Evening star., 1932-09-07
Curry Says Decision on
Walker Will Be Delayed
About a Month.
M'KEE CUTS $4,000, 900
FROM PAY ROLL OF CITY
New Executive Also Breaks Print.
ing Monopoly and Lowers Inter.
est Paid by Municipality.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September THE
Board Of Elections today unanimously
received the certification of City Clerk
Michael j. Cruise that a vacancy exists
for the Office of mayor and passed a
resolution to make the necessary prepa-
rations for election on November 8 to
NIL the vacancy.
s. Howard Cohen, president of the
board, presented the resolution imme-
diately after the certification had been
received.
commissioners Valentine ], Hahn.
Republican, and William J. Heffernam,
democrat, Joined with Cohen, Demo-
crat, and Jacob A. Livingston, Republi-
can, In voting for the resolution.
Election Ordered.
The resolution read:
whereas, and under date of Septem-
Der 2, 1882, and pursuant to section SO
OF the election law, the Board of Elec-
lions mas received a communication
from the city clerk certifying that a
vacancy exists for the Office of rnavor NJ
the City Of New York to be voted at
the general election, November 8, 1882,
therefore,
Resolved, that in conformity with
Sucn notice and certification, that the
board OF elections make all necessary
preparations to conduct an election in
the City Of New York to fill such va
cancy now existing for the office of
mayor Of the City of New York at the
general elections on November 8, 1882"
Walker Candidacy Delayed.
John F. Curry, leader of Tammany
whether James j. Walker will be Tam
manys candidate for reelection NAV
be delayed for more than a month.
Asked when decision might be ex-
pected on whether former Mayor
Walker will be renominated, Curry re-
piled that 1t was his understanding
that the nominations did not have to
be made before October Is.
That was his only comment on that
subject, except that he added he had
not seen Walker since his resignation.
Cuts City Pay Roll.
In the meantime. Joseph Mckee,
mayor for less than a week, pulled
tight today the purse strings of
six years of spending" as he called
it, slicing $4,000 year from his own
$4,000 salary and setting $4,000 O
year maximum for other Offices under
his control.
BY these salary slashes and allied
economies he said an annual saving Of
$2,000,000 year would be effected.
City employees receiving $4,000 year
or less are to be protected in their pres
ent incomes, ne said.
In some cases the pay cut amounts
to more than so per cent. That is true
OF the corporation counsel and SUPER
intendent Of schools, each of whom now
receives $4,000 a year. DR.. William
Schroeder. jr.. chairman of the Sani-
tation Commission and personal physi-
clan to former Mayor Walker, will be
reduced to $4,000 from his present
$22,500
Had Increased 4S Per Cent.
The heads Of the Police and Fire De-
partments will be reduced $4,000 a year
to get within the $12,0o0-a-year maxi
mum.
Fifty city magistrates now receiving
$4,000 may be cut to $4,000 the
mayor said. The salary of the chief
magistrate, $4,000. will be cut $4,000.
The city pay roll was found to have
increased 48 per cent since 1926. Cen
eral pay increases have been effective
since September, 1880. The bill pro-
vidlng for the increases was signed by
Mayor Walker on the first day of his
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