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XstCOPT TOLC FIB 2 8 1951. 288448 xB 28 1951. Coach 'h a Bigshot and Swell Guy--for the Fixers EXCLUSIVE! How can a coach control a game for the gamblers make a killing? There are ways. He can do it by ordering his players to shoot or not to shoot, all depending on the type of fix operating that night He can order fouls to De waived or fouls to be shot, all depending on the score and the point-spread. He can bench his stars or keep them in the game, once more depending on the way he wants to control the final count in the books.

Forty-eight hours before that certain game, Coach took his short drive away from the campus. He went into a private telephone liooth and called New York. No long conversation was necessary. "We'll go under the point spread on Tuesday," he said. That's all.

Within minutes the nationwide ring of gamblers were Continued on Page 11 notes. 'Like a professor, revealing treasured information, these men realize Coach XHas all the answers at his fingertips and so his words become precious pearls of wisdom. Coach is no stranger to New York. He and his teams have appeared at Madison Square Garden many times. Year in and year out, they have been among the best in the nation and these quintets invariably have won the acclaim of both the press and spectators with their excellent brand of basketball.

That his superiors in college have recognized Coach. as a brilliant leader is evidenced by the fact that he receives a handsome salary, that he is given a fine home and that he has the choice of any number of leading schoolboy stars to develop for future, stardom. Yet Coach is linked hand in hand with the widespread operatfons of the gambling ring which is currently being investigated by District Attorney Hogan. He "fixes" games 'for the gamblers. winning teams to the" college, with the resulting bigger student body and bigger revenues and new buildings including the imposing field house.

Everybody knows all that. But everybody doesn't know that, just before a certain big game, Coach drove out to the country, found a telephone and called a certain number and said: "We'll keep within the six-point margin." Meaning that his team would win but by six points or less, making a gamblers' Roman holiday. But it happened. Immaculate, polished and dignified, this mentor has been established as a paragon of ideals and brilliance for young newcomers in the field, and one of the top men in his profession. When Coach rises to his feet to discuss basketball whether it be at rallies, luncheons or meetings the audience invariably listens with deep silence.

Some of those who hope to become big-time coaches will grab pencils and make Copyright, Brooklyn Eagle, 1951 By BEX GOULD Third in a series on college basketball and what has turned into a Frankenstein monster.) There is a certain basketball coach at a certain college with a beautiful campus hundreds of miles from Brooklyn. He is a respectable and respected coach. The campus has an imposing field house a glorified gymnasium with 12,000 seats which jack built. That is, the jack that comes from college sports, mainly basketball. The coach, whom we may call Coach is highly esteemed, almost revered, by faculty and students alike.

Why not since everybody knows that he it was who brought LATE NEWS WEATHER Fair and mild today, cooler tonight. 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE nttnd Brooklyn P. O. CIM IbQ latter BROOKLYN 1, N. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1951 tCopyrlih.

USL Tht Brooklyn ImI. Ini.l 110th YEAR No. 57 DAILY and SUNDAY 18111? MM um i 1 mm High Court Ruling Charge 2 Games Tossed in Dec. '48 By Nathan Miller Ends Melish Fight 'K. J' SENATE PROBE JITTERS ROCK UNDERWORLD Kefauver Hearings, Opening March 12, Will Sift Mafia Links Boro Rector Calls Appeal Denial On Ouster a legalistic' Victory The Rev.

Dr. John Howard Melish today gave up his long fight to retain the rectorship of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church but declared his successor, when chosen, The unfolding net of th college WaketbaU "fix" whicK lost niyht etm upjwV will have the loyal support of his congregation and; 'tWUI free to speak the truth as he By ED RE1D sees it." LLagalism and ecclesiasticism." The underworld was groggy ft Denied a hearing of his ap kiwis Reynolds, senior warden of Holy Trinity and a peal by the U. Supreme lS i J- today, reeling Tr(m a serifs of blows, that are ttue tcf assume windmill proportion around it Court, Dr. Melish said he would leader in backing Dr. Melish'g cause, said the vestry, the group bow to his ouster, ordered orig the ill-starred Ides ff March which first demanded the rec when the Senate Critie Investi tor's ouster but which, through inally by Bishop James Per-nette DeWolfe of the Long Island Episiopal Diocese and sustained i Brooklyn Supreme gating Committee sets up shop in the Supreme CouVt Building, changes in its elected member mMmmimnmwmit K'XS ft mm Court injunction and appeals to Manhattan.

The committee's chief coun ship, is now pro-Melish, will soon move to elect a new rector. "We have been consulting the higher State courts. Dr. Melish termed the Su TODAY'S BASKETBALL 'FIX' ARREST Nathan Miller, charged with taking gamblers'. $1,500 bribe to "throw" I.

game in December, 1948, is shown, right, with a detective as he is formally booked in Elizabeth St. station, Manhattan. nel, Rudolph Halley, declared that one of the most important items on the agenda will be a thorough sifting of the Mafia, preme Court action refusing him a review a "triumph" of1 Continued on Page 12 nread secret organization re ported to be in control of the criminal syndicate operating the rackets in this country. The catch-all inquiry, slated to open public hearings March 32, will give an opportunity to Army Antiquarianism' Assailed by Wherry GIs-to-Europe Foe Levels Violent Attack At 'Exploded Theories' of Marshall, Bradley Gl Nutcracker Trap Bags Fleeing Reds Hundreds of N. Koreans Snared in Flight Toward New 'No-Retreat' Defense Line -A TokyoAFeb.

27 (U.R) Ut S. forces driving through east respectable citizens to be heard cs well as members of the arrest of Nathan Miller, hovered today over perhaps half tlown ether ox-Long Uland University players. These, like Miller, were L. I. U.

basketball tossers before the two-season period of 1949-50 and 1950-51 in which the skulduggery with which the ten players previously arrested had been charged. The latest figure held in the "fix" scandal is charged with throwing two games in December, 1948.He was questioned and booked shortly before 1 a.m. today, after a revived session with Eddie Gard, ex-L. I. U.

player, who, it is now evident, is talking about game "fixing" activities in a season as towhich he had before this kept mum. Once having broken into that area, District Attorney Hogan's men and Gard it issaid, cannot stop with the arrest of one man. Basketball games are not thrown by one player and Miller, charged with taking $1,500 for a couple of games, was never a big enough star and a good enough basketball artist, sports experts declare, to assure the professional gamblers who paid him that he, unaided, could deliver the goods. One swallow doesn't make a Summer nor one paid player a "fix." If there was one businessman in the 1948-M9 and even 1947-'48 seasons, there were others, police believe. Until he was recalled for more questioning, Gard had evidently been attempting to shield them in his revelations to the prosecutor's men.

But now that he has named one, others are regarded as certain to follow. Miller became involved in the disclosures because he was Card's best friend. They went to high school together, played on the same teams, were friends for years. Both men played in the December, 1948, games and Gard, called the go-between In the later games involving other L. I.

U. players, according to the prosecutor, paid off his friend Miller $1,000 for losing the Bowling Green game, 97 to 64, on Dec. 4, and $500 for the Western Kentucky game, 83 to 58, Underworld. One of the 50 witnesses to be JOHNSTON MAY SANCTION PAY BOOST TODAY Government Also Set To Roll Back Some Prices, Boost Others Washington, Feb. 27 Economic Stabilizer Eric A.

Johnston was expected to thaw Washineton. Feb. 27 (U.R) Senator Kenneth S. Wherry central Korea toward the new Communist "no-retreat" defense said today America's defenses are being strangled by "anti quated, exploded theories of ground war" advocated by Defense railed is former Mayor O'Dwyer. Others include Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Meyer Lansky, Charles (Lucky) Luciano, reputed head ofthe narcotics division of the crime syndicate; Joseph Profaci, Brooklyn olive oil importer.

Also Thomas (Three-finger Brown) Luchese, mystery char line trapped hundreds of North Korean Reds today. The U. S. 7th Division sprang the trap on Communist rear Secretary George C. Marshall and Gen.

Omar N. Bradley. guards trying to reach the safe- In a bitter demand that Con ty of the new Red defend line rested after Its withdrawal by gress stop President Truman sea from northeast Korea last from sending American ground the wage freeze today and the troops to Europe or travel "the December, was disclosed to have swung back into action on Government was ready to roll Senate to Open Debate Today on stretching 100 miles across Korea from the Yellow Sea to the eastern mountains. Some 130,000 Chinese and North Korean troops were- reported digging in roughly 30 acter injected into the last Mayoralty election; gangster Continued on Page 11 back some prices and permit the central front tielow increases in others. The wage order was expected Arrayed elsewhere across the road to dictatorship," the Senate Republican leader from Nebraska also hit at fellow Republicans who want the troops sent.

i Hits 'Smear' Campaign miles south of the 38th Parallel. The U. S. 8th Army already Draft first. Johnston WM expected to approve the order permitting in.

creases of 10 percent above Jan. waist of Korea were the U. S. 24th, 25th, 3d, 1st Cavalry, 2d and 7th Divisions, the South Ko was abreast of the new line west, south and east of Seoul Find Missing Girl Amnesia Victim In Crown Heights 15, 1950, levels, but liberalize it rean 1st, 6th, 3d and Capital Washington. Feb.

27 (U.R) Wherry said his- party mem and was rapidly approaching it bers, including Gov. Thomas E. The Administrations bill to to the extent that fringe benefits would not be counted Divisions, and British, Canadian, Australian and New Zea in the east-central mountains. Moves Up 250,000 Troops Dewey of New York, have re land units of the 27th Common- against the 10 percent limita sorted to "smearuig" his efforts Accepting the enemy chal on Dec. 30, 1948.

tion and existing labor contracts draft 18-year-olds goes to the Senate floor today with Democratic leaders confident iUwill be approved. wealth Brigade. The 7th Division caught re lenge, Lt. Gen. Matthew 10 to stop the-American contribution to the pact army under who is married and a wounded with escalator cost-of-living If Gard gave the binding information which led the Dis- Ridgway, commander of the 8th Joan Soran, 16, of 284 Sump-ter who had been missing since Saturday and the object war veteran who earned the treating remnants of the North Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. clauses would be honored. The adoption of the rigid 10 Irict Attorney to Miller, the Purple Heart in action in Ger Korean 3d Corps in a giant nut Army, moved the bulk of his 250,000 American trooDs into Former President Hoover was The measure would set up of a 13-State alarm, was found percent wage formula by a 6 to scheduled to interrupt a Florida many, was brought into Mr. Hogan's office at 6:40.

p.m. yes line for the coming test of wandering a Crown Heights others, it is pointed out, are bound to follow. Previously unmentioned in the first universal military service and training program in 3 vote of the Wage Stabillza- fishing trip to testify later to- cracker trap by smashing through road blocks and racing Continued on Page 2 strength. street by two patrolmen last terday. He was questioned for several hours, then hours later The U.

S. 1st Marine Division, Contlnned on Page 2 night, a victim of amnesia. Continued on Page 2 the 'fix" investigation, Miller, American history. It has the unanimous backing of the Sen She was recognized at 10:30 formally placed under arrest on the charge of bribe-taking. ate Armed Services Committee.

p.m. on Sterling near No Democratic leaders hoped for Miller last played for L. U. substantial bi-partisan backing in the 1948-49 season. He is now studying for his master's degree for the admittedly controversial measure.

Senate Republicans Presidency Limited to 2 Terms As 22d Amendment Wins Out utrand and taken to the observation ward at Kings County Hospital. The daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Amiel Soran, she had been missing since she left Kings Park State Hospital Albany Again Eyes Stiff Anti-Bookie Bill cheduled a closed conference Continued on Page 11 to decide whether they will take a formal stand. WHERE TO FIND IT The measure would authorize after visiting a patient. Two patrolmen of the Empire Boulevard precinct recog Washington, Feb.

27 No keep on running as long as he the drafting of 18-year-olds for night and when lt came up for Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Pag lives and gets the votes. 26 months of service. Present Pag 9 American ever again can be elected President for more than President Truman is the last man who possibly can be elected to more than two terms. He is specifically exempted and can a floor vote Senate Democratic Around Boro Albany, Feb. 27 Another nized her from the description given in the alarm, stopped law sets the draft ages at 19 The new amendment de Music Night Lit Bridge through 25 and the period of whip Eltner F.

Quinn of Man hattan voiced an objection. their car and tried to question Comici Nov.l attempt to revive a measure which would establish a mandatory graduated scale of pun service at 21 months. clares that no person shall be elected to more than two terms as President. It also states that 7 23 23 23 10 10 6 Obltuarict The legislation is scheduled The bill would permit the her. bhe was unable to give her name or address, nor could she account for her movements Crosiword Dr.

Brady Editorial Gl N.w. no person who has served more 9 23 11 14 IS 15 13,14 16-1 IS to come up again for a vote in the Senate today, but the drafting of the 18-year-olds only after all eligibles in the older ishment against convicted bookmakers will be made in the Legislature today. than two years of a predeces lince Saturday. Pattrn Paul Gould Radio Socitty Sporti Tiviiion Srin and Bear It 1 0 Qulnn opposition Is expected to age group had been taken. It sors unexpired term shall be two terms or serve for more than 10 years, unless President Truman runs and wins in 1952.

For all practical purposes, that limitation became effective when Nevada ratified the 22d Constitutional Amendment yesterday. The amendment now has been adopted by 36 States the necessary three-fourths to change the Constitution. The officers took her to the Ttalph Ave. station, which had smother It to defeat. would authorize the deferment elected more than once in his The bill, backed by Mayor Impellltteri, Police Commis of 75,000 men a year for college Stalling a vote on the bill own right.

sent out the alarm, and she Thaatar 1.9 sioner Thomas Murphy and studies considered essential to last night, Qulnn said that the later was taken to the hospital, Htfrnan 10 Hollywood 9 Horoicop 23 Jimmy Murphy 18 justBatwMnUi 14 Ltnt Meuag 24 Undlay 10 'AS MAINE GOES Augusta, Feb. 2T (U.R) That old political slogan "As Maine goes, so goes the nation" again proved r'iphetlc today. Maine in 1947 Was the first State to ratify the 22d Constitutional Amendment limit ing a V. 8. President to two full termh District Attorney Miles F.

Mc the nation. Legislature should not tie the A brother, Frank, went to the ThMWom 23 TucUr 10 Unci Ray 33 Want Adi 13-22 Under the Administration's hands of the courts." hospital and identified the girl, Theoretically, it Is possible for a person to serve 10 years but no more as President. This would come about if a person filled out an unexpired term Donald, Is being kept In a "deep freeze" in the Assembly Codes bill, all draftees would he re "We should let the courts The Constitutional change- Committee, quired to join a reserve group Livingston Wk Outijpti IS use their discretion," the Tarn WAN! JOB IN BKOOKLINf 19 rMklra tmtiwnt OmrtiniUM kptmr ta tfc SAQLI WAN ADI i However, tt wa reported out first since the prohibition re oan J3, 14 after they had completed their pealer la 1933 meant that Contlnu4 Page Active MPvio I.