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Show RICH iN HELD IN TRUST PROBE Mayor Hylan May Be Called Before Investigators in New York NEW YORK. Nov. i". Arraignment o' tieorge Backer, millionaire building build-ing contractor on an indictment charging perjury in giving testimony I before the Joint legislative committee I Investigating the. alleged 'building trust" here and a threat by Samuel 1 1 ntermyor. counsel for the committee. 1 to -ummon Mayor Hylan to explain failure to cancel contract for new city buildings were developments in the inquiry in-quiry today. BACKER RKLEAS1 i Backer was released umler $15,000 I. all and directed to appear again I Monday in the court of general ses-! ses-! sions to plead. The Indictment charges ' him with perjury 111 first testifying that he gambled away $15,000 given him by Ephralm Levy another bulld-I bulld-I pi and later admitting he had paid the I money to "two strangers who looked like workingmenv' Backer, according ! to witnesses acted as "go-between" j among eontrnctors ami laborers. MV M l. M OR Mr Jntermyer's threat to call the I mayor before the committee was con-taineti con-taineti in n letter to Comptroller Craig, made public tonight. The coun-j l sel for the committee declared ho j understands work Is proceeding on contracts "that are based on collusive bids" Sad that It Is time steps were j taken "to prevent the further mulcting mulct-ing of the city.' He proposed "a per-I per-I manent non-partisan vigilance com- mitteo" removed from politics with a I staff Of accounts and experts "to ' . hec the city officials on the vas j business that Is being transacted for 'he . lty." The committee hMd no hearings to- na: the session? having been adjourned ad-journed until next Thursday to permit I examination of the evidence that Is ; being gathe-ed. Counsel for the rom-I rom-I mlttee continued active, however oo : |