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EIGHTMEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE - Thursday, February 2. 1936 I Argentina's La Prensa Resumes Free Status After Five Years Under Peron FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Correspondent Buenos Aires, Argentina CU.R) A thousand men and women entered the portals of two buil dings 14 blocks apart in Buenos Aires today eager for the task of bringing back to life La Pren sa, one of the world's great newspapers. Through the high portals and past the vast opened iron doors of the main building on Avenida De Mayo came executive direc tors, reporters and the people of the business office. Into the composing room and printing plant on Chile and Azopardo streets streamed the compositors and pressmen. The silent press room, immac ulately clean, awaited the time a few hours hence when Dr. Al berto Gainza Paz will press the button and a free La Prensa will become part of a free Ar gentina. In a corner of the press room, dwarfed by the gigantic presses required for the La Prensa of tomorrow, is a tiny press which will have no part in things to come. Its vork has been done and well. It is the hand-operated press upon which Dr. Gain za's grandfather printed the first copy of La Prensa 87 years ago. Held by Force La Prensa has been in the founding family four genera tions, including Dr. Gainza s sons, excepting five years when dictator Juan Domingo Peron seized the . newspaper and be gan publishing it as his own Nov. 19, 1951. Peron held La Prensa by force and drove its famed editor into exile in the United States, but never suc ceeded in benefiting from its prestige and dignity. . -A large picture of Peron was erected on one side of the e& trance and his Evita on the other, both outlined in electric lights. The news columns of La Prensa were filled with his per sonal propaganda, its social col umns with pictures of his wife. But Argentina was not delud ed by the synthetic La Prensa, and despite the peak of the Peron popularity its circulation sank from over a half-million FECIAL SAL All's MARKET Friday & Saturday Specials BEEF ROASTS Shoulder Cats lb. 29 PORK LOIN Whole or Half lb 39 Pork Shoulder ROAST lb 27 ctoeS bacon Piece or Sliced lb 37 Many Other GOOD BUYS Not Listed! W reserve the right to limit. If you desire a large order we would like to have a little extra time to fill it. McANDREWS ROAD 2 blocks north and' three blocks west of Jackson School PHONE 3-1666 to less than one hundred thous-. and. . Of the thousand people who entered the-portals of La Pren sa today more than 620 are vet erans of the days of the news paper under the Paz family. Most of them steadfastly refus ed to take part in the production of the . stolen newspaper under Peron. Only five editorial em ployees went over to the dicta tor's banner and only two of them were key men. Sixty-three-year-old Juan Fa rina walked proudly through the main portal of the hand some building on Avenida de Mayo today, typifying the ex traordinary loyalty of the La Prensa organization. Juan's was a humble job and it will be again as office attendant and doorman for Dr. Gainza. Instructed to Return When Peron seized the news paper and. Dr. Gainza escaped, first to Montevideo and later to New York, Juan left Le Prensa, too. Instructed by Peron's lieu tenants to return to his post, he said stoutly: "No, I work for Dr. Gainza Paz and none else." . Regularly during the days of mail censorship and terror, when one employee of the old La Prensa was murdered and 14 others injured, Juan ' Farina wrote faithful reports to Dr. Gainza. His simple letters condemned Peron and all his works and prayed for the return of the Paz family and the dictator's down fall. The envelopes, opened by the censors regularly, carried his name and return address. He even added his telephone num ber. "Weren't you afraid?" he was asked. x "Afraid?" the old man replied. "Senor, 1 . am a Spaniard." Juan Farina is back at work today, after five long years, in the dignified old building on the pleasant Avenida de Mayo where the green leaves and trees wave in " the pleasant summer breeze. Only the, subway jen trance seems anachronism. On the other side of the aven ue Argentines sit at coffee tables outside fragrant little cafes and watch the intensifying activity, in the newspaper building as Dr. Gainza, Farina and the thou sand others prepare to bring the newspaper back to life. -lit ..AVIUM"' I . rr n j j r o pn PROOf CMSTM. Ms RADIUM NIGHT DIAL tow 1 WITH THt TO TAKE IT! Desioned W long se P;0 The watcn , 7 The watch hat can- e l0f T W of every day usage a"d 1 wayscom.uP spr en lM' Rodiam l9 1W ' movement m ABti.moqttic . Water-re . Shoek-resistant , viq rfo4oW. 122 6. MAIN MtUfUKU Stevenson Warns j Of Overconfidence During Campaign San Francisco (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson, warning Demo crats against overconfidence dur ing the forthcoming election campaign, took his own advice to heart today. - Stevenson, now touring Cali fornia in an attempt to win the state's, 68 Democratic con vention votes in the June 5 pri mary, made the most' of every chance to meet local party lead ers and the public. Today, for example, he sched uled a press conference planned to attend a reception by ; 200 members of a San "Francisco Welcoming Committee, and meet this afternoon with key North ern California campaign sup porters; and later with 250 labor representatives. Tonight he will speak at a box supper at Bay Meadows race track in San Mateo. ; He's Available The former governor of Illinois carried out a similar schedule in Oakland yesterday and last night. In a speech at Oakland Auditorium he told an audience of 3,600 an open secret: "I seek the' presidency of the United States. "I do not say I am qualified. Anyone who says he is, lacks the first qualification: Humility. "But I am available." In an earlier address to 150 labor leaders at the AFL-CIO Labor Temple, Stevenson issued his warning about overconfi dence: - "Our - situation in the party is not as easy as it might seem," he said. "From what I have observed so far on my current trip, possibly there is too much confidence in the party. I'm afraid it is not justified." 'Very Tough Fight' He said the Democrats have a "very tough fight" ahead of them in the forthcoming elec tion. "When you have to buck big money, big business and big press, you have a pretty formid able job in front of you," he said. Supporters of Sen. Estes Ke fauver (D-Tenn.) meanwhile an nounced they will continue . to charge Stevenson is the "candi date of the bosses' even though Stevenson said on his arrival in California on Tuesday that such charges were "unworthy and unfair." .Stevenson and Kefauver are vying for California's conven tion votes. 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Major offenses included -12 burglaries, 13 larceny-theft, 37 iarceny-theft under $50, two auto theft and one rape. Other offenses included 147 traffic and motor vehicle laws, 122 violation of road and driv ing laws, three drunk driving, 38 drunkeness, 16 embezzlement, four disorderly conduct, 13 va grancy, one buying, receiving or possessing stolen property, one narcotic drug laws, and 31 other offenses. Of the total offenses, 86 per cent were cleared by officers. The department reported 669 miscellaneous services rendered and 41 public reports made, bringing the total of all reports to 1,155. ' Federal Mediators AtlempS To Break Electric Strike Use'Tribune Want Ads Washington (U.R) Federal mediators tried again today to break the deadlock in the 110 day old Westinghouse Electric Corp.strike. Company and union negotia tors met with Federal Mediation Director Joseph F. Finnegan to continue talks that were trans ferred from Pittsburgh Wednes day. Finnegan told reporters after meeting separately with each side for more ' than five hours Wednesday that "some contract language had been dis cussed. But he refused to say whether any progress had been made. Indications were that the lan guage discussed did not concern the main obstacle to ending the strike. It was understood that still trying to move the dispute off what one informant called "dead center." . ' Consider Meeting Finnegan said he would de cide today whether to try to bring both sides into a joint meeting. He . said, "we'll see which way we can make the most money" a reference to progress, rather than wages. Finnegan said he did not know how long he would continue the Washington talks. "When and if we feel there is a sufficient basis established for continuing negotiations be tween both parties," he said, the peace talks will move back to Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. 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