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us. LEASES BUILDING

The seven story steel and concrete
building at 119 D st. N. E.. formerly
the home of number of depart
ments of the Southern Railway and
later occupied by the Federal Gov.
eminent. has been released to the
United States for a period from
March Is. 1929 terminating June 30,
1880, It was announced yesterday.
Rental involved Is at the rate Of
$3.50 per month, with an option to
renew the lease annually at the same
figure. w. Fl. Walker and o. II. p.
Johnson leased the building.
Births. Engagements. MarFIages
Deaths and In Mem0riam appear daily
ON the last inside page Iaat two eOIun M.
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Hedges and Middleton
Name Their Executive,

AT a recent executive conference
OF the officers of Hedges and
Middleton. Inc, Jesse H. Hedges.
president. and Albert E. Landvoigt
vice president of the concern since
its organization, made public the
names of the following individuals
to continue with the firm in exec.
utive capacities:
Paul Ryon, sales department
, James A. Geddes, rental manager;
Palmer Field, office manager; Joel
c. Hawkins. loan department; Sam.
uel Gheen, manager of insurance
department.; Clarence WEIGH, credit
department; Arthur B. Isley, con.
struction. and Louis Gutenberg, law
counselor for the firm.
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Pittsburgh Woman Buys
New Home in Capita]

The residence at Forty.second and
Van Ness Streets, has been recently
purchased through the office of J.
Leo Kolb by Mrs. F. C. Hall. of
Pittsburgh. where she will make her
home while in Washington.
Mrs. Hall is interested in horti.
culture and her new home has a
beautiful conservatory and an attrac-
tive garden.
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2 Douglass Apartments in
Sale Involving $4,000

Two small brick apartment houses
In north Cleveland Park, at 424O.42
Thirty-ninth st. N. W., have been
sold for ], E. Douglass to a local
investor, it was announced yesterday
by the J. E. Douglass Company. Con-
sideration involved was reported at
$4,000.
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BRITISH HONOR HAMMOND

c. Herrick Hammond. of Chicago,
State architect of Illinois, and presf-
dent of the American Institute of
Architects, has been elected to honor.
airy corresponding membership in the
Royal British Institute of Architects.
q was announced yesterday by the
institute.
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+ Al R TAXATION
URGED FOR
CITIES

The old-fashioned assessor who
tilted back in his chair. chewed off
the end of his pencil, and, without
venturing from his office. set prop
erty values for the purpose of taxa
ton, is being moved from his com
Portable seat In cities throughout the
country. says the National Associa.
ton OF Real Estate Boards.
He Is being replaced by alert
young men who pad up and dow1
the streets measuring, figuring. com.
pairing and testing. and the old
hit.and-guess method OF making
assessments, under which some
taxes were fair and some were not,
is being supplanted by scientific
methods that can be- proven by any
one who can add two and two.
Such systems sre being used in
Cleveland, Detroit. Fort Worth, Los
Angeles. San Francisco. San An
tonic. Denver. Reading Pa; James
town, N Y, and other cities.
Protest Unfairness
Property owners do not mind paw
ing taxes. They know that police.
men and firemen must eat and that
schools must be- maintained. But
they do mind taxes based on hap.
hazard assessments that make own
ers of similar properties pay ,lif-
ferent taxes.
Fifty thousand property owners in
Chicago last year refused to pay
their taxes on the claim that thsir
assessments were unfair. and Chi.
cago Is now engaged in a re-assass-
ment of all property in the county
at a cost that viii exceed a ha.f
million dollars, but in Cleveland,
Ohio one OF the first cities to In
stall a scientific method of property
assessment. only 90 complaints came
before the board of review in the
last IL months.
But the situation In Chicago was
so serious that the Chicago Clear
ing House Association, representing
business interests. raised fund OF
$3.50 900 to reorganize the system
of assessing in Cook County The
hoard of assessors did not have the
funds with which to undertake this
work and the business interests
gave It to them.
Can prove" Case
Under this system which is SINH
lar to the method used in Cleveland
and other progressive cities. any
citizen with a pencil and paper can
assess any property anywhere. says
Cutmore, and this alone will silence
much of the grumbling that has
been heard from perplexed prop
erty owners. In Cook County in the
past, whether assessments were
high or low, the property owner
did not have the least idea how the
figure handed to him was arrived
at.
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side, the dirt Of the hill scooped
away so that for q brief space
the flume was three feet in
stead of the 10 inches wide.
The fumes top had been re-
placed with meticulous care.
This was the reason, too;
why the kidnaper had sent the
receptacle in which the money
was to be placed. Better to
have the box to which the dog
was trained. And it needed
that strong handle. Must have
lain awake many a night plan
ming this.
The one thing he couldn't
fathom was this-why had the
man allowed the dog to\ stray
back here and give him away?
In a very short time he came
with shock upon an answer.
He had his light shining
family on the fumes mouth
Just enough to make sure Of the
dogs presence should he return.
He left a little of the meat
there at the outlet but the bulk
of it was at his own elbow.
And now, sitting there mo-
tionless, he was again looking
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pulled in the opposite direction.
He paved and gave sharp, i'm:
perious banks. Then he went
up, took the detectives coat in
his teeth and tried to yank him
down through the thicket.
"All right, Jim-you lead!"
In the night, the scene had q
wild. remote aspect. The bright
strips of valley, the terraces
with truck gardens and the
great fields of artichokes dwin.
died away. The bare swinging
hills closed about them. These
hills marched down endless mar.
row gorges; up endless naked
slopes. Ridge after ridge with
deep pits where shadows
thronged and made mysterious
the almost total dark
Where Is he taking me?"
Chase wondered uncomfortably
as he stumbled after the impa.
.tient and Juggling dog.
They entered a canyon where
the brush tore at the mans
trousers, and again and again
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Stubborn Coughs
Ended by Recipe,
Mixed at Home

Here is the famous old recipe which
millions of housewives have found to
be the most dependable means of break
ing up a stubborn, lingering cough. 1t
takes but a moment to prepare and
costs little, but it gives real relief even
for those dreaded coughs that follow
severe cold epidemics.
From any druggist, get 213 ounces Of
Pinex, pour it into a pint bottle and NIL
the bottle with plain graduated sugar
syrup or strained honey. Thus you make
a full pint of better remedy than you
could buy ready-made for three times
the cost. 1t never spOils and tastes so
good that even children like it.
Not only does this simple mixture
soothe and heal the inflamed throat
membranes with surprising ease, but
also it is absorbed into the blood, and
acts directly upon the bronchial tubes,
thus aiding the whole system in throw
ing of the cough. 1t loosens the germ
laden phlegm and eases chest soreness
in a way that is really astonishing.
Pinex is q highly concentrated COM
pound Of genuine Norway Pine, con-
tanning the active agent OF creosote, in
q refined, palatable form. Nothing
known in medicine is more helpful in
cases Of distressing coughs, chest colds,
and bronchial troubles.
Do not accept a substitute for Pine1.
It il guaranteed to give prompt relief
or money refunded.
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into the dogs eyes. The dog
shifted, ran his nose along the
ground, took one cautious step.
Tim Chase didn't stir, Except
lazily to move his pipe, blow a
smoke ring upward. The dog
was taking that first bit of
meat. But all on guard-he
was backing into the flume,
eyes fastened on the inert fig.
ure five feet from him.
An interval of moments and
again, with ghoStly quiet the
dog appeared at the flume. He
thrust his head forward, low to
the ground. Three or four
times he repeated this ma.
newer.
Chase said softly. Sail
right, jim"
The dog crouched back.
Chase flung him a rSiece of the
meat with a lazy: well
there you are, old fellow. If
you want the rest come for it,"
The dog seized the meat in
his mouth, devoured it eagerly
=" waited, almost begging for
more.
Here you are, jim" said the
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Piled. IT want you, no one but
you, let's run away from here
tonight-now-"
But she insisted, half dragged
him back to the ballroom.
Mother HARDWOOD greete d
them beneficently on the porch.
well, you two children
finally got together" she said.
where have you been hiding
yourself. Miss Galloway? 1
want you to meet my husband
before we lose you again"
Bennett stared at Beth. She
smiled a little. He couldn't
speak.
They stood in the shadow of
a porch pillar. Finally she
spoke.
Forgive me, Bennett" she
whispered. Il was so curious
about you. I'd heard of this
dashing, gallant young devil
Bennett HARDWOOD. I was crazy
to meet you, to know the real
Bennett underneath. Wait
don't speak, let me finish. You
fascinated me, accounts of you
In the papers. a crazy, daring,
reckless person, but always with
something fine underneath.
80 I talked your office man
ager into letting me be your
secretary when I heard you
were going into your fathers
business-I'd studied shorthand
any tipping for fun one sum-
mer. I wanted to know you.
1t was sort of a bet I made
with myself that you were a
finer person than you seemed
from your colorful and scan
dalous reputation.
Il put the bug about Miss
Galloway in your Dads ear,
first by saying that I'd worked
for her father and knew her,
second by writing him a letter,
from an anonymous admirer
of two fine families" suggesting
that the two young people
meet, setting forth Miss Gallo
ways fine qualities, all her &C
compliShments, distinctions and
assets as only I could. He fell
for it." She smiled a little
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man, holding it in the palm Of
his hand.
Slowly, putting a paw for
ward and Immediately with
drawing it, the dog advanced.
AS Chase didn't stir he grew
confident; he began to wag his
tail.
Chase talked to him, tore the
meat into bits and held 1t out.
The dog came up and ate from
his hand.
Pretty hungry, Jim?"
The dog licked his wrist. He
answered to the name all right.
Was he Elliot's jim?
And he stood quietly when
the detective fastened a collar
to his neck. AS Chase held the
leash and ordered softly: Lets
fetch it, jim! Go fetch it!" the
dog jumped about impatiently.
But with the start toward
the flume, he pulled back with
all his strength. He Rugged
along the ground and could
not be induced to follow.
"Now-what's up?"
with quick tugs, the dog
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SAYS BARBER SHOPS
NO PLACE FOR A COUGH"
Uses REM
himself

Mr.. Joseph Candreva of $40 9Th
Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y, runs a bar
Der shop and knows from exper.
fence how customers avoid .
coughing barber. When he him
self happened to get q cough, hs
tried several things for it, but With
little success until he tried REM.
He bought it at Rubin's Pharmacy
on 9th. Ave.-and in a remarkably
short time his cough was much
better. Later on, his wife had an
equally satisfactory experience
with REM, so that now Mr.. Cand-
reva gladly states "REM'S the
best cough medicine ever" Thous-
sands of others, also, have found
out by experience that REM'S
exclusive formula is different and
better than ordinary cough syrups.
You'll find it out too, by asking
your druggist for REM.
The Washington times., 1929-12-09
TOddy;s True
Story

sideways smile, looking some
what like a naughty child.
Il fell too" said Bennett
quietly, IF that's any Satisfac-
ton to you" But he couldn't
be cross long with the beautiful
pleading girl beside him. He
smiled. And I'm going to
keep right on falling, even
though little Beth Blake has
turned into that Galloway
girl"
When Silas Harwood, towed
by his faithful wife came to
meet the daughter-in-law of
his device, he found her, prop
erly enough, in the arms of
her betrothed.
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I pressed a button, door
opened-something new and
beautiful and precious walked
into my life. Everything that
I have done in the past three
months has been for YOU
won't you marry me?
Beth looked up at him. Her
blue eyes were tender. I'D
trust you always, Bennett" she
said. Il know you've learned
lots of things in a short time.
I love you now, I'm sure Of 1t,
but-you owe it to your family
to meet this Galloway girl. Be
a perfect son, a perfect host.
I'll be sure you truly love
me-after you've met this
other one. She'll be so dazzling
and wonderful that I'll look
like just a little dumb secre-
tary."
Bennett leaned over, held her
face in his hands. tried to kiss
her, but she escaped. Wait,
said she, smiling at him, till
after you've met the heiresS."
He promised, laughing at her
insistanCe.
The Harwood home on Long
Island was ablaze with lights
and radiant with splendid but
lers and maids. 1t was the
night of nights, the grand az
fair of the season. Bennett was
to meet Gladys, at last. He
tried not to Sulk, tried to stand
there among the brilliant crowd
as though he was enjoying him
self. This ridiculous notion OF
his parents was quite without
foundation. They assumed that
his fascination was so great
that Miss Galloway would fall
into his arms, once he nodded
reassuringly in her direction.
Hadn't she accepted their in
vitation Immediately, the first
one she had accepted by the
way since her return from
Europe some months ago.
Wasn't she known as the
debutante recluse. They were
bursting with pride. Mother
arranged and rearranged Ben
nett's tie a dozen times, but
somehow although the party
was we'll under way, he avoided
meeting the heiress. When she
came in he had disappeared.
When his mother had him in
tow, she had vanished.
He Strolled out to the wide
lawn, nearly stumbled over a
girl sitting on a stone, bench
staring at the lily pond glisten-
ing in moonlight.
She turned to him. BETH"
he said increduIously. You
here. didn't know you were
coming. Why didn't you tell
me?" He caught her in his
arms and for once she didn't
resist but let him hold her there
close, in the moonlight. Then
Have you met the heiresS
yet?" she asked him.
Hang the heiress," he re-
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saw the box he went for it and
left the bone.
And the man who used this
dog had worked out incredible
details. Like concealing the
outlet and widening the flume
so that 200 yards from the
mouth the dog was able to
turn about. He didn't have
to back three quarters of a
mile with the precious pack
age.
Chase had ripped the cover
ing and discovered a couple Of
boards taken from the inner
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the dog pulled him forward.
The flashlight showed a
thicket Of trees. Now the dog
strained violently at the leash.
Chase halted. Precipitation
ran into his eyes. They must
have come a mile or more. Now
he slipped a hand in his pocket
and put his thumb on the trig-
ger Of his pistol.
He stood poised like this, re-
sisting the frantically insistent
dog.
Cautiously he moved on, play
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ing the light over the ground.
Abruptly they came upon it
the half PROSTATE figure Of .
man.
The dog broke free. He ran
up and licked the mans face.
The fellow stirred. He got to
his feet. He began to humble.
Chase with his pistol leveled,
his handouts ready. went up
and flashed the light in the
mans face.
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
Copyright, 1922, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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marriage idea is o. X, but the
Galloway girl is o. U. r. I've
met the girl I love. She's
marvellous, a million times too
wonderful for me. She's intelli
gent, unpretentious, perfect.
My little secretary, Beth Blake"
Mother HARDWOOD broke into
tears.
Silas fumed, stormed, fought
for words in his rage. why
of also this is why you like
working-that dumb blonde
girl-outrageous-I'll fire her
it's intolerable. I'll disinherir
you. You can't do it,"
II know I can't" Bennett
said simply, because she won't
marry me-"
Mother stopped weeping, ex-
claiming incredulously. What
do you mean, won't marry
you?"
But Silas was relieved. She's
got more sense than I gave her
credit for. Besides she knows
this Galloway girl, worked for
her father. She told ME so.
Says there never lived a more
remarkable person. So you see
everyone is for this woman.
You've got to meet her anyway
or 1'll-I'll-"
Beth won't marry me-" con-
tinued Bennett, who hadn't
heard a word of his fathers
last remark, because she says
I don't know anything about
life. I'm a Spender and
Waster, without a practical
thought in my head, selfish
money-loyer, a parasite, a rich
mans son, and heaven knows
what other damning thing.
But she likes me-" He bright
ened. She admits that, and
also that there's a little hope"
No use talking any further
to this idiot, thought the elder
HARDWOOD, and they went off
into worried conference with
each other.
1t was Beth herself who
finally persuaded Bennett that
he should humor his parents
by at least meeting that Gal
loway girl" as he called her.
Bennett had confided every
thing to Beth. He always took
his troubles to her. 1t was she
who had taught him to be a
sane intelligent business man,
she who had ridiculed his silly
schoolboy ideas of life.
Beth" he said, holding her
two little hands in his, It can't
ever tell you what you mean to
me, not if I live for a million
years. I can tell you, though,
over and over that I love you.
Won't you trust me. Won't you
take a chance on my being able
to care for you? I'll lose this
soft job if we marry. I'll be
diSinherited. must have
seemed a silly kidding fool that
first day when you came in.
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EFT HARWO GOD
stretched his long, slim
legs, took another puff of
his cigarette, ran an immaculate
coat sleeve lightly over the top
of his mahogany desk. A we'll
appointed office, soft blue rugs
on the floor, damask curtains
at tn windows, shaded.
modernistic lights and a push
button.
He pressed the, latter-for
fun. A beautiful girl came into
the office. a sweet little blonde,
with curling hair and big, blue
eyes. She looked UP with a
business-like expression and
said, Yes, Mr.. Harwood?" a
pencil poised above notebook.
DO you come with the job?"
Bennett asked the lovely girl.
Yes. Sir-Im your secretary.
My name is Beth Blake" She
smiled and sat down in the
chair beside his desk.
"Well!" The long, lean scion
of wealth toyed with a paper
weight. An expression of inter
est came into his clear, grey
eyes. Working for a living
isn't going to be half bad!"
Silas Harwood couldn't under
stand what turned his son into
an alert and eager executive so
suddenly. The same son who
had spent the past few years
getting into financial, legal, and
amorous difficulties almost con-
tinuouSly. Furthermore, it
seemed to be lasting. 1t was
six months since young Ben
nett first stretched his legs
under the mahogany desk. Old
Silas was amazed and delighted.
The next step was to catch
him in this frame of mind,
marry him off to some sound
young woman, and settle him
for life. Silas Schemed and
planned, discussed the matter
with his wife, with everyone
but the groom-to-be, Bennett.
Who would be the fitting wife
for a HARDWOOD, the only
young generation" of Har-
woods-the last of the Har-
woods?
Why not the catch of the So
cial season, Gladys Galloway,
the debutante who refused to
be like other debutanteS, who
had a will of her own, for
eign education, great reputed
charm, who scorned newspapers
and publicity? A lady who, by
reason of her fathers oil mil
lions and her mothers blue
blood, would be a fitting and
proper candidate for Benefits
hand.
The Harwoods and the Gallo
ways had common acquaint-
ances, though they had never
met because of the Galloways'
passion for foreign shores and
infrequent visits to America.
But it would be easy to arrange
a meeting. A HARDWOOD could
meet anyone with head erect.
Harwood's harrows, scythes and
other farm implements were
known throughout the civilized
world.
Bennett wasn't very enthu.
Siastic about the matter. Silas
put 1t to him with character
istic bluntness. So Bennett was
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IOLb6U VI DSSI 1VuAOFSN w +
They examined it and found
that boards cut for a distance
of two feet, the hillside against
1t scooped free SO the dog had
an easy path to the cliff be-
low.
He had raced down the cliff.
crossed a narrow gulley and
with the thick underbrush for
a screen made for the wooded
hill opposite.
In a flash, hill and canyon
we're alive with searching men,
They went plunging down the
rough slope and through the
brush after the dog.
Just about here they lost
sight of him. The trees were
unusually thick. Suddenly one
of their number raised his
hand. Below them in little
clearing the dog stood at at
tention, motionless, nose and
tail pointed. Long before they
reached the spot, the setter
bounded away. They noted, ex-
citedly, that he didn't have the
box in his mouth.
Somewhere along this hill he
had dropped it! Was this
then. the solution? This what
had happened last Friday night
when the ransom box with its
$4,000 had vanished?
A dog has been trained TO
run through the flume, re-
trieve a certain kind Of pack
age and bring it to a desig-
mated spot? From this spot,
had the kidnaper of little Billy
Bryce taken it and made good
his escape? But how?
They tramped down under
brush. They kicked through
the earth Savagely. If they
could only find this substitute
box, they might come upon
a clue, learn how the dog
and his master made connec~
tions, how that fellow had elud-
ed them.
Had he walked from this
hill a full mile back to the
highway, climbed in a machine
and driven away? Almost in
their hands, they had allowed
him to pass?
But in the impenetrable dark
ness of that Friday night, no
white man could have found
his way.
1t was about $50 now. Only
half an hour ago the sun had
set. Already the shadows were
bewildering; already they had
moments of odd uncertainty.
At midnight the hills were a
wilderness, black, rolling, vast.
And he would not have dared
to use a light.
Their burning questions re-
ceived suddenly an electrifying
answer. Two men, dropping
from the clearing, came alb
ruptly upon an abandoned
dirt road. It was rough; in
parts deep with sand; the sides
went down in bitches. But it
was paSsable. 1t wound through
little farms and truck gardens,
in and out over the hills. Four
miles to the south it joined the
main highway.
They hadn't known of this
road. They hadn't guarded it.
Were htey on the right track
then? The dog had stolen the
ransom, sped noiselesSly down
the flume. laid it in his mas
ter's hands. And the dogs
master had triumphantly made
o getaway down this forgotten
road.
Tim Chase, detective, sat in
the dark before the fumes
mouth and smoked. Useless to
go scouting through the hills
looking for the dog.
Wait awhile-very quietly;
the dog was hungry and would
return for the meat. 1ntelli-
gent fellow-that setter.
Elliott had a brown setter
called him jim. Was this
Elliott's dog? Briefly he sum-
med up facts. Whoever owned
that animal had trained him
well. Must have taken enor-
nous patience. Dog hungry for
the meat, but the moment he
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DR.. Bisch's Daily Health Hint

remedies such building up Of the system have failed
we'll consider having vaccine of the boil contents made
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What Do You KnOw?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST

For Questions See Comic Page
1. Canada; g Yokohama; 3. France; l. Abel; s. Font;
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This Day in Our History

On December g. 1912, the British government made q
formal protest against the exemption Of the United States
coastwise vessels from Panama Canal tolls.