New York, Aug. 4.
Mx, Heywood Braun, one of the best-known column conductors in the United States, to-day announced his candidacy for Congress on the So-ticket from the Seventeenth District, Manhattan, opposing Miss Ruth Baker Pratt,' the Republican ~This district includes fashionable] Park Avenue, but Mr. Braun announced that he will make the unemployment situation his major jeampaign issue.
"When the people asked President Hoover for bread," declared Bfr. Braun, "he gave them proclamations."
Mr, Braun said that he hoped, whether he won, or lost, to be success ful in calling to the attention of large number of people certain outstanding remedies which might be applied to alleviate the situation of thousands of unemployed.
As conductor of his "It Seems to Me" column in the New York "Telegram," a Scripps-Howard newspaper, Mz. Braun recently embarked on an extensive and successful "Give paign which brought him contact with the problem of unemployment in New York. This is his first venture into the political field—United Press.
Oficial figures released to-day' gave the population of the United States as of April 1 as totalling, 122,698,190 persons.
Including American possessions but excluding the Philippines the total came to 124,848,664 persons. When census figures from the Philippines are available they are expected to bring the grand total up) more than 135,000,000.
The 1920 census gave the population of the United States as 105,710,- 620, An estimate for 1927 gave total of 118,628,000 persons.
All the outside possessions creased in population, the census figures revealed, Alaska's new total is 58,758, as compared with 55,036, in 1920, "Hawaii is 368,336, as compared with 255,912 in 1920. Guam is 18,621, as compared with 13,275 in 1920. Samoa is 10,051, 3 compared with 8,056 in 1920. The Canal Zone is 39,467 as compared with 22,- 858 in 1920. The Vi Islands is. 22,012 as compared with 26,051 in 1920, Porto Rice is 1,543,913, as leompared with 1,299,809 1920, Twenty-two states will lose Con-pressmen as a result of the long-awaited census figures, while 18 wil gain. The other states remail in stationary in Congressional presentation.
California is to gain nine Con.' pressmen, Michigan will gain: four and others will gain less than four.
Pennsylvania, though showing gain in population, will lose two Congressmen.
The actual gain in population for California is shown to be 2,245,148 For New York it is 2,284,-] 226 persons. For Michigan it is 1,179,886 persons. For Florida it 498,165 persons.
'The heaviest percentage of gain-era was recorded by California, with 65.5 per cent; Florida, with 51.4 per feet; Michigan,,32 per cent. and Arizona, 30 per' cent.
'Montana stands alone as the only state which actually lost population'
the last consi Drought and other adverse conditions are held responsible.
The comparison of the census figures since 1790 shows the remarkable development of the country.
Government, of having defrauded the Soviet of $20,000.
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