STATES & CITIES: Doleful Detroit

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Controller of Detroit is Gracie Hall Roosevelt, cousin and brother-in-law of New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* In active charge of the city's relief, he said: "If we had all this to do over, it would be done far more efficiently. There has been graft and negligence. . . . Industry in Detroit has unloaded more than 110,000 men on the taxpayer and the industrial leaders should take up their share of the burden."

Discouraged, Mayor Murphy predicted "the hardest winter" ahead. Before it comes he must stand for reelection. Most observers think that after the voting he will join the jobless for whom he tried to do too much.

*Governor Roosevelt married his cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in 1905.

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