Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1927, Page 59

e OFFICIAL NOTICES. EDUCATIONAL. EDUCATIONAL. THE EVENING _____EDUCATIONAL. ONERS OF THE_DISTRICT OF ? % A Wb . October 8. 1927, e her o e Do Part 1. of Article II-A. strike out i dseciion Tollow M‘ N hnll “('M Tot. less 1 72" inches of brick. ‘heish pace 11 and roof of the enclosure shall tely filled with sand or well tamped shall be roofed over equivatent con: ) i o Qlevhas, Semml- Capatity of SUDDIY e {ahks: ocated nsde of & bullding and o ; D Gramity or 40 the burner may be utilized. provided the Iglfil capacity of the gravity supply tank a . eapacity of pressure supply tank 10 gallons s Jorovided furiher. that proper ,wafeguards to prevent abnormal disci of oil at the burner are provided. and ti all such gravity and bressure supply tanks. ‘whether nghflflun: A:or;n (v‘r m.m'mnlh‘:’»‘y; Slorage and gravity tank systems. bear Aoproval of the U. S_ Bureau of Standards or the Underwriters' Labaratories, and that the same be constructed and installed in ac- condance . with the following specifications fon 6. Tank Speci! l!,!dl\';i‘:lllll Tllngi . s shall not have ¢ . Form—These tanks may be Speciul desins v a ness—The shell and heads of tanks %p to and including 60 U. 8. gallons shall Jess than No. v, S 87 gaue in thickness. ~Provided that acity not in excess of 10 S S e, except as reauired 10 skt " Nanke of larger than 60 fe made of than 12 U. S. 8. gauge | Joints—The ‘joiuts of these brazed or riveted and m: ard pive couplings, fo the tanke Riveted flanzes shall be se- cured by mot less than four rivets on a Pitch not to exceed 2 in. There shall be only Bhe bipe connection provided in or near the Dottem of the tank and at least two in or Dear the top to permit the necessary SuppLy overflow. and vent connections. The vent Pise should be of ample size 10 prevent ab- narmal pressure Cage of fire or when ATiine, and In mo case to be less than one- inch pive size. Means shall be provided for Temoving water and sediment from the hot- 'of both gravity and storage tanks. The Threaded portians of pibe connections shall ot be less than shown in the following Minimum Length of Threaded Part (In.) 4 0. £ SaugesEach 1A% e or eauivalent. h Siquid level kauge or x Submorts—Each tank shall be provided il SuDBtantal o T urnished with the tank and shi 81 or anchoring them to the basement floor. The sSupports Shall hot elevate the bottom of the tank ore 'than & it. above the floor ey shall be arranged to £ive maximum stability for. the tank in the position in which it is o \isod, and strong enough to safely sup- rt the maximum load to which they may Pe wubjected. The tank shall be firmly an- chomd to its supports to avoid strains on connecting piping. 1. 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The boys said they had borrowed the skiff Friday night for a fishing trip and that they had not been on the bay many hours when something went wrong with the ignition, leaving them helpless. After drifting all Friday night they watched for some vessel to pick them up. Only one came close enough to be signaled, and they said it had ig- nored them. Saturday night they sul fered intensely from cold. On Sund: there was a severe storm, which near- ly capsized their boat. e e co., INC. PACKING N SHIPPING 616 Eye 8. N. W. Msin zolu Storage 1 roums $2 mo. anc pert packers for ship- NOR Ding. 705 Fla. ave. n.w. Army Sergeants Retired. Master Sergt. Willis Armstrong, de- tached enlisted men’s list, at the Army War College, Washington Bar- racks, and Master Sergt. John M. Neumes, 34th Infantry, at Fort Eustis, va., have been placed on the retired list of the Army on their own applica- tions. Iach of these soldiers has had more than 30 years of active military service. 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Durant grdered in a quick undertSne. “‘Path marked by the white birch- |¢¢ ed, slipping over the side of the boat and up the shelving bank into the shelter of the trees while the lone trooper drove | his horse forward with a bellow of enraged command. A sudden flame of light flared up back of her, there was a strange, snorting scream and a mighty splash, but the girl did not look behind her. With arms thrown up to protect her face from low sweepi! branches, she somehow found the path and sped up it until a swift thought halted her The Five of Diamonds! deserting him, when he had so much for her! It would be better to be taken herself than to leave him to face it alone! Mentally sScourging herself for a coward, Janet turned and started back the way she had come when she almost collided with Durant him- self pushing his motorcycle along :he path. “What are you doing?” he de- manded, and then without waiting for a reply he added: “Come on! We've got to get out of this” Speechless with surprise at this sud- den turn of events, Janet had pres- ence of mind enough to obey and, falling in beside him, she helped with all her strength to push the neavy machine. Fortunately the path was a short one, ending, to her amazement, a narrow but comparatively smooth road, with the gleam of a lamp f1om the half-shuttered window of a ncuse nearh Durant started the mctor and in a moment she was up he- hind him and they were off. The moon had risen and, although entering its “last quarter, the thin- ning crescent was sufficient to show them the way without lights. Janet thought she heard the faint thud of a horse’s hoofs in the distance and in- stinctively tugged at her companion’s belt. “That's the second trooper,” ie grinned at her over his shoulder. “ITe won't come far, only to the nearast on Gy What happened to the first ore, who jumped out at us?” Janet bent forward., “There was a flash of light, and then a dreadful sort of scream “That was the horse, but he wasn’t hurt, only frightened. I put a match to & bunch of oiled waste and threw it LACK JOKER | BY ISABEL OSTRANI' "R, van pointad to a roll of fleecy blank- ets in the forward corner. “It's clean and soft and hollow like a tunnel, all braced inside. We thought vou'd need sleep and rest, Miss, and i we're stopped, I'll yell out as if at the fools for helding me up on my job, but it'll be ignal for you to ecrawl inside. They'll never know you're there.” ou are very kind.” Janet smiled, conscious all at once of a reaction from the excitement which had kept her up since the flight from the troopers. “I hope I shall not sleep too_soundly to hear your warning! “Hope I won't have to give any!" He laughed and then turned to help Durant adjust the motor cycle in ils crate, adding to the latter: “I've got a sweater and 2 leather apron for you and you can ride on the front seat with me.” ‘The crate fastened, the two bade her good-night, but just before Nine of Spades switched off the lamp Durant thrust a small flashlight inte her hand. “Don’t use it unless you really must, Miss Seven of Hearts, for it might show from outside. We have a good long night before us, so try to rest.” It was the first personal note in their association, but his tone was se¢ brotherly and protecting that whes they had climbed down and bolted the van doors behind them she did not feel frightened as she had antici- pated.. With a warm little sense of gratitude about her heart for such mysteriously appearing friends the gir] fell asleep almost as soon as"hef body relaxed on the soft roll and she knew no slightest movement of the great, rumbling vehicle which bore her through the night. A Toud knocking at the doors of the van roused her at last and her hazy bewildérment at her surroundings was quickly dispelled by the cheery call from Durant: “Open the doors when you're ready! It's thne we were off again!™ Making herself as tidy as she could in her cramped quarters, Janet push- ed open the unbolted doors and he lifted her to the ground, but the morning greetings were brief and while he and: Nine of Spades un- packed the motor cycle and refilled with gas from the van’'s extra supply. she repaired to a tiny brook that gurgled behind some trees at the roadside to wash her face and hands. The country was totally unlike that through which they had ridden the day before, being almost level and dotted with small neat farms and or- chards, with the spires of a village church glimmering in .the sunlit dis- in his face and he took to the river, right over the bank. They're having a nice swim, he and his rider! Hold tight now; we've got some sharp turns coming! They had started in a _direction away from.the brdige, but Janet saw that they were working their way back toward it in a roundabout fash- jon, negotiating hills that togk her breath away and turning at angles whiclr made the machine skid dan- gerously. Then they took to rough wagon trails again and finally came out on a road which, though pr cipitous, was wide and smooth. The girl expected that their speed would increase once more, but, it stead, Durant slowed down and, dri ing well in shadow, appeared to be looking for something. Had he lost his way or did he an- ticipate _another ambush? Janet wondered, but no longer with appre- hension. Five of Diamonds appeared equal to any emergency and she had ceased even to conjecture what their final destination was to be, when, all at_once, she noticed a huge dark bulk looming up beside the road and saw that they had turned directly toward it, the motorcycle wobbling strangely. The dark object appeared to be an enormous closed van of some sort and they halted within a few feet of it, resting on the supports while Durant. without a word to her, bent forward and appeared to be tinkering with something. There was no movement fcom the van, but suddenly a voice spoke from the blackness of the semi-enclosed driver's seat. Ty u know where number Seven, Hartsdale Road is around here, part ner?” The question seemed an ordinary one to encounter on the road, but Janet’s breath caught in a little gasp. The Seven of Hearts? Durant straightened and replied: “Fifth turning after you pass Dia- mond Hill. What are you delivering there?” “Nine spades.” The answer came without hesitation and Durant dismounted quickly and held out his hand to Janet. “Come. This is the Nine of Spades, a friend I was expecting.” ‘With a numb feeling, as though she would be forevermor2 immune to surprises, she advanced beside him as he trundled the motoreycle, to meet the man- climbing down from behind the wheel of the van. A tiny spark of light shone out from the hand of the stranger and she saw that he was holding the front of his coat open to disclose upon his waist- coat the playing card he had clready named. At the same time Durant showed the five of diamonds and Janet rolicd down the soft collar of her blouse to reveal her own card. It would have seemed like a droll comedy to her were it not for the very real dangers through which she had passed and the grim, intent look on the faces of the two men, glowing, for that single moment, in the tiny beam from the flashlight—Durant’s drawn and weary and that of the stranger pugnacious and determined, with brows and heavy, shortclipped mustache as black as the card by which he was designated. Then the light was snapped off and the latter said: “Glad you came through all right so far; I was getting anxious. I'll help you in with the machine.” He had addressed himself appar- ently to both of them together, and now he led the way around to the back of the motor van, opened the door and let down the small runway. “I'll try to make you as comfortable as 1 can, miss; we'll all have to get | inside for a minute and close up be- {fore T dare start a light. Here we are!” { Motor cycle and all three crowded up the runway and the dim moonlight was blotted out by the closing doors, but the nmext moment a single lamp shone out and Janet saw, as her eyes grew accustomed to its glare, that, save for the small space in which they stood, the interior of the great truck was heaped -to the top with a varied assortment of household goods and turniture, all obviously the worse for wear. “Phew!” Durant - whistled softly. “Youve got a_ splendid lot of camou- flage here! No revenue cop would give it a second glance if we're stop- ped for bootlegging, but where shall I put the bike? The constabulary are after us hotfoot because of a little ac- cident T had this morning, and there are others to it. would be a dead give-away.' of Spades’ sestured Loward an open gestul loward an open motor-cycle crate, with a can of red- dish powder beside it and a license plate. “Put her in there with the new number on some of that fake rust sprinkled here and there, ‘and no one would think she'd traveled in a month. ‘The nails are in the top ready to be in place. Leave her out in nobody'd bother with “But the lady?” Durafg, asked dubl- “That ‘'was the best We could do. the ostensible moving tance. ““We must have come miles!™ Janet exclaimed as she returned to the road. Durant stood beside the motor cycle with some packages in his hands, but the van and its kindly driver had vanished. “Nine of Spades couldn’t wait,” he explained. “We did a good many miles during the night and we're free from the consfabulary, but we've others still to evade. Let's hide the bike and eat first, though.” In a deserted orchard they devour- ed the egg sandwiches and drank the milk which Durant had purchased at an all-night lunch-wagon in the last town and then proceeded on the, tc Janet, still unknown way. She was sorry not to have thanked the Nine of Spades, but her compan- jon’s warning did not impress itsell upon her.. Surely Norman and his adherents must have been shaken off! How could they lose that single motor cycle and find it again after hundreds of miles! The sun was pleasantly warm, the road perfect, and as they skimmed along-Janet's 'spirits rose still higher. but Durant was strangely silent. All at once the girl looked up Into the sky and exclaimed: “Oh, there are three airplanes! Don't they look pretty?” Durant glanced back at her and hesitated. Then he said slowly: “They're not up there just for that.” “You mean,” Janet's eyes widened, “that they're protecting us, like yes- terday? How could they ever have picked us up unless they knew just where the van. would stop? You've never told me where we're going, but 1 should like to know what part of the country we are in now! Is Nat up there with the other two?” Her tone was so buoyant and care- free that for the second time her companion seemed to find it difficult to frame his reply. . “We've left Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and we're well into New York State, Miss Seven of Hearts, but how much further we'll get is an- other matter. Those planes arent protecting us, exactly, and Nat fsn't with them. The tables are turned— they’re scouts of Norman!" CHAPTER XXIV. Encircled. ORMAN'S scouts!” Janet re- peated aghast, and. the shadow fell again over her face. ‘“Do—do you think they have seen us yet?” “They've been circling over us since daybreak: T suppose all the. principal roads were covered on the ground or in the air,” Durant responded. “I'll drive slower so we can talk a little, for there are some things you'll have to know for your own protection. There's nothing to fear for the pres- en 14 t. ‘But what can they do?” Janet per- sisted. ‘“They surely wouldn’t bomb us, the way Nat did the railroad track yesterday The three planes which had looked so graceful and beautiful only a mo- ment before had become hideous ma- chines of some unknown menace now, and she shrank from another glance at them, yet her eyes were drawn up- ward in shrinking fascination. “No.- As I understand it, Norman's object is to keep you safe and sound until he has gotten some information from you that you can’t give him."” Her companion was watching her har- rowly over his shoulder. “I'd think they were merely up there to prevent another such stunt as Nat played on them yesterday, except that there are four more, flying in very wide - tion. ‘That dreadful man wouldn’t learn anything from me even if I knew it, but I don't want to fall Into their clutches!” Janet shuddered. “They— they're exactly like some of those hor- rible birds you read of, who follow—a wounded animal till it falls and then cat it! But I'm not afraid. They can’t drop long hooks down and—and .drag me up!” . Her laugh was a somewhat shaky one and Durant did not join in it .al- though he smiled encouragingly. “Th the spirit, Miss Seven of However, this is the situ- ation. None of our people will take to the air after such a squadron; we don't want to attract any more notice than we've got to, you know, and they’ve probably got fake member- ship in some flying club to account for their giving such an exhibition &s this. We've- got all the roads 1 ered, though, with every sort of ¥e- icle that'll travel and they’re all on e lookout for that card you're €ar- rying. It for any reason you should be forced to go on alone—" e “Oh, but that isn't possible!” Janet interrupted. ““They couldn't hurt you without hurting me!” Hearts! you witt Ing a number up to words ten and also either of the f & ‘diamonds,’