Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
Assistant Manager Bound
and Gagged by Youths
in Box Office.
CAR BELIEVED STOLEN
FOR GETAWAY BY PAIR
Audience Sits Through Picture as
Hold.up Is Staged Just Before
Closing Hour.

Two young men who had viewed a
crime picture at the Avalon Theater in
Chevy Chase last night left their seats
a little before the closing hour and
sauntered into the theater's ONCE. As
sistant Manager Edward Bowman was
so busy counting 1855 of the nights re-
ceipts he said he did not hear them
enter.
The men had tied handkerchiefs over
their faces and produced pistols before
interrupting Bowman.
stick EN- up" barked one in the
best movie manner.
That was as far as the dialogue went.
The rest was action, due to the fact
that Bowman had been gagged and the
youths were too busy to talk. The pair
also produced cord and bound the
manager.
Pocketing the $685., the robbers then
searched the ONCE and departed with
warning to Bowman to keep quiet
Stole Auto for Getaway.
In making their getaway, police be-
lieve the pair ayailed themselves of an
automobile belonging to Walker s.
Buel. correspondent Of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. Shortly prior to the rob-
berry, Buel left his machine, a sedan
bearing tag J-621e, unlocked and
| standing at the Connecticut avenue
curb near the theater while he went
into drug store.
The car had been stolen when Tsuel
returned Is minutes later with his pur-
chases. incidentally, Buel said. there
were two books pertaining to crime in
| the tonneau
The men went about the robbery so
quietly that the audience, intent on a
feature entitled THE Shadow of the
Law" never suspected anything was
amiss.
The manager, meanwhile. freed him.
self just as the organist, Miss Blanche
LevinSon, heard mufied cries and ran
to his assistance.
Pair Assault Man in Store.
Police were also attempting to get
some trace today of two colored men
who entered delicatessen store at 910
Twentieth street yesterday afternoon
and assaulted Anthony Nau, so years
old, with blunt instrument.
Nau lay upon the floor in a semi
| conscious condition while the pair stole
$50 from the cash drawer. Nau sum-
| moned assistance and was removed to
Emergency Hospital. He has a prob
able fracture Of the skull, hospital at
tendants say.
A thief with a flair for literature
visited the residence of Rudolph Leitner
at 3105 Thirty-sixth street Wednesday
night and made OF with IS books of
poetry and prose, all by German au-
thors.
Police today were seeking to identity
the burglar as the same who robbed
the home of John M. Sternhagen at
1928 o street recently, obtaining many
rare and valuable volumes Of poetry and
prose,
Stolen Calf Sold and Found.
A calf which Albert Thompson, Fair
fax County farmer, later identified as
having been stolen from him was sold
to Walter Brown, at 928 C street yes
terday afternoon by two young men.
The pair told Brown they were from
Fairfax County and that the calf be-
longed to them.
Brown gave them q S1170 check for
the animal and then, becoming suspi-
cious, tried to stop payment at the
bank. He was informed, however, that
the pair already had casl1ed the check.
When Thompson appeared and iden-
tined the animal Brown paid him a
| like amount. The calf, Brown explained,
had been butchered before Thompson
| arrived.
Film Reels Stolen.
Headquarters Detectives were on the
lookout for four motion picture reels Of
Lightning Express" and Outside the
Law" this morning following the re-
port Of theft at the Universal Film
Exchange, 924 New Jersey avenue,
some time after closing late yesterday
Oscar Blumenthal, manager of the
film company, told police the two NOV
ing pictures and q number of itho-
graphs were taken from the offices of
the exchange. He valued the stolen
goods at $120.
A diamond ring valued at 1925 was
stolen from the wardrobe of Samuel
Delisi, at No. 7 l. street, last night,
according to report made to the sec
ond precinct. Approximately $40 in
| bills was also taken, he said.
A thief entered and ranSacked Tex
AGO gasoline filling station. at 1919 M
street, and stole SOFIA from its place
of concealment on q shelf beneath the
cash register, according to q report
made to police of the seventh precinct
this morning.
Automobile Company Robbed.
Burglars who made a foray on the
Tiew Motor Co., at 1917 w street. went
so far as to steal an automobile in
which to make their escape last night,
after taking seven automobile tires, sew
eral suits of overalls and miscellaneous
tools, valued at q total of SIS.