Evening star., 1932-11-17
19POL|CE ASSIGNED
AS SPECIAL DETAIL
TO FIGHT BURGLARS
Picked Men to Concentrate
Activities in Four Pre-
cincts of City.
SQUADS ARE ORGANIZED
AFTER SERIES OF CRIMES
Nine More HOUSEKEEPING Cases
Reported in Last "a Hours.
Five Men Arrested.

Details consisting of 10 picked men,
Including detective sergeants, pre-
cfnct detectives and II privates, swung
into action today in an effort to halt
the series Of housebreakings here.
The details are to concentrate their
activities In the areas covered by the
aeyenth, eighth, tenth and third police
precincts. The men received special
instructions from Inspector Frank s. w.
Burke chief of detectives, at police
headquarters this morning before peen-
ming their task.
Detective Sergts. Thomas Sullivan and
Curtis Trammell are to cover the area
of the four precincts IN g. special radio
equipped car, in which they will I'M
nnediately respond on reports OF any
cases of housebreaking or jimmy tnlev-
erv. In addition q detective sergeant
VIII have direct supervision Of details
IN each Of the four precincts,
Others Assigned TO- Group.
Those In charge Of the special pre-
cincts are Sergt. Norman HooEnSon,
No. 3; sergt- Oscar Mansfield, NO; ssrst q
sergt. C. G. Stepp, No. 10, and SergI'
A. M. Tolson.
r. L. Jones and ]. w. Shimon are
the precinct detectives assigned to the
detail. The detail of privates Is made
nm of one specially chosen man from
each of the IL police precincts.
the majority Of the large apartments
In the city are located In the areas TO
which the details have been assigned,
inspector Burke pointed out.
The loot In houserreakings during
the past month has run into thousands
Of dollars.
reported to police IN the past "A hours
and a colored man was placed under
arrest last night in connection with
housebreaking several days ago in
which jewelry and clothing, valued at
0 total Of $500, were reported taken.
Burglaries Reported.
Among housebreakings reported last
night we're: The apartment OF Mrs.
Stephen mgham, 2009 Belmont road,
where jewelry and cash totaEng $85
was reported taken; the apartment OF
Miss Alexinta Harings 1909 Bitmore
gtreet. where silverware, cash and con-
cert tickets, valued at 500, were taken;
the apartment Of Mrs. LeBella Smith,
2433 / street, where q SIS breast pin
and SO In cash were taken by bur-
glars who entered through rear win
dow: the apartment Of Scott @. Rtgby,
lI2s Sixteenth street, clothing valued
at $3.50, and the store Of Samuel Gritx,
1885 Seventh street, where $40 worth
Of clothing was taken by burglars who
broke open rear door.
The man held under arrest Is Vernon
3. johnson, 20, colored, arrested in
connection with the $500 theft from
n~kV~- ~ Cnr11lr Howard M
hammers, 1918. Twenty fourth street.
johnson was booked at No. 9 police sta
tLon for investigation.
Miss Fanny sDekelbaum, 4405 Eight
eenth street, told police colored man
had Snatched her pocketbook contain
ing Sat while she was standing in
front Of a market In the 1900 block Of
Thirty fifth street last night. The
pocketbook also contained several
checks, she said.
Joseph Apolono, 22e II street, re-
ported to police that his saxophone and
two music books we're stolen from a
Georgia avenue.
Four Men Arrested.
In the other housebreakings reported,
thieves obtained loot Of smaller value
I'm most cases running under $50.
-Four colored men were arrested by
Acting Lieut.. Nelson o. Holmes and
Acting Sergt. z. NJ Brown at Thirty
fourth street and Benning road north
east early today In connection with
breaking into the establishment Of
Phillips Provision Co., $500 block Of
Benning road. The four arrested were
said to have furnished police with an
account of the housebreaking after the
colored men had been unable to explain
satisfactorily where they had obtained
II hams found In their automobile at
the time Of the arrest.
Lieut. Holmes and Sergt. Brown ap-
pretended the men in the automobile
when they found them driving without
lights. A fifth man. said to have beer
in the car at the time, jumped out anc
escaped. The four men arrested were
booked for investigation at No. IL pre-.
cinct, where they identified themselve.
as George Green. IS, 140o block Of
street southeast; Benjamin H. Berry
10, 200 block of Warren street north.
east; John S. Bowie. 81, 1400 bloch
of Duncan street northeast, and Ray
nond A. Simms, 20, first block Of Fitz.
hugh court southeast.