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
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. 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.
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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. Both men will appear
before the convention . of the
California Democratic Council
in Fresno Saturday. Although
the council will not endorse
either man, the impression each
leaves will be considered crucial
to his chances of winning sup
port among party leaders in the
state. i
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$6,252,516 Total Loans
Real estate loans totaling
$6,252,516 were disbursed in
Oregon by The Prudential In
surance Co. of America . to
finance residential, commercial
and farm projects during the
year 1955, it was announced
yesterday by T. M. Garhart,
Medford mortgage loan super
visor for the company.
The 1955 total represents
$4,544,697 in. residential loans,
$487,819 in commercial and in
dustrial projects and $1,220,000
in farm loans.
Dead line Sunday classified Is at
noc-n Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for
Monday; other days 5:30 previous day,
Police Report 445
Offenses in January
: A total of 445 offenses was re
ported to the city police depart
ment during January, compared
with 477 a year ago. Sixty-five
were major offenses and 380
were ' miscellaneous, according
to the monthly department rec
ord. 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
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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.
The main issues in the dispute
are the company's demand for
a five-year contract, its wage
offer and its plans for a time
study at its plants. The striking
AFL-CIO electrical workers un
ion is holding out for a settle-
I ment on wages under its present
contract, wnicn expires in a
year. The union also claims that an agreement on ground Jrules
the Westinghouse five-year con
tract offer is not as good as the
one signed with General Electric
Co. last year.'
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for the' time study.
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