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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE ;Herniann: Foeldl IM IPDnysD caDDy R3 osi reateill Diy IPolles, Firess (CoDnffeireinice ToDdl Friday. February 18, 1955 $50,000 Indemnify Paid for 5 Years In Warsaw Prison i London (U.R) American architect Hermann Field told a press conference today he never was a Communist or a Western spy. He said Red Poland has paid him $50,000 indemnity for the more than five years he spent in a Warsaw suburban jail. Field, whose home is in Cleveland, wept as he told for the first time the full story of his Iron Curtain imprisonment. He broke down when he told of seeing the American ambassador in Warsaw for the first time after his release and again when he spoke of his reunion with bis wife and his two young sons. Not Mistreated Still obviously nervous from his ordeal, but appearing to be in good health, Field said he never was physically mistreated by Polish authorities. "However, I was subjected to extreme psychological tensions,'' he said. "There was a. general effort at exhaustion. I had very little sleep during the periods of questioning which went on .sometimes seven hours at a Istretch." Field said that during his en tire imprisonment, from mid September 1949 until his release JOct. 25, 1954, he never was per jmitted out of doors. He said he discovered, during Ihis interrogation, that the prin cipal thing the Poles held against jhim was the work he had done jin Cracow in 1939 on behalf of ; Czechoslovak refugees from Hit iler. I Never Been Agent j "This apparently was miscon jstrued as part of a British-Amer- ican plan to subvert the postwar : Czech regime,", he. said. "As I Poland has by now discovered, this was not the case and I have never been an agent for any body." ( He said he had nothing to do but pace his cell until several one-man hunger" strikes won ; him a pencil and a copybook and i'the permission to write, some I time in 1951. After that, he' said, he wrote one novel and a book of reflections on prison life, i both of which now are being prepared ior pucuicauun..; jGYPSY TROUBLE ' I Kent, O. ' U.R) The gypsy iinoth' is an example of a dream I which became a nightmare, ac i cording to Davey tree experts, jit was imported from France 85 J years ago .for experiments in jsilk production. These failed, Ibut the leaf -eating moths escap- 1 ed and lived on to cause millions iot dollars worth of tree damage. Rayburn Says More Help Needed To Save Ike's Foreign Trade Bill STILL TRYING French Socialist Leader Christian Plneau talks with newsmen in Paris about his attempt to break the deadlock in his country's politics. Pineau, the third to be asked to form a ministry to replace the defeated Cab'net of Pierre Mendes-France, has won the support of Mendes-France in forming new government. Pineau said he plans to form his Cabinet from members of the parties that agree to back his program. On The Side (Distributed by King There continues to be consid erable room for improvement in the uniforms worn by waitresses. Most of the tray queens look as if they had just picked their uni forms off a pile at random with complete disregard for size. Their appearance brings to mind Dean Swift's classic crack "She looks as if her clothes were thrown on her with a pitchfork." The best dressed girls among those . whose activity requires Talent High Picks Cast for Comedy Talent "I Love Lucy," a three-act comedy adapted from the current Desilu television program, was cast this week at the Talent high school as the spring play to be given in the school gymnasium April 1. . Scenes from . several of the original television scripts were compiled by Christopher Sergei to make up the comedy enter tainment, according to the facul ty director, Glen Lamb. In the cast were Maudalene Marshall and George Zickefoose will play the leading roles as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Ethel and Fred Mertz will be played by Bonnie Leeper and Dale Wal ter, respectively. Others m the cast are Christine Knudsen, Jack Barrett, Deanna Snelson, Russell Lindner, Priscilla Welch, Stuart Webber, Frank Tycksen and Gerald BartoL Sharon Kilburn, school drama club president, will be student director. Rehearsals begin next week. s m - m LIGHTWEIGHT CULTIVATOR Merry Tiller, the self-pr opelled, efficient rotary culti vator and garden tractor two machines in one for. all your farm and garden needs! Merry Tiller is light, sturdy, dependable ... produces more garden easier, for less money! REAL FARM AND GARDEN HELPER Come in or phone for free Merry Tiller demonstration! See it perform many jobs with little effort. Test ease of controls. No wheels to pack soil; patented gripper-Ieverage principle out performs machines larger and heavier.. See it today! PRICED FROM $162.50 $1625 Down ?800 Month YOU DIAltt J JOHNSTON STORES 112 SOUTH RIVERSIDE By E. V. Durling Features Syndicate, Inc.) the wearing of a uniform are the nurses of dentists. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Who introduced the song titled "If I ever cease to love"? A. The bal lad you mention, much sung at the New Orleans Mardi Gras, was introduced in this country by Lydia Thompson, star of that burlesque troupe known as "Lydia - Thompson's British Blondes." Q. - My friend says when Helen Morgan sang at the Club Morgan she sat on the top of the piano. I say she sat on the top of the end of the ban Who's right? A.- You are both right. Helen, when warbling at the Club Morgan, always assumed a gay, casual attitude. At times she sat on top of the piano. At other times on the top at the end of the bar. -Please Note Who was Sir Joseph Priestly? Ask the owner of your neigh borhood drug store to answer that question. If he cannot do so quick as a flash, he should blush a long, long blush for his inex cusable ignorance. Sir Joseph Priestly discovered chlorophyll. He also invented soda water. So, if your neighborhod drug store has a soda fountain and the owner didn't know who Priestly was, he really .should be ashamed of himself." . Horses and Women . What height. Im'ust a young woman have to be rated as tall"? Feminine subscriber, who measures five feet eight, says she was much disappointed to find she was hot eligible for membership in one of those clubs for tall young people. She was informed the minimum height for feminine members was five feet ten. My belief is that a woman of five feet eight in her nylons is in the tall class. In fact, I once heard of an organi zation of young women who considered themselves tall called "The Sixty-eight Club." Name of club was inspired by the mini mum height required for mem bership which was 68 inches, or five feet eight. ,. Bold Bid One of the boldest and most obvious bids for a tip is when .a bartender returns change on a tray. No self-respecting cafe owner should permit this form of barroom banditry. The cus tomers rightly resent it.' When a man is charged. 75 or 85 cents for a seven-eighths of an ounce jigger of whiskey and is then held up for a tip by the bartend er, it is truly adding insult to injury. Bartenders are paid ex cellent salaries. and should not stoop so low as to beg for tips. Things to Come - In ten years or less, according to Dornberger, celebrated rock et plane expert, it will be possi ble to travel from New York to Paris in 75 minutes. So, it won't be long- now, sir, when your wife will be able to leave Manhattan after luncheon for a shopping trip to Dior's .or Fath's in Paris and be home, with a few new evening" gowns" before dinner time the same day. Among the Married Few women object to the term "housewife." All campaigns to have it changed to "home mana ger" have failed. In the 1930 census, the United States gov ernment substituted "home man ager" for "housewife." It made no particular impression. Nor did it inspire much comment. The term "housewife" is now widely used and that of "home manager" rarely. Washington (U.R) Speaker Sam Rayburn, credited with sav ing President Eisenhower's for eign trade bill yesterday, warned he could not do it again today without more administration help. , - By implication he put the tariff-cutting bill's fate in the House squarely up to the Presi dent and his Republican back ers. The Texas Democrat told reporters: "If . they (the Republicans) don't produce more than the 65 votes they produced for the bill yesterday it probably will be recommitted." Rayburn spoke out as the House headed toward a show down vote on a recommittal mo tion by which high tariff pro tectionists hoped to revamp the measure before final passage. Compromise Sought - The protectionists were con fident of victory, as a result of their strong showing yesterday. President Eisenhower's GOP lieutenants sought with no ap parent success to work out a compromise with Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.) who had full charge of the final assault to weaken the bill. Christian Teaching Mission Scheduled March 3 Through 10 A Christian teaching mission, part of a national program, will be held in Medf ord from March 3 through March 10, and will be sDonsored v by 10 Medford churches. ' . Conducting the mission will he Dr. Paul L. Sturees of La Grange. 111., director of educa tional evangelism for the Na tional Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Participating Churches Participating in the mission by conducting self-study pro grams to ascertain strengths and weaknesses within their individ ual churches will be the follow ing Medf ord congregations: The First Christian church, Church of the Nazarene, Congregation al, Medford Friends, Eastwood BaDtist. Zion Lutheran, St. Pet er's Lutheran, Bethel Baptist, First Methodist and First Pres byterian churches. Each church is conducting, with guest leaders, its own pro gram according to its own be liefs, according to the Medford Ministerial association. Guest leaders will aid in the study pro grarri and also furnish guidance in the strengthening of weak points revealed in the study. Committee Named Local committee for the mis sion includes the Rev. Kenneth F. Korby, the Rev. Willis Loar, the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman, and Dr. D. Kir kland West. The same group of churches, along with Sacred Heart, will also conduct a city-wide reli gious census Sunday, March' 6. Reeds recommittal motion would strip the President of seme of his discretionary power to overrule . Tariff Commission recommendations for restric tions against imports competing with American industry. Rayburn's dramatic plea to the House yesterday was cred ited with the one-vote margin by which the House barred other amendments. But he told a re porter he was not taking any personal credit. ".. . Wants Strong Language Despite White House opposi tion, Reed seemed determined to attempt to write into the Reciprocal Trade Law the strongest tariff protectionist language in its 21-year history. Democratic and Republican leaders were buttonholing doubt ful members on both sides of the aisle for the final showdown vote. GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. declined to say whether there was an chance of a compromise he could sup port; . ' ; President Eisenhower was re p6rted to have written a letter to Martin urging the House to support his program. Martin said he was expecting a letter from .the President and if it arrived he would read it to the House. . Reed hoped to revamp the bill on a motion to recommit it to the Ways and Means Committee the only weapon left to pro tectionists. Reversing itself in a dramatic see-saw battle, the House Thurs day beat down efforts to open the bill to a stack of restrictive amendments. 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