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College - Basketball Scandal Engulfs 6th School NEW YORK, July 25-WVTbe exploding college basketball scan, dal engulfed its sixth school today and turned up an amazing story of a fdmjblecross among gamblers.' : District Attorney Frank S. Hogan reported that three stars of the University of Toledo's crack team admitted , taking money to rig the points in a game with Niagara at Only yesterday Bradley univer sity players, including All-Ameri-can Gene Melchiorre admitted tak ing bribes to alter the scores in ?ames with Oregon State and , Washington State last year. The addition of Toledo to the worst scandal in college sports his tory brings to six the number now enmeshed. Others are Bradley Manhattan college. City College of New York, Long Island U and New York university. Twenty-eight players, many of them among the . nation's best are now Involved in the alleged fixes. - In relating the fantastic story of the "double cross" in the Bradley St. Joseph's game at Philadelphia's convention hall early in 1950, Ho gan said one of the alleged fixers travelled in the same Pullman berth with Melchiorre. He added that, another, Kaye, invaded the Toledo field bouse to pressure the players and "dangle money before them." - . - -. . . Events Described According to Hogan, Kaye and the Englisis brothers, Nicholas (Nick the Greek) and Tony, work ed together to fix the Bradley players. Iick traveled with the Bradley team, said Hogan who re ported the following s e r 1 e s ."of events:- The battle of wits between the gamblers developed when Jack WesVa convicted New York book maker who is being sought by Ho gan, got together with Nick Eng lisis to get information on the Bradley-St. Joseph's game. West, - a one-time associate of the notori ous racketeer Marty Krompier, was to pay Nick $1,000 for infor mation on the Bradley score. This separate . deal was unknown to - Kaye. West placed his bets on SL Jos eph's to win with a point handicap of six or seven points. The involv ed Bradley players were not going to throw the game but just shave the points and make it close. It turned out that Bradley won, 64-60. Thus, with a point spot of six or seven, those who bet on St Joseph's won their bets. A few hours after the deal was made, the gambling books were flooded with wagers on St. Joseph's and the prosecutor said that West evi dently bet a lot of money. I Most Be Double-Cross Kaye told Nick Englisis, ae cording to Hogan, that "there must be a double-cross and we will have to twitch our bets. There is so much money bet that the game will go off the betting boards (no. bookie would take bets), there will be an investigation and we will all be In trouble. So let's switch and teach ttie other boys lesson." Hogan said Kaye then instructed the players to win over the spread, and, after they agreed, Nick again A-A J3 U l5 Lizg a Li b:Li Li u g & L t're$h, clean taste 2 you drink Squirt.., fresh, clean tost rtftr you drink Squirt.,. never an afwr-thintl - : W -4 . M ! 4rtmk Switcll t Swkt. r echlf 4nmk iW tmm iy Xl'hesi yo serve s mixed drinks, and : khes you drink, Le smooth about it... Toledo last December. relayed this information to West. West and bis associates protested they had' their bets down and couldn't switch, said Hogan, citing the story told by the Englisis bro thers. 7 - .- Hogan said. West and two asso ciates then grabbed Tony Englisis and brought him to West's apart ment in Brooklyn. "Tony thought be was going to get killed," said Hogan. Tony telephoned Convention hall, had ' his brother paged, and told him his life was threatened, said Hncran. Hogan added: "Nick dashed to the floor, caught (Gene) Melchi orre s eye, turned ms tnumoi down, meaning that they should go under the spread. ' ? --. "Melchiorre nodded, indicating that he understood, and Bradley won under the spread." i " Kaye, caught in the switch, an betting on Bradley, to win over the roint margin, was taken to the cleaners, according to Hogan. West, however, won, having bet on St Joseph's to win with the point spot. ; (Additional details in, today's sports section.) Domesticated Cougar Given to Portland Zoo PORTLAND. July 23 J. Kendall Hockensmith decided to day be couldn't keep both a tele phone and a cougar. So he gave his cougar away. -. He got so many telephone calls, many of them from neighbors com plaining that it was unneighboriy to keep a i cougar-around, that he Just gave up, although still insist ing the big cat. was harmless. The 100-pound cat had been around some time, unnoticed by the neighbors, until it jumped on a small dog last weekend. Mrs. Louis Miller, the dog's owner, said the only thing that kept the cougar from jumping oh her, too, was a handy hunk of tree. , She said she picked up the piece of wood and knocked the cougar senseless. The animal had es caped from its yard in Hocken smith's absence. : Placed in the zoo, I the cougar was retrieved by Hockensmith the next day. And then the telephone began ringing. "I've been swamped with calls, I bet I've had 500. I've had all kinds of advice and the neighbors If sweet soft drinks leave you thirsty. . then That'a say you taste Sqiiirs " ' j ud the first thing . - 4 v . i J love ii.i.iewr an .. i' 1- " nfirr.thirsll ..-" I r i r J r , .-!- w i - -Bribery Red Battalion Repulsed by. UArtillery By John Raadalph XT.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Thursday, July 26-(AP)-A reinforced Chin ese battalion of about 1,000 reds ripped into allied lines east of Kumhwa last night but was re pulsed by a thunderous turtillery barrage. . , The Chinese Red attack on the central front was hurled back by 1:45 ajn. today (8:45 a-m. PDT, Wednesday). : ' A mortar and artillery barage hammered into allied lines before the reds attacked. There were continuing signs of a communist Buildup along me front, allied Intelligence officers said. United Nations patrols advanc ing toward Pyonggang, near the apex . of the former communist "iron triangle" in central Korea, t spotted platoons of reds Wednes day where none hand been seen the day before. . . ' To the east northeast of Hwa chon reservoir, allied forces . were' shelled five and a half hours by communist 76 millimeter artillery. Elsewhere on the front, the reds pushed small probing attacks. They were repulsed. In western Korea, allied troops stormed a 600-foot hill across the Imjin- river north of Korangpo. some 10 miles north-northeast of the U.'N. advance armistice camp and 17 air miles east of Kaesong. Although the hill is well out of the neutral zone declared for the Kaesong cease-fire talks, it was reported the strongest allied ac tion to date so dost to the . con ference site. '.. - - . ' . ; r Allied . warplanes' blasted .red communications ' and supply cen ters again Wednesday. Railroad yards near the Ko rean communist capital of Pyong yang were pounded by 13 B-29 superforts. Other targets were Opari, in northwest Korea, and Chinnampo, port of Pyongyang, on xiorea s west coast. " around here are afraid shell soh- ble up their dogs and children," he said. . s . -v - , Actually the year-old couear is friendly, . Hockensmith .said, and wouldn't - gobble tip anything,- al though she might take a wee taste of an occasional dog. She wont even do that now, for Hockensmith, an automobile deal er who likes unusual pets, sent her to the city zoo. Then he went back to the telephone, hoping that the calls soon would dwindle. r '. J.. - hy millionf , u '1 1 rjut h Housing Bill WASHINGTON, July 25 -OTV- By a two-vote margin, the house today refused to retreat in its demands for a big slash in the ad ministration's public housing pro gram and for a cut in the number of federal employes. Trie chamber voted to stand pat on the two economy moves and to reject a compromise worked out by a senate-house conference com mittee. House conferees, were Instructed to insist on the original house de cisions as spelled out in the S6,- 160,000,000 independent offices ap propriations biU. The measure pro vides funds for more than a score of federal agencies, including the atomic energy commission. Originally, the house had voted to allow the public housing admin istration to build only 5.000 public housing units this year. Under the compromise proposed by the senate-house conference . committee, the number would have been in creased ten-fold to 50,000 units. President Truman had asked for 75,000. - . - r ; The conferees had also agreed on a senate proposal for cutting federal personnel by 10 per cent. Instead or the bouse provision to refill only one out of every five job vacancies. Rep. Phillips (R-Calif.) made ! a2aeit (J)(n) h) iTi di) 'ir' -1 ' f 1 ) f V - I . I " 6, 00 A H ' - r V g 0 ) : MM?22 ) . 150-Yisfar Driver" Gels First Ticket SAN PEDRO, July -C?V After M years of driving and 3 years of living. William Kess Uoyd got his first trsf fle ticket. Lleyd su bees driving since the days mt horsele carriages. He appeared ta municipal court today on a charge f stable parkinr and drfring - witbt eye glasses as - required by his driver's license. : - - -; - Impressed by IJyd driv ing record, the judge suspend-. ed sentence and told him: "Ge and sin .no snore." - ZJyd Is a retired minister. 2 Employes of Bank Promoted .First National Bank of Portland Wednesday announced the promo tion of two Salem branch em ployes, Edward' Summers and Charles Marshall. 7 Summers, - an assistant cashier here since last January, is now the local bank's operations officer. That post was vacated by Mar shall who has been appointed an assistant coordinator for the cen- tral valley area. He had been with Salem branch since 1948. the motion to send the bill back to Conference. Aclieson Office Rejects Demand By McCarthy WASHINGTON, July 25 -AV The state department brusquely turned down today a demand from Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) for as surance that 29 of its employes are being kept away from state sec rets. The senator had said the 29 are all up for loyalty investigation, but the department replied that some on his list are not even in the department, that some already have been cleared, and the Mc Carthy demand is a "political strategm." It said it is doing a thorough Job of checking on Its people. ... - ' .: ... ,v McCarthy promptly responded with a statement that the depart ment a letter is "deliberately cal culated to mislead." . He said he will produce in the senate a letter t from Chairman Hiram Bingham' of the loyalty re view board confirming his. allega tions as to the status of the 29. Threatens to Use Names : ' The exchange opened with letter from McCarthy to Secretary of State Acheson Monday. - He threatened to name the depart ment employes he said were, fac ing loyalty checks unless he got assurance they were denied access to secrets. ' His demand - followed belated confirmation from the state de partment that two of Its top of- una is cad Been suspended pend ing nearings on security consider ations. The ty are John Davies, a member of Acheson's policy planning staff, . and Oliver Ed mund Clubb, director of the of fice or uunese affairs. Reply Given 7 i Denutv Undersecretarr CarUst Humelsine replied to McCarthy in a letter today. He said President Truman's directive of March 13, 1948, forbids disclosure of any re ports or records bearing on loyalty cases.- . : - "Your indiscriminate lumping of names and the threat Xo make them public," Humelsine wrote, "is tantamount to holding hostage the reputations and rights of those employes who. have been or may be cleared of the allegations against them." Humelsine, who directs the department's security program, as serted that It is being carried out "honestly and effectively" to give maximum protection to the gov eminent with due regard to indi vidual rights. McCarthy's statement said he feels he made a "very reasonable request of the department -"namely that when - charges of communist activities were filed filed against its officials, as a re sult of reports by its own investi gators or TBI Investigators, that those officials should have been denied access to secret material." He said the state department answers by "saying that it will determine which cases should be denied access to secret material,' and called that "unsatisfactory." Oregon Crops Flourish in Dry Weather PORTLAND, July 23-tfV-Ore-gon crops are In generally good condition, despite a long dry spell, , the department of agriculture said . today. The " weekly crop-weather re port said more than two months have passed without a soaking rain in western Oregon. Dairy farmers without irrigated pastures have been hard hit . The report said that many west ern Oregon farmers, though, have added irrigation systems in recent years, and are coming through the dry spell in good shape. The dry weather is aiding the wheat harvest in eastern Oregon, where other crops also were re ported in good shape. - No rain is In sight for the period ending July 29, except for a few thunder showers in eastern Oregon. DAMAGED TANKER SAILS PORTLAND, July 25-iflVTho coastwise tanker Alan - Seeger. damaged June 28 in a collision off the Oregon coast, sailed today for San Francisco after repairs were completed. The vessel collided in a fog with the Greek freighter Audrey. - c :) -: ::. 2 iSj 1 AVE 20.00 . ' . . I ;-:-J- : v xZ' :"! fef: .. " iKUyfHUy,lW'0'f.M. : : W- "r""11 . '. ' Tt,WL,TlM, Jit. 10A.M. to 6 f.M. . "Se&tJkeZfz fz0zj?czz tad" f 550 H. Ccplicl Fli. 3-9101 Switch to Sjuirt, She smooth Er. Pcn:r DnUling Co. i::3 It Llhcrtr ll" Ftcnt WliS
