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WALLACE DEFENDS - INCOME SUBSIBIES Says Redistribution of U. S. Earnings to Poor Is Aid ! to Production. By the Assocuted Press. Secretary Wallace today pictured %“redistribution of income” as a prime necessity which the Nation cannot Mfl!nn: Agriculture Seeretary, in his aunual report, favored an-increase in the proportion of the national income thet goes to poorer persons. He held thils would increase consumption and make for expansion of production by | factory and farm. ‘Wallace laid stress on expansion, in contrast to A. A. A's crop reduction pkbgrams, which officials have de- seribed as emergency measures only. Whllace contended these emergency pfograms were made necessary by high tariffs. «He said complete industrial and egricultural balance and co-ordination {s-essential to full economic recovery. “Partial co-ordination,” he wrote, | “undertaken from the standpoint of | tadividual industries, must give place 1q,a general, comprehensive co-ordina- tion aimed at increased production afid increased pay rolls if we are to| have full employment, full production end higher living standards. “How to achieve co-ordination for balanced expansion is the problem | which awaits solution.” Consumer Protection Lauded. Federal action taken to protect con- sumers, to provide economic security and to redistribute tax burdens, he snid, “should help toward continued expansion in both production and con- sumption. These policies tend to in- crease the proportion of the national income going to persons in the lower income brackets and therefore to in- Crease consumption per capita.” * Later, in discussing the need for in- creased international trade, Wallace said . “Here, then, is what we must desognize: The redistribution of in- come is not & proposal, but a neces- gity. In one way or another, it re- ults automatically from any of the {ourses open to us. “We cannot avoid it by ceasing to produce for export and by limiting dur imports to necessities. That is to eripple agriculture, to make perma- ment the necessity for costly farm re- Jef, to compel disadvantageous urban adjustments, and to create scarcity. Unemployment Held Costly. “The resulting unemployment in- folves heavy public expenditures. In such circumstances, we first reduce | income and then re-| the national istribute the reduced total to avert What’s What Behind News In Capital Both Sides of A. A A. Controversy Aided by the President. BY PAUL MALLON. T WAS quite unusual the way President Roosevelt got involved off and on the record in the constitutional arguments on the A. A. A. before the Supreme Court. His Chicago farm speech was re- ferred to facetiously off-stage by some court lawyers as ‘the best brief yet filed in the case” for the Government. | What they meant was that the speech | seemed to be a subtle warning to any one who would hinder or overthrow the A. A. A. program. ‘The warning was {lable to all who read newspapers, and Supreme Court justices are supposed to be the most constant readers in Washington. But lawyers on the other side, also brought Mr. Roosevelt in as their best witness against the Gor- ernment. In their briefs, they cited the President’s Atlanta speech on | two of the biggest points in dis- | pute. They used it to contend that the purpose of the processing tazes is not to get revenue, but to control production, and that the A. A. A. act was not emergency legislation. What the President said in Atlanta | and in Chicago was to the effect that | improved farm conditions were due to the A. A. A, which brought control and limitation of production, thus in- | increasing prices. He also indicated it was a rather permanent program. Thus, the President’s unprecedented appearances in the case appeared to cancel off. Industry at Parley. All industry seemed to be represented at George L. Berry's peculiar conven- tion. The invitation refusals sent in by the major industries must have been for official effect. Of course, some decliners were standing behind the marble col- umns, peeping out. Others aflccted mild official disguises. One even tried to get a press pass from a newsman $o he could be up front to observe all that went on without being officially in attendance. Also - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1935 $0.000 SALARY LIST IS EXPANDED Three More Executives Paid That Much in 1934, Say Commission Figures. By the Asrociated Press. Another batch of business state- ments opened to the public today showed three executives in the $50,000 salary class in 1934. Salary figures made public by the| Seccurities Commission included: J. I. Mangle of New York, president of the Associated Gas & Electric Co., $55,571.80; Henry M. Dawes, Chicago, president of the Pure Oil Co., $55,250; M. G. Gibbs, Washington, president of the Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., $50,0C0. Other salaries included: Everett D. Graff, Chicago, of the Joseph T. Ryerson & Sons, $41,106.2; Harry Gould, New York, president- treasurer of the American News Corp., $40,000; S. J. Magee, director, Asso- ciated Gas & Electric, $27,945.40; R. W. Mcllvain, vice president, Pure Oil Co., $35,275.08: B. G. Dawes, Pure Oil chairman, $30,600; Frank Purnell, president, Youngstown Sheet & Tube | Co., $37,680; H G. Dalton of Cleve- land, the Youngstown chairman, $30,- 180; Harry C. Beaver, president, Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. of Harrison, N. J,, $32,727.60. ‘The - highest net income disclosed was for the Inland Steel Corp., Chi- cago, $3,721,577.11 for the year ended December 31, 1934. Hitherto secret data of Associated such a spectacular part in congres- sional investigations of utility holding company activities, disclosed little immediately discernable additional information, Its report showed these other sal- aries: O. E. Wasser, treasurer, con- troller and director, $12,257.56, and M. T. Gober, position not listed, $1,905.40 (CQ). TWO DESTROYERS LAUNCHED TODAY | Miss Moffett Is Sponsor of New Type Ship Named for Her Father. | By the Associated Press. Gas & Electric Co., which has played | J.P. MORGAN DUE T0 AID ARMS QUIZ Financier to Tell Senate Committee of Financing Prior to World War. By the Associated Press. The Senate Munitions Committee probably will open an inquiry January 6 into the “currents which drew America into the World War,” with J. P. Morgan a witness. The New York financier, star wit- ness in the Senate Banking Com- mittee’s stock market investigation a few years ago, will be called for questioning in connection with financ- ing the allied forces. Whether he will open the inquiry or be called later has not been finally determined. Events preceding American entry into the conflict will be studied as a preliminary to congressional con- sideration of new neutrality legisla- tion. Seek to Avoid Trade Menace. Members of the Munitions Commit- tee contend American trade with the allies developed an irristible current which dragged this country into war. They want & neutrality law which will prevent such a current in the future, J. P. Morgan & Co. was the princi- pal American banking agency for the allies. It floated millions in loans for them and to a large extent thereby financed American trade with the belligerents. Committee agents have been work- ing for months in the Morgan files, It was said in quarters close to the committee that the design was not to charge the House of Morgan yith “plotting” American participation in the war. Rather, it was said, an ef- ‘fort would be made to show the banking house's activities indirectly contributed to drawing America into | the confiict. Force Charges Deplored. In committee circles there was an inclination to deplore more violent charges and insinuations that Ameri- can bankers and business men actu- ally tried to force this country into the war. Committeemen argue, however, that it would have been cheaper for Amer= ica to forego the trade. For this rea- son they will oppose expected pro- posals to give the President discretion | in shutting off war-time trade. They want to embargo all trade in war ma- terials with all belligerents. Morgan will not be the only banker called. Others famillar with war financing will be asked to appear, The testimony will involve many promi< nent World War figures. | father. No. 1—John Knight, jr. is affectlonately known as “Duke” by his grandfather, Senator Arthur H. Vanden- berg, a leading figure among those mentioned for the Republican presidential nomination, No. 2—Mrs. Barbara Knight, eldest daughter of Senator Vandenberg, serves breakfast to her prominent - (West Point Appointment Case Due to Go to Jury Late Today. BACKGROUND— Describing himself in Congres- sional Directory as graduate of “university of hard knocks” Cali- fornia’s Representative Hoeppel took a jolt last Spring with publi- cation of charges by former Olympic Athlete Ives that he and son had arranged sale of West Point ap- pointment for $1,000. Trade of West Point and Annapolis vacan- cies between Hoeppel and Repre- sentative Burke, California, ad- mitted. Trial of Hoeppel and son opened on Monday with impres- sive array of counsel present for defense. A defense motion for a directed ver- dict of not guilty in the case of Rep= resentative John H. Hoeppel of Cali- fornia and his son, Charles J. Hoeppel, was overruled today by Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue in District Supreme Court. Both Hoeppels are on trial charged with conspiring to sell a West Point appointment for $1,000 to James W. Ives, former Olympic athlete The motion for a directed verdict was made by Samuel King, brother of | Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, | chief of Hoeppel's defense counsel, mediately after the Government had | rested its case. King argued that “not one scintilla of evidence” had been | offered by the Government to prove the existenec of a conspiracy. The defense is understood to have only a few witnesses and it is expected | the case may go to the jury late today. ‘The prosecution rested this morning abruptly in the midst of testimony by Elliot B. Cheston of Baltimore, who said he met young Hoeppel in 1934 at the West Point Preparatory School at Fort Monroe, Va. Assistant United States Attorney David A. Pine was questioning Ches- ton about certain conversations he had with youag Hoeppel about a West Point appointment when defense | counsel registered vigorous objections. ®| Cheston was removed from the wit- ness stand while a conference was | held at the bench between Justice O'Donoghue and defense and Gov- | ernment counsel. At its conclusion, | Cheston was excused and Pine rested | the Government case. Army Officers Called. ‘Two high-ranking Army officers— Brig. Gen. Edgar T. Conley and Col. 1R1ymond L. Bamberger of the ad- jutant general's staff —were called by | the prosecution late yesterday to com- | QUINCY, Mass, December 11.—The | U.'S. S. Moffett, a destroyer leader | No. 3—The Senator enjoys a joke with members of his family. Left to right: Vandenberg, Mrs. Knight, isaster. Mrs. Vandenberg and Arthur H. Vandenberg, jr. Another daughter, Miss Elizdbeth Vandenberg, lives in New t “The other course open to us in- . UT".IIHES TEST | bat the contention of the defense that Hoeppel's interest in the appointment nearly every industry strong enough yolves a redistribution of income like- tvise, but under happier conditions. With production stimulated through international trade, the total national fncome would increase, and though ghe increase would have to be dis- ributed so as to increase consumption per capita, the operation would raise flie national standard of living. By this means, we would be balancing the national consumption with the na- tional production or its equivalent— end on a rising scale.” Wallace said it was “muddy think- ing” for “city dwellers to blame the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- ion for crop limitation.” i “Actually, the original cause is the $ountry’s refusal to allow agriculture o regain its foreign market,” he said. ¢We fail to. import goods enough to §nable foreigners to buy our agricul= to employ a Washington lobbyist, sent him there in one form or an- other, That is to say. the expected hap- pened. The big bulk of industry of- | ficially boycotted the meeting, but did | not dare to let such a vital gathering | go unobserved. The fundamental background of | | business excitement about such a sup-| | pressedly unrepresentative gathering | was apparently this: A substantial number of small in-| | dustrialists are supposed to have ac- cepted eagerly Mr. Berry's invitation. | They were the ones who were helped | by the old N. R. A. Contrary to the general impression now, there were | small shoe manufacturer might have been able to get minimum wage ex- emptions because his workers did not | live under city standards or had gar- and newest of the Navy's fighting | ships, was launched today at the Fore River Yards of the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp. With high Navy officials watching, Miss Beverly Moffett of Washington, daughter of the late Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, for whom the ship was named, sponsored the launching. Rear Admiral MofTett died when the dirigible Akron crashed in April, 1933. The destroyer leader was the third | ship of its type launched at the yard. It is 372 feet long, with a displace- | ment of 1,850 tons, and is equipped | with 5-inch guns and torpedo tubes. Another new naval craft, the U. 1,500-ton clas from the w Docks, Inc., | Staten Island. of the United Dry at Mariners Harbor, DISMISSAL URGED S. E. C. Tells Pennsylvania Court It Has No Juris- diction. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 11— The Securities Exchange Commission and other defendants in the United Gas Improvement Co.’s suit challeng- dismissal of the complaint today on the ground the Eastern Pennsylvania | Pederal District Court has no jurisdic- York, JOLIET, Iil, December 11.—Nathan inal—has turned author in his prison | cell to support a theory that convicts Leopold—the ‘“almost perfect” crim- | Leo pold Writes on Convicts’ Ability to Predict Parole Risks Turns Author to Support Theory That Prisoners Are Better Judges of Fellow Inmates’ Intentions. some in that category. For instance,a |S. S. Cummings, destroyer of the |ing the constitutionality of the public | (COPYTISht, 1035, by the Associated Press) | truth of the opinion, very widely held was launched today | utility holding company act asked for | | by penologists and prison authorities, that if it were possible to obtain the honest, unprejudiced judgments of an intelligent inmate as to the probability —A. P, Photos. PRAISED BY HEARST Paul Block Also Declares Kansan Best Bet of Republicans. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, December 11.— William Randolph Hearst sized up | Gov. Alf M. Landon yesterday and LANDON'SCHANCES | of Ives was due entirely to a desire | to aid the Army in getting an out standing athlete for the y Academy. Gen. Conley testified he had no particular interest in Ives other than to give him information as how to | proceed to get a West Point appoint« ment. He said he treated Ives' case in = “routine” way. Bamberger Denies Special Interest. Col. Bamberger also said he had no particular interest in Ives and that he put the notation on the athlete’s letter for the purpose of identifying him and not for the purpose of influencing Hoeppel. Testimony of George W. Trinastich, George Washington University ath- lete and the mystery witness of the trial, was abruptly halted yesterday before he had an opportunity to reveal ural products. b . i ¥ | dens of their own. The big city manu- | he ship, second of four being built | tion over them. are better judges of success on parole of his fellow in- |, .y 1im as a man who could rout , “Lower tariffs could restore this mar- $et, and it is unreasonable and unfair 40 blame the effects of crop limitation én the crop-control machinery rather than on the tariff policy which makes $he limitation necessary.” i Ample Food Supply Seen, : In his report Wallage forecast an ample supply of food for the Nation during the current crop year. ' “The supply of most food crops,” fhe Secretary said, “is fully adequate, Certain classes of wheat being the only exception. There are rather large crops @f rye, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes §nd sugar beets. « “Potato production is about average; he production of buckwheat and rice, though below normal, is sufficient; we Bave average fruit crops rather evenly Qistributed, except that ecitrus produc~ sion is light in the Gulf States; the Production of vegetables for canning 5 close to or above previous records, and supplies of market vegetables and truck crops are moderately heavy in some areas and excessive in others. * “Dairy production this year was sub- stantially greater than in 1934.” : SALES GR(;UP MEETS John J. Daly Is Guest Speaker : for Association. . The Washington Sales Representa- five Association, of which George C. Cook is president, held its monthly meeting yesterday at the Lafayette Hotel. 1 John J. Daly of the editorial staff of The Evening Star, was the guest speaker. Among the guests were John €. Letts, founder and former president of the Sanitary Grocery Co., who is How retired, and Harry Hoskinson, also etired, formerly vice president of the company, @_BU‘Y CHRISTMAS SEALS,@ - 7| The public let- +ter writer was 1 a European in- ¢ stitution 100 1 years ago. SHOPPING DAYS 155 Chrismes development of the modern | educational system® eliminated a once common personage—the public lstter writer. He was.always to be fdund in a public place seated at his table ready to write letters or read | them for those who could not read | facturer could not get such exemp- tions. Thus the N. R. A. in such par- | ticular instances was a boon to some | small manufacturers. The big manufacturer could not af- ford to let the Berry convention react an agreement which could be pre- sented to Congress as a recommenda- tion of the small fellows. The great Government palaces con- structed lately on Constitution avenue are already proving inadequate to house the New Deal. One new bureau, the Motor Carrier Division of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is preparing t6 move from the temple provided for the en- tire commission. It has only 150 em- ployes, but expects to have 500 to 600, and the space provided for it is too small. Adequate accommodations have beeh rented for it where you would least expect. The whole building of the in another section of the city, In Very Strange Places. With Prof. Tugwell in the old Walsh Mansion, the McLean mansion and under the hotel roof garden where Kate Smith came to fame, out-of-town visitors will have to look for the New Deal in some very strange places, Despite legal delays, the Supreme Court may be expected to pass on most of the New Deal before the presi- dential campaign opens in June. The original A. A, A. act and Bankhead act are now being argued. The T. V. A. argument is already fixed for De- cember 19. The amended A. A. A. act (rice millers’ case) will be argued De- cember 16. The court has granted a Government petition to review the right to condemn land for low-cost housing and slum clearance. An ap- peal is imminent in the case of the oil operator, Jones, who refused to testify before the S. E. C. Lawyers in the Carter coal case (Guffey act) are to ask the high court to permit them to jump from the District of Columbia Supreme Court, but the Gov- ernment may not co-operate. How- ever, there are other Guffey cases which lead court attaches to believe & Guffey ruling will come before June. This leaves out only labor relations, social security, utilities and railroad pensions. And utilities may possibly get up in time. The convention hall adjoined the Labor Department, and the address on cards of admission was indefinite. Many delegates actually entered the hall through the Labor Building: Mr. Berry should never have paused after saying in his speech that the “only fly in the business ointment today is 11,000,000 unemployed.” The silence permitted half the hall to hear the stage-whispered observation of a delegate who nudged his neighbor and Negro Masonic Temple has been leased | by the company, was sponsored by | Mrs. Willlam Wirt Mills, niece of the | late Lieut. Comdr. Andrew Boyd | Cummings of Philadelphia, for whom | the destroyer was named. | Comdr. Cummings died at New Or- leans on March 18, 1863, from a wound received in action during the pass the batteries at Fort Hudson, La., on March 14. l Mrs. Mills is the wife-of the com- missioner of the Board of Taxes and | Assessments of New York City. By the Associated Press, Secretary Swanson announced today a report from the Navy's inspection officer attributed blame for recent damage to the new cruiser Quincy en- | tirely to accident. He said the Navy | contemplated no investigation of the | matter, Rear Admiral Paul B. Dungan, the Navy's inspection officer at the Fore | River plant, Quincy, Mass., where the | new cruiser is being constructed, re ported the vessel's reduction gear an two pinions were damaged beyond re- pair. He said this meant a delay of about one month in the completion of the cruiser. It was scheduled originally to be completed on January 9, 1936. Dr. Simon to Discuss Book. Dr. Abram Simon will discuss Barry Benefield's book, “Valiant Is the Word for Carrie,” at a lecture sponsored by the Sisterhood of the Washington He- brew Congregation at the Shoreham Hotel tomorrow at 11 a.m. Irvin S. Cobb Says: U. S. Debt Reminders to Find Usual Indifference Except in Finland. CULVER CITY, Calif, December 11.—Next Sunday, 12 debtor nations will receive the cistomary semi-final reminders that there’s a trifling total due us of a little M less than 1,000 ' million dollars. & As usual, Fin- land will remit her installment, also as usual— §will just ignore the whole thing. Likewise, this will be the signal for lots of folks abroad, and even some hers at home, to say that to keep on jpes- tering other peo- ple makes for ill-feeling and animosi- tles; and hadn’t we bttter let bygones be bygones and just let the matter drop? This is wo new idea. Jesse said, “That's some fly.” Also the re- Joinder of the neighbor: “That is prac- tically 11,000,000 fiies.” e (Copyright. 1088.) | The defendants, who include Attor- ney General | Postmaster General James A. Farley, United States Attorney Charles D. | McAvoy and Postmaster Joseph F. | Gallagher of Philadelphia, as well as the S. E. C. members, asked that the bill be quashed because it does not | attempt of the U. S. S. Richmond to state a cause of action within the | equitable jurisdiction of the court. { Disavows Suit Intentions. The motion of McAvoy stated that | he does not intend to bring proceed- ings, criminal or otherwise, against the U. G. I for violation of any pro- visions of the legislation. He said he has no authority to institute such proceedings. The same motions were filed by all the defendants also in the suit of the Philadelphia Electric Co., subsidiary | of U. G. I, which also challenged the |\alidity of the holding company act. The U. G. I, one of the oldest and | largest utility holding companies of its kind in the country, filed its suit | November 20, and its directors de- cided not to register with the S. E. C. s required unded the utility legisla- | tion. Several other subsidiaries of | U. G. I, also have challenged the constitutionality of the act. Farley Denies Service. Farley and Cummings said in their motions that neither is a citizen of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and that therefore the Federal court for the district has no jurisdiction. They held there has been no service on them in the district in the pro- ceedings, and that no service outside of the area is valid. They stated also that the Eastern Pennsylvania District Court is not a proper venue. Members of the S. E. C. raised the same points in their motions. Postmaster Gallagher of Philadel- phia held that Farley is a necessary party to any action seeking to en- join him (Gallagher) in performance of his duties. BANK CLERK, SHOT, FAILS TO IMPROVE Charles V. Etzler Found Wounded . at Home, Pistol by His Side. No improvement was seen today in the condition of Charles V. Etzler, 42, a clerk in a downtown bank, who was found shot through the temple yesterday afternoon in his home at 1425 Minnesota avenue southeast. Etzler was found lying or. the bath room floor, beside his .38-caliber pis- tol, by & colored maid, Mabel Oden, who heard the shot. An ambulance from Casualty Hospital was sum- moned and the wounded man was taken to Providence Hospital, where his condition was termed “eritical.” Etzler’s wife and son, Frank, 14, an Eastern High School student, were away from home when the shooting occurred. Police said Etzler wrote a note in which he expressed love for his wife and said farewell. Bank officials reported ‘Etzler had James felt exactly the same way about deputy sheriffs, (Coprriggt, llll.—bx o8 oy, pmestcen | gragr L3 been in ill health for several months, adding that his accounts were in good ( . Homer S. Cummings, | than any one else of their fellow prisoners’ willing- ness to go straight if freed. In a magazine | article the slayer of little Bobby Franks told the inside story ef how he and other convicts predict which prisoners in the Illinois State Penitenti- ary would reform if paroled. Leopold wrote under an assumed name because prison officials would | not permit use of his own, and the | article has been read by hundreds who did not suspect its authorship. In it, Leopold hints it may be the first of several articles reporting de- velopments in his parole study as an employe in the office of Prof. Ferris Laune, criminologist and penitentiary actuary. ‘The slayer was disclosed recently as one of several convicts working with Laune in building a “sound scientific footing” for calculating parole risks. Leopold’s article told for the first time how the experiment was carried on. It said: “Laune sets out to investigate the Nathan Leoveld. mates, such judgments or ‘hunches,’ as Laune prefers to call them, would prove to show a much higher degree of association with actual outcome than any prognostic device yet invented.” ‘The first step in the process, Leo- pold's article said, was “to establish * * * the actual existence and validity of such ‘hunches’ by an analysis of the correlations existing between the ‘hunches’ of various inmate investiga- tors” This comparison, he said, showed “presumptive evidence in favor of the existence of a definite, measur- | able quality.” | 150 Prisoners “Scored.” The second step, “isolation of the unit factors” behind the convicts’ | hunches, Leopold described as “one of the most ingenious means yet devised for objectifying intrinsically subjec- tive material.” | “It consists in the scoring by two | inmate investigators of each of a group |of 150 subjects by the ‘hunch’ method.” Among factors taken into considera- tion in the scoring were the convict's | sentence, his offense, age, nationality, | plea, time served, previous criminal record, punishment record, type of personality, size of his community, his associates, his mental rating and work record. REFUNDING OVER, MORGENTHAU SAYS U. S. May Borrow for Relief Pur- poses, However, He Declares. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., December 11.— Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor- genthau, jr., said here yesterday in an interview that the Government does not plan any more large refunding operations, but intimated that it might borrow additional funds for relief pur- poses. . “Except for the raising of new money, which means providing relief to the unemployed, the Treasury has no large refunding program in view,” the Secretary said. “They are all be- hind us.” The cabinet member visited Rich- mond for medical treatment. Asked about the money saved through the Government refinancing operations in the past two and one- half years, Secretary Morgenthau stated: “On the refunding of the old war debt of some $8,500,000,000, we have saved about $100,000,000 & year in in- terest charges. The average interest rate of the whole Government debt is about 23, per cent and is steadily go- ing down.” He declined to comment on basic business conditions, saying “I never make prophecies.” The Secretary said he wanted it emphasized that “I am not a sick man, merely checking up on & minor ailment.” Morgenthau ted the varicus ‘Treasury t agencies here and conferred with National Emer- Council officials. gency 4 |C. E. GERNERIS DEAD; LIVED HERE 50 YEARS Retired Proprietor of Two Booths at 0ld Center Market Was 111 Short Time. Charles E. Gerner, 71, a resident of the District for 50 years, died yester- day at his home, 7739 Sixteenth street, after a brief illness. He was a retired proprietor of two booths at the old | Center Market. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Friday from the residence. Ma- sonic rites will be conducted at the grave in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Gerner was born in Germany and came to Washington as a young man. He was one of the original members of the Takoma Park Luth- eran Church and an active member of the Masonic order for many years. He belonged to the board of directors of the German Orphans’ Home. For 27 years Mr. Gerner was treas- urer of Arminius Lodge, F. A. A. M. He was re-elected for a twenty-eighth term a week ago. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Louisa E. Gerner; a daughter, Frieda W. Gerner; two sons, Charles H. and Ernest R. Gerner; a brother, Jacob Gerner, and three sisters, Mrs. Robert Weber, Mrs. Frank Schmidt and Mrs. Henry Werking. Girl Plans Atlantic Hop. MONTIVIDEO, Uruguay, December 11 (#).—Jean Batten, young New Zea- land woman flyer, announced yester- day before she sailed for England that she plans & northern trans-Atlantic flight within six months. She was the first woman to fly the South Atlantic y l the Roosevelt forces in 1936. | “Landon can be nominated by the | Republicans and elected,” Hearst said. “He understands the issues.” Scarcely less outspoken in his praise of the Kansas budget-balancer was Paul Block, who, like Hearst, is pub- lisher of & group of newspapers. Block also came here to visit Landon. | “If the Republican convention were { held tomorrow,” Block said, “Landon would receive the nomination easily.” D. C. Publisher Present. Hearst stopped briefly en route to California. With him were Mrs. | Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Washington Herald, and Arthur Bris- | bane, columnist and chief editorial | writer of the Hearst newspapers. After lunch at the rambling old | frame dwelling which serves as the Kansas executive mansion, Hearst, smiling broadly, exclaimed: | “I think he is marvelous. To say | T am favorably impressed puts it very | mildly.” 1 Block, who said the only purpose of his trip here was to “become person- ally acquainted” with Landon, sec- onded Hearst in their post-luncheon comment, Non-Committal on Support. “He's an even bigger man than I had previously thought.” Smiles formed the only response of either Hearst or Block to questions as to whether they had pledged the Kan- sas Governor their suppost. But Block unequivocally predicted the defeat of the New Deal, and Hearst said: “If the Republicans and those op- posed to the New Deal united on & man like Gov. Landon—a man who is & doer and not a promiser—the New Deal can be defeated.” ——e Couples Dance Six Weeks. Five couples in the Havre, France, dance marathon have been dancing | dreds of people have watched them | effort to win a prize of $1,000. The contest openec with 38 couples. Christmas Seals Why I Buy Them—A State- ment by Surgeon Gen- eral Cumming. “Christmas Seals help pay for the Nation-wide campaign against tuber- culosis.* They make possible free clinics, nursing service, preven- toriums, rehabili- tation, education, medical and so- cial research, tu- berculin testing of children, X- rays, and other activities that States Public Surs. Gen. Cumming. gl A | continuously for over six weeks. Hun- | | fox trot and waltz night and day in an | | what connection he may have had with { the case into which he was brought dramatically Monday when Ives picked him from a crowd of spectators in the court room as a man who approached him recently and urged him to drop the case against the Hoeppels. Trinastich Abruptly Stilled. Trinastich started to relate a con- versation he said he had with Representative Hoeppel early last | June in a sandwich shop in the 4300 block Connecticut avenue, where he was working at the time as a checker. Defense counsel immediately registered a vigorous objection. A | whispered conference at the bench followed between Justice D’Donoghue and defense and prosecution counsel. The objection was sustained and Trinastitch was excused until later in the trial. Former Representative John H. Burke of California followed Trina- stich and revealed that while in Con. gress he and Representative Hoeppel had entered into an arrangement to trade a West Point and an Annapolis nomination. Burke explained he had a West Point appointment in 1934 ne was | saving for John Lineberger, resident of this district. He sald he learned | 1ater, howcver, the boy wanted to g0 | to Annapolis and not the Military Academy. Hoeppel had a Naval Acad- emy appointment, he declared—an agreement was made between them | for an exchange. As a result, Burke testified, he | nominated Hoeppel's son for West | Point and Hoeppel nominated his candidate for Annapolis. Both boys, however, failed in the requisite en- trance examinations. Then, in May, 1934, Burke said, he nominated Ives for the West Point appointment, in accordance with the agreement he had with Hoeppel. Visited by Ives. Burke said he thought no more of the incident until June, 1934, when his secretary informed him Ives had visited his office and told her he had promised to pay $1,000 for the ape pointment. Then, Burke explained, he telephoned Hoeppel and asked, “What about it?” Hoeppel, he said, replied: “Oh, don't pay any attentioa to him, Burke. He's crazy.” Later that day, Burke testified, Hoeppel came to his office and sald he wanted the Ives nomination withe drawn. He said the letter of with- drawal evidently had been drawn up on his own stationery in Hoeppel's office, but he signed it. N D. C. PILOT SETS RECORD Averages 70 Miles an Hour in p Single-Seater Seaplane. MIAMI, Fla, December 11 () .— Another air record was added to the 37 held in this country today as Ben King, Washington, D. C., sportsmane fiyer, flew his small single-seater sea~ plane over 500 kilometers in 4 hours 24 minutes 25 seconds, an average of 70.48 miles an hour, No record existed for the 500-kil+ ometer, closed course distance in the small seaplane class of less than 551 pounds. | | 4