| OCR Text |
Show Name Your Price And You Can Buy Alien Properties By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Washington Correspondent. WASHINGTON. James E. Mark-ham, Mark-ham, alien property custodian, has a job for the government which is probably one of the most varied in the world ... he sells patent licenses li-censes ... he operates farms, forests, for-ests, camps, apartment houses . . . he operates a 69-million-dollar film company ... he is a detective, corporation cor-poration operator, wine dealer, rent collector, custodian, collector of royalties, roy-alties, diplomat, and has taken over household possessions and personal property of aliens in the U. S. How about buying a farm? Just name a price in a sealed bid. These farms are scattered all over. the country. The custodian has over 46,-000 46,-000 acres of rural lands. Included I , '' "A s $ J CUSTODIAN . . . James E. Markham operates farms, forests, camps and apartment houses, all because he is alien property custodian. in these tracts are 24,800 acres of agricultural land valued at $475,-000; $475,-000; 460 acres of extractive and oil lands valued at $111,000; 14,070 acres of wooded lands at $88,000 and unimproved land, 6,290 acres, valued val-ued at $12,000. There is some concentration of these lands along the Pacific coast and the middle Atlantic states. For instance, 70 parcels are in California, Califor-nia, 33 in Texas, 61 in Missouri, 24 in Ohio, 33 in Pennsylvania and 75 in New York state. The alien property custodian has vested rights to total real estate holdings in this country, including both rural and urban, valued at $3,-622,000. $3,-622,000. The custodian employs real estate brokers to collect rents, which at the end of the last fiscal year totaled $174,000. He is disposing dispos-ing of the property as expeditiously as work of preparing for sale can be completed and purchasers found. The custodian recently sold real estate owned by the German-American Bund, consisting o several parcels of real estate comprising some 200 acres, for"-a boys' camp. |
