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the examiner Friday Nov 24 1978 States today AP Photo Mortuary personnel at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware decontaminate metal coffins at special hangar on the base Thursday The caskets were used to transport some of the mass suicide victims from Jonestown Guyana to the United Cult leaders body identified DOVER AIR FORCE BASE Del AP The body of Rev Jim Jones positively identified by the FBI lay with those of growing number of his followers today in the chill of military morgue mai ned required to complete the airlift The decomposing corpses of more than half of the 408 oples Temple followers who died in mass cult suicide in Guyana were returned to the Uni ted States by early today but the grisly task of identifying and cleaning the bodies re 14l rr Force cargo planes carrying the bodits were scheduled to arrive throughout the day By early morning four planes bearing 27o bodies had landed at the base which military spokesmen said was the only morgue in the country equipped to hand le the large number of casual tics Air Force spokesmen said two more flights would be Maj Brigham Shuler chief press officer for the base said Jonts adopted daughter was not ified of the identificatimr Former Peoples Temple members had said the body might not be Jones because he had lookalikes stand in for him in dangerous situations IDENTIFY JONES But three hours after the second plane arrived carrying body in an aluminum case labelled 13B and Rev Jimmie Jones the FBI armounced the identification was official Flil Director Williarn Webster said in statement that the FBI disaster squad identified the body as that of James Warren Jones based on fingerprints supplied by lios Arrgeles police The bodies were taken from the aluminum cases used for the flight and lrrred up in plastic bags to await identification The cases were being steamed disinfected and returned to Guyana because the Air Force did not have enough for all 40H bodies Shuler said The arrivals were handled in an assemblyline fashion The first plane which arrived shortly before dawn Thur sday was greeted by prayer read by the base chaplain Volunteer aimren moved the bodies from the planes to the morgue Shulcr said the bodies will be identified before they are cleaned or embalmed He urged relatives ot cult ists to send the state departrrrent records which might help with the fingerprints ident rt rcatron dental charts Ftll PASSPURTS process Shuler said 174 of the bodies were tentatrvel ment expense pictures rays or identified in the Jonestown Guyana camp where they died ttfficials also found about ttoo passports at the commune he said Mary Anne Bader state department spokesman said families of the victims must pay to transport the bodies for bunal in their hornetowns She said unidcrrtifitd or un claimed bodies will be buried in the Dover area at govern Shuler said the body of young teenager among the first to arrive here was tentatively identified as that of an adopted son of the 4tryearold Jones The boys name was not released Joncs followers died in mass suicide at their jungln commune Saturday after some members of the group at tacked Representative Leo Ryan DemTalifr and party travelling with him on an investigation of the cult Ryan and four others were killed and Jones then ordered his followers to drink poison military official who asked not to estimated the cost of bringing the bodies to the US could reach$H million Photo be An Air Force crewman helps with the caskets on the third plane load of 8i bodies to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this morning AP identified Hands off warning to Aussie PO union OTTAWA Cl Canadian officials and visiting Austral ian politician Thursday warned the Australian postal workers union to leave the issue of crim inal charges against nine postal union aders to Canadians They were reacting to reports the Australian Postal and lele communications Union had sent telegram to Prime Minister Trudeau warning that communications between anada and Australia would be cut off if charges are laid against leaders of the anadian Union of Postal Workers who defied backtowork orders from Parliament last month ll is an internal Canadian affair said Roger Shipton Liberal party member of the Australian House of Reprserr tatives call on them to with draw the letter to Mr lrudcau in the interests of Australian anadian relations He said action would only in convenience Australians and would bring the whole union movement in Australia into ill repute Shipton has been serving as the parliamentary adviser to Pereda government topples his countrys delegation to the UN in New York and was in tawa when news of the threat ening telegram was released Wednesday spokesman for Postmaster General Gilles Lamontagne said the Australian declaration wont change our mind The telegram was read to the annual convention of the British olumbia Federation of Labor by Frank Walden director of CUPWs Western region and one of the nine union executives who face the criminal charges Bolivian army takes over LA IAZ AP The Bolivian amiy announcul at dawn today it has seized control of this South American nation in an apparently bloodless coup that ended the govermrrent of Gen Juan lereda which came to power in July We take over command of the country terrrtxrrarily with the purpose of creating the Bo livia that was drearrrt by generr tllttns of ttolivians an army communique said It was deliv cred to the offices of news or ganizatiorrs by anned men in civilian clot hes The communique signed by army mmmandcr Gen David ladilla Arancibia promised national elections and transfer of power to civilian government by August of next year It was leredas refusal to hold elections before 1980 that apparently set the stage for the coup the fifth in this central Latin American country in the last 14 years Cant wait for snow these $l80 rollerskis from Sweden and poles with Michael Geraghty 23 cant wait for the snow to arrive To get jump on the skiing season he has 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