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Cfty, Ifcwifay, Itay 17, Wl Gong type jewel robbers descend on St. Louis ST. LOUIS (AP)-A series of gang type robberies has forced jewelry store owners in the St. Louis area to lock their doors and move their most expensive gems from display cases to safes. The robbers, whose members vary from 10 to 20, descend like locusts on jewelry stores, breaking display cases and fleeing with pocketfuls of rings, watches and gems.

The thefts take only seconds and the store owner is cleaned out before he knows what happened, Lt. Col. Adolph Jacobsmeyer, chief of field operations for the Police Department, said "there are probably several groups involved in these robberies. When this kind of operation seems to have a certain suc- in the news James Dallas Lions give patrol award James Dallas, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Dallas, 1607 Beverly received the Lions Club outstanding school safety patrol award. Ralph Johnson, president, presented the award at the club's regular meeting Wednesday at the Colonnade Restaurant. Dallas is an eighth grade student at St. Peter's Elementary School. Kansas GOP building TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) By his own admission, R. Doug Lewis could have remained in Washington, D.C., buried in some governmental agency with a comfortable salary and safe from the slings and arrows of firing line politics. He probably could have found some bureaucratic niche in the next 3Vz years and managed to evade the inevitable administrative housecleaning when national administrations change-even if the Democrats win the White House in 1976. But Lewis is not yet ready, at the politically tender age of 27, to become a full-fledged bureaucraft. That's why he took the job a a Republican state chairman, offered him the post of executive director of the Kansas Republican Party.

"This is what I wanted to do," he said in an interview. "I like being involved in day-today politics, and I think we've got an opportunity to build here." Lewis, who returned this week to Kansas after several months in Washington as a consultant in the Office of Education, took a pay cut to undertake the task of strengthening the state Republican party organization. It is no secret the state GOP has had organizational problems in recent years. Democratic Gov. Robert Docking's four election victories starting in 1966 have not helped the GOP grow in Kansas.

Lewis is aware of the enormity of his task. "I wouldn't have taken the job if it had been running smoothly," he said of the state party organization. "The question is: Can I do in a year's time what appears to me to be a SVi-to four-year job? "The answer is: 'We're going to try." Lewis becomes the paid professional of the Kansas Republican Party, running its day-to-day operations. In effect, he succeeds Charles Scanlan, Fredonia publisher who was the state party's executive director until years ago. Japan sets summit meeting with Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka will come to Washington for a two-day summit meeting with President Nixon at the end of July.

The White House said Wednesday the July 31-Aug. 1 meeting would be an official visit by Tanaka. No agenda was announced, but it was clear trade and monetary issues would be discussed. The two leaders last met in August 1972 in Hawaii. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) Miki Garcia, a Playboy Senior citizens schedule rally A group of senior citizens from Columbia is scheduled to arrive at the State Capitol Building steps at a.m. Tuesday to meet Gov. Bond as part of their May 22 senior citizens'rally. The group of oldtimers will picnic later that afternoon in Memorial Park before returning to tour the Capitol Building and meet with legislators. The rally, sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Regional Council on Aging, is asking anyone who needs a ride or can provide one to Jefferson City to contact the council at 443-5823.

magazine model, plans to go to a dinner given by President and Mrs. Nixon. Her escort will be a former prisoner of war whose wife divorced him while he was in prison. Miss Garcia, who measures 38-22-36, is 5 feet 4 and weighs 108 pounds, will be the date of Capt. Galand C.

Kramer of Oklahoma. Kramer and other former POWs released by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong will be honored by the Nixons at the May 24 dinner. "She certainly is a very intelligent, very pleasurable girl with a wonderful personality," Kramer said Wednesday night after Miss Garcia announced she was going. The two met at a party in Tulsa. Kramer said he was surprised by the total nudity in Playboy, something that hadn't been done before his capture.

"But he liked it," said Miki. WASHINGTON (AP) -President Nixon cruised the Potomac River on the presidential yacht with two aides. Nixon, with Alexander Haig White House chief of staff, and Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, went aboard the yacht Sequoia Wednesday evening at dinnertime. INSURANCE Package Policy: Total Coverage Our complete, comprehensive homeowners' policy covers loss due to fire, theft, storm damage, more. One premium.

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"They just began smashing windows. But I was ready for them. With all that's been going on lately, we've got to be ready for it." Karst followed the thieves firing five snots. He was not sure if any of the robbers was hit, but a suspect was arrested a short time later at a St. Louis hospital where he was treated for a bullet wound of the back.

"If more people would shoot at these thieves and kill them, it would stop," Karst said. The robbery occurred after the front door of the store had been left open. It had been locked all morning because of the fear of gang robberies. A gang of about 20 men smashed display cases at Wehmueller's Jewelers at a shopping center in Jennings Monday and escaped with an undetermined number of diamond rings. Five persons have been arrested in connection with the robbery.

Later that day, a group of youths filed in an attempt to break shatter-proof glass in the jewelry department of a county department store. Since the gang-robberies began March 28, when a group of thieves hit the downtown store of Hess and Culbertson Jewelry other store a a precautions. "We're scared," said the operator of a county jewelry store. "I moved here from downtown to get away from this kind of thing. Now it's followed me." The owner said he had a gun, but that he would "hate to use it.

I don't want to shoot anyone." Another jeweler said he too would hesitate to shoot because "even defending your property, you get in trouble." "The courts have twisted everthing up. The thief probably would sue and win," he said. A i i advised jewelers to keep fewer items in display cases, moving the more expensive pieces of jewelry away from the door and limiting store access to one door. George Moody, manager of Pinkerton's in St. Louis, said he believed that the stolen jewelry was being sold out of town.

"This looks to us like a system with enough involved that it doesn't matter if a few persons are picked up," he said. A chain jewelry store manager said his company was "relying on our people to be alert." "For customer relations we don't want to keep our doors locked and for the rest of it- well, we feel it might be best not to alienate the gangs, I guess," he said. "After all, no one has been hurt yet. If they can't break a case because it's shatterproof, or if they panic when an alarm is pressed, somebody couU get hurt. It's bettor to lost, some property," he said.

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