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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1919)
16 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1919. LANDLORDS MAY RETURN PART OF HIGH RENT IN TAX 3ity Commissioner Butler Pre paring Data for Use Against Apartment House Rent . Gougers. In connection with the 10-called oigh rent probe started by the city council several months ago, City Commissioner Butler states that he is preparing data on most of the apartment houpes, for use by J. M. Fitzgerald, county assessor. Mr. Butler anticipates that the assessor will raise the valuations on these apartments next year on a basis which will be warranted by the in crease of rents. It was a resolution by Mr. Butler lhat originally started the rent in vestigation in the council chamber. The council disposed of the matter by referring it to a committee, of which Mr. Butler is the only active' nember. Mr. Butler feels that lomething will have been accom plished it the valuations of rent orofiteers will be raised and thereby :he tax returns enhanced. What Other Cities Do. In this connection Mr. Butler has received two interesting letters on the high rent question from St. Louis and Kansas City. The chief interest in the letters is to show the difference in the activities of public officials in those cities and those in Omaha. The letter from St. Louis is sign Mi by Lewis T. Tune, chairman of tne complaint board, which is main tained in connection with" the mu . nieipal government. The letter reads: 'Numerous landlords and real es tate agents attempted to increase rents several months ago, unneces larily, and on complaints from nu merous occupants of buildings and apartments the mayor designated this board to take up and investi gate the cases in question, having in mind where the rents were increas ' ed, to work in conjunction with the city assessor, causing the values of the property to be increased propor tionately, thereby bringing .more revenue to the city. , , Nantes Made Public. "Not only this, but this board has .made public through the prss, the names of those who have sought to increase' rents on property, to too great an extent. The publicity given has hacr a favorable effect upon many who probably would have in- AMUSEMENTS. TODAY E&Zi&o. LAST TIMES m TRAVEL FESTIVALVs Z$th Year-Silverjubilce DANCERS OP THE i CANADIAN ROCKIES TARPON FISHING -PERU k. 'ttVfUT PUP 14 STEELWORKS &1UNGLE frlVAUDEVILLE' MANY OTHERS-, Reserved Seat. 23c, 35c, 80c Thure. Mat, 25c, 35; Children ISc Three Days, Bef. Monday, Oct. 27th SEATS NOW ON SALE A MUSIC SHOW OF SONG HITS DELICIOUS HUMOR. ENGAGING ROMANCE AND CAPTI VATING GIRLS Mfhte eOc. TSe.' $1.00, $1.80 and $2.00 Wed. Matinee 2Sc EOc, 78c, $1, $1.80 BTjWI fl TONIGHT 1 1 'Jam Week Mat. Sat. LOUIS MORGAN PRESENTS . A Musical Comedy With a Punch "A 0AKGERG9S GIRL" ' LAUGHS SONGS GIRLS. Met. 25c, 50c. Nights 50c, 75c. $1. All Next WeeV SEATS NOW SELLING . The N. Y. Winter Garden "PASSING SHOW" in 18 Colossal- Scenes With 150 Clever People " A DELUGE OF MIRTH, MELODY AND GIRLS. Price Eve, $1 to $230; Sat. Mat, 75c to $2.00; Wad. and Thurs. Mat.. 80c to 81.50. The Largest, Youngest and Prettiest Chorus on Earth. Curtain Rise Promptly Mats, at 2; Nights at 8. NEW SHOW TODAY Gypsy Review, Shelly Heit, Ward A Wilson, Carp. Jo Nathan, Photoplay Attraction Billi Rhode in -The Bin Bonnet," Billy West Comedy, MAT. DAILY 2:11 . m etrr 1 EVERY NIGHT t m vAwncvikkC l:g "PUTTING IT OVER DOLLY KAYi LONG TACK SAM A. CO.) Oscar Larauwi Mcintosh A Musi cal - Maids; Clinton Sisters; Aerial Shawai Kmograms; Topics of the Day. creased rents had this board not taken the stand that it did. - : "Of course, there are no laws in Missouri, that would enable us to prevent increases, in rent, but pub lic opinion goes a long ways, and I find that by handling the matter through the press, giving the names ind cases where rents have been unnecessarily increased, that the policy of others is probably retard ed. We feel that the results through our efforts have been good, although we will always have profiteers dur ing times like these." The mayor of Kansas, City ap pointed a rental rate committee, with a competent attorney at the head. Walter L. Lampkin has written the 'following account of how the rent profiteers , are dealt with in Kansas City: ' "The mayor's rental rate .commit tee receives complaints against landlords only in writing. We there upon request the landlord to appear before our committee f he desires to do so, and also request the land lord to consent to an appraisal of his property by a committee from the local real estate' board. (The real estate board having consented to co-operate with us in" "making these appraisements.) If the land lord fails to appear and give his 6ide of . the case or refhsesto con sent to said appraisal, we thereupon give -all the facts to the newspaper reporters and report the matter to the county assessor for his infor mation in fixing an assessed valua tion on such property for taxation purposes. , N "Our local newspaper co-operates with our committee, and we find that well directed publicity is the potent weapon in nearly all cases against profiteering landlords. So much so that in fact we are receiv ing no more complaints. It is proper to state, however, that our local real estate board is made up very largely of men of high charac ter with well established reputations in this city for honesty and fair dealing, and they voluntarily agreed among themselves before our com mittee was appointed to limit their increased charges for rent to a reasonable basis, and with few ex ceptions these men have made only reasonable increases. Of course there are some black sheep in every flock, and in order to make these men realize that it is wrong to take advantage of tenants, we have asked the president of our bar association to appoint an attorney for the com mittee, and to represent such ten ants as are designated by the com mittee, and accordingly such attor ney was appointed." Taken to Court. He related an instance of a land-J lord who refused to abide by the finding of the mayors committee. Twelve of his tenants agreed in writing ., that they would continue their occupancy and would tender the amount of rent agreed upon by the committee. i . , "We propose to keep this man in court until next spring," Mr. Lamp Km wrote, and ne aaaea, it a land lord is looking for a fight, it is a real pleasure for us to see that he gets more than he anticipated." Among the members of the Real Estate Board and Rental Combine, which organizations are responsi ble for rent profiteering, are :the following: George Sc Co. J , D. V. Sholes company. Payne Investment company. Payne-Slater company. Traver Brothers. Hastings & Heyden. " Glover & Spain. Harrison & Morton. C C. Carlberg. , Control Other Papers. Certain members of these same two organizations have boasted that they were able to control the other two local papers through their ad vertising patronage and that was the reason the World-Herald and the Daily News said very little about rent profiteering in this city. "Don't You Try to Vamp Me Out of Ja3 Sentence," Says Judge Hazel' Rubenstein, 22 years jold, 2019 St.' Mary's avenue, tried to "vamp" Police Judge Foster in Cen tral police court yesterday, during trial on a charge of vagrancy. She was arrested Tuesday night upon a warrant sworn out by her former husband, Luke Rubenstein of At lantic, la. -When her name was called, the young woman stepped to the front with a sweet smile. Now don t try to vamp me out pf a jail sentence," the magistrate warned her. he smiled more sweetly, then pathetically told her story, turning evidence against her former husband. "I'm divorced from Luke." she said. "He followed me here from Atlantic, la., and lived with me for several weeks. Then he had me ar rested. Don't you think he's queer?" Kubenstem denied that they were divorced, but was severely repri manded by the judge for his action. The woman was diven 30 days in Jail. ' ' , More Than 300 Tons of Coal Sold by Gty in Less Than Half Day Two hundred tons of coal were sold during the first hour of the opening of the municipal coal de partment yesterday morning in the office of Gty Commissioner Butler. It will be the policy of this de partment to accept orders only for coal actually in sight and to hold the sales from timeto time as the coal happens to be received here on track. The present sale was closed before r noon, when' more than 300 tons were sold. The coal sold yesterday was from Colorado and the price was $8.50 per ton. A limit ,pf two tons per customer will be observed this 'sea Outside Organizers Aid Boilermaker In Johnson Strike Case An , echo of the boilermakers' strike begun last June against the Johnson Boiler Co., Eighteenth and Mason streets) was heard in Central police court yesterday when Tony Bruno. 518 North Fifteenth street. was charged with . disturbing the neace. 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