Show I I I I I n MILLIONS IN SWINDLES Swindlers ladlers have base grown crown to such large numbers numb rs that th the 1 I Association or ol of Credit Men have hav do- do de to raise a fund ot of 1000 to fight the credit S 65 swindle indle opera opera- Operations operations lions It Is estimated that in 1924 American bus business mess houses were robbed of The Thi head of othe the association said a e eI I fOl foice ee would be maintained special specialIzing I Izing in credit crime Startling stories of or the daring anti Ingenuity of oC the el edit crim operations were ere brought broucht to the attention of oC tie lAe e credit men by byI Gordon L Reis o of St Louis who said that In his bis 0 own o n city a gang gangi i of gunmen had bad deserted their more dangerous opera operations lions to go to Into the Ithe commercial swindling 8 game came Gal Gairett relt W Cotter Coller assistant IGal United States district attorney told I the members that the annual losses to business through credit crimes Ito would be nearer than the 50 named by the as- as association as association socia lion Modern th civilization has left In It some of the elements of barbarism when hen great groat gangs canes operate to de- de defraud defraud de defraud fraud the tho public |