building at 714 E Main Killed in the fire were pullet chickens which had been placed inside batter units in the building Friday The chickens valued at about 55 cents apiece suffocated from the intense smoke which made it for firemen for a time The fire is believed to have started in electrical wiring in the northeast corner of the building Extensive damage was re- ported to the area housing the chickens and slight smoke age was also reported to ing apartment on second floor These are occupied by the tin Hatleli family and Mrs Avis Jensen and daughter Walter Schneider hatchery proprietor was home at lunch when the fire broke out Hatleli who operates a service station at 718 E Mam and an employe Paul Nielsen first noticed smoke pouring from the building while they were servicing a car The alarm was sounded trucks were sent to the Albert Lea Fire Dtp Firemen contained the fire and smoke by about 2 p.m The location necessitated the orary re-routing of traffic from East Main An immense traffic tie-up resulted but members of the Albert Lea Police Dept helped divert cars and trucks to Bridge Street and other detour routes and two scene by about the plot attributed to Mastrian but decided not to publish the information during trial A jury at luth convicted him late Friday of first degree murder as the arranger for the Carol son slaying last year in St Paul The Pioneer Press said a son whom it did not identify told one of its reporters about the poison plot attributed to Mastrian while he was in jail at St Paul The newspaper said Randall had confirmed details of the plot The informant described as a person who regularly visited Mastrian at the jail reported being asked by Mastrian in notes shown by the prisoner hrough a visiting screen to ob- tain cyanide to use it on fruit and coffee to be served to Dick W C Anderson and Sheldon Morris state witnesses against Mastrian and to poison burger to be delivered to the homes of Randall and Barkley The unidentified informant however disclosed the requests o Randall and Barkley The newspaper said jailers seized the notes from Mastrian and that they are now in the county attorney's possession Neither Randall nor Barkley appeared concerned Said I think it was more of an insult to our intelligence than anything else RODEO QUEEN Cathy Thoen Hopkins sota High School Rodeo Queen puts her horse through the paces prior to the Southern Minnesota Registered Quarter Horse Show here Cathy and her mother arrived in Albert Lea Friday night The queen promptly donned her working uniform but some hours later changed into her queenly a blue western dress trimmed in silver a from Johnson's office two doors away from the net room in which they met Friday The President who has staked his personal prestige on achieving a voluntary ment was reportedly ing absolute insistence that the parties use a strike postponement to come to terms While exchanging comments with newsmen from a White House balcony Friday Johnson said there is not a word of truth in a broadcast report he had engineered the truce to get time for Congress to pass gency antistrike legislation Reliable sources reported ad- ministration officials are highly optimistic of a voluntary ment But the sources said this does not mean the tion would let the 15 days slip by without preparing cy legislation as a last resort if necessary Dropped In At Meeting Johnson Friday dropped in four times on talks the tors were holding with the unions and with management He asked the mediators for a progress report Wednesday White House press secretary George Reedy said Johnson had arranged to have the sessions leld at the White House and at the Executive Office Building next door so he could keep est personal touch with the Until Johnson stepped in a strike at Friday had seemed a certainty At that hour nearly 200 roads were to post revised work rules governing wages and working conditions and some members of five ing brotherhoods were to ate by walking off their jobs Rule Changes Announced The railroads changes were announced after four of the unions had called a surprise strike Wednesday against the Illinois Central road On Thursday night Johnson talked the unions into calling off Concluded on page 2 MacArthur Buried at Norfolk NORFOLK Va measured cannon fire and the sad notes of Taps the nation sent its old soldier Douglas MacArthur to his earthly peace Saturday ft was a moving one of massed flags dipping in waves of stirring band music and of quiet prayers and the sadness of the eral of the Army's widow Jean and son Arthur 26 The Stars and Stripes were removed from MacArthur's steel casket before he was to be lowered into his tomb in a crypt in the MacArthur ial in this old Navy town where his mother was born Laid To Rest And thus the five-star al and hero of three wars who died away as he once eloquently laid to rest There were dignitaries and old comrades on hand their heads bowed as the benediction was read at the crypt after church services at St Paul Episcopal Church two blocks away Representing President son who paid his respects to MacArthur in earlier nies in Washington was Atty Gen Robert F who less than five months ago saw his brother President John F Kennedy buried with similar honors Church Service Before the entombment Arthur's body was carried to the church for Episcopal funeral services As the horse-drawn caisson slowly rolled past ranks of troops lowered the bright ful flags of all the states and territories and of the 26 Army units MacArthur had been asso- with in a half-century of war and peace It's Official Ice Leaves Lake Temperatures in the and Thursday and F r i- day brought a quick demise to the remaining ice in tain Lake The last cakes of ice in the bay near Grace Street and in Bancroft Creek disappeared Friday morning So ing to J E Murtaugh bert Lea pioneer and cial historian the ice up date for 1964 is recorded as April 10 That's eight days later than in 1963 and 11 days earlier than in 1962 The ice has de- parted on April 10 two times since 1912 m 1915 and 1944 Smoky Comes Home Tomcat Traveled Some Miles GRANADA Minn AP it really Or a rank imposter who knows a good thing when he spots The questions center about the big gray tomcat that is the trailer door for j he was seen in those parts no more But on Thursday up jumped Smoky again or a reasonable copy Oh but T know it's bled into the Al Tenney home here in Granada on after having gone AWOL in uary from a military tion miles distant The Al originally owned Smoky if it is he but their son Phillip and his wife took the overgrown torn with them when Phillip was assigned to Moses Lake Air Force Base in Washington State Lived In Trailer There they lived in a house trailer and Smoky appeared to have adapted to the change of living in a house trailer at the base Then in early January Mrs Phillip Tenney sleepily opened bubbled Mrs Al Tenney He has the markings and heck a person certainly ought to know her own cat Answered To Name And besides he almost made us bawl by answering to that Smoky name Against such evidence arises the question again of how Smoky could have made this trip from the Pacific Northwest in what must have been some pretty cold weather and still look as good as he does But the Minnesota refuse to be doubters and the cat Smoky or not is assured of a continuing good home here in Martin County
