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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26

1t is not necessary to shampoo
your hair SO frequently If 1t is
entirely and properly cleansed
each time by the use of a really
good shampoo. The easiest to use
and quickest drying shampoo that
we can recommend to our readers
is one that brings out all the nat
ural beauty of the hair and may
be enjoyed at very little expense.
by dissolving a teaspoonful OF
canthrox, which can be obtained
from any druggist, in a cup of
hot water. This makes full cup OF
shampoo liquid, enough so IL is
easy to apply it to all the hair in
stead OF just the top of the head.
This when rubbed into the scalp
and onto every strand of hair,
chemically dissplves all impuri-
ties. II Is, very soothing and
cooling in its action, as we'll as
beneficial TO both scalp and hair.
After rinsing out the lather SO
created, you will find the scalp is
fresh, clean and free from dan
druff, while the hair dries quickly
and evenly, developing a bright
luster and a soft fluffiness that
makes It seem very heavy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
.pIMpLY? WELL, DON'T Bel
People Notice 1t. Drive Them
Off with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pimpIy face will not emharrass
you much longer if you get package
of DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets. The
skin should begin to clear after you
have taken the tablets few nights.
Cleanse the blood. the bowels and
the liver with DIR. Edwards Olive
Tablets, the successful substitute for
calomel--there's never any sickness
or pain after taking them.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does, and just as effec,
lively, but their action is gentle and
safe instead of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets 10
ever cursed with "a dark brown
taste" bad breath. dull, listless, mo
good" feeling, constipation, torpid
liver, bad disposition or pimpfy face.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are .
purely vegetable compound mixed
with olive oil; you will know them By
their olive color.
DIR. Edwards spent years among pa
tents afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Take one or two nightly for 4
week. See how much better you feGI
and look. l0c and 2sc. All druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
By Fred L. Boalt.

PORTLAND, April 26.-Smelt
run today was at its height in the
Sandy. On the bank of the river
at Troutdale small boys had gath
cred their catches in boxes and
prepared to drive a roaring trade
with housewives from the city.
FRESH SMELT-1c pound. .
read one young merchants sign
written in pencil on a shingle.
The tide of trade flowed to him
and his competitors frowned.
One of them put up sign
FRESH SMELT-10 pounds for
5 cents"
Down, Down, Down!
This was price cutting with a
vengeance. The housewives
pounced on the bargain. Up went
a third sigh
TWENTY POUNDS FOR A
NICKEL"
Competition is the life OF
|trade!" "Ruinous!" declares your
|standpat business man. Perhaps.
But we don't care whether the
merchants make any money OF
not. It's the food we want!
The housewives stampeded to
the boy who sold fresh smelt at
20 pounds for 5 cents.
There is in the juvenile popula-
tion of Troutdale very Napo-
leon of commerce. He had the
largest supply of smelt.
All You Can Carry.
HE stood with folded arms.
scowling. Then he shuoted:
Here y'are! FRESH SMELT!
All y kin carry away fer jit-
ney!"
The competitors met the price.
The smelt were bought and car
ried away as fast as they could
be scooped from the river.
do not know how many pounds
of smelt have been taken from
the Sandy. But | know of one
man, a friend of mine, who Melted
$50 pounds in 40 minutes, and
quit because he was physically ex-
hausted.
heard of two men who caught
$500 pounds in half a day.
Paradise for Housewives.
1t was wonderful run. And
It Is providential. 1t fooled the
middlemen who were not organic
ed to cope with it. Very few of
the smelt will find their way to
cold storage. Most of them are
being kippered, picked and 9TH
erwise preserved by housewives.
For months to come they will
take the place of meat in hundreds
of Portland homes.
/ wish Divine Providence would
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
MONGOLIA'S
MASTER WELL
KNOWN HERE

The American steamer Mon
golia, which has reported sinking
a German U-boat in English Wa
tiers April 10, was commanded by
Capt. Emery Rice, who has many
friends in Tacoma.
Capt. Rice touched at Tacoma
for four years, as first officer OF
the steamer Olympia and later OF
the steamer fremont of the old
Boston Steamship Co. His last
visit here was in 1909. He is
about 3S years old.
His report, on arrival at a Brit
ish port, was that the naval gun
ners on the Mongolia made a
clean hit at 1000 yards and that
the periscope was seen to be shat
tered. Oil was seen on the water
after the submarine disappeared.
The submarine was about to at
tack the liner, he said, when 1t
was hit.
"The gunners had named the
guns on board tie Magnolia" re-
ported Capt. Rice, land the one
which got the submarine was call
ed Theodore Roosevelt; so Teddy
fired the first gun of the war.
after ALL"
Capt. Rice served as quarter
master on an auxiliary cruiser
during the Spanish war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26

SEATTLE, April 26.-The state
began to mass its evidence this
morning against S. A. Hewitt,
charged with the murder of his
four children at Auburn, last jan
uary, seeking to show a jury in
Judge Gilliam's department of the
superior court, that at the time
of the fire, which 1t is alleged
Hewitt set to cover his crime, the
defendant attempted to discourage
the rescue of the four children
from the burning house.
John Waugh, of Auburn, who
was one of the first persons to ar
rive at the scene Of the fire, testi-
fled that Hewitt had told him
that the children were in the
house, but that Hewitt said:
you can't get in"
Finds Babies.
Waugh said he seized a timber
and broke the sash of the bedroom
window. Chas. Cove then went
into the room carrying a garden
hose with him. He passed out the
bodies of two of the children.
Cove testified that bodies were
rigid. He fought his way through
the smoke to the bed, pulled 1t
toward the window and found the
bodies of the four children lying
cfosswise on the bed. Overcome
by smoke he was forced to leave
the building after passing two of
the bodies through the window.
T. r. Abrams, owner of the
Hewitt house, said that he had in
vestigated the house after the fire
and had found holes in the Moor
J though oil had been burned on
1t.
The introduction of evidence COM
menced sohrtly after noon We'd
nesday in the superior court.
Tells Story Of Fire.
Five witnesses for the state
testified during the afternoon.
The story of the fire early on
the morning of Jan. 20 was told
by Mrs. c. F. Smith, who lives
next door to the Hewitt home, and
who turned in the alarm.
Her husband, son, daughter. a
lodger and herself, she said, were
awakened by Hewitt's cries of
Fire! Fire!" when he rushed to
their house and pounded on their
back door.
The bodies of the children were
brought to her home.
After the tragedy, she said. the
father ha dbreakfast with he
FAMILY, eating a hearty meal.
After breakfast. she said, he sat,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
Inquiry

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 26
Results of the first congression-
ally authorized and paid for price
probe as a result of recent soaring
prices throughout the nation, we're
reported today.
The conclusion reached Is that
there is no just ground for such
high prices of many products. as
are demanded of the consumer at
this time"
Recommends Markets.
The report recommends there Ia
urgent need in this country for
organization of comprehensive
marketing machinery which will
put producing and consuming
communities in trading relations
with each other and make posi-
BILE sending OF perishable products
directly from the point of produc-
ton to point of use.
Municipal wholesale markets
are recommended.
The probers found:
hoS AOpoi 10 VI loou ouOi Ia sc
were misleading.
That the poor have been COM
PEELED to resort to strictest econ
omy to provide food.
Speculation Blamed.
That the sale of ordinary cuts
of meats appear to have been dis
continued.
That consumers are exhibiting
more frugality than ever before
the falling off in garbage collec-
tons proving this.
That shipments of foodstuffs
were abnormally held up and the
food supply therefore abnormally
depleted.
That the element of specula-
ton in food products has been one
Of the potent factors In enormous
increases in prices.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
Dictator
tU.ited Pres. Leased wirea


WASHINGTON, d. c., April
26.-That some one American
possibly Herbert Hoover or Sec
rotary of Labor Wilson-within
the next few months will become
food dictator of the world, was
indicated by developments at the
international war conference of
the allies heer today.
More and more the proceedings
are crystallizing into monu-
mental campaign to feed the al
lies. Finance and shipping prob
lens are coming to be considered
comparatively collateral.
1t was taken for granted today
that it will be the policy of the
allies, after America has made
her preliminary contributions to
her fighting sister nations in men,
money, food, shipping and other
things, to entrust the United
States with absolute controls OF
certain phases of the. war.
That food will be one of the
problems left entirely in Ameri-
can hands is believed certain.
This will mean that one
man or small group of men
will he named by President
Wilson absolutely to dOmi-
nate the production and dis
trtbutlon OF all food i'm the
United States, England,
France, Italy, Russia, Cuba
and the other allied cOiin-
tries.
1t is deemed probable that this
step will involve the formation OF
an internally food commission,
comprising a director-general OF
food foreach nation with the
American dictator as the head OF
the commission.
This, 1t was officially pointed
out, has been the allies method
of handling all its problems. Eng
land dominates war finance. 9th.
err phases, which it Is desired shall
not be discussed as they are not
generally known, are under the
respective direction of some one
or other allies.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
HIT SHARON
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 26. -
Defendants in the suit of Freder-
lex Wallace Sharon of Tacoma
against the Frederick William
Sharon estate, by which he hopes
to secure a portion of the Sharon
millions, today are introducing let
tiers secured from Sharon's effects
in Paris, which. the defense
claims, show Frederick Wallace
Sharon never was legally adopted
nor had he legal claim on the
Sharon estate. These letters in
clude correspondence between the
mother of the claimant and the
late millionaire, written at the APP
proximate time of the alleged
adoption, in which the mother APP
peals for financial assistance for
her sons schooling.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
UNITED Press Leased Wire.)

tUhIted Frtss LcRsed Wfre.I
WASHINGTON, d. c., April
26.-Premier Viviani, Marshal
Joffre and Admiral Chocheprat
today called on President Wilson
at the White House.
They were conducted to the
blue room and warmly greeted by
the president.
The Frenohmen we're with the
president only few minutes.
After greetings had been ex-
changed Viviani left for the capt.
tel, to call on Vice President
Marshall; and Marshal Joffre left
on foot for the war department
to talk with American army Off
lCera
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
CITY IS AFTER
SAND TRUST

Continued From Page One.)
1t Is probable that the cost, about
$1,000, will be met by the public
works department.
There isa't any doubt that a
gravel trust controls the market
in Tacoma" asserted the mayor.
Urged by Unions.
This is shown by the high
prices, and the fact that all deal
ers are maintaining the same
scale.
81 am not in favor of extending
municipal ownership to a point
where it completes witTlegitimate
business, but in this case l do not
think that the profit taken by the
gravel dealers is legitimate. The
city should bust the trust.
The erection of municipal
gravel bunker has been urged by
the Central Labor Council, Build
ing Trades Council and Metal
Trades Council, who have made
an extensive study of the gravel
business in Tacoma.
Fifty Per Cent.
These three organizations, num-
bering $500 men, have promised
to give the city all of their bust
ness, If a municipal bunker is
erected. They have statistics to
show that the gravel dealers are
extracting a SO per cent profit
from all gravel and sand handled
by them.
1t is suggested that a 1000
cubic yard bunker be erected. A
35-horsepower motor would be
sufficient to haul the tram cars
from the barges at the docks to
the top of the bunkers. Filling
OF wagons would be done by
gravity,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
IS CHOSEN FOR
RESERVE CORPS

Capt. A. p. S. Hyde of the U. 8.
army has selected 35 Tacoma ap-
plicants for the officers reserve
corps. They will be sent to the
training camp at the Preside,
Cal, beginning May s.
Richard p. Kelly was one of the
applicants Wednesday. He has a
letter from Mai. Gen. J. F. Bell.
recommending him for the rank
of major.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
81 MUST LIVE
Ur,,t.d pre.. Leased WIRE,

Omitted Press Leased Wtre.l
NEW YORK, April 26.-I love
America, but not enough to die
here. l must live to see France
victorious and once more visit my
beloved Paris when the war cloud
has disappeared"
Sarah Bernhardt, in substance,
spoke these words to her physi-
clans when they had almost
despaired of her life at Mount
Sinai hospital. The official bull
letin today reported her condi-
ton favorable. She has been max
ing steady progress.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
JOFFRE MAKES BIG
HIT AT WASHINGTON

Short and stout, Joffre made a
picturesque figure in his red
trousers, black patent leather
boots, blue cloak and red cap
heavily braided with gold. AS he
left the White House grounds, a
big crowd which had gathered
outside the gate, welcomed him
noisely and he smilingly saluted.
The long flight of steps into
the state, war and navy building
he took two steps at a time--a
real feat for a man of his build
and 65 years old. The crowd
laughed and applauded as the
young officers under Joffre were
compelled to speed up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
Four Children Killed,
Father Eats Big Meal

in a rocking chair and wept.
While the house was burning,
Mrs. Smith declared, she asked
Hewitt where. the children were
and he replied that they were in
the house, adding: my Cod"
Attorney Glasgow on cross-ex-
animation inquired whether Hew-
lit had not always manifested af-
lection for the children, but the
objection of the prosecutor was
sustained by the court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
LOSS is APPALLING
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LONDON. April 26.-Complete
repulse of violent massed count
by German forces against
new British positions around Cav
relle was announced in Field Mar
shall .Haig's official statement to-
day.
Germany is now suffering her
most appalling losses Of the wal
in the desperate endeavors Of her
army staff to stop the British
drive by sheer weight of human
masses opposing it.
North of the Scarpe river today
where the British fought Ghead
almost inch by inch in the face OF
great masses of men the carnage
was greater than that suffered by
the enemy since the war started.
Wall of Human Beings.
Front dispatches today carried
the idea that the Germans, realiz-
ing no trench works could stand
against the levelling fire of the
British artillery, were seeking to
make wall of living human be-
Iings against the advance. >
Into the closely packed troops
opposing the British fire did ter
rifle work. Thousands of man.
gled bodies are flung over the bat
tlefield along the Scarpe, mostly
Germans.
The British losses have been ex-
ceedingly low, considering the fe'
rocity Of the fighting.
That the terrible mortality
of the German troops Is un-
dermining their morale Is APP
parent by statements of pris-
Oners.
The German trOOps-all Of
them picked divisiOns-are
literally driven into the fight
ing line now. Those who sur
vive the deadly accuracy of
the British artillery fire and
the pounding of the British
infantry attacks are exceed !.
ingly glad to be taken pris-
Oner.
Today 1t appeared that the Brit
ish and the enemy were deadlock
ed to the north of the Scarpe. The
drive toward Douai along this line
was being opposed with the Ger
mans every resource. To the
south, however, the British pres
sure could not be resisted and
they were slowly moving forward
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
URGE FLOWING BE
DONE NOW, STREET
REPAIRS TO WAIT

Urging Commissioner Atkins to
loan city teams to the people Of
Tacoma for piowing vacant lots,
the Tacoma-Pierce County Better
ment association last night went
on record as favoring temporary
abandonment of street repair
work until the blowing could be
accomplished.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
MUCH GOOD LAND
AT REGENTS PARK

At an agriculture preparedness
meeting Wednesday night at Re-
gents Park, rs acres of good pota-
to land was reported by the survey
committee. There are 225 acres
of good tillage land in the district,
the committee reported.
Meetings will be held Saturday
at Gig Harbor, at Wollochet bay
Sunday afternoon. Several meet
ings are being held this week on
Vashon island.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
HELD FOR GRAFT;
DETECTIVE SUED

]. l.. Roberts, who faces a
charge of graft preferred by
Judge Card, became defendant in
a new suit Wednesday when Frank
Baron, over whom the original
trouble started, filed a civil action
against Roberts for money he
claims he paid the detective.
Baron alleges that Roberts
promised to clear him" for
$500, and that he paid $500 in
cash, giving a note for the rest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
NAMES HEAD FOR
OFFICERS SCHOOL

SAN FRANCISCO, April rs. =
Lieut.. Col. Ohio w. Farr, Seventh
Field Artillery, was named today
commandant of the officers re-
serve corps training school to be
held at the Preside beginning
May 8. Lieut.. Col. +. w. Sladen
will be senior instructor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
TACOMA BOYS WIN
HONORS AT u. OF w.

SEATTLE, April 26.--Thomas
Dodds, a Stadium high school grad
uate, was elected editor of the
University of Washington Daily
at the annual school election held
on the campus Wednesday.
; Stanley Stats, also Of Tacoma,
was elected vice president OF the
Associated students
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
Millions

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. April 26.
TO aid the farmers of the ma
tion in meeting the food situation,
the government today took steps
to throw resources approximating
10O,000,000 into the breach.
The action was announced by
the treasury department that all
postal savings deposits will be
made Immediately available for
loans to farmers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
PREPARING FOR
TOURIST TRAVEL

Round trip excursion tickets to
North Pacific points from st. Paul
or Milwaukee, will be on sale from
June Is to Sept. 80 at the Milwau-
kee ticket office. The rate will
be SIS from Chicago and $3.50
from st. Paul.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
TROOPS DRIVEN
AHEAD TO Die
ed From Pa ge One. !

CONTINUED From Page One.)
prodigal of his men, is hurting all
along the line, the British are
holding their most important
gains.
The fighting today for the most
part is along the Scarpe. The
enemy is losing not only in thou
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
FRENCH REPULSE ATTACKS
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PARIS, April 26.-Two tre-
mendous German attacks made on
a front of more than mile and
a half west of Cerny we're smash
ed unavailingly against French
lines and repulsed amid heavy
losses to the enemy, today's
French official statement declared.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
TODAY'S CLEARINGS
Portland Folk Revealing In
.>Smelt at Their Own Price

SEND run OF potatoes plunge thus reckessy
flour! cutting wars Theyw will form the
When those youths
dale are older, they will not alton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26

sands by counter-attacks, but
everywhere the deadly accuracy Of
the British artillery is adding tc
the toll.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26

The Times has arranged that
Bert6n Braley, famous verse and
fiction writer, hereafter shall be a
regular instead of an occasional
contributor to our columns.
His super-pen has been lifted
often of late in patriotic paeans
of preparedness.
We would be wasting our time
and our readers time to explain
who Berton Braley is; wherever
stirring English verse is appreciat-
ed, his name is a glad sign.
One of his offerings today on
page six.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
ALL OVER COUNTRY
HOPEFUL NOW

Omitted Press Leased Wirc.)
LONDON. April 26.-Announce-
ment today that Premier Lloyd
George had postponed for few
days his statement on Irish home
rule, promised this week, aroused
hopes of complete settlement of
the question. 1t was believed
that Lloyd-George was making a
final effort to reconcile the va
rious Irish elements as a result of
urgent representations from For
eign Secretary Balfour, now in
Washington.
TODAY'S CLEARINGS
Clearings ........$ 440.491.60
Balances ......... 64,132.1
Transactions ...... IA, 00'.S4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-26
FOOD PROBLEM GRIPS The WORLD
Bread Up
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tGNtte0 trcea Leuseu ~shHSsV
NEW YORK, April 26.-The
six cent loaf of bread, now the
cheapest on the market, will dis
appear from New York counters
Monday, il was announced here to-
day by the largest producing
wholesale bakers.
The 10c loaf will be the cheap
est and its size will be cut mate
rally.
ALL OVER COUNTRY
A material advance in the price
of bread and bakery products can
be expected shortly =
nccording to
leading bakery managers here to-
day.
The general advance in New
York will be followed by bakeries
all over the country, the bread
makers here believe.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-05-22
PREPARING CITY
 HALL TO RECEIVE
 NEW FIRE ENGINE

The work on the city hall in prep aration for the arrival of the new pumping engine, is rapidly nearing completion The runway for the en- zine in front of the new door was put in yesterday by Kesselring and Sargent.
 Imbedded in the concrete Of the runway in the center are two large bone dice, present from A. T. Spatz. Following the suggestion of the two dice, the rooms on the up per story which will be occupied by the firemen have been christened "Pair-a-Dice."
 The upper story is undergoing complete alteration. The two school rooms on the Fourth street side have been divided into four sleep ing rooms with closets and large central lounging room. The slide pole will be installed from this lounging room to the fire hall below.
 The former office of the .superin- tendent of schools. at the top of the stairs, will be fitted up as kitchen. Adjoining this will be larges din ing room for the firemen. The re- mainder of the space on the Third street side of the building will be taken up with quarters for the H. brary, two large rooms and small Ter storage room.