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Alleged Con Man Dies Before Trial: Bernard Mass of Anaheim Hills, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in April on 23 counts of fraud, died last week, just days before the case was set for trial in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The 47-year-old Mass was accused of bilking Coast Savings out of $1 million by submitting false invoices to obtain advances against a line of credit for Whiteworth/Towne-Paulsen, the Gardena pharmaceutical firm he controlled. Mass owned or operated a number of failed Southland firms, including Los Angeles Can Co. and California Sun Dance Inc. in Orange, Discreet Medical Testing Inc. in Santa Ana and Trans-World Pharmaceuticals in San Bernardino.