The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12
Holds
IRRECULARITY
INLECAL MOVE
Arrest Made at Once in
Senate Hearing on Con-
tempt Charge
SAY LINDY'S LETTER
HAS PUBLICITY AIM

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. (UP)
William P. MacCracked. assistant
secretary of commerce in the
Hoover administration, was found
guilty of contempt by the District
of Columbia supreme. court and
sentenced to pay fine of 500 or
serve "a hours in Jail.
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue
found MacCracked had obtained
a writ of habeas corpus by mis-
representation in an effort TO
keep from being brought before
the senate.
MacCracken's' fine was paid and
he was Immediately arrested on
the original senate warrant charg-
ing him with being in contempt
of the senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. (UP)
Indications point to publicity
purposes" behind the telegram of
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to
President Roosevelt. protesting
the cancellation of airmail con-
tracts, it was said at the White
House today.
Making public the telegram i'll
New York before it had been seen
by President Roosevelt brought
this forth from Stephen T. Early,
White House secretary. in a for
NAL statement. Early cited the
method employed in making pub
lie the message and added that It
would be referred to Postmssterr
General Farley and Secretary OK
Commerce Roper. ~
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL. (bP)2
william P. MacCracken, Jr., forms
err member Of the Hoover. "httlet
cabinet" was given the slip OF
Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley Jurney'
of the United States senate yes
terday, and was left free man
despite determined efforts to res
main in custody Of his caller"
MacCracken, who faces senate
contempt charges, "surrendercd'
to Jurney Saturday and remain
ed at the Jurney home last night
though the sergeant-at-arms flat
ly declined to arrest him. An ar
rest would open the way for ha-
beas corpus proceedings which
the senate desires to avoid. Late
Yesterday Journey eluded his vol
untary "prisoner" and locked the
door of his apartment against
him.
The battle of wits between
Frank ]. Hogan, counsel for Mac
Cracker and the United States
senate, amused the capital. Hogan
offered to surrender MacCracken
in district court Friday. He
could have obtained a writ OF
habeas corpus then through which
he could have prevented his client
from being forced before the sem
ate transferring the case to the
courts. The senate, determined
to keep the issue out Of the court
and impose its own punishment,
rejected Hogan's offer and or
dered Jurney to make the arrest
only under such circumstances as
would give the senate the right
to act.
MacCracken's Surrender" last
night when the senate was not in
session and would not be in a po-
sition to act in the MacCracken
! case until Tuesday, was Hogan's
latest strategic move.
Meantime. the war and COM
merce department worked yester-
dav to complete plans to take
over the mails on February 10,
as result of Postmaster Cen
eral Farley's action cancelling all
air mail contracts. Cancellation
was precipitated by disclosures
made by the senate investigating
committee indicating the awards
had been made through alleged
collision.
Efforts to locate MacCracken
to determine his next step in the
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