Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1931, Page 17

CITY COVERNMENTS | LOSTS RUN HIGHER Census Bureau Reports Sur- vey of 250 Municipalities Over 30,000. By the Associated Press. The cost of governing American eities mounted $39,000.000 in 1929, driving the municipal debt $304,000,- 000 upward. That is what the Census Bureau Te- ported in making public today 1929 financial statistics for 250 cities hav- ing a population of over 30,000. The total net municipal debt was $6,130,- 289500, a 5 per cent increase over 1928, and over one-third the public debt of the Federal Government. Exceed State Payments. Municipal payments on costs of gov- ernment, the burcau sald, were two- thirds greater than similar payments on the government of the 48 States and “2.6 per cent less than those for the Federal Government for the fiscal year 1929, Taking 146 citles covered by census Teports since 1903, the bureau gave the net per capita cost of governmental payments, including operation, mainte- nance and debt interest, as $55.84 in 1929, $24.58 in 1917 and $16.41 in 1903. | for the same, Net revenue receipts cities jumped from $21.14 per capita in 1903 to $31.97 in 1917 and $69.63 in 1929. The indebtedness ratio in these cities grew from $44.71 in 1903 to $80.75 in 1917 and $144.33 in 1929, Operation Largest Item. Qf the total 1929 governmental outlay, 6.4 per cent was for operation and maintenance of general departments, 4.9 per cent for public service enter- prises, 10.6 per cent for in‘erest on debt and 238.2 per cent for permanent im- provements. Education took 38 per cent of the general operating expenditure, police and fire protection 19 per cent and highways ncarly 9 per cent. General property taxes provided the feities with $1.925773,600 of revenue; taxes, $78,718,100; licenses, $100, i special assessments, $228,437 entions pension assess 7,200; Fents and interest, $143 nd public service enter- prises $3 ,000. ACTOR'S ‘CAPITALIZATION’ 40 12,608 | Army. | Officials of the Army, Navy and Ma- | rine Corps have given little considera- tion the past several weeks to the pay and promotion proposals affecting !hci military-naval personnel. The situation | the institution of a study in prepara- tion of a new determination of the offi- cers on the single promotion list of the Army as of July 1. This promo- tion list will not be available for dis- tribution to the Army for sometime iin the future, but all the information | necessary for such list has been col-| {lected in the office of the Adjutant Gen- | eral of the Army and will be available for use of the statistical branch of the general staff in making the necessary | { preliminary studies. Lieut. Gol. Charles staff, will prepare the new list. The new computation will be based on the definite terms of the proposed | MacArthur promotion bill and will be | prepared with great care. It will be the list which will be used by officials of the War Department in presenting the situation to the Military Committees of the Senate and House during the Sev- | enty-second Congress, that will be con- | vensd this December. High officials of the War and Navy | | Departments hold out scant hope at | this time that there will be any official | presentation to the Seventy-seccnd Con- gress of a measure providing for a | |change in the pay laws governing the ! {service personnel, certainly not during the first session of that Congress. The general industrial depression and un- | employment situation which exists | ithroughout the United States, together with the efforts of President Hoover for the strictest economy in Government cxpenditures, are serious handicaps | against the presentation of bills con- | templating pay increases. | Due to the expiration of their tours of duty In Washington bctween now fand the middle of September, the Amy Pay Committee will lose two of its | leaders—viz., Brig. Gen. George S. Si- | | monds, assistant chief of staff for war | plans, and Col. Frederick W. Coleman, F. D. It is understood that Gen. Si- monds will not leave Washington im- mediately upon the expiration of his tour of general staff duty. Col. Cole- |man will leave Washington in Septem- ber to become Corps Area finance offi- |cer of the 8th Corps Area, with head- quarters at San Antonio, Tex. ‘There is considerable speculation in military circles concerning the prob- able successor of Brig. Gen. Carl R Darnall as assistant to the Surgeon | General of the Army. Col. Edward L. | Munson was elevated to a brigadier generalcy as the result of the retire- | ment of Brig. Gen. Henry C. Fisher, Col. Munson being the ranking colonei OF PERFORMANCE SCORED |in the Medical Corps at the time of his selection. Should the rule of senlority be followed, Col. Thomas S. Brattan, Tondon Performers Protest Skit:M_ C.. on duty at Atlanta, Ga. would Staged in New York Theater. By the Associated Press., LONDON, July 11.—Displeasure has be elevated to a general officer, al- though he has only about a year to| serve before attaining the retirement age of 64 years. Next in line of senior- ity come Col. George A. Skinner, who will retire in June, 1934; Col. Weston been aroused among some British per- | P. Chamberlain, whose retirement date formers by what they term Al Trahan's |is June 4, 1935, and Col. Froderick M. “capitalization” in America of his re- cent “command” perfrmance bafore the British King and Queen. A number of performers have dis- patched a cablegram to him protesting an act he put on at a New York vaude- ville theater. A New York dispatch to the London Evening Mail describes the Trahan skit and comments that no English actcr, having been invited to perform before President and Mrs. Hoover, like it. Trahan, who mixed himself up with #ome stringy chewing gum and a grand was one of the most popular with their magesties at the re- cent ccmmand performance at the Palladium, London music hall. RUSSIAN EX-GRAND DUKE SEES SOVIET’S PROGRESS “Will would have done anything Evolve Into Fine,” He Says Sailing. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 11.—The man who was once Grind Duke Alexander of Russia predicted today that Russia and the United States eventually will estab- Jish themselves as the world's leading wations. 5 Communism, he said, will evolve “into #omething really fine” thrcugh a series Something | on Hartsock, who will not attain the age of 64 until May, 1939. Twenty-six Army officers, all members of the 1921 Army War Colleg> graduat- | ing class, will remain in Washington for duty. The new cuty which they as- sumed last week in the various War Department bureaus here are: Maj. H:nry 8. Aurand, Ordnange Depart- ment, to office chief of lordnance; Lieut. Col. Alexander M. Milton, Cav-| alry, and Majs. William R. Schmidt, Infantry; Louis B. Bnder, Signal Corps, and Allen Fletcher, Infantry, to the Army Industrial College; Maj. T. J.| Camp and Herb:rt E. Marshburn, In- | fantry, to office chief of Infantry;| Lieut. Col. Lloyd B. Magruder, Coast Artillery Corps, and Majs. George D. | Murphy, Quartermaster Corps; Carl H. Seals, Infantry; Cuthbert P. Stearns,| C. B. Thummel, Ordnance Departm-nt; | John C. Tillson, jr., Cavalry; H. B.| Cheadle, Infantry; Leon R. Cole, Field Artillery, and Charles D. Daly, Field | Artillery, all to War Department gen- | eral staff; Majs. James E. Chaney, Air Corps; b E. Fickel, Air Corps, and | Walter B, Frank, Air Corps. ail to office | chief of Air Corps; Maj. John F. Davis, | Cavalry, to office chief of Cavalry: Maj. | Carl Halla, Finance Department, to| office chief of Finance; Lieut. Col. Re- | solve P. Palmer, Adjutant General De- | -partment, to office of adjutant general | of Army; Lieut. Col. Clarence S. Ridley, | C. E, to office Assistant Secretary of | War; Maj. Haig Shekerjlan, Chemical | Warfare Servics, to office chief of | Chemical Warefare Service; Majs. Jo- Armyand Navy News was enlivened last week, however, witl 'fl H. Patterson, on duty on the general (£ THE SUNDAY Navy. A score of officers of the Navy, con-; sisting of five captains, two commanders and thirte'n lieutenant commanders were transferred to the retired list on June 30. Those retired include Capts. Gatewood' 8. Lincoln, Charles M. Tozer, Thomas A. K:arney, Willlam L. Little- eld and Amorr Bronson, jr.; Comdrs. Charles C. Moses and Prederick V. Mc- Nair; Lieut. Comdrs. Alston R. Simpson, Joseph P. Norfleet, Elmer De L. Lang- worthy, Alfred Y. Lanphier, Edward B. Gibson, Lorain Anderson, Murphy J. Fostor, Bollvar V. Mead?, Earl A. Mc- Intyre, Roman B. Hammes, Jefferson D. Smith, Romuald P. P. Meclewski, and Herbert A. Ellis. As the result of these retirements, the following officers have become due for promotion: Comadrs. Roland M. Brain- rd, Sherwood A. Taffinder, John T. G. Stapler, Lesley B. And:<rson and John 8. McCain; Lieut. Comdrs. Oliver M. Read, George J. McMillin, Howard F. Kingman, James G, B. Gromer, Willilam M. Quigley, Calvin H. Cobb, and Robert B. Simons. The licutenants who have b:come due for promotion, as a result of the above described retirements, are: Edwin Fish- er, George R. Blauvelt, Earl V., Hand, Charles Waters, Harold A. Clough, Thomas W. Mather, Chester L. Nichols, Thomas M. Leovy, Harold F. Fultz, Benjamin W. Cloud, Mallery K. Alken, Frederick S. Conner, Howard W. Kitch- in, Leland D. W:bb, William Knox, Clyde C. Laws, Thomas E. Flaherty, Walter C. Theimer, Arthur R. Ponto, Learned L. Dean, Mervin W. Arps, Mat- thias A. Thormahlen, and Jerome L. Allen. The lieutenants (junior grade), who became due for promotion as a result of the June 30 retirements, are: Arthur F. Dineen, Robert H. Rodgers, Edwin R. Duncan; Samu:l G. Puqua, Henry G. Moran, Charles D. Beaumont, jr., Frank E. Shoup, jr, Frederick Moos- brugger, Francis M. Hughes, Willlam R. Thayer, Alfred H. Richards, Steele B. Smith, Charles R. Ensey, jr., Stanley Leith, Edwin R. Peck, Rob:rt A. Cook, John C. McCutchen, George A. Des- ;aull. Curtis S. Smiley and Murvale T. arrar. DEARBORN AIRMAN LEADING AIR TOUR Flyers Reach Birmingham, Ala.,! and Are Halting Over- night. By the Assoclated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 11— Harry L. Russell, Dearborn, Mich. continued to hold the lead over eight other contestants in the national air tour as the planes landed at Municipal Alrport. here today for an overnight stop. Russell had 23,677 points to his credit when the tabulations were completed tonight. He was far ahead of his| closest rival, James H. Smart, Pine Bluff. Ark.. who has a total of 22,204. City, Mo., fourth, 16,332; William Lan- caster, New York, fifth, 15937; Eddie Stinson, Dearborn, Mich, sixth, 15.492: Lee Gehlback, Detroit, seventh, 15,049; George Edward Dickson, Pittsburgh, eighth, 13,005, and Jce Meehan, Mary- ville, Mich., 12.562. The planes take off at 10 a.m. tomor- row for Montgomery, a distance of about 100 miles. FIRE INVADES FOREST Thousands Battle Flames for 22 Hours. _ MARINDHA GRANDE, _Portugal, July 11 ().—A large area of rich pine forest was destroved by fire today. Forest guards and fire brigades were aided by thousands of citizens in com- bating the flames. After 22 hours, the fire was under control tonight. Authorities were inves- | tigating its causes. YOUR JEWELRY —Should have same attention and consideration as your physical con- dition. Ofttimes, a_dlamond is lost through neglect. Our service will protect wour diamonds. Let Us Look Them Over Before Your Vacation CHAS. F. 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