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f 0 O 0 TWO MTfiFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, September 18, 1955 IPeron Cannot Win in Long Run, Expert on Argentina Declares (Editor's note: Why are there repeated revolts against President Juan D. Peron of Argentina? How long can he sur vive them? How does he keep some of the officers of the Ar gentina Armed Services loyal to him? The following dispatch answers those and other questions about the civil war now raging in Argentina. The writer is an expert on Peron and Argentina. For the last 12 years he has lived in Buenos Aires where he made his headquarters as United Press vice-presi- , dent and general manager for South America. He knows Peron intimately and is widely acquainted among the men . who surround him. Last week he reported to United Press world headquarters in New York as vice-president and assist ant general manager of the U.P.) By THOMAS R. CURRAN Copyright, 1955, by the United Press In the long run President Juan D. Peron of Argentina cannot win. Even if his troops crush the present rebellion, his power will continue to decline. Somehow and tome way in the near future Peron will cease to be the dic tator of Argentina. . Every revolt against him and there have been a half dozen in the last four years chips away some of the foundation of his power. Eventually the structure will collapse. Cause Simple The underlying cause for the repeated uprisings against Peron is simple. The people are tired of being ruled by a dictator. They are tired of being spied on. They are tired of having their mail opened and their telephones tapped. They are tired of having friends and relatives arrested without being able to find out where or why they were jailed. Under Peron Argentina has become a thorough police state. There is no free press. Most of the newspapers and all of the radio stations long ago were taken over by the government. There are no civil liberties. Peo- DH. ROBERT E. LEE moNErnsT 309 ejst em ST. Years of specialized study with practice for preventative visual troubles make possible highly satisfactory results with lenses and treatment. 1 pie are arrested on whim and held without trial and the peni tentiaries are packed with po litical prisoners. Boy students as young as 14 years are jailed After the Navy rebellion on June. 16th, Peron conceded in a public speech that he had abol ished democratic liberties but justified the step by saying that it was for the good of the people. Declares State of War Peron declared a "state of in ternal war" four years ago after a revolt against him failed. That measure was never repealed. It permitted the president to take any step against the person or property of any Argentine citi zen without being responsible to the courts. Recent announce ments of a "state of siege" there fore, mean nothing and are only window dressing. Under the "state of internal war" a pedes trian picking up a seditious pam phlet on the sidewalk could be jailed. The present army movement was supposed to coincide with the revolt on the navy on June 16. The time table was knocked out, however, because bad weather delayed the navy bomb ing planes. While tne navy bombers were wrecking the gov ernment house in Buenos Aires three months ago, reports were spread that the provinces in volved in yesterday's uprising were in rebel hands. Elected in 1946 Peron was elected in 1946 on a platform calling for a 20 per cent wage increase to all work ers. He won and the 20 per cent increase was made effective. As a result, however, production dropped off because the workers started looking to him for raises and advancement. Those work ers formed the bulk of his sup porters whom his late wife, Evita, called "descamisados," or shirtless ones. Even their fervor has been ebbing a little in recent years. Formerly when Peron drove to his office from his home the route was lined with cheering crowds. Today he sleeps in dif- Library Junior Department Has Busiest Summer The junior department of the Medlord Public library has com pleted the busiest summer in its history,, it was reported last week. A total of 26,755 books were borrowed from its shelves dur ing the months of June, July, and August of 1955, or 4,000 more than during any previous summer. Not only books of stories, but biographies and sci entific works, have been popu lar, according to Mrs. Nora Mc Kay, head of the department. New Hours Beginning on Sept. 19, with the opening of school, new opening hours will be observed. The junior department will be closed until noon every morn ing of the week except Saturday, when it will open at 10 a.m. Closing hour each day is at 5:30 p.m., except on Tuesday it will remain open until 9 p.m. Assisting Mrs. McKay in the library for younger readers will be Mrs. - Florence Perkey and Miss Mary Fredenburg. Miss Carolyn Mae Clogston, who during the summer months, has been assisting in the department returned to her studies at the University of Oregon. Nixon Caricature Out of Exhibition San Francisco (U.R) An un complimentary caricature of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon has been removed from exhi bition by officials of the San Francisco Art Festival. The cartoon, captioned "Dick McSmear," was drawn by Vic tor Arnautoff, an art instructor at Stanford University. It pic tured the vicpresident wearing a black mask, holding a pumpkin in one hand and a red-daubed paint brush in the other. There were immediate -artistic rumbles about "censorship" and "freedom of expression," but J. D. Zellerback, president of the Art Commission, said he had the cartoon removed on the protests of private citizens. Zellerbach said that "while I defined the right of artists to uninhibited self-expression," he felt that no public official of any party should "be the subject of a caricature displayed at an art exhibit financed by all the peo ple. The cartoon was priced at $25. Police Chief Warns Owners To Remove Keys from Cars Parked at Home, On Street ferent houses; maintains an ir regular schedule to avoid am bush and his automobile is pre ceded by armed police cars. Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin has urged residents to remove keys from automobiles when they are parked, whether on private property or public streets. Champlin noted that since Jan. 1, this year, there have been nine cases of stolen cars in Medford a relatively small number compared to thefts in other cities the size of Medford. But of the nine stolen, at least three vehicles had the keys in them. Car Badly Damaged The most recent such case in volved a car which was taken from in Iront of a local east side residence by what Champlin termed a "joyrider." The for eign made vehicle was returned to the same position damaged badly from being rolled over by the "joyrider." Another "joyrider" took a ve hicle out of a southwest Med ford residence driveway, drove it about 100 miles, and returned it to the driveway the same night it was taken. In the northwest section a car was left parked on the street with the keys in it. A "joy rider" utilized it for about three hours before returning it to the almost same position. Champlin noted that keys al so are left in vehicles on some local used car lots. Recently a car was taken from a lot and recovered in Klamath Falls the next day. Locks Important The police chief stressed im portance of having ignition lock ed when keys are removed. He noted that some name-brand ve hicles are made with three po sitions "off," "on," and "lock." If the ignition is in the "off" position, the switch may be turned "on" without use of a key, but cannot be turned "on; from the "lock" position with out a key. The theft of a car which was left in the "off" position was re ported recently. The car was taken from downtown Medford, and recovered later the same day on the east side. Another case of car theft this year included one taken from on South Riverside ave. and two days later returned to within a block of where it was taken. The subject, police said, was left in the car asleep with the keys while the owner went into a business establishment on busi ness. Take Keys, Return Juveniles, in another case, re moved keys from a vehicle on a used car lot during daylight hours, and went back during the night and took the car. The vehicle was recovered the next day in Klamath Falls with the two boys who took it. A car was stolen from another downtown parking lot early one afternoon and returned late the same afternoon by youths. One of the youths was given the keys and permission to , have gaso line put in the vehicle at a near by station, according to police records. The vehicle was gone about four hours, and a car theft report filed. Champlin pointed out that car thefts cannot be entirely stopped, but residents might as sist in decreasing the number of thefts by removing keys, and removing other items which would tempt thefts. Some Unpreventable Some cases cannot be pre vented, he said, like one in which an Air Force man wired around the ignition. The car, which was stolen from a used car lat, was recovered in Can yonville. The same person stole several other vehicles in the state, and papers are being pre pared to extradite the Air Force man from California to face charges here. In addition to the nine "found ed" car thefts, there have been eight "unfounded" cases report ed to Medford police. "Unfound ed" cases include those in which people forget where they park their vehicles, and other cases where there was no actual in tent to steal. One of the cases included a case of mistaken identity in which a party drove a car iden tical to one parked next to it in a parking lot. Keys from one fit the other, and the party no ticed no difference in the vehicle. 'Human Fly' Escapee Held at Fort Lewis Fort Lewis, Wash U.R) A 24-year-old AWOL soldier who Friday morning made a daring "human fly" escape from the sixth floor city jail at Portland, Ore., was held for Portland po lice here Saturday. . Jerry Keith Fry surrendered to Army officials here apparently if! the hope of beating a 180-day assault and battery term in Port land. Fort Lewis authorities, however, said they would turn Fry over to Portland police. No extradition procedures would be necessary. Fry, a "locked in" trusty, climbed out , a sixth, floor win dow, and inched along a narrow ledge 60-feet above the ground to a fire escape, down which he descended before police could be alerted. In Portland, police said Fry faced an additional one-year sen tence in the county jail for his escape. fill li TO CONDUCT CLASS Dr. S. Rudisill, pictured above, will conduct an institute on family life at 8 p.m. today in the Zion Lutheran church. He is on an extended tour of the Pacific coast, which he started in Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, in August. He will visit Washington and other Oregon and California points. The institute in the local church is open to the public and all those interested persons are invited. Plans Complete for UMC 'Kick-Off at Medford 'Y' Monday G 74 .fw Lutherans Observing Radio and TV Week The congregations of the Tu theran church (Missouri synod) of which St. Peters Lutheran church, 1020 East Main st., is a member, are observing Lu theran radio and television week, beginning today, accord ing to the pastor, the Rev. Ken neth Korby. This synod is sponsor of the well-known television program, This Is the Life," which is now telecast over 264 stations, and also the sponsor of the "Luther an Hour," now broadcast over 1,250 outlets throughout the world, in 56 different languages. Mr. Korby left today to con duct a series of evangelism serv ices at Redeemer Lutheran church at Gresham. He is one of a group of pastors helping to conduct this series in the larger Portland area. He expects to re turn Thursday.. A "kick-ofi" dinner at the YMCA 6:30 p.m. tomorrow will formally launch the United Med ford Crusade for 1955. The din ner is free and opens the annual UMC drive scheduled to close Nov. 7. After the dinner a torch in the city park will be lighted to burn continuously until the crusade's end. Second Meeting Planned Division leaders, section heads, and solicitors are expected to at tend, with presidents of boards and agencies, their officers and executives invited. Though the five colonels and co-chairmen of the Home, Fund drive are invited, they and the solicitors, not yet appointed, will have a private kick-off meeting Oct. 24. The Rev. George R. V. Bolster will give the invocation and ben ediction, and M. M. Huggins will present the aims and goals of the campaign. John R. Dellenback will address the group on "Life in a Vacuum," and a skit, "Do Well vs. Mean Well," will be given. Contribute Dinner Ray Sorensen and Tony Manno are in charge of dinner arrange ments. Firms contributing the dinner and decorations include Blake Moff it and Towne, Zeller bach Paper company, Snider' and Jorgensen's dairies, Beck's and Fluhrer's bakeries, Rogue Valley Green House and Florists, and Nescafe Coffee company. Eight girls from the eighth grade Tri-Hi-Y will serve. Goal $109,000 The Crusade is beginning its third year, shooting for a goal of $101,000, some $7,000 over last year's quota. The organization distributes funds to 24 charity agencies in the county. Following the dinner, supplies for the King Arthur, Lancelot and Lion Hearted divisions will be distributed to their section heads and solicitors. ROBERTSON School of Business 40-42 N. Riverside, Medford. Ore. PHONE 3-4264 RADIATES MAXIMUM HEAT ELIMINATES ROOM tlCAl 1UN, PROTECTS AGAINST HYING SPARKS, ASHES, DIRT AND DRAFTS TWIN DOORS OPEN WIDE FOR EAST - LOADING OF FUEL j. CONTROL DRAFT WITH TWO SLIDING DOORS FOR FAST OR SLOW FIRE SOLID BRASS CONSTRUCTION, BEAUTY UNHEARD OF. 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