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And yet he still sees his glass as half-full As he rebuilds after fire,


Argonaut bar manager’s Jeep is stolen — again


by Stephanie Lee Scott Magnuson, general man-


ager of the Argonaut, may want to consider hunting for four-leaf clovers or tossing salt over his shoulder.


First, the bar on H Street NE was forced to shut down after the kitchen caught fire in late June, causing as much as $250,000 in damage.


Then thieves broke in, ran- sacking quarters from the gum- ball machine, Magnuson said. And in the latest in what might be considered a string of bad luck, Magnuson’s red Jeep was apparently stolen Saturday morning. He said he parked it be- hind a CVS on Bladensburg Road, ran in to pick up a pre- scription and returned to dis- cover that it was no longer there. Police found the battered vehi- cle in an abandoned yard nearby. Missing were a GPS device and $800 in cash — most of which came from a fundraiser for the Argonaut on Thursday, Magnu- son said. His business partner,


Joe Englert, has pledged to re- place the stolen funds. “The past three weeks have been a little less than desirable,” Magnuson said. This isn’t the first time a Jeep has been stolen from under Mag- nuson’s nose. Five years ago, he said, a friend’s Jeep, which he had borrowed, was taken in broad daylight. Two years ago, a thief drove away in the Jeep that had been parked in front of Mag- nuson’s house. And last year, on two occasions, Magnuson walked out of his house to find someone trying to steal the vehicle. But life isn’t all doom and gloom, Magnuson said. The Ar-


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gonaut has raised about $10,000 in donations to put toward reno- vations, thanks to widespread community support. And the up- stairs bar and patio are set to re- open Wednesday. Magnuson said the recent


events have been unfortunate but not necessarily unlucky. “You have to start laughing about it,” he said. “If you start looking at it and thinking of yourself as an unlucky person, your luck’s going to stay un- lucky.” He paused, then added, “I do think it is time to get a new vehi- cle.”


lees@washpost.com After 91 years, WWI soldier finally at rest soldier from B1


great.” The story begins on the eve- ning of Sept. 16, 1918, as Costel- lo’s regiment was digging in af- ter an advance under heavy ar- tillery and machine-gun fire, according to the Pentagon in- vestigation and records in the National Archives. The attack was part of the huge American-led offensive around Saint-Mihiel, France, that came as allied forces battered the German army in the closing months of the war. As the men of Costello’s Com-


pany H dug in about 7:30 p.m., an artillery shell struck a group of them. Costello, 26, was hit in the head by a shell fragment. A hole in his skull and fracture lines characteristic of “high-energy events” were evident when his re- mains were unearthed, investiga- tors found. First Sgt. Harold A. Engdahl witnessed Costello’s death. “I picked him up and endeav- ored to stop the flow of blood,” Engdahl reported afterward. “But it was impossible with the means at hand. I tried to get him to speak but he never regained consciousness, and died in a very few minutes.”


Costello was one of 42 men in his regiment killed during the six-day offensive, according to a history of the 5th Infantry Divi- sion, to which the regiment was attached. A “Grave Location Blank” in his Archives burial file indicates that he was buried in the woods on Sept. 24, 1918, his grave marked with a cross, which later must have vanished. Pentagon investigators report-


ed that the remains were found at the edge of a potato field between the Bois de Bonvaux and the Bois de Grande Fontaine, near the


MARYLAND


Two more die of heat-related illnesses Two more Maryland residents


have died of heat-related illness- es, the state’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene an- nounced Friday. Both deaths occurred last week, and both victims suffered from serious underlying health conditions. A Harford County resident who was older than 65 was dis- covered indoors in temperatures above 100 degrees. And a Balti- more resident of unknown age was discovered in a residence with temperatures of about 95 degrees. The number of hyperthermia-


related deaths stands at 12 for the year. In 2009, six people in Maryland died from heat-related illnesses. Eleven of the 12 victims had


heart disease and/or high blood pressure. Eight of the 12 victims were 65 or older. And 10 of 12 vic- tims were discovered indoors without air conditioning, the state reported.


—Staff reports


2 women hurt in crash with fire truck


Two women were injured in a


crash Monday involving a vehicle and a fire truck in the District Heights area, authorities said. About 4 p.m., Prince George’s


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Michael J. Frisbie, right, of Maine, with daughter Brittani and wife Leanne at the funeral. To hear Col. Brice Houdet speak of his gratitude as a Frenchman for Costello’s sacrifice, go to PostLocal.com


town of Jaulny, about 200 miles east of Paris. Costello, a New York native,


stood 5-foot-6 and weighed 139 pounds when he joined the Army in September 1917, according to his file. He was one of three brothers who served during the war, his sister wrote the govern- ment later. No information is available on his brothers. His mother died in 1910, and


the file is filled with plaintive postwar correspondence be- tween the government and his sister, mainly over the futile at- tempts to find his body. There is little personal infor-


mation about him, and no photo appears to exist. The correspon- dence shows that extensive at- tempts were made to find and identify his remains. In May 1922, the American


Graves Registration Service in Paris ordered a thorough search of the woods and of cemetery records for any sign of Costello’s


burial site. Nothing was found. In September 1922, the War


Department asked his sister for his dental records, in case his body was found. The Army had noted that he was missing five teeth at the time of his enlist- ment, but it was now looking for any record of fillings, crowns or bridges. Grady wrote back that she could not remember if he had had any dental work. In 1924, the War Department


tracked down Engdahl in Chica- go, but he could supply little in- formation beyond his wartime re- port. Official paperwork in the file continues into 1930 and 1931. And in August 1932, someone wrote on a single unadorned sheet of lined paper: “Costello, Thomas D . . . 60th Inf . . . ka 9-16- 18 . . . investigation suspended.” Costello’s body was discovered by members of Thanks GIs, a French group that seeks to honor the contribution of U.S. soldiers


Smoke reported at Dupont Circle Station


Exit is closed, and escalators are shut down


by Ann Scott Tyson Commuter woes that began


Monday morning on escalators at the Dupont Circle Station — one


of the busiest stations on Metro’s busiest line — did not let up for the afternoon rush-hour crowd. A report of smoke coming from an escalator near 20th and Q streets NW about 5:30 p.m. led fire department personnel to close the Q Street exit. It also trig- gered a shutdown of escalators at the station, leading to a huge bot- tleneck as riders struggled up the more than 120 steps at the 19th


Street exit. “I’m in decent shape, but I’m


having trouble getting my breath,” said Faheem Moghal, 32, a physician. “For someone with health problems, this is danger- ous.” After the Q Street exit closed and forced riders to the other end of the station, someone appar- ently removed a barricade to climb the central escalator but


to France in World Wars I and II, according to Elisabeth Gozzo, who heads the organization. Gozzo said that as soon as the remains were found, she notified a team from the POW/MIA ac- counting command that by coin- cidence was working nearby on the wreck of an American tank from World War II. Investigators came a week lat-


er. Using sophisticated equip- ment and techniques, they un- covered bones and other remains in several days of excavation and took them away for identifica- tion, Gozzo said in a telephone in- terview from her home in nearby Corny-sur-Moselle. “It is not the first time we’ve found the remains of soldiers who disappeared,” she said. “We hope to find as many as possible, after all they did for us.” ruanem@washpost.com codyej@washpost.com


Cody reported from Paris.


ended up facing a large hole where mechanical work on an es- calator was underway, said Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the city’s fire and emergency medical services department. Earlier Monday, Metro sent an


alert that all escalators at the sta- tion’s north entrance were out and that two of the three escala- tors on the south side were, too. A video posted to Twitter showed people shouting and a lone Metro employee struggling to control the crowd.


tysona@washpost.com Country club members sue over Arlington bike path clubhouse from B1


under I-395 at Army Navy Drive, but previous efforts to cut a deal with the club had failed. When the club approached the county last year to get permission for the new building, Arlington officials saw an opening. They also re- quired as a condition of the deal that the building be energy effi- cient and that the county be able to use the path for emergency ve- hicles.


“I don’t know that we were hold-


ing anybody hostage,” said Bob Brosnan, Arlington’s planning di- rector. “This has been on our [transportation] plan for a long time. We thought it was a good time to try and implement it.” Graves said that before agree- ing to the swap, the board con- sulted legal advisers and held a town hall-style meeting with members in May. “With country-club politics, people get pretty worked up about these things,” Graves said. “I think the board . . . has been


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Gathering in memory of a fellow Marine


Marines conducting military honors, at left, prepare to place Lance Cpl. Justin J. Wilson’s remains to rest during a burial service at Arlington National Cemetery. Wilson, a U.S. Marine from Palm City, Fla., was killed in action in Afghanistan. Marines fire rifle volleys, above, during the service.


pretty level-headed about this. We spent untold hours explaining this thing to everybody. There are those who would like to prevent this from happening.” Opponents say that Arlington, in its pursuit of transit-oriented, green-friendly practices, over- stepped its boundaries by push- ing for the deal and requiring costly energy-saving standards. “There’s a lot of people within the club that are upset about this easement and how it came about,” club member Robin Battaglini,


who owns three local defense companies, said at a recent hear- ing. “It looks like plain and simple coercion on the part of the county. . . . I don’t like it.” He said that the club was buzz- ing about the lawsuit but that dis- cussions in the grill and on the driving range had been amiable. “It’s not that kind of a food fight


—yet.” gowena@washpost.com


Staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.


firefighters were called to inves- tigate smoke inside a house on Walker Mill Road, authorities said. On the way, the firefighters were involved in a crash with a vehicle at Addison Road South and Ronald Road. Two women in a vehicle were


transported to the hospital for a “checkup of possible injuries,” authorities said. The five fire- fighters aboard the truck were not hurt.


Another fire truck handled the original call, which turned out to be a malfunction in the home’s heating, ventilation and air-con- ditioning system, authorities said.


—Matt Zapotosky VIRGINIA


Loudoun approves mixed-use project


A proposal for a controversial mixed-use development at routes 7 and 28 in Loudoun County was approved Monday by the Board of Supervisors at a well-attended special meeting after a public hearing. The board approved the rezon- ing of 335 acres to allow for the construction of Kincora Village Center, which is planned to in- clude more than 2 million square feet of office space as well as commercial retail space, two ho- tels, a performing arts center and 1,400 multifamily residential units. A separate application for the construction of a 5,500-seat baseball stadium and a mixed- use office and retail complex was approved by the board last July. Some county supervisors and area residents have expressed concern over the impact of the development’s


residential


growth on traffic as well as on schools and other public ser- vices. In a related vote, the board also approved a proposal by Nokes Partners LLC for the con- struction of a fire station at the Kincora development. —Caitlin Gibson


15-year Baltimore officer indicted in fatal shooting


by Tricia Bishop Baltimore Sun


A Baltimore grand jury on


Monday indicted a police officer on murder and handgun charges in the killing of an unarmed man outside a Mount Vernon night- club last month, and the city’s top prosecutor said she may have to drop court cases in which the offi- cer is a witness. Gahiji A. Tshamba, a 15-year police veteran, is scheduled to be arraigned on the two-count in- dictment, which supersedes Aug. 4 charges in Baltimore Circuit Court. Tshamba, 36, faces a maxi- mum sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted on the first-degree murder charge, plus a possible 20 years if found guilty of using a handgun to commit a felony and crime of violence. His attorney, Adam Sean Co- hen, said Tshamba is “eager” to have his day in court. “He claims


his innocence,” Cohen said. Baltimore State’s Attorney Pa-


tricia Jessamy announced the in- dictment Monday. Tshamba, who has been both


decorated and disciplined during his time on the force, had been off duty June 5 and hanging out with friends when, authorities say, he shot a former Marine multiple times at close range. Tshamba was with his buddies in an alley off East Eager Street, near Club Hippo’s back door, when Tyrone Brown, 32, groped one of Tshamba’s female compan- ions, witnesses said. Brown’s family says it was a


joke, but Tshamba reacted seri- ously, according to witnesses, confronting Brown and drawing his service weapon. Tshamba fired 13 rounds, hitting Brown in the chest and groin a dozen times. Brown, a Baltimore resi- dent who had served in Iraq, died less than an hour later. tricia.bishop@baltsun.com


Boy from Texas fatally struck by Martin Weil


An 11-year-old boy who was visiting Washington with his family was fatally injured when he was hit by a car in George- town, officials said. The boy was struck in the 1600 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW, just south of 33rd Street, about 6 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. It appeared that he was with his parents and a brother at the time, said Ed Solomon, public safety chairman of the George- town Business Improvement District and of Advisory Neigh- borhood Commission 2E. The boy’s name had not been released by officials as of late


Monday, and the name of his home town was also withheld. Police said only that the boy was visiting from Texas. The boy suffered a severe head


injury and died Monday in a hos- pital, according to authorities. A resident of the 1600 block of


33rd Street, which is just west of the scene of the incident, said he heard a bang that was loud enough to send him out to his porch.


Once outside, he said, he saw a man running along 33rd Street. The man told him that “a child had been hit” and that he was go- ing to the nearby firehouse on Dent Place NW to get help.


weilm@washpost.com


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