Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 20

CHCAGO'S LOOM rollers” Eliminated Among Achieventents. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, August 22.—After nearly four months of his rule, Chicago rapidly 18 becoming has a real, functioning Mayor. This conviction on the part of the | Nation’s second city has grown in diregt satio to the volume of grumbling emitted by party politiclans. Recently, with ‘meager and the execu- ly insistent upon job fve slimination, the growls approached a erescent do. ‘When Mayor Anton J. Cermak took | @ver the reins held for four years by ‘William ‘Thompson, he found him- #elf in the midst of bedlam. The treas- ‘was bare, pay rolls heavily laden names, gangs still powerful and police none too effective. Since then things' have happened. Among them: A fairly definite improve- ment in the gang situation, with | gradual elimination of emissaries of the underworld from the public pay roll. An upset police department, finally with a knowledge that results and not pull, will receive attention. A clearing of over 1,000 excess pay- vollers from their city connection at | an annual saving of nearly $5,000,000 out of a $62,000,000 annual budget. Tax Assessing Reforms. A definite alignment of the mayor alongside bankers and business men for :-’;M Qn“ %‘m it) ‘hlmkummi? ut the city back on its Each step taken by the mayor has ‘been in the face of heavy pressure from politicians of his own party es well as from blican party ranks. In | ‘eouncil he stood up and fought | the party’s leader, John Clark, chair-| man of the Finance Committee, over expendit: outs in ures. Mayor Cermek this week made a midnight trll: to t'ouapolloe A.:tnuons r;r\1 & personal n. a result, found themselves removed ive list. The mayor learned were not doing as told. t is the way captains are obeying orders from downtown they | :zm just as well know now they will | fer,” for & list of all police officers | 65 years of age, and the depart- | interpreted this move as the fore- that they “If thal department. In: have found the shortcomings of the wm 10 lie largely among the | Job Holders Cleaned Out. another occasion, investigators over 300 jobs at the Municipal tarium held by resi- of one ward, from which a for- tendent *We fired all except one,” Mayor Cer- Already moves are under way to con- all city , and the Mayor had lent to a plan or consolidating governmental agencies in the interest of efficiency The fioo_ days of some former appear mucmu_m o passed. There now is more evi- of work. (Copyright. 1931) 105 COAL MINERS © KILLED IN JuLY Bureau of Mines Shows Increase| | { Over June, but Drop of 50 | convinced that it finally | 1929 FOOT BALL CAPTAIN Frederick Charles Miller Marries Daughter of Broker in Tllinois. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August And See the 22 —¥rederi~k | Mrs. Byron Vincent Kanaley. Her fa- Many Gangsters and “Pay- | cimries Miler, scion of a wealthy Mil- ther is » bond and mortgage broker. 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