Evening star., 1935-08-15

Committee tagged him with yesterday
Followed by retinue of reporters
and aides, Jurney cruised in and out
of hotels without success. Then, in
the lobby of the Shoreham, the
Jurney entourage encountered Rep
resentative O'Connor.
Angry at what he considered the
Senate Lobby Committees "hornine
in" on the Hopson hunt, O'Connor told
Jurney:
"Hopson's in my custody. I've got
him. Nobody else has got him. No
body else is going to get him.
Jurney departed. lingering his Ma
lacca cane. A group of hotel residents
and merrymakers who had watched
the meeting with interest drifted
away
Later Jurney entered the lobby of
the Mayflower Hotel and was inter-
viewing the manager. No, Mr.. Hop
son was not registered there. Yes.
Mr. Hill was.
There he is" newsman sang out.
Across the lobby was Hill entering
the cocktail lounge. Hat in one hand,
cane in the other, Jurney sprinted
for that room. Hill had just sat
down and was toying with a pretzel
when the sergeant at arms drew up.
I'm the sergeant at arms of the
Senate" said Jurney. Il want to
serve a citation on you"
Yes, sir" said Hill, chewing the
pretzel.
Courtesy Is Paramount.
do you know where We might find
Mr. Hopson?" Jurney asked
"No, I couldn't say. I have nc
idea"
THANK you"
"Thank you"
Jurney made for his limousine to
continue the hunt. -.,
Hill said Jurney's technique in serv-
ing the summons was very lovely"
But the whole case, he said, was "a
terrific legal situation over something
that doesn't amount to hoot in hell. -
After serving the citation on Hill,
Jurneys search for Hopson then ran
into Virginia. The Senate party
roared into Alexandria and pulled up
at the George Mason Hotel. Efforts
to find Hopson there, however, were
fruitless and the group returned to
Washington.
Hill denied testimony before the
Black committee that he interfered
with a committee investigator who
sought vainly to serve a subpoena on
Hopson Tuesday. The subpoena final
ly was served yesterday as Hopson left
q session of O'Connor's House COM
mittee.
Senators Wait in Vain.
But Hopson did not turn up before
the Senate group in response to the
document. After waiting some hours
Chairman Black went before the Sen
ate and obtained the contempt cita-
ton.
There Is a manifest attempt to
trifie with this hearing on the theory
that some men are bigger than the
committee" Black charged.
The threatened contempt proceed
tngs were the first since the case in
which Jurney and William p. Mac
Cracken, Assistant Secretary of Com
merce In the Hoover administration
engaged in famous hide and SEEK
chase months ago. MacCracken
eventually went to jail for contempt
Most Cited Have Gone to Jail.
Few men have gone to Jail at the
hands of the Senate without fighting
in court, but in the end most of them
have had to go.
One of the battles was waged BY
Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy oil man
who was cited for contempt for failure
to answer questions of the Senat,
committee in the famous oil investiga-
ton of 1924.
Sinclair was served with an orde
of arrest by the Senate, but got /,
writ of habeas corpus from the Dis
trict Supreme Court. Finally. in 1925
Sinclair had to go to Jail for a six
month term.
Robert w. Stewart, another big oi
man, was cited in the same oil cases
He also fought in the courts an,
finally won.