Evening star., 1932-11-26
String of Pearls Disappears
Between Chevy Chase and
Station or on Train.
APARTMENT OF MOSES
RANSACKED BY INTRUDER
Argentine Embassy Attache Also
Victim of Bandits-0ne Man
Gets Threatening Note.

Property valued at approximately
$4,000 was reported either lost or
stolen during the last "a hours, despite
unusual police activity to cope with the
wave Of burglaries and hold-ups which
has continued unabated for several
weeks.
The largest single loss was that of
a $4,000 pearl necklace ~ Mrs. Eva S.
Schaffer, reported for her by Thomas
o. Nichols, 4701 De Russey parkway,
Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Schaffer thinks
she lost the necklace either while en-
route to Union Station here or while
aboard a train going to Aiken, S. G.
Numerous hold-ups, attempted hold
ups and cases of housebreaking were
reported to police during the night.
Among those who suffered we're Sena-
tor George Moses Of New Hampshire,
the Community Chest, an Argentine
embassy attache and the H. P. Pills
bury, Co., located in the first block
Of H street northeast.
Left Threatening Notes.
At the latter place, wholesale -four
and seed store, burglars broke into the
warehouse, and after damaging and
unsuccessfully attempting to open two
safes, left two threatening notes on
the desk Of Charles w. Floeckher, q
member of the firm.
One of the notes said "You will be
killed." and the other directed F1oeckher
to Leave $500 at the door tonight" :"
The notes were turned over to police.
The apartment of Senator Moses,
1901 Wyoming avenue, was found ram
sacked yesterday by Miss Sadie
Schooler, employed by Senator Moses,
when she went to the apartment to
prepare it for Senator Moses return.
The Senator has been away from
Washington for several months.
The Community Chest reported $500
stolen from it's audit offices. The re-
port was made by Andrew G. Landrus,
auditor and Office manager, who said
the loss was fully covered by bond.
A robber, who attempted to hold up
Ramon Minetree, 1477 Newton street, a
taxicab driver, last night on Benning
road northeast, wac injured when Mine
tree struck him in the face with tire
iron. The man, said by police to be
Robert Wesley Carr, "a, of the HOO
block of Eleventh street southeast, was
stunned by the blow and Minetree sue
ceeded in holding him until the ar
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Casualty for painful lacerations to his
mouth.
Purse Snatched in Store.
The taxi driver told police Carr hired
him to drive out Benning road and
that when they reached deserted por-
ton attempted to hold him up with q
knife.
Two other taxicab drivers were robbed
last night one at pistol point. George
William Allen, colored, $40 South Capt.
tol street, said he was robbed of rs
cents by three armed co!ored passengers
in Blagden alley. A passenger in the
cab of Edward Thomas, 200 block of C
street northeast, snatcned $1.85 from
his hand and fed while the driver was
making change at Fourth and Ridge
streets
Mrs. Ellen ]. Talbert, 500 block of H
street, told police her pocketbook. con-
tanning two rings valued at $500, was
snatched from her arm in a downtown
department store.
Two would-be holdup men were put
to flight early this morning by Mary
Butler, colored, employed in a lunch
room in the TOO block Of Fourth street,
who pointed revolver at them when
they threatened her with bricks.
Among others held up and robbed
were George Cate. proprietor Of deli
catessen at 721 Eleventh street south
east, who was forced to turn over SO
to three robbers who entered his store
last night and Henry Griffin, colored,
HOO block of Seventh street, who was
held up by two armed co,ored men late
yesterday afternoon in front of TOT M
street and robbed of $18.
Attaches Clothing Stolen.
Erasto Villa, an attache of the Argen-
tine embassy, reported yesterday that
$12l worth of clothing was taken from
his apartment at 1909 Nineteenth street
by jimmy thieves.
other thefts reported were: Clothing
valued at $214. taken from the parked
automobile of Mrs. Moyne c. Mcdaniel
OF Terre Haute, Ind, stopping at Ward
man Park Hotel; clothing valued at
STA, taken from the parked car of
Joseph L. Polak of Baltimore, and 500
worth of clothing taken from o. L.
Cain of Birmingham, Ala, stopping
in the 1900 block of Seventeenth street
northeast.
Tong Wong, a Chinese. being held at
the District Jail, reported to police that
$92 worth of clothing had been stolen
from his home in the 600 block of
Second street southwest, sometime since
September 25.