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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
SECRETARY
OF MUNITIONS
New Office to Be Added to
President Wilson's
War Cabinet
B. BARUCH,
PURCHASER
Other Important Appoint
ments for War Duties
Pending

Washington, June Having added
one new ex-oflicio cabinet member in the
person of Herbert c.. Hoover, food ad.
ministrator, President Wilson is likely
to announce shortly the appointment OF
secretary of munitions and supplies. y
Conferences among the president, Sec
rotary of War Baker and Atty. Gen.
Gregory have been held this week to de-
termine what procedure may be followed
in placing man at the head of the mu-
nitions producing and purchasing work
during the war
1t is probable Congress will be asked
to delegate powers to this new official,
as was asked by the administration for
Hoover
Bernard Baruch viii soon be named
officially as government purchaser of
raw materials.
Later the post of secretary OF trans
portation may be added but for the time
being the transportation work will be
left in the hands of the advisory COM
mittee of the National Council of De-
Tense, acting in cooperation with the
railroad executives committee, which
will be stationed here during the war.
As the war work goes on it has been
found absolutely necessary to centralize
it and to divide different phases OF the
military business.
The three men to be named will. to all
intents and purposes, have all the powers
and duties of cabinet members. Prob
ably all three will serve without pay.
The groundwork of the new depart
ment Mr.. Baruch viii head already has
been laid. The system to be inaugural
ed viii include a group of expert buyers
in each state, who will act as Mr. Bar
ueh's "tentacles." They will be clothed
with broad powers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
OLD TEX. JONES
TAKES HIS LAST
CHANCE; KILLED
Leather Faced Old Veteran Did Not I'M
derstand This War Wasn't
Like Others.

London, June l.--Old Tex Jones, gray
haired, leatherfaeed hailing originally
from Oak Cliff. Dallas, Tex, has been
killed at last. Shot through the heart by
a German sniper. Tex fell forward at a
tunnel entrance near Nimy ridge. That
bullet dropped the curtain on the most
picturesque career Of the entire American
legion-made up mainly Of American
professional soldiers.
A major of the legion brought back
an account OF Tex finish yesterday.
'He took too many chances the
American said. "He never seemed to
learn this war was nothing like the wars
he'd served in before i'm II years in the
American army and elsewhere. One day
sergeant sent Tex up to dump a pail
in No Mans land We'd been singing
the bucket over and yanking it back
with rope. But Tex didn't. One sec
ond after he stood up openly to throw
the pail over a German sniper's rifle
cracked and it was all over"
One day last fall old Tex sat on the
edge OF the platform at a station in Eng
land and told the United Press all about
himself. A younger Tommy, named Fred
Millen OF Duluth was with him. Tex
had cooked with COW outfits in Texas,
done a little rustling along the border
and been through the Boxer campaign
with the American army. He returned
to Dallas after this. but didn't stay. He
took claim up in Canada, and when
the war broke out, Tex jumped in,
Tex was interested TO learn that the
concrete yiaduet to Oak Cliff had been
at last. He asked about the
union station and reekoned he'd like to
20 back after the war, and, maybe, settle
down. But Tex didn't figure on the snip
er's bullet.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
The Miss Columbia Bag.

A dainty little wrist bag, in the ma.
tional colors, has made its bow to the
public, and women have instantly adopt.
ed it for patriotic as well as useful rea-
sons. SAYS the New York Sun. The bag
| is made of red, white and blue braid
stitched in rows in so well balanced a
proportion of colors that the pretty ar
ticle can be worn with almost any color
OF gown
Miss Geraldine Farrar is said to be
the first American to carry the national
colors in this way. To her was present.
ed the very first bag placed on the mar
ket, in token, as a writer said,o appre-
citation of her art and of the fact that
she is an American.
Nine Beatrice Goldie, founder of the
Woman's American club and president
of number of other clubs, at once
provided herself with patriotic bag.
81 think every woman ought to carry
a Miss Columbia bag" declared Nine.
Goldie. 1T is an ineonspicuous and
charming manner of showing ones pa
triotism by appearing in public with the
national colors."
One has only TO walk up Fifth avenue
TO see how women are, in various ways,
exhibiting the national colors in their
dress. Sometimes it is II bag, some
times tiny flag or rosette, and some
times merely knot of the tri-color
fastened in a buttonhole.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01

table Compound had helped her, so !
began taking it. The result is l am
now in good health and never lose day
from my work, and you may publish
INV letter to show other girls the
good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound will do. - Miss MARIE
SCHMELTz, "a Gardner ST., Troy Hill,
N. s., Pittsburgh, Pa.
This good old root and herb remedy
has proved unequalled for periodical
suffering of young women; it contains
what is needed to restore healthful con-
ditions.
Write the Lydia E. Pinkham n edicine
Co. (confidentiaD, Lynn, Mass, for free
advice If you need it
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
FRECkLES
Don't Hide Them with Veil; Remove
Them with the Othine Prescription.

This prescription for the removal Of
freckles was written by a prominent
physician and is usually so successful in
removing freckles and giving a clear.
beautiful complexion that it is sold by
any druggist under guarantee to refund
the money II it fails.
Don't hide your freekles under a veil:
get an ounce Of othine and remove them.
Even the first few applications should
show a wonderful improvement. some Of
the lighter freCkles vanishing entirely.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine; It Is this that Is
sold on the money back guarsntee.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
SHIP DESTROYED
AFTER EXPLOSION
Two Members of the Grew Were Killed
and Others Were Injured Of
Hawaiian Islands.

Honolulu, May 31.-Two members OF
the crew were killed and Others injured
aboard the steamer, Hamamua, during
an explosion off the Hawaiian islands
yesterday, according to word received
here to-day. The vessel is total loss
from fire which resulted from an explo-
sion which caused the ship TO be en-
veloped in smoke. The captain is quoted
as saying that the cause of the explosion
is a mystery.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

When the color has been taken out OF
black goods it is said that it may be
restored by the application of liquid
ammonia.
shoemaker's wooden last is invalua-
BILE for mending stockings and socks
When slipped over the last the stocking
is held in the shape of the foot and the
mended places viii neither bulge nor
draw, as is usually the case where the
darning egg is used.
Attach pair of canvas mittens with
yard OF tape and hang near the stove.
The use of these for handling hot pots
and pans win save many a blister. The
l0-cent cloth mittens win do.
A small nail brush is invaluable when
washing dishes. 1t gets into crevices
where the dishcloth cannot reach, as
around the handle of the saucepan, I'm
derneath the rolling edge of pot or
cover, etc.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01

cura Soap and Ointment advertised got
them. The cradle CAP all disappeared
in week and she was healed" tSigned)
Mrs. Leon (. Slayton, ll39 Broadway,
w. SomeUille, Mass, June 4, 1916.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment have
proved most valuable for the treatment
OF pimples, blackheads, dandnIff, itch
ing scalps with dry, thin and falling hair,
and for all purposes of the toilet. bath
and nursery.
For Free Sample Each by Return
Mail address postcard "Cuticura,
Dept. r, Boston" Sold everywhere.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
PROPOSE TEA AND COFFEE TAX.
Would Be Per Cent on Coffee, PEI
Cent on Tea.

Washington, June Every cup of
coffee or tea Mr.. and Mrs. America
drinks will cost more hereafter than it
does now, if yesterdays action of the
Senate finance committee is accepted by
House and Senate.
The committee, working on the ST.
SOC, 100000 war revenue measure, wrote
in a tax of 2 per cent on coffee and 5 per
cent on tea. By this the government ex
poets to raise $ls,O00,0o0 on coffee and
s., 000, 900 on tea.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
KEEP BELGIUM IN IGNORANCE
of Progress of Military Operations on
Western Front.

The Hague, via London ASSOCIATED
Press correspondence) May 3l.-A fine
of 10000 marks and three years impris-
onment are penalties to be imposed by
the German military authorities on Bel
gians who dare reprint or post proelama-
tions caught from allied aviators in in
vaded territory. Such structures are de-
signed to put an end to practice fol-
lowed by the aviators who, until now,
have succeeded in advising Belgians in
occupied territory on the military situa-
tion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY.
List of Those Added Since First of jar

List of Those Added Since First of Jam
uary.
The following is a list of the books
which have been added to the shelves OF
Aldrich public library since January
1917:
Fiction. !.
Baily, Walden Homeward Trail.
Barr, Amelia
Beach, Rex-Rainbow' End.
Bell, j. IT'LL the Clock Stops.
Bindloss, Harold johnson Of the Bor-
der
Bowers, B. M.-Heritage of the Sioux.
Bryant, Sara Cone-Stories to Tell to
the Littlest Ones.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
The Spring Diet.

In the spring season the physical con-
dition and complexion are improved by
adding new food elements to the diet
For example, with the beginning of
spring the system often Graves acids, and
human beings need new" food quail
ties. quite a. cattle require fresh grass.
Not a meal except breakfast should
be served without at least one new veg
etable. Spinach is invaluable and every
day Is none too often TO have it. The
green contains natural elements most
wholesoms to the system, and the crav-
ing for acid may be satisfied by pour
ing little vinegar on the vegetable.
New carrots are another vegetable that
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
Fiction.
WHY BE BALD?
Tells How to Stimulate Growth of Thick,
Lustrous Hair.

A luxuriant head of hair is Gods
birthright to every man-to every wom-
an. If your hair is thinning out, split
ting, prematurely gray, brittle, difficult
to comb, full of dandruff, and your head
itches like mad, it's a pretty sure sign
the hair roots are diseased and quick ac-
tion should be taken. Don't wait. but go
to the Red Gross Pharmacy and get a
bottle of Partisan Sage, the really eff
cient hair grower Don't say sits the
same old story, I've heard it before" but
try bottle at their risk. They guaran-
tee it to stop falling hair and itching
scalp and remove all dandruff or money
back.
Partisan Sage is also woman's favorite
hair dressing because it makes her hair
nit, bright, seem more abundant and
oosy to dress attractively. It's guaran-
(eed harmless and is inexpensive
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
MANY APPLICATIONS
To Fill One Hundred Naval Paynastei
Positions.

Boston, June l.-More than l,00f
young men within the draft age limit
have enrolled at the Boston navy yard
for the examinations for assistant pay
master in the navy to be held here and
at Portsmouth, n. H., to-day.
Four hundred applications were re-
ceived yesterday.
One hundred men will be selected and
given two months course of training
at Washington before being assigned to
active duty.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01

10 support myself,
but l would have
such sick spells
every month that 1
would have to stay
at home from work,
and / could not af-
ford to do it. / also
had headaches, diz-
zy spells and a pain
in my side. My sis
ter told me how
m UGH Lydia E.
pinkhauo'a Vaoa
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01

your toes in bandages 20 look like bundles
who have used salves that turned your toe
raw and sore. and used plssters that would
shift from their place and never get the
corn. and who have dug and picked Al your
corns with knives and scissors and perhaps
made them hleed-just quit these old and pain
fui ways and try @Gets-It' just once You put
2 or drops on. and il dries At once. There's
nothing 10 stick. You can put your shoe and
stocking right on again. The pain n all gone.
Then the corn dies q painless. shriveinE death.
Il loosens from your toe. and OF q CONES.
'-Cets-It-' Is the biggest selling corn remedy IN
the world to-day. There's none other as good.
'-Gets-It-' is sold b. druEEists everywhere.
Use a bottle or sent on receipt Of price b. L.
Lawrence q Co. Chicago. III
Sod in Barre and recommended a. The
worlds hszt corn remedy b. p G. Russell.
z A Drown. and Cummings LeWk--Ads.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01

made her head look as
though it had a thick
coating of dirt. Her
head used to be scaly
and always infamed. It
used to itch terribly and
it irritated her so she
could not sleep. 1t was
a terrible sight.
UNNhen 1 SAW Cuti-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
Use "Gets-It," Lift
Corn Right Off

Shrivels, Loosens-and It's Gone
Just like taking the lid of-that's how easy
you can lift a corn off your toe after II has
been treated with the wonderful discovery.
'Gets-It'" Hunt the wide world over, and
you'll find nothing so magic. simple and easy
as "Gets-It" You folks who have wrapped
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
NO REGENT FOR POLAND.
German and Austria Governments Change
Their Plans.

Copenhagen, via London, MAY 81
The Loeol Anzeiger to-day contains
Berlin dispatch which says that the gov
ernments of Germany and Austria have
decided not to appoint a regent for Po-
land at the present time. 1t is proposed,
however, to increase the powers of the
provisional government, the dispatch
adds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
NORWAY LOSES
THREE MORE
MERCHANT SHIPS
Norwegian Fsreign Minister Tells of the
Destruction by German Submarine of
One Sailing Vessel and Two
Small Steamers.

London, May 3l.-News of the loss of
additional Norwegian ships is contained
in Central News despatch from Chris
tiania. The Norwegian foreign minister
is quoted as saying that a German sub
marine destroyed one sailing vessel and
two small steamers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
FOR A FREE POLAND.

Austrian Poles Seek for International
Recognition.
Copenhagen, via London, May STA
national convention OF Austrian Poles
during the winter time holidays unani-
mously endorsed re-establishment Of a
free and independent Poland The con
vention declared that international recog-
milton of Poland's status was needed a. a
guarantee Of her sovereignty.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
BABY'S HEAD A
TERRIBLE SIGHT
WITH CRADLE CAP
ScaIy and Always InAamed. Itched
Terribly. She Could Not Sleep.
Cuticura Healed in a Week.

1.-THE use of - soap caused my
babys head to be sore, and it was in
bad condition with cradle cap which
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
YOUNG
ORPHAN GIRL
How She Was Cured. Had
Headaches, Dizzy Spells,
Awful Pains, Could
Not Work.

Pittsburgh, Pal am an orphan girl,
and when only seventeen years old had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17
TODAY's ANNIvERsARIEs

General Simon Bolivar, ''the Libera- tor of South America, and fisrt presi- dent of Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru, died ST. years ago today, December IT, 1890, after having driven the Spaniards out of a large part of the continent. Gen. Bolivar is often re- ferred to by North Americans as ''the George Washington of South Ameri- ca.' His first victories were in Vene- zuela and New Granada, which united to form the republic of Colombia, of which he was chosen the first presi- dent, in 1919. Afterwards he achiev- ed the independence of Peru, its up- per district being made a separate na- ton. called after him, Bolivia.
 It is interesting to recall at the same time that the first act in the movement which led to the civil war in the United States was taken by the South Carolina convention which met ffity-seven years ago today, Dec. IT, 1880, and which, three days later adopted an ordinance of withdrawal from the union.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17

and is part of the regular equipment of patrol in the national forests his season.
 It is said that a field man equipped with this telephone, few yards Of light emergency wire and a short piece of heavy wire to make the ground con nection can "cut in" anywhere along the mere than 10000 miles of forest service telephone lines and get in touch with the headquarters of supervisor or district ranger. To talk. one end of the emergency wire is thrown over the. telephone line, the two ends are con nected to the portable instrument, and the instrument is connected to the. ground wire, the end of which must be thrust into the damp earth or in water. Contact with the line wire is made. possible by removal of the insulation from few inches of the emergency wire, 70
 The instrument. writes B. L. G., in. St. Nicholas, does not ring the bell of the receiving telephone, but instead causes a screeching sound from a small megaphone-shaped apparatus de scriptlvely known as a "howler." This Instrument is installed at the ranger station telephone and is said to give effective notice that someone is on the wire. The transmission is equal to any standard wall telephone, conversa- tions having held with it for distance of 1000 miles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17
IS
 INFESTED WITH ARMY DESERTERS

Zurich, Dec. 17.-Au Switzerland is amazed at the audacity of some four hundred deserters from various ad- joining countries who, in solemn con- clave, have protested violently against the measures recently adopted by the authorities for controlling the unde- sipable stranger element in the coun- try.
 Switzerland had believed that its measures-the requirement of bond from those who had fled to the re- public to escape military duty, enfor- ced labor on internment in case of undesirable conduct, etc., were un- usually lenient, and regret has been expressed in many quarters that the powers that she had not seen fit to take sharper steps against a stratum of the population which is looked up- on here as necessary evil.
 The Zurich deserters, however, many if not most of them of the anar- chistic type, have adopted and sent broadcast through Switzerland re- solution which calls the attention of the Socialist party to denunciation of deserters, declares that the measures taken to control deserters here are caused by the "capitualistic charac- ter" of the state, and are due to fear lest the example of the deserters in refusing military service to their re- , spective countries may strengthen the anti-miliary spirit among the work ing classes,
 The deserters recommended that the problem be solved, not by laws against the deserters or for their con- trol, but by the alteration of existing citizenship laws so that all foreigners here would be embraced by them. The resolution concludes with an appeal to the Socialist party to take up the matter at once and do all in 1 it's power to solve the foreigner ques- tion along this last line. And the Socialist papers, nearly if not all of them of the violent, senni-anarchistic | type, have made themselves more un- popular than ever by espousing the cause of the deserters.
 | Aside from the resentment which the conservative press and citizenship express at the action of undesirable or at least uninvited guests in Switzer- land in attempting to dictate the treatment which they shall receive, the aIIa1r aTOUSSS. LA6 SIdNcSt ASdI
 that 1t will give impetus to move ment to encourage the refusal to do military duty in defense of Switzer- 1 lands neutrality.
 The deserters' conference has for
 the moment obliterated party lines in
 the great majority of the Swiss press,
 and all but the radical Socialistic pa
 pers join in wing with another in
 the;c denunciation of them. 'Impu-
 dence," Nerve" "Audacity," Pre-
 sumptuous foreigners" are but a few
 of the terms that are being applied
 to the Zurich deserter delegates and
 their action.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17

Board. The fleet corporation is sim ply the construction agency of the. board. It does not build ships itself, but it draws up plans, lets contracts and watches and hastens construc- tion. When it has done it's work the board takes control of the completed ship. Many ships it turns over to the navy or to the army Others go to the Italian and the French govern ments to transport much needed mu- nftions and supplies to their troops. Other ships still are intrusted to pri- vate shipping companies to be oper- ated by them under an arrangement assuring excess profits to the board
 The S1.000. 100000 steel trust is no longer the biggest business. The Shipping Board is bigger Congress has authorized it to spend $1.8a0.- 100000. The Pennsylvania railroad is worth less than half as much.
 Besides the 426 ships 1t has com mandeered. the board is building. through its fleet corporation. S84 ships on it's own contracts. Of these 551 are of steel construction, S75 of wood and 5S composite.
 In the four months ending March l, 1918, the fleet corporation ex- poets to complete 100000 tons of shipping. That is as great a tonnage as the Hamburg-American Line pos sessed the year before. the war. and the Hamburg-American Line was the wonder of the shipping world. The total program of the corporation calls for 1,409 ships of dead weight ton mage of S,363.808, all to be com pleted by January 1, 1919.
 Eight Hamburg-American Lines. all built in the space of two years. That, with the work of the destroy CTS, is Uncle Sap's answer to the submarine challenge.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-17
APPLES, ORANGES FIGS AND PRUNES.
Are The Four Fruits Used in
 Making ''Fruit- -tives

"FRUIT-A-TIvEs' is the only medicine in the world that is made from the juices of fresh ripe fruits. Thus, 1t is naanifestly Unfair to say, "I won't take Frait-a-tives because l have tried other remedies and they did me no good'. On the other hand, the fact that ''Fru1t-a-t -tives'' Is entirely differ ent from any other preparation in the world, is just why you should give 1t fair trial, in any trouble of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys or Skin. "F'ruit-a-tives',' is composed of the active principle of fruit and the greatest nerve tonic ever discovered. soc box, ( for S2.5o. trial size, 25c. At all dealers or sent by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg. N. Y.--Adv.