Evening star., 1960-06-16
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON
star stafi Writer

James D. Norris, president OF
the disbanded International
Boxing Club, probably will be
among the next batch of wit
neSseS called when the Senate
resumes its inquiry into boxing
in the fall.
The two-day hearing con-
Quoted by the Antitrust and
Monopoly Subcommittee was
adjourned yesterday after hear
ing Irving Mishel, a convict
and reputed former banker for
underworld characters, plead
the Fifth Amendment. MiShel,
who is doing a 20-year stretch
for grand larceny in the Clinton
State Prison at Dannemora,
N. Y, said he had been threat
ened with violence if he talked.
He was brought here by two
United States marshals.
The pressure of last-minute
legislation, and the fact that
Senator Kefauver, Democrat of
Tennessee, chairman of the
subcommittee, is campaigning
for reelection will prevent the
group from reconvening before
September or October. Rand
Dixon, chief counsel. said the
staff of investigators headed by
John G. Bonomi, who con-
Quoted most of the questioning
at these sessions, would con-
tinue it's work.
Legislation Possible
1--WE could go forward on the
evidence the staff already has
collected" Dixon said, "but the
time is difficult for the men,
bers."
The committee hopes to pre-
sent enough evidence to show
that boxing in this country is
under the monopoliStic control
Of a handful of racketeers, and
that fair and open competi-
ton is a myth" The Senate
then will be asked to determine
if present laws are enough to
rid it of this element or whether
new legislation must be written.
The reluctance of witnesses
TO testify, or even to admit the
accuracy of statements given to
investigators in previous inter-
views, indicated that under
world pressure is on to silence
them. The committee obviously
wanted to get as much testi-
mony as possible on the record
before fall.
Tuesday it heard Jake La
Motta, former middleweight
champion, testify that he faxed
a knockout by Light-Heavy-
weight Billy Fox in 1947 to get
a shot at the middleweight
crown. LaMotta said he was
offered but refused 100000
bribes to throw both the Fox
fight and a later one with
Middleweight Tony Janiro.
Invoked Fifth
His younger brother joey, who
was supposed to have brought
Jake word of the bribe offers,
invoked the Fifth Amendment
48 times to avoid testifying.
Jake also said he had to put up
$4,000 for Marcel Cerdan'S
American representatives to get
a crack at the French -Algerian's
middleweight title in 1949.
joey pleaded the Fifth when
asked about it. Lew Bernstein.
or Burston, and Sammy Rich
man, Cerdan's representative IN
this country, said they knew
nothing about the 20 grand.
They worked for nothing, they
said. expecting to get a payday
from Cerdan's next fight. Both
Cerdan and his manager, Joe
Longman, later were killed in
a plane crash.
Ugo Antonucci, a New York
accountant who once handled
LaMotta's income tax returns,
yesterday said he knew Moth
ing of a $4,000 payof to
Cerdan's representatives. An
tonucci, who also handles tax
returns for Yogi Berra, Whitley
Ford and ElSton Howard of
the New York Yankees, also
denied knowing of the alleged
100000 bribe offered LaMotta
to throw the bout with Janiro.
DiCarlO Missing
Antonucci said he was only
casually acquainted with Jo-
seph DiCarlo, reputed "big
time bookmaker" from YoungS-
town, Ohio. now living at
Miami Beach, Fla. The COM
mittee said that law enforce
ment agencies have been search
ing for DiCarlo for 10 days tc
serve him with a subpoena and