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I Theyll Do It Every Time l By Jimmy Hatlo. w you BEIM THE NEW CLUB M4M4GER AUD ME 8EIM' ONE OP THE OLDEST SOLVE NTT MEMBEI?S-HeW-We4-. I FIGURED YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW MY RdUGOOD OU JOE MS SUET-W THE NEW M4N4SER1S OMIR -4lrfT WiJRM YET, 4MD EVEP?y MEMBER IS TRyiM TO GET A SLICE OF THE CLUB BUSINESS - IN THE ME4T BUStNESS- 0 EVERy TIME WE GET A NEW HE4D KEEPER THE FOOD GETS BETTER FOR TWO WEEKS- THEN SACK TO NORMAL- TH4T GUY MS SUET W4SSEtfT UP FOR S5LUNG BAD BEEF DURING THE SPANISH 4MERIC4N VwHR WE'VE H4D MORE M4N4GERS TVWN THE PITTSBURGH PIR4TES mhO MORE GR4ND- ST4ND MANAGERS TU4H BROOKLYN 1M4, KIStT TTXTVtZS ITSPtCATX. 1m Ask ahy major- DOMO-TVlEytLTRy, TO DO IT EVERY TIME TUANX AttOA TIPOFTHS HATLO UAT T0'3 KORTUIHO.iMe.. Miss M Mother Hen Type Over Office Help, Faces Term in Jail Rditnr'i note: This is the first of three dispatches about a friendly spin ster who is believed to have embezzled - more money than any woman in his-tory. By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent Norfolk, Va. U.R) "Miss M," the graying little lady who bossed the savings department of the Commonwealth Building and Loan Association, was a mother hen type. 1 For a quarter of a century she ' clucked and worried over the novice girl assistants she hired. Heavy makeup, smoking and drinking she frowned upon. A girl bookkeeper should be cir cumspect and moral. The boss's name was Miss Min nie Clark Mangum. The office help referred to her as "Miss M. She was devoted to her work Like a mother hen, she personal ly scratched and pecked among the depositors' cards and the books after hours many nights, often being there at 9 p.m. when the cleaning woman left. Admits Taking Money During 22 years, two months and 10 days ending last Dec. 16, the state of Virginia charged, Fabric Saver! 10-12 M.14-14 U8-J0 Miss Minnie pecked up $2,957, 060 that was not hers to peck. Monday Miss M admitted in court taking $1,100,333.26. In a voice scarcely audible even to the clerk, she pleaded guilty to 10 counts of an indictment, oc cassionally brushing away a tear. The state has not yet disclosed whether it will prosecute on three indictments accounting for the remainder. Already Miss Minnie faces a possible maximum sentence of 130 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for June 25. No woman in history before Miss Minnie ever had been ac cused of stealing so much. Her largesse dropped in large bun dles to a small number of rela tives and friends, none of whom seem to have questioned whence it came. Miss Minnie's salary was only $9000 a year plus a bonus that brought it to about $10,000She had bought only two cars in the last 16 years and her manner of life was frugal. The disposal of about $1,000,000 is still un solved. Relatives Sued The government is suing the relatives and friends trying to recover more than another $1, 000,000 which it had protected in federal insurance. yet .she herself never dressed expensively or indulged herself. She has no vices, lived quietly supporting her aged mother who died last year and her blind sister. An aging spinster her stated age is 52 but relatives say it ac tually is about 60 Miss M has the look of a Helen Hokinson cartoon type, the plump club woman. In court she wore a little blue hat that seemed just to peek over the top of a full and faintly befuddled face. In her office there were at least 100 customers who refused to be waited on by anyone but Miss M. Of all persons she seemed the least likely to come to this. Businessman Faces Term (or Keeping Man in Chains Detroit (U.R) A Lansing, businessman faced a possible five-year sentence and $5,000 fine today for enslaving a mental incompetent and holding him in irons. s Malcolm N. Button, 55, who has a furniture business at Lan sing and a large farm near Gray ling, Mich., was indicted Tues day by a federal grand jury. The jury charged Button with holding Chauncey A. Cook, 53, a ward of the court, in "involun tary servitude by threats, force, beatings and physical restraint." No date was set for Button's ar raignment. Kept in Chains Assistant United States Attor ney Donald F.'Welday said But- ton kept Cook in chains and leg irons from August, 1953, to June, 1955, because Cook repeatedly ran away from his . guardian's farm. Button was named Cook's legal guardian in 1951 by the Ingham County Probate Court which paid $21 a month for the man's board and? keep. Welday said Cook would Wednesday, May 23, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB Truman Denies Calling Salerno Planner 'Squirrel-Headed General1 By EDWARD S. CORNISH United Press Correspondent Naples, Italy (U.R) For mer President Truman denied today that he himself had called the planner of the bloody Sa lerno landing in World War II a "squirrel-headed general." American reporters traveling with Mr. Truman heard him make the remark during a visit to the famed battleground Tues day. The denial came from Eugene Bailey, secretary for the former President, in an attempt to calm the furor touched off by Mr. Truman's casual remark to re porters. Bailey said: "Mr. Truman denies that this was his direct statement. He said he may have been repeat ing what one of the reporters said to him merely as a joke." Visits Ruined City The former President, obliv ious on the surface to the world w i d e controversy, strolled through the ruins of Pompeii sometimes run away with "leg irons and all" and last June he was found. wandering about in Lansing still in chains. Cook was declared mentally incompetent in 1940. He is being taken care of by relatives at Lansing. Alpena, Michigan, leads the world in production of Portland cement. this morning while American tourists sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." He was so busy sightseeing along the stone streets left by history's most famous volcanic eruption that reporters had no chance to question him person ally on the Salerno controversy. Tuesday, as Mr. Truman sat at a sidewalk cafe in Salerno, site of the bloody landing on Sept. 9, 1943, he gazed at the mountains where the Germans shelled invading Allied troops, j A newsman asked Mr. Truman if this was an easy place to land. "It was one of the twd or three most difficult places to ; land," Mr. Truman replied. ! In a running question and an-. swer session with American j newsmen touring with him, the j former President also said that ; the Anzio beachhead to the north j was another of the difficult; landing places. Controversial Beachheads Bailey indicated that Mr. Tru man considered the matter clos ed with this morning's denial. This reporter, who is travel through Italy, noted that Mr. Truman's remark was issued in an offhand manner in response to questions. Actually, the Salerno and An zio landings in Italy were among the most controversial of World War II. Both were part of form er British Prime Minister Win ston Churchill's pet project of knocking Italy out of the war. Gen. Eisenhower, then in command of Allied forces in North Africa, said later that the Salerno landing spot was picked after every other suitable beach from Rome to the toe of the It alian Boot had been studied. Nine Men Drown in Lake Michigan Storm Milwaukee, Wis. ; (U.R) Nine men were, drowned in Lake Michigan squalls off this city Tuesday night and early today, seven of them in the sinking of a barge at work on a construc tion project. Another of the workers on the barge was missing, coast guards men said. 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