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against the law to allow the Ellipse
TO be used for the accommodation Of
tents for evicted tenants.
No Exoneration Asserted.
United States Attorney Gordon stat
cd today he would make his report on
tho result, of his investigation into
the real estate situation to Attorney
General Stone, his immediate super
Tor. who is expected to transmit it to
President Coolidge. Mr.. Slemp re-
Guested Il report of the prosecutor
following a complaint made to the
White House by the Tenants League
that Gordon had failed to act for sew
eral months on the report from the
District committee of the Senate con-
tanning charges that indicate the ex-
istence of a real estate ring" In
Washington to boost rentals, so as to
pay a return on pyramidal trusts on
certain apartments to an amount sew
eral times in excess Of the value Of
the property.
The prosecutor again declined to-
day to make public any Of the con-
tents of the report which he Will
submit to the Department of Justice.
He denied emphatically that he had
given out any Of the details of the
the report would be made by him
prior to its submission to the Attor-
nsy General He asserted that he
had not said that the report would
or would not exonerate any group of
realty operators.
League Officer Replies.
Mr.. Gordon admitted that he had
talked with the receivers and counsel
for and against the Commonwealth
Finance Corporation of New York,
which is supposed to have invested
largely in these so-called excessive
encumbrances on local read estate.
In response to statements made by
AIr. Mckeever yesterday Mr. Brown
issued the following statement today:
''Mr. Mckeever, as quoted by the
press, calls attention to the ad-
vantages of organization and Coop
erative effort. The Tenants League
begs to inform him that such ad-
vantages apply to tenants as we'll as
10 owners and managers. and 1t is
TO secure such advantages that the
Tenants League is organized.
MIR. McKeever acknowledges that
the Washington Association of Build
Ing Owners and Managers has been
organized nearly two years, that it's
25 members control approximately ly
s35,e00,0 900 worth of property and that
ii has already put forth great effort
TO fight the Lambert bill and the ex-
tension of the Ball rent act.
Sees Admission of "RtnG."
a; This admission by Mr.. McKeever
teeonfirms authoritatively the conten-
tion of the Tenants League, that
There is a realtors combine in Wash
(. ington prepared with an organization
and with money to maintain high
rentals.
80 '"The Tenants League calls the at
;irention Of Mr. McKeever and his "a
in the Washington Asso-
trjation of Building Owners and Man
agers to the fact that they are fight
Eng women who, when aroused and
Encensed over menace to their homes
are dangerous combatants.
~. I'm proof of our assertion for the
need of publicity in regard to actual
4 Existing conditions the Tenants
! League will publish daily exact
Statements of various properties in
z Shis city compiled from public sta
tistics.
The Tenants League is composed OF
!; women and men who are bound by
no Affiliations of party, race, creed or
psolor. We have no selfish interests
except the protection of homes. We
are not supporting any offenSe hold
Ars. We are a civic. patriotic. phil
anthropic organization out to win!"