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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,
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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.
Three of the victims in the
barge mishap were found and
identified early today. The Coast
Guard later said it had recovered
four other bodies, making a total
of seven known dead.
Two fishermen drowned Tues
day night.
A sudden thunderstorm and
squall whipped over the barge,
throwing its load of workmen
into the water as it sank.
Ten survivors were hospital
ized with shock and exposure.
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