Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1926, Page 26

r vg '}HREE MASKED ROBBERS TAKE $1,250 FROM BAKER CRGERTER, ) ‘While approaching his Lakery after alighting from a street car at Ninth by three masked men who robbed him of_$1,250 In cash. Mr. Hinkle told Detectives Flaherty and Fowler, who investigated the case, that two of the men covered him with pistols while the third rified his Dockets. He said that he promptly complied with their demand that he throw up his hands. THE EVENING STA Mr. Hinkle had in another pocket, the trio permitted him to proceed to his bakery at 1323 Seventh street. Police today sent a general warning among local banks and business houses to be on the lookout for any one attempting to have a $500 bill changed. Col. Merriam Transferred. Col. Henry M. Merriam, Coast Ar- tillery, stations in Hawall, has been WASHINGTON, him so by surprise he could not even recollect whether they were white or colored. D. . MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1926. BRITONS PRAISE WALES AS TRUE ENGLISHMAN i : By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 6.—The aver- age Englishman is proud of the Prince hard, albeit he sometimes falls hard. |good qualities and then produced him Walés is considered by the average Englishman to have most all the vir- tues and some of the faults of his countrymen. ‘This, perhaps, is why the latest book about the Prince, a sugary chronicle of anecdotes of Wales' world tours, has not met with full universal favor. as the Prince of Whles.” Such a man, he says, “never existed and never will exist.” “The Prince of Wales,” declares this commentator, “is surely good enough to stand trde and analytical criticism. As it is, the Prince is pictured without a single redeeming sin.” | Mining School, at Nuneaton, Ireland. | Four experimental baths are first b Millions for Miners’ Baths. 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