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NEW LAW SPEEDS CLEARING TO TITLE National Realty Association Comments on Benefit of Legislation. President Hoover signed an act of Congress March 3 which, according to the National Association of Real Estate Boards, now makes it possible for real estate owners to have cleared of liens | any properties so encumbered by the United States for unpaid Federal bills, including unpaid or disputed income tax bills. ‘The new law, years by the national realtor body and the American Title Association, pro- vides that the United States, according to the realtor interpretation of the act, can be made a party to a suit for a foreclosure of a mortgage or other lien, 80 that the details of any lien of the United States may be determined and disposed of in the foreclosure suit. “This means that mortgages can be | foreclosed, title can be cleared, new mortgages secured with less difficulty, and the ‘entire '“n?"f."u’f""éo easier e(:{ roperties whic! e Governm Eazpe %m and secured judgment for dtlqullent taxes,” the Isochtlon m “Heretofore the property owner who owed the United States money for income tax or other bills was in the Eosiflon of having his property tied up lien the Government inevitably placed upon it. If the mortgagor wished to foreclose, if the owner wished to sell or to get a new mortgage, he had a Pproperty with title clouded by the Gov- ernment lien and there was nothing he could do about it but pay it. Previous to the president's signature on this new bill, the Government could not be brought into the courts and it was im- possible in a suit to foreclose a mort- gage, which was a prior lien, to free the property of the Government lien and this often prevented an advanta- geous sale. ‘The United States cannot be made a party to a suit unless it consents to such action through specific laws. Now, the Teal estate and title interests have brought about such a law for this field and the future operatign of the income and other Federal tax laws will not clog the realty market. JUGOSLAVIAN ENVOY STARTS LAW SERIES Dr. Leonide Pitamic Speaks Before Foreign Service School at Georgetown. ‘The Minister from Jugoslavia, Dr. Leonide FPitamic, delivered the first of ® special series of addresses on inter- national law last night before the Georgetown University School of For- eign Service. Dr. W. Coleman Mvu. J., presi- dent of the university predded, and, in Gistimguitied servicen. on the. Permas ices on nent Board of Arbitration at the Hague and the League of Nations. Dr. Pitamic was sent to the United States as Minister in 1929. A number of diplomats and officers of the State Department, including Wallace S. Murray, chief of fihedlvbion of llar Eastern affairs, the guests of the School of rorztm Serv- ice on this occasion. In his first ad- Particularly in Interpational Law.” In the two remaining addresses in the series, on successive Friday eve- nings, the envoy will deal with other phases of international law, and also with some of the pcculhr problems assoclated with the small European states created since the World War. ‘The lectures will be published by Georgetown University. urged for a period of | Central hall, English type dwelling at 6319 Western avenue, bought by Mr. Towers through the agency of H. G. Smithy Co. from the bui.ders, Jacobson Bros. It contains eight rooms and two baths. INSTALLMENT XIX. o the} e found Evan?” Marth: 6 mnd: a statement, seems to be worried about it. But why, Peter? Evan can’t have told them anything about how Tack killed. He doesn't know. Mr. Bouton's afraid they'll use something he has said, to trap me into saying something foolish. But he needn't be. I wouldn't believe anything like that, no matter what Inspector Connolly told me.’ “Martha—" Peter didn't fnd it easy to go on. “You know—there’s something you ought to take into account. There was—wasn't there an hour last night, after I went home from Sanborn’s, when Ross wasn't with you?” ‘The look in her eyes hurt him. “Yes,” she said. “There was.” er or later. have gone to your house then. “I see,” sald Martha slowly. she M her eyes to Peter's. didn't,” she laid quietly. Rita Gould.” “Do you know that, Martha?” “I couldn’t prove it,” she said, “if that's what you mean. But I'm sure of it. I'm as sure as I am that you're sitting beside me now.” Suddenly, as she went on, there was an extraordi- nary bitterness in her voice. “Oh, | yes—yes, I'm sure—I know it! You—-you must have seen how I looked when Bvan and I came in at San- | born's! I'd been rude to you—there'd | been that awful row at the Fantomas with poor Tack—and I didn't care! Nothing mattered!” He looked at her And he remem- bered. It was true. She had been radiant. He had never seen her look quite as she had then, as, defiantly, she kept Ross with her, off in their corner, refusing to share him with any one. ‘The bitterness of that memory had been wiped out of his mind by &ll that had happened since, but_he had carried ‘it home with him; it had sharpened his anger with jealousy, steeled him in that abortive resolution of his to be done | with her. Oh, yes—he remembered! “You see, Peter—oh, my dear, I hate to tell you these things—I hate so to | hurt you! But I think it was the first time in weeks that Id been sure of Evan—sure that he really did care for | me—sure- that, somehow, sooner or later, things would come right. And | then—he made some excuse—he went Then “He CURTIS’ EDITORIAL LAUDS WASHINGTON AS SYMBOL Article in Commerce Chamber's Magazine Urges City to i Move Forward. “All that is best in American civic tradition,” writes Vice President Cur- 1is, “exists in this Pederal City of Washington, which was vl-nned by the fathers of our eountry to a com- m'JnIO] symbolic to the hll|est extent the aims and ideals of the new Demorncy " This statement appears in the lead editorial contributed by the author to 3);‘3:..,.‘.‘1‘.‘:'“‘ ol e it Yeans " pul y ash- ington Chamber of Commerce. In it he further that “the Washing- wn of the future should set new high in social and economic as '!ll as in lubh!flc planning.” STRIKE MOVE IN WALES Coal Miners Up in Arms Over Re- duction in Wages. CARDIFF, Wales, March 14 (#)— Clouds again are gathering over the South Wales coal field, which was the scene of a great stoppage from New | Year day unul the middle of January. Rhonnda, No. 1, district lodge, rep- resenting 30,000 miners, last night de- cided to recommend that delegates ‘to a conference here Monday vote for a strike in protest against a new wage award, which cuts dally pay 7 pence (14 cents). Other lodges have made similar decisions. The disputed award was made by the independent chairman of she Joint Conciliation Board. off. And I know why. I mean, I knew where he was going.” “Yes,” sald Peter. “Yes— you'd know. I see. Well—he can account for that hour, then, I suppose, with her o back him 'up, "Yu. said [arth: She _sighed, “I don’t understand, Peter—I dfln’l understand. “What, Martha, dear?” “Anything,” she sald. “Everything, Why—why Evan should have lied to me. Why—why he tried to make me think he cared when all the time——" “Hold on,” said Peter. “I—Martha I don’t like the chap, God knows! By —you're fond-of him. I'm with you about one thing—I'm damned sure he bhad nothing to do with Tack's—Tac] death. And — this Rita Gould — weli] that sort of thing's queer. A wéman like that gets hold of a chap. She makes him do things he wouldn't do if T AR T BUNGALOWS Sample Open to 9 P.M. 22 Madison St. N. W. Deep Lot—2-Car Brick Garage WAPLE & JAMES, Ine. 1226 14th St. N.W.. NO. 0962 by William Almon Wolft o 1 by o A Neepaer Al and he | Evan has said, or that they’ll pretend | “Well—you'll have to know this soon- | Mitchell says Ross might | “He was with | Inspect This New Corner Home Today he were in his right 'senses. mean-—" | Martha shook her head. “I don’t understand,” she said again. know what you're trying to tell me, Peter. You're sweet, But I just don’t understand.” Peter let that go. There was notl ing more that he could say. He didn't, after all, understand it all so well him- self that he was especially qualified to enlighten her. And, anyway, something clse was on his mind. “Martha, I think you'll have to tell me, now, about that busienss with Ben- | ny, at Emma’s. About the bracelet you wanted me to give him, I mean.” “That hasn’t anything ta do with all this, Peter,” she said, quietly. “We can't be sure of that, Martha. Don't you see that there must be some- thing we don’t understand? ‘There's a | clue to this thing somewhere.” Hi hesitated. “I told Bouton about it. I thought I ought to. And he says it may be very important. He thinks Benny's a crook. “Oh, of course!” said Martha, almost She lay stil, thinking, for a Peter leaned forward. “Benny knew something about Tack,” sald Martha, Peter started. He'd been sure, of course, that blackmail, in | some form, had been inyolved, but he'd | been equally sure that whatever Benny | knew, and had been using, had inyolved either Ross or Martha herself. “Tack ‘gct tight one night and got into a crap game, and lost a lot of money. He |didn’t have enough to pay, and thcy | turned ugly — they wouldn't take his |check. Tt he hadn't been drunk he | wouldn't have done it, but he let them have a certified check he happened to have with him—something he was sup~ posed to have turned in at the office. | “He got the money the next day—his | mother was ‘over here, then, and he managed it, somehow. But, when he gave them the money they wouldn't give up the check. I think they Med at first, and pretended it was lost—but, of. course, they kept it so that they'd have something on him. Benny was in that | —Ross was in the game, | some money—not as much as Tack, it was before Tack began hating Evan so, you know. | “Well, Tack didn't take that \very | serfously, ‘apparently. He'd paid the | money, and he got payment stopped on the check—he put in the money, at the ‘th"r first, to cover it, and then ex: | plained that it was lost, and he had to put up a bond of some sort, it seems |to ‘me, because the check had been | certified. I don't know just how all | j 3000000000000000000900007, NEW DETACHED BRICK HOME! 8 Rooms, Bath and Half Bath. Lot 170 Ft. Deep. BRICK GARAGE Sample Open to 9 P.M. 711 NICHOLSON ST. N.W. (Straigth out 8th St. to Nicholson —East Half Block) pice $12, 500 Terms Will Consider Exchange for Small Property WAPLE & JAMES 1226 14th St. N.W. North 0962 460000000000000000040000: O \000‘0000000'00000‘0000000000000 000000000 d %OG .00000_00“0“00000“00“000“000000000 e |of his case against Martha, as, only too too, and lost || Evan , but in be!ween we were » Tack seemed to it, and so dld [—until Benny got holu of me one night at Emma’s and said Tack sf owed money for that craps game, mdmembeofldlcwwen tired of waiting, and it they didn't get it they were to the firm and take the check and tel '.he ‘whole l'fll’}' “By that time in very nfi‘mn.h his mnt.her lnd they didnt like at the office, you see—oh, I mean, they liked him, all right, but ‘Tack was tight all the time and he wasn’t doing lni‘ work. It would have made a frightful mess. Benny sald he liked Tack and he'd tried to help him— he pretended, you see, that he was just acting for these other men and that it made it better for Tack for him to be mixed up in it. And he sald he was afraid that if he put it up to Tack, Tack would do something silly. “I was too, Peter. You got to know a Jot about us, but I'don’t think you ever realized what a frightful temper Tack had. He was perfectly capable of killing some one. That was why I was always so ctareful about keeping him and Evan apart late at night, when Tack was tight. And I was terribly afraid that if he really thought any one was trying to blackmail him he'd shoot them—he’d have thought he had a right to do it, I think. So—so—well, I ;greed to find the money myself, some- oW, ‘And, of course, once I'd started, there wasn't any end to it. That night I'd promised to pay $500 and I simply hadn’t been able to get it—they in- sisted on cash, always, of course. I knew I was going to have it the next day, but Benny wouldn't wait. He was the one who suggested that I should give him the bracelet—he said he’d give it back as soon as I gave him the mony but he wouldn't have, I sup- ‘Not a chance,” said Peter. “He was disappointed when I gave him the cash, I thought.” “So—that’s the story, Peter. You can see it hasn’t anything to do with— with Tack’s being killed.” “I'm not so sure” said Peter. 'm | going to tell Mitchell and Bouton, any- | way. It can't do Tack any harm now | for them to know.” “No, 1 suppose not,” said Mlxthl‘ with a sigh. Peter left her then; the drug seemed ‘ to be regaining its power over her, and | she was yawning. Peter went out, after a dinner eaten hurriedly, with all three of them, he and Carol and Steve, trying, pretty ob- viously, to talk of anything but the murder of Tack Thayer and to think of any one rather than the girl who lay—asleep, they all hoped—in Carol's guest room and the boy who, by this time, the law being done with him, lay —somewhere else, forever still. He couldn’t fit what Martha had told him into the crazy pattern of this ime. Nor could he see why Connolly was so viciously sure of the strength plainly, he was. Everything the police,) themselves believed, it seemed to Peter, tended to clear her rather than to im- plicate her: the evidence, or lack of evidence, rather, about the pistol; their certainty that the murderer could have reached the roof without Axel's knowl- edfe; her movements the night before. By Connolly’s own showing Ross was no longer suspected of firing the shot. (To Be Continued.) 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