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Show December 31, 1946, they accepted 4,880 invalid stamps, and as a consequence, their accounts have been debited 24,400 pounds of sugar. sug-ar. New Mexico merchants were the second worst. They ' accepted 2,015 invadid stamps and their accounts ac-counts were debited 10,075 pounds of sugar. Third among the offending merchants mer-chants were those of Montana, where they lost 8,990 pounds of sugar for accepting 1,798 invalid stamps. Coloradans were fourth, losing 8,275 pounds of sugar for invalid stamps for accepting 1,655 invalid stamps. Idaho merchants accepted 572 invalid stamps and were penalized 2,860 pounds of sugar, while those in Wyoming lost 2,055 pounds of sugar for ac- cepting 411 invalid stamps. i ALTERED STAMPS BRING PENALTIES Move was started this week by the OPA Regional Sugar Rationing Ration-ing Div., to penalize wholesalers and retailers who have accepted altered and antiquated coffee and shoe stamps from consumers in lieu of valid sugar ration currency, curren-cy, Frederic A. Adams, Regional Sugar Rationing Executive announced. an-nounced. He stated that wholesalers whole-salers and retailers had accepted 11,351 altered and antiquated , stamps from consumers in the ! three months ending Dec. 31, 1946. j l The bogus stamps were discovered i at the OPA verification center in Denver where banks throughout 1 the six Rocky Mountain states send the stamps deposited by the wholesalers and retailers, were the most flagrant offenders Utah merchants, Adams said, in acceptance of invalid stamps 1 for sugar. Between October and |