Evening star., 1932-04-20
WALTER WARWICK
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War Time Treasury Official
Had Long Career in
Public Service.

Judge Walter Winter Warwick, chief
counsel Of the United States Employees
Compensation Commission and war
time controller Of the Treasury, died
last night at his home, $3.50 Piney
Branch road, after a png illness.
Funeral services will be held at the
Central Presbyterian Church, Fifteenth
and Irving streets, at 2 O'Clock Friday
afternoon, with DR.. James H. Taylor,
pastor of the church, officiating.
Judge Warwick had had long expert
ence in efficiency work and in law prac-
tice, and had served in many official
governmental posts. He was promi-
nently identified with the Central Pres
byterian church, in which he had
served as elder for IS years, after COM
Ing here from Cincinnati, where he
served five years as an elder in the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church of that city.
He had also been superintendent of the
Sunday school, and a frequent repre-
sentative of the church at the Presby-
terry OF the Potomac and the Synod of
Virginia. In 1890 he was commits
sioner to the General Assembly, South
ern Presbyterian Church.
Was Native Of Ohio.
Born in Ohio in 1853 he attended the
Cincinnati public schools, later taking
law course from Cincinnati Law School
He received a masters degree in his
profession from George Washington
University here in 1892. He was the
son of Newton Reed Warwick, an officer
in the Civil War, and Adelaide Winter
Warwick
He was private secretary to William
Howard Taft when he was circuit
Judge. and became private secretary TO
Robert Bowles, controller Of the Treas
ury, In 1898. Other posts he held in
the Treasury were law clerk and chief
law clerk.
He returned to Cincinnati in the pri-
vate practice of law for several years,
but was induced to come back to Wash
ington Just before the turn of the CEN
tury, to become the auditor of the Pan
anna Canal Commission, serving three
years under Gen. Goethals in the canal
operations.
In 1911 President Taft commissioned
him an associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the Panama Canal
Zone, but before taking up his duties
there he was appointed member OF
the Government Economy and Ell
ficiency Commission.
He was made controller of the Treas
ury in 1915 by President Wilson and
served throughout the war. He was
offered a commission as brigadler gen.
eral in the Army, but was told by
officials he could do more as con-
troller of the Treasury. His handling
of Government finance during the war
has been highly praised
Left Treasury in 1921.
He left the Treasury in 1921, when
the office was discontinued, and in
1922 was made assistant to the di-
rector OF the budget, then Gen. Lord.
In 1923 he entered into a two-year
contract with the Panama Republic to
represent it as fiscal agent and served
until 1925, returning to this country
and again resuming his former posi-
ton under Gen. Lord.
Early in 1927, when the longshore-
mems and harbor workers compensa-
tion bill was passed. he took over the
organization of its administration, and
on July !, when 1t took effect, was ap-
pointed to the post as chief counsel OF
the United States Employees Compensa-
ton Commission, in which he served
until his death.
He was a member Of the American
Academy Of Political and Social Sci
ence. and in 1925 was commissioned a
colonel in the finance department. ON
GERS Reserve Corps. He also was a