Show SAVINGS PASSBOOKS SOU GUT BY CROOK CROOKS Use Them to Steal Money b by Forged Slips Should B BI Be Guarded as C Carefully as a Cash Continual vigilance In safeguarding savings pass vasa books as ns well as blan blank and cancelled checks against th theft rt b bl by crooks who use this material In for foi forgery gery operations Is urged on bank cu cur CUI by James B. B E Baum Deputy Deput Manager of the American Bankers Banker Association in charge of ot its Iti Protective tive live Department t. t This department li lr I continually vigilant in la promoting means both amon among bankers and the thi general public to thwart tho the operation of bank banIt crooks It annually laves hundreds of ot crimes against banks and is responsible for tor the tho ma run of ot arrests among this class o ot of criminals In a large majority of ot easelS cases o ot of forgeries on checks or savings withdrawal with orders Investigated by th the American Bankers Association stolen blank checks or savings pass vau were the forgers' forgers chief stock In trade Mr r. r Baum says In many Instances th the temptation presented through the careless handling by depositors of at can C Q celled called or blank checks or pass boo books book so that they fell Into the tho pt pf others was the Immediate stimulus for tor hitherto honest people to commit their th t first criminal offense Banks should educate their depositors tors to exert O Brt the tho same degree of carela carain carp care carpin in la handling these Instrument Instruments and to avoid leaving them about unguarded as they exercise In respect to actual money because they represent money he be declares For dealing with the bank robbery situation r r. r Baum recommends the use of ot electrical alarms alarm actuated i bf any tampering with the tho wires wirers or OJ mec p and also wider adoption of ot the plan of state police forces force now an eu In a few states state I declaring that last year in seven eastern astern states stater where state police pollee forces were wera maintained there were wore only 20 bank holdups M su against similar attacks attack perpetrated against banks In iii five states In la the central an and j f far west where banks anks are denied the advantages s pf pf the speedy P and coordinated action adieu given by t t 1 to- to wl wide o police poUce forces The uThe records of ot the American Am n Q era ars Association Protective Department reveal that for tor many years yean the odd In favor of oC state police protection have havo been at least S 8 to 1 when measured by bythe bythe bythe the experience of bank banks in states state where efficient police protection is U missing In the tho rural ural dJ districts district be hi ape 1 |