Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1927, Page 11

- URSE SNATCHER CAUGHT N CHASE Two Pedestrians Nab Man.| Hungry, Prisoner Tells - Palice. A purse s freedom fa two led early last night when tors chased him four & and weaving through crowded Seventh street, finally over powering mim and turning the man over to police. Elizabeth W. Coppenger, clerk in the Veterans' Bureau. living at 304 E street northeast, looking department store window on Market =pace shortly after 6 o'clock, when a coatless white man jerked her purse trom her arm. breaking its strap and ran off through the crowd. dodging pedestrians like a foot ball player. William Rober on, 11 xth street, itcher’s mad break for | in a| cITY Governor General and PartyI | Will Be Welcomed Here Tuesday. | A | Distinguished Guest Will See | President and Receive Re- turn Call at Lagation. Washington once again will be the host to visiting nobility, with the arrival on Tuesday of the Governur General of Canada and Viscountes- Willingdon, the first time | that the repre: monarch has | minion of a British | officially visited the American cap- ital. Britain's tall, lean, white- haired colonial soldier, who rep: sents the House of Windsor in the Dominion, will be accorded signal | honar from President Coolidge, Sec- | | retary Kellogg and other shigh offi- THE VISCOUD T WIL AGAIN HOST TO NOBILITY WITH VISIT OF CANADIAN CHIEF | | | A jand social agencies | represent Washington at the #ifth | Pan-American Child Congress at Hav | |ana, Cuba, left here yesterday to at-| | tend the sessions of the convention. to CHILD CONGRES DELEGATES LEAVE Party Will Attend Convention| to Be Held at Havana December 7-14. zroup of delegates of local health who officially will | be held Dec. 7 to It The congress was to hs been held last February, | but was postponed beciuse of hurri- page to tha nity Heading the local delegation is Dr John Foote, 1861 Mintwoot pl fes of ¢ o childre | Georgetown Universicy. who was ap | pointed by the e Department to | represent the United States Govern- and author of several textbooks deal- ing with child health. Besides exhibits to be presented hy the United States Children’'s Bureau and other national agencies concerned with child health, an extensive collec- tion of photographs made under the direction of Dr. Foote at the Chil- dren’s Hospital of Washington will be featured at the congress. The congress will be attended by approximately 500 representatives of child health agencies, chiefly from Latin American countries. i [LIGHT OPERA SEASON | IS BROUGHT TO CLOSE |T. Arthur Smith Tekes TLosses | | Cheerfully—May Try Another Series Later. With last night's performance, the | season of light operd at the President | Theater was terminated. T. Arthur | Smith, owger and director of the Presi- |dent Theater Light Qpera Co. said that although the. performances had | been praised by the critics and enthu- m was shown at the early per- ances, interest in the opera re- did not reach the proportions ¢ for the continuance of the s i SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. €., DECEMBER 4, 1927—_PART 1 T ENIAR SO DAY Tomorrow—in the MEN'’S STORE Sale! 2,000 #1.50 to *2.50 Broadcloth & Madras Shirts and L. H. Taliaferro, apartment 404 | f0¥ o BinaS e ; . is | men at the congress. ne "y R ng from the time he sets|ed as news, but not pt”" news. His men a Eean. 815 Maryland avenue. heard her| oo i wasnington at 11 o'clock | most impor Other Washington members of the project > q 0 ek | most important tlicial duty comes e . ol e ik a ingt man. They gained on him as he fpic*ViY "here wwnich will terminate |linment during the Winter, when he | Huzh of the National Council of |has supported his previous efforts to 00 tripped and almost fell, hut he dodzed [ \ion" his departure at 10 o'clock | rides in an open sleigh in plumed hat | Catholic Charities; Dr. John O'Grady, jan extent which allowed him to launch A . past a_group of people and turned I | Vridyy morning. o e e adtort "of Tancers | secretary of the National Council of | this enterprise, he will consider hig Seventh street. v Accompanied by a distinguished |to Parliament Hall, Catholic Charities; Dr. Grover A.|losges In ths nyture of 3 “refung and golls pursuers overhauled him near | ,;iy “the vice-regal visitor will be| ~Viscount Willingdon fills an office | Kempf of the United States Public ) to g Mo oo B Seventh and F streets and turned him | ogcorieq to the presidentiagl suite at|held by distinguished predecessors, | Health Service, Miss Anna . Rich-|opera revival laver, oo over to Traffic Officer G. W. Ward. | thg Union Station through a doubie [ During the war the Duke of Con- on of the American Hpme licg: | THe GDSIZ GCIERERN HICH HB'he S ‘ted ite English broadclot ’ aken £6 ISRNAImrtery. hegave the |ijiie of 1) rines, while the Army | naught represented the British crown. | nomics and Miss Kath-| November T with Milockir's comie Imported white English broadcloths, novelty name of John Tipton, 24 vears old. | hang pl jod Save the King.”|Next came the Duke of Devonshire, | erine Len: the United States | Oneen, [ he. Black Hower.. A broadcloths, colored striped bréadcloths, woven with no home. Canada's national anthem, and that |Then Lord Byng of Vimy succeded [Children’s Burcaw. Both Dr. Foote | e Weeks, Fis wos BAHOWES B 60 4 G - s i i 3 : Yetts madras—these are the materials. and Miss Lenroot have been invited 1t | to present papers on child health con i in the United States. Plenty of Neckband “I was broke, cold and hungry,” he said as he was being put in a cell at the first precinct, “and this is the first of the United States. A war strenzth troop of Cavalry from Fort Myer will escort the visitors to the Canadian | him. hay | dians in France on many a hard-fou field. Daspite frequent vice : Cana- | perfomance of “The Chocolate Sol- dier” marked the end of the fourth week and of the third preduction. white and colored striped shirts, time 1 ever was in trouble.” The prisoner, who said he hopped a freight here from Asheville, N. . where he had held a tempora: wore only a thin shirt and pair of Summer-weight trousers hat in the chase. ’ THE WEATHER ct of Columhia—Cloudy, by rain or snow tonight and to- w. not much change in tem- .. Maryland—Cloudy, with snow or rain on the coast today; tomorrow snow or rain, not much change in temperature Virginia—Cloudy, with rain in east portion today; tomorrow rain and con- tinued cold. West Virginia—Cloudy today. lowed by snow or rain tomor night; not much change in tempera- ture. Temperature for 24 Hours. re—Midnight, 40; 2 a.m. : 6 am., 37; 8 am,, 3 10 a.m., 3%; 12 noon, 3%; 2 p.m., 3 4 pm, 37; 6§ pm., 36 8 pm., 3 10 p.m., 32. Highest,, 40. Lowest, Temperature Same Date Last Year —Highest, 35. Lowest, 26. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Today—Low tide, 10:16 a.m. 10:58 p.m., high tide, 3:31 a.m. 408 p.m. Tomorrow—-Low tide, 11:10 a.m. 11:54 p.m., high tide, 4:33 a.m. 5:05 p.m. The Sun and Moeon. Today—Sun rose 7:10 a.m.; sun sets 4:46 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun riseg 7:11 a.m., sets 4:46 p.m. Moon rises 1 p.m., sets 2:01 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Falls, clear. Harpers ¥erry, and and and and sun Potomac clear; Shenandoah, slightly muddy this morning. Weather in Various Cities. * —P;_ll‘:mwfifim"h Precipy- tation § Fri Sat pm.to night Sy Snm e Cincinmati, Chevenne. Wao, Cleveland. Ohio.. TDavenvort. Denve Cole 0. sLaagh i 0 a 18 gz 26 - 43 4 16 30 ax 50 33 a0 33 i 2 34 30 2% 14 14 3 40 a2 2 fifi % 3 is 38 a8 14 bR 5 61 70 b Seattle. Wagh' 4% 4R Sorngheld, i 808 iba. i Toigde: ohis; L Wk Teann WASHINGTON 1id . Self-Denial. From the Baston Transcript + "“So you went to a specialist about your indigastion. Did he say you must give up something?” “Yes, ten dollars.” o Women of Great Britain wore $125.- 000,000 of footwear in. the past 12 months. For Anyone Desk Sets Now Job, | He lost his| fol. | APPROPRIATE GIFT in the Writing Equipment Field 72 to 352 Hughes Pen and Gift Shop National Theater Bldg. Expert Pen Repairing OPEN EVENINGS . legation, 1746 Masachusetts avenue. where their excellencies will stay during their Washington sojourn. Reception Committee. | er o Minis The Canadian | United States and sey, the United s Mini Canada, William Phillips; E. C the | Mie- | | Hardinge, aides-de-camp, will be in | the governor general's party | the station they will be receivel B | William Phillips, members of the | staff of the Canadian legation. the chief of naval operations, Admiral Charles ¥. Hughes: the chief of staff of the Army, Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall; the commandant of the Marine Corps, Maj. Gen. J. A. Lejeune; the general commanding the district, Brig. Gen. T. Q. Don- aldson: the chief of the Western European Division of the State De- partment, Theodore Marriner; the President’s military aide, the Pres- | ident's naval aide, the American naval aide to thq governor general, Capt. Poteet, and the American mil- itary aide to the governor general, Col. Margetts. Tuesday afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock. the governor general and the vis- countess will be received at the White House by the President and Mrs. Coolidge.- Half an hour later, the Chief Executive and the First Lady of the Land will call upon the dis- tinguished visitors at the Canadian Legation .and at 8 o'clock they will be entertained at dinner at the White House. Wednesday evening the Canadian Minister will give a dinner and a re- ception in honor of the governor gen- eral and his party at the Canadian Legation, The British Ambassador and Lady Isabella Howard will enter- tain their - excellencies at dinner Thursday evening. Visit Shatters Precedent. In coming to Washington the gov- ecnor. general of Canada will shatter precedent, but those familiar with Canada say that at a public luncheon recéntly he said that some of his earlier speeches had brought criticism from the British government on the ground that he d touched upon public questions, a thing which no representative of the King must ever do. Although he has been in Canada only a year, Cangdians declare he has already injected new color into the bits of imperial pageantry in the Dominion government and new splen- dors into his post as master of Gov- ernment House, Otta: The 61-year-old peer is a soldier of wide experience, a parlia: tarian and g sportsman. His name, stripped of nobility, is* ¥Freeman Freeman- Thomas. At the age of 34 he was elected to Parllament in the Liberal cause in 1900 and for 12 years sat in the House of Commons, serving most of the time as a junior lord of the treasury. He wi ppointed governor of Bombay in 1913 and through the trying war years he held that po: surrendering it in 1919. His heir, Lieut. the Hon. Gerald Freeman- Thomas was killed at Mons in 1914 during the early days of the World War. His second son, Hon. Inigo Freeman-Thomas, is living. o The governor general captained cricket elevens at Eton and Cambridge. He is from Sussex, which abounds with county facilies that crowd Who's Who with terse records of service in the Guards, the Commons, the Soudan and Zulu campaigns and other equally strenuous activities, Called Splendid Host. who is also first B: is uoted as a splen- did host, and nadians point to the numerous bright parties and array of guests that have come to Government House, Ottawa, to prove it. Observers see in his trip to Washington an effort to break new ground in the hope, per- hape, of widening the scope of activity of the vice regal office. In Canada his excellency is regard- and- Everyone Have Big Place tours, most Canadians never sce governor gener Douglas Mac paper meent Mas- | eralship of Canada “one of the strang ter o |est positions of the British crown.” “It is not part-of the diplomatic foreign | commander-in-chief At | forces. He is not selected by the King nor by the British zovernment, but by formally by the Secretary of State | mutual ur | and Mrs. Kellogs. the Assistant Sec- | prime ministers of Canada and G retary of State and Mrs. Castle, Mrs, | Britain. fi opens Parliament ment, becomes the patron of worthy causes. i transient celebri entertained by a select list, travels ex tensively in the almost hopeless task of trying to reach 10,000,000 | scatter tinent. Holds “Strange” Position. . an Ottawa news the governor gen- man, term: or service,” he It i vile, secretary to the governor gen- A says. era Mrs. R. B. Osborne, lady-in- |neither army, navy, church or bar. 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