Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-30


was empty and so were all the
others. Ogden asked the lad
what he was doing with the
empty pots. The boy explained
he had come to pick up food
for the printer and his wife,
who were working today at the
Rial Memorial Press.
An hour later, armed with a
search warrant, Ogden and his
Philippine crew raided the
Rial Press. They found 485
money orders presumably
printed for the Cayuga post
office.
Tell him we want the plates"
Ogden said.
The owner of the plant
shrugged and pulled a small
package from under a pile of
blue paper stock. Opening the
bundle, Ogden stared at a pho
toelectric plate used to print the
words United States Postal
Money Order"
Ogden indicated he wanted
more. This time, the owner
opened a wooden partition and
produced the plate to print the
reverse side Of the money order
AS ogden continued to insist,
the owner went to another hid
ing place and uncovered, the
plate used to print the face of
the money orders.
II need one more" Ogden
said. Its probably a small one
with the image of the postal
money order shield"
The owner of the shop and
the printer from the other es-
Establishment were still protest
ing they had no others when
the printers wife walked into
the bathroom and came back
with the missing plate.
Produces Original
Now" Ogden said, lets
have the original"
Reaching into his shirt pock-
ct, the printer handed over
a So money order issued al
Cayuga eight months earlier.
do you have anything else
here you shouldn't haveP"
Ogden asked.
1t was a shot In the dark but
the owner reacted with a heavy
sigh. From a clothes press, he
pulled out a photoelectric plate
that could be used to print
part of the reverse side OF
a United States military pay
ment certificate. He said it had
been given to him simply to
pull a proof and he didn't have
the other parts. Ogden believed
him.
Military payment certificates
were no part of Ogden's job but
he was knocking them. off as
he found them. He told Llora to
let it be known In the under
world that he had a buyer fol
military payment certificates
Within "a hours, Llora hac
been approached by three Fill.
pinos who had the plates but
needed an angel to finance the
printing. On New Years eve
the men and their plates were
seized in a Manila saloon and
Ogden wrote off another coun.
terfeiting ring.
Now the inspector was get
ting FESTIVE. He had exposed
the black market worrying Ad
miral OldS, he had uncoveret
two counterfeiting rings ant
Llora told him the makers o
the APO 239 counterfeits haC
destroyed the plates after an.
other narrow brush with Og.
den and his crew.
On the basis of his Hons
Kong excursion, Ogden had rec
commended to Washington that
the postal money order bust
ness with the Philippines
should be put on an interna-
tional basis where only pesos
could be exchanged for the or
ders. Ogden was aware, how
ever, that ashington was
waiting for the one answer he
had failed to provide: How did
the money orders flow from
their original recipients to the
planes bound for Hong Kong?
He knew the beginning of the
story and the end, but he still
lacked the middle.
Women Declined
He decided to try his luck
with the Filipinas buying
wholesale lots of money orders
ostensibly for their husbands
He arranged to have them de-
tanned as they came into the
Army Post Office.
Seven women shove up
with $4,000 worth of Military
Payment Certificates. AS Og-
den had figured, once the Fill
pinas knew there was nothing
to be gained by lying, they told
the truth. They said they went
regularly to a certain corner
where they were approached by
Filipinos who gave them the
certificates to buy $1,000 OF
$4,000 worth of money orders
at a time. When they handed
over the money orders, they
were given a few pesos for
their services.
ogden quickly dispatched two
intelligence agents TO the cor
ner with instructions TO arrest
both the Filipino and the wom-