Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1928, Page 6

«'THE EVENING NING PRUB[[M TAILOR. MINUS $800 CASH. SEEKS UPBEFORE BOARD District Commission to Con- | sider 110-Foot Buildings Minus Setbacks. | The fate of the proposed amendment 4o the goning regulations«n permit the erection of buildings in cerfain areas to ® height of 130 feet without setbacks | above 110 feet as now required, will be determined by the Zoning Commission at a special executive meeting tomor- | row mérning at 10 o'clock. At the same | time thé commission will take action on the application of Julius Garfinckel for permission to erect a new apartment store building. 130 feet high withou! setbacks, on the northwest corner of Fourteenth and F streets. The proposed amendment as well a§ the Garfinckel application met with viz- erous gpposition at a public hearing fore the commission vesterday aft noon. Despite the objections, memb: of the commission announced that t would make an individual studyv.of these | that they met every day. about investments, and Pritz mantioned rtant matters before casting lots at the executive session to- two i their MOrTow. The principal opponents of thes 130- foo: amendmont and the Garfinckel patition were the National Capital Park gotten about the $2000 and the nran stitutional in Judiclary Seuars They passed the time of day. and the next morning they met again good thing. PAIR WHO SOLD HIM $2 IN BOX Joseph Fritz Draws Savings From Bank as “Security” | for Supposed $25,000. | Promised to Aid Stranger Find Worthy Recinient © for “Fortune.” Joseph Fritz of 228 Massathusstis aAvenue yesterday frusted & man in 2 green suit And & man in a grey suit and it eost him $800. Five yvears ago h» trusted & man in brown suit, and that cost him $2,000. So then he went back to work at his trade of tailoring and h's wiie went to twork s a scrubwoman and between them they saved up $800. He had for- . n_the brown suit JOSLPH FRITZ. Every morning Fritz goes for a con- One morning he met a man in a green suit n and give & ‘Then he nan in th 5000 to the poor After They talked | sul Poor P sald wou'd th could give away th S0 11 that he had $800 he could use for a Glib “Stranger” Arrives. One eveping Fritz and the man in ! he wouid tham $1.300 apiece and Planning Commission, the Ameri-| th® green suit were sitting in Fritz's |t can Institute of Architects and its Washington chanter. and the American Civie Associatio The only ment of the 13 t limitation from the Operative Builders’ Associ tion. which was repressni+4 bv Rufl Lusk. He als> appealed to the comm sion to speedilv and definitely ssttle question of the building height lim painting out that the present uncertain S!Alusn‘hit acted as a “lability” to builders. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission was represented by Maj. Cary H. Brown. its engineer, who pointed out that the commission had gone nn record as favoring strict adher- ence o the existing zoning regulatio me | front yard land ssked where he could find the English _consul. gray suit consul lived, and then the man in the grav suit told a story. sick in & ‘hospital in Washington. the same hospital was an.old woman. | also sick found a lot of monev under her pillow. | So he took the money and went. to California and made a ot more—$400.- 000. to bs exact. having taken the money from under the pillow. so before he died he made his =on promis* to go back to Wash- A man drove up in a car the mon in the aro The msan had on a They told him where the Years ago, he said. his father was In HResponsible RED TOP CABS INITIALISC CHARGE She died. and his father But he felt bad about shook hands and parted. The next morning they met the man in the gray suit. He had a steel box with him. There was $25,000 inside, he sald. He |said he had to run back to the Penn- sylvania Hotel for a minute, and would | Fritz hold the box for him. Pritz said {he would. The man in the gray suit | said he thought he ought to have some security. They talked this over for a | while and finally they decided that | Fritz should give the man in the gray | sult $800 and keep the box.with $25,000 {and that the man in the gray suit hould take the key. The man in the green suit would ga along with him. Fritz went to the bank.and drew out his $800 and gave it to the man in the /ray suit. The man in the gray suit opened the box. showed Fritz a pile of bills, then locked the box and went on offt. The man in the green suit went with him. They would meet Frita in an_hour, they said. Fritz was the only one of the three that kept the appointment. Later on he opened the box with a dull, blunt instrument and found it contained two dollar bills and 2 cents' worth of news- papers. That was yosterday. Pritz hasn't seen cither of the men since. but he still has the box Ttaly expogts a bumpar whest Central Armature Works 625-627 D Street N.W. Phcre Main 2660-1-2 Leather Belting, Rubl leys, Safety 2, Centuy Wire Exhaust Fa Electric Meters, Wholesale Leaders for 15 Years STAR, WASHINGTON, D. >, Cable and Supplie= T. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 19281 ISAY PRINCESS WASTED FORTUNE ON HORSES Felonds Ank T e Wife of Former Russian Noble- man, Accused of Thefts. She also was sccused of taking furni- ture from rented apartments. Priends testified that the once wealthy m;llneeu and her mother now are pen- niless. « Choir to Go Abroad. NORTHFIELD, Minh.—The St. Olaf College Lucher:n Choir plans a trip to Norway in 1930 to share festivities By the Associated Press. the of LOS ANGELES, July 31.—The story of how Princess Frances Golitzine, | American wife of a Russian prince, | squandered a fortune of several hun- dred thousand dollars betting on horse 900th anniversa races was told yesterday in her sanity hearing. ‘The court postponed its de- cision until next Monday to permit fur- ther medical examination. The examination of Princess Golit- zine was asked by friends after she had been arrested on grand theft charges. | She had been accused of taking articles from a Russian film actress for the | purpose of selling them and failing to | return either the goods or the money. Tolmanized Collars! ™HE :-r::{ilz_:,\"\‘!ogii;mnxv. i v Fans, Electric Tools, and Retail. PINDLER 801 11th Men’s Suits Except Silk and Linen Main 2704 —_— Exquisite Dry Cleaning 95¢ All Suits Re-shaped and Pressed On Qur Valeteria Presses Ladies’ Dresses $1.75 up We Call and Deliver LAST DAY! g et Sale of the Entire Men'’s Clothing Stock from Alex. Kaufman of Alexandria $2 to $4 Straw Hats 1 / Kaufman's and our ‘Sl /2 Fine Felt Hats PRICE own stoeks. Peadalin Were 22, 33.50 a . $1 .65 Kanfman's stock. l and Even Less with respect to the Garfinckel applica- tion Charles H Garfinckel petition. He declared .that Mr. Garfinckel began to assemble the property in 1918 for the speeific pur- poce of erecting a store building and at the time ited no thought of the restric- tions of the present zoning regulations. “Mr. Gerfinckel had a right then to expect that he would be aiiowed to build as high as other buildings in the city. and particularly as high as buildings in ths immediate vicinity.” he said. “The price paid for the property was such as to impose a severs financial penalty if the ground was not fully developed. We fee! there is no good argumeni againsi this reasoning Mr. Garfinckel intends to erect a monumental type of building, not disregarding either the buildings immediately surroundinz. or the es- thetic development of the city.” | After the public hearing eommis- sion convened in executive session and | rezoned property at the southeast cor- || ner of Sixteenth and Kennedy streets from residential A. restricied. to resi- || | ‘Tempkins supported the $1.50 Sweaters . 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