Show jewelers in constant warfare on the crook other lines of business which suf fer from holdups and sneak thievery eNery might find it profitable to study the methods by which 4 jewelry con cerns banded to together ether in the jewel ers security alliance of the united states are making the operations of jeiN jewelry elry crooks steadily more danger ous and lebs less profitable the crooks have many tricks for example there Is the fruit eater it if the jeweler does not watch him care fully he will press a stone or ring into an at aeple ale core or a squeezed orange and throw the fruit into the street for his accomplice to pick up the gum chewer substitutes a false stone for a real one and sticks the latter by means of gum under the edge of the counter until he gets a chance to remove it without bein being discoN discovered ered the umbrella carrier drops valuable articles into the um brella and so on the alliance keeps its members in formed about these devices and methods for circumventing them As a result the value of jewelry stolen from members during 1930 was kept down to about which Is surely a remarkable showing just recently the jewelry crooks have turned kidnaper they go early in the morning to the home of a jew eler stick a gun in his ribs force him to their car and take him to his store where he is made to open the safe and give up wha whatever teNer articles the robbers want this trick Is new but the alliance has already devel aped a most ingenious N way nay ay to meet it the crooks are smart but the al at ilance experts appear to be just a shade smarter frank A fall in the outlook and independent |