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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920.
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TENANTS WOULD
ACCEPT OWNERS'
PROPOSITION
Willing to Take' Over Apart
ments for 6 Per Cent On In
vestmentWill Not Pay:
On Inflated Valuations.
The Tensnti' league of Qtnaha
jesterdty accepted with reservations
the offer of apartment house owners
and rentat agents to turn properties
over to tenants on a guarantee of 6
jer cent return on their investment.
The only possible drawback to the
offer is in the method of appraising
ihe properties, according to J. E.
O'Brien, president of the league.
"We are willing to pay 7 per cent
on the original investment in the
Drake Courts," declared Mr
O'Brien, who is a tenant there. "We
believe this cost was $1 54.000. a'
t hough the capitalization, which in
cludes a mortgage, is $274,000.
Inflated Values Barred.
"We will not pay returns on twice
the original cost of the buildings.
W'e will not be satisfied with an ap
praisal by the real estate board, but
the league will accept the otTcr to
take over any apartment if its value
is aipraised by a fair and impartial
body.
"We will guarantee a 7 per cent
return on a reasonable valuation of
tiie Drake apartments, by selling
slock bearing 10 ger cent interest, to
tenants. We know the tenants would
be g'ad to buy this stock."
'All we want is a ,7 per cent return
on our capitalized stock, 'I. declared
W. B. Duakc. controller of the Drake
apartments. "If tin; tenants- can
guarantee that wc would be glad to
let them run the apartments, only
too glad."
"The Tenant-.' league is lighting the
paying of tents on inflated values,"
says the statement issued by the
K'iglte yesterday. "If the apart
nter ' wi:cr.. who offered to
accept a net 6 per cent return will
eliminate the 'blue sky' their propo
sitions will be accepted instantly.
"Everyone of them was careful to
include in his 6 per cent offer that
it must be on appraisal that means
they want first to double the original
cost because the prices- are now
higher.
Excess Valuei General.
"Every real estate agent is trying
to rind purchasers for apartment
buildings at high prices, using the
argument that the purchaser can
easily raise rents to produce a good
return on inflated purchase price.
"This may continue indefinitely
;!nless some one fights hard enough
to stop it. The Tenants' league is
trying to put up that fight.
"Tenants in the older apartmer.ts
want to pay a fair return on the
investment, but object to having the
investment doubled by figuring re
placement costs when they areioi
being replaced. j.
President O'Brien asserted the
cost of operation in the Drake
courts could be cut down greatly.
He said fVie rental agency alone re
ceived 5 per cent of the rent col
lected, when 2i per cent was the
usual amount. Replacement costs
have been little at the Drake court
because there have been no replace
ments, he said.
Mr. O'Brien said the tenanls
would hot be willing to pay 7 per
cent on the present capitalization of
the Drake courts because it included
a large mortgage. Mr. Drake in
sisted the mortgage was part of t!:e
capitalization and that 7 per cent
must be realized on the entire
amount.
STOLE TO SPARE
WIFE WORRYIK
Prohibition Director In
Omaha Says Booze Is On Run
George Anderson, prohibition field
director for live states, is in. Omaha
to iook over conditions and pay a
visit to James Manley, prohibition
director for Nebraska.
Mr, Anderson snid that Nebraska
had a good reputation when it comes
o the enforcement of the liquor
Ipws. He said conditions were
gradually getting better throughout
the country since the supreme court
upheld the prohibition law.
Hiivo Root
I'ivph. Adv.
Print It Bcnt-on
YOUTH DECLARES
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Increased Rent, Loss of Job
and Piling Bills Made Him
Steal, Young Husband
, Says.
A 40 per cent increase in the rent
of his home, right after he had lost
his job, was one of the reasons that
Impelled Bernard Brinkhaus, 2919
Douglas street, to take toots from
the J. S. Davis machine shop, 1407
Jackson street, and sell them for
$25, he declared yesterday in Dis
tiict Judge Troup s court, where lie
v as released uifdc.t a bond of $750.
He said the rent was "raised" from
$30 to $42 a month.
Garbed in prison clothes, his
hands and lips trembling, the young
man stood before Judge Troup as
his wife entered the court room to
day. ' i -
The little woman whom he had
sought to protect, it is alleged, by
stealing, was dressed in a pretty
pink frock with short sleeves and a
girlish straw hat. She is only 2U
years old.
Both Sob in Court.
The young prisoner raised his eyes
timidly as his wife approached the
bar. She looked at him and then
rushed to his arms, where he held
her and kissed her while tears
(lowed down their cheeks.
' "OhtlBernie, why did you do it?"
she soribed.
"1 didn't want io worry you,
dearie," he said,, "I had lost my job
and the bills were piling up and the
rent had been raised and you know
why I didn't waut to worry you. So
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"Never mind, dear, we'll stand by
you and vv.e'II all be happy yet," said
the little woman, drying her tears
with a small handkerchief.
The father of Mrs. Martin, F. K.
Martin, 2701 North Twenty-fifth
street, joined the little group and
clasped hands with his son-in-law.
Gave His Home as Bond.
"It'll all be right, Bernard." he
said. "I've put up our home for
your bond and you'll be back with
Queenie today again."
Queem'p is Mrs. Brinkhaus' first
name. They met while Bernard
vas at the balloon school here in
1917 and were married before he
went overseas with the Third Bal
lot company. He was wounded .'n
Frce. where he spent 19 months.
On his return to Omaha last year
the young couple set up housekeep
ing. The ex-soldier got a position
at the J. S. Davis machine shop, A
Itt-up iii business, a tew weeks ago,
tesulted in his discharge.
Pretended He Was Working.
Seeking to spare his wife worry,
husband .took his lunch every morn
ing, ostensibly to go to work, re
turning in the evening. But he had
been walking the streets all day,
hunting work at his trade and every
day knowing that his funds were
nearly gone..
Then came the raise in the rent
And finally the desperate young man
is alleged to have resorted to the
theft.
"I've put up my home,, everything
I have on earth, to go on Bernard's
tend." said Mr. Martin. "He has
never been in any trouble before and
we'll certainly stand by him in this."
Commissioner Falconer
Still Critically 111;
Visitors Not Admitted
,
The condition of City Commis
sioner Thomas Falconer was re
ported yesterday as serious. The at
tending physician has not announc
ed the exact nature of the illness,
but says it is a deep-seated cold.
Mr. Falconer's temperature was
105 Thursday afternoon and it was
103 at 3 a. m. Friday. He suffered
a chill Thursday night.
v lsitors are being denied admit
tance to the commissioner's room.
Mr. Falconer returned Thursday
morning from the west in a weak
ened condition. He remained three
days in Denver, where his condition
grow worse. He left Omaha June
17 to attend the -annual Shriners'
meeting in Portland. Ore. I
FILM THEATERS
FIGHT DEMANDS
' OF MUSICIANS
Movie Men Answer Threats of
Melody Makers by Decision
to Banish Orchestras
From Theaters.
The Omaha Theater Managers'
association will not grant an in
crease of 60 per cent demanded by
union musicians, and the producers
of harmony and melody have an
nounced that if new contracts are
not signed by July 15 "they will add
10 per cent to their original demand.
A note of discord exists between
the managers and musicians. The
theater men insist that they will not
pay the 60 per cent increase; that to
meet such a demand would mean
another increase in the prices of ad
mission and they are unwilling fr
pass another burden over to their
patrons.
What Demands Are.
vThe musicians ask an increase
from $35 and $38 per week to $56
and $63 per week. The leaders want
an increase from $50 to $85 and $65
to $100.
The movie theater managers state
that they will limit their music to
organs-before they will grant the
increase that is asked. The man
agers, however, will renew efforts
to obtain a compromise agreement
Too Much to Pay.
"An increase of 60 per cent is too
much to ask," said W. Ledoux, man
ager of the Empress. "We are will
ing to pay an increase of about 30
per cent."
The usual theater contracts for
music are signed' for the year begin
ning September 1. None have been
signed in Omaha for the next 'the
atrical, year. '
Whole villages in Jugo-Slavia are
composed of women.
Clearing House to Cash
1 School Warrants at Par
C. O. Talmage, chairman of the
nuance committee of the Board of
Education, announces that a confer
ence with the Omaha Clearing
House association resulted in an
agreement to cash school district
warrants issued to janitors, labor
ers and clerks forJune, July and
August.
These warrants will be cashed
without discount and the total will
be approximately $100,000.
I he financial situation which will
confront the school board when the
schools are reopened September 1
will be a matter for consideration
by the board during the next few
weeks.
With headquarters at the Uni
versity of Virginia a society of
amateur astronomers has been
formed to co-operate with profes
sionals in observations of the skies.
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6.50 Smocks 4.37
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