THE MORNING OREG ONI AN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1918.
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HOUSESURVEYSHQWS
SHORTAGE OF HOMES
Entire Portland Has but 216
Vacant Apartments.
HOTEL ROOMS IN DEMAND
A boat 1725 Places Reported In Xeed
of Investigation Before Being
Listed as Acceptable.
That Portland's saturation point, so
far as single rooms are concerned. Is
far from reached. Is shown in the com
plated report of the emergency housing
survey committee, which was presented
to President Baker, of the Portland
Bousing Company, yesterday.
The. report, on the other hand, shows
that the point of saturation has been
reached as regards apartments, flats
and dwellings for the accommodation
of families of war workers, and em
phasises, in the opinlbn of housing offi
cials, the immediate importance of get
ting the programme under way.
Figures from the report will be for
warded to the Department of Labor
In Washington, under whose direction
the emergency survey was made, and
re expected to exert a beneficial
Influence in bringing the need of more
houses to the attention of departmental
beads.
Vaeant Apartments Searee.
In the entire city of Portland there
are but 21$ vacant apartments or flats
and some of these are wholly unde
sirable, according to reports made by
canvassers. In the better class hotels
few rooms are to' be had, while in
cheaper hotels there are large numbers
of rooms. All of these are listed with
the Permanent Placement Bureau,
which Is to have headquarters
In the old Alnsworth National Bank
building at Third and Oak streets,
where the United States Employment
Bureau Is to be located.
During the bousing canvass 45.8S8
buildings were listed and Vice-President
Keed estimates that the report is
practically 100 per cent complete. Of
these. 35.659 could offer no accommo
dations for roomers, while 4529 af
forded rooms: 1205 can give room and
board: 615 have furnished rooms for
housekeeping and 215 have unfurnished
housekeeping rooms.
Room a Are Held Plentiful.
Canvassers reports show 1725 places
In Portland in need of investigation be
fore being listed as acceptable for
placement of roomers, these consisting
of buildings which offer prospects, but
which are considered doubtful, and are
listed as such. Under the head of va
cancies and remodeling are listed 1706
, buildings, most of which are in bad
state of repair. These will be referred
to the city building Inspector's depart
ment, where inspections will be made
and estimates prepared as to the cost
of repairing the structures. These es
timates then will be turned over to
the reconstruction committee, in order
that owners may be appealed to to put
the dwellings in shape for occupancy
In the rooms listed in the survey may
be accommodated 10,369 persons, ac
cording to the tabulation. 4759 of these
being males, and 695 females. In rooms
that are open either to men or women
can be housed 4957 persons. Room end
board can be had for 2097 additional
residents in Portland, accommodations
being at hand for 1300 men and 236
women. In places open either to men
or women can be quartered 661 persons.
Need of Hoasea Emphasised.
There are 1310 housekeeping rooms,
of which 190 are located in apartments
and 1120 in other buildings. Unfur
nished housekeeping rooms number 25S.
of which number 26- are in apartments
or flats and 252 in other locations.
Members of the committee are thor
oughly convinced that the great need
of houses In Portland is emphasized
by the figures, and are confident that
official Washington will recognize the
serious problem facing the city. Chair
man Colt presented the report to Mayor
Baker in the presence of local offi
cials of the Kmergcncy Fleet Corpora
tion, heads of the building inspection
department and representatives of the
reconstruction committee. '
He expressed appreciation of the as
sistance given by the canvassers in the
various precincts, and by teachers who
ro-operated In tabulation of the final
figures.
H Holly Milk & Cereal Co. 8, fM.
. Cooked and
ready to serve
Holly Rice
and Milk
A Mmserratlon food a food
that provMea sturdy mater
ial for stealth, and sound
. . . . i - i,Mn
11 t combined with the purest of
Jersey millc i wonderfully nutritious,
wholesome and appelziDg.
Can be prepared In many ways
and every one of them tempting
axl delicious.
For war-ttaw eeonoroy Htotly Rice
and Milk Is the tmly e-swutial food.
Order Holly Rice and Milk and
Holly Condensed Milk by the doien
cans saves time and extra deliveries.
250 ADMITTED TO BENSON
OREGON MEN" SENT TO ARMY
TRAIXEVG DETACHMENT.
Number Entered at School Would
Have Been Larger bub for Prev
alence of Influenza.
From over the state of Oregon yester
day about 250 inductees were entrained
for Portland to enter the Army Train
ing Detachment at the Benson School.
Most of these arrived at the school dur
ing the day and evening.
Many boards reported inability to
send individual inductees, because of
influenza. At least three boards in
Portland had men of these calls who are
influenza patients or have dangerous
colds.
Under the original call. No. 1384
nearly all the registrants received at
the mechanics training school yester
day were voluntary inductees. A large
number also volunteered for the Student
Army Training Corps work. Local
board No. 3 looked after the induction
of most of these men who enrolled In
Portland, sending an aggregate of 35.
Local boards of Portland sent these
men to the Benson School under their
regular calls or as volunteers:
Board No. 2 Lawrence Skipton, 258
Eleventh street: Oscar Mayer. Chapman
street; Joseph Blanc. 2-1 Broadway: Leon
Henry Van Order. SCM Alder street: Robert
Ewirt Burns, 300 Taylor street.
Board No. 3 John William Bold, Arsyle
apartments: Sir Erickson. ol!6 Hall street;
Ferris K. fox. 1819 Virginia avenue; l-.awara
I. Silverton. 306 Jackson street: Vern V.
Tales, 3'jO Twelfth street; Frank G. Llnd-
Station and then along the Northern
Pacific tracks to the Clarke County
Fish Hatchery where lunch will be
eaten. The return trip to Portland
will start at 6 o'olock. Mrs. Ora Harper
and Augustus High will be the lead
ers. ,
LINN YOUTHS ARE CALLED
Five Boys Will Enter Training at
Benson Polytechnic.
ALBANY, Or, Oct. 25. (Special.)
Five Linn County boys left today to
become members of the training - de
tachment at the Benson Polytechnic
Institute in Portland. They will qual
ify for service as mechanics in the
Army.
' The contingent consisted of Millard
Bynum Doughton, Lebanon; Richard
E. Anderson, Albany; Horace Verne
Lerwill, Brownsville; George Garrison
Coon, Shedd; and John Frank McRey-
nolds, Shedd.
Three young men who volunteered
and were inducted are JIugh Fisher
Hammerly, Albany, who will enter i
hospital unit at Camp Lewis, Wash,
and Raymond Arthur Nebergall, Al
bany, and Chester E. Lehn, Shedd, both
of whom enter the Tank Corps at Camp
Colt, Gettysburg, Pa.
FURNITURE JJEMAND GROWS
Local Makers Not Disturbed by War
Industries Board Order.
Furniture manufacturers of Port
land are not alarmed over the order of
the War Industries, Board limiting- the
number of designs that may be manu
factured and the kinds of wood em-
stroni. 3o Grant street: Philip Caruso. 632 I Ployed. On the contrary, they say that
Fourth street; wllber R. Murpny. as west i greater production man ever is ex-
WILLIAM REIDT RECOVERS
Operation Successful and "Work for
Soldiers to Be Resumed Soon.
William Reidt, well known In Port
land as "father of the Third Oregon,"
Is recovering from a surgical operation
which he underwent recently and is
making plans for continuing his ac
tivities for the comfort of soldier boys
stationed at Vancouver Barrack. Mr.
Reidt is making arrangements to get
500 boxes of apples for men in the
Vancouver hospital, and his automobile
will be placed at the disposal of men
who are convalescing. He estimates he
will be in condition in about three
weeks to resume his programme of en
tertainment for men in olive drab.
Mr. Reidt won his way into the hearts
of members of the Third Oregon be
fore that organization left for France,
and is frequently mentioned by sol
diers who write from the battle sone.
TYPIST IS R. F. D. CARRIER
Elizabeth Tatcs Resigns County Po
sition for Outdoor Work.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Oct. 25. (Special-
Miss Klizabeth Yates, daughter
of W. K. Yates. Republican candidate
for County Attorney, and for several
t'rm typist In the County Auditor's
office in this city, has resigned and to
day started work as rural mail carrier
on route 5, past Salmon Creek. The
route is along paved roads most of the
way.
Bond street; Lawrence L. Duff, 66 Cast
Kirhth street-
Board No. A Forrest J. Braniey, twi
Foster road: Fred A. Jones, 7244 Fifty
fourth avenue Southeast; Andrew D. Junor,
1 in Offdon avenue: John A. Austin. ol
Holpate street; Chaster H. Treichel, 533 Mall
street.
Board No. 5 Roy J. Scherinser, T,:."j .st
Ninth street: Luclan Hampton, 427 East
Sovnth street: Edward C. Carter. l"o2 East
Yamhill street; Dewey Franklin Reed, 3S0
East Kirhth street: Huch Eugene uenwooay,
GOO East Twenty-first street; Clyds Cowin
Fnisv. Sfi7 East Th rty-nintn street; Annu
Haneenid. 3VJ Glisan street; Wealln Sub-
tot t a 711 Rrooklvn street.
Board No. 6 Orlle Davis, 150 East Twen
tv. ninth street: Oeoree Henry wuson, ji
East Irving; street; Manning B. Hearn, Map
nniia annrt ments : Theodore Palitzsch. 6K
Tillamook street; Karl Cowan. 6M3 East
Couch street; P. TV. Whltton. Oaksdale,
Board No. 7. T.awrenr A. Glass, 741 Kast
Fnrtv-fourth street North: riarvey ... win
ters. 115 Eighty-second street North: Ray
R T"re- 651 East Forty-fifth street North
Melvtn A. Chrtsman, 650 East Sixty-first
street North; Walter G. Taylor, 241 East
Htehty-second street North; Edward D.
S.reser. 65 East Eightieth street North
Harry S. Altree, 41i East Twelfth street
Board No. 8 Emll H. Peterson, 80 Beech
street: Henry MJier, huu urana avenue
Robert B. Hamilton, 1031 East Twenty-sec
ond street North: Jay D. Dalziel. 1118 Mich
Iran avenue; Ewell Thatcher. 095 Sixteenth
street North.
Board No. 9. Merlin R. Chlpman. 718
Tillamook street; George Henkel, 273 Gra
ham avenue; Carl L. Can ad y, 553 Glisan
street.
Board No. 11. (Multnomah County.)
Maynard B. George, Charles Hiram Langdon.
Roy Hanwley, Paul H. Burckhard, William
Keves McClure, lra iee wells, Jvingsley Ue-
Roche Bundy, Donald W. Gilbert, Benjamin
H. Wyant, Noble Condon McLane, Frits
IsUScher. Harry C. Chase, R. H. Stanley. Con
rad H. Miller, Charles Ralph Welch, Frank
Joseph Seidl.
RESCUER IS BADLY BUM
ELECTRIC CHARGE SHOCKS
TWO IX SCBSTATIOX.
Higher Kates Authorized.
OREGOXIAX NEWS Bt'REAU, Wash
Incton. Oct. ;5. The Federal Adminis
tration has advised that the Oregon
Public Service Commission raise rates
(or the Sumpter Valley Railroad, thus
providing- funds with which to pay th.
increased wages demanded by the strik
ing emnloyes.
KLEEN-rMID
BREAD
A bread that wll "pass
muster" at every meal.
Ask your
Grocer.
First Man to Suffer From Short Cir
cuit May Be Fatally Injured.
Other Less Seriously Hurt-
Ben Olitt. 31, of 841 Brooklyn street,
was probably fatally burned, and H. D.
Bowman, 30, of 961 Tibbetta street, was
seriously burned -by electricity follow
ing a short circuit at the Columbia
substation of the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company at Vancouver
avenue and Columbia boulevard, late
yesterday. Mr. Bowman was burned
while trying to rescue Mr. Olitt, who
was working on the machinery when
he sustained a shock from high volt
age wires.
The shock had knocked Mr. Olitt
down. Mr. Bowman seized him and
tried to drag him away, but he had no
sooner touched his injured friend than
the current eent him reeling.
Mr. Olitt sustained burns over the
entire surface of his body. Mr. Bow
man was burned about the arms, legs
and back. Both men were taken to the
Good Samaritan Hospital by the Ambu
lance Service Company. The men are
electricians. Both are married. J. B.
McCarthy, another electrician at the
Columbia substation, was burned in a
similar manner Wednesday.
Mazamus Will Hike Tomorrow.
A hike in Clarke County, Washington,
has been scheduled for tomorrow by
the Mftzama Culb. Members of the
club will leave Broadway and Wash
ington streets at 8:20 A. M. on the car
for Vancouver. From that city they
will travel the middle road to Hidden
pected, on account of the building pro
grammes here and elsewhere in the
Northwest where war industries are
active.
F. S. Doernbecker, of the Doern
becker Manufacturing Company, repre
sented Coast furniture makers at con
ferences in the East, where the basis
for the new restrictions was evolved
He predicts increased production here
to meet the growing need for house
furnishings in the West.
LAD, 10, WOULD BE SOLDIER
Xondescript Uniform Clothes Boy
Who Flees Home Twice.
TACOMA, Wash.. Oct. 25. (Special.)
A service-worn Army hat drooped
disconsolately over one ear, graced with
a red artillery hat cord which some
tender-hearted soldier had given him,
a ragged red sweater, a pair of Arm)
leggings worn in place of stockings
and a pair of much oversized shoes
making up his uniform, Kenneth Hicks,
10-year-old lad, sobbed as though his
heart would break when told that he
would have to return to his parents in
Olympia.
Several weeks ago he was eent to his
home at Olympia by the soldiers, but
he reappeared at the camp within three
days as easrer as ever to be a soldier.
Butter Ihl
BREAD
is GOOD bread.
nl Good Food and Good Health
Those who eat the proper foods will find themselves in a better physical
condition tocombat any of the prevalent maladies. Make sure the food you
buy comes to you as pure and sanitary as when first
put up. These three big; markets offer you the best
foods, kept under the most wholesome conditions
and offer you them for less. We are economizing:
you receive the benefit. No phone orders taken;
delivery only from the People's Market and Grocery at First and
Taylor--and only on purchases of $3 and over on the West Side ; on the
East Side $5 and over. Trade at the People's Market and Grocery, the
People's Cash and Carry or the Central Market for the best at all times.
Things You Will Need
3 cans Shinola 23
1 cake Sweet Chocolate. ... .35
1 lb. can Ghirardelli's Choco
late priced 350
10-lb. sack Salt... 250
5 boxes Matches 25 0
Special Peanut Butter, lb 200
5-lb. can Crescent Baking
Powder at $1.00
6 rolls Toilet Paper 250
6 rolls Wax Paper 250
1 bottle Gilt Edge Polish 200
Split Peas, per lb 100
Swedish Health Bread
Jello, 'all flavors, pkg
1 jar Palace Car Jam
1 large can Royal Baking
Powder
2 lbs. White Beans
.2 lbs. new Prunes
3 bottles Lemon Extract....
3 bottles Vanilla
150
110
200
350
250
250
250
250
3 pkgs. Noodles and Maca
roni ....230
2 bottles Pure Cider Vinegar..250
Breakfast Foods
Pearl Barley, per lb...
2 pkgs. Post Toasties.
2 pkgs. Grape Nuts..
1 pkg. Roman Meal...
.100
.250
.250
.300
1 pkg. Uncle Sam Breakfast
Food 250
2 lbs. Rice 250
9 lbs. Rolled Oats 800
10 lbs. Yellow Corn Meal. . . .700
Beverages
FOR EVERY MEAL
1 pkg. Postum Cereal 200
1 large can Instant Postum. .450
1 lb. bulk Tea 400
1 lb. Lipton's Pink Label Tea..7O0
1 lb. bulk Cocoa 250
1 lb. Grand Special Coffee.. 250
Golden West, Royal Club, Depend
able, D. W. Hill's Blue Label
Coffee. Per Can 350; 3 lbs. 950
Catsup, Sauces
1 bottle Lea & Perrin's Sauce..3O0
1 bottle Del Monte Catsup.. 250
2 cans Del Monte Tomato
Sauce
10-lb. can Catsup.".
For Cooking
AND FRYING
3-lb. can Crisco ; .
1 large can Wesson Oil . .
1 extra large Cottolene. .
Extra Specials
5 lbs. Fancy Sweet Potatoes..250
1 gallon Karo Syrup 950
SATURDAY ONLY!'
1 gaL White Karo $1.10
.150
.850
...900
.$1.60
.$2.80
Canned Goods
ALWAYS HANDY
3 cans Oil Sardines 250
Booth's Sardines .200
5 cans Deviled Meat. .. Jr.. .250
3 cans Tomato Soup. ...... .250
2 cans Peaches 250
2 cans Apricots. 250
1 10-lb. can Tomato Puree.. 500
3 cans Pork and Beans 250
2 cans Hominy 250
3 cans Hava Beans 250
Holly Rice and Milk, can.... 100.
For Wash Day
AND TOILET
pkgs. Gloss Starch
Palm Olive Soap
cans Skat
pkg. Gold Dust
pkg. Citrus Washing Pdw.
pkg. Sea Foam
bars Crystal White Soap.
box Toilet Soap
bars Glycerine Soap
Cookies
Fancy Assorted Cookies, lb..
1 lb. Crisp Ginger Snaps...
.250
.100
.250
.250
.250
.200
.300
.150
.250
.250
.150
MARKET
PEOPLES
GROCERY
s-YAM H I i. COB"IB FOURTH 5
In Vista House Market
N. E. Cor. Fourth and Yamhill
r
CENTRAL
MARKET
IN PACIFIC BIARKET
S. E. Cor. Fourth and Yamhill
He was turned over to the detention
home and will be eent home immediately.
Australian Editors Invited.
The committee of nuhlic infnrmaHnn
of the Portland Chamber of Commerce
yesterday extended an invitation to the
Australian and New Zealand eriirnriai
commission to visit this city during- its
tour of the United States. The editors
arrived in New Tork recentlv from
their trip to the fighting zone and left
that city yesterday for the Pacific
Coast and Canadian points.
Boy of 18 Wins Service Cross.
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 25. (Special.)
Private Elias J. Messinger, age 18,
has won the service cross for gal
lantry in action. He and two com
panions captured a machine gun and
killed the crew while fighting near
Vierzy, France, July 19. All three wer
wounded, for they were forced to fac
machine gun fire while making the as
sault. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F
Messinger, now live in Boise, Idaho.
The' boy was sent overseas last May.
Tanks Corps Recruit Called.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. Oct. 25. (Spe
cial.) The Lewis County exemption
board yesterday received instructions
from the Provost Marshal-General's of
fice to send Alvin J. Saindon.' of Galvin.
to Camp Cody. Pa. Mr, Saindon en
listed in the tank corps and will under
go a course of training there. Mrs. A
S. Kresky has received word that her
husband, a former Centralia business
man who enlisted in the Tank Corps,
has left Camp Cody, presumably for
France.
The British government has recog
nized the National Union of Police and
Prison Officers as a "federation," but
not as a trade union.
Safe
Milk
For Infants
A
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Quick Lunch; Home or Office.
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An Unforeseen
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finds us temporarily unable, on account of a short
age in cartons, to supply dealers with this popular,
product. However, to those who have been using
"UMECO" we suggest the use of another popular
and wholesome product, our
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