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United Finmd liaises Johnson Is Acquitted of Accepting a Bribe By AL McCONACIIA Minneapolfi Tribuna Staff Writer A Hennepin county district court jury Thursday found former Alderman Russ Move Tanks to Berlin Line First Seen in East Berlin's Heart Since 1953 Revolt Record $5,002, George E. Johnson, innocent of accepting a bribe from a Minneapolis tavern I 1 owner. Jury foreman Lorin W. Butler, 3600 S. France said the four women and eight men voted the acquittal immediately after receiving the case at a.m.

and then went to lunch. The jury took only one ballot to reach its verdict. The verdict was read about 2 p.m. after Judge Luther Sletten, attorneys and 17 vr "-T-rTTN ikt a bw in mm a i is -A- 1-L 'jxi A 'a fh vv rj )a) GEORGE E. JOHNSON, LEFT, AFTER ACQUITTAL With him i hi attorney, Donald K.

Smith Accord Reached in 1984' Row; Teacher Kept Special to the Minneapolis Tribune WRENSHALL, Minn. The Wrenshall school board and representatives of the Minnesota Education association (MEA) Thursday night resolved the crisis of "1984." The teacher who was fired Oct. 20 for "insubordination" after he refused to withdraw the George Orwell novel as required reading for his students agreed last night to It tf if LrV'' AiU fill Johnson had returned to the courtroom. A small group in the audience applauded loudly until silenced by Sletten. Sletten did not comment on the verdict other than telling jurors they were under no obligation to discuss the case with other persons.

JOHNSON, WHO heard the reading of the verdict with his head bowed, wept openly after the jury left the room. One of the first persons to reach his side was his close friend, Alderman Earl Johnson of the eleventh ward. George Johnson stayed in the courtroom for a time, gaining his composure before appearing before photographers waiting in the hall outside. He then phoned his wife. Per M.

Larson, assistant county attorney, told the jury in his- final argument that Johnson had betrayed a "sacred trust" in accepting a bribe from Sam Beberman. Beberman, operator of Barney's Fun House bar, 1420 S. 4th was the principal state witness. He said that he paid $1,000 to George Johnson during a discussion in August 1960 in which Beberman asked Johnson's help in obtaining certain city licenses for a friend. Johnson was eighth ward alderman at the time.

BEBERMAN, who was never permitted during the trial to say what the purpose of the payment was, also testified that he had demanded the money back when he discovered Johnson had withdrawn approval of the licenses. Johnson, who said he paid back the $1,000 with a check in May 1961, took the witness stand to say the payment was a loan which Beberman had made as a friend. Larson in his final argument dwelt on the payment of cash to Johnson in the former councilman's Lake St. office as suggesting something other than a loan. Larson also said that Be-berman's refusal to testify early in the trial on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him indicated the witness view of the illegal nature of the transaction.

"IF THIS was a bona fide Johnson Continued on Page 13 Warm Weather to Stick Around Continuing warmer weather is expected in the Upper Midwest today, with showers forecast for parts of North Dakota, South Dakota and northern Minnesota. High for the Twin Cities is predicted at 60, with a low tonight of 40. Minnesota can expect a high of 50 in the extreme northeast and readings in the upper 60s in the southwest and south. Other highs: North Dakota 55 to 65, South Dakota 58 to 68, Wisconsin 50 to 60. SLETTEN the use of the book on an optional basis.

And the school board withdrew its discharge proceedings against the teacher. The teacher, Richard Wy-man, 38, will return to his job as high school English teacher. THE AGREEMENT was reached at a three-hour meeting last night in Cloquet, and was signed by Wyman; Dale Dennie, chairman of the school board; E. C. Hedegard, school superintendent; Rudolph Rautio, school board attorney in whose office the meeting was held, and two representatives of the MEA, William E.

Hol-comb and A. Phienich. A joint statement said that "the book '1984' will be returned to the library for normal usage as in the past. It will remain in the English reading list but for college preparatory students on a voluntary basis and Mr. Wyman has agreed that it will not be required of all students." RAUTIO SAID the agreement also "includes withdrawal of discharge proceedings and return of Mr.

Wyman to his professional responsibilities." Wyman was fired after he Wrenshall Continued on Page Eight I 'J 3 ALAN H. MOORE, LEFT, AND FREDERICK DEMING, FUND OFFICIALS L'nited Fund general chairman and president at dinner DESWE PROPOSED EXPANSION Traffic Force Held Inadequate Pledges Fall Short of Goal by $92,744 By SAM NEWLUND MinneapolU Tribune Staff Writer The second annual Hennepin county United Fund drive ended Thursday night with total of $5,002,499 in donations and pledges the largest amount ever collected in a consolidated county campaign. The total was 98.2 per cent of the goal of It was half a million dollars more than the amount raised in the first United Fund drive last year. THE MONEY will be distributed to 79 health, welfare and recreation agencies. Although the drive ended officially when about 400 campaign workers gathered for a dinner at the Pick-Nic-ollet hotel last night, some pledges were still expected to trickle in during the next few days.

Alan H. Moore, general chairman, said a few pledges were still to be collected and some individual company solicitations were yet to begin. "Five million dollars is no easy achievement," Moore told the volunteers. "It represents the tremendous accomplishment of an awful lot of people working for something fine and good in the community." "This community owes to all of you a tremendous ovation of thanks," Moore said. THIS YEAR'S goal represented a 14 per cent increase over last year's collection, partly because of the addition of seven agencies to share in the fund distribution.

District by district collections were posted on a huge board behind the speaker's rostrum as campaign chieftains reported the work of hundreds of volunteers who rang doorbells the past three weeks. Leilani Akana, a native Hawaiian, rewarded volunteer leaders with leis and kisses, as they stepped forward to report their area accomplishments. THE TOP neighborhood district was West Bloomington District 89, headed by R. A. Montgomery.

This area collected 1592 per cent of its quota. Frederick Deming, United Fund president, noted that some campaigners "look a little glum" because the drive missed its goal by $92,744. But he termed the cam paign a tremendous success and praised the solicitors for a "magnificent job." Nigeria Accepts Envoy LAGOS, Nigeria UPI Nigeria has accepted the appointment of Fedor Pavlovich Dolya as the first Soviet ambassador. -Ulmanac-i Young Viewer Gives Mock the Knife Friday, Oct. 27, 19SI Sunrlt 6:44 a.m.i iun(.

5:09 m. Second grader at an Osseo elementary school rose to tell the class about an exceptional television program he saw recently, name of "Mack Beth." The very best part of all, said the moppet, came when Miss Beth walked around washing her hands all the time and saying, 'Dang that blood, dang that Still warmer weather in the Tuin Citiet today. High 60, low 40. Doctor's son showed up at a New Brighton school this week bearing a grinning pumpkin carved by his father. It had braces on its teeth.

BERLIN UP) A Soviet armored unit rolled into East Berlin Thursday night and took up positions a few hun dred yards from the Witnesses saw a dozen So viet tanks with Russian crews line up in darkness behind the East German state opera house on Unter den Linden. It was a blunt reply to the United States army's dramatic armed thrusts this week demonstrating the allied right to circulate in East Berlin without interference from the East German Communists. THREE times A i can military police squads with fixed bayonets have crossed the border into East Berlin, clearing the way for United States occupation civilians who refused to show identification to East German guards. The actions were carried out under the guns of heavy American Patton tanks lined up on the western side of the border. The East German police stepped aside in each case and allowed the troops to escort civilians past the border without resistance.

The East German government said the United States alone was responsible for the threat of war created by the escort sorties. IN A NOTE delivered to the American embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Red German regime contended that the United States "has no rights in the German Democratic Republic, including its capital (East Berlin)." The note demanded that the American sorties be stopped at once and those Berlin Continued on Page Eight Owner Fined in Ventilating Violation By BOB YLVISAKER Mlnneapoltl Tribune Staff Writer Attempts by the city to enforce ventilation requirements for tenement house lavatories violate the constitution, it was claimed in Minneapolis municipal court Thursday. The claim was made in behalf of Mrs. Melba F. Evan-son, 2324 NE.

Central owner of the dwelling at 208 E. Hennepin Av. by her brother, Paul Dan Rosso, 2326 Central, journeyman plumber who also operates the tenement for Mrs. Evan-son. Rosso's arguments failed to impress Judge Lindsay Arthur.

RULING the city housing maintenance code constitutional and not contrary to state law, the judge found Mrs. Evanson guilty of the charge of insufficient ventilation in the toilet rooms in the dwelling and fined her $15. He stayed the fine until Nov. 6 to permit time for an appeal. Rosso said he would appeal to higher courts.

Mrs. Evanson had been tagged for failure to have mechanical ventilation in the two lavatories in the building, in the absence of windows a violation of the city housing maintenance code. ROSSO claimed the housing maintenance code incorporated portions of a state housing act which had been repealed as part of the city charter by Minneapolis voters in 1949. Enactment of the code by the city council in 1956 was thus a violation of due process of law under the 14th amendment to the federal constitution, he said. Rosso also said he had installed nonmechanical ventilation in the two toilets, in compliance with the city plumbing code and state health regulations, which, he said, conflict with the housing maintenance code.

By MERCER CROSS Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer U.S. Accuses India of Soviet Bias at U.N. By JOSEPH NEWMAN New York Herald Tribune Service UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. The United States accused India Thursday of playing the role of a pro-Soviet and anti-American "neutral" at the U.N.

Arthur H. Dean, speaking for the United States in a debate on nu- clear testing, denounced Indian Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Men-on and other members of the Indian dcl-egatlon for rAV Li the kind of Dean "neutrality" they were practising. His attack is believed to be the sharpest yet made publicly by an American spokesman against Indian representatives.

IT WAS tantamount to accusing Krishna Menon and some of his colleagues of becoming, wittingly or unwittingly, instruments of Soviet foreign policy. Dean's statement came onlv' a short time before Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is scheduled to arrive in Washington. Nov. 7 on a state visit. Woman Gives Acid to GIs in Wisconsin STEVENS POINT, Wis.

(UPI) Police Chief E. L. Zieman said Thursday night that a middle-aged woman admitted giving away four miniature whisky bottles to departing 32nd division national guard troops at a train station. The woman, who was not held, was believed to be the person being sought for hand ing out a bottle containing an "acid solution" discovered by a girl friend of one departing soldier. THE POLICE chief said the woman gave out the bottles "because she wanted to be friendly with the boys" and that she was unaware any acid was in the bottle.

Zieman said the woman and her husband had been in the tavern business several years ago and still had some of the bottles left in the basement. Zieman said one other bottle was turned up but contained only whisky. He presumed the other two bottles were disposed of. Police messaged an alert ahead to the train, bound for Fort Lewis, Wash. Detective Frank Barbers said the troop commander messaged back that a search disclosed no bottles on the train and no soldiers made ill by the liquid.

Police said the troop commander, Lt. Col. Raymond Dehlinger, "got information that confirmed" the story of the little old lady and her unusual going-away gifts. "THIS IS too serious to be a hoax," Barbers said. "We are not taking it to be a hoax.

It was no hoax to us." Police ordered a search for the woman who was reported to have said "good luck to you" as she dug the miniature bottles out of the sack. Barbers said a litmus paper test showed the liquid was "an acid solution." Even with next year's increased manpower, the number of Minneapolis traffic policemen will fall far short of the recommended level. This was the evaluation made Thursday by Robert M. Sorensen, Racine, district director of the National Safety council. Sorensen held a one-hour session in the mayor's conference room at city hall with about 50 supervisors from the Minneapolis police department.

HE QUOTED from a safety council analysis of police traffic supervision in 1960 in 12 cities with populations of 350,000 to 500,000. The analysis said Minneapolis needs 60 more full-time traffic policemen than the 101 assigned last year. Of the 190 new men scheduled to join the force in 1962 as the result of a city charter amendment, tentative plans call for 25 extra on traffic duty. Traffic enforcement in Minneapolis last year "continued critically low in terms of the city's accident experience and comparative performance of other cities," said the analysis. THE REPORT said the city reported 39,323 hazardous violation convictions, compared with 111,400 needed to measure up to the other 11 cities.

Am recommendations TURN THE PAGES TO: Editorial Markets Women's Comics. Theaters Sports 6 ,18, 19 in the safety council report: More police vehicles. "Motorization" of the traffic force in 1960 was 53 per cent. The recommended level is 75 per cent. Much stronger enforcement of pedestrian laws.

Last year, said the analysis, 58 pedestrians were convicted, when some 3,500 should have been. Higher status for the department's traffic function, placing it on a par with activities such as criminal investigation and patrolling. A stronger accident prevention program within the police patrol car fleet. The rate of 4.3 accidents involving police cars per 100,000 vehicle miles was somewhat higher than in the other cities. A systematic program of traffic command training for all supervisors of uniformed personnel.

Last year the number with such training was about 80 per cent short of the recommended total. On a percentage basis, the Minneapolis a tment's over-all traffic supervision improved appreciably from 1959 to 1960, rising from 42 to 60 per cent, said the safety council report. In-service training and recruit traffic training were two areas where the Minneapolis department far surpassed the average of the others, said the analysis. Doctor Says Yawn Isn't Contagious CHICAGO (UPI) Yawning is not contagious, Dr. Arthur Grollman, Dallas, Texas, said Thursday.

He wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association that "it is suggestion, rather than contagion" that causes yawns to spread through a group of sleepy, fatigued or bored persons. NEW LICENSE PLATES TO BE READY NOV. 15 By Associated Presi Minnesota's new maroon-on-white auto license plates will be ready for distribution Nov. 15, Secretary of State Joseph Donovan said Thursday. The 1962 auto plates will be used for three years, a change directed by the last legislature.

Previously, plates have been used for two years. The plates, as usual, are reflectorized and have been given an extra dipping in an anticorrosion chemical to help them last the extra year. Truck plates will be green on white. They will continue to be used for two years. Donovan said application cards will be mailed about Nov.

10 to owners of some 1,750.000 vehicles in the state. Passenger cars make up about 1,260,000 of the total. One hundred deputy registrars will distribute plates this year, Donovan said, with addition of a new Chisago County office in Lindstrom. Last day to purchase plates without penalty is Jan. 10, 1962.

March 1 is the deadline for putting the new plates on cars and other vehicles. (U.N. TAKES Up Plea on Soviet ll-Test Today Page Four.) Dean, replying to earlier Indian statements in the general assembly's first committee, said, "The United States, which is not testing in the atmosphere as is the Soviet Union, has been singled out for far more comment and criticism by the Indian delegation than has the Soviet Union or indeed any other state." HE ADDED: "Perhaps, therefore, I was wrong-to describe the Indian point of Dean Continued on Page Eight.