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..J ' - ------- I M x i nouiewire 3 When making trnlt salad try putting the sliced bananas in hot water for m few minutes. This will keep tbem from - turning black, and the salad can - be kept for twelve hours or longer. - To dean White Woodwork Add a tittle turpentine to the wa ter and it will be much, easier cleaned. . A New Chocolate IcingUse the following proportions and you will hare a delicious and different cake icing: To one cup of confec tioners' sugar add six tablespoons of cocoa, one-fourth teaspoon Cal umet baking powder and one-half teaspoon of vanilla. Add sufficient boiling water to make a thick smooth paste and spread on cake. To Drain Spinach -In removing spinach from the kettle in which tt has been cooked, use a skimmer Instead of pouring off the water. In this way the sand that has not 'been removed, will drop to the bottom of the kettle. j How to Poach Eggs When vinegar in the water ana cover the pan. The vinegar keeps the white of the egg from spreading, and the covered pan makes the white cook over the yolk. 4 To Make. Graham Flour When graham flour Is not available, gra ham crackers make an excellent substitute. Put the crackers through the. food chopper, using the finest knife, and use the re sulting powder in cookies, cakes or quick breads. Windows Washed in Sua. Dry .Streaked Never attempt to wash Windows, when ihe bright sunlight is on them. Under the conditions Ihey will look streaked when you get through, no matter how much elbow grease you apply. The rea- i FOR FRESHNESS and NOURISHMENT TRY OUR MEATS GO MP A N Y coming? Make the dinner the more enjoyable by serv ing meat that is fresh and dainty. Delicious roasts, chops, steaks, poultry that will melt in your mouth that's the kind we provide. Our customers recommend us to their friends, and our success is due to the end less chain of satisfied pa trons. McDowell Market Where a Dollar Does Its Duty" 173 South Commercial r Telephone 1421 e xtailf in Arctic Aided Lieut Byrd's Thrilling Flight to Pole rw""-"" ' 1 ' wm.?' .M..,w....r' ryp.......;iH,.) ,,. ;.im.i '"'y, " " "' ""' " 'I 1 "'""l ' frrt i r ' , " v - ",-- 4 " I, fv , S W- - 4 ll'T - ' " " I the Arctic " ir-IV 1? f" 1 VrU." BrrJ 1 Airship and Doaghnt Boat. A MODERN home bnllt In the Arctic defied the death dealing cold of the Polar Regions and proved an Invaluable aid to Lieu tenant Commander Richard E. Byrd in Ithwuccessfal flight to the North Pole, which he circled three times In' t record breaking flight of 1500 miles tn 15 hours and 80 minutes at an veTAge speed of 99.75 miles an hour. It was at the Spitsbergen base. King's 'Bay, where this first modern bouse was constructed amid the snow and Ice of the Arctic immediately upon the arrival of Lieutenant Byrd and his companions, as a permanent home and observation station for tbe ex plorers. The house, which rose up on the horizon of the frigid north in marked contrast to the igloo of the Eskimo, was equipped with a com plete radio outfit that those who remained at the base while lieutenant Byrd .made his thrilling dash to the pole in his speeding Fokker might keep in touch with their chief and the outside world, which they kept informed as to the progress and suc cess of the flight. It was to this same home that he returned aft er bis hazardous trip and from which some of the first messages were sent to the waiting public, tell ing them through the lanes of the air that Byrd had circled the pole ' three tiroes and had returned to his Spltzbergen home In safety, adding one of the most memorable pages to the history of Arctic ex ploration. Sngmr Can Fights Polar Cold. When lieutenant Byrd left the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the ship Chantler be declared he had the best and most scientifically equipped expedition that ever had started for the North Pole. Special plans were made for the erection of his Arctic home. Boards of celotex Insulating lumber made from ba gasse (sugar cane fiber after all sugar Juices have been extracted) were carried-along with the latest Inven tions to aid in polar exploration. This building ma terial Is very light and Is filled with millions of air cells, which give It great Insulation value and re sistance to changes tn temperature, especially the severe cold. One odd circumstance In connection with the use of this material Is that the sugar cane of the south was utilized to fight the cold of the sorth. ' Celotex was selected Instead of lumber because tests made by the United States Bureau of Standards and its uni versal nse In building construction all over the world, had demon strated that this In sulating lumber would keep the quarters of the explorers warmer and protect their living conditions more secure ly than ordinary build ing material. It was only after care ful Investigation by the scientific men in the expedition that celotex was selected. These authorN ties pointed out that the protection af forded by its Insulation efficiency was three times as great as ordinary lum ber and nearly twelve times as great as that of brick and other masonry material. The ship Chantler also was lined with celotex as an added pre caution to keen the ship warm while the explorers used It In the preliminary stages of the expedition. In practically every other way this expedition was more scientifically prepared than anj of its predeces sors. These included inventions of Commander Byrd himself. A' simple sun compass conceived by Byrd and developed by Mr. Bumstead of the Na tional Geographic Society, superseded the complicated German device, developed three years ago for Amund sen. The drift indicator also was Byrd's invention. The bubble sextant by which the navigator obtains his bearings while In flight was another one of his Inventions. Still another scientific development was a quick method of telling when one is at the North Pole. This has been worked out by O. W. Littlehales, the navy's hydrographlc engineer. Nxt Flight Orr Satk Pole. TRe expedition, backed by such men as John I. Rockefeller, Jr., and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., had three main objects. 1 To prove that air navigation In tbe Arctic Is feasible and that freight and passenger travel over the top of the world Is certain to come. 2 To hunt for new land In the unexplored areas of the Arctic 3 To conquer the North Fole from the air as 'a sporting adventure and as a demonstration of what a plane can do not a geogf aphlcal study, as the pole was bagged for all time ny Admiral Peary. Lieutenant Byrd achieved Ihe major part of his program in his first flight After the successful flight of Amundsen in his diftgible, during which he found no trace of new land Lieutenant Byrd de cided to give up his other flights and make his next airship expedition an attempt to repeat at the Sout Pole what he accomplished at the North. son is that tbe sun dries the clean ing mixture so quickly that It dries unevenly. The quick drying process also causes the cleanser to become more or less fixed be fore you can remove it. CHOOSING THE PROPER FOODS Do you realize that the largest part of the income of an individ ual is spent in the purchase of food? In fact the home manager who is the purchasing agent of the home spends more than 80 per cent In buying food. If every one knew this fact food would be chos en with more discretion. Every housewife knows all children un der sixteen should have at least one quart of milk a day and yet money which should be spent for S ASSOCIATED STORES CO., INC. LEHRflAN' 190 S. Commercial FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Phone 305 SERVICE Delivery Free True Economy consists of Highest Quality Merchandise at reasonable prices, savin; you shoes by using the phone and taking advantage of our Snappy Delivery in a closed, dust proof truck PHONE 305! . Strained Honey, Quarts ,.60c String Beans, large cans, 2..... 23c Best Creamery Butter ..40c Gem Nut, 3 pounds 79c Jell Well, 3 packages.;. 28c Campbell's Pork & Beans, 6 cans.. 59c . New Potatoes, 6J4 pounds...... ...... 25c 3 large Can for .. .... .......25c r Vegetables and Fruit in Season The largest 'chain of service stores on the Pacific coast. ; Giving cash prices to reliable credit customers. " v, l.-';, CREDIT LIMIT SO DAYS "ONLY : , A K . f. , ' . . ' "'- this item is spent for some need less food. If the child is unable to to drink this amount plain, there are a number of ways in which it may be used, such as cocoa, cus tards, puddings also use milk free ly in seasoning vegetables. In planning the family meals, at least two vegetables should be served every day, and three if pos sible. One of these is the potato and the other two should be a suc culent veketable. Plants such as lettuce, cabbage, spinach and cel ery whiph add roughage are excel lent and really put new life into our bodies. All foods which can be eaten raw 6hould be served raw, it not only saves the food value and time, but none of the food value is lost during cooking. A OOLP SUPPER f Every real home-maker loves company, for it enables her to show off her home, extends a wel coming hospitality, lets ber guests see her ability as a hostess and shows off her exceptional cooking. But hubby, too, likes to show off occasionally, and especially if he is a good golf player, he doesn't want It kept a secret. If the two are indebted to friends, and father wishes to take a couple of men, not members, out to the club for a game, mother finds it an equally enjoyable way, of repaying some social indebtedness1 to the wives. If the club boasts of a dining room and has a reputation for un usual menus this affords an easy way of paying , off indebtedness. If, however, the: club is small and there is no dining room as yet, one can successfully entertain tor her husband's golfing friends at home. For a .ten o'clock supper, cover a long table to serve buffet style .with grass green crepe paper and sprinkle with ferns. Fold and pin napkins to stimulate golf bags and place the silver inside. Bunkers can be made of Drown bread sandwiches and with the coffee and sugar can .be served from a realistic sandbox made of cardboard. Salads and croquettes could be passed on platters, the latter made to look like tees with potato balls on top. The salad can be made from slender cucumbers cut to Re semble golf bags leaving strips of skin on to look like leather trim mings. Pieces of the parings can be -made into straps and handles and: fastened on with melted gela tine. - : Cheesf -etrtwi.. "baked Ja Jho '" v' - .. .... . ,..v . 1" shape of golf sticks first wrapped in waxed paper can be served in each bag. Place the cucumber up right in a salad plate with a ball of salad. For dessert miniature greens of pistachio ice cream each with a tiny ball of white". cake on top. A "hole" can be a slight depression filled with fruit sauce. Cakes can be more balls iced over and rolled in cocoanut. CAXXIXQ STRAWBERRIES Of all fruits, the strawberry is one of the most difficult to can in order to preserve its color and flavor. It requires a large amount of sugar to preserve its color, but this in turn destroys the flavor. There is no more attractive food to look at than a dish of Sunshine Strawberry preserves where an equal amount of sugar and berries is used, but many people prefer the plain canned product where less sugar is used. The following method has proved very success ful is directions are followed close ly: First, hull and thoroughly wash me Derriea. in order to preserve the color as much as possible can the berries in their own juice; this is accomplished by allowing the berries and sugar to stand for a short time, forming enough juice to start the canning. Add one fourth as much sugar by measure as fruit. Mix carefully and after standing for a while, let boil for tnree minutes. In order that the berries may have a plump appear ance cover and let stand for fcev erai nours or over night; then drain off the Juice and pour the berries Into hot sterilized jars. Heat the syrup to the boiling point and pour over the berries. Seal loosely and at once place jars In a pan of hot water In a slow oven and cook for one hdur. Remove from the oven and seal immediate ly. Be careful that the Jara da ndt touch during the oven cookinz Many times daring the cold pack process of canning berries or even the open kettle process the berries rise to the top of the jar leaving perhaps a half Jar of syrup, but fruit canned in the oven, when done you have a jar of fruit and not syrup. Portland HIrsb-Weis Mf r. Co. remodels factory at cost of flOO,- uuu recenuy. ; Myrtle Point Construction be gins on new - hospital, to .cost FOB THE JTJXK GRADUATE Breakfast Fresh Strawberries with Cream Bacon Omelet Toast Coffee Cake Butter. Jelly Coffee After the Theatre launch Jellied Fruit Salad Graham Bread and Lettuce Sandwiches Pickles Celery Peppermint Ice Cream ..Cakes Iced Tea Picnic Supper Chicken Tarts Peanut Butter and Lettuce Sandwiches Pickles Olives Stuffed Eggs Fruit Boston Cookies Iced Tea RECIPES Bacon Omelet 4 eggs 4 tbsp. milk or water Vt level tp. salt Pepper level tsp. Calumet baking powder Chopped cooked bacon Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs. Beat yolks of the eggs until creamy; add seasonings, baking powder and milk or water. Then heat the whites until stiff and cut and 'fold them into the yolk mixture. Place the fat in an omelet pan, heat, and turn the omelet into it. Cook slowly, oc casionally turning the pan slowly so that the omelet may brown evenly. When the omelet is set and delicately browned underneath, place it in a hot oven for a few minutes to dry on the top. Fold and serve immediately. Before folding add the chopped bacon. Coffee Cake 4 cup flour 4 Ms level tsp. Calumet baking powder. 1 level tsp. salt 1-4 level tsp. mace 6 level tsp. butter or lard 2 eggs 1 2-3 cups milk and water (half and half) 1 cup sugar, (scant) Sift flour, then measure; add baking powder, salt and sugar; sift three times, chop butter in with sooon; beat egg whites with half shell of water added to each until stiff, then add yolks and beat in; add milk and beat all togeth er; turn into two square pans and spread even; brush top with milk. Spread with the following, first with egg: Vz cup graham cracker crumbs cup sugar 1 level tbsp. butter Mix crumbs, sugar and mace, rub butter in until it is crumbly; spread thick on top of cake; bake in moderate oven thirty or thirty five minutes, at 325-350 degree F.) 1 egg Xut Bread Vx cup sugar 2 cups milk 4 cups flour 4 level tsp. Calumet baking powder 1 cup chopped nuts Vz level tsp. salt. Mix and sift dry ingredients to gether three times. Combine with milk, then add nuts, and mix thor oughly with a spatula or the rounding side of a mixing spoon. Let stand ten minutes. Put in un greased pan and bake one hour in slow oven ,250-3 50 degrees F.). It makes much better bread ii baked in round corrugated pans. Brush with melted butter after re moving from oven. Boston Cookies 2-3 cup fat 1 Vi cups sugar 3 eggs, well beaten 2 tbsp. cold water M level tsp. salt 3 cups flour 3 V4 level tsp. Calumet baking powder 1 tsp. ground cinnamon ' tsp. ground cloves 1 cup nut meats 1 cup chopped raisins Oregon PI ir ' 7 r ..,v'v l vf Deleg ation Confers SHI - 3 ; X1 1 - - i .i $9 SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES of Oregon in Congress are 'shown gathered in their daily conference from which emerge plans for furthering legislation in the best interests of .their State.. Gronped arcrand the conference board are, left to right, -Representative N. J. Sinnott, ThejDalles, second district? Senator Charles L. McNary, of Salem; Senator Robert N. Stanfield, of Portland; Representative Willi! C. Hawley, first district-, and Representative iM. E. Crnmpacker, Portland, third district. Cream the fat and sugar for three minutes. Add the eggs and cold water. Mix and sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves, add the nuts and raisins and combine with . the creamed mixture. Toss upon a floured board and roll very thin. Cut out with a floured cooky cutter and place on a greased cooky sheet. Bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes. A HINT IN BAKTXrt Yeast and baking powder are the two leavening agents most often used in the home. Yeast' be ing a microscopic plant, gas is giv en off by means of fermentation, while baking powder works by a chemical action. The dough in quick breads is lightened by the gas given off as soon as a liquid comes in contact with the dry in gredients when a quick-acting powder is used, but with Calumet, which is a medium, double-acting baking powder, only a small amount of gas escapes when the liquid is added, the remainder giv en off only when heat is applied. To bo successful in your baking and to have the best results when using baking powder, the house wife must be accurate in her measurements and follow only those directions sent out by the manufacturer of the product. BANKRUPTCY SUIT FILED OPERATORS OF CHAIN STORES TURN OVER ASSETS NEW YORK, June 11. (By Associated Press.) An involun tary petition on bankruptcy was filed today in the United States district court against the R. A. Pilcher company, a Delaware cor poration which operates a chain of stores in California, Oregon, and Washington. No estimate of assets or liabilities accompanied the petition, in which it was al leged upon information and be lief, that the concern had com mitted acts of bankruptcy by "transferring certain property to divers creditors." An equity receivership was re cently petitioned for, in behalf of the company and creditors. PORTLAND, June 11. (By As sociated Press) A Portland store of It. A. Pilcher company was opened a few weeks ago. It and all other stores in several Oregon and Washington cities are contin uing in pusiness under the re ceiver, A. F. Lieurance of Oakland, Cal. Klamath Falls Building per mits for three weeks of May, to taled 1142,675. 1 8 i U. 8. Government Inspected MEATg Steusloff Bros. Market Corner Court and Liberty Phone 1528 I Peerless Bakery 170 NORTH COMMERCIAL STREET Our regular Prices of Bread, 1V& lb. loaf, 13c, 2 for 25c; 1 lb. loaf 9c, 3 for25c Cookies, 2 dozen for 25c Butter Horns, 6 for . .-25c Apple Turnovers, 6 for ,.25c Cakes, all varieties 15c up to 50c Doughnuts, Cinnamon Rolls, Tea Sticks and Buns, per dozen ; 20c Pies : 10c and 25c Milk, Bread, French and Rye Bread, S loaves l25c We Serve Coffee and Lunches Try Our Krause's Candy BQURBOnS ATTEMPT TO SOLIDIFV VOTE Split jOver Prohibition and Direct Primary As De- r ! dared Unlikely j WEiaTCKEE. Wasli., Juno ljl. (By AF.) lifeless the questions are brought before the convention from t tie floor, it appeared un likely tonight that either prohi bition enforcement of the direct primarjf -two questions which threatened to disrupt the harmony of state democrats will be the subject of controversy in the dem ocratic state convention tomorrow. Sentiment seems apparently agreed jupon the desirability of presenting a united -front in the legislative elections this fall and avoiding declaration on either of the questions. i With j the resolutions committee in session this evening, the plat form wis expected to be in shape for presentation to the convention as soon as it is reached on the pro gram, -with prospects that it wilf be adopted with little or no oppo sition. It ia apparently a foregone con clusion that the convention will condemn the republican state and national administration and re iterate the historic tenets r dem ocratic facts. AID IS SOUGHT FOR RANCHERS (Continuea from page 1) tor Borah, republican. Idaho, de clared that. unless some other sen ator Qid, he would offer an amend ment striking out the provision de ferring for two years the" applica tion of the equalization fee against cotton and coin." Senator Lenroot, who has not taken an active part in' the dis cussion, declared today in a state ment that he was opposed to the McNary bill. He said he would offer a substitute proposal to cre ate a $150,000,000 revolving fund in be Administered hv a federal farm board to assist orderly mar keting of crops, price stabilization, and the export of surplus. jj Contracts aggregating 1229,000 awarded for Rosevelt. highway work. THE KNIGKER Special Information on How to Capture 4 Crockodile By Tim, Editor of the "Knicker" i ! Sehd in natne, age, birthday, address-and receive j the "Knicker" each month ! - i .. Saturday Special Boys' Khaki Shirts i . . $1.00 Boys' Khaki Long Pants $1.50 I I . , f 1 .-, -' mm TnftTS! irtCAri oFYoog5AFe'-T$So:;; vie Sell 3ft4fyg& BECKE & ItEXl) RICKS 7 S Insurance of All Kinds Tel. 101 .He!P Theater Lot by 189 N. High t 1 H - i i ! 1 a 2 ii