Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1951 — Page 1

Forecast: Occasional showers and thunderstorms today. Cloudy and colder tomorrow. High today, 48; low

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tonight, 29; high tomorrow, 36.

Central took a thrilling 60-58 decision

62d YEAR— NUMBER 6 >

OH PLEASE — Muncie Central cheerleaders kneel prayerfully oh edge of Fieldhouse floor during the closing minutes of the torrid final game. Their prayers were answered as Muncie

SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 1951

uncie Wins State Title, 60 To 5

TO THE VICTORS—Muncie stars Jim Mace (50) and Tom Harrold (33) enjoy the supreme thrill of ‘cutting down the nets following the most important basketball game of the year..Their

over Evansville Reitz. teammates already had cut the ‘other strand of the net.

. = over underworld rackets.

Senate Probers Cite Costello for Contempt "Action Is for Refusal to Answer Questions;

. O'Dwyer Slated to Testify Tomorrow

By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—The Senate Crime Committee threw a contempt of Congress citation at Frank Costello today for defying its attempts to expose his reputed lordship Greek troops used knives and

By unanimous vote, the committee sent the citation to the Senate for action along with two others against suave Chunchon yesterday in some of Mrs. Gatto sobbed. “The doctors

"Didn't Look Inside’— Greeks Score Marine Wounded. 2d Time

| Wife Here Prays Husband Is Spared

. Again After Previous Narrow Escape By RICHMOND BARTLETT

Repulse Chinese Reds ‘With Knives, Bayonets

+ NEWS | ara iL NEWSOM {ber after he had been left for dead by Red soldiers with a bullet

TOKYO, Sunday, Mar. 18 (lodged in his skull. : His wife is praying that he may be spared a second time.

|bayonets to cut down four savage telegram Friday night saying her husband had been wounded again {counterattacks by Chinese forces Monday. . ps guarding the big Red base of “He wasn’t ready to go back,” #

{the bloodiest fighting of the Ko- examined the outside of his head,

Joe Adonis of New Jersey and

the record of the committee's) hearings in New York is being sent to prosecuting authorities for a check on possible perjury violations, with special attention to! one conflict involving Costello.

O'Dwyer Testifies. Tomorrow

The committee, trail of its biggest game in its]

Mexico, will be a witness.

Costello was the 24th person] the committee has cited for con-!

one against Adonis. already is in prison on gamblingisanna.” charges arising before another Sunday. Senate subcommittee. | Holy

mittee will wind up its work here of Lent

- bookmaker Frank ° Erickson Olariehi M k of New York. All the citations ; ans ar

JEN — McKimson are for refusing to answer aves . 3 tions. » ROB WH In addition, Chairman Estes Palm Sunday Kefauver (D. Tenn.) announced, .

Begin Observance

Christians of Indianapolis and mortar fire, charged hilltop posi-| the world are marking Palm Sun- tions held by the Greeks through- his right ear and suffered “terday today. Palm Sunday opens Holy Week, they withdrew, beaten. hard on the most solemn of the religious year. | Approximately 2000 years ago, | long investigation of nation-wide/Jesus Christ set his face toward podies on the slopes leading to| crime, resumes hearings in New| Jerusalem and steadfastly rode|{heir positions. Officers said 12:Nov. 29, Pfc. Gatto was shot by . York Monday. At that time, for-/into the city on the colt of an ass. prisoners were taken in the fight- the Reds in the temple and left mer New York Mayor William The Scriptures record that He ing and estimated that the Chi. to die. He lay on the cold ground O'Dwyer, now Ambassador to knew He was moving toward nese lost in addition more than 2!! that night, praying during {Crucifixion and death, Shout ‘Hosanna’ : The crowd, which so soon was to| Watched the action, said, “I know he was shot. tempt. The Senate has approved ask for His life, threw down palm NOW why those Greeks are famed 22 of these, including a previous pranches and flowers in his path for .their bayonet work. They Erickson ag he rode and shouted

Sen. Kefauver said the com- Good Friday, will close the season of Hongchon, from the Chinese

next Friday and Saturday and Easter, the Feast of the Resur-|planes had plastered the enemy | draft a report to be made publicirection, will follow.

rean War, {but they didn’t know what was The Greek victory in their first going on inside.” 3 major encounter of the war fea-| Pfc. Gatto was sent back ti tured a day of bitter fighting on Korea during the last week in: the mountainous central sector of January, Marine Pvt. Richard J the front but only light, scattered Frazee, of 3602 E., Washington resistance to the steady Allied St. told Mrs. Gatto he had seen advance on both the east and “Vince” four days before he was west flanks. released from the hospital in Waves of shouting Chinese, Japan. supported by machine-gun and;

Solemn Week Had Hear Trouble

Pfe. Gatto couldn’t hear out of

{out the afternoon. At nightfall

'rible headaches,” said Pvt. Frazee. | Pvt. Frazee was given a furlough 222 Enemy Bodies {in Indianapolis after he suffered

The Greeks counted 222 enemy Severe wounds. in Korea. A prisoner of the Communists

{600 men wounded. moments of consciousness. He An American officer, who Was rescued about 24 hours after

PFC. VINCENT GATTO —

Back in Japan, doctors didn't Wounded second time. expect Pfc. Gatto to live. The jikes to y about things bullet had lodged in the mastoid jjye that or y me u g

“Ho- | fought like madmen. I don’t blame bone below his right ear. An 1, 5 jetter written three days

That was the first Palm the Chinese for breaking off the

fight.” Spe ration Way Sugeessiul However, before he was reported wounded Week, whi¢h includes] The Greeks took the hill, west along sent 8 et to his wife, 30q0in Pfc. Gatto said he had

Purple Heart

been scouting snipers near the Given Rest Loave 38th Parallel. He thought his : % company might soon be moved to "Released from the hospital, he the rear because they had lost 47 was sent to Otsu, Japan, for a men, 12 of them killed.

: medal. the coming . Saturday. early in the day after Allied

with rockets and machinegun fire.

Mar. 31.

Adonis and Erickson still must|

before they would face punish-| ment. mendations must be approved by| formal Senate vote. Indictment]

The action against Costello,| Op the Inside go through considerable routine ()f The Times

The committee's recom-!Municipal Court Judge Joseph M. Howard believes school for traffic violators is better

{An 8th Army communique re[ported early today that the Greeks had secured their positions,

two-week rest leave. When he He said he had been on the found he was to be sent back t0 move since leaving Japan and | Korea, he could hardly believe it. hadn't had a chance to bathe, GIs Capture Pungam “I hate to mail this letter tell- shave or change his uniform. Sixteen miles to the east, Amer-| "8 YOU 1 am going back” hel Called to active duty with the fcan troops captur wrote to his wife, “I prayed I Indianapolis 16th Marine Rep aptured the former ’ would get to come home and I'm| serves, Pfc. Gatto was employed

Communist suppl “center of | Pungam, 20 Dy of the not ashamed to say I cried when at the General Motors Plant on

by a grand jury and trial in court! than jail ................ 38th Parallel. The Yank I found out I wouldn't get to be 9th St. He was a football star ] 1 | . anks entered " a 7 as tenernugt fotlow, A Taualone De Talent the 1o%n; at 4 p. m. Friday and re So hay. anything a i Shoo. yi : Faces Year, $1000 Fine held on despite a hail of enemy pla) y ne \s Search entries .....0v...... 12 about headaches in his letters Stars last year. He was gradu-

A FRONT If convicted, Costello could face Suits to fine or both. A perjury conviction | carries up to five years and $10.-| 000 fine. Costello, in all his 60

years, has spent 10 months in| shions

Costello walked out of the com-| mittee’'s hearings Thursday and] Friday, complaining of laryin-| gitis. He repeatedly refused to| give detailed answers to - ques-|

tions, some of which centered on his. financial assets. |

the state of Costello's vocal chords. Sen. Kefauver said the plan still is to call Costello back | next week, The citation, he said,| °°

take

Springlike temperatures today were to be accompanied by nasty

Russian General Dies

LONDON, B8unday, Mar. 18|: (UP)-—The Moscow Radio today

up to a year in prison or $1000, Parade . brighten

jail—for packing a gun in 1915. Muncie Central celebrates state cage championship... Indians open exhibition schedule tomorrow . , . schools from nine states at Purdue relays Man-made bad weather may be major U, 8. defense in a

Spring buying and building sharp upward swing . other business and real

Harold H. Hartley vi... Hoosier Heroes . Erskine Johnson ...«s00¢. 31

Washington Calling ...... 43 Earl WISon ,..cveveeee. 41 Joe Williams seeveccene.. 34 | Women’s ...ievesse000 17-32

dominate the Easter . « news for teens

{small arms and {continued a oar re home,” sald his ite. "He Never ated from Cathedral. He Is 23.

The Reds fought hard in the

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofos

TRESTER AWARD WINNER—Towering Robert Jewell, star center of the highly touted Crispus Attucks team, received the coveted Trester award from Adolph Zollman (left). He was the third Indianapolis player to receive the award for mental attitude.

Bloody Victory ‘Wasn't Ready to Go Back’

| Skill of American doctors saved Pfc. Vincent Gatto in Novem-

Mrs. Gatto, 1431 Union St. received a Defense Departmentia Muncie Bearcat.”

: a 8 =» today could cut the rug tox - pulled out from under Evangville -. J lncie Reitz in Butler ldhouse last Along about four seconds of i Fithe fourth quarter a skinny « Roar S x ] i Jancis footer named Charley a "

PRICE TEN CENTS

Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Dally.

: a’ Go —Times Photos by John Spicklemire TITLE CRESCENDO—Muncie Central fans go stark, raving mad as that all-important championship-winning shot | Chatlie: Mock goes through the hoop in the closing seconds of the spine. tingling battle with Evansville Reitz

Attucks’ Bob Jewell

Net Profit—

Bearcats Pur Like Champs

Fieldhouse Jumps

To Muncie Jive By FRANK ANDERSON He'sacat...he'sacat... he's

Bearcats Win 3d Basketball Crown

Edging Evansville Reitz in Final By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS 4 A courageous, gallantly-battling band of Muncie Bearcats whose coach once had foresaken the coaching profession in dissatisfaction, ruled Indiana's vast empire of

He's also 1951 state high school basketball today.

basketball champion.

The kids with the beanies and the floppy bobby-sox

Purple Coach Art Beckner is happy he didn’t stay dissatisfied a decade ago. Muncie's scrappy, undeni-

able tourney-inspired team won Beckner’'s first state chamonship in his eight years as Muncle "by nicking & greatly-underrated Hv Reitz team, 60 to 58, in the fin {four seconds of the championship game ,at the Butler Fieldhouse

night.

zipped a fade-away right-hander

from 10 feet dut and Indiana had, Stage Big Parade a new state high school cage

champ, 60-58. For State Champs last night.

After Mock's story-book finish, Times State Service And a delirious throng of 15,000 to a great tourney, the IHSAA! MUNCIE, Mar, 17-— Wild-eyed fans saw confident, cool-headed ipassed out the hardware, fans| Muncie fans roared thunderous Charles Mock, one of the Bearpasses out the Msadsiiukes Sod weivome Yomse to. Minele’ Cone CAF ISA Httle heroes, hetp ie passed out. tral's third Indiana high school nay with a one-handed bank shot The Bearcats of Muncie got the Pasketball championship team. Irom an angle. big championship trophy from R. Other photos and stories, Pages Time Ticks Away Ralph Beabout, principal of Plym-| 8, 88, 35, 86 and 63. | Muncie, which trailed 57 to 58 outh High School and presi-|——— wm —— with 1:40 showing on the scoredent of the THSAA Board of Con-| Two big bonfires and a dance poard, surged ahead with its relentless play-

trol. They got big gold rings, highlighted the celebration at the characteristic, | too. : {Muncie Fieldhouse. making on drive-ins when Tom

fs & =» | A police escort met the buses/parrold scored a two-pointer { THEN the Reitz team stepped |carrying the team and the 200-/trom the foul line with a minute up for the runner-up trophy. That girl cheering section south of the gnq 18 seconds remaining of the was presented by Harry D. Nei- city limits. [torrid fourth period. meyer, principal of the West Leb-| Parade to Fieldhouse { Nine seconds later Phil Byers, anon High School. The boys! The triumphal parade wentione of Reitz’'s most brilliant comslipped the runner-up rings on Straight to the fieldhouse.- Fol- petitors, canned a free throw to their clammy fingers and walked lowing the victory celebration, the tie the game and both teams to the dressing room in the cay- Students enjoyed a championship sparred around trying desperately erns below. |dance. for that last-minute game-win-After that a 6-5 Negro boy, Although rain dampened Indi- ning field goal. gulped back the tears and the 2napolis, where the Central Bear-| Muncie took the ball out of emotion that only a Trester cats won the 60-58 thriller from bounds when Reitz's Jerry Marvel Award winner can know. He Evansville - Reitz, the weather|bobbled the ball with 17 seconds was Robert Jewell, the great here was perfect for the big wel- remaining and two hurried Bearsenior center of Crispus Attucks, Come home. jcat shots’ went awry as time an “A” student, president of the Long before the Bearcat special ticked away. student council and high school busses arrived, all streets leading! Mock grabbed the loose ball to United Nations delegate. Jewell into Muncie looked like the “Bigithe right-front of the

4 basket and played for an afternoon loser, Parade.’ let fly the field goal from eight {but his sportsmanship was a win- Contrast in Scores {feet out. That gave Muncie Cen: ner last night. |. A state police escort picked up tral its third state championship The cameras clicked and flash- {he championship caravan and in history and its first since 1931. escorted it to Muncie. The shot that delivered the Only the older fans here re- heart-breaking stab to Reitz

membered Muncie's earlier cham- turned back the pages of Muncie’s

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new wallpaper will area around Hongchon in an ap- Oom-Pah, Oam-Pah— pions. Few of the high school's illustrious basketball history to neglected’ rooms | parent effort to halt allied troops A J . . > present pupils were born when 1928. brides . . . fa- i ki De | I 4 Th St PF § k Muncie Central last won the title Back Into History rable 17-32 closing in on their Chonchon base Jawo " A r ris a ve eir } * a ric in 1931. It was on that St, Patrick's day

“less than 10 miles way. But in other sectors of the 150{mile front, enemy resistance was reported light to nonexistent,! {and there still were no indications! whether the fighting around! Hongchon was any more than a, | determined delaying action to] {give the Reds time to occupy a

But Vie Got St. Benno Und

Germans Welcome

33-37 Favorite Brew Here

cress rsnnn

By ED KENNEDY

A doctor was appointed by the| few years... WLW almost new line near the 38th Parallel! If yesterday was a great day committee to report Monday on| Sure 0 5¢t one of two new 43 The 8th Army claimed. it in- for the Irish, then last night was ° i

flicted 4650 casualties qn the sure a gemutlichkeit night for the

enemy during the day and took kraut eaters. 395 prisoners. United Nations| Bock beer came to town and

troops, advancing cautiously the Was given a royal welcome at

was based on refusal to answer estate news ............ 49-51 length of the front, pushed their the Athenaeum Turners and at questions—not the walkouts. . main lines within 20 miles of the Liederkranz Hall. ———————————" Other Features: |Nortii-South Korean border. My friends, gather around. If 6 y | About People ...... sesse 8 — —————— you have never heard ‘MecUnusual Is Word | Amusements .......os, 30-31 . (Namara’s Band” played by a Ger- | Eddie Ash ..... U3 Mexican Tanker [man band and sung in high Dutch For Weather Here | Automobies............. 10 . —then you have not yet lived. Henry Butler vvvovveves.. 30 Lost in Storm What's more, we learned last Current Hoosier weather is llke| possword ...eveeveeess. 31 ‘night that for three years a Nanchoosing between a dirty pot andl TANOMAIE +iseseacceceses | CAMPECHE, Mexico, Mar. 17 ny Goat was passed off on the 4 Shytred kettle. FOTRM oan smoked pork loin, a wonderful

[today for a Mexican government a Billy. (tanker lost and feared sunk in a Knew His Herbs sausage, meat covered with spiced {Gulf of Mexico storm. | The Turners celebrated St. Ben- gravy, kraut, potato dumplings, The navy reported the tanker,(no’s day last night. St. Benno delicious salad and cheese cake.

42 | 42 |(UP)—Navy cutters searched/good burghers of Hooslerland as 49 6

old showers and thunderstorms. Dan Kidney ..... Cabsees 4 ay, ra vy ey ne nos da men 5 pa a ee oe |loaded w crude oil, last was, oy 3oat Rente Ries 270 a6 32 Dar Pury = a 1 seen still afloat but “completgly placed certain vital gherbs into] mpe goat displayed this year jomiorrow, ut nevi carry 3. petomac Patter 14 |out of control” after snapping her|the brew and came up with Bock wag rented. For that matter, it near-freezing temperature punch. Potomac Patter ..:»:++:+ 1% cables and breaking away from|—a’ so-called spring tonic. fas renieg, For iNet matieh k Tonight's expected low of 29 will “ees la tug. The number ofi crewmen| Their party was strictly high 1iaderkans Hall. be followed by a high of 36 de-| World Report ........ ee 43 German. Some 650 old burgh : Robert Ruark’.......... 41 [aboard was not known. oe Tea ld burghers, yi geems that the ‘Turners ERSgd LomOsrow. Real Estate s.... "49-51 Two' American fishing boats, members of the 10-year-old club, ‘4 their own goat for three Taciturn as an FBI agent, the Reard. tesessnnns o% battered by the storm, made port gathered for a real feast prepared vears--paitt 10 *D ge for him. Bot weatherman refused to say when Schools B¥Tatve aun rss 45 safely at Coatzacoalcos, Vera- by Chef Steward Fritz Sjebe. In the SL who kept him got tired he expects tn cook up a perfect Sermon of the Week ..... 39 | cruz state, 300 miles southwest of their beautiful quarters at’ 401 d sold Lim Re 0 1go¢ might day — simmering temperatures r pf LNG YreeX veers 19 . Inere. E. Michigan St. the party-goers|3nC 50iC. hin [or 306, so ‘ast mg and a pitcher of sunshine, Ed-8ovola ...000000000.. 41 | a ‘sipped their Bock and ate. | they had to rent one. 2 il T re Sports ............... 33-36 Kassler Ripp-; It's all right. The one we had

. . Linsen 1 Fire Damage Slight lait Roe Sauerbraten, Was a Nanny that looked like | Fire caused minor damage last Sauerkraut, Kortofel Klaese, the & Billy,” Mar Hoffmann, Turner's| night to a kitchen partition in the famous Athenaeum Salad and Club manager, said. “Now we've apartment of J. B. Briscoe, ut Kase Kuchen. |got a real Billy.”

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The 1951 triumph was a marked in 1928 that another underdog contrast to this city's first state underrated Muncie team handed a championship won in 1928 by favored Martinsville team a 13 the “now almost unbelievable? to 12 setback under Coach Pete |score of Muncie 13, Martinsville Jolly.

Bock to Boot 12. It was the same Pete Jolly who

Billy the Goat Is King for a Night . guided the 1931 state o . g Evansville Plans [ship team for the Bearcats agam.

night was good, but nothing com- 'But the pages of history pared with 45 years ago, when To Welcome Reitz turned back. stil farther Tiron he played in the band, Yimes State Service the spectacular deeds of Jndiana’s Both at the Liederkranz and, EVANSVILLE, Mar. 17 — A| Middletown of basketball the Turners, the Little German big welcome tonight was readied, Coach Art Beckner was a meme Band was referred to as the for the surprising Evansville Reitz Hungry Five. The Turners’ leader basketball team at 1:15 p, m. towas - Constantine Borshoff. At morrow at the local airport. Liederkranz Hall, the German Definitely a “dark horse” entry band was headed by Fritz Wester.'in the big Hoosier basketball An orchestra directed by Carl classic, the Reitz team fooled all

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The Bearcats sit proudly atop Hoosier basketball and ..'