Evening star., 1935-08-22
Lavish Parties and High
Contacts Revealed by
Hopson's Aide.
GUEST OF EMIL HURJA,
TESTIMONY REVEALS
Gibson Denounces Witness After
Stories of Gay Dinners and
Entertainments.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Gay dinner parties and entertain
ments that B. B. Robinson, Chicago
securities salesman and contact man
for the Associated Gas g. Electric Co.,
lavished on Government officials and
others while he was in Washington
lobbying against the Wheeler -Rayburn
holding company bill were brought out
today before the Senate lobby Com
mittee.
Robinson came to Washington in
February and his expense budget when
he left recently, it was developed,
amounted to about $1,000, which in
cluded a $1,000 bill at the Shoreham
Hotel, where he maintained an apart
ment.
Senator Gibson. Republican. of YER
mont, denounced the witness as
member of what he called the vicious
social lobby"
The names of guests included Mar
vim H. Mcintyre, presidential secre-
tary; Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Chip" Robert, Senator Tyd-
ings. Democrat, of Maryland, an r.
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newspaper publisher, and a secretary
to Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee whom he
did not mention by name.
Was Guest of Hurja.
1t was brought out also that Robin
son had been a guest at the home of
Emil Hurja, Democratic National Com
mittee official.
Robinson insisted. as he was drilled
with questions that he did not re-
veal himself at these parties as
lobbyist, nor did the Associated pay
his expenses directly.
One party which the committee
questioned him about particularly
was given at what he described as the
"F Street Club" The guests there,
whose names he remembered, were
Mcintyre, Roberts and Senator Tyd-
ings. He said he gave this party for
a San Francisco girl who was about
to be married. The bill, he declared,
amounted to sl03.
The committee also questioned him
about party in his room at the
Shoreham last week when Chesley w.
Jurney, sergeant-at-arms, of the Sem
ate, went there in search of Howard
C. Hopson, reputed dictator of the
Associated Gas and Electric Co.
Did Not Invite Mcintyre.
Robinson declared he did not invite
Mcintyre to that party. but Mcintyre
dropped in with a group OF friends
who were going to dinner together and
did not remain more than 20 minutes
II had never talked with Mcintyre
before" he declared. What do you
think want out of the White House?
The pen the President signs the death
sentences with?"
Senator Gibson kept referring to
Robinson as a social lobbyist" and
declared he had been associating with
the bon ton of Washington society" ="
There isn't such thing as my
social lobbying activities" shouted
Robinson in reply.
Social lobbyists, Senator Gibson
added. are "the meanest form Of those
with which we have to deal and 1t is
the hardest to trace.
Contacted Secretaries.
Robinson admitted that during his
activities in Washington he also con-
tacted the secretaries of members OF
Congress for the purpose of finding
out the effect of the mail on them
Attempts of the Senate investiga-
tors to have Robinson or Hopson
identity a mysterious &C. U.," men
toned in a telegram of theirs, earlier
had proved futile.
The telegram. sent by Hopson to
Robinson, who was working for him
against the Wheeler -Rayburn utility
regulation bill, said:
Assume B. K. is friend with all
politicians ard C. U. is one of them,
c. U. is friend of ours except wher
his own interests are concerned, which
is good deal of the time"
Both identified B. K. as j. Bruce
Kremer, former Montana Democratic
National Committeeman now practic-
ing law here. 1t was announced in
other quarters today that Kremer,
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