Show LAGUARDIA ASKS DICTATOR POWER New York Vork Mayor Wants Free FreeHand J Hand to Keep City From Bankruptcy NEW YORK Jan 3 T The Pj-The The establishment establishment of a municipal dictatorship unique in the operation of t American clUes cities was the answer proposed today I by Mayor Fiorello Florello H. H LaGuardia for solving olvi the financial ll crisis facing the i cit city of New York 7 Confronted Confronted with a st staggering operating operating oper oper- budget of more than half hall a billion dollars and a minimum deficit t of the v ne new nev Ion fusion mayor seeks leeks a year two-year period in which to operate with a free hand Under terms of his proposal he would woul delegate to himself m el sweeping powers in the determination 0 of ot economies sal salaries rie of red reduction re re- re d and elimination of cit city agencies agen cies and unlimited power to furlough or transfer city He h ht has t taken ken his cue from the federal program pro pro- gram ii-am ram of President Roo Roosevelt velL An enabling act is ready for presentation pres pres- to the state legislature with it ita approval by the fusion board of assured estimate virtually To Revise Charter Supplementing this plan of dictatorial dicta dicta- tonal powers is a program for lor revision zion sion of the city charter and modernization nation of the entire framework upon which New York City's Cit's administration tion hangs And while the mayor is Ir seeking new few powers Major General John FORyan F. F ORyan new police commissioner is as engaged in a shakeup of or the police pollee department preliminary to ridding the town of speakeasies hanging over overl l om prohibition days Passage of the the mayors mayor's dictators act ct by the state legislature would write a new chapter in the administration tion of city government in n the United States The nearest approach at the present is the thc nonpartisan city manager manager man man- ager form of government Gotham has emerged from four lour years ears of depression and 16 years of or off f Tammany rule dangerously near bankruptcy with a revised city elty budget of some The budget however is to 10 be reopened by the new admin administration for lor wholesale whole whole- sale revision Deficit Underestimated The new comptroller in preliminary v nary c- c examination of ot finances estimated estimated estimated esti mated the minimum deficit at 25 25 which is exclusive of or appropriations appropriations incurred against of taxi fare taxes since ruled invalid and balanced arbitrarily aril against new legislation yet et unde und I The city is further handicapped by the financing of the past adminis l in which delinquent taxes arc arcs are arc s set t aside in a special fund for amortization amortization amor amor- of ot a loan from bankers of with which pa payrolls rolls were met K I j Should the legislature rel refuse to tors tor's pass rs SS f the mayors mayor's measure he is prepared prepared pre- pre r pared to ask for a greater share in inthe i the te e state tax revenues rc Either the i. i power or th the money to rehabilitate the tle city's credit credit theres there's theres no other alternative alternative al al- al he said |