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., 1G48 Thirtieth street
NWS oJer the week end and madfG
of with $500. :,
Rohert Rhitestone. Alaxandri2
Va, president of the building firn,
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 wreck
ing concern at 104l Thomas JefIer-
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, Nc, 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 q 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 $238 to three
men who stopped him in the 1400
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 a quart of buttermilk.
One of the men drew out 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 of in q nearby parked auto
mobile with another man.
Sidney j. Cortviendt, 1912 Twenty
ninth street Sc, a driver for the
Harvey Dairy, was robbed of So in
Mount Rainier, Md, by three men.
Three robberies by the strCEg arm
method were reported to police over
the week end. Willie Mcdonald,
Charlottesville, Va, was rotbed OF
$38 by three colored men at Fourth
and streets NV; William j. How
ard, 60, of Soldiers Home, lost $6 to
two colored men who grabbed him
from behind in the 800 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.
Newxboy 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 S. in change. The robbery oc'
CURED in tie 1oOC block of Vermont
avenue NV. esrly yesterday.
Janet B. Scott, 1440 Rhode Islanc
avenue NV, reported two colorec
boys snatched her pulse containing
$16 last night.
Those who reported thefts o1
clothing from parked automobile.
and the value stolen from each in.
cluded 1t Comdr. Morton K. Fleln'
Ing, Arlington, Va, $40; 1t. Jchr
Il. 4riekiey, . Philadelphia Marine