Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
SILENCE CLAIMED
WALKER STRATEGY
Represented as Hoping Gov
ernor Ultimately Will Re-
fuse to Order Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Gov. Roose-
velt's disposition of charges against
Mayor Walker was the subject of ex-
| tensive, but guarded, speculation today.
The New York Times said friends of
the mayor expressed hope that the Gov
ernor either would dismiss the accusa-
lions OF lncompetency, permit Walker to
ME defense before appointing COM
missioner to hear them or delay action
unit! ne returns from his vacation In
California
The New York Herald Tribune said
IN dispatch from a staff correspondent
at Palm Springs, Calf, that Mayor
walker was holding to strict silence on
the advice OF political associates.
DO not intend to have anything to
say until get back to New York" he
was quoted.
Grains Offer Rejected.
The mayors attitude was described
by the Herald-Tribune as a plan of
strategy by which he hoped that the
Governor ultimately would refuse to
order an investigation and thus he
would not be forced to answer his ac-
cuSerS. by the time he retruns to New
YORK, 1t was said, he expects that the
hue and cry Will have died a natural
death
District Attorney Thomas c. T..
Grains offer to Cooperate" with Com
missioner Samuel Seabury in sitting
charges Of nOnfeasance against him has
met with defeat. In their first confer
ence Mr.. Seabury rejected a proposal
that the district attorneys counsel,
samuel Untermyer, be present at Sc
cret hearings and that he receive A.
transcript of such testimony.
Mr.. UntermYer said he would protest
10 the Governor what he called this
arbitrary and unjust exercise of dis
cretion," though he admitted the ac-
ton was within Mr.. Seabury's legal
rights. Albert B. Unger, chief admin
lStrative aid to Mr. Grain, was called
day.
Aimed at Him, Says Steuer.
Max D. Steuer, special assistant dis
trlct attorney, charged in a letter TO
Jewish newspaper that the attack
on Mr.. Grain was an effort to remove
Steuer as Investigator of the Bank Of
United States and as prosecutor of its
indicted officers.
DR.. William Jay Schiefelin, presi-
dent of the Citizens Union. said he
mad received threatening letters advis-
ing him to leave the city, since he
intimated formation of a Citizens
Committee to support a thorough
housecleaning at City Hall He said
ne had thrown them into the waste
basket.
Seabury's inquiry into the Magis-
trates' Courts which has brought evil
dence of grating by vice squad police
men, will turn next to policy gambling
IN the Harlem Negro district
The Republican Committee of New
York County unanimously adopted a
resolution last night urging the Legis-
lature to authorize a legislative probe
OF the city government.
Hartford Sums Up Conditions.
Speaking at the meeting, Gen. James
G. Hartford president of the National
Republican Club. delivered a scathing
summary of political conditions as he
saw them. He said:
"A district attorney being investi-
gated. A Governor mildly interested
and fencing for time with eager eyes
scanning the far political horizon. Big
sticks swinging. Gumshoes becoming
popular A secretary protesting and
threatening to protest to grand juries.
Women framed. Women murdered.
Children driven to suicide. An occa-
sional policeman making large savings
on small salary. The Curry Walker
boys against the Roosevelts. The two
of them against the Smith men,"