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The Washington times., 1924-03-15
REALTORS WILL
MAI SESSION
PLANS
Baltimore and Alexandria Will
Participate in Meeting on
Wednesday Evening.

Realtors from Baltimore and
Alexandria will participate in the
meeting of the Washington Real
Estate Board to be held at Ward
man Park Hotel, Wednesday eve
ming, March 10. Both Of these
cities are actively interested in
the program Of arrangements for
the convention Of the National As
ISOLATION of Real Estate Boards
to be held at Washington next
June and it is expected that many
Of the delegates to the convention
will visit Baltimore and Alexandria
Immediately after the close Of the
convention. Among those who will
speak at the meeting next week
are Harry E. Gilbert, vice presi-
dent Of the Real Estate Board of
Baltimore; John G. Graham, presi-
dent of the Virginia State Asso-
citation, representing eight boards
located throughout Virginia, and
Fred c. Goodnow, president Of the
Alexandria Real Estate Board. The
meeting is being arranged in the
nature of a get-together social
function in order to give the neigh
boring realtors a chance to partici-
pate in the general convention
plans and also to permit the con-
Vention committee Of the Wash.
ington Real Estate Board to outline
the arrangements being made to
entertain the visitors during the
convention period.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
WILL BUILD 80
BATTERYPARK
HOMES
Maddux, Marshall Company to
Push Development of
Suburb.

Between so and 100 homes will
be erected this year in Battery
Park. the. suburb which Maddux,
Marshall & Co. are developing on
the old Georgetown road and Will
sons lane, according to an an
nouncement by Major H. c. Mad.
dux, president and general man
ager Of the company. About 100
lots stin remain in the plat and
Major Maddux expects that they
also will be marketed before the
first of the year.
There has been no cessation of
building activities in the park dur.
ing the winter months, and as a
result many homes that are build
ing are in more advanced state
than they ordinarily would be mt
was broken for the first home in
this time Of year. Since ground
the park in January, 1928, nearly
sixty have been erected, and there
are now fifty families residing in
this flourishing community.
With the coming Of warm wealth
er, the building activities will be
increased and Major Maddux IL
hopeful this year of completing each
home three months from the date
1t Is ordered. The actual con.
struction work is under the super.
vision of Gen. r. c. Marshall
vice president of the company
General Marshall also is head of
the Associated General Contractors
of America and was in charge of
the construction division Of the
army during the war.
Work of paving the streets in
Battery Park and laying additional
sidewalks will be resumed as soon
as weather permits. The work OF
landscaping the park and beautify.
ing it generally also will begin early
In the spring. 1t will be in charge
of Prof. Lumsden, of the Depart.
ment Of Agriculture, and he has
pretentious plans for making 1t a
suburban garden spot.
Major Maddux Also has taken oc.
casion to stress the fact that Bat.
terry Park is not a suburb exclu.
sively for members Of the army,
navy and marine corps, and Con.
gressmen, as is popular supposed.
While the park has some features
which appeal particularly to mem.
bers Of the military branches Of the
Government, he says, there are
equal advantages offered to others,
and over 40 per cent of the resi-
dents OF the colony now are civil.
ians.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
Z ANNULMENTS
Of MARRIAGE
GRANTED
Husband Represented Self as
Army Officer, Claims Mrs.
v. L. n. Hickcox.

Justice Staffrd Of the District
Supreme Court has granted a final
decree Of annulment to Mrs. Viola
L. Henson Hickcox against Wallace
Oswald Hickcox. She filed suit for
annulment Of her marriage several
months ago on the ground of fraud.
She claimed HickcOx represented
himself as an army officer who had
seen service in Japan and China.
Later she found that he was not an
officer but an enlisted man. She
also claimed that he was court.
maritialed at Camp Gordon, Georgia,
in June, 1919.
Mrs. Grace NJ. Martin has been
awarded a limited divorce from
Charles E. Martin by Justice Bailey.
She charged cruelty.
Charles c. Harris, whose wife,
Ruby M. Springston Heubsch Har-
ris, sued for annulment of marriage
on the ground that she was legally
disqualified. has informed the Dis
trict Supreme Court that he will not
oppose her petition. The disquali-
fication consists, according to plain.
tiff, of a prohibition by the code
Of Virginia against remarriage with
in six months after divorce has
been obtained. She was divorced
from John H. Heubsch December
%, 1920, and she says she was not
aware of the restriction.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
FACE ON FLOOR
WRITES ON
At 81
Hugh A. Darcy Hale and
Hearty Still Doing
Sketches.

Twas balmy summer evening
and a goodly crowd was there,
Which well-nigh filled Joe's bar.
room on the corner Of the square. I"
NEW YORK. March 15.-Hugh A.
Darcy, composer of the classic
ballad Of which the above are the
first two lines-reference is to 1.-THE
Face Upon he Floor" or, as is
more familiarity known, "The Face
on the Barroom Floor"-celebrated
his eighty-first birthday.
Last night the Thursday Night
ers, an organization of which Mr..
Darcy is an honorary member,
which is composed Of members of
the New York Lodge Of Elks, gave
him testimonial dinner and re.
quested him to continue to live un.
til he is 100 or 200.
AT eighty.one he Is hale and
hearty and a 100 per cent Amer
lean, living in fact, at the Hotel
America on West Forty-seventh
street. When a reporter inquired
there for him he was reported at
the Elks' Club, and when the Elks'
Club was searched he was reported
elsewhere, which is proof sufficient
that he is still active.
He was born in France in 1843,
was reared in England and came
here in 1871. He still writes
sketches for vaudeville actors,
The Washington times., 1924-03-15

cation by the Merchants Associa-
ton of New York.
State and national taxes have
been a large contributing factor in
the housing shortage, Lewis e.
Pierson, president of the Merchants
Association, asserts on the face Of
the facts brought out by the in.
vestigation.
Taxes on land have increased
the cost of the property on which
houses can be built" Mr.. Pierson
brings out. Taxes on the lumber
man, and on the brick manufacturer
have increased the cost Of the floors
an dwalls. Taxes on steel and iron
have increased the cost Of the
metal going into the house. Taxes
on the manufactured tiles have in
creased the cost of the roof. Taxes
on the manufacturer Of plumbing
and electrical fixtures have in
creased the cost Of the interior.
"And whether the man who &C.
cupies the house purchases it or
rents it he must pay not only for
the actual labor and material in
the building, but also for an invisi.
BILE but expensive addition built out
of government taxes"
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
PEN WOMEN TO REVIEW
BOOKS ON RADIO, WEEKLY

Through the Radio Corporation of
America. Station WRC, the Ma
tional League Of American Pen
Women will conduct, through the
National Radio Committee of the
organization. with Peggy Albion the
Washington representative, weekly
book reviews from 8 to o'clock
every Monday afternoon. This fea.
ture will begin on Monday, March
II and be continued throughout
the spring and summer.
Mrs. Louis N. Geldert, national
president of the League Of Ameri.
can Pen Women, has announced
that Mrs. William Anterior Du
Puy. writer and lecturer, will give
the first book review by radio from
this city, Monday, reviewing Fannie
Hurst's "Lummox." Fannie Hurst,
who will speak at the Authors
Breakfast, to be given by the
League Of American Pen Women on
Saturday, April 26, will broadcast
personally from WRC while in
Washington.
Miss Hurst has been notified Of
the review to be given on Monday
and viii listen In" from New York.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
RULING AFFECTS
REAL ESTATE
OWNERS
H""
Federal Taxes on Nonproduc-
ing Property Proves of In
terest to Brokers.

Thousands of real estate owners
throughout the country are affected
by recent ruling Of the Treasury
Department.
Under date of September 4, 1928,
Hon. D. H. Blair, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, advised the Real
Estate Board of New York that
the bureau has completed it's recon-
sideration of the ruling contained
in l. T. 1888. This ruling of the
department was to the effect that
taxes paid in prior years may not
be added to the cost in determining
gain or loss and was based on Sec
2O2 of the Revenue Act, Secs. PA
and 234, which the Treasury De.
partment decides treats taxes as
expenditure. The real estate board
had urged that such taxes should
be deducted.
The meaning Of the decision is
this: Whenever an individual or q
corporation holding nonincome pro-
ducing real property sells such prop
erty 1t can only be allowed, in de-
termining the capital net gain, the
taxes paid in the year in which the
sale was made. If the owner had
no income during the period from
the time of the original purchase
and the time of sale. and paid its
taxes from capital, he can not get
credit. If on the other hand the
owner had allowed taxes to accumu.
late, and paid them off in the year
the sale was made, such owner
is allowed to add the taxes paid
to the cost of the property in
determining the capital net gain
upon which the income tax must
be paid.
The manifest unfairness of this
appealed to the department and at
several hearings in Washington and
the application of the real estate
board for reversal of the ruling I.
T. 1888, the officials present agreed
as to the equity of the real estate
boards application, but pleaded the
rigid requirements of the statute.
Because of this feeling on the
part of the officials in Washington,
the board asked for hearing be-
fore the Secretary of the Treasury,
and endeavored to get the Treasury
department to recommend to Con.
gress an amendment to the revenue
act. The matter is of such great
Importance that it was taken up at
the national convention Of Real Es.
tate Boards of Cleveland and the
National Association was repre.
sented by the chairman Of its legis-
lative committee at each hearing
in Washington.
The reports of individuals and
holding companies for 1917 and
1913 and the following years are
now being taken up BY the de.
partment and the Secretary of the
Treasury was requested t. withhold
action on these reports until either
his final determination, or until the
action. favorable or unfavorable, of
Congress on the proposed amend
ment of the revenue act.
The department has since decided
1T must abide by its ruling SO that
recourse must now be to Congress.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
RECORD SEASON
Of BUILDING
SEEN
Reports of 32o Municipalities
Presage Most Active Spring
in Years.

Building activities in the leading
cities Of the United States this
spring will eclipse the tremendous
volume Of the corresponding period
last year unless. some unforeseen de-
velopments occur within the next
few weeks.
This is indicated by official re-
ports from the building departments
Of 329 cities and towns for February
as made public yesterday through
the monthly survey of S. w. Straus
& Co. These centers reported build
ing permits for February Of $780,
087,739. In 314 of these places in
which comparisons are available
there was gain of 20 per cent
over February, 1923. The Eastern
group Of cities gained 38 per cent,
the South gained 8 per cent, the
Middle West lost per cent, and the
Pacific coast group gained IA per
cent.
Record Season Seen.
1.-The February exhibit herewith
presented" the survey states, "pres.
ages the most active spring building
season in the history of the country
within the next few weeks
TT is indicated from the reports
that the preponderance Of building
activities this spring and summer
will be confined to the large cities.
The twenty-five centers which led
In building permits for the month
reported 1921 ,659,653 or, Is per cent
Of the total permits issued in 1923
cities and towns.
New York, city continued to re-
veal amazing figures, the months
total being, .$1O9. O46, 500, a gain of
nearly $3O,00O.OO0 or 81 per cent
over February, 1923, and more than
100 per cent over February, 1922.
"Other cities showing large per.
centages of gains were Los Angeles,
Detroit, Providence, r. l.; Roches.
ter, N. Y. Boston, Indianapolis, Port
land, Ore; San Francisco, and Oak.
land, CAL, while Chicago and Wash.
ington showed considerable losses.
Prices Increase.
Building material prices increased
somewhat in practically all lines
during February. In the East, es.
pecially New York city, the rise in
starting materials was significant.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
BOARDS SAVE PIN MONEY
FOR D. c. CONVENTION

The ION to Washington" banner
is already being raised in real estate
boards in number Of cities.
The Washington Real Estate
Board has it's plans already well ad-
vanced for taking care of the largest
and most important gathering of
the real estate year. In New Or.
leans plans already have begun to
be formed for sending a record dele
cation to the big meeting, and to
provide for the placing of New Or.
leans before the people Of the cities
en- route to the convention. The
San Francisco board is offering a
trip to the convention as a prize for
the .realtor who has to his credit
the securing Of the greatest number
of new members for his board dur
ing the present membership cam
paign.
The Madison (Wis.) Real Estate
Board has organized a plan whereby
proceeds from a certain division of
its multiple listing system shall go
to the financing Of a Madison dele
cation.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
CUBIC CONTENTS METHOD
IS VERY SATISFACTORY

Find the whole cube Of the house
by the most reasonable method Of
cubing, counting the height from
the basement floor level to the
midpoint of the attic. Include open
porches at half their, contents and
closed porches at their full measure
Disregard bay windows, cornices,
chimney stacks and the like. The
cubic contents method is very sat.
isfactory in computing the cost of
large buildings. For small homes
so many different elements enter
into the cost that this process is
not reliable one. The only way
to find out how much your house
will cost is to get complete set
Of plans and specifications and
have contractors figure on it.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
RENTAL TAXES
UP HIGH IN
NETWORK
One Sixth of Landlords
Charge Goes to City cof-
fers in New York.

One-sixth of all money received
by landlords for rent is being
turned over to the city government
in taxes under the present local
tax situation in New York city,
according to findings of an investi-
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
BILL INCREASES PAY OF
PARK POLICE FORCE

Increased salaries for the District
park police force are provided in a
bill introduced in the House today.
The bill was prepared by Lieut.. Col
c. o. Sheriff.. officer in charge of
public buildings and grounds.
The measure provides salaries of
$2.4O0 a year for lieutenants: 81, 200
for first sergeants; $1,000 for
sergeants; and $1,S60, SLIGO and
81, $50 for privates.
Uniforms would be furnished free
Of charge and motorcycle police
would receive an annual allowance
Of $24O for upkeep of vehicles.
The Washington times., 1924-03-15

Southern pine was somewhat scarcer
than usual, and as a result prices
were higher, but still considerably
below February of last year. Co.
ment and lime prices in some mid.
die Western cities were softer
Structural materials, rivets and bar
iron, also showed slight decline.
Among building material experts
the immediate expectation was for
further increases in the spring
months"
The Washington times., 1924-03-15
Farm Population.

The farm population Of the Ma
ton, although less than 80 per
cent Of the total, is carrying more
than IS per cent of the child
population, says the United States
Department of Agriculture. The
farm is charged with the duty
Of educating this excess Of youth
and turning it over to the cities
at the producing age.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08
EDITOR KELLY JAILED
FOR CROSSING LINE

To explain the circumstances and
the nature of the arrest of w. B.
Kelly, publisher of the Graham
County Guardian at Stafford and OF
the Copper Era at Clifton, Deputy
Collector of Customs Edward Specht,
was called to the head office of the
customs district at Nogales.
w. B. Kelly was arrested Tuesday
night when after being refused en-
trance to the United States, after 8
O'Clock, he went short distance down
the line and crossed to this side where
his car was parked near the United
States customs house. He was ar
rested by federal officers and held in
jail until late Wednesday afternoon,
not being allowed to give bond or to
communicate with his wife, who was
visiting in the city.
Every citizen in this city and in
Aqua Prieta is interested in the out
come of the case as the articles Mr..
Kelly is accused of introducing into
the United States are his personal
effects, the watch being one he has
carried for 20 years. The case will
no doubt be a test case of the 9
o'clock closing and as to- whether it
is a crime for a peaceble citizen to
return to his own country even if he
is little late in reaching the gate
after closing hours.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08
LEGION WILL ASK FOR
EXTENSION OF JOHNSON Law

The American Legion at the next
session of congress will ask for an ex-
tension of the time limit of June 30,
1926, set ythe recetly passed Reed
Johnson bill as marking the end of
the period allowed for disabled veter-
ans of the World war to apply for vo-
cational training courses with the U.
S. Veterans bureau.
The Legio will make the applica-
tion on the ground that it is unfair
to deprive of their chance for voca-
tional rehabilitation the several thous-
ands of disabled veterans within and
without the hospitals whose physical
condition has not up to this time per-
mitted their entrance into training.
There are in training at this time
under the Veterans bureau some fifty
thousand veterans of the World war
who are being rehabilitated at the
rate of three thousand per month.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08
THE ARIZONA
WAR MAKES MAN INSANE
CRIMINAL; DIES ON TRAIN

The poison tentacles of war are for
ever reaching back and snatching now
and then victim after, sometimes it
seems, playing with him a while. Such
was the case of Antoine Wrobleski.
whose life snuffed out on the train
between Needles and Kingman last
week and whose remains were brought
to the. Van Marter parlors.
Coroner Sam Miller was called to
meet the train and at once proceeded
to find something to identify him. In
a card membership case he carried
Identification in form of a membership
card in the Disabled American Veter-
ans of the World war. This coupled
with clipping from an Oakland paper
which the Pullman conductor had
picked up, tells the story.
War had left its mark and had made
Wrobleski desperate criminal. Then
came an operation which had cured
this tendency and as this fine looking
young man was on his way to join
his 18-year-old bride and endeavor
anew to snatch some happiness from
this old world, came death.
Following is the clipping from the
Oakland paper:
"a kink in the brain of Antone
Wrobleski, shell-shocked war veteran
and considered one of the most violent
criminals taken in the East Bay in
many years, has been unraveled under
a surgeons knife and, in consequence,
burglary charges against him were
dismissed in Oakland.
90 nic41;o4
M. Shay reported to Superior Judge
H. L. Preston that the war veteran
had been declared normal again fol-
lowing an operation at the Napa State
hospital and recommended the mans
release on the grounds that he was
not mentally responsible when the
crime was committed.
Judge Preston dismissed the case
against Wrobleski, discharged Mrs.
Olga L. Murdock as his guardian and
ordered that ticket be purchased to
take him to his home in Detroit, Mich,
where his 18-year-old bride awaits
him. His criminal career and arrest
halted their honeymoon year ago.
"Wrobleski was captured following
running gun battle in Oakland on
September IL, 1923. He escaped but
was retaken in Portland, Ore He was
committed to Napa on January IL,
1924, after examination by DR.. O. D.
Kamlin, who adjudged him insane but
recommended an operation to cure
him. That operation was performed
six months ago. Now alienists say he
is sane.
During his career of crime Wrob-
leski escaped from three penitentiaries
and one asylum.
Judge Preston stated that he be-
lieved the man unfortunate and en-
titled to another chance. ."-Kingman
Miner.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08
REBATE ON INCOME TAX WILL
BE PAID DURING NEXT MONTH

Those who paid their income tax
for 1923 in full and therefore entitled
to a refund of twenty-five per cent
under the new revenue bill will re-
cenve their rebate in the middle OF
August, according to Frank r. Stew
art, collector of internal revenue for
the district of Arizona.
The collector stated that checks COW
ering refunds have been received in
Phoenix from Washington, but that
payment was being deferred until the
schedules are approved and returned
from Washington
The revenue department was COM
PEELED to neview over 1000 accounts in
the Phoenix office before final sched-
ules could be forwarded to Washing
ton.
According to Collector Stewart,
credits on accounts not fully paid will
be completed before September /, un-
der the 25 per cen refund ruling, so
that all will be in readiness to handle
the next quarterly payment due in
September.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08
PLOT TO FREE PEN
PRISONERS FRUSTRATED

Two persons are in custody as a
sequel to an alleged plot in a prison
break on the part of c. Howard, con-
victed forger, from the state peniten-
tiary at Florence, it was revealed
Tuesdey.
Mrs. C. F. Howard, wife of the con-
vict, and NJ. A. Maloney, travelling
salesman, are those held in connection
with the plot, in which Maloney is al
legged to have procured a pistol which
Mrs. Howard is charged with SNUG.
Cling to her husband. Mrs. Howard,
arrested in Phoenix, was bound over
to the Pinal county superior court un-
der bond Of 1900 after a hearing be-
fore Judge W. F. Spillman at Florence
Monday, and Maloney is held at Albu-
querque, where, according to informa-
tion of the sheriff's department, he in
tends to fight extradition.
The arrests add new chapter to a
sequence of events in what officers
declare to be one of the most un-
usual cases ever handled by central
Arizona authorities.
The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08
REAL, VICTORY is
YET TO BE WON

The injustice of assessing Spokane
and the entire intermountain territory
an undue freight rate tax through
discrimination in favor of coast cities
was again pronounced in Washington
Wednesday when Examiner Pattison
of the interstate commerce commits
sion recommended denial of the latest
application of transcontinental rail-
roads to lower freight rates to the
Pacific coast without corresponding
adjustments in the interior.
1t is another victory in the long
battle for fair play. 1t is victory
won through the cooperative efforts
of merchants and business men of
Spokane, Salt Lake City, Boise, Reno,
Phoenix and all the cities of the in
termountain country. 1t gives just
cause for rejoicing. But the final and
decisive victory is not yet won.
Spokane and the intermountain ter
ritorv have enjoyed terminal freight
rates since 1918, and the country has
prospered. But the present COM
manding position will not be secured
until it is impossible for the railroads
even to seek rate Determinations to
bolster I'D their business to the coast
So. with this new victory AS an i'm
netus, Spokane and its allied cities
must continue the fight until the
Gooding bill now before CONGRESS- be-
comes a law and makes the long and
snort haul clause of the commerce act
absolute.-Spokane Daily Chronicle