The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-11
INVESTIGATORS
 MAY LOOK OVER MAYOR WALKER
Church Organizations and Crime Preventers See a Chance to Take in the Whole Shooting Works

New York, March 11.-(UP)- Mayor James J. Walker. who left two days ago for California to ''get away from all these investiga- tions,' faced the possibility to-day of becoming the subject of an inves- tigation himself.
 The movement for a general inves- tigation of the whole Tammany- controlled city government, which gained great impetus with the start of an inquiry into incompetency charges against District Attorney Thomas c. T. Grain. may be broad ened to include the mayor.
 The Society for the Prevention of Crime, in Q letter to individual mem- bess of the legislature, has cited specific charges against Walker, un- derstood to be of the same nature d. e., of laxity and incompetence) as those against Grain. It was of the formal charges against Grain, was also considering filing charges against the mayor.
 At the same time the New York City Congregational Church associa- tin, representing 42 churches moved for united protests by Protestants, Catholics and Jews against civic cor ruptions. A resolution was adopted last night asking Governor Roose- welt to take immediate action.
 The resolution declared 1t was the religious duty of every citizen to assist in creating such public senti- ment as will not tolerate bribery and will demand honesty in all quarters of civic life"
 The Rev Warren w. Pickett, min ister of the Church-i in- the Gardens Forest Hills, and moderator of the association. reviewed the recent re- velations of graft and corruption and declared that preying upon women, corruption of the courts and mur- dering of witnesses would not be toi- erated in New York. liberal though it may be.
 "The task of the Christian church is to initiate and foster body of public opinion which will make 1t perfectly clear to the officials of this city that, unless they are prepared to sift these conditions to the very bottom, to punish every man in- volved in this corruption and to ad- minister our city honestly and de- gently. they have signed their own political death warrant" he said.
 The Rev S. Parkes Cadman, com- pairing the city to a great ocean liner, said there were mot a few dirty rats in the hold who ought to be extinguished,"
 Meanwhile, the Vivian Gordon murder case, one of the direct caus- es of the whole outburst against the city administration, produced a aen- sation for the first time in several days, but apparently was still no nearer 6 solution than when it first started.
 The records of an examination of Miss Gordon, murdered witness in the Seabury inquiry and alleGed racketeer, by Owen w. B0han, as- ing an investigation of a stock fraud case, have disappeared from the of- flee of District Attorney Grain, 1t was learned.
 The case concerned Joseph Rad low, Samuel Cohen and Leo Katz. who were indicted on charges of, grand larceny, Mss Gordon, ap- bearing at that time as n voluntary witness, told Bohan that Radi0w had swindled her out of $k0,000 and that she was ''in fear of him."
 Radlow is Q cousin of John A. Radeloff. attorney for the slain wo- man, who Is held with Cohen in bail as a material witness in the murder case.
 Police and private detectives ad- mitted that the investigation of Miss Gordon's slaying had run up against a blank wall. As final resort, Po- lice Commissioner Muiro0ney or- dered circulars bearing pictures of Miss Gordon sent to garages in all parts of the country and to the 5O,- 900 taxi drivers of the city in an ef- fort to gain some information about the woman's movements prior to her death.
 Judge Samuel seabury was ex- pected to receive his commission from Governor Roosevelt in the mall to-day and to start at once the in- vestigation of District Attorney Crain's office. He has not yet named his prosecutor.
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