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1940- PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE i FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, -18- Six Taxpayer; Home Sale Negotiated It's a New Game Called "Post Office" TODAY in WASHINGTON Tenants, Too, Feel Effects Of Realty Tax 15- I 7,7 More States Join in r-j -By David Lawrcnce- Dec. 26. Real estate taxpayer- have been formed in The world witnessed the impossible over the Christmas in recent weeks for acti -non on the eral plan of the o-en- holiday a truce between Bri Question Found of Vital Interest to Renters Of Property-Assessments and tax rates, although technical in nature, are of vital interest not only to home owners but to tenants. While the average citizen leaves ence of Real Estate Taxver, The states are New JeVv nesota, Utah, North Carol ana and Arkansas. nn'- The National tain and Germany.

Its significance cannot be overestimated by those who have all along contended that there is a chance reason to pene Estate Taxpayers. t0Fme, such states as dftSir 8ii work of real cstat. attempts to equalize assessments V- li-iX fi trate the barbarism of the age jf and to adjust tax rates to the pro ment, was formed at a resentative national ren- the world would but avail itself of the same -Ingenuity in devising estate taxation A -r rtprn. it is sponsored bv uonai Association of ilmi iiiiiiiii Boards; the American fessional real estate broker, he realizes the importance of this question when unusually high or discriminatory tax rates affect him personally. The home owner knows what his taxes are and for that reason is more aware of them, but the person who rents will find taxes buried in the cost of maintaining his home.

Federation; the Xationil "r-3 the National Association c'r" mg Owners and Mar.W-Mortgage Bankers America, and the 'r'T ments Ownpr 1 -Van- A purchase offer has been accepted from J. H. MacXaughton for this si-rooni brick and shingle home with tile bath and garage, at 239 Ashland avenue, Mt. Iebanon, by Scott Realty Company, with Trilli and Dnnbar acting as co-operating brokers. It is one of the homes completely modernized by Scott Realty.

4 Collector Defeats Purpose High assessments and high tax r'ates threaten property values not only in older communities which 10 Realty Sales DealsArc The Keystone Sta-o have deteriorated, widening the spread between taxes and income FHA Homes Continue Gain Speculative Building Gains or market value, but in new com Loan A.ncict; 'c munities where rapid growth has -v. ways to reach the hearts of people it has employed in snuffing out human lives with mechanized weapons. The Nazis did not agree to refrain from air attacks as a consequence of any understanding in advance. Both sides haughtily rejected the truce idea when formally proposed a few weeks ago. But out of deference to the opinion of mankind the two belligerent ffovernments of their own initiative refrained.

This means that what the world thinks is still important In Nazi-land as in Britain and also it means that inside Germany are still millions who respect and pay homage to the principles of Christianity even though they have allowed their rulers to grow cynical about democracy and human brotherhood. T1IF CHRISTMAS truce erve more, however, to emphasize that in Britain as well as in Germany there is a blind spot on the subject of the moral force and moral power that can and does affect the destiny of peoples. In the United States, too, there has arisen a hardness and intolerance which sweeps aside even the mention of peace as so much truckling to the dictators and as a willingness to through Allegheny Countv R( stimulated real estate activity. joroKers. If the tax collector wrings the Operative Field Widens, lne properties worp last penny from advancing realty Increase of 42 Pet.

Made Here in 18 Weeks values, and increases the tax on 3133 Gilroy street, to John' Isabelle Knight; dwelling mlt street, Duquesne. to John property too rapidly, he may ham per the growth of his community garet Basista: dwells and defeat his own purpose, which lis street, to Albert ff sC The number of new homes started under the FHA plan in the Pittsburgh district during the 18 weeks ended November 30 showed an in is to obtain the largest revenue possible. 565 Brushton nvonuo estling; two-and-onr-Wf Keeping step with efforts to re frame 813 Fion.u strain destructive taxation of real Post-Gazette Photo. Ing to get them off (the cards and gifts not the hands). If Mr.

Musiol can't find, their rightful owners, the lost gifts will be forwarded to Xew York and sold at public auction by the postoffice department. But a "special deliver" doesn't mean a thing to Charles M. Musiol, foreman of the inquiry section at Pittsburgh post office. Mr. Musiol has 50,000 mis-addressed Christmas gifts and cards on his hands right now and he's very busy try- fctowe townshin.

to wv. property is an expanding move crease of 42 per cent over the corresponding period last j'ear, accord Anno 11 League Study Shows More houses will be built speculatively during the next few years than has been characteristic in recent years, according to the report of the committee on construction loan policies and procedures of the United States Savings and Loan League. Conditions have changed to the extent that only 50 per cent of the homes erected today are built to order for an owner, the balance being built speculatively by operative builders, the report stated. In its study of savings and loan asso ia.iC,, iwo-anrt-a-haif ment to shift some of the tax burden to other forms of wealth. It ing to Federal Housing Adminis inn- 1 i' "uiiuint, VOOl Ufl Seventh Ward, to trator Abner H.

Ferguson. is the hope of real estate men generally that these efforts to reduce Elizabeth Luciano. A total of 1,200 new homes were Dwelling. 112 CalaHi, the cost of property owning will improve the condition of real Truck Laws Slow Defense started during the period of 1940, compared with 861 in the same period of 1939, the report stated. to Robert and Catherine Markor dwelling, 7517 Only 50,000 Gifts, Cards With Wrong Address Here surrender basic rights througn ne estate, and place property owner ship within the financial means of Swissvale.

to Frank P. Po.l' gotiated treaties. All this merelv throws un greater proportion of the coun erine Majhan; dwelling nmokesereen around the nroner use The new small homes constructed under the FHA plan in important defense production areas are designed primarily for sale to home try's population. v' -iKi. tviiKinsnnrcr Limits in State Tieup Roads, ciations, the committee found that 80 per cent of those interviewed of moral force in bringing an end to th war.

Nobodv ever accused Number Not Appalling When Postoffice Handles drew P. and Helen Connolly and two and-a-half-s tnry apartment building, 1114 Center stree' Wi owners rather than for rental on Gibbs Says make loans to wholesale builders. President Wilson of appeasement 17,000,000 Pieces of Yule Mail a temporary basis it was pointed In its survey the committee out. and Because of the state's low size found that 40 per cent of the sav KinsDurg. to Christopher C.

Helen Edwards. even though he made speecnes again and again outlining possible bases of peace. Not a syllable of In 30 key industrial regions, in ings, building and loan associa Model House Plans Forming "Pittsburgh Home" Is Set For Baldwin Manor cluding the Pittsburgh area, a total and weight restrictions of motor trucks, Pennsylvania is becoming this kind has come from American total of 1,050 Deeds of 40,867 new small homes financed There can't be more than 50,000 different ways to mis-address Christmas gifts and cards because there weren't more than 50,000 of the same oiled ud in Pittsburgh tions interrogated are prepared to give commitments within 24 hours, and 65 per cent of them within 48 spokesmen with the possible exception of Senator Tvdings. Demo a bottleneck for highway trans by FHA insured mortgages were started during the 18-week period, it was announced. This represented crat, of Maryland, who in the last portation that is hindering a normal flow of raw materials and hours after the loan is sought.

postoffices yesterday morning Recorded in Countv A total of 1,050 deeds 34 of them sheriff's deeds, were recorded in AlJpcrhpnv nnimti- 1 an increase of 52 per cent over the finished products in the nation's marked "address unknown. Sounds like a lot 50.000 but it like period of 1939. defense program, according to belle on Beechwood boulevard and the silk stockings to Mortimer on Stanton avenue. Both Packages Come Back Eventually both packages slide into Mr. Musiol's department.

Quickly he saves the day. He looks up Mortimer in the city directory and finds out that Mortimer lives on Beechwood boulevard. Simple, isn't it? Then Mr. Musiol discovers that Klarabelle really lives on Stanton avenue. Quicker than that he re-addresses the packages.

Within a few hours 10 Homes Sold Here for HOLC Howard D. Gibbs, president of the dwindles when you remember that Pennsylvania Motor Truck Associa Mortgages Amounting the postoffice handled more than 17.000.000 pieces of mail for Kris -uuuii nuiii tni npf i to December 17. inclusive, the Lawyers Title Company report? During the corresponding: period of 1939 a total of 1.061 deeds, including tion. In a statement issued in Harris To $2,711,761 Filed Kringle during the holidays. In the rush packages were burg yesterday, Mr.

Gibbs pointed out that every state surrounding Pennsylvania has a higher maxi 159 sheriff's deeds, were recorded. A total of 282 mortgages to $2,711,761.42 were recorded in mailed with no address, some addresses became separated from Plans are being made for opening the "Pittsburgh Home" under construction in Baldwin Manor, Baldwin township development of Barone LLnd, for public inspection early next spring. The home was designed by Charles M. Stotz and James K. Hess, Pittsburgh architects.

Alex Larson is the builder. The home will contain a modern electric kitchen, a gas-fired air conditioning furnace, the latest type gas hot water heater and white kitchen cabinets. mum gross weight allowance, Allegheny county from December ranging as high as 60,000 pounds in the packages, etc. Result: the post-office found itself with 50,000 packages and no place to deliver them. The Lloyd Real Estate Company reports the sale of 10 homes for the Home Owners Loan Corporation.

The properties were: 353 Prince street, sold to Thomas Ferraro; 510 North Negley avenue, to W. E. McCombs; 5101 Dearborn street, to Rocco Viola; 6487 Jackson street, to R. E. Donoguhe, 704 North Dallas avenue, to Thomas and Eliz Average Office Build in Studied 11 to December 17, inclusive, the Union Title Guaranty Company reports.

One hundred and ten of New Jersey. Pennsylvania restricts weight to 39,000 on a tractor-semitrailer. "A truck coming from any one One Man Feels Burden A mere handful, really. Only one these were given to corporations; 48 to building and loan associations; Ol! 1- rj i man in the whole postoffice thinks ou i.u jiiuiviuuais ana oz were pur- of these states into Pennsylvania," Mr. Gibbs explained, "must either few days gave an outline or wnat ft just peace could be.

He did not concede that Britain had to surrender to Germany or that the small nations of Europe had to accept the military status quo. He insisted that there must be freedom for the small nations. It will be argued that Germany doesn't want any such set-up. But nobody can really speak with authority on what the German people will take if they can be assured of some of the war aims which have thus far prompted them to swallow Hitlerism as a means of removing economic injustices which they hold against the British Empire. THE WILSON administration found it advantageous to talk peace all the time, not only when we were neutral, but when America was actively engaged in the war and her troops were in France at the battle front.

Mr. Wilson's statesmanship saw beyond the brutality of war-making. It rose above the swashbuckling and threats and bluster with which present-day spokesmen of governments fill the air. Viewed in the light of the strat cnase money mortgages. The average orice hiiililing is 14 stories high: jcars o.V, and hns 1 40.0IMI square feet of rentable area and a population of 1.000.

50,000 is quite a. lot. He's Charles M. Musiol, foreman of the directory department, and he's prejudiced South Hills Realtors Sell Three Dwellings Architects to Dance because he has to find out wnere Mortimer has a dandy electric shaver and Klarabelle has her silk stockings and Mr. Musiol has but 49.998 gifts and cards on the shelf.

Of course, there are more difficult cases. Your hypothetical Aunt Susie, now living in Sioux Falls, decides to send a Christmas card to that nice woman she used to know in Pittsburgh on now what was the name of that street. "Pistachio?" No, not Pistachio. Eventually, Aunt Susie decides to address the card to "Miss Melba Milestone, Pittsburgh, Pa." Immediately Mr. Musiol finds himself in difficulties.

There are half a dozen Melba Milestones in the directory. He sends Aunt Susie's card to the first Miss Milestone. Back comes the card it was the wrong Melba. those 50,000 gifts and cards are supposed to go. abeth Anna; 504 North Sheridan avenue, to Jack Rodgers; 7208 Hermitage street, to Roy D.

Marckel; 1105 North Lang avenue, to George and Jacob Levinson; 7322 Leming-ton avenue, to John S. Morrow, and 4413 Milgate street, to Andrew Pleskovitcb. Co-operating in the deals were leave part of its cargo at the border, or transfer it to a second truck. For example, a highway carrier operating between New Jersey and Pennsylvania would be required to drop off 21,000 pounds before entering Pennsylvania, or take the alternative of using an extra truck." Members of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club will hold a New Year's Eve dance in their rooms, 1 Charlotte way, Tuesday night. It's just like a game a ver Smith Mott, South Hills realtors, sold three dwellings between December 1 and December 18.

The properties were a six-room home, lot 30 by 117, 824 Gallion sion of that old favorite "Post Office." Your Aunt Susie sits down The figures were obtained in a special study made by Ihe National Association of Building Owners and Managers. The average building, according to the Association's report, has an annual income of and it costs $160,020 to operate and maintain it. to address her Christmas gifts. She wants to send an electric shaver M. J.

Sweeney, Finance Realty, C. avenue, Brookline, for the New tHOME to her nerhew. Mortimer Munsch, American Building Loan Asso on Beechwood boulevard, and a C. Hamilton, G. Bissinger, Mrs.

C. C. Clark and the Gribbin Com-! pany. 7 PROBLEM Alleged Annoyer Of Child Beaten ciation to Kenneth A. Forsberg; six-room brick dwelling with tile pair of silk stockings to her niece, Klarabelle Klutch, on Stanton avenue.

Q. Does the FHA plan apply only to a new home? A. No. If an existine dwelling In the excitement Aunt Susie ad dresses the electric razor to Klara- bath and integral garage, 1071 Arbor drive, Greentree, for a A. N.

Crouch, to Edward M. Cain, and a one-and-a-half story frame dwelling, 713 Fisher street, Mt. Oliver, for the Sarah Building Loan Association to Albert Staab. not discourage them in the future Our messages of Christmas among egy of propaganda which helped to win the war for the Allies in 191 -when the kaiser who was believed then to be as firmly entrenched as Hitler is today was overthrown the speech this week by Winston Churchill addressed to the Italian people may have been tactless. For it was quickly seized nations need not have been addressed to foreign peoples alone.

In America there is growing up a NO MORTGAGE WORRIES at First Federal of Pittsburgh. First Federal mortgages are nnt sold and always remain in friendly hands. Mortgage granted before building begins saving money by paying cash for construction. Come in and investigate. FIRST FEDERAL mm OF PITTSBURGH Vanderbilt Professor Joins Johns Hopkins BALTIMORE, Dec.

26. UP) Dr. Alfred Blalock, 41, professor of sur meets Federal Housing Administration requirements, it may be bought on the FHA plan. The down payment is 20 per cent or more. Q.

Our reception hall is tiny and tends to be dark. How could it be decorated to look more like a room and less like a box? A. By putting a large mirror on the wall opposite the front entrance door you can increase the appearance of expansiveness. If the wall is broken by a door, the door may be mirrored like the wall. Instead of calling police when his 11 -year -old daughter complained of being insulted, John White, 40, of 66 Ceredo way.

took the law into his own hands' Christmas Day and beat Francis X. O'Brien, 29, of 112 Lecky way, so severely (hat he was taken to St. John's Hospital, it was testified in morals court yesterday. White, who was held on an assault and battery charge, admitted beating O'Brien and said he did so because he persisted in forcing his attentions on the child. O'Brien, who suffered severe head and body lacerations and bruises, was detained on a charge of molesting minors.

upon by the Italian press as a Five Others Come Back In quick succession the five remaining Miss Milestones return Aunt Susie's card. (Mr. Musiol doesn't know this, and neither does Aunt Susie, but the real Melba moved to Altoona two years ago.) Then Mr. Musiol gets an idea. Maybe it's a mis-spelling? Maybe Mabel is a Millstone? He dives for the directory.

Sure enough, there is a Miss Mabel Millstone living on Shady avenue. For the seventh time he re-addresses Aunt Susie's card. But, alas, back it comes. By a curious coincidence Mabel Millstone isn't the one Aunt Susie wanted, either. And that is the stuff of which paper dolls are made and that paper spaghetti you find packed in banana crates.

bitterness which prevents any international question from being viewed objectively. There is need of messages of tolerance and brotherhood for American opinion, too. For there has been a distrust of those who, with patriotic motives means of rallying public opinion in Italy. Appeals to patriotism can gery at Vanderbilt University, ASSOCIATION rsasnvnie, today was ap SAVINGS AND LOAN 600 GRANT STRUT always be used to overcome extremely worded statements from COURT 2794 i branches pointed professor of surgery at the outside, attacking the rulers Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, and surgeon-in-chief of of a country. It would have been in America and a respect for the importance of a strong national defense, still feci that too much at tention has been paid to Hitler and far better if Mr.

Churchill had assumed for the purposes of his ad Mussolini and not enough to the grievances which have made it pos dress that Mussolini was not a devil, but a fool in allowing Italian the Hopkins Hospital. He succeeds Dr. Dean Lewis, who retired September 1, 1939. The appointment was announced by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, university president.

Dr. Blalock will start his duties here next July 1. 3m sible for 80.000,000 human being3 in Central Europe and many millions destiny to be decided by Hitler. There are many more people in in Italy to become persuaded that Italy who would be willing to help tlt6Ufni hw6ugKbrlf valued ot $15,000,000, onwr the coll of "BaH 500,000 Homes Seen Need After Arms Era the rest of the world is selfish and antagonistic. md SoT4! tmnuotty, end IS millffrn mm birf followers Jam ttend end pnddotk.

mum i -t it i WHILE THE guns were silent and bombers were kept in their iffUtn Fresh Carrots Added To Surplus Food Lists Needy families using blue food stamps will be able to get fresh carrots during January because of the surplus late crop in New England, it was announced yesterday by the Federal Marketing Administration. John F. Conaboy, program organizer here, said fresh spinach has been taken from the surplus lists, because it is out of season. Locally grown carrots those that are cut without tops offer a budget saving purchase to hangars there was a wonderful op portunity for statesmen to speak. Six-Family Building Sold by Meyers Firm George E.

and George A. Meyers, downtown realtors, sold a six-family apartment building, 5537-39 Co-lumbo street, to an unnamed purchaser for an out-of-town insurance company. The property is assessed at The Meyers office has been named rental agent for the cew owner. get rid of Mussolini because they think he was duped than because as it was alleged he was a traitor to Italian interests. CHRISTMAS furnished a grand occasion for the expression to all the world of the principles of peace a reiteration of the philosophy of Christ in the world of hatred and bitterness.

It takes a long time to change the mood of an intolerant ration, and sometimes immediate results are not forthcoming, but this has never discouraged the cru-raders for idealism before and will The need for planning half a million homes a year at the end of the defense emergency is foreseen by Nathan Straus, administrator for the United States Housing Authority. Mr. Straus said that the country faces the possibility that men may be thrown out of work directly or indirectly by the re-establishment of a peace-time economy in America. It is never too late for them to recover lost opportunities and if, in the year 1941, America starts a belatad offensive to win the hearts of peoples in Europe, maybe the lesson of the 24-hour truce which grimly celebrated the birth of the author of Christian brotherhood itself will not have been in vain. Daily Cross-Word Puzzle Nuts and Jolts By Holman Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 1 TjTZX so mtmijeqple POTPnNiOVlAriAFAlR1 fir UP Ml Til! ElCOiVli LJL ETIRIE OH ASJ IE A rITsIe AVER AJ6ETTS ne TLJolRTjA I A ETjR A I bjE aFk (dene iRiEflS UMI A i LOAlGr UIMMV'S DAD A CjrfT 100 PROOF AM ATT iM TT SEER ETNA Snf RET EN iHc QE NjJE RE 23.

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