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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
Income Taxes May Be Lower, Houston Hints

Washington, Dec. 9-The little fellows probably will escape higher taxes on their incomes after a1
 Secretary of the Treasury Houston is not committed to higher normal income tax-affecting some four mil lion Americans of the small salaried class-even though his annual report to Congress suggested such a meas ure as a possible source of $50, ,000,- 900 increased revenue. The Secre- tary is ready to tell Congress that higher normal income tax rates will not be necessary if Congress finds way to tap the corporate field for the additional revenue desired.
 At the capitol, leaders on both sides expressed doubt as to the advisability of raising the small mans tax, and many believe higher taxes will not be necessary at all.
 Secretary Houston, although refus- ing to discuss the items in detail in advance of his appearance at the ca pitol today had before him inn portant recommendation by treasury experts, showing that a raise of three to four per cent. in normal income taxes can be avoided by imposing adequate rates upon corporations that are overcapitaIized, as well as those which, by various subterfuges, are dodging payment of their tax liability to the government.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09

Lieutenant Tom Bowen's left hand was lacerated by falling glass. Dr. Burns of the Emergency hospital staff was on the scene and treated Lieutenant Bowen'S injuries after which Bowen returned to work. Dr. Burns and Driver Patsy O'Conneu rendered splendid service giving first aid to the fremen.
 Edward B. Thompson of Engine Company No. 4, living at 151 Frank street, fell from a ladder and sus- tained a broken left arm and contus- ions of the hip.
 Chief Johnson, after being treated at Hartigan'S drug store, remained at the fire until it was placed under con tro1.
 Only the fact that the 30 or more girls employed by the Connecticut Co. had not yet returned from lunch there might have been a terrible loss of life.
 All the records tickets, lost arti- cles and papers in the Connecticut Co.'S auditors office and the track and line departments are probably total loss.
 Dispatchers, superintendents and starters were rushed to the suburban districts by the Connecticut Go. to handle traffic as soon as the fire started, as almost instantly the switch board went out of service.
 Superintendent Kibling told The Times at 1:3O that there had been no SeT1OuS 1nterrupClOn CL IdLIC anu that there would not be. He could place no estimate on the loss of his company.
 Sidney Tibbals of Gem avenue, Bridgeport, and Charles Sorrenson of Woodmont, cashiers of the Connecti- cut Co.,, were on the. third floor when the fire started and made their es- cape by the fire ladders.
 Edward B. Thompson of Engine Company No. braved the fire and denSa smoke which 6nVelODed the city for blocks and carried Miss May Mccarthy of 570 Washington street from the third floor to safety. They
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
City Pays $S2O
 Bill For Burns Men $ Joy Rides;

What is believed to be the last bill that the city will have to settle be- cause of the activities of the Burns detectives has been paid by the city to Henry Christensen of Cannon street for autom obiles which were charged to the police department during May, June July and August.
 The total is $S20 and the money to pay it was transferred by the Board of Apportionment, at their last meeting, from the new sidewalks ac- count to that of the police depart ment.
 The police department has a num- Der of automobiles but the Burns men were not allowed to use them.
 It is claimed that the machines were used to take young lady friends of the operators on long rides to New Haven, Hartford, Willimantic and other cities in the state.
 The bill for May amounted to $241; for June, $526; for July, $233, and for August S20.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
ArOn Tells HOzUN. Y.
 SOZUed RentPrObZenl
Expert Says New Scheme Isn't Backed By Police
 Power STOP TALKING AND BUILD, HE ADVISES SOLVING THE
 RENT RIDDLE

SoIon failed and the Roman
 praetors failed, but New York
 did the job.
 The state can protect renters
 from the duress of house famine.
 A fair rental is not "all the
 traffic will bear."
 A fair rental is, in normal
 times, ''the market value of the
 use and occupation, ultimately
 fixed by the law of supply and
 demand and determined solely by
 the landlord.
 The remedy: Everybody must
 stop talking housing crises and
 start building houses.
 That is to say, MT. Aron advo-
 cates less noise and more action.
 What is a, fair rental?
 Everybody wants to know-the man who rents a house, and the land lord who rents it to him. These two groups constitute the entire popula- tion. The question has a universal Harold G. Aron, a New today, before the Eighth National on Housing in America, which was assembled in the Strat- field hotel at 10:30 a. n- The speak very question in Athens 25OO years ago, and that the Roman praetors struggled with the same riddles some kusy centuries later. In New York, it seems the problem was quite easily solved, and MT. Aron said, by a eimp1e recourse to very old legal prin- ciples embodied in the ancient foun- daions of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence
 The New York laws are not found ed, he said, upon the police power of the state; they merely give to the tenant an opportunity to resist a duress, caused by housing shortage.
 MT. Aron is not altogether jubilant because his commonwealth has |, 10f +S fk,D Greeks and the Romans. He wants individual the city, the state, and the nation-to stop talking about housing crisis and meet the housing shortage. He wants less noise and more action.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
POLICE PROBE IDENTITY OF
 CRASH VICTIM
Special to The Times.

Milford, Dec. 9-Police today are attempting to confirm a report that Dorothy Armstrong, of Canada, is the unid entitled woman who was killed in an accident on the Post road here yesterday when a motorcycle driven by Peter Champ, of 45 Portland street, Hartford, eollided with mo- tor truck operated by Jack Wolff, also of Hartford. The woman was riding in the sidecar of Champs ma chine. She received a. fractured skull when she was hurled a distance of about 15 feet.
 Champ was held without bail, and appeared before Coroner Eli Mix, of New Haven, today. Despite a severe grilling, Champ sticks to his story that he did not know the woman. He claims that he met her in a Hartford restaurant yesterday, and offered to going to call on relatives.
 Three tattoo marks on the dead
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
Disorders Are Sweeping Spain
 Many Arrested

Paris, Dec. 9-Serious disorders of n revolutionary character are sweep ing many parts of Spain, says an FIX change Telegraph dispatch, from Madrid.
 A general strike is reported to have been declared
 It is believed at Madrid that mar tfal law may be declared
 Fighting in which many persons ,,,cre wounded has broken out at numerous places Scores of arrests have been made.
 Workers in Madrid. Valencia, Sel- vile and Barcelona have Jolned the strike paralyzinS industry. Troops are guarding property.
 Clashes have occurred between troops and civilians at some places.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
FEN TO
 ARRANGE TRUCE

London. Dec. 9-Prospects of an eseneraIly regarded as having receded almost out of sight, have been re yived, according to the Daily Mail, as a result of private interview be- tween Monsignor Patrick Joseph Calune. Bishop of Perth, and Premier Lloyd George yesterday
 = The archbishop conveyed to MT Lloyd George what in eHect was message from Michael Collins, com ,nander of the Sim Fein army. It is understood the impression was given that Collins and other Sim Fe1n lead CTS were extremely des1rous or truce, and were prepared to take de- finite steps to secure it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
HOME RULE JOKER
 BALKED WISH FOR
 COMMISSION GOVT.
Overwhelming Majority Tn Favor of Project Offset By 60 Per Cent Vote Cause-People Sure to Demand Action
 When General Assembly Meets in January

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
HAD TO SHOOT DOG
 TO GET BODY

Cambridge, Mass Dec. 9-Not until a dog standing guard over his master was shot were policemen able to re- move the body of Thomas Maher, an aged recluse, from his home last night. Neighbors had not seen Maher for several days and the continual barking of the dog aroused their sus- picions. Officers, looking through a window, saw the body on the floor and attempted to crawl through but thed og resisted their attempts.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
NO REQUEST YET
 NO DE VALERA

Washington, Dec. 9-ENo official Great Great Britain would request official action in the case of l.. De Valera, president of the Irish Republic, has been received at the State Depart ment, it was announced today.
 In the absence of specific informa- tion, department officials declined to comment. It was stated, however, that any communications from Great Britain on the subject would receive the most careful consideration.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
MCCARTHY SAVES
 THREE FIREMEN
 ON WATER TOWER
Spectacular Rescue Features Blaze at Logan Brothers Storehouse - Dense Clouds of Smoke Make Battle Doubly Hazardous - Ladder Falls to Pieces As Thompson Brings Miss Mccarthy Safely to Street Loss Not. Known.

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09

Charged with the theft of pocket books from pews in St., Augustine's church, Mrs. Alice Hartman, of 3S3 Fairfield avenue. was fined S1 and costs and sentenced sto 30 days in jail on two counts, when .arraigned in the City Court today After pleading guilty, the wom h broke down. She claimed that she had ever stolen anything before.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
COT IT RY MISTAKE,

For violating the liquor laws, An hony Gorezzeki, of 26 West avenue, owner of a. saloon at South avenue and Main street, was fined $200 and costs by Judge Frank L. Wilder in the City court today. Gorezzeki claimed that a bottle of whiskey found in his overcoat pocket was put there without his knowledge.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
Women Church Thief
 Weeps Going To Jail

Mrs. Hartman was arrested Dec. 3, clever work by a poEcewom- an, but forfeited $50 bonds when she failed to appear for trial in the City Court, Monday She was re-arrested last night When taken into custody for the second time, Mrs. Hartman collapsed and was removed to H1ll- side home for treatment
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
RELEASE CURATE.

Belfast, Dec. 9.-The Rev. o. w. Mehan, senior Catholic curate of Cas- tlebar parish, County Mayo, who was arrested October 12 for alleged con- nection with extensive raids in that district. was re1eared today. He will be allowed to go to the United States, it was announced.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09

though, and do not know when they will have more they will be inclined to hold on to it to pay the butcher and grocer.
 q have been talking with some of the Main street merchants. They all agree that last Saturday was one Of the auietest- Saturdays that. they ever knew | think the weather
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
JAILED FOR ASSAULT.

Six months in jail was the sentence imposed by Judge Hinman on David Nemet, a Hungarian citizen of West port today. Nemet was charged with having committed an assault with a deadly weapon onon John James of Westport:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09

N. Olshan, Of the National Outfit ting Co.,, located in the Security building, said:
 .I am looking for a dull season. Tn fact, think it will be more or less dull until the end of the year, at any rate. There will be a lot of mo noney m Circulation next Week Wnena @ money. If people are out of work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
PRISONER DIES AS SHERIFF < REFUSES TO CUT DOWN ROPE

Toledo, Ohio, Dec. Sired Dur kin. of syracuse, N. Y., hung himself in the county jail here today, and died because a deputy sheriff refused ysso~n accordins to charges made by i11 .1S }. " " TJnffed Stntaa Maxnha1 Hart
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09

lev and city policemen.
 Officers saw Durkin writing in the cell, suspended by belt. They called door, but he refused. they said, until he had orders from tlFz, sheriff. Dur kin was dead when cut down.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
REPORT NOT CONFIRMED.

Washington, Dec 9.-The State Department announced today that it had no confirmation of reports that Vincent Van Diver, of Springfield, Mo, representative of the Standard Oil company, of New Jersey City, had been shot in Mexico.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09
Money To Circulate
 Freely SO0f,;; Many r Merchants Predict

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-09

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New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Builders Selected
10 Build Largest
cooperative Offices

The Thompson-St -Starrett Comnarv
builders Of the Equitable, Woolwortah
and Municipal buildings in this city
and OF many prominent office build
lngs in other parts Of the Initial
States, Will erect the Park-Madison
bulldlng, which will cover the blocks
from Madison to Park Avenue and from
forty-slXtn to Forty-scventh Street
Inc building will consist Of two
UNITS thlrty-one and eighteen stories
hlgh, connected by seven-story sec
building, with the rental to be Daid for
the use of the land, will represent an
outlay of $40 O0O0.0OO
Major S. Fullerton Weaver. president
of the Park-Madison Building Corpora-
ton, said yesterday in announcing
that the building contract had been
awarded to the Thompson -Starrett
Company:
The property will be improved with
ont the aid of mortgage loan: the
building when completed will be owned
and managed by the stockholders: Of
nee space sufficient to defray all oper
ating costs, taxes. etc, will be leased
10 tenants at the market rate per square
loot; surety company bond will guar
ahtee the completion of the building.
e'U -NSW iOFh Nentral Railroad Com
pahy wlll act as the depositary for the
subscribers, and Warren & Wetmore
VIII be the architects, and Douglas 1,
Elllman d Co. VIII be the managing
agents after the building has been com
pleIed and turned over to the stock
holders"
-, L. ]. Horowitz, president Of the
thompson -Starrett Company, said that
ne had made an impartial investigation
project, and approved it as a logical
solution of the space and rent prob
lems that now confront corporations,
frms and individuals in all parts of
the city, but especially in congested
sections south of Chambers Street.
The plan under which this great
once building is to be erected, financed
and managed" said Nj. Horowitz, SIS
fundamentally sound from every point
Of view.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
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ASSESSE2 IHLLE
D-DAX
Brooklyn Money Denied
Brooklyn Home Builders
Banks and Insurance Companies of Borough Are
Charged With Investing Funds Elsewhere; Ample
Capital Would Solve Housing Problem There

mortgage investments have been made
but the number IS st.ll negligible.
ne same applies. in certain de-
gree. to the lie insurance companies.
Il does seem that with the tremendous
amount Of business that comes from
the Borough OF Brooklyn that both the
tire insurance companies and the life
insurance companies should be able to
find a field for part Of their invest
Eents IN our community. Some pres
sure ought to be brought to bear 20
impress upon the insurance companies
that If they intend 10 do business in
Brooklyn they must help Brooklyn.
Leans Not Large Enough
"Nany Of the institutions that make
mortgage loans have adopted a policy
OF loanlng go per cent on the pre-war
value Of buildings, and while this at
tltude may have been justified at the
close of the war, when the future cost
o1 construction was uncertain, We do
not believe that such a policy is JUST
fed al present 1t is generally ac-
cepted Is q fact that while present
costs may come down they Will never
reach prewar values because Of the
increase in the cost of labor. and the
certainty that labor, while il will be
cheapened in due course. Will be the
last element under all economic laws
to be so affected.
IF savings banks would exercise a
greater liberallty in the making Of
their mortgage loans at this time. with
appropriate amortization clauses, i
would 20 long way toward encourag-
ing new buildings.
individual investors have been a.
tr9Ctal ,f fu4 b,- t.., han
ing bond issues, which have been is
sued netting as high as ~ per cent
on good seCdrity, with liberal taxation
provisions. and il, Is only natural thai
this type OF investor VIII continue to
Withdraw funds from the mortgage
market so long a TINS condition pre-
Val $. Just how good these invest menis
VIII be IN the long run ia matter
OF conjecture, and II is fair TO say
that there IS no investment which j.
sounder and less subject TO fluctuation
due 10 economic conditions than
conservative first mortgage investment.
Time for Public Spirit
This is time that calls for public
SPIRITED action and because Of the close
relationship between savings banks
and the public at large ID would seen
hope Of relieving the situation lies. II
those who are interested in our banks
and insurance companies viii view the
matter in fair light it would seem
that much more can be accomplished
than through any Of the various dras-
tic laws of Legislation which have been
echoed during the recent weeks.
The making Of large mortgage loans
to non-essential buildings cannot be
too strongly deprecated. as such opera
tons not only remove funds that might
otherwise be available for essential
building, but consume labor and mate
rial that might be more usefu.ly ap-
piled. The banks demonstrated during
the war their ability 10 handle the
financial problems Of the government
IN mastery manaer, and so IL would
seem that the present situation can be
met by like cooperation"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Costly Corner
Dwellings Pass
To New Owners

William B. May & Co. sold for
Challles A. .Bowron, represented by
Isaac Michaels and the Bankers Trust
Company, the American basement
dwelling at the southwest corner of
Park Avenue and Sixty-ifth Street,
20N75, to a buyer who plands exten-
slvo alterations. The selling price was
5000, 900.
The same brokers sold for II. Wron
kow the American basement dwelling
at the southeast corner of Madison
Avenue and Eightitieth Street, 26x67.
for which the seller has been asking
100000.
NJ. Morgenthau jr Company resold
tor DR.. Edward Z. Pratt, at a substan
tal profit, his private three-story resi-
dence at 1913 West Eighty y-seventh
Street. l7xl00.5, which DR.. Pratt pur
CHASED year ago through the same
broker This home was formerly the
residence Of Mr.. Morgenthau.
Kate c. Macy sold to John Lockrie
the tive-story dwelling % Riverside
Drive, northeast corner of Seventy
loGfth Street, Sl.7x2S.11x irregular.
Slgmund Orbach sold to Israel Rein
stein the four-story dwelling 336 East
Eightysecond Street, 25xlOO.
AIbln Peltman bought the two thrce-
story dwellings, 237-239 East Eightv-
sixth Street, 16.Sxl00 each. from
FRANCES l.. Quackenbush and Vesta O
Won Trump, respectively.
Sale IN West FVtieth Street
Thomas G. knight and others sold to
) Ohm II. kigel the four-story DWELLING
50 West Fiftieth Street, l9.2xlOO5.
Blanche Blosveren sold to Adele s
Sour Sour the four-story dwelling 2l West
Street, 19xlOO.a
faullne Shannon sold to Peter Ansel-
mo m me three-story dwelling 263 West
Seventieth Street, 1S.4x100.5.
Walter c. Flanders and another. trus-
yee' soid Tor $4,000 to H. L. & S. l..
Elghty- fifth Street, l76xlo2.2.
The Old Ladies Home OF Bereen
County, n. j., sold to Elizabeth b
n 1endrIck the three-story dwelling "a
Bank Street, 23.1lx9l.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
J. M. Cidding & Co. to
Move North ON 5th Ave.
Lease Twelve-Story Building
Now Being Erected by Farqu.
harsOu & Whcelock

j. NJ. Gldding & Co. plan 10 move
north on Fifth Avenue. 1t was learned
yesterday that the concern has taken a
forty-two year lease on the twelve
story building being erected at 724
Fifth Avenue by Farquharson & Whee-
lock, gowns, who have been located in
that part of Fifth Avenue for many
years. The gown makers have taken
recently place in Fifty-seventh Street
which they Will use for their business.
The building being erected on Fifth
Avenue is next to Duveen's art gal
leries and the site at the southwest
corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty
seventh Street which George Backer is
preparing now for Improvement with a
tall business building j. NJ. Gliding
4 Co. are now located at 564 Fifth
Avenue
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Told That His City Cannot ermy
Will Cost Him Of Sam
Laid Out ON His Army in 1914; N Y Got Along $1,000

New Workers may as we'll accept the
Dill which has been presented for op-
Grating their city during the coming
year. 1t is doubtful if kicking up a
fuss will change materially the bill,
S530,2 7,113, which has ben estimated
rs the price of civic comfort, civic bet
terment and protection such as New
l,ra alone has. Cheeseparing Processes
may alter some Of the cost items, but
the impression seems to be somewhat
general that the tentative cost of city
government for the approaching year
VIII not be much greater than the final
price agreed upon.
The head or boss of each of the
twenty-five divisions of municipal gov
eminent Wh1se turrtions p.at.uln q
comfortable, attractive, progressive
and we'll guarded city, will fight any
attempt to revise downward the fig
ures which he has presented for the
service which his denartmort is to give
Each department head believes that he
cannot do with less money than he has
asked for, and will remind the people
that any trimming of his figures VIII
mean reduced service
Nations Run on Less Money
The sum total of the bills which
these departments of the municipal
government have prepared for approval
by Father knickerbocker is without
doubt the most stupcndous that has
ever been presented to New Workers.
Nations have functioned on less money
and perhaps are still functioning etfec-
lively in every department despite the
universal rpipn nj hirh nricac Tho
government of mighty England cost
not much more to conduct Just before
the start of the big war than the City
of New York does to-day
For the operation Of the United
Kingdom during 1914 and 1915 bill
was presented for 9G51 ,27O,09G, which
IN American money, figuring IS
as the value of a pound, would be
S3,25G, $50 ,455. This amount provided
government for England, Wales, Scot
land, Ireland, the surrounding islands
12l ,633 square miles OF territory, popu-
lated by 50000,000 people. New York
City, with an area of 301S square miles
and d population of 5,62O,048 cannot
be conducted for less than $50OO0OOOO,
according to the figures just presented
The full effect of this comparison is
lost on the public mind because it has
been educated by six years of wartime
prices to accept nonchalantly such
things as high prices. 1t is only by
reaching back into memory that the
immensity Of the charge for city living
for the year starting January will be
fully appreciated.
Twenty-seven years ago New Workers
were shouting their heads off because
the cost of running the city, which
then consisted only of Manhattan and