The Washington times., 1931-03-12
BLAMED FOR
METROPOLIS
CORRUPTION
New York Mayor Declared to
Be Responsible; Churches
to Hold Convention Today

NEW YORK, March l2NN.S.l
Removal of Mayor James J.
Walker will be asked and for
NAL charges filed with Cover
nor Roosevelt within two or
three days, it was announced
today.
The City Affairs Committee,
of which John Hayes Holmes is
chairman, will take the step,
asking for an inquiry siIniIar to
that ordered in connection with
charges against District AttOr-
ney Grain.
NEW YORK, March IL G.N.SO.
With ever-increasing vigor, the
hue and cry for a eity-wide in
vestigation of the government of
New York city-which is alleged
to be stepped in corruption
spread in a dozen directions to-
day.
Civic leaders, business men.
social workers, clergymen, re-
formers and politicians were
uniting in an inSistent demand
for a cleanup" of conditions.
Meetings of various types were
being called and numerous organi-
cations were going on record as
in favor of an immediate Show
down."
Tammany Hall, the organiza-
tiOn in power, "Sat tight" and
awaited developments as the
movement for municipal reform
grew hourly. No statement was
forthcoming from John F. Curry,
Tammany chief.
Walker on Trip
Mayor James j. Walker, chief
target of the barrage of attacks
by the civic organizations, was
proceeding, meanwhile, toward
Palm Springs. Calf. some 5000
miles from the local city hall.
There the debonair mayor, who is
accused of having maintained
"wisecracking and flippant atti-
tude toward revelations of vice
and corruption, will endeavor to
restore his shattered health.
Although the Walker admins
tration has taken a terrific lam
basting since the dapper mayor
left town the other day, no one
not even the mayors bitterest
enemies-haS had the temerity to
attack his personal integrity.
Many of Walkers Seyerest
critics profess to admire him per
Sonally. Their chief complaint
against him has been his alleged
indifference toward the alleged ex-
posures of corruption that have
come out of New York's long
series of Investigations.
Out Of the public clamor
against the administration, there
came today one voice advising
calmness. That was the voice of
Henry Morgenthau, former Am
baSsador to Turkey and financial
director of Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt's last campaign. While
Morganthau enthusiastically ap-
proved" efforts to bring about a
cleaning up of the city. he ad-
vieSd calm sitting" of the general
charges against the Walker ad-
nninistration.
The movement against the
Walker regime has reached the
point where Governor Roosevelt
is taking cognizance of it. How
ever, the governor is represented
as being anxious to be absolutely
fair and against the taking of
precipitate action. For the pres
ent, the governor is marking
time"
Churches To Protest
A meeting has been called for
this afternoon as protest against
civic conditions. It will be at
tended by representatives of the
Congregational, Episcopal. Pres
byterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lu-
theran and Dutch Reformed
churches.
The United Nei g h borh o o d
Houses of New York, Inc, oper-
ating SO settlement houses, like
wise has Endorsed the demand
for a city-wide inquiry, and will
send letters to the Governor, to
the speaker of the assembly, and
to the president of the State
senate.