Evening star., 1941-11-03
Robbers Use Torch
ToCrack Safe Here
And TakeS1,500
Series Of HoIdups
Cause Arrest of ;
Youths in Maryland

Using an acetylene torch of a
nearby Wrecking concern. robbers
cracked the safe of the Drew Con-
struction Co., 1048 Thirtieth street
NV. over the week end and made
off with 81, 500.
Robert J. Whitestone, Alexandria,
Va. president of the building firm,
said the robbery occurred between
2 pm. Saturday and $50 am. TO-
day, when employees went to open
the Office.
Police said the robbers gained
entry to the Office by breaking a
glass door and then moved the
heavy safe to an outer garage. An
acetylene torch. owned by a wreck
ing concern at 104l Thomas Jeffer-
son place NV, across the alley
from the garage, was found beside
the open safe.
Police said at least three men
would have been necessary to carry
the heavy safe.
Three Youths Arrested.
Meanwhile, charged with holdup
and robbery in connection with two
cases in the District and one in
Maryland, three youths we're be-
ing held at Hyattsville. Nd. after
two Prince Georges County officers
captured them at Cottage City.
The three were listed as George
Carroll Reidy. 81, Brentwood. Md;
Jack Williams. alias Albert w.
Olshefski, II. of the 200 block of
Eleventh street Sc. and Edward
Buckler. 18, of no fixed address.
They were arrested by Prince
Georges County Policemen Richard
Pearson and Lee Pumphrey, who
had received a radio broadcast de-
scribing three gunmen who had
held up three milkmen. The officers
arrested them on parking lot
after following their car some dis
tance on the Baltimore boulevard.
Milkmen Are Held Up.
The first milkman robbed was
Namel S. Klawmans, Rogers
Heights, Md, driver for the Chevy
Chase Dairy He lost S238 to three
men who stopped him in the 14OO
block Of H street Sc.
A short while later Thomas K.
Haislip, Lorton, Va. was stopped
near Montello avenue and Oates
street NE. by two men who said
they wanted quart of buttermilk.
One OF the men drew out a gun
when Mr.. Haislip reached for the
milk and the other took the trucks
ignition keys. They took his billfold
that contained only % cents and
drove off in nearby parked auto
mobile with another man.
Sidney J. Cortviendt, 1872 Twenty
ninth street Sc, driver for the
Harvey Dairy. was robbed of 50 in
Mount Rainier, Md, by three men.
Three robberies by the strCrg arm
method were reported to police over
the week end. Willie Mcdonald,
Charlottesville, Va, was rotbed of
S38 by three colored men at Fourth
and I streets NV: William j. How
ard, so, of Soldiers Home. lost Sc to
two colored men who grabbed him
from behind in the 300 block of
Mount Vernon place NV, and
Thomas L. Nickles, 913 L street
NV, had his watch taken from
him by two colored men at Eighth
and L streets NV.
NewsbOy Is Robbed.
A 15-year-old newsboy, James K.
Outris. Ills Eighth street NV, was
attacked by three colored boys who
snatched his handkerchief contain
ing IS in change. The robbery oc-
CURED in the lo0G block of Vermont
avenue NV. early yesterday.
Janet B. Scott, 1440 Rhode Island
avenue NV, reported two colored
boys snatched her purse containing
SIG last night.
Those who reported thefts of
clothing from parked automobiles
and the value stolen from each in
cluded 1t. Comdr. Morton K. Flen-
ing, Arlington, Va, $1G0: 1t. John
H. Brickley, Philadelphia Marine