Argentina Accused By U.S.
Of Wartime Collaboration
And Intrigue With Germans
Washington, Feb. 13 (U.R) The United State today accused
Argentina of wartime collaboration, espionage, hemisphere intrigue
and aid to Nazi Germany,
i The State department delivered to all other American repub
lics except Argentina a "blue book," based on documents captured
in Germany.
Citing a 300 per cent increase in Argentine military credits
In the past four years, the "blue
tarian groups of combining with
create a Nazi-Fascist state.
CONSPIRED TO OBTAIN
Argentina was accused of a conspiracy to obtain arms from
Germany, of attempting to undermine the inter-American system
and of making mockery of its pledge to the United Nations to
"reaffirm faith in human rights and in the dignity and worth of
the human person.".
The United States said the indictment contains only a small
proportion of the proof of Argentina's pro-German activity in its
hands. This country invited the other American republics to state
their views on the charges.
It was charged that high Argentine officials were so seri
ously compromised in their relations with the enemy that trust
and confidence "could not be reposed in that government." That
statement was Interpreted as a bid for joint action to break off
diplomatic relations with the present military regime in Buenos
Aires.
PERON NAMED HEAD OF
The American publication
reron, head of a military junta that took over the Argentine gov
ernment, as "a principal leader"-of the Areentine eonsnlratnra
Peron is accused of spurring the
ing similar etiorts with domestic
Uruguay.
The "blue book" said an
iouna maaen and scattered throughout Germany have been cata
logued, studied and verified. On basis of these, the U. S. govern
ment made its five major accusations:
1. Members of the (Argentine) military government colla
borated with enemy agents for important espionage and other
purposes damaging to the war effort of the United Nations.
2. Nazi leaders, groups and organizations have combined
with the Argentine totalitarian groups to create a Nazi-Fascist state
m Argentina.
CONSPIRED TO FORM PRO-AXIS BLOC
3. Members of the military regime who have controlled the
government since June 1943 conspired with the enemy to under
mine governments in neighboring countries, to destroy their colla
boration with the Allies and to align them in a pro-Axis bloc.
4. Successive Argentine governments protected the enemy in
economic matters in order to preserve Axis industrial and com
mercial power in Argentina.
5. Successive Argentine governments conspired with the
enemy to obtain arms from Germany.
In the case of Bolivia, the U. S. offered reports from German
archives to support an accusation that Peron and other Argentine
military leaders promised Bolivia lower tariff barriers and the
construction of a new railroad between Argentina and Bolivia if
.,re. oimiiuuncu ule gooq neignDor oioc in favor of the Axis,
HENRY G. ENOERS
NEW PRESIDENT
OF
Henry O. Enders,- Ashland,
was elected president of the
Jackson County Lincoln club at
the 32nd annual meeting of the
group held last night at the Ash
land Elks club. He succeeds
George R. Carter, Medford. Rob
ert F. Kyle, Medford,. was elect
ed first vice-president; Robert
Dodge, Ashland, second vice
president; William Perry, Eagle:
Point, third vice-president; Mrs.
Rosa Dodge, Galey, Ashland, sec
retary and treasurer, and Mr.
G. Q. D'Albini. Medford, histor
ian. Kenneth Denman reported
for the nominating committee.
A resolution urging congress
to "reassume its rights and lea
dership in the control and direc
tion of our national government"
was passed during the business
meeting which preceded the ad
dress of Lamar Tooze, Portland
attorney. The resolution further
urged congress to curtail unne
cessary expenditure of public
monies, provide appropriate leg
islation for the elimination of all
unnecessary governmental bu
reaus, to eliminate governmental
controls affecting the economic
life of .the people as soon as cir
cumstances permit and to estab
lish a sound and fair labor policy
and means of enforcement there
of, applying equally and fairly
to both labor and management.
The resolution was presented
by Frank Farrell, Medford.
Menage Read
Messages from former Presi-j
dent Herbert Hoover, Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey. Gov. Earl
Warren of California, and Gov.
Earl Snell of Oregon, were read
by Herb Grey, Medford. Mes
sages also were read from Sena
tor Guy Cordon, Congressmen
Harris Ellsworth, Walter Nor
blad, Lowell Stockman and
Homer Angell, Palmer Hoyt.
Ernest Haycox, Secretary of
State Robert Farrell. Congress
man Joseph W. Martin, Jr.. C.
E. Ingalls, Corvallis publisher;
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MOTORISTS! SAVE A LIFE
KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS
Htrt It a law ior today. Somewher in th tat of Oregon,
failure to observe thi law will cost somcon hi life, or itrlout
injury!
CROSSING FIRE HOSE
No street car or vehicle thill be driven over any unprotected
hot of a fire department when laid down on any ttrttt. privet
driveway or ttrt car track, ta b utd at any fir or alarm of
fir, without lh contnt of th fir officer in command (Section
115-361 Oregon Motor Vthicl Cod).
book accuses Argentine total!
Nazi leaders and organizations to
ARMS FOR GERMANY
ARGENTINE CONSPIRATORS
specifically named Col. Juan D.
Brazilian integralists and of mak
pro-Axis forces in Paraguay and
enormous volume of documents
Frank Jenkins. Ralnh Mnnrfv
state chairman Niel Alipn nnrl
Frank VanDyke, in Portland at
tending a meeting of an interim
committee of the state legisla
ture.
Dick Martin, Ashland high
scnool student, gave the "Get
tysburg Address" and the Rev.
B. F. Belknnn deliverer! tl In.
vocation. Community singing
was iea oy Henry G. Enders
Ashland, with Mrs. R. L. Burdic
Ashland, at the piano.
Guests Introduce)!)
. Introduced during the banquet
were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Far
rell, State Senator and Mrs. Earl
Newbry, Commissioner and Mrs.
E. A. Powell, Judge and Mrs. J.
B. Coleman, Commissioner and
Mrs. William Perry, Mr. and
Mrs. Herb Grey, Capt. H.. B. La
Favre, Com. Louis R. Ficlcher,
Representative O. H. Bengtson,
former Senator and Mrs. Genres
Dunn, Sherif.' Howard Gault,
fcngineer Paul Rynning, Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Denman, Mrs. G.
Q. D'Albini, Roy W. McNeal,
Mrs. Bertha Coy Ross, Verne
Smith, Ralph Billings and C. R.
Bowman, county school superin
tendent. Mrs. Robert Dodee and Mrs.
Frank Van Dyke of Ashland had
decorated the banquet tables
with small American flags and
red, white and blue candles.
(Alio See Story on Pag 4.)
CONTIfEDlAFT
Washington, Feb. 13 (U.R)
On the basis of present recruit
ing, the army probably will
have to request continuation of
selective service after its pres
ent expiration May IS, Secre
tary of War Robert P. Patter
son declared today.
, Patterson said this was the
case even though the army has
obtained a record enlistment of
500.000 men in recent months.
He pointed out that many of
these enlistments came from
among men already in the ser
vice. The army demobilization pro
gram rounded out its ninth full
month of operation with the re
lease of the 6.000.000th person
to civilian life since May 12,
1945, the war department an
nounced meanwhile.
The total number of army
personnel discharged now ex
ceeds by nearly 2.000.000 the
estimates made last September.
The January estimate was
800.000 and the army actually
discharged 93B.000.
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Relax, Southern Oregonians!
New Crater Blast Unlikely
If anyone in southern Oregon
has been worrying over what
might happen if Mount Mazama
erupted again, their fears may
be shelved if Dr." Howell Wil
liams is right, for the noted geol
ogy professor of the University
of California has concluded that
a recurrence of volcanic activity
in the Crater Lake area would
do nothing worse than spoil the
scenic beauty of the lake.
Ever since Crater Lake Dark
attendants and visitors last sum
mer saw a strange cloud of
smoke, or gas, hovering over the
lake's surface on four different
occasions, scientists and laymen
have been speculating over the
possibility of a second volcanic
eruption and the consequences.
Crater Lake lies in the crater of
n extinct volcano which, when
it erupted many years ago, blew
the top of Mt. Mazama and scat
tered rocks, ashes, cinders and
lava for miles in every direction.
Not Violent Again
However, Dr. Williams, con
sidered an authority on the Cra
ter Lake area, says there would
not be a violent explosion if
Mount Mazama acts up again.
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"An eruption today would kill
a lot of fish and would ruin the
beautiful blue color of the lake,"
Dr. Howell is quoted as saying
in an Associated Press dispatch.
"Furthermore, I doubt if there
is even enough activity in the
volcano to produce a cone high
enough to rise above the level of
the lake, which is 2000 feet deep.
Williams, who studied the crater
over a five-year period, stated
that violent activity is very un
likely once a volcano collapses.
So much interest was shown
in the strange behavior of the
lake last summer that a United
States geologist was sent from
the east this winter to install ta
hydrophone In the water, with
a recording drum set up in the
park lodge. However the hydro
phone, which waj to have re
corded any sound emanating
from the lake floor, was disabled
when a inowslide down the
steep crater wall broke tho at
tached cable, and since the in
strument had recorded no
sounds in the days during its op
eration, the dangerous task of
repairing it was laid aside un
til spring.
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MEDFORD, jOREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
Gaologitt F. W. CaUr of th
U. S. geological turvy (top pho
to) at th waUr't dg of Cratr
Lak wher a hydrophone had
e-been lowered into the lake.-to
check on pottibl tubturfac vol
canic activity a f t r atrang
tmok cloudt had ben reported
over the lake during the late
summer. It was down this tlope
that a snow slide catcaded later
to end toundingt for the winter.
Chief Ranger J. C a r 1 i 1 1
Crouch at wheel of Sno-cat (cen
ter photo) with Crater Lake Na
tional Park Superintendent E. P.
Leavitt in back teat. The Sno-cat
made it pottlble to trantport
Geologitt Cater and quipmnt
to th snow-bound lak. Ranger
Paul Herron (bottom left) with
two oil cant uted to lower a hy
drophone into the water of the
lake, pautet to look back up to
ward! the lodge while carrying
'equipment down to the lake't
edge. (All photot courtety of
Oregon Journal.)
E
E LITTLE AID
Seattle, Feb. 13 (U.R) Six
survivors of the liner Yukon
today levelled charges of negli
gence and incompetence against
the crew of the ill-fated liner
Yukon which crashed onto an
Alaskan reef 10 days ago.
The six persons, who arrived
here today by plane, were in
substantial agreement in saying
that the crew did little to help
passengers in the marine disas
ter, known to have cost three
lives, with seven others still list
ed as missing.
MaJ. Harold Shevin, 26, and
his wife, Alva, 22, of Birming
ham, Ala., were in one of the
Pan-Amolcan clippers landing
here. Shevin, former assistant
adjutant general of the army's
Alaskan department, was ex
plicit in his criticim of the ves
sel's crew.
Evidence of Drinking
"I cannot charge an individual
crew member with drunken
ness," he said, "but I saw several
men carrying whiskey in their
pockets after the ship struck.
There was evidence that some
had been drinking."
Mrs. Shevin, clad in an Arctic
parka, agreed with her husband.
"The crew had been drinking
all right," she declared. "The
crew was no help at all. It was
everyone for himself. There was
no fresh water for over a day."
About a fourth of 700 horses
sold at a recent sale at Worland,
Wyo., went to canneri and other
processor.
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FOR TEMPORARY
CAPITALOF UNO
Selection Comes After Last
Minute Proposal to Locate
Headquarters in San Fran.
London, Feb. 13 (U.R)
The United Nations Security
Council rejected tonight a
Soviet Ukrainian motion for
appointment of a tpecial com
mission to invettigate British
military intervention in
Indonetia.
London, Feb. 13 (U.R) The
United Nations Organization to
day selected New York City as
its temporary home until the
permanent world peace center
has been erected in the United
States.
The UNO headquarters com
mittee settled on New York after
rejecting a last-minute proposal
to locate in San Francisco dur
ing the interim period required
for construction of the perman
ent United Nations cily pos
sibly three to five years.
Australia and Bolivia led the
last-ditch fight for San Fran
cisco, but their motion was
voted down by a narrow 21-to-9
margin, with the United States
abstaining.
France and most of the Latin
American nations supported the
pro-San Francisco motion and
voted against New York City on
a second ballolyhlch ended with
selection of tho" American met
ropolis by a count of 29 to 13.
IN CITIES WHERE
By United Prett
It was business as usual for
12,000,000 Americans today aft
er 18 to 48 hours during which
utilities, transit and tugboat
strikes crippled three great
cities.
But labor troubles still kept
1,528.000 workers away from
their jobs in the nation's troubled
postwar industrial situation.
The strike picture by cities:
Pittsburgh
An independent utilities work
ers union colled off Its 20-hour
stride against the Duquesne Pow
er and Light Co. last night.
The company agreed to re
sume negotiations "starling from
scratch" on union demands for
a 20 per cent wage increase for
3,400 workers.
Philadelphia
Trolleys, buses, subway and
elevated trains rolled today for
the first time in 48 hours, after
0,655 CIO transit workers ac
cepted a 12-cent an hour wage
Increase and returned to their
jobs.
New York City
New York city health comnils
sloner Ernest L. Stebbins last
night rescinded a disaster rul
ing, Invoked because of a strike
of 3,500 AFL tugboat crewmen
which seriously curtailed fuel
supplies. The order, affecting
7. 454.995 persons, remained in
effect for 18 hours.
German Prisoners
Leaving For Home
Fort Lewis; Wash., Feb. 13
(U.R) Army officials Said here
today that the first of two ship
loads of German prisoners of
war would leave the port of
Tacoma tonight en route to Eu
rope. The S. S. Cape Henloprn, with
1,100 POWs aboard, will be fol
lowed Feb. 18 by the steamship
Sea Quail with 1.900 prisoners.
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13, 1946.
Voices Warning
Warning President Truman
that his administration may b
heading into an oil tcandal
through the nomination of Ed
win W. Pauley. California oil
man, to be undertecretary of
navy. Secretary of Interior Har
old L. Icket (above) hat retigned
hit office.
$90 MILLION FOR
PUBLIC WORKS IS
VOTED OVER VETO
Sacramento, Feb. 13 (U.R)
A bill appropriating $90,000,000
in state funds for city and coun
ty public works became law to
day as the slate senate followed
the assembly In overriding Gov.
Earl Warren's veto of the meas
ure. The senate vole cancelling the
governor's veto was 35 to 3, fol
lowing the assembly 64 to 8
vote in the assembly. A two
thirds vote was required In botli
houses.
The rejection of the veto was
the first such action In Wurren's
term, and followed a bitter dis
pute between the governor and
the legislators over disposition
of postwar funds.
Under the bill, the $90,000,000
will be divided evenly between
cities and counties. The city
share must be used for sewer
improvements up to standards
set by the stale public health
department, and remaining
money may be used for storm
drains, major streets, schools
and water systems. All of the
cily money must be matched
equally.
TO FROSH FIVE
Eugene, Feb. 13 The Univer
sity of Oregon Frosh dumped a
tiring Medford high basketball
crew 51-43 In a contest here yes
terday afternoon. Though the
tilt was closely fought most of
the way, Medford was In front
only once when Cave dumped
In a field toss to make the count
42-41 with four minutes left in
the game. The Frosh led at half
time 29-27. DcWayne Johnson
was high mar with 15 for the
winners and Jerry Ross netted
11 for the Tornado.
The contest was Medford's
fourth In five days.
Woman Suffocates
Under Snow Slide
Miller River. Wash.. Feb. 13
(U.R) Mrs. Juliette Wright, 72,
died of suffocation here yester
day after she was buried In 500
cubic feet of snow which slid
from the root of her home as
she was sweeping a path from
her back door to the v atcr pump.
Neighbors told Deputy Coro
ner James Adams that Mia.
Wright, partly deaf, neglected to
wear her hearing aid yesterday
and apparently failed to hear
the slide start.
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SECRETARY FEARS
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Oil Interests' Pressure Cited
in Warning; Truman Ac
cepts Without Comment.
Washington, Feb. 13 U.PJ
President Truman today accept
ed the resignation of Secretary
of Interior Harold L. Ickes, who
left the cabinet with a warning
against the kind of political pres
sure which produced the Teapot
Dome oil scandal.
The White House said Ickes'
resignation, ending nearly 13
years In the same post, would be
effective Friday. Assistant Sec
retary of Interior Oscar L. Chap
man will run the department
until Mr. Truman pick a per
manent successor to Ickes.
Letter Unrelaasad .
The White House did not re
lease either Ickes" letter of resig
nation or the president' letter,
dated yesterday, in which he
warned of possible political pit
falls. Ickes went back 25 years to
the administration of the late
President Harding to suggest by
Inference an analogy with a
trend he considers to be develop
ing now.
Detailing his recent public
battle against Edwin W. Pauley,
California oil man nominated by
President Truman to be under
secretary of navy, Icke declared
that his department' had been
subjected to political pressure.
Com 8candal Cited
Harking back to the Teapot
Dome scandal in which Hard
ing's secretary of interior, the
late Albert Fall, was convicted
of accepting a $100,000 oil bribe,
Ickes said in his letter:
"As I leave the department,
I feel that I ought to warn you
of a cloud, now no bigger than
a man's hand, that my exper
ience sees In the sky."
In testimony at a senate naval
affairs committee hearing on
Pauley's nomination, Ickes said
the former democratic national
treasurer tried lo get him to drop
a suit for federal title to oil
rich tldelands by holding out
the promise of democratic cam
paign contributions by oil men.
Pauley denied the charge. And
at a news conference on Feb. 7
President Truman, supporting
hi nominee, said Ickes might
well have been mistaken. The
Pauley nomination is headed into
a finish battle In the senate, with
the outcome highly uncertain.
No Alternative
In his letter, Ickes said the
president In effect had "ex
pressed a lack of confidence In
me." He added that he had no
alternative but to resign. He sug
gested that the resignation take
effect March 31, but Mr. Truman
advanced It to this Friday.
Declaring that he told nothing
but the truth about Pauley to
the senate committee and assert
ing that he would have been
guilty of perjury if he had dona
otherwise, Ickes added:
"I was shocked, by the sug
gestion that liberal campaign
contributions might be forthcom
ing if the government should
forego whatever claim it might
have to the oil-rich lands lying
off the coast of California.
"Above all departments, the
department of the interior must
always be on guard against any
association of money with poli
tics, and even over-zealous, by
the standards of some men, in
defending the government'
legal proprietary rights.
Always Tomptod
"The forces that ruined Sec
retary Fall will always be play
ing upon anyone who is secre
tary of the interior.
"It is not now certain that
other departments will be Im
mune to similar sinister pres
sures. "And the forces that ruined
Secretary Fall because he made
the mistake of deciding that, po
litically, he had to yield to them
will always be seeking to oust
or to discredit any secretary who
will not surrender to them. '
There were 383 Civil War sol
diers and nurses on the U. S.
pension rolls June 30, 1944.
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