Evening star., 1948-05-01
$4,000 Sachs
Assets Seized
For Unpaid Tax
! Furniture and Auto
S Will Be Sold Unless
/ He Pays in 10 Doys

z The District has seized $26. 900
worth of furniture and the Cadillac
automobile of Abe Sachs, 5601 Utah
savenue NV, for delinquent per-
sonal property tax payments of
$4,786.
= Meanwhile, Collector of Taxes
Guy w. Pearson said 10000 delin-
&quent tax forms will be mailed out
+ early next week.
( Mr.. Sachs, who used to be in the
4 women's apparel business, has not
lived in his expensive home since
February, when the house was badly
damaged by fire. The house, how
ever, was sealed Wednesday, and the
1941 sedan now is in police custody
at the C street property yard.
Has 10 Days to Pay.
Unless the $4,786 is paid by 10 days
after next Wednesday, the District
will advertise Mr.. Sachs furniture
and the car for sale. The sale will
follow in 10 days, it was explained.
District officials said his personal
property taxes were unpaid for the
years l945, 1916, 1947 and 1948
Mr.. Sachs said he has an insur-
ance claim pending with his insur-
ance company for damage caused
by the February fire. The District
probably will seize any payment
forthcoming from this source, It
was indicated
In admitting the validity of the
tax claims, Mr. Sachs, who now is
staying at the Cavalier Apartments.
$500 Fourteenth street NV, said
the insurance payment is being
withheld for reasons unknown to
him, although the company has
recognized the claim as fair and
honest"
Will Seek Delay.
He added that he will attempt to
seek a delay from the city's action
until the money is forthcoming, and
that through his attorney, Nathan
M. Lubar, he will file suit in District
Court next week in an attempt to
force the insurance company to
honor his policy.
In citing his inability to pay the
tax claims otherwise, Mr.. Sachs re-
cited several business reverSalS
which currently have made him, his
wife and their two young daughters
"penniless, furnitureless, homeless
and clothingless." He explained his
family is living with another family
In crowded conditions and that they
have moved five times in two
months.
The reversals, he said, involved
going out of business for 13 months
In 1945, after his dress shop in the
500 block of Twelfth street NV.
was hit by another fire, and the
loss of 100000 in business because
of the late opening of another store
he had built in the same block for
SlO6,000, or twice as much as orig
inally estimated.
Doing Nothing at Moment.
Furthermore, Mr.. Sachs added
this new store also was damaged by
fire soon after it opened, and a
partner negotiated with creditors.
leaving him without funds.
Another store he opened in the
TOO block of Thirteenth street NV,
also went out of business, he said,
and at the moment he is doing
nothing
Mr.. Lubar said there was no hear
Ing Or court action of any kind in
the tax matter and that Mr.. Sachs
property was attached without CIV
ing him an oportunity to be heard.
In most of the $4,000 cases, the
District is seeking to clear up, tax
officials may try to seize liquid as
sets rather than property. officials
often know of the financial assets
OF delinquent through investiga-
ton of bank accounts or security
holdings.