sw "'o -J Year Record Breaking Increase in Membership Noted; Committees Named I v.- ! With a record-breaking Increase la memberships to Ita credit dar ing the past year, the announee- , ment of standing committees and the outlining t plana for post ac tivities during the current year by Commander' Pbll Rlngle. who served as presiding officer for the first time at the last meeting 'at the armory, Marlon Post CCl. Vet erans of Foreign Wars, bar anes ceedlngly busy year in prospect. New members are being Initiated at each snceeding meeting. , Principal among the activities outlined for the coming year in elude Memorial day observant and "Buddy Poppy" aale late next month; a big carnival to be staged later .In May: a joint post-auxil liry picnic to be held li July: a district convention to be held In Salem In June and the completion of equipment for the Willamette Sea 8couta which has launched ft sew 34-foot boat and is training constantly on the Willamette. -Committee Named i Standing committees announced by Commander Rlngle are: poppy sale:. Kent S. Kraps, chairman George Malstrom and L. B, Da vis. Transportation : George Fel ler, chairman; Russell Mndd. vie chairman; Harvey J S.. Walker. Floyd ' Scott, George .Malstrom. Military affairs: Charles . H. Mar tn. ex-governor, chairman. Carle Abrams. vie chairman; L. A. MH ner. E. BT Hamilton. K. R. Austin Paul Hendricks, Verden E. Hock ett, Clyde A. Crawford. Memorial 1. B. Davis, patriotic instructoi chairman,. Bryan C b'n 1 e y, vice chairman; Frank Gard. C V. Rl cbardson. Leroy Hewlett. - Eats: Ward Wolfe, - general chairman; Frank Muha, view chairman; Christ Free, Leo Sut ter. Dale Brooks, Francis Hoer eth, Henry Fornier, Frank Neis wander; Entertainment: . Aubrey vice-chairman. Bill Rush, Hersch el Robertson, Monte Brooks, B. B Parkes., Ira Jones. : , Sickness-relief: C. ' V. Richard son, i chaplain, chairman; .; Bryan CQnley,". vice" chairman; Dr George 'E. Lewis.' Rudolph " A Hom Hans Hofstetter, Virgil B Golden." Planning: Hans Hofstet ter. chairman: Ones S. Olson, vice chairman;" Lester r Jones,- Clyde Crawford, J. Fvhrer, Bill Rush David Holtsman, P. , H. Rlngle Carnival: Joe P.. Stirnlman, pas commander, chairman: Phil Rln commander, vice chairman: Ward.' W Wolfe," - Virgil . Bolton . D. B, Parkes,-M. H. Sim. ; i - Virgil -Bolton was named adjo taat of the post;- Russell Mudd. bugler. Carl Oman and Frank L. Fjrlnce color beareri. Funeral Director . Convention Topic Cite Session Scheduled June 4-6, Portland f ' Local Men Assist Central Willamette Funeral ' Di- rectors discussed their coming an nual state convention at their meeting at the Argo Wednesday night, and completed the program lor this state-wide event, which is to be held In Portland June 4, S, I, headquarters to be established at Maltnomah hotel. '- ' Kenneth W.Holman of . Port land, chairman. of the convention committee, appointed Charles Claggett, Tom Golden, Leston Hewell and Harvey Everhart as the Salem committee for the con vention. A. pre-conventlon get-together for early comers will be held at Jaatsen Beach park Sunday after noon. June 4. There will be sports and games. A picnic dinner will fee aerved at f :S0. - There will be a breakfast meetj gag at l o'clock Monday morning, fsae I, discussions to last until 1:1 5 when a recess will be taken sal the convention proper called to order at 10 o'clock In the mar . tap tvomv where the visitors jrin .! welcomed by Mayor Joseph K. Carson.' Lunch will be served to fie junior ballroom at 11:1 St "t ' 'Katloaal Chief Oomlig ' .At 4he Monday afternoon ses sion, speakers will be Charles W. Forterfleld .of Holton, Kansas, president of the National Funeral directors association. Louis Felder t San Francisco, president of the California Funeral-Directors asso ciation ; Ralph H. -Bray of MUes City, : Monianar president of the : Montana v association; - Jf a r 1 1 a - Dawson of Elma, Washington, president of the Washington state Esaotfatton and others. The meet tag will adjourn at 4:41 to enable . raeabers to board special bases ft lit.- Hood. Dinner win be serv al la TImberline lodge at ? p.m. ; The convention will close with frt annual banqnet at 7 p.m. in 'V grand ballroom of the Multno r 2i hotel at which Dr. L. E. Bar l :jc ot Salem will act as toast er zster. The newly elected of fl r rs and directors will be Installed. srewlllbe dancing between c : irscs - ana after the banquet, cui a floor show at t o'clock. . aze ls Nipped At Independence . LfbEpiNbEVcE--Prompt ae : -Hon by the Independence tire de partment prevented - what might - have been a' serious "tire at the .home of Mark Baker at the corner .of Second and B streets at 2:10 Saturday afternoon.. . i;: ;c ' . v The fire started in the root over . tvv kitchen, it was thought from C Tectlve wiring. The tire depart ment arrived and bad the flames extinguished before much damage -was- done. , .ufi-''-;t.;T--r:-Tirerhanrers had Just eomple- ' f r 3 tie. work ot repaperlng . thr 2 :ciea -Saturday - morning and tielr tools sway. The dam- rs wtich is. principally f r am . tioke and water Is covered by in gurance. ' - 1 1 '.mini m i i in." .ii " i ' i. , : ' . s - , ' - J " , i s- 9 , :. V - - ; i i ; Miss Barbara Taylor, who stands , high in Everybody iWlns cos test" competition. Mis Taylor ' Is employed In a local dental of flee, is a member of the Bonne Chaiice lodge, and lives with Iter mother and. slater at 14S8 Cbemeketa street. " . Onlbelltebord ! By DOROTHY THOMPSON ' (Contlnued-Zrom page 4)' that, : given "the .place to put It and water in the house, ' he' will even, when . wants it enough, get himself a bathroom. And It turns out that hen Is right. , The houses are all part ed, and . painted f with exceptlo- al attractiveness, each man to his taste, with sqme regard for the whole effect. -. . . ; . - Papa bnys some electric fix tures somewhere maybe oat of an old house or maybe from a mail-order house, and likes .hem that mach better. . He, finishes up the rooms in bis spare time, with the aid of his wife. Most of the houses have, window boxes. . He actually. 1 1 k e- , Lis house better because it repre sents some of his own labor. v ;, r- ' - -'; When it comes to paying for the house Mr. Hoess is highly unorthodox. He charges per cent interest on the Investment but a real f per cent, not a gyp S per cent: It Is adjusted month by month, with every payment on amortlsa Uoa. . Mr., Hoess would like his cus tomers to be able to put down a couple of hundred dollars as a first payment, hut he has sold plenty of hojbsea to men wi.o didn't have a cent for a first payment. H reckons that the buyer would normally spend about a quarter of his Income tor rent, so he figures interest, taxes and amortization on this basis. But Mr. Hoess doesn't believe that a man can - by paying for a house if he hasn't anr Income .' tha; he can pay as much if he is working halt time as If he la working full. So it the buyer's wages are reduced Mr. Hoess automatically reduces the charges on the house in; exact proportion.- And if he baa no Income at all Mr. Hoess suspends all payments on the house. Craxy? Not at all, argues Mr. Hoess. Good business. -Turnover is death in the real estate usl ness. People who know the house belongs to them 10 mat ter what happens take excellent care of It "My money might as well be sitting In those houses as in a bank," says this queer capitalist (I " have known him een , to - suspend - all payments caUl a, mas paid for his wife's confinement, I -"A worker an't pay for a baby and pay for his bouse . at the same time.,. . It . L has a. baby he'll care, more about the. house.") - ' If yon want to make ' Mr. Hoess mad. call him a phllan-' throplsti He - inslsta - that - he built these houses to make mon ey,, that he Is -making a good! per, cent; on his, investment, an that that la hie - sole ' Interest 'i the whole -venture. - Be says he wants to keep his customers: 5 that . it men know that they have a home In whlc la invented not only part of their income bat part of their labor. If they have gardens from whieh they can get part of their food. they will '. hold on. not i become discouraged at .the first: lay-off, and the houses will' get paid for In the end. a When the houses are paid for or the debt reduced to a certain point Mr. Hoess will enlarge -ad Improve the house if . the owner wants It He will build him a garage If the ' owner hasn't aJ- hready built - it himself or add a wing or 'put in a bathroom. But at no time must the debt be above the original limit." f t One owner's wife had a pan try full of canned corn, string beans and peas. She said she'd figured that , they'd never id X:" Sammcr Prices on ' : GOCCO; i DDaqncttticc 1 fn yiil5tt y, Ton: J7.75 V4 JTon. 44.00 1 to 5 sacks, sack85d 23 State - Phone 7773 Trans. anything so tar on the house at all, because whatever they'd iiJ had been compensated by what they'd grown. . a .llThls'eccentrlc' real estate man says;' that the . difficulty, with a scheme "like this Is not with or ganised labor; 'It's with the real estate Interests. ' Most real es tate men, he' says,, don't care a h-ot whether the Customer can ever pay for the house he buys or not. . The " seller ' Is interested only in . his . commiaaionu The builder baa never designed for a specific4 market governed by speclfle conditions. ; ' ; , , - Most government-built houses, he says, can never be .paid :or by " people In - the low-Income brackets. Either -, the govern ment is presenting them with a gift : or the government Is going to haVe ;. to evict them one of these days. l---.t .- ... - s . e e j ' Mr.' Hoess' Is a "social inventor. This country la full of Ingenious people of hia type. . Only it la rarely that one stumbles across them. ' There Is nothing grandi ose about this project. Mr. Ko ess has only built thirty-odd houses to date. -But unless there Is a trick In It somewhere, he ha done some very Interesting, realistic and humane thinking. tkaResg bhTsJ-an UMJJJJ. -Copyright, 1 3 9. New York Trl v, -,1: bune, . jne. f jcc : hn ' i A- l'-)'S 4lr?r $k if m& w Ms rJ 1 What's mw about Americans newest suit? -To Canro Soon .. : ...J.. . 5 Trains, 3 Trucks Convoys to Carry State's Army . to Qalsop Jnne 13 More than 1411 officers and J men ot the Oregon national guard will leave Portland early June IS in fJvenroop trains and three mo tor caravans tor Camp' Clatsop and Camp Murray to participate In the IS days annual field training maneuvers ot the state's citizen soldiers. " , Left behind will be the 4 1st di vision headquarters and headquar- ters detachment, 41st signal com pany and the S2nd brigade head quarters ' and headquarters com pany who make up the balance of Oregon 'a total strength of Sf 02 These latter divisions will partic ipate In the list division com mand post exercises In July, Final details of the movement have been completed. Major Gen eral George A. White, Oregon na tional guard and 41st division commander, announced Saturday. 64 Coaches Required The tire troop trains will In clude 23 sleeping ears, 23 day NEW UGHTER WEAVES . . . Alrtones and Solar weaves that weigh less than 31 ounces in size ST 8Ult ... . J -...1 v , ... '4 ' NEW UGHTER COLORS . . Wicker, a cool, Kan some shade Blended of white, tan and gray Jute. : a perfect shade of brown . New blues, greens and grays. Cabana blue ... Gulf green. NEW BUSINESS SUITINGS . . Merchant and Wan wick stripes on cTeep grounds of blue, gray and brown in smart single and double-breasted models. - NEW WHITES . . . for your World's Fair visit lighter, smarter, cooler than ever and ideal mixers AIM PAU1 BEACH FORMALS $1850. p PALM . Exclusively In Salem ; At The .Style - Center For ; Men coaches and IS baggage carx The trabs will carry troops froa 21 different cities In Oregon . K The' three main motor convoys and . special . motor, convoys from St Helens, Tillamook and Astoria, wUl Include 24 trucks ot 2 tons capacity; S f tracks ot 1 tons ca pacity, 24 station wagons and S ambulances, or a grand total of 1S8 Yehicles.iUf UC. .' Troops traveling by motor con voy: Include ; all stations : In Port land, St Helens, Tillamook, As toria; Gresham, Mllwaukle, HUla boro and Newberg. .. Those sta tioned in ether cities of the state wlU travel by rail. I Supply Team Prepares"'",; : A camp supply team consisting of two officers and 10 enlisted men, under command of Lieuten ant Colonel Raymond ,.T Olson, will, precede the troops to Camp Clatsop by seven' days to arrange for supply and subsistence of -the command. This group is scheduled to arrive at Camp Clatsop by 1 p.m. June .- - . i " Also preceding the main move ment wlil be advance detachments, the one for. Camp Clatsop being under command of Lieutenant Ralph P. Cowglll, 186th Infantry, and that for Camp Murray under command of Captain Fred M. Hen shew, 218th field artillery. These advance -detachements will arrive at camp by 12 o'clock noon,: June leVt j? n K BEACH . SU JcreGtiixccuiivC' -Pleads for Care Closed - Fire Season 'on - ZIonday ; Hazards now-1 : f - as Dad as July i f- f if . ". I t , Warnlnr that forest fire nas ards were greater than those nor mally experienced in early July, SUte Forester J. W, Ferguson yesterday nrged Oregon eltixens to take care not : only to ' aave the etate's timber but also to avoid a 'smoked-ln' summer, which would detract from tourist scenic attrac tions. . " , In creased -tourist travel Is ex pected this year and Oregon elti xens should do aU possible to avert the loss that will arise if fires break out and tourists turn away Lbecause of smoke palla restricting the view of the state's scenery," he explained, tj-;; K . Ferguson7 pointed out' that the closed fire. season begins Monday and continues until altered by pro clamation of the governor. During this season, he said. It la unlawful to set tires on or within one-eighth mils of forest land without a writ ten permit from a fire warden; to throw lighted -material on high ways, to build campf Ires at other than designated ' places without With' odd Palm Beach' Slacks. NEW TADLORINQ JDEAS . . . i shoulder lift for extra- tmartness extra ease across the blades V . i drape.' and balance never before achieved in a washable suit. ; v - i NEW PALM BEACH SLACKS . . . colors and pau terns for sports. Chosen by ? golf champs for their t amazing comfort and smartness. - NEW FORMALS v. Expertly tailored to fit J.V They'll hold their shape the whole night through, and wash or clean like new. 'And a new low price that's the value-talk of the town. BEACH ' SLACKS $4.75- 5 f ID.' flirt securing camp fire permits, or to enter closed tras ot Mrb firs hazard without entry permUs Garfiddbi TIlBtedndw Aqnalic FlaTor Is Given w to llay Program at Grade School An dey fwam an' dey fwam." Might be a proper Introduc tion to nrhe Fantastic Finny Frolics of list, Garfield trade school's May day program, that If set for 1: SO p. nu nerr-r d nesday. ' . . ' . 4 Principal L. May Ranch a nouneed - tne annual frolics yes terday, and gave a preview of the programs, made by studentv which will be given out at the exercises.' -rv-f Heptunes gods and goddesses, the royal aea . 1 and ..Neptune's darling daughter; erabs, "wheexy the whale, Jelly fish, ' snails, sea horses, sea aerpents. octopi, mer men : and Neptune's lancers -will all be there but "the three itty fishies", will probably, be "fwim ming back over da dam. The designs tor the program covers, picturing members of the finny tribes, are .original and drawn ' by etudenta at Garfield. Only : ymalae Palm - Bench Sears trmdemecrktd Pmtm- 1550 ii II t i f f Straivberry Jobs! To Be Plentiful Transients Fail ' to ; Come 2 JDg i leail Folk i V; now Being Employed ' , Annnuiual dearth of transient fruit pickers Is evident in Oregon this year and Is expected to con, tinue throughout the summer, to 1 the benefit of local labor, Ralph M Coleman, district manager for the Oregon state employment service, reported yesterday. . ; , .. "Relatively few out of - state fruit pickers lave appeared this year, as compared with the last ' two or three years." Coleman said. "Far fewer than last year-are re ported In California and the per. centage fs even smaller In. Oregon, t think one reason - is that erop prospects are fairly good In other parts of the United States." -The Salem employment office. 710 Ferry street, was kept open yesterday afternoon and will be open all day to register personi desiring to pick strawberries - la counties north of Marion. Cole man said he could send all eomen to work. The Marion eouaty strawberry harvest will not begin until : toward the close of this week.' r -",. V'-... i - J , i v i if"'- : - ML ! ! 1. i 1 i ? T .5 3