Evening star., 1941-10-27
Robberies in Capital
Net Loot Tota|ing
Hundreds ofDoNars
Five Cases of Violence;
One Man Is Held Up
In Own Back Yard

Thieves roamed the city over the
week end and early today, loot rang
ing from postage stamps to hundreds
of dollars in cash. They sent one
man to Casualty Hospital, robbed
another at pistol point in his own
back yard They robbed a safe and
slipped through basement and bed
room windows while houSehOlders
were away.
To Casualty Hospital this morning
went William M. Combs. 81, of 27l5
Ontario road NV. Police said he
was robbed of a wrist watch and all
his cash $3.50 by a man said TO
be wearing a soldiers uniform. Mr..
Combs received head lacerations and
a hand injury.
Similar strong-arm methods were
used in four other robberies. Just
before Saturday midnight Louis
Kopos of 623 Third street NV.
was seized by three colored youths
police said. and robbed Of $40 near
his home.
SluggeO anu hODDtu.
A Colored man struck Joseph A,
Jackson. l4l6 @ street NV, on the
head and robbed him of sl4 at Sixth
and NJ streets NV. police said.
Three colored youths took $40
from George A. Blendinger 81. of l2l
Thirteenth street NE. early yester-
day morning as he stood in the 700
block of Seventh street NE. police
reported.
After leaving his work at the Cairo
Hotel, Robert G. Greenfield, 46. COL
ored, of 1916 New Hampshire avenue
NV, was assaulted by three colored
men. police said, and robbed OF
$3.50.
In his own back yard, Wayne S.
King, 100 Girard street NV, was
held up today at the point OF a
pistol police reported They said
colored bandit escaped with So.
Delivery Boy Held Up.
A block away. a colored boy was
making a delivery to an apartment
house in the 500 block of Girard
street NV. when one of two COL
ored men who hailed him pulled a
pistol. police reported. The other
searched the boy, Ashly w. Nc
Autcheon Of TIA Corcoran street
NV. and removed $50 in bills.
After burglars had forced a base
ment window in Chinese cafe at
4469 Connecticut avenue NV. they
removed $40 from an unlocked safe,
according to police.
An attempt to break open a safe
at the Mieklejohn coal yard office,
2l2 Van Buren street NV, was re-
ported. Failing. the thieves took
radio, five fountain pens and sheets
of stamps. police said.
Burglars broke open music box
and vending machines in restau-
rant at 23OO Fourteenth street NV.
early yesterday after forcing open
steel mesh covering the rear win
dow. They took $40 in cash and
cigarettes worth sl2. Chewing gum
and cigarettes valued at S216 were
taken from a restaurant at 4O7
Eighth street NE, police said.
Two RObberies Net 500.
After a window at his home was
forced open, Mike Becker, 1888
Seventh street NV. reported to
police that $40 was stolen. About
$3.50 in cash was taken from the
bedroom of Grace Coffman. 702 G
street NE, after her house was
entered, police said.
David McKinnen, proprietor of a
store at 309 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. reported his shop windows
smashed early yesterday and
watches and pens valued at s26
were stolen, police reported.
In one case, prompt recovery of
the loot was reported. Mrs. Leland
C. Lovett, wife of Comdr Lovett.
U. S. N, reported the theft of packed
suit cases from her parked auto in
the 1000 block of F street NV
Even before her report was received
Prince Georges County police had
found the suit cases lying on a road
near Ritchie, Md. Police said some
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