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THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON S E Here's Really Tough Assignment Covered By Dauntless Reporter E WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. UPJ Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes conferred today with private and official experts on how to establish the $500,000,000 low-cost housing and slum clearance pro gram under the recently enacted Wagner act. Approximately 40 civic leaders, federal officials, congressmen, . local and state housing authorities, real estate representatives, social students and clergymen were in vited here by Ickes to discuss methods for getting the huge pro gram underway as soon as pos sible. "There are many shades of opin : ion as to how the program should be conducted," Ickes said. "As the United States housing authority is to be part of the interior depart ment, I have invited these leaders to obtain a cross-section of opin ions." . , It was the first official step taken by Ickes to speed the pro gram. A $10,000 a year admin istrator for the housing authority is yet to be named by President Roosevelt. Three Considered At least three persons, whose names have been mentioned for the post, were invited to today's sessions. They are Nathan Straus, of the New York city housing au thority; Director Howard A. Gray, of the public works administration housing division, and Langdon W. Post, president of the American Federation of Housing, New York. Ickes said that the session wduld be devoted to a "general discus sion" of the housing act and that "determination will be sought as to the methods by which the new housing authority can get its dif ficult program underway most ef fectively." Meanwhile, Ickes department was continuing efforts to induce states to enact enabling legislation immediately as one way to speed creation of local housing authori ties that could participate in the federal-aid housing program. Tin,, ihm Wnffnpr art. the fed eral government- can make loans up to 90 per cent of the cost of construction of the projects to local housing authorities at low In terest rates over a 60 year repay an could make grants, in cooperation with local interests, to maintain project rent.' als at low levels. IUYA AID LISTED Frtitni-' nnta: Frederick C. Oth- man, United Press Hollywood cor respondent, was assigned to cover a western nudists' convention. Following is his dispatch. By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN SUNNY TERRACE NUDIST COLONY, Sequel, Cal., Sept. 21. (U.PJ America's biggest nudist convention and nude is right! convened here Friday for two days of fun and frolic and goose pimples in the altogether. Each of the 400 delegates to the meeting of the American Sun- Bathing association had to take off every stitch of clothes before James F. Curl, the serious young manager, would let him register. His only concession concerned shoes. He let us nudists keep them on, because of the splintery rocks. Curl and Hobart Glassey of Los Angeles, president of the Frater nity Elysia, are the only naKea folks here whose full names are available. Everybody else goes by his first name, because of what Curl calls "public prejudice." Can't Realize "We have judges here and their wives and doctors and lots of im portant people -and they do not dare reveal that they are nudists," he said. "People still cannot seem to realize that nudists are perfectly moral people." He turned to lead us Into the bunkroom of the club house and continued: Now you undress in here and then I'll introduce you to all the other guests." Reluctantly we removed our shirt and our pants and got down to our union suit. "That comes off too," Curl said. Don't feel embarassed. You'll see a lot of people who look as funny as you do." So there we stood at last in our birthday suit. All we wore was a wrist watch. A lot of good that did! "You look .fine," Curl said. "Now come into the living room and we'll meet the jdrls." Never did man's regs quaver more than ours when we stumbled Into the parlor where stood Irma and Diana and Leona and Lura and a couple of Marys and some Maries, some red headed, some blonde, some thin, a few fat and they didn't even have wrist watches. Other men and women In their birthday suits were splashing out side in the pool. Some were strolling through the woods, which Curl insisted had been cleared of poison ivy. Others rested in the sun, with towels over their eyes to keep out the glare. Several more watched a tennis match between a girl named Eloise and a, woman of perhaps 45 who said her name was Elsa. She weighed nearly 200 pounds and as she ran she quivered. The longer we watched, the red der became our ears. Elsa looked our way and smiled. We fled. Curl led us away. He sala ne guessed maybe we hadn't become acclimated yet. See Photo Album He tried to ease our embarrass ment by hauling out the official photograph album, showing mald enj diving into bosky dells, ma trons playing handball and nud ists throwing snowballs at each other. We still blushed. In desperation, Curl took us out side to see the bulletin board, which said that complete nudity on the 900-acre estate was manda tory, that cameras were not al lowed and that neither was whiskey. The bulletin board urg ed everybody to have a good time and try to make newcomers feel welcome. That must have been what Curl was doing to us. He was the most cordial nudist ever to plant a fig tree. His personal fig tree grows beside the lodge's back porch, but he said he used, it for food alone not raiment. Sheriff Worried There were so many nudists converging from all parts of the west that Curl's cabins proved In adequate and he made arrange ments for visiting nudists to sleep in auto camps and hotels. Sheriff J. R. Devltt, who nearly arrested a nudist who couldn't help it, was the only man to get excited about the naked invasion. The sheriff's victim turned out to be a citizen of long standing, who had gone swimming In the creek and whose clothes disappear ed, apparently at the hands of a tramp, while he was in the water. What made this worse was the fact that the Involuntary nudist was deaf and dumb. The sheriff lent him a pair of overalls and all was peaceful. Two ambulances, en route from Hollywood to Spain will arrive here on Wednesday, September 22, according to Ed Gilbert, advance man for the tour, which is spon sored by the Motion Picture Ar tists committee, Hollywood, Calif, of which Donald Ogden Stewart is chairman. On their way to give medical aid to Loyalist forces in Spain, the ambulances will stop at principal cities on their way to New York. In each city, the sound film, 'Heart of Spain," made on the battle fields and in the war-torn cities of Spain, will be shown and a lecture will be delivered at the Moose hall. Among the outstanding direc tors, writers and film stars who are supporting the tour are Lewis Milestone, Franchot Tone, Frank Davis, Bob Tasker, John Bright, Florence Eldridge, Lionel Stander, Fred Keating, Betty Furness, Guy Endore, Gail Sondergaard, Dor othy Tree, Dudley Nichols, Sidney Buchman and a score of others. Coos Mill. Cushman Resuming Work Soon CUSHMAN, Sept. 21. (Special) After being closed downu for a week by strike trouble, the Coos Bay Mill company notified men here the mill would start Monday morning. Visits from Portland - Charles Tuttle of Portland is visiting at the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. Curt Rose and family. Wayne Waite accompanied by Bill Smith, Mr. Bishop and wenaei Waite have left for a deer hunt in eastern Oregon. STORE HOURS 9 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. i t Applcgatc Furniture Co. 11th and Willamette GOES TO COLLEGE CUSHMAN, Sept. 21 (Special) Irvin Edwards, helper at the cheese plant for the past year, has left to attend O. S. C. MODERN WOMEN Ntd Not Sofftr monthly Pta ud delay diu to colds, nervous strain, exposure or si mil at cause. Chi -coea-tera Diamond bfandPilla&naffoetiT. reliableandgiveQiilekRelUI. Soldby alldrugpataforover45yeara. Atkfor flfi JHt DIAMOND y RAND" fTTTrf! iTill 'lilil with HORSE SHOW and RODEO PORTLAND, OREGON 0ctaber2to10 19 Shews In On 11 ocrai undr on roof Exhibit of pure.brvd Uvs- slock,Dog,Poultry, PatSlock.WildLife, Manufactured and Land Products, 4-H Club and Smith- Hughei Vocational Education Work also Horso Show and Indoor Rodao.' LARGE PREMIUM LISTS in WASHINGTON, Sept 21. - j The National Youth administra tion said today $20,000,000 would be spent during the coming school year to help 220,000 students earn an education. This is a decrease from last year's allotments of $28,000,000 for 310,000 students. Every state will share In the student aid funds, it was said, and several special funds have been created. Allotments already have been made for secondary school aggregating $8,136,250. Col lege aid allotments are now being forwarded and are expected to approximate $10,700,000. Employ ment quotas will be about 140, 000 for school aid and 80,000 for colleges. Secondary school students may receive $6 monthly: college stu dents up to $15. The allotments are made to schools and colleges for discretionary division.. Quotas, it was said, do not In dicate maximum reemployment, and the actual total of those to whom assistance is given may reach 300.000. A special fund of $70,000 has been set up to aid negro graduate students in states which do not offer advanced courses for negroes. Special allotments have been made for drought states. Student aid allotments by state and classification are as follows: State College School Total Students Students Funds Ariz. 373 722 Calif. ..5,707 5.55.1 3 Colo. ... 005 Idaho .. 433 Mont. .. 39fi Nebr. .. 1,075 Nevada . 7P N. M. 24r. Okla. .. l.RW Ore. ... Texas Utah Wash. .. Wyo. .. 0(2 4.25 775 1.R0R 133 2,08? P02 1,108 1.458 83 902 5,277 731 3.305 1.041 1,372 222 R0.355 1.082, 5D5 234.675 1 OR, 01 5 117.210 223,874 15.165 81.825 541.365 164.520 333.555 160.873 323.310 29,055 AT IIATirOl.E HARPOLE. Sept. 21. (Special) Miss Isalene Harpole who is employed at the Corvallls Credit bureau spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Harpole. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Steep les of Eugene were also Sunday callers at the Harpole home. Mr. and Mrs. Alanson E. Hays are visiting friends in Fall Cltv. Verne Withrow, Ermol Hardlsty, Gaither, Alanjo and Jack Har pole, of this community and Elmer Wells of Eugene have left for Lane county to hunt mule deer. 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