The Omaha guide., 1934-04-07
HOME OWNER
LEAGUE ON
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elusive, according to DR.. Vernon R.
Thomas, president Of the League
"Omaha homes threatened with
foreclosures o already in the process
of foreclosure were saved. Mutual
settlements were made through the
Intervention of the Conciliatory
Board Of the Home Owners and
Citizens League The League urges
people in Omaha whose homes are
either threatened or are already in
process of foreclosure, or these who
are in difficulties through non-pay-
ment Of taxes or insurance to come
to the Home Owners and Citizens
League" said DR.. Thomas
The Home Owners and Citizens
League will sponsor the following
legislation:
/. Declaration Of moratorium Oh
tax foreclosure sales for a period OF
S years
2. Declaration Of one year mora
touium Of payments on homes with
mortgages of $4,000 or less-amounts
more than $4,000 to be cut in half.
8. To stop foreclosures and those
pending foreclosure for a period OF
years. 8
a. Reduction of interest rat
charges Oh mortgages.
S. Reduction Of principal sum o
mortgages to present appraisa
values. q
6. Payment Of insurance by NOR
tgage for amount of mortgage the.
hold.
7. Exemption from foreclosure
of homes having either tax or mort
gage against them of 500 or less.
8. Payments of taxes by NOR
tgagee for amount of mortgage the.
hold.
9. Reduction Of taxes on individ
ual home properties.
10. Reasonable rates on publ
necessities.
A membership meeting will be hel
Friday evening, February % at tn
offices of the League, 318 Arthu
Building, 21O South 18th Street.
DR.. Thomas is talking every Wed
nesday and Friday evening at 5 p n
over radio station WAAW.
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
Macaroni is made in more than 10
different shapes and forms IN Italy.
Pulling a cord raises a windoH
shade mounted on a new springles
roller.
France is the principal worl
source of bauxite, from which alum
mum is derived.
Oil is being extracted from 80.
beans by a new process that uses al
cohol as a solvent.
A museum has been opened in Ber
lin to show the implements and meth
DDS used by smugglers.
An outside handle moves the broil
er in and out of a new gas range II
save burned fingers.
High speed air mail service from
Karachi in North West India to La
hore has been planned.
For drying garments at home
folding rack mounted on an electric
has been invented.
More than three fourths of the
farm tractors used in Czechoslovakia
are American machines.
An extension lip on a new spoon
facilitates giving medicine to an i'll
person or food to an infant.
Passengers will be carried in cab
ms within the wings of a gigantic air
plane being built in Germany.
A shaker that works with damp
salt contains a plunger that forces
the contents out when it is depressed.
Russia, Ukraine and Rumania sup
ply most of the sunflower seed and
oil imported into the United States.
Half disks instead of the usual
teeth are used in a new lawn rake
that is not clogged by leaves and
other debris.
Passenger service has been begun
on the Shanghai-C Canton airway in
China with planes in charge of Am
erican pilots.
A single cylinder motor has been
invented to propel an ordinary
bicycle by friction with the tire on
the real wheel.
Germans have invented a varnish
to be applied to worn automobile
tires to protect them against heat
and wet weather.
Having a grooved mouthpiece to
hold an instrument, a megaphone has
been designed to amplify the sounds
from a harmonica.
Russian biologists have estimated
the coal reserves of North Manchur-
ia to contain from three billion to 20
billion tons.
A cap has been invented to replace
the original cap on a collapsible tube
and at the same time to serve as a
stand for it