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Show FLIVVER TOWN . KESIM IN P0PUUIT1 Detroit Nov Fourth Largest City, Led by N. Y., Chicago . and Philadelphia j CLEVELAND NOW IS ' HOLDING FfFTH RANK, Los Angeles Is Tenth and San ' Francisco Is Eleventh; . Washington Loses ! WASHINGTON. Juno IS. Detroit, with a numerical Increase and rale of -?.r-; growth larger than Chicago's and see-1 onl only to Now York' during the lnt ten years. Is now fourth largest city of the country, displacing St. Louis and outranking l)oton. Cleveland. Baltimore Bal-timore and Pittsburgh, nil of which wrc larger than tho Michigan clu ton years hjto. Detroit's 1920 population, popula-tion, announced today by iho census bureau, 1m 9K3.73D. an Increase of 027. 373, or 113.4 per cent. .Detroit In the only city of 100.000 or more yhlch has moru than doubled lis population In the last ten ears. t Cleveland Is Fifth. Cleveland, also with a large increase Ilua outstripped St. Louis and Boston and lakes rank as fifth largest cit of the United States. Its Increase during the last ten yours has been exceeded only by New York, Chicago, Detroit and Los An-gfle. An-gfle. With-tho announcement of the populations pop-ulations of Cleveland and Detroit, the definite ranking of tho country's elgh-taen elgh-taen largest cities has been established. New York and Chicago remain flrt and second cities, respectively. Phil-' Phil-' adolphia. igytho only one of tho eighteen eigh-teen who 1920 population has not bean announced, but- II Is not llkel that the Pennsylvania city's rank as third InrgcMt in the country will be changed. rf Detroit Xs JFouilh. Detroit had Jumpod Into fourth place and Cleveland into fifth position, forcing forc-ing St. Louis into sixth, Boston Into mucburklx into ninth places. f Los Angeles, with tho largest rate' of' growth, advanced from seventeenth - rank to -tenth, and displaced Buffalo j'vbWM 1,8 ",v1"' attaining the honor of be- tt' HI lug the largest city west of St. Louis. i51bH un l''rancl3CO retained eleventh rank ftH and Buffalo dropped from tenth to IVcHI twelfth, whilo Milwaukee was forced (IttH to thirteenth place. Washington looses. Tfl'llV Washington, D. C, moved from slx- 'YlH loenth to fourteenth position, dlsplac- fflB ing Newark, N. J., whicli dropped into AzVfl fifteenth position. Cincinnati, thiv- v hKbw tocnlh largest city In 1010, how ranks pJlBF us "alxtocnth. j ijm New Orleans, through tho advance !- JHB of Los Angeles and Washington, was ' 'jH forced from fifteenth rank to seven- VM month position, whilo Minneapolis rc- MS mined its rank us eighteenth largest |