Show Graft Scandal Bombshell Rocks N. N Y Police Dept NEW V YORK Sept 23 UP UP- UP Wholesale demotions and arrests threatened the police department from top to bottom Saturday as gambling investigators learned the names of grafting policemen from froma a talkative pay off man Ten plainclothesmen and a sergeant sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant from one division were de de- de- de and were assigned to widely videly scattered patrol beats Similar shakeups and some rollings head were expected across the city as investigation of cop and bookie year a payoff widened There were reports that Police Commissioner William Villiam P. P OBrien O'Brien and several se of his top assistants would resign next week The gambler who finally named names was Artie Karp He gave himself up Friday and began to sing about police who accepted I money jewels and television sets I from a year a bookie ring Judge Samuel Leibowitz said Karp had cracked the case wide open Acting Mayor Vincent ten teri said he would outline remedial remedial remedial reme dial steps to clean grafters out of police ranks He had asked retirIng retiring retiring ing U. U S. S Attorney Thomas F. F Murphy successful prosecutor of Alger Hiss to undertake a special investigation of police graft but I IMurphy Murphy has not given an answer If there is any evidence of graft or corruption in m the police department department department depart depart- I ment I want it wiped out and I vigorously prosecuted the mayor I II sal said d I |