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Tittle Old Lad To Face New Trials on Embezzling Charges Norfolk, V. flJ.R) "Miss Minnie," a short, plump spinster who allegedly embezzled nearly $3,000,000, faced new trials to day on indictments carrying pos sible sentences totaling hundreds of years. Miss Minnie C. Mangum, 52, was sentenced to a maximum 10 years in prison at Thursdays 'i i v K- i V K MISS MINNIE MANGUM Could Get Hundiedt of Year first trial on a relative minor charge knowingly giving false information to Virginia's Cor poration Commission about her company's financial condition. Trial Begins Monday Dabbing at her tear-filled eyes with her small white lace hanky, Miss Minnie, a Sunday school teacher, was led from the court room by relatives. A million dollar embezzlement trial begins Monday on 22 counts of theft ranging from $1,500 to $195,000 covering during 23 years of the 23 she worked for the Commonwealth Building and Loan association of Norfolk. Con viction on any of the counts could add another 10 years in prison. And after that trial, the little old lady who had lived all her life with community respect faces trials on 14 more indict ments, most Vvith multiple charges. One charges her with stealing $2,884,957.06. The amazing complex of charges against Miss Minnie was filed when federal auditors dis covered last December a short age of nearly $3,000,000 in the reserves of the building and loan company. Miss Minnie had worked there as bookkeeper and rose to the position of a $9,000-a-year assistant secretary treas urer. ihe state further charged that she gave away thousands of dol lars of company money to friends and relatives. Her conviction Thursday came exactly 100 minutes after the jury of six men and six women began its deliberations. It was based largely on her admitted signed statement that she had used $2,000,000, I think" for relatives and friends. Brussels Romance Squelched by Palace London (U.R) Another royal romance died today before it could really get started. The Brussels newspaper Het Volk reported the engagement of pretty Princess Alexandra, 19-year-old daughter of the Duchess of Kent, and Belgium's bespectacled King Baudoin. The London Daily Mirror said it was officially informed by Kensington palace, the Duchess London home, there was no truth to the report. It was the second time in two days court circles have taken the almost unprecedented step of issuing a blitz denial of such rumors. On Wednesday Queen Eliza beth II authorized a denial of any romance between Princess Margaret and German Prince Christian of Hanover. Stevenson Sees Arms To Arabia as Curious Approach Los Aneeles (U.R) Presi dential aspirant Adlai Steven son says U. S. shipments of arms to Saudi Arabia encourages other countries to sell arms to Israel. Stevenson yesterday stopped here briefly to chanee Dlanes in his campaign tour for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. The former Illinois governor got a speedy haircut and greeted newsmen at International Air. port before boarding an air liner for Florida. "This is a curious way to stop the arms race," he said. "By the shipment of arms to Arabia, we seem to be encouraging other countries to wnri arme t TcmoI " Stevenson charged "This is not the first time I ve been be wildered by President Eisenhow er's policy or lack of tjolicv in the Middle East." He urged that the U. S. sell defensive arms to Israel and predicted the plan would "thereby preserve the peace." Stevenson arrived here from Modesto. Calif., after windine ud his current campaigning in Cali fornia and Oregon. He said he was confident he would do well in the Oregon primary. ,,,,,..,,,., , MUNM.MI I.,.,,.,. ...M I , . ' ' "" : JSP f'Ai JC"' ' " .c4r3"i y 'J -ft, , ,..., lut - ,. J,. ?J .Jjjj! ...Jm V .... , ...A Friday, May 18, IS5S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE NEW TRACTOR Open house will be held at the Howard-Cooper Tractor company. Highway 99, Central Point, Saturday to display the new line of International crawler tractors like the one shown above. Featured in the display will be heavy industrial machinery including the new International TD-18. Open house will be held at all nine Howard-Cooper locations in Washington, Oregon and California. Spinach, Cigarettes Compared To Show Evidence of Cancer Roundworms do the greatest injury to young pigs. Wormy pigs are stunted and unthrifty. Two Children Drown In Sewer Excavation Savannah, Ga, (U.R) Allen Stafford and Sammy Donaldson, both 8, drowned Thursday night in a water-filled sewer excava tion which had been left unpro tected, police reported. A housewife said she warned the boys away from the 10-foot hole, but later noticed the boys' bicycles were still parked near the hole. Firemen drained the hole and found the boys' bodies partially stuck in mud. Detroit (U.R) Most people would see little to compare be tween spinach and cigarettes. But there is a very definite parallel, according to Dr. Evarts A. Graham of Washington Uni versity of St. Louis. "If there was as much evi dence that spinach caused can cer of the stomach as there is between lung cancer and smok ing," Graham said Thursday, "the United States Public Health Service would plaster the country with warning placards." ( Delivers Lecture Graham unveiled his somber facts on smoking here when he FISH ON POWER POLE Salem, N.H. (U.R) Power company worker Walter Tan guay found a fish on top of a power pole Thursday. The fish was in the beak of a hawk which became entangled in the power lines and died while carrying its catch home for dinner. Nation's Weather Extremes Moderate By UNITED PRESS Weather extremes leveled off today, breaking record setting heat waves in the West and cold snaps in the East. In Southern California, light rains cracked the sizzling heat which sent temperatures as high as 105 earlier this week. Freak winds accompanied the storm Thursday, ripping down trees and power lines in Los Angeles. It was still on the chilly side on the East coast, but tempera tures rose five to 10 degrees above levels which set records Thursday, in New York City, Rochester, N.Y., and other cities. There was rain in the Middle Atlantic coast states, with Salis bury, Md., getting a 1.03 inch dousing. Temperatures were also on the cool side in the Middle Mis sissippi valley and parts of the Great Lakes area. Chicago reg istered a nippy 44 degrees early today. Astoria Increases Milk Prices Cent a Quart Astoria (U.R) The price of milk went up a cent a quart here this week, following a trend in several other Oregon cities. delivered the annual Roy D. Mc Clure Memorial League lecture before the Henry Ford Hospital Medical Society. He said 14 recent studies in this and other nations showed "incontrovertible" evidence of the relationship between- heavy smoking and lung cancer. "There is not the slightest doubt of the' causal relation ship," Graham said. He was quick to blast Dr. W. C. Hueper of the Public Health Service who holds that the in creased incidence of lung can cer may be blamed on air pollu tion. PHS Keeps Silent "Heuper goes around. shooting his mouth off about something he doesn't know anything about and the rest of the Public Health Service keeps silent," Graham said, i He also blasted the tobacco industry for trying to offset lag ging sales by conducting cam paigns to start people smoking at an earlier age. "The evidence against cigar ette smoke is stronger than the proof that vaccination protects against smallpox," Graham said. "Only screwballs doubt that." Boy Tells Teacher Of Father's Death Austin, Tex. 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