Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 50

50 BANDITS GET 63 IN THREE STORES Two Men Hold Up Chinese Laundryman—Grocer Is Robbed. Three store holdups occurred within three hou ast night in a radius of a few bloc The bandits were de- gcribed as negroes in every case Two bandits held up Sam laundry 1621 Seventeenth about 8 o'clock. -getting $10. hour later one man, ing a partmer on the outside, held up of Morris Phillips ing $10, and shortly hree men. one of Lee's street - 11 o'clock them a “twogun man.” held up Zarouni's delicatessen, 1606 Fourteenth street, making away with $it Sam lee took his advent ) ically. Laughi about his laundry . first n then showir when of the men stuck lack gunnee” in his face Bandit Takes $10. e man come, col come, come one man pursued the fleeins n who ran about the room 1lied open the cash drawer Then the twe g Sam to ask »ne police Zarouni, whose husband Zarouni, owns the delicatessen 1606 Fou in the b hushand was preparing to c ve for the night, wher entered. She came into the store just in time to see one man. holding pistol in each hand. point the weapons at her husband and threaten “Open your mouth and I'll kill you.” He kept his weapons upon the store. keeper and his wife, while his confed erates rifled the cash register, takin: $49, As a woman customer approached | the front door, t pistols and, ace companions, brushed by the custome: and disappeared down Fourteenth street Customer in Store. Morris Phillips, R street, girl when a negro, whom he had seen often before, entered his store. | I'm in 1o hurry,” he remarked to the girl, but a moment later he pulled a revolver from his pocket and point ed it at the g . telling the fright ened child to “run on out.” The bandit shielded his gun with his sweater from the view of passersby. Reaching over the counter, he took | $10 from the cash register and then walked out, keeping his gun trained on his victim until the door closed | after him. ! Mr. Phillips stated that a few min- | utes before the hold-up, he had ob. served the man, hat pulled low over his eves, walking to and fro in front of the store, while another man stood in the entrance to an alley across the street. He was of the opinion that the two men were partners and that they | planned origigally to hold up the laun dry of Chin Sam. two doors awav at 1313 R street. but abandoned their scheme when they saw several cus- tomers in the laund: the grocer at 1347 | was waiting on a colored a_half- | uspected of hav- |} THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, i THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927: ALFRED CONNER, VETERAN| OF CIVIL WAR, DIES AT 83 Funeral This Afternoon Followed by Burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Alfred Conner, $3 years of age, 1269 Owens place northeast, retired farmer died Tuesday morning after a short illness. Death was caused by bronchial pneumonia Mr. Conner was a veteran of the | Civil War, serving in the Confederate Army under Stuart’s command. He was born in Virginia, in which State he, lived until he retired seven years ago and moved to Washington Funeral services will be held at the home this afternoon and interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs, beth Conner; six sons, Charles, Oscar Alfred, Hugh and John Con Il of Washington, and four rs, Mrs. John Webster, Mrs ck Frost. Mrs. George Plum of Fauquier County, Va Elmer | mer Washir CIVITANS TO PROVIDE | YULETIDE BASKETS Club Will Furnish 100 Dinners for Salvaticn Army's Christmas | nd Mrs. George Webb, all of Distribution. Club of Washingtor of the 750 food bas: | Salvation Army will | families Christmas president of the nnounced toda Che other are being paid for with funds Army's provide 10 s which the ribute to poo Rudolph Jose collected e Christmas appeal for Jose, who is also chairman of on Army Advisory Board ed individual citizens to fons for baskets. He said | will pay the cost of ntaining 16 articles of food, including a five-pound chicken Six thousand dollars of the $20,000 needed by the army has been raised Staff Capt. Ernest R. Holz, divisional commander, stated today i that $7,500 of this used for Christmas r wtion At Christmas time we try 1o bring | cheer into the the poor. but | we o not forget the next day,” | said. “That is why we to continue the relief | Winter months. We | it to carry out the full program planned.” should be sent to Sal Experiments Show It Resists Sun| More Than Silk. Correspond:nce of the Assoclated Press. BERLIN. —A German technician | has found that wool offers more re- | sistance to the disintegrating action | of sunshine than does silk, cotton or linen. i Exposing several fabrics to the weather for a given period of time, he | learned that the ultra-violet rays of the sun affected silk more rapidly than any of the other textile fabrics sub. mitted to the test. 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