Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1940 — Page 2

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The City Hall—

OFFICIALS QUIET ON CITY BUDGET ERROR

Fear That Whatever They May Say Will Be Used!

Against Them Now or

About Releasing Employees for Politics.

RICHARD LEWIS

By City he

ever they might say may

1942 when municipal offices are at stake.

That's

the chief reason

City Hall whenever budget is mentioned. Controller James E. Deery are aware of the political potentialities of resulting

livan and City

the error and its

deficit. It is believed likely ment on the state of finances will he made at all. Instead, the Mavor and Mr, Deer will trv to work out some scheme to make up the deficit. They probably will start out with rigid econemics. That prospect is making some City emplovees very unhappy. A semi-official tabulation of the deficit shows that the City will be running 3162.000 in the red at the end of this year and $605.000 in the hole at the end of next vear. These estimates are hased on the present rate of expenditures for this vear and the proposed expenditures in the 1941 budget. Officials do not confirm these figures which, they say, are approximations

that no statemunicipal

Political Wariness

Because this is an election year, officials are not only saving nothing about the budget, but very little about anvthing else Ever since the political season opened, the City Hall has had the jitters about making its moves public. * At the same time, strict have gone out from the office prohibiting various “doubtful” political activin Por instance. the Count: mittee called the other da wanted some City Hall stand on dutv at registration polls It so happened the duty coincided with working hours, The Mavor issued an official “nix’ and that’s the way things stand, although emplovees free for registration duty City Hall hours In view of these attempts up appearances. some observers are wondering why someone doesn’t dispose of the whisky bottles in the

orders Mayor's types of

Comand

wirls to

resistration

Are after

to Keen

window alcoves, at the rear of Cit Hall. On Alley Parking Several weeks ago, the Safet: Roard submitted to Citv Council an

ordinance making alley strictly illegal The proved ihe measure and Board members said they gin enforcement on a “selective” basis That is. the police would not clamp down overnight Saturday morning. newspapermen observed that a truck was effectively blocking a widely-used downtown alley by parking squarely in the middle of the narrow roadway They observed. too, that the truck belonged to the delivery fieet of Lerov J. Keach. Safety Board president As 3 matter official scraped csr trying to bv climbing

parking Council apthe Safety would be-

of fact. another City the fender of his ease past the truck the sidewalk.

No Sunday Time Limit A number of people are wondering whether time limit downtown applies on Sunday. sighs sav it doesn’t, but merely give the time limit exceptions The answer is that parkers may ignore time limit on Sundays The limit apply, according to Police Inspector Louiz Johnson. But loading zone regulations are in force.

Some other signs

with no

downtown [gn Q

doesn’t

BOY DROWNS IN POND ¥T. WAYNE, Ind. Sept. 17 (U.P. Harold Patrick Storev, 4. drowned late vesterdayv when he fell into =a pond here while sailing a boat along its edge. | ALWAYS SMOKE CAMELS. THEYRE EXTRA MILD AND HAVE SUCH A GRAND FLAVOR

officials are making plain their million dollar budget error for fear that what-

parking ;

Later: And They're Wary

o no attempt to excuse or ex-

used against them—now, or in

there is a heavy silence at the

KNOX INSPECTS BASES ON COAST

Still Thinks Britain Has Better Than 50-50 Chance, U. S. Navy Supreme.

Sept. 17 (U, Frank

SAN DIEGO, Cal, P ) —Secretary of the Nav) Knox today inspects Army and Nav) hases and airplane factories here and flies to San Pedro to look over the Terminal Island Naval Air Sta-

tion He arrived here yesterday after a weak in the Pacific inspecting defense bases ang cruisin with the naneuver:ng battle fleet, Despite intensified German raid: on Britain and the supposed imminenc2 of invasion, he st hehevss., he said, that Englaad ha oetter than a o0-506 chance: to win thr wai The British are ‘nolding their own, if not surpassing the Germans in construction of aire craft.” and that is the xev to the situation. he said. Praises U. S. Fleet He returned to the msinlana still <inging the praises of the Amenrcan fleet “Tn striking power of ships In the caliber of our personnel. and 'n tne ability of the command, the United States fleet is, without a question, the best in the world,” he SAalcl One hundred vessels in the fleet

1111 return here. in contingents of ahout 30 each, for repairs and personnel leave. he said. but he refused to reveal future plans for the fleet in the pacific Panama Canal are excellent for alr arm.

Starts East Tonight ©

he said, the

defenses, the power of

any foreign Dbattleship that inside range of the 14 and 18-inch guns stationed there.” | s2id. “But the best defense ag air attack is aireraft itself. That is being taken care of rapidly.” Col. Knox plans to leave Tos Angeles tonight for his Chicago home, and then return to Washington

help

gets

“God

MANY JORLESS IN ALASKA | SALEM. Ore, Sept. 17 (U. P) Alaska is no place to go to look for work, according te information received here hy L. C. Stoll, state employment director, A telegram

to Stoll from Joseph T. Flakne, director of the Alaska Employment

Service, in Juneau, read: “Alaska has surplus workers in all trades In fact, there is a serious unem-

plovment problem.”

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