Evening star., 1933-11-16
CROWD At HEARING
FORCES SENATORS
TO CLIMB LADDERS
ConnalIy CraWIs Into Ladies'
Room to Reach Commit
tee Hearing.
STATE EMPLOYEES TOLD
TO "PACK THE HOUSE"
Holland Renews Fight, Shaking
Fist at Chairman as
Crowd Cheers.
by the Associated Press.

by LEe ASSOclhiBO
NEW ORLEANS, November 10
Senator Tom Connally, Democrat. of
Texas, chairman Of the Senate Com
snittee investigating the election of
Senator John H. Overton, was forced
Sto climb a fire escape and enter an
supstairs window to reach the COM
fnlittee room in the Scottish Rite Cath
Sedral today as hundreds of persons
smassed in front of the building seek
Nng entrance to the hearing.
AS Senator Connally climbed through
sthe window, he found himself in a
ladies wash room, but committee at
taches quickly steered him through
the building into the hearing chamber.
With the milling mass in front Of
the building preventing any entrance
into the cathedral through the front
doors, other officials and news men
were forced to follow Connally's lead
up the fire escape and through the
window in order to get in.
Woman Scales Ladder.
Among those scaling the ladders was
Mrs Hilda Phelps Hammond chairman
of the Women's Committee of Louisiana,
which is seeking the custer of both
Senator Overton and Senator Huey P.
Long from the Senate.
The Times-Pieayune said the en-
ployes of State departments here re-
ported they had been instructed by
their foremen to appear at the hearing
and pack the house"
After a conference inside the build
ing, committeeman decided to admit
only SUFFICIENT spectators to fill the
seats in the hearing room. Hundreds
were left outside the doors.
Senator Overton, very large of frame,
was among those who were forced to
resort to the small wash room window
for entrance after Connally had shown
the way.
Remember Sands Point"
AS the oficials went in and word
passed about that wash room was
being utilized for the Senators entrance,
shouts came from an interested crowd
on the street below to Remember
Sands Point," and Don't get socked in
that wash rooml''
The shouts referred to the recently
publicized incident on Long Island in
4 which Senator Huey Long. attending a
reception, was struck over the eye in
the wash room of the Sands Point Bath
Club by fellow guest who never was
identified
When the hearing finally got under
way, 1t was again thrown into turmoil
when John O. Holland, the committees
investigator, again denounced the Sen
ate Committee, charging it was not
seriously seeking to get evidence into
the record
Shakes Fist at Chairman.
Holland stood before Chairman Con-
nally shaking his fist and yelling until
cheers from the crowd drowned out his
remarks.
Chairman Connally ordered him to
sit down.
The committee will handle its own
affairs, Connally said.
Hollands outburst, the third IN open
session, came after Senator M. M.
Logan, Democrat of Kentucky, a men,
Der Of the committee, and Chairman
Connally had pleaded with the crowd
to stop the applause and cheers and
threatened to take the hearing away
from New Orleans if the spectators dio
not stop tnterrupting.
Rising to his feet. Holland asked the
chair if he would be permitted to make
a simple request. Before Connally
could reply, Holland shouted, IF you
are really in earnest in putting this
evidence in the record, why don't you
let some one examine witnesses who
understands the evidence to be pro-
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