Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1935, Page 2

A—2 waw PLAN T0 EQUALIE GAS RATES NEARBY Capital Declared to Profit at Expense of Other Consumers. The question of whether District gas consumers are enjoying compara- tively low gas rates at the expense of gas users in suburban Virginia and Maryland areas was raised today by People’s Counsel William A, Roberts as hearings were resumed by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission on proposed adoption of s sliding scale plan for annual rate corrections. Roberts was arguing in support of & provision in the proposed plan which would make allowance for plant, oper- ating expenses and revenues of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. as being used or attributed to service to suburban customers of the companies’ subsidiaries. Rates Declared Too High. He charged that wholesale rates fevied by the local companies against fts subsidiaries have been too high. On the other hand, if they were made too low, he continued, rates to suburban consumers could be reduced at the ex- pense of District gas users. " He said the sliding scale plan egreed on by counsel for the com- mission and the company, and him- gelf, contemplated allocation of ac- eounts so the suburban and the District plants would carry their Proper share of each item involved. * Commission Chairman Riley E. Blgen asked for an explanation of how the commission could properly “po- Hce” the recurring allocation of items as between use for the District or suburbs. Both Roberts and company aspokesmen contended it could be done. ‘The company contended it had been keeping certain accounts to show di- vision of costs and revenues. Earlier in the morning session Harry 8. Wender, secretary of the South- west Citizens’ Associations, made an attack on William McK. Clayton, €hairman of the Utilities Committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tion. Clayton yesterday protested that the proposed sliding scale plan had been agreed to in private conferences between attorneys for the company, counsel for the commission and the people’s counsel, while the federation was kept in the dark as to elements in the proposed sgreement. Will Press Analysis, ‘Wender declared today Clayton rep- resented only himself, the chairman of the committee, and not the fed- eration. “I shall see that the federa- tion makes an analysis of the plan,” he declared. He placed the Southwest Citizens' Association on record favoring com- mission approval of the plan “witaout change.” Commission members have indicated they look with favor on a sliding scale plan as a method of annual correction of gas rates, but has not indicated as yet what action it will take on the pending proposal. ‘The plan now u, consideration proposes an agreem¥at on a rate base of $21,750,000 for the companies and an immediate rate cut of some - 000 in addition to continuation the present 8.5 per cent discount, which amounts to about $500,000 annually. A basic return of 6.5 per cent on the rate base. The scale would provide for rate cuts in proportion to the amount of excessive profits and likewise for possible increase in charges if the rate of return falls certain degrees below 6.5 per cent. NEW HEATING PLANT : ASSURED HOSPITAL $100,000 P. W. A. Loan Contract Signed by City Heads for Children’s Institution. Contract for the loan of $100,000 “from the Public Works Administra- tion for replacement of the antiquated ‘heating plant of Children’s Hospital | “was signed today by the District Com- missioners. The loan is to be repaid by the JDistrict over a period of years. Au- ithority to enter into the transaction swas given by the last session of .Congress, Officials of Children’s Hospital con- sulted with the Commissioners today Jn board session concerning financial conditions of the hospital and details of the loan. Last Winter Station WJSV con- ducted a radio campaign for contri- Jutions toward expenses of the hos- gu because of the condition of the 0spital’s heating plant, but the re- #ponse was not adequate and Con- thereafter authorized the Dis- et to enter into & loan. MONTGOMERY’S WATER : RATES TO BE DISCUSSED Assurances that officials of the {Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- mission will appear before the January Jmeeting of the Westmoreland Hills Citizens’ Association to discuss Mont~ gomery County water rates was given the newly organized civic group at its teeting last night. ‘The association voted recently to in- vestigate reports that water rates charged in the are mately 300 per cent higher than resi- dents of the District of Columbia are required to pay. It was reported that postal officials have promised to install equipment for mail collections in Westmoreland Hills at an early date. The meeting was held in the audi- torium of the C. & P. Telephone Co. in DEMOCRATS TO MEET ‘Mrs. Carroll Miller, Democratic na- tional committeewoman from Penn- sylvanis, will be the principal speaker “at the regular meeting of the District division of the Young Democrats of America at the Willard Hotel, at 8:15 o'clock, tonight, National officers of What’s What Behind News In Capital Budget Balance Hopcs Are Extensive but Promise Little. BY PAUL MALLON. F budget-balancing hopes now being expressed by statesmen were dollars, or even dimes, the Treas- ury would have a surplus next nothing cheaper than the current budget hopes. Every one is having them without cost. For instance, Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Com= mittee has attracted major atten- tion with his plan to cut down ezpenditures in a really effective way. Mr. Buchanan is entirely sincere. The “devil of a fight” he has promised will undoubdtedly de made by him. But what Mr. Buchanan could not be expected to point out is that there is not a devil of an inside chance he will get anywhere. In fact, his close associates know he suffers no personal fllusions about the current situation. He has told them privately he is very doubtful whether his plan can be carried out. Underlying Situation. ‘The underlying situation is simply this: Mr. Buchanan did not get much encouragement during his recent visit to President Roosevelt’s cottage at PA SO LONG; OLD Ma The budget which New Deal Bud- get-Maker Bell took down there did not come down to any figures ap- proximating the Buchanan idea. Also, there are reasons for suspecting that Mr. Roosevelt flatly told Mr. Bu- chanan it would be impossible to bring the budget within $400,000,000 of balancing, even with relief appro- priations left over from this year. Any one who knows anything about Congress realizes a majority will want to spend more than Mr. Roosevelt rather than less, especially as this is a campaign year. ,You can imagine what will happen when the telegrams and letters demanding sewers or sew- ing machines come ‘pouring in from back home., Pledged Support by Many. Mr. Buchanan talked to a number ©of members last Summer about what was in his mind. Many pledged support. All Mr. Buchanan can do is to “hope” he can get enough backing to have some indirect effect, and he probably will. While he is hoping, he also hopes that he and the President can yet get together. Roosevelt Hazy on Budget. A significant fact between the lines of Mr. Roosevelt's Atlanta speech was that he held out no defidite hudget hopes of his own. % His point was that the peak of was passed, but he clearly implied the curtailment of expenditures could not now be radical. The President is understood to have expressed his own personal hope a few days ago in private. It was that the budget would be balanced in 1937. This hope probably will remain private. Hopeless Breach in Parley. The only completely hopeless men seen around Washington lately were the delegates who went to the London Naval Conference. What is in their minds is that the conference will certainly fail to bridge the gap between what the Japanese want and what the United States and British are willing to give. There is every possibility that the firreconcilable differences of opinion are going to result in con- siderable ill-feeling. delegation apparently is to see that the United States is not held re- sponsible for creating any ill-feeling. There is a more menacing danger of that than any outsider knows. British Did Negotiating. During the preliminary discussions the British would one day ses the Japanese and listen to what they had to say. Two or three days later, they would see our people, agree with us that parity could not be accorded to the Japanese, and then go back and let the Japanese understand it was impossible to get the Americans to Certain United States officials hinted to the British gently that the matter was too serious for any diplomatic joking like that. There is little basic difference of opinion London regarding Far Eastern policy. . | But British interests in the Far East are far more extensive than ours. Bonus Discussed Recently. ‘The President is known to have dis- cussed the bonus recently with sev- eral advisers who called at Warm | Springs. There is no question about carry its own method of raising the money outside the budget. Secretary Morgenthau is understood to be looking into the pos- sibilities of payment on a discount basis, as through baby bonds. If the intevest rate is high enough, they might be sold at par. Enemy Smartest military men here diagnose Mussolini’s biggest problem in North- ern Ethiopia as a search for some one to fight. tacular THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, and His Fiancee PACIFIC DEFENSES URGED BY PARKS Subcommittee Head Pre- dicts Strengthening of Hawaii and Coast. By the Associated Press. Emphasizing favor toward increased Hawailan and Pacific Coast defenses, Representative Parks, Democrat, of Arkansas, said today that as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Army Appropriations he would urge pre- paredness “just as far as good economy will permit.” He predicted approval by the coming Congress of increased appropriations for the island and coast defenses. ‘Hearings on the War Department supply bill begin before the Appropria- tions Subcommittee December 16. Five-Year Plan Model. In advance of Budget Bureau recom- mendations, Parks declined to esti- mate how much the Army appropria- tion should be expanded, but added: “Preparations make for peace. I intend to go just as far as good economy will permit. Our hope is to follow as nearly as possible a five- year plan for modernization of the Army outlined by former Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur.” Best Fortification. Completion of the Hawaiian forti- fications, Parks said, will make the islands “one of the best fortified places either on the mainland or in the possessions.” ‘While Chairman Buchanan of the full committee has voiced a deter- mination to bring appropriations as nearly as possible in line with Gov- ernment income, Parks said he thought the chairman “will be in har- mony with me on national defense.” Singled out for special attention, Parks said will be the deficiency in Alr Corps planes. He said the Army was badly in need of more combat planes. MANOR PARK BUS SERVICE CRITICIZED Citizens Urged to Attend Public Utilities Commission Hear- ing December 12. Alleged deficiencies in the bus sys- tem in the Manor Park area were as- salled by the Manor Park Citizens’ Association last night. All members were urged to attend the hearing of the Public Utilities Commission December 12 with & view to checking any efforts on the part of the Capital Transit Co. to substitute | busses for the Third street car line. The substitution was to be sanc- tioned only if better service is assured. A resolution was passed the Utilities Commission to give careful attention to the proposed sliding gas rate scale and to the overlapping of the rate basis in suburban areas served by subsidiaries of the Washington Gas Light Co. Following the meeting a short mu- sical program was offered. Those par- ticipating were Ruth Hobbs, violin; Bernice Driscoll, piano; John Hain, cello; Mrs. Albert McPherson, piano, and Lee Krider, vocalist. Mrs. Edward Stitt gave two recitations, ARREST OF SPANISH OFFICIAL HELD MISTAKE | Alexandria Police Court Judge Orders $8 Collateral Refunded. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 3.— Referring to the arrest of Jose Giber- nau, commercial agent of the Spanish commercial office, as a “mistake,” Judge James Reece Duncan of Alex- andria Police Court today ordered re- funded the $8 collateral which Giber- nau posted November 10 after being arrested for failing to halt his auto- mobile at a stop sign. The action followed communications ney General A. P. Staples. Both re- quested that the money be refunded. Judge Duncan explained that Giber- nau's claim of diplomatic immunity had never been presented to him, and that the $8 collateral was automatically forfeited by the agent when he did not appear in Police Court on the charge. Visiting Physicist to Lecture. “The Statistical Theory of Matter” is the subject of the first of a serles to be given in Corcoran Hall, George Washington University, tonight by Dr. Edward Teller, visiting professor of physics, at 8 o'clock. Irvin S. Cobb Says: World War Won’t Begin on December 12, as SANTA MONICA, Calif., December 3.—According to the latest estimates of experts, the next World War, hav- and heavy down- pours of ultima- December 12, which would | ministration, some of them to become | critical of its policies. from Gov. George C. Peery and Attor- | “The Kid” Jackie Coogan, who recently celebrated his 21st birthday, pictured as he placed an engagement ring on wood last night. in “The Kid." PEEK RESIGNATION PRESAGES ATTACK Final Report Expected to Criticize New Deal’s Trade Policies. By the Associated Press. The question of just what will be in the valedictory report of George N. Peek, resigned New Deal adviser on foreign trade, intrigued the Capital today. Peek, whose resignation as adviser to President Roosevelt and president of the two Federal export-import banks was announced late yesterday, would not say. Nor would he give reasons for resigning, leaving that to the President. But every one knew he had dis- agreed sharply with methods whereby Secretary of State Hull seeks to revive world trade through reciprocal inter- national pacts. Moreover, intimates of Peek said his “swan song” report, | on possible effects of the new Cana- | dian-American trade agreement, would be “very critical.” Report to Go to President. Peek had been asked to submit this to the President. The treaty was signed after long negotiations by Sec- retary Hull. A reminder of the triumph of the Hull ideas over Peek’s within the ad- ministration came yesterday when President Roosevelt proclaimed not only the Canadian-American pact, but the one with Brazil. This was a for- mality, making the pacts effective January 1. Peek, 62-year-old Illinois plow man- ufacturer, is the latest of half a dozen “little cabinet” men to leave the ad- Jesse Jones, head of the Reconstruc- tion Pinance Corp., will be asked to add Peek’'s two bank jobs to his other duties, The adviser post will not be filled, First Head of A. A. A. Peek entered the administration as its first A. A. A. chieftain, but he and Secretary Wallace could not agree. Then he went to the State Department as adviser to Hull, but again conflict of opinion developed. Later he was named to the posts he has now resigned. Publicly and otherwise, Peek had been shooting at the Hull policy of negotiating a treaty with a given na- tion to lower trade barriers, and then extending the treaty’s concessions to practically all other nations. Peek insisted the better way was to drive bargains with each nation sep- arately. Peek said he had tried to resign last July, but the President asked him to “withhold action for the time being.” Asked about reports he had an attractive offer of employment, he laughed and said: “I wish you would go out and find me one.” Announced By Moore. The formal announcement of Peek’s resignation was made by R. Walton Moore, Assistant Secretary of State and chairman of the board of the Ex- port-Import Banks. Both were organ- ized early in 1934 to aid in the financ- ing of imports and exports through loans and barter. Peek was in New York when Moore emerged from a meeting of the bank’s board late yesterday and made public a letter the former had addressed to him November 26 resigning as of that date. The letter rurther stated that “cir- They plan to wed within a year. nouncement was made at a farewell party for the couple, who are to start a personal engagement tour December 10. screen fame 1n the silent movic days when he played with Charlie Chaplin HOOVER TO SPEAK Will Deliver Third in Series of Talks on December 18. the finger of Betty Grable in Holly=- The engagement an- Jackie Coogan won —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. YOUNG LIVERMORE GAINING SLOWLY .| an end.” Mother Prepares Defense Against Charge of At- tempt to Kill Him. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif,, Decem- ber3.—Jesse Livermore, jr., 16, son of the Wall street trader, gained slowly today in his fight against infection from a bullet wound as his mother prepared her defense against a charge she attempted to kill him. Pleads Innocence. The 38-year-old matron, Mrs. Doro- thy Wendt Longcope, pleaded inno- cent to the accusation of assault with intent to commit murder. Her preliminary hearing was set tenta- tively for next Monday. Free on $6,000 bond after & week end in jail, she sought means to regain custody of her youngest son, Paul, 14, living with the senior Liver- more at a hotel here since his father’s arrival Saturday. The boy was awarded to Mrs. Long- | cope when the couple was divorced | in 1932. Parents Barred From Sick Room. With the wounded boy's condition still grave, physicians barred both his parents from his sick room, despite | repeated entreaties from Mrs. Long- ‘cope. Both the youth and his mother maintained the shooting in their home after a Thanksgiving day party was an accident. He was found lying wounded on the living room floor, while his mother stood near him hold- ing a .22 rifie and crying “I've shot my son.” TAX BURDEN BOOST SEEN IN PROGRAM $7,000,000 Set-up for District Would Mean Fifth More Levy, Asserts Lusk. Adoption of a $7,000,000 program to meet increased operating and capital expenditures would increase the Dis- trict tax burden 20 per cent, accord- ing to a statement issued today by Rufus S. Lusk of the Washington Tax- peyers’ Association. Lusk also cited other figures to show the effect of such a program which Was outlined in the recent partial re- port of the Special Tax Committee appointed by the Commissioners. “Every man, woman and child, di- rectly or indirectly,” the statement said, “must pay additional taxes an- nually amounting to $13.50. Every family $50. “The cost of living will rise 238 per cent. The $5,000 man's income will be cut $140. The $2,500 man's income will be cut $70.” et MSGR. RYAN TO TALK Catholic U. Professor to Be Among Syracuse Parley Speakers. Msgr. John A. Ryan, professor of ethics and moral theology at Catholic University, and Rev. R. A. McGowan, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, will be among speakers at the Catholic Con- ference on Industrial Problems in Syracuse, N. Y., December 10 and 11. Other speakers will be Most Rev. of the conference; Percival de St. Au- bin, textile manufacturer of Provi- , R. 1, and James A. Corcoran, assistant State industrial commis- sioner. CONVICTED IN MURDER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935. PLANTER ATTACKS [ nesece | SYNOD IS DEFIANT COTTON CONTROL Brief Is Filed in Supreme Court as Four-Year Plar: Is Mapped. A fresh attack was directed in the Supreme Court today st the cotton control plan, under which the New Deal has just projected a four-year production program. 5 Lee Moor, Texas planter, told the high tribunal in a brief that if the Bankhead cotton law is held valid “constitutional nullification can be accomplished by a mere act of Con- gress.” Only yesterday the A. A. A evi- denced & new determination to push for long-time control of major crops by announcing & four-year cotton plan which aims at an 11,000,000 to 12,- 000,000 bale output in 1936. Previously, despite the controversy over the farm pregram's constitu- tionality, four-year programs had been launched for wheat, tobacco, rye and cotton, and a two-year plan for corn- hog producers. Argument Set December 10. Moor’s brief was presented prelim- inary to arguments before the court December 10 on validity of the legis- lation intended to curtail production by imposing a tax on the amount of cotton grown in excess of a fixed quota, It said: “If the Bankhead act is sustained, there is practically no limit to Federal power; & vast fleld which has hitherto been thought to be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the States will be within | the exclusive control of Congress. Our dual system of government wiil be at Moor brought suit against the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co. to compel | it to transfer his cotton without tags | attached to show he complied with the act. Lower courts dismissed his petition. Officials predicted some method of continuing crop control would be found, | regardless of what the Supreme Court rules on the agricultural adjustment act, Base Cut Million Acres. ‘The cotton contract provides for a reduction in “base” acreage from 45,- 500,000 to 44,500,000 acres. Contract signers will reduce acreage 30 to 45 per cent for 1936, compared to 25 to 35 per cent for 1935 and 35 to | 45 per cent for 1934, One benefit payment will be made at the rate of 5 cents a pound (ap- proximately $8.60 an acre). Three payments were provided in the 1935 contract on two bases, totaling 43, cents a pound. ARCHIVES BUILDING STRIKE IS SETTLED Work Resumes Tomorrow, After| Carpenters and Ironworkers Reach Agreement. Work on the Archives Building will be resumed tomorrow as a result of settlement today of a strike which had lasted for almost two weeks. The strike resulted from a jurisdie- tional dispute over whether carpen- ters or ironworkers should be allowed to install stacks in the building. In| the settlement it was decided the iron- | workers would be allowed to do Lhe! work. They will be assisted by union labor. About 150 men—electrical workers, plumbers, painters, carpenters, floor finishers and others—will return to work tomorrow. Union laborers went | to work this morning unpacking the cartons in which the stacks were shipped. The strike was called by organized labor when the contractor on the| building used non-union men to install the stacks after the dispute between the two building trades developed. 6 PER CENT BONUS MARY LOUISE VAN ALEN. PRINCE SERGE MDIVANL MDIVANIRUMORED Prince Serge Is Reported Engaged to Former Sister-in-Law. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 3.—The name of Prince Serge Mdivani was back In American society colums to- day—this time linked with reports he will marry Louise Astor Van Alen, former wife of his brother, Prince The New York Daily News asserted the engagement of Prince Serge and Miss Van Alen was disclosed by inti- mate friends of the Van Alen family in Newport, R. L ily, the News said, adding' that the tragic death of Alexis in an auto accident abroad may explain the hesi- tancy. Prince Serge formerly was the hus- band of Pola Negri and of Mary Mc- Cormic, and the paper reported society of New York and Newport was “flab- bergasted” by the word that he is now wooing his former sister-in-law. Her marriage to Prince Alexis was understood to have been none too happy. It ended in divorce in 1932 Shortly afterward Alexis married Bar- store heiress. Prince David Mdivani, third of the marrying brothers, is the divorced husband of Mae Murray, former film e CORONER'’S JURY GETS LYNCH CASE VOTED BY TEA FIRM Common-Stock Holders Also to| Share in Disbursements With $1 Dividend. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 3.—More than 2,000 Jewel Tea Co. employes in 83 cities of 43 States will participate in 2 $150,000 bonus voted by directors y. All Jewel employes earning $50 a week or less were awarded extra pay equal to 6 per cent of their earnings for the entire year 1835, payable March 15, 1936. To be eligible an employe must have been in the serv- ice a full year, V. T. Norton, assistant to President H. M. Karker, said. Voting of this cash outlay was only a part of the disbursements ordered by directors. No-par common-stock hold- ers were voted an extra dividend of $1 a share, payable December 23, in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of 75 cents due January 15. ‘The total cash commitment was ap- proximately $640,000, including the dividends and the wage extra. ‘This was the third and largest wage bonus Jewel Tea has voted. In 1934 directors granted an extra equal to 5 per cent of employes’ earnings for the year. ‘The company recently sales for the first 44 weeks of 1935 totaled $15,644,314, or 9.6 per cent above those for the corresponding 1934 period. The last earnings report, that for the first 28 weeks, showed a profit of $2.16 per share, compared with $2.51 for the corresponding period last year. PRINCETON’S HANDSOME MAN RETURNS HOME 'Kappel and Cullen Expected to| Testify as Death Is Probed. BULLETIN. ‘William A. Kappel was held for grand jury action this afternoon in the death of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Lynch. A coroner’s jury today was con- sidering the case of Miss Elizabeth R. Lynch, 35 Potomac Electric Power Co. switchboard operator, who was found shot to death under mysterious circumstances last Wednesday in her home, 918 Fourth street northeast. William A. (Dutch) Kappel, 34, friend of the woman and a roomer A% her home, and Leo T, Gulien, 31, of 718 Fourth street northeast, were expected to testify. Both were ar- rested, but Cullen was released ter gzb :‘J’le custody of his attorney, Charles Kappel has admitted ownership of the .38-caliber revolver with which Miss Lynch was killed. The gun lay near the woman'’s feet when her body was discovered on the kitchen floor. A smashed chair led investigators to believe the woman may have put up a struggle. Kappel has told police he and Miss Lynch were out together Tuesday night. He took her home about mid- night, but she refused to admit nim. Later, he said, he found her dead and called police. 1300 GO ON STRIKE AGAINST W.P. A. PAY Search Had Been Instituted for Frank Allen Baker, Jr., After this southernmost city in the United States, struck today in protest against the wage scale. M. E. Gilfond, W. P. A. and F. E R. A. administrator for the Federally governed municipality, said the work- ted 10 WED SOCIALITE Alexis. | A formal announcement will not be | forthcoming from the Van Alen fam- | bara Hutton, American “five-and-ten” | ONNAZIDICTATION Latest Restrictive Decree Explained as Move for Unification. Ny the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 3.—Germany’s Protestant Confessional Synod offered :‘pen opposition today to Nazi dictar lon. A spokesman announced emphatice ally they had no intention of uccept ing the orders of Hans Kerrl, head of the Nazi department for church affairs, depriving *hem of all authori« tative and administrative rights. The spokesman expressed gratifica- tion that the issues between Nazi and opposition church factions finally emerged clearly, but asserted that in the crisis, his group intended to hold firmly to its principle of obeying God before man. Nazis Claim Unity Move. Kerrl's decree, giving Naz church officials complete authority and deny- ing Protestant confessional groups rights of church taxation, collection of funds, convocation of synods and powers of nominating ministers, was explained by the Nazis as a move to- ward unity within the Evangelical | Church. { Kerrl, insisting “one organ alone | can govern the church and give iv | spiritual leadership,” announced he | was permitting his committees two | years to compiete unification of the | church. | ©Of the governing organ for the | church, he asserted, “that organ is | the Reich's church committee with |its state and provincial subcom- | mittees.” Life Without Power, He said the Confessional Synod and other opposition groups could continue to exist, but without power, in his efforts to bring together the three | groups within German Protestantism | —the Nazi leaders, the confessional {oppomlon and the neutrals, who he said were in majority and desired peace. The Confessional Synod has main- | tained consistently, however, that no committees appointed by the govern- ment have the right to legislate for or to govern the church. 'FRANK B. WALKER FUNERAL IS HELD |Former D. C. Chess Champion ! Will Be Buried in Cedar Hill. Funeral services for Frank B, Wal- ker, 78, former District chess cham- pion and commentator on chess for The Star, were to be held at 2 p.m. today in Calvary M. E. Church, with Rev. Dr. Vernon N. Ridgely, pastor, officiating. Burial was to be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Walker died Saturday In George Washington University Hospital. In Government service for many years, he retired in 1929 while holding the position of chief of the Indian lands and miscellaneous division, Interior Department. He first became District chess | champion in 1896 and held the title until 1900. He regained the chame pionship in 1927 and held it this time | until 1831, He competed in interna- | tional play in 1928 and 1930 when ‘Washington opposed London, England, in cable matches. HIGHWAY RESEARCH UNIT MEETS HERE TOMORROW Sessions to Continue Through Friday, With Annual Din- ner Thursday. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Highway Research Board will begin |at 10 am. tomorrow in the National | Academy of Sciences Buiiding. Ses« | sions will continue through Friday. Among the speakers are to be rep- resentatives of various State highway departments, college professors, offi- cials from automotive associations, Federal officials of the Bureau of Pub- lic Roads and engineers specializing in highway construction. The annual Highway Research dine ner will be held at the Washington Hotel at 7 p.m. Thursday. The last session will be a business meeting at 4 p.m. Friday. TRIAL POSTPONED Washingtonian Accused of Hit- ting Cop to Appear Friday. WARRENTON, Va., December 3 (4, —Trial of Clarence J. Garzona of Washington, who is under indictment on charges of failing to stop after striking State Officer Tom Stafford with his automobile on the Washington Highway, was postponed yesterday un- til Friday. Judge William P. Woolls of Alexandria will preside. 15t Cent. Aus= trian couriers carried letters ina forked stick.