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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1955
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Bank Officer Held
For Embezzlement
. Twenty Nine Palms, Calif.
U.R) The president of a bank
which was forced to close be
cause of a missing S673.000 said
today it broke his heart to hear
his highly-regarded vice-president
had been arrested for em
bezzlement. J. P. Wasserburger, president
of the Joshua Monument Na
tional bank of Twenty Nine
Palms, sobbed when he heard
banker-race horse owner Roscoe
D. Coon, 50, had been picked
up by federal authorities at a
race track.
Can't Believe It
j "This is a terrible blow to us,"
Vasserburger said. "It just broke
my heart. I just can't believe that
Coon would do anything wrong.
We have had no reason at all to
doubt his honesty."
Coon, vice-president and cash
ier of the desert community's
only bank, was arrested at Del
Mar racetrack Monday while
awaiting the Wednesday open
ing of the summer meeting to
race his stable of thoroughbreds.
Del Mar is about 100 miles
southwest of here.
Coon, who is a former vice-
president of the Pasadena (Calif.)
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
was placed in the county jail
in lieu of $50,000 bail. His ar
raignment was continued until
today.
"I am amazed," declared Coon
indignantly. "I don't have any
idea of what this is all about."
Slill Checking Books
The bank was forced to close
its doors Monday and the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corp. was
appointed its receiver. Treasury
Department bank examiners still
are checking the closed bank's
books.
William B. Hatch Jr., a sur
veyor who is a member of the
bank's board of directors, said
"only a few at worst" of the
bank's depositors would be hurt
by the closing.
FBI agents said Coon was
charged with embezzling bank
funds by ordering funds from
the Los Angeles branch of the
Federal Reserve bank and in
tercepting the money at the
Twenty Nine Palms post office
before it could reach the bank.
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'NO SECRET AGREEMENTS' Senator Earle C. Clements,
Ky., acting Senate majority leader confers briefly with
Speaker of House Sam Rayburn following congressional
briefing at White House on the Geneva Conference. Lead
ers were assured that "no secret agreement of any kind"
were reached at the Geneva meeting.
Man Believes Faith Will
Heal Compound Fracture
Despite Gangrene Threat
Hobart, Okla. 'U.R) A 28-year-old
laborer, facing the risk
of getting gangrene in a broken
leg, said yesterday he believes
faith will heal his wounds with
out the aid of a doctor.
Relatives took William Carl
Holman home Monday from a
hospital room where he was
being treated for a compound
fracture of his leg. Holman was
hit by an automobile Sunday
night while he was on a farm
tractor.
Dr. Richard Shriner said Hol
man's leg and his life are both
"in danger" and warned him that
"if gangrene sets in, that will
be the end."
Believe in Miracles
But Holman, who with his
relatives belongs to the Church
of the First Born, told a re
porter, "I'll be back to work in
a few days."
"He'll be cured by faith. We
believe in miracles," added his
mother, Mrs. Lucias Holman,
who refused to let the reporter
take his picture.
The leg was placed in a cast
before Holman's family took him
from Hobart General hospital
Monday, but no surgery had
been performed where the brok
en bone extended through the
skin.
May Heal Anyway
"There is a slim chance the
leg will heal, anyway, but it
is slim," Dr. Shriner said.
Holman was taken to the fam
ily's small, neatly kept home
at nearby Rocky, Okla. A small
electric fan stood by his bed
in the near 100-degree heat, and
his sister frequently gave him
ice water to drink.
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Jail Sentences Given
In Case of Larceny
Two Grants Pass men have
pleaded guilty in district court
to charges of petty larceny and
have been sentenced to 90 days in
Jackson county jail by Judge
Rawles Moore.
Wayne Gadford Rupp, 23, of
353 Savage Creek rd., and Ken
neth Homer Potts, 24, of 714 NE
Dean St., both Grants Pass, were
charged with the theft of $9 in
cash and bills from the residence
of Catherine Stallsworth July 24.
Both men are subject to pa
role in 10 days on good behavior.
Also in district court, Ralph
Senter Wilder, 60, of 712 Alder
st., Medford, was fined $25 and
costs when he pleaded cuiltv o
exceeding the daily bag limit for
trout. Wilder was accused of
having 13 trout in his posession.
The limit is 10.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood (U.R) Margaret scene. "Little short ones for
O'Brien, after resisting maturity
for years, took the plunge today
with her first
auiccn mas
but she's still
unkissedin
real life.
Little Mar
garet p e r e n
ially talks
about chang
ing into a
grown-up, but
this time it ap-
Aline Mosby
pears she's made it.
The one-time winsome child
star, now 18, finally cut off that
girlish shoulder-length hair into
a 1955 Italian haircut for a ro
mantic role in an RKO picture
about a race horse, "Glory," her
first move in four years.
The final scene: Margaret get
ting bussed by handsome John
Lupton.
Likes Initial Kill
The historic moment was film
ed by director David Butler, who
instructed Margaret as how to
hold her head. Lupton said he
gave her "a real kiss." Margaret
giggled it was "wonderful."
"Oh, yes, I go out on dates
now, to dinner, or dancing, but
I haven't been kissed in real
life," she confided after the
good night, but I mean not a
real, romantic kill."
Margaret still has that sweet,
breathless voice that fans re
member from her baby films at
MGM. But the short hair-cut
makes her look her age and she's
acquired a more collegiate man
ner. "It took Margaret such a long
time to grow up," said her moth
er, who still is in evidence on
the young actress' movie sets.
"I think she was afraid she
would miss the attention she got
as a child star. She hates to give
all that up.
Grows Up Overnight
. "But apparently overnight she
decided to grow up. It happened
very suddenly, within the last
few months. She drives her own
car now and goes out on dates
and has press interviews alone.
"It's Margaret's idea I come to
work with her," the mother in
sisted. "Sometimes I'll beg off
and not go in the morning but at
noon she telephones me to come
over. I think it gives her self-confidence."
For "Glory" Margaret will
wear off-the-shoulder full-skirted
evening gowns. She'll also
blossom out in a black turtle
neck sweater.
'Tve done stage roles and a
lot of television, such as 'Climax'
during the four years I was off
the screen," she said. "I think
people don't think of me as being
little any more. This should open
up a new career for me."
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday.
ARMY ENGINEER PROMOTED
Portland (U.R) Col. L'ouis H.
Foote, North Pacific division
Army engineer, has been pro
moted to brigadier general, ac
cording to word received here
yesterday from the chief of en
gineers in Washington, D. C
( Idouid Starch S
are sweet-tempered on a
wash day
I leeause
Jt Vano does a perfect
W starching job every time. Jr
Saves work.. .saves time.
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