NEW YORK CITY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1932, Page 11

NEW YORK CITY

graft charges investigated. NEW YORK, May 25. Following almost daily hearings for many months, Mr. Samuel Seabury, leader of a series of investigations into conditions of the city’s government, produced a sensation to-day by calling tho Mayor (Mr. Walker)into the wit-ness-box. He asked him to explain a large letter of credit which representatives of a concern that sought a city franchise purchased for the Mayor’s European -trip in -1927, also a 246,000 dollars profit which the Mayor drew from-a stock brokerage account which

a -noted New York -publisher maintained without expense -to Mr. Walker. -Fi-ve -thousand persons attempted to enter the chamber, which seated only 300. -Mr. Seabury and Mr. Walker exchanged bittex- personalities, and order was maintained only with difficulty. T-he Mayor offered little in the way of explanation. At one point' he demanded to know whether Mr. Seabury was suggesting that the letter of credit .was a “matter of a bribe,” and the latter replied, “It looks very suspicious.” - The hearing almost -degenerated in-

to an open .hrajyl, when a consider-’ able number of Tammany henchmen gained admittance to the chamber and became abusive. An interesting aspect of the Situation is tho announcement That the Federal Government is making inquiries regarding Mr. Walker’s income tax payments.