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Medford United Presi Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1955 Pages 1-12 Yanks Still Held In Shanghai Refused Contact Privileges ., Hong Kong (U.R)' Eight Americans believed held in a Shanghai prison have not been permitted to contact the British counsel there lor help in getting out of Red China, according to qualified sources in contact with Shanghai. "The imprisoned Americans 0 have not contacted the British diplomatic r e p r e sentative in Shanghai as yet," the sources said. No Information "There is no Information about them at all. It is not known whether any of them have tried to contact British V; Charge D' Affaires Con O'Neill - r in Peiping. As far as is known they have not been able to con tact anvone." The Chinese Communists agreed at Geneva that the Brit . ish could act in behalf of Amer icans in Red China while India Would act in the same capacity for Chine living in the United States who wanted to return to the Communist mainland. Eight Identified The eight Americans are-understood to be in Shanghai pris ons. They are- identified as: Rev. John William Clifford, San Francisco; Rev. John Alex Houle, San Francisco; Rev. Char les Joseph McCarthy, San Fran cisco; Rev. Joseph Patrick Mc Cormack, Ossining, N.Y.; Rev. Thomas Leonard Phillips, San Francisco; Rev. Armand Proulx, Hal March Enjoys Role As Announcer on $64,000 Question But Longs for Acting By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New Yprk--(U.R Hal March, who found a goldmine of his own on "The $64,000 Question," looked back at the first 18 weeks of the giveaway show today and made the following points: 1. "My racket is acting. I thoroughly enjoy doing "The $64,000 Question' but it's the only exposure I ever want on a quiz show. I don't want to be a quizmaster the rest of my' life." 2. "I'm a bad quizmaster. I get too emotionally involved with the show." 3. "About the only categories on the show I might qualify for myself are spelling and jazz. I could have gone to $16,000 with Gloria Lockerman." '. March currently the most widely seen personality on tele vision (he's viewed by some 50, 000,000 persons each week), is an alumnus of the mills of show biz. Banana In Burlesque The 35-year-old San Francis can has worked as a banana in Burlesque and in cheap night clubs. He has acted in soap op era, the movies and such radio epics as Sam Spade. He had one stint as an announcer and disk jockey. And he has worked as a comic on, the shows of Imogens Coca, Burns and Allen, , Jack Lawrence, Mass.; Rev. John Paul Wagner, Chicago, and Hugh R. Redmond, South Floral Lane, Yonkers, N.Y. Redmond, a businessman, was sentenced in Sept., 1954 to life imprisonment for espionage. Benny, Bob Hope, Marie Wilson and Eddie Cantor. But until this summer when the giant CBS quiz show in stalled him as emcee, he had never really hit it big. "Funny thing," said March, "I didn't want to take the show when it was first offered to me I thought of myself as an actor and still do. But there's no doubt that the show has been beneficial to me. It's great, really great. "I think the best thing about the show is that I can stay my self. I don't have to be a shout ing quizmaster. I underplay. I don't have any tricks because I don't need any. If something is exciting on the show, I get ex cited because I'm involved up to my navel." The trouble was, March ex plained, that getting involved had its worrisome features. He singled out the inadvertent help he had recently given a contest ant, baseball expert Paddy Keough, by letting part of the answer slip out. "I was up there rooting for him," said March. "I made the fluff in my anxiety to pull the answer out of him. A good quiz master wouldn't make that kind of mistake." - March characterized Keough as "perhaps the greatest expert in his field of anyone we've had on the show." RUMBLING INTO NEW CASTLE, massive Gen. Sherman Tank precedes battalion of militia as martial law is declared to preserve order in strike-torn Indiana city. ( . -iat ' al) Timber LHIearongs .'Will ChecEt n Report Uncle Sam Mot (Getting Money's Worth By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Two congres sional committees that have planned a series of timber in vestigative hearings in the Pa cific Northwest next month are intent on checking into a gov ernment report that Uncle Sam isn't getting his .money's worth from federal forestlands in the region. While the hearings will spot light local problems of the mo ment where the hearings are held, from O&C marketing re strictions in western Oregon to what the Indians are getting for their timber at Quinault reserva tion on the Olympic peninsula, the basis for the probe will be a 1953 investigative report of the U.S. General Accounting Of fice. Government Losing Money That report, based on a GAO review of some 2,000 timber sales in the Pacific Northwest, found the government losing money to private timber oper ators who purchase federal tim ber. GAO. investigators listed these practices and conditions which 'they said were at fault: 1. "Gentlemen's agreements" among operators to restrict com petitive bidding. 2. Private control (of govern ment timber) through private ownership of contiguous land and access roads. 3. Timber sale practices of the forestry agencies Forest Serv ice, Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs. ' 4. Effect of the xapital gain and loss provision of the tax code, section 117k. "Our purpose is to develop Ipcal opinion on any improve ments that might be made," ex plained William H. Coburn, coun sel of the Senate Interior ' sub committee. "We want the testi mony to be constructive. Anyone who has a legitimate complaint. we want to hear. But we want to avoid this developing into an adversary proceeding." To Explore Complaints . Complaints received about tim ber sale matters by Sens. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) and Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), both committee members, will be ex plored, Coburn said. The hear ings will be in Redding, Calif., Klamath Falls, Medford, Rose burg, Eugene, Seattle, Aberdeen, Portland and Spokane. Chief criticism of the Forest Service in the 1953 GAO report Judge Rules Copying . Hat Style Not Illegal Milwaukee (U.R) Circuit Judge Myron L. Gordon ruled that it is not illegal to copy a hat. ' Gordon ruled in favor of the Slocum Hat Corp., which had been sued for $200,000 by the Everitt Hat Co. on allegations that Slocum copied Everitt hats. Gordon said it was not illegal for a hat-maker to' copy a com petitor's style as long as there was no intent to deceive, the buying public. Relatives Take Blame For Parking Violations Fall River, Mass. (U.R) Police had some changes , made when they discovered that a mo torist had a dozen parking vio lations yet his record showed but one. Friends and relatives had been accepting the blame and the warning to "first-offenders." So the cops got the city council to change the law and hold car own ers responsible for all violations regardless of who takes the blame. THE "BIG M" BRINGS at a Price within It looks big! It feels big! It acts big.. .and it is big! The whoppingest package of power and beauty that Mercury has ever put on the road ! 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