Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1927, Page 4

ng promptiy Band will play a selection of Christ mas i dent by 8 hody zeheduled Foenth Jnser. valued at $35 e had purchased for dinner and had left it where it would ke cold chickens of the store af T Slonin, 441 X street The dealer valued the stolen fowls and hanz the presents withent of the vounger members of the and brought WRC. The sinzinz will be led by a group and with vocal and instrumental solos and ex legendr Fror in the sinzinz of the ancient Christmas carols were printed 10 The can i gather ahout the tree carols will he amplified by loud speak ars minu‘es. th allow those taking part up their wraps and rush away to the | midnight various churches, he celehrated chu: nizht ohkervance, as alwayx in Wash ington at the Franciscan Monastery in Rrookland. with the replica of the Fethiehem ll}‘iE BANDIT N TW0 HOLD-UPS. Thiel Gets $168—0ther Rob- beries Rewcrlt‘d—Poultry Taken From Market. (\ THE_EVENT CAPITAL’S GLASTONBURY THORN UNIQUE REMINDER OF YULETIDE Cutting From Famom Staff of St. Joseph of Avimathea Planted a: Cathedral Recalls Early Church Life. Twa hold ups in which the aperator wis a avmed colored handit | vere reported here last night m a list depreditions which included theft | of xeveral hundred dollars in eash, gowelrs. clothing and poultry The ho'd.ons which may have bheen the work of same M. were Wi oon Losicot hetween Twentisth | Twenty firs strests, where Wit { lone, o Burns of & Sixth street ave up S160 Sifth and - Sisth Witson. colored, « was halted while dv A o mive up SN fust before a little lat 19 Ovleans palice his pocketh was taken from his | and on n s reportad by R issanti avenue, waw ken from her home | street wateh | Radmin of a zold which diss esteriay of Charle was fimmied dur of mants ve otand a fr ot e nd wearing appa Valued at 824 i1 Meemis, 312 Seven. ctroat. was vobhed of wearing | Jued At S130 vestardav aft nk heing hroken apen. ued at S110 was 7 the home of Mre. Harry | street, Tuesday. pparel v _ < Theris were veported. | erick M. Dickerson. dealer in the Marliet, heing the heaviest He lost a barrel of turkeys! Jackson. °23 Eighth ..|ru|1 was robhad of the turkey | his Chris mas |, theee live | in front ancks and stolen. from Tive ware i at 10, TWILIGHT BRINGS CHRISTMAS AMID | PEALING OF CHIMES Page) | (Continued from First mak- | noises, which will excite susplcion | family. Washinztonians w jon-wide carol singing hroad- New York under the direc. of Rev Dr. S, Parks Cadman into local homes by known artinfs. be interspersed of nationally the chorus will b jons by Dr Cadman of the of Christmas. Family | ps everywhers are urzed to The words and music Jan: in the supplement Star so that they he followad easily. Meanwhile | is sxneeted. a large crowd will national Christmas where the vesterday Evening in Sherman Square, This service: will last for 90 1t will be over just in time to gather | services scheduled In the Midnight mass will | in all of the Catholic hes. with the most notable mid manger. Those who wish to attend the lght the national Christmas tree 4 to he at Sherman Rquare at 536, when the Marine Ik while awaiting the ar- of the officlal rerty. The Presi &nd Mrs. Conlidge. accompanied | guard of Bov Rcouts, are | ta arrive at & o'clock There will be a_short introduction by | Representativ 4ge will press the button lighting of the tree there will short prozram of carol singing tree 2,000 jewels. which will sparkle in the radiance trained upon them, p) (Eper.al) —Exercixes will he held todny at Chris mar Alexandria Leag the Aley slona Verron Amer Alrection Girector of musie tre Alexandria Indge o tion organizations of Alexandri « of persons 1o whom the oz will dong plics an Yrothers oho P Giris Zihlman of Maryland the national Christmas | After th be a The | 500 electrie and containg bulbe of gigantic wearchlights ALFXA!\I)RIA ALEXANDRIA Va. December 24| 530 pm. sround tree erected vegterday by ont. No. 24, Ameriean The program Is in charge of ndris Business and Profes Women's ¢lub and Mount Chapter. Dauzhters of the | Revolution. Carols will be ral hundred puplls, under Miss Christine Mu in the loeal sehools committee of representatives of ks, Raly % and other | met st | Chamber of mined lisis A community can A Army. United € in the Alexandris ommerce rooms and e clothies thix Christmas Auplie wbonls of andels a reopen Junn Theologloxl Kernl Thiw tiot The e bt e rochin) sl AT the were held Bl cloved Chrl euch of 1 eoraiug by b gl sinparsed i yer hin cex for George William | o died Wedne from K vin) was tn o “h fiar were held Murs's Cath Lethel ¢ cxrerds e | me- | emptay e Wurl . o . Policeman Promoted 16 duhn W B Ay, ane of e wen of 1 police Jurce baw the runk of wer | al the pblie pnrke ie Biln 1 v the demotion 1o the I duye ougo of Mergl following (he Tutter's ples of guih chirger of wesring siform while not an Auty and of | ot unbecoming an oMeer . an ut Home ihets sold [ Januury 1st and until fanuary 34, 1% BlEn 10 parior and seeping cura For tewers and escrvations eall Ciy Ticket OMce 1510 H st nw |'nm.w| M 105 1406 Southern Hgipey Eysten — Advestisement, f Elates purk 4 N war bnin) | Capital Jaswrence Libh nd Chr It et 3nod It M join | cally |h ve ended the chan mas bi this ve ington Cathedral | eral timex at Christmas, however. first Christn z00d Christmas in 34 were marked with red ribbons hy the Cathedral authorities of sented against Enow. royalty a bit of the h in a siiver hox member of the roval the vixit, visited Washington Cathe vember thiee 1o him by on the dav of his visit | nired 300 CHILDREN GET - | Dinners for Men and Others man Joy. [ man's & |t | tion A [ 1ts abitit remindger o Chris fonal Capital i i onbury Th 1 oat Washin A tree of anbrach < hedral, srown from a cutting every plont that grows orizinat "horn b viene of God, but the el ston! v tui is nlinrly a fower o pndih, Aveordin: to tralition int tiee ot Glistonbiney sprou Toxeph of A . which by st dnta (e sround on his aerivel in Brit Christinnity 1o the thitt conntry The lzend of Joseph of Avimathe 4 very heautitul one. Briefly it fx thix “During the peiseention of - the Ch ans, which followed the stoning | of Xtephen, Joseph of Avimathen, with Mary and Martha, their brother arus, and othov disciples, escaped s, which 1 to Marseille, o disciples remain: | Lazarux, Mary and and 12 bout and A uniane {in th- X * et hory thorn s Nily considered, ix 1o 1 tely ani the of Vol Avimathea hapny son of the e the mathen s st i< a ; coineidence Chuistinn ve nimo of the vad Cathed Poter i the same that “hurch of 8 tor astonhury inhabitants o i St of the and St 1 and, which st n the little oly church in divs of v built by Joseph of Ari mathes of “wattlex from the mar<h.” | when he came there from Jerusa {in the first century of the Christian eru. The thorn saff which Ao seph of Arinuthea brought with him from the Holy Land he thrust inte the ground at Glastonbury, England, ax A token that thore he should re. main and begin his mission, and the . the 1o Brit ix believed 0 have v i ph and his compantons prog flourished and had a miracnious INEOd after u time, and Heing wea Christmas blossoming. A= Tennyson they rested on a hill. now Known as it We ATl ixtonbucy. This stonbury where the Winter thorn 0°curred on atmas day. | soms at Christmas, mindful of Set Up First Mission. our Lord. “Here Joseph of Arvimathea plunged his Staff into the ground, where it im.- | medintely took r. . budded nd b somed. The King of the country. zarus by name, recelved them kindly and gave them 12 “hides” of (hout 1,400 acres) in Inix Witrin, a nuarshy tract afterward called the h-ln' of Avalon. St. Joseph and his com. panions are xaid to have erected here a wattled church and watthed huts for themsely establishing the firs Christian mission in the British Islex, * | AL Washington Cathedreal there is | much dnterest i the Glastonbury tra- ditions Chief Alboy ulin i cert ymong them Joseph ms n ve-entersd Blown without sen Church, Thus the possession of the sturdy scion of this fameus thorn tree Iy Washington Cathedral is snother link of the American Cathedral with tx namesake ncient Britian, The mil ather of the nthe raised the hope that the onbury Thorn mizht blossom hristmax. But although green xho nd new leavex began to xhow at top. the cold days recently practi- of Christ- | sxoming of the famous thor ¥ The Glastonbury Thorn ut Wash. | hasx bloxsomed xev-| It = blos<oming her was hat blessed forted the eart Speaking of usChristmas blossoms, . K. Bratenahl, Dean aps they | the in - Holy ftinz and W ng snted ax o gr hop Bath planted St, Alba nd u good & wn Christmas “ful nurtuce is now Famous Stones in Altar. Then Catheds ited by the of 1 tates, was stones made from the sume ledge rock wx that in which our Mav | tomh Wa cut: that i from the his | torienl Joseplt of Arimathea's garde And now in the heautitul Norman Chapel of Kt Joseph of Arimathea bs | another reming f the hes Chrisimas tradivion. It has heen apen- | 1 regu visitors, althongh fts | form has not vecnrred as | 1 to the v his chapel wax fiest publicly making | usxed ax a4 temporary place of sepultig for the late Renor Don Franelseo San chez-Latour, Minbster of G mala 1o [ the United States, whose 1 wis beld dn the adjoining n | Chapel. Ultimately the Chapel of St Joxeph of Avimathes will be availabl i various services without mus cludin itations and Intercessions on quict days, baptisms, confirmutions. the late Right Rev. Alfred | weddingx and other ceremonies of | then Bishop of Washinglon. | kindred nat | em men <hould be filled with It also biossomed at and the hlossoms for the pilgrl and unforgettable background of henefit it nre pictnre Winter (wthedral an a In medieval times whenever K vizited Glastonbury m and pr family Prince G in 1919 0 the Bloom Here, rince of Wales ) wax the month of No. the tree shot forth two or blossoms. They were plucked, placed 10 a wilver hox and prexented fun, the Although it Harding. divect pllgrims dral to the Holy Norman Chapel Arfmathen week, except The prince kept the siiver hox and Htx contents ax among hix most treax mementoes of his American | loweph of Chrixtmas thorn vixit, Vhrist et Shris aking of the Glastonbury Christmas Time e ristmax season, and once 1% At for teeason | and cold. At with glee an s ean e sllow when all the slzns ave vight, OF course the years have made us In clined to sigh and brood. the of Nife hax Ceaved ux and caused a bitter | mood. W think about the money, th | coin we Lad 1o blow to make | Cheistman simny amid e wintry {now, We think of Income tuxes we'll | shortly b which | relaxen nt ey think | {of Witter wenther a of Iast-minute rush to fill the L of wtormm which co ther ardarn of lttle children in all pares | {0 :“'":-I:“'!-‘v) Sprhaen Pole, And If of the =ity, Eanta found time 1o dash | guwn, the kids around ux playing will down John Marwhall place and | fnd thele glidness gone, They'll wpresd some good old-fashionad Christ 1t ix the ¢ Again we ho whose heart BFTS AT MISSION 5% | ol be aliht. at Home Distributed in Annual Benefaction. n his 1o f thelr elders looking like statues of de wo e, inventing woos and cooking with Senn the Chirlstmos afr, And thin will By | et n blanket upon the children's g e fho Clvistmax 1 ovank I with Bamest pevtidy, Ol wx all b fovous the fostive Aoy let no chein wnnoy ux leUs shoo Ui ol The ¢ w th W When all the 3 auint | wivival thix il e Hghis are 4ot ) Dk Wiy Aven tived of viot, b while wx It Fanta | fo e then we iy Ui number of | Gpon e inonenecs Bt nt Uhe cleventin | Just oue facen with B b enongl [ Wrenel Then we chn hiood snd suffer By, otk nnd | dn snckeloth dosiy gray lie wis under the direction of Mr | cvuel duffer wio'd spoll Clicistmns diy. | A Mew, Harvey Prentd in- | WALT MANON. | tendent and assistant supecintendent | 100 | E oy G Montvnam) of the 'MOTHER POSTPONES | PLANS TO VISIT SON Abwnt and girle dyen's “ 200 of underprivileged the Minsi i wehool urien Gomprel Runduy fon f the old gentie: | fenm enetic i s upon vl bee b lonked for w Ve nincutenlated PrEnenTe neCessury, 1t wam found tint Disteibution of 1oy, ¢ let & g - take o el nnd e oo o Canviienn Miw pist ol ol M hiw 1 e Wty | e ] by | onfen Kldnaper Marinn wnmtneed toduy ol of | o witn when denins A V. M A The 30 voungsters of the Children s | o without futhers o and wll in weod | . by ) el celelin They seemned 10 g oh | Whemsire o) of wecond b wooe other ohitd o betier elreom HAR CITY, | ' nees do out of twwnd new tovs dn | g K sddition 1o the ehitdrens feativitios i the pission 1x providing Christinas Ainners ¢ worthy Tt Fawuri ”h edv e of the dormitorios Purkor Who bad begun b mOBpCt Wiere Wik | e wis iy .‘,'f,“,'\“""“”'J,‘,"\"",I‘“‘"’,'h,’]"", ity | Charlen s, former ohief In the mirsion's Iu o | poliee ) o ow Palwand was roled wtier b convieted | MIS forgery while employed at e b MISS FARRAR RECOVERING 72y, “iu it ot o 1| | Enthiy an wn ofticial Misx Miry Viarvar 42 yoars old of | ol Fdwards snbd (it Min Bultimore In vecovering i e MDckmian expessed o o Ko effectn of Wiandna g wie polsonti: | (0 0er son ul once, follow ing his by wn the pesalt of ot work S Orekon. b wased her D vemterdny by U Piee Deparient 80wl aiange aspocation seores | we wquad and Dy Mogruder | of offers of Auancinl aid were g | Dol [eetved, ancluding numerous letters Misn Farvur was found yesterdus | conialning cheek | overcome b the residence of Juegh | AT a confercnce with the mothere | Far 1024 1 wirmer nonthenst where | ol de nand, whe declined 1 whe wak @ VIKItor, Gax wies pondtog | aecept (he offers of Bnanciwl aid sl | Coom an open Jet, wnd In. Machonald [ agieed (it an she might mol be per | and the veweus wgiad were sapmoned. | mitted Wward pending Wi Mine Farrar had suflered & necyous whe had e 1o await | ks, police Leported . ! Marian 1 | ment fand | | *had n | Dunning | By Chry Known ax (G STAR. WASHINGTON FIDNAPER'S ROOM YIELDS NEW CLUES S:renglhens Theory of Los Angeles Police It Was There Parker Girl Met Her Death. By the A LOR A S, December 10 give Up new sueprises o ities, the i Eappenring where Wil ward confessed kid: ¢ and ae Hotle Mavion Panker nt the time of the vivals o ln's the auth apartment Hickman, 1 shiyer his home orme, - In that apartment, first visited by officers who vaided the house Sun duy morninz only a few hours afior Secme W made known, the police « sinee have found nin o whieh convinees them that i that (he =mall th, On that st i e o i partment honss owner, sat ehing Prrsners Iilx without picion, visit the 1ot up_in thes nrousing can with that « w of the und et of tained ut the cerding davs the apirt ] datained towe!s proved to he hlo va made on () vostrand of hair i ©hall of & nutshel) having heen found the girl's dress knife and missi wrapped hody was ¢ In st viel % W ieh enily w ment nt in hadd heen used 10 wra the body of the small victim. Late vesterday the polics helieved they had found the veason for the theenee of suspicious e e in that tirst hurried search o pirtment when they discoversd that in the two it had been accupied by Hick he had used the hetter part of 1% of cle that these were s e the dence of erime. Reconstructing the murdor evidence the lice helieve b lad to the vnder the impression xh to her father, wha she told was injured. The off Zoing heen believe that Hickman may have kept | | her silent by thr while he wiax ent in the apartment and perhaps anaesthetics in his absen New Analysis Ordered. o that on his re- tuen 0 dead By to p the apirtm m oan uhs Dble to revive the He then dlamembered her rmit it to be taken from Nt without detection, A | new analysis of the lungs of the slain xirl whether o first examin has el 1o determine iow were given. Th tided 1o show that administered, arch for the eluxive “Andrew *named by Hickinan as the murdercr of the school girl, new start today, annoynced that I been invest ) b susple i, of them, Andrew Oliver Crnmer, Known Kramer, and hix broth Frank 4 heen prisoners Jadl Nince last August A 1 brother, Al Cra r, hux been working for his father in Lanker- shim. the police had heen volinpre of (his investigntion ax added foundatio for th ntention that the implien- thon of Cramer and a “June Dunnin in the confession wax the work of a plansible lar. rsuit of the June Dunning, Hickman, ran up agninst whitt the poilce de was a blank wall when Frank mer told them that a Roxe Dunning m brother was Frank's wife and ver heard of a June Dunning His wife, he said, had n xister, Mahle Dunning. but that she had died nine months sgo. A shown Hickuan's hnd w vague r knowing him and when ¢ the time, ared 1t wam about last June. The police. however, as yet have falled to obtain & satisfactory answe ling quantity of clues and enen tonding to had the aid of . waid he thit welates ey have not lem of brought of Al w description the fronclad alibi onsldered nw m mignifl supporting wtory of an n port last nizht that o« inswerlng the deseription of n aled the Herald 1ot In Ban Franchao the night afier Hickmian had left there in his north rn flight, * The #ranger 602 Hiekman's heen able to solve how the yvouthtul in axe the w he nnd . despite f hix Jadl term ren was “the man In voom at the hotel n No. 4 In his contexsion he had wald that he and Cram to meet at the Hernld Hotel in Hickman hax Insisted that he had no means of communieating A1 were he. had w the number of Hick haps con Wik wn ather puzz the Reported In San Diego, v oenme the nillontions W Crner el which the e Tuno Let 5 Pho for un Dunning Ay Infor alfleers thint 0 woman dune Dunnlng, ns well nx ol i heen tedd ax helng In Lor Angelen s 0l n N mher heen ul Ko hotel, A letter purporting to come e “womnn by the cnse’ Pune,” wies pwsed by the patloe Just mnother hons. 1ta contents failed K With the known facis in the ng wevaral Instunces, These Tecent developments wdded mimerons fndications i (e vy | Hgntion the cnss i o OV B KA pIng wt lennt wis e work of w wingle person ' e Lo bwscriptione wm ol wmen Areased 1o tnther . in Ve ool oww LA hpdwiiting expert expresscd [ Wonmii ikht by e whith W letters i o vk Careylng Parcels, Ahbenta ol the apartin Hhickman o hia b the kldnuping i pllern of hving s v and i ol provided by fule e different Wil telokranh offive A Pwo o Bone w i Wl ol (e towels | the givrl'« | evie | on this | nce he might have | or found | ntioned by his | Hickman's | el the | vietim met | Left to vight: Chiet of 1w PRy the Acencin BETILL o great told will be re little Palestine SUy stone e Christians shrine of tl far from vily, a | the Vivih is cvowded tin The 1 congested 1 w Keys other in quires g sty Three | who enme zifis of The very r dusty ath tr | Wise i ed highway The ound haned A fow for ton, villas, H tex, stud Oiheraise the which Buth f wrest fro ar breast of wal planted rounding hiils. | field where wd of the | The | hration was Honxe win Year be held oy ehlldren ! e they had Duy ) today at wnd a g MOrrow rection of My 1 Chiris | Miss B0 Ine A fumily Dnizhe, at wh Lwilt e nt how ane of the proiam, At Latternoon the | wilt an Home for th helid by the sy nighi Phierday Club will b Pl from e hovs i e will b il party Aty wly Pwellih sty Hickman pareels wn wment on e andunling townd vond 4 The cane win that ept o e the Bty ap e S Jrent 1136, 1, 3:30, 6, & 930 1E: crusalem s hrines visitors i but whirh e dee i vehicles to make the ¢ for ase of t 1t this s and Licyeles stran ng at this i the Wise Few Villas o survounding « but the hemites who m, manufacture of soap in the the thi Bethlchen nogr A incloxure of two or thickly Juxurious gro trast to the the thelr flocks on the first o, ave Nt can m and they we ald it Joy, FRIENDSHIP HOUSE CELEBHATION IS ON BY HICKMAN VERIF!ED‘ | Annual Christmas We-k Progmm | Check by Pohce Shows He Tonki Starts With Kindergarten Party. annual Tnunched yestorday, ench Awed and | Al enter b Mot hers nt Nt At G el e enteriig b CRT fom 8 (o 12 wel and wnothey iy Tt Che il s et ol b Aetivered to her fihes Wi I pareels scntterad wlong live (I aeiviten ¢ ORI witioers dechns g 1o i 1, Jud t Christmns nacted to town of son | houses | On the eve of the | il many st Bethivl nativity who m to viors birtd A en here in 15 1o links the s th of wixom davs all er confusion [ ory e ht 00 dull Al are “hip at 1t Teois minte e journey has heen a i will b vl one IGREAT CHRISTMAS PAGEANT TO BE HELD AT BETHLEHEM ‘Story of Nativity Will Be Re-enacted on Scene—Motor Cars Take Visitors Over Road Shepherds Trod. A Press in this not an It re nagination to realize 1 trave from the 4 I East with A myrrh 1 tself fe differ flelds pand goat in surrounding nt o by the | | The unes in ol Ui farms me in e L Wl roniee the there thr tr ., on Wt hill, with uliv in rou stands cres and startling | s of the suy This I3 the shepherds Luke, upon them v xhon e u sald un fr which shall Christmas w at and day yoste with Din cnrols wnde oelock o *rlendshin Mtertainment nt nnd T30 o'clwk will wel 1opi e wd thelr ¢l b that dance will I . Ml Tt aeting 1o o aeoldental o man from 1 whiht Wl the tieory e Borimed ol W wanhi enrly olive tho failue the tap » them I bring von x k Friendship weial until oy ¢ it the friemis at thm clal will b Clibon il A0 vears ol hix home, o weeks ngo, ded an nikht n SR by the Cxpladi ViR fdentical | watched | by hristin, “the angel of and round ove about fon 1 tidd cele- avents New Kindergarien students enjoved their Fourteen g songe and danced about trimmed o ehilde noon. el celebratl ((ernoon at 4 Lenildren will win and Mrx ® stories will he told by hield, ity ut 8 o'elock Monda howorkers ¢ to thelr ntures of the Tuesdny the i il ot will week's Cluh th Weil Huvs .| FORAUTOMOBILE THEFT| L play from 130 10 4 0'liek neat night Edward Birkhead Dies, Hdward fivkhenad fell fram the poreh at who B 1 aney ath ht howan Ny the the wilh il [ ap met ok plae ol ety s, Wan » the hat the ap Y. W. C. A, POOL 17th & K Streel Open for Dips, Dacomhor 26.31 Holiday Rates, 25¢ t Paal Clased . Hickman and State | | wan | letters and eards | oftice 05T OFFICE PUTS OUTALL D. C. MAIL | New Record Established Dur- ing Holiday Rush—Mooney Is Well Pleased. | An unprecedented record for the ex. pedith wme of pmsed reported Maoney, Never hefo vol evel oMee handling of the largest Christmas mail that through the ecity post today by in the history of the office has that Inxtitution heen ‘elean’ on Christy it was emphasized. Fourteen million mostly ecards—and Wachingtonitns, pasand “llation machines be. 15 and vesterday, an per cent over last vesr. mailed for de. ‘kagen receive delivery she all mailed by through the ean here, and pe from other cities for an inerease of 30 per cent, When the carriers and the p post delivery fleet left the city this Supt. of Mails hooley office was “ah v ition which { brought sighs and shoutx of rejoicing the working force. which had nted during the past three 0 employes of all classes, After the morning delivery started however the mail hegan to flow in. bt in almest negligihle quantities compared with the past few days Owing to the fact that the postal em- ployes were ab:east of their task, they n this day David a Savior, which Lord. And this shall he a 1 find the ha elothes, lyin in tl Chirist e <izn un wiag “ o 17 And s wonder over th wther vis From telied the les e n retai with fts n, b von 1in x Hin in the shy started ont s voute the e are treadin fichl where the star of tha east ol heart of Bethlehem. it ancient appearance rvow. windingz, ill.paved al- or au- A few = hright r are eith made 1 cateh rain water for storage against | * dry seasom, just as they did in the s when Herad was tetrarch of G and Mury 2ht forth her first- horn san pped him in swad dling and laid him in a man there was no room for inn." the citiz B with their e eyes It by « North. Are Attrae hlehem women and often be 1 tall and tapering and aped in white ddly like those 1 manuscopts filled with ethlehem rims and today Cvs thirong shile of tiles, L domea can s wer b the hav ol ones fat roofs ind w othes i e them in the Torday unmistakabl thiehem are plump. un and often the Cru Women The stately wetive are Their headdresses, the early o ) with the times ently the ahout the Orthodox, ~whenev they ta in thelr ' sed in their m led vestm their a Lops anad out in th | From the narrow. twisting lanes tne | way leads into 2 grent open square be. » Church of the Nativity, where L cluster of huilding in the wheie Jesus Christ was crowd, hristian pa- Armenian or appear on the ars and usly be- ™ Latin sty dre e T sumptu hey are foilowsd | rehbishops, bish- decked very born, ‘THEFT OF 2 AUTOS spot | Cars of Kansas City Physician and Shoe Dealer. | | what {man hunt in the West, | the fast | dor were able to disposs of the mail mat- ter nw fast as it arrived. The peak of the Christmas eard and letter rush was reached Wednesday, when the caneel ported a figure of 2.630.000. x droy 1 and yesterday the tigure ® 1.500.000, Today's figure 10 be far below the million n ney declared he was the fact that the pmpty’ post office on Christmas eve was diue to the co-operation of the peaple of Washington, who answered hi« appeals through newspapers and \xmhn to mail early. “I want to ex oss mvy appreciation for the co-op- erat ton.” he declared. “as all of us balieved that they complied with our plea to ‘Mail Early Mr. Moaney announced there will he no delivery tomorrow except in the case of late arriving parcel post | packagzes. There will be one letter delivery Maonday merning, and the | regular | will be applied to tomorrow and Sun- | dav. . BRAVADO DESERTS HICKMAN, WHINING not unmi «ontinu t Page) erally hidden and often difficult to de teet. While Hickman slept last night one of the fastest trains on the Pacific Coast sped northward to Portland carrying the men who directed the Nation-wide search for the fugitive and the man who will direct his prose. cution in the courts of Los Ange County. They were Chief of ™ Davis and Chief of Detectives Herman “lina of Los Angeles. the directors in has been called the and Asa M of Los An were due to ar es. district _attorney geles Connty. They rive today Want More Details, Portland they arranzed for rail transportation to Pen- Where they were inter- the prisoner, and attempt t wring from him. if possible. ad- ditonal detafls of the kidnaping Hickman revealed the extent « his career of outlawry yesterday by confexsing a string of robberies that run the full width of the continent— all in the space of six months. Recounting his activities from the time he returned to Kansas Clty un- in connection with b onviction in Los Angeles, by telling of taking an m A man at the point From l view fo he hegan antomobile By the Asso Ka check ¢ Wlliam smber 4 1% today verifled tward Hickman's story that omobiles here. ol of taking suburb, belonged K \nll he was fore n hine the nigh T last Ly a youth Who made no elfort to take his non o jewelivs ) Niv handit the Couk, a shee dwler, sald the sl urn the car NUday, but that it was not ¢ until November 6, in the ML AIStECE here, The sp showed Jt had heen dviven 4,00 Police beloved Mr. Cook's car ted In the tour of the Middle A East deseribsd by Hicknan The car Hickman used (o deliver Mavian's bady to her father was taken from e Herbert L Mants the nighe « coupe, of the | Cook machine, | while unable to identiy | Hickman as the bandit who foreed hin | from his automobile, said the yeuth 1 made no demand for money | |MAN GETS PRISON TERM was Wost | Tmposed for Stealing and Stripping Car——Purse Snatcher Sontenced. John 0. Driver, o (ho PERIEITAYY for & years swaterdin DY ustice James B Smith in Criminot [A-m«. Diiver ook un auto [hile without — the — permission ot | Murgavet Beown. s e, Novem. | L her & and stripped the machine of its Ures Tames Howard, o (] N vouth escaped with o NEAUS U ety dust e | O B Tt e s disposed o FRIVE 01 pevsons convicted of rohtwry Pl Bdt of 15 yenrs tn the penite Uy Hewiid pleaded gl M hing the puese of Malissa M Wentan Novemtwr 13 Boanse of | i s vt ERe cou g ' Wl v neUnit i Nedockor i Le Bourget 2127 California St, N.W, Wi " i A .llm‘ VI Wy heds. Apartments, $38 Up Open Nahied eveniuge LTI Y Soe Reswlont Manager FLOYD R DAVIS m I“lh\“ e Was went to canse ol term ol 4 Vs Nutes Attornes Piearad for the | har of a xkun. Then he drove to Chicaz» where he staved a short tme. snd moved to Toledo and Cinelnnati and other cities in that section, but dud not sop. After going through Pittsbursh PIeked up & member of the State police who rde with him maore than 20 miles. He did not like Phi delphia because of its ne-way strects and the apartment which he 1. Then he th Gettys Wash more. Jersey and New ew York was not to his liking and he remained here only three days He said he ed holdups ‘0 Chicage. Kansas . Louis and Columbas Made Speed in Hold-ups, He acquired n repuiation for |0 Ufast young rebber Colimbus by [holding up threa places in lexs than 30 minutes one night. The mext night he pulled two more there. He said he ROU A “good Wiiteup in the papers there. and fust missed running inte the chivt of police, Returning to Kansas City. he took the automobile which figured in the Los Angelex Kidnaping from Dr. Her bert Lo Mantz. Eventually he made Bis way toward California through southwestern Missourt, Oklahoma and Texns, and while In Kl Pase pur chased another gun, he City being NUREMBERG, TOY CITY, IS UNCHANGED Bavarian Municipality (Un- disturbed from Middle Postmanter | eve as today, | tion machines re-| Thursday | from the citizens of Washing- inday and holiday coliections | INNOCENCE IN CELL — ‘h:l\m‘ greates: | | of the v | Ao, | present da | ional ‘a all and a | erooked streets houses—all the of a page from one of picture haoks. “About the ol trumively spread rrn Nurembers e it and par cardboard tures, toys, comers ook 10 the te ing an unoceupied French heziny beeome tharo the past century Teuton quaintness stamped upon her prod hower of N | Medieval Stronghold. | “The i perial tury, upon P'egnitz. Artisans and mer Incted in the safe sha walls A m a tablished and the wickly twveen ¥ one band, and N cther. Ies and stone ts o | which thes f the Pones Suremberz merchant ery of wate- Inlia and China aro Good Hope ruimed N | as it did that of fall w ded to by during the € astavus Protest % Gt | War. when Sweden. | tended the w fand 10000 starvation in. families hecam | they became peorer. ar French Rev alres reduced and in Nurembe: town manufacturi Germany. The ratiroad frem Nure berz to Furth was the first rilns ny. and the for rect line between Rhin~ vit Vienna. Where Watches Originated. Nurembe: he of t roofs, ment handie Pt rumen wlly in the moa Modern conten 1 pe There's still time to make a Christmas gift of The Star Your order leit at the Rus Ofice will receive immedia tention and and Sunday cording any ont any one ton there's na The Star will he m o your instrug oftonn address mterested i W\ ash it that wall more acceptahble. Rates by Mail- ~Postage Paid Maryland and Virginia Evening and Sunday Evening One Vear $9.00 $6.00 300 $3.00 S50 All Other States and Canada