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NO. 28. Pnblli'Btlon Otike 111 Vonrth Htrcct. JOPLIN, MISSOURI, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, PAGES. Fabllnhed Kvcry MornlnK Except iHondny PRICE FIVE CENTS HALF MILLION IN GEMS RECOVERED AFTER ROBBERY Com Belt Sleuths Capture Bandits and Then Whole Town Aids in Finding Cached Diamonds.

Chicago, Sept. belt sleuths today captured three jewel bandits and recovered nearly $500,000 In gems within twelve hours the perpetration of a bold train robbery. The trio, who last night gagged three jewelry salesmen on a New Orleans train the Illinois Central and robbed them of their kits of gems, crawled from a hay mow near Buckley, 111., today and surrendered to a company of farmers and sheriffs recruited from the whole countryside to intercept a flight to Chicago. Bandits In JaU. And then the captors, aided by most of the 530 Inhabitants of Loda, 111,, tracked through the mud along the bandits' trail and uncovered two brief cases, cached under the scales of the village stock yards, containing the.

fortune in precious stones. Tonight the jewel bandits were In jail at Champaign, while the three salesmen who were robbed checked over the recovered jewelry with officers. The men gave their names as George Brown and O. A. Burke of Chicago, and Harry Leonard of Butte, Mont.

Binding the salesmen, the three bandits last night grabbed their packets of gems and jumped off at Champaign, where they hired a taxicab to take them to Chicago. The salesmen spread the alarm at Alnttoon and when the bandit party whirled northward through Paxton, Sheriff Frank Curtis greeted it with a of buckshot. The shot punctured the rear tires and forced the robbers to abandon the taxi at Loda, four miles north of Paxton. They ran on foot in the rain and the night toward 'Buck- Icy, a few miles farther north. Take Refuge Ip Field.

Meanwliile, Curtis, two state highway police and a hastily gathered posse, growing larger as the alarm spread, took up pursuit. The bandits took refuge in a corn field and at dawn today, after scouring, every barn and outbuilding in Buckley, the posse narrowed Its quest'to a barn standing alone on the outslclrts of the village. "Don't shoot," a voice called. "Here we come." The three were taken to Paxton but refused to tell the hiding place of the greater part of the loot. But the night watchman at had seen three men near the stock yards'after midnight.

The townspeople flocked thither and a search revealed the two brief cases half burled In mud and water under the icales and fiUed with the missing iiamonds. Corcb anA Reds, Idle, Gain When Pittsburgh And the Cubs Split Now York, Sept. The St. IJOUIS Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds gained a point on both Pittsburgh and Chicago today by doing nothing. While the first and second place holders in the National League were resting, the Pirates and Cubs fought to a draw in a doubleheader, with Pittsburgh taking the first game, to .1, and the Cubs the second, 10 to 1.

The net result was the shaving of a percentage point from the standing of each. The Cardinals still lead the Reds by three games with Pittsburgh three points behind Cincinnati and Chicago twenty points to the rear of the Pirates. The standing: W. Pet. St.

Louis 81 67 .587 Cincinnati 77 69 .566 Pittsburgh 76 59 .56 3 Chicago 75 63 .543 The New York Yankees, with but seventeen games remaining in the season, trounced Boston, 10 to 0, while Detroit was defeating the second place Cleveland Indians again, 3 to 1. The Yankees, with an eight-game margin, can lose eight of their remaining games and still win the pennant, even though Cleveland wins the seventeen they have yet to play. The standing: W. Pet. New York 86 52 .621 Cleveland 77 60 .562 MANY KILLED AS GREEK REGULARS REPULSE REBELS Serious Fighting Takes Place on Outskirts of 50 Mutineers Killed, Is Estimate.

Athens, Sept. fighting, with many casualties, took place in the outskirts of tlie city today between regular troops and two corps of republican guards supporting General Pangalos, the ousted dictator. Government troops took up positions behind fortified barricades in the streets and opened fire -on the advancing rebels and a regular battle ensued. The newspapers estimated that fifty mutineers were killed 'and many wounded. The casualties among the regulars and citizens are not.known.

MERCURY DROPS TO 62 DEGREES AUTUMN CHILL FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF HEAVY RAIN NIGHT. London, Sept. Reuter dispatch from Athens late tonight says an armed mob attacked the central telegraph office and many shots were exchanged with the military guard, whose commander was wounded. It Is feared there were many casualties In the streets. A state almost of anarchy exists.

Some dispatches reaching London from Athens mention trouble with the communists, whom the troops reported to have suppressed. All dispatches have apparently been delayed or modified by the censor. Brother Against Brother in Fight to Free "Staroing" Man Tekamah, Sept. Brother was ranged against brother tonight as the fight to free Roy Carson, liquor law violator, from a bread and water sentence In Burt county jail spread In a widening circle and friends of the prisoner offered proof that the rigid diet might be fatal. Carson today said he was feeling weaker after two days on rye bread and water.

The next move is expected to be a habeas corpus action by H. Chatt, Carson's neiglibor and brother of County Judge Chatt, who imposed the sentence, and his attorney to force county authorities to give Carson regular food or release him from custody. Under the law, the county physician has arbitrary powers to prescribe a regular diet or free a prisoner if he believes that diet Jeopardizes his Dr. Islah Lukens, who examined Cdi-son two days ago, said he cannot stand the diet and that the sentence is "murderous and cruel." Chatt was bitter against his brother today and accused him of "letting a little power run to his head." He said ho Intended to fight the sentence to the limit and if he failed he would bring food to Carson at the jail and "leave the rest to a jury which certainly would not convict a saving another from starvation." FACTIONS FACE Complexion of State Assembly Still Undecijied, With Factions Splitting on Important Posts. She's California's Challenge MAY INDICT HEAD OF MORTGAGE CO.

DETOUR ELmmTED ON HIGHWAY NO. 40 Jefferson City, Sept. Officials of the state highway department were expressing satisfaction today because the four-mile detour about thre miles west of Columbus on federal highway No. 40, the cross-state St. Louis-Kansas City state highway, was abandoned last Friday.

Perche creek, which the detour crossed, today was on a rampage and the road was under 5 feet of water. Torrential rains last night were responsible. Four miles of new concrete pavement just west of Cblumbla on highway No. 40 were opened for traffic Friday, eliminating the detour over Perche creek. Hundreds of motorists skim over the concrete "airline" between St.

Louis and Kansas City dally and If the new section had not been opim, a big traffic jam would have resulted and travel would have severed as a result of the swollen creek. Two small sections on highway 40, one In Callaway and the other in Montgomery county, remain to be concreted. Contractors are busy on them now and highway officials expect they will be com- and ready for traffic by Christmas. The main cross-state motor trail will ttien be all concrete from St. Louis to Kansas City.

Joplin awoke yesterday morning to topcoat weather that followed a heavy rain during the night. The mercury plunged to 62 degrees at 9 o'clock and after rising started downward again late In the afternoon. The fall chill was Intensified by cloudy skies and breezes. It was the first cool snap and It was welcomed after Wednesday's heat. The city felt .15 of an Inch of rain after 1 o'clock In the morning.

Between midnight and 1, the rainfall was 1.12 inches. The total was 1.44 inches. i Montlh's Total, .8.20. September precipitation now stands at 8.20 Inches, which Is more than fell during the heavy x-alns of August when the measurement was 7.81 Inches. The present mark is an eleven year record for September.

In September, 1915, It measured 12.60 Inches. Rivers and creks of the district were taking care of the latest do luge. None was reported at Its high mark, reached Sunday and Monday after Saturday 's torrent. At midnight, Wednesday the temperature was 7S; at 6 o'clock in the morning, 64; 9 o'clock, 62; noon, 70; 6 o'clock, 72, and at 9 o'clock last night, 65. AMERICANS ARE SAID TO SYMPATHIZE WITH LEAGUE STOCK ISSUE ALLOWED FOR PHONE PURCHASE Jefferson City, Sept.

The Missouri public service commission late today Issued an order i authorizing the Middle States' Utilities Company of Missouri, with headquarters at Des Moines, Iowa, to issue $325,000 of stock, $250,000 of which Is to be used to purchase seven north Ml.s- sourl The company was granted permission to Issue 2,000 shares of non-par stock to be sold to the Middle States Utilities Company, a Delaware corporation, whifch is the parent, or holding company, and to issue and sell $250,000 of its first mortgage, six and per cent 25-year gold bonds. The from the sale of the latter will be used by the company In purchasing the Kahoka Telephone and Construction Company at fKahoka; the Memphis Telephone Compahy at Memphis; the Leon LlnevlUe Telephone Company; the Grand River Telephone Company; the Farmers Telephone Company of Harrison county; the Princeton Telephone Company at and the Blythedale exchange of the Lamoni Telephone Company. The Middle States Utilities Company of Missouri was also granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate and malm tain the properties. GRAND PROBE MAZE OP ALLEGED "HIGH FINANCE- OPERATIONS. Geneva, Sept.

of citizens of the United States have "sympathetic hearts and minds which approve of the great work the league of nations is carrying on," Sir George Foster of Canada declared In an address before the league oasembly today. Sir George said the league's first great disappointment had been deprivation of the active co-operation of the United States. Many skeptics had thought the absence of the United States spelled the end of the league. "Despite that," he remarked, we have continued and have made.our way forward step by step. Wo have done that without opposition from the United States." ST.

JOSEPH MAN NAMED OFFICER OF AIR LEAGUE NEGRO ROBBER CAUGHT AFTER LONG CHASE St. Louis, Sept. W) by a house detective, a policeman and a number of people on the street, Charles' Armstrong, negro, was captured late today In the business office of a newspaper following a chase of several blocks after he Is said to have snatched from a cashier's window of a downtown departmeilt store. He admitted, according to police, that he took the money artd tossed It to a confederate on the street. U.

S. ARMY AIR CORPS PILOT WINS TROPHY Philadelphia, Sept. United States army air corps won the Liberty Bngirie Builders' trophy for the 144-mlle race for observation type airplanes at the national air races here today. Lieutenant O. L.

Stevens, flying a CurtlsB Falton plane, covered the distance at a speed of 142.36 miles an hour. Second place was won by Captain Aubrey Hornsby, who also flew a Curtiss Falton. Lieutenant G. T. U.

S. navy, flying a special DH plane, was third, the event was open to. military aviators only, THE WEATHER 4. .1. 4 FORECAST.

Missouri; Fair and warm- er Friday; Saturday Increas- ing cloudiness, warmer in south portion. Kansas: Mostly fair Friday and probably Saturday; warmer Friday. Arkansas: Friday and Sat- urday fair. Oklahoma: Friday and Sat- urday fair; warmer Friday In west portion. Philadelphia, Sept.

9. Porter Adams of Boston, for many years secretary of the National Aeronautical Association, was ele vated to the presidency tonight at the organizations' annual election Contrary to reports circulated on the convention floor during the week, there was no spirited contest for the presidency. Other officers elected Included Carl Wolfley, St, Joseph, vice president; Valentine 'Gerhart Seattle, secretary, and E. Cassel, New York, treasurer. Endeavoring to gain official gov ernnient recognition, the associa tion recommended the creation an advisory board which would embrace the assistant secretaries of the army, navy and commerce in charge of aviation, chief of the air service of the the assistant postmaster general in charge fair mail, the chief of the U.

S. weather bureau and the chairman of the national advisory committee of aeronautics. A resolution permitting chambers of commerce. Rotary qjubs an dother non-commercial organizations to affiliate with the association was defeated after a spirited debate. Boonville.

Sept. The county grand jury' specially called to delve Into the maze of alleged "high finance" operations of the Nixon Farm Mortgage Company, the largest such firm in Cooper county, will be asked to determine the criminal liability, if any, of Charles W. Nixon, head of the concern, which failed last June according to J. H. Windsor, county prosecutor.

Losses are variously estimated at from $600,000 to $1,000,000. The grand jury will he.ar the stories of a large array of witnesses who will tell of the losses they sustained through the failure of the company. The prosecutor announced today that he will seek an indictment against Nixon. In Lead Mine, pon the success of a lead mine at Linn Creek, rests the rep utatlon and future of Nixon, his friends say. Nixon, who Is staying at the home of a sister in Callfor nla, owns a half Interest In an as yet undeveloped mine property which his supporters claim worth more than his combined liabilities.

Nixon dedlt in second, third and even fourth mortgage paper Immediately after the war when land prices became Inflated. Deflation of prices in 1920 led to large losses on much of his paper. Nixon continued to pay high interest on his worthless mortgages rather than suffer foreclosure, it is charged, thus involving him In further difficulties. The prosecutor that whether the lead mine "pans out" or not, he will seek an indictment charging unlawful practices. Nixon was a deacon In the First Presbyterian church here and his dldest son, David, 22, is studying at Westminster college for the Presbyterian ministry.

Milwaukee, Sept. factions of the progressive group will divide power In the state government, If Wisconsin ratifies the verdict of republican voters expressed in Tuesday's primary. The LaFoIlotto progressive machine, headed by Governor J. J. Blaine and Senator Robert M.

La FoUctte, gained the United States senate scat of Irvine L. Lenroot, but lost the governorship in the nomination of Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman of the antl- Blaine progressive group. With the governorship, the anll- Blaine forces may have the upper hand in the state, but all other state elective offices will be In the hands of the LaFoUette-Blalne faction. Complexion of the state assembly still is undecided, but a sharp tussel between conservatives made an apparent gain of six seats In the state senate.

Indications today were that Governor Blaine would receive 20,000 plurality over Senator Lenroot for the republican senatorial nomination. Gov. Hunt Rcuoniliiatcd. Phoenix, Sept. The outcome of all Arizona primary election contests except the four-cornered d'emocratic congressional race, apparently was settled today with returns on Tuesday's balloting from 403 of the 478 precincts.

Lewis D. Douglas, former member of the legislature, had 18,040 votes for this nomination, while Mis nearest opponent A. A. Belts, retiring chairman of the state corporation commission, had 15,937. Governor G.

W. P. Hunt, seeking his sixth consecutive term, maintained a big lead over his two opponents for the democratic nomination. E. S.

Clark virtually was conceded the republican gubernatorial nomination. Congressman Carl Hayden has won the democratic senatorial race. There were no republican candidates for congress. SiniVESLOST, HEAVY DAMAGEIS CAUSED BY FLOOD Property Loss in Terre Haute and Jacksonville Placed at States Hit. Senator Oddlo Wins.

Reno. 9 court advocates seeking senatorial nominations Tuesday's Nevada primary electibn won by wide margins, returns indicated today. Senator Tasker O.ddie received a two-to-one majority over E. E. Roberts, mayor of Reno, tor the senatorial nomination, while Raymond T.

Baker, director of the mint in the Wilson administration, won the democratic senatorial race. Peni "started something" when it chose EsLlicr Loc Motanic, Indian beauty, as queen of Its annual roundup and announced her as the loveliest Indian girl in Amerlci. California wants to enter charming "Little Fawn," pictured above, in a contest with Miss Motanic and all other Indian comers. Fawn'f Is princess of the Klamath tribe. Slie took part In the recent opening of the Redwood highway between Orlckand Trinidad, Calif.

Uvea were known to have been lost and two million dollars worth of dam- ago had been done at Terre Haute, and JricltsonvUle, tonight ill tlie third flood to sweep the central west in ton days. The storm vcnLcil its wrath in central Illinoi.s and east central Indiana, but dipped lla currpnta across Iowa and nortliweHtern JTis- Hourl. Tprre Haute, one ot tlip heaviest in last night's deluge, counted twenty-five conl mines flooded, five railroads nil but Inoppralivo and many industries smitten in a cloudburst which brought more than six Indies of rain to the city in tlie serious inundation since the di.sastrous flood of Dam Bursts. At JauksonviUc, 111., water, light and power plants were put out of commission when a dnm burst and inhabitants of the city were driven to the second stories of their homes. Throughout central Illinois Sop- tonibor rainfall approximated cloven Inches in nine days, approaching rainfall records for the entire month.

The river at flood stage at La Fayette, Ind. At Hannibal, where tlooria existed last week, a new rainfall of throe inches put 300 homes under water. The of a new levee at Canton. carried the body of old woman two blocks. Two thousand motor cars wore aban- iloned in the streets at Springfield, 111., when six inches of rain fell.

was the victim of an eight-inch rain which left the city without gas, electricity or uator. A narrow creek was swollen a mile wide and hundreds of liomes were under water. Flood water.s were subsiding near Quincy, GAIN IN FOREIGN TRADE OF U. S. IN JULY SHOWN RIVER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM UNDER WAY Kansas City, Sept.

Virtually all of the $2,000,000 program for the development of the Missouri river from St. Louis to Kansas City Is under contract for Immediate construction, Major C. C. Gee, supervising engineer, said today In announcing the approval by the war department of two contracts totaling over $200,000. Only one more contract remains to be awarded, Major Gee said, 2,100 feet of dykes at Atherton, Mo.

The'fenglneer will leave In the morning on a government snag boat for an Inspection voyage to St. Louis and return Kansa.s City, Sept. Charles W. Nixon, Boonville banker, did not invest a penny in the Linn Creek lead property upon which he bases his hopes of financial rehabilitation, Milton Thompson of Lees Summit, wealthy cattleman and Nixon's partner In the mine venture, hero tonight. Thompson said that he had furnished tlie money with which 14,000 acres of mineral lands In Camden and Morgan counties, Missouri, was purc.hased, and that Nixon had given him a ge to cover his share in the project.

"I am confident that If they do not force bankruptcy on Nixon, his share of the sale of the whole property would be more than enough to pay his debts," Thompson declared. The property, he added, is very valuable, worth probably million dollars. Hclmidh ReloasctL Leavenworth, Sept. J. Helmlch, former Internal revenue collector for the eastern district of Missouri, was released from the federal penitentiary after serving a few days over eight months of a two-year sentence Imposed for conspiring to violate the ifederal prohibition law in connection with the Jack lels distillery case in St.

Louis. Helmlch left tonight for his homo in St. Louis. MAJ. WATKINS, FORMER JOPLIN MAN, ENDS LIFE Lake Wales, Sept, J.

C. Watkins, 48, real estate operator, killed himself here early today, according to a coroner's jury. Ill health wati said to have been the reason. He is survived by his widow and a daughter who was niarrletl here yesterday. He served for many years In the Missouri Guard.

Washington, Sept. in the foreignnrade of the United States for July, 1926, as compared with July, 19 25, was shown today by commerce department figures. Exports to every qWarter of the globe, except the small division called Oceania, which includes the Pacific Islands, increased as compared with the same month a year ago and practically the same result was shown in the import totals. Great Britain continued to be the best customer of the United States and American exports to that country were $77,415,708 as compared with From' the United Kingdom the United States took imports in July valued, at $27,344,340 Willie a year ago similar imports were DISMISSAL MOTIOK FILED EDEHBORH ESTATE SUIT BRITAIN TO TAKE NO IMMEDIATE ACTION Jefferson Cl(y, Sept. OP) J.

C. Watkins, who killed himself early today at Lake Wales, enlisted In the Missouri National Guard at Joplin, February 9, 1912 records in the slate adjutant general's office disclose. Ho was commissioned a second lieutenant in Ma'rch 1912 and resigned with the rank of captain in February 1914. He served as a major In the engineer corps in the world war. He was a civil engineer.

Major J. C. Watkins, who committed suicide at Lake Wales, represented a land company In Joplin for a number of years and sold land in southwest IMlssouri and northwestern Arkansas. He served as a lieutenant in old company Joplin unit'of the Second Infantry of the National Ouard. AMERICANS REPORTED INVOLVED IN FIGHT Shanghai, Sept.

is a report in shipping circles that American war craft were Involved In the Yantze engagement last Monday and suffered some casualties. However, neither the American consulate nor the American naval office here have any verification of the report. The Yangtze engagement referred to was a brief battle between Chinese land troops and British gunboats at Wanhsion on the Yangtze river In which several British naval officers and seamen were killed or Injured. "There was nothing In the sbmewhat detailed reports of the affair received here to Indicate that American ves- 2 FLORIDA MEN ARE KIDNAPED AND TARRED Key West, Sej.t. Owen H.

Sawyer, city councilman and Reginald Pritchard, member ot the board of public works, were said by police to have been naped and tarred by masked men who kidnaped thoni last night. Sawyer Is have gome into disfavor recently by his activity as a member of the city ccnncll in curtailing the city's budget by decreasing the personnel of the police, fire and sanitary departments. SYNTHETIC RUBBER IS YET BEYOND SCIENTISTS Pliiladelphla, Sept so far has failed to discover a synthetic produce to relievo'the rubber shortage, the American Chemical Society was told today. John M. Blerer of Boston, chairman of the society's rubber division who presided at a world symposium on raw rubber, declared rubber technoligists expected no relief from the world shortage through synthetic rubber.

St. Louis, Sept. formal motion was filed in United States district court here today for the dismissal of a petition of nephews and nieces of William Edenborn, former railroad magnate of Shreveport, wlio seek an Injunction against Jli-s. Sophie L. Meier of St, county, claimant of a share of Edenborn's estate.

The motion was filed by Mrs. Meier through lier attorneys. The Edenborn relatives now have a suit pending in federal court here asking that title to $GO of real estate in St. Louis be the wife of a St. Louis coinity farmer, bases lier claim for a share of the Edenborn estate on the assertion that she is a daughter ot the railroad magnate by u.

former Edenborn, who left an estate valued at millions, formerly llvcul in St. Louis. Hut Diastlc In Kijiwn Affair Will Be Taken ns Soon as Conditions Warrant. JEWISH NEW YEAR CELEBRATION ENDS London, Sept. While the Kovernmcnt Is unlikely to do anything for the moment re- sarding the Kiawo Incident, In which several naval officers and seaman wore killed or wounded hy Chinese troops attached to Wu Pel-Fu's forces, it is certain there will be some sort of diplomatic action ns soon as conditions warrant.

Ill view of tliB, chaotic situation in China, no diplomatic note has been Vsent (o Peking. In fact, the unofficial attitude is that such action in the present ot affairs would be rather a compliment to the Peking regime is to be governing the country. However, if Wii Pel-Fu retires svifficlently to escape tlie Cantonese Rods wlio are harassing him and can again give his attention to "irresponsible acts of as the Kiawo he will hear from Groat Britain in the strongest torniK. Celebration of the Jewish new year, 5C87, ended yesterday among reform Jews. The now year, which is supposed to mark the number ofyears since the creation as recorded in the Bible, began at sunset Wednesday.

Reform Jews celebrate oiie day; orthodox Jews, two days. The last new year service at the temple of the United Hebrew Congregation was held from 10 o'clock to noon yesterday. Rabbi DeKoven of Cincinnati, acting pastor, delivered a sermon: A niimber of business places were closed yesterday in observance of the day. A ten-day repentance follows the beginning of the now year. The jieriod culminates in Yom Kippur, the day of atonement.

sr. LOUIS RAID YIELDS $18,000 IN REAL LIQUOR St. Louis, Sept. PollOD and prohibition officers, der the supervision of James Dillon, deputy prohibition administrator, late todoy seized 1,272 quarts of alleged Imported whisky in a garage at the rear of a flat in the residence district. The seizure, said to be one of the largest of genuine liquor hero since the advent of prohibition.

Is estimated to have a retail -value of more FATHER AND SON ARE ARRAIGNED IN MURDER Charged Jointly with first degree murder in connection the killing of Edward Weldoji here last January 9, Crayton J. Arnheart, 59 years old, and his son, M. H. Ai'n- heart, 27, were arraigned before Justice McDonald. Each demanded preliminary heorlng, which was set for September 13, and they wore committed to Jail without bond.

In a written statement to Ed Portley, chief of detactives, the father admitted having shot Weldon to defend the younger Arn- SAYS HE BEFRIENDED INDIAN; ASKS MILLION Washington, Sept. B. Walker of Pasadena, filed today In tlie District of Columbia supreme court for an order -to compel Secretary Work to pay him $1,000,000 out of funds held by the government for Jackson Barnett. Oklahoma Creek Indian, reputed to bo the wealthiest of his race In the world. Secretary Work was ordered to show cause by October why the request should not be granted.

Walker contends that years ago when Barnett who has been declared incompetent by an Oklahoma court, was in need of funds he befriended him and that Barnett promised to pay him for this favor. TWO ARE SENTENCED IN POSTOFFICE ROBBERY Kansas City, Sept of three years each In the federal penitentiary were given to A. L. Williams and Robert Clay, alias George Bowen before Judge Merrill B. Otis here today for robbing the postofflce at Ravanna, May 21 last.

The men pleaded guilty. Williams and Clay broke Into the postofflce and carried the safe two miles out of town they blaster It open and obtained' $88 In cash, $40.76 In stamps arid 800 money order blanks, Postofflce Inspectors said Clay was well known to the t0ML l.J -Weh and JSggWlfiUyj.