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I RDAY, MAY 14, I9f.fi i in: Indian rt)i is si ar i'V-l 2 I Defendant Tells His Pari Pole Script: Concluded From Page 1 put a tattoo cm I said vps she asked Sylvia if i.Bocr2 J9jt iji si rr yi i r- I I -j ih -X. rj- si FtfOM IND.37,IMD.I350nd U.S.3I MAP SHOWS ROUTES TO SPEEDWAY Follow Instructions And Ami Traffic Jams, Officials Advise Drv, Mild Day Due For Uare Fans Concluded From Page 1 they have enough money to post bond. A "500" Festival caravan of 42 cars will line up at the Indiana War Memorial Plaza downtown at 9 a.m. and is expected to he at the Speedway to open festivities a( 10 a.m. Heading the caravan, besides Miss Harrison, will he Robert B.

McConnell, "500" Festival president. YANO THE CLOWN, the 500 Gordon Pipers, the Butler University Marching Band, the Arlington High School band, the B.jy Scout hand and color guard and the Rose Polytechnic Glee Club will Ten balloons stuffed with ticket-; for "500" Festival events including the Racing Awards and Pole Mechanic's To Kccall Knl-Tnlornl Students Jakarta. Indonesia (AP) The deputy minister for higher education, Mashudi, reported the government will recall all Indonesian students studying in Communist countries. He was quoted as saying the main reason is to get them acquainted with present developments in Indonesia and that stern action would be taken against any who refuse to come home. Banquet, the FMival Parade, the golf exhibition and (lie Tijuana Brass concert, will he released al the control tower 10:55 a.m.

A hot air balloon under (he conlrol of William Berry will lake to toe skies a' the same lime. Crowds air expected lo diminish to about 75.000 tomorrow at the track. The Weather Bureau said it will he cloudy and mild with a chance of showers tomorrow night. Gates will open at 9 a.m. tomorrow and qualifications are scheduled to start at noon.

The high temperatures today and tomorrow will range in the low 60s. Monies face. Hobbs said He said she merely "flinched" and then moaned. "What you did (when she flinched)," New continued, "is to hit her four or five times with the hack of your hand, isn't "Yes, sir," the boy said. Hobbs said he did not go back to the Baniszewski home until Tuesday, the day she nd.

He walked in through the back door, he said, and saw Svlvia "laying on the kitchen floor on a blanket." "GERTRUDE was over on the east wall, on the floor," he said: "she was crying, she was scared. "I asked what's the matter, and Stephanie (Stephanie Baniszewski, 15) started crying she was dead." But Sylvia "was breathing, labored," he said. "Well, I knelt down beside her" and tried artificial respiration by pressure, he said, and "that didn't work; so I started giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation." That "helped some," he said, but "I noticed her skin was cold; so I thought a warm bath would help." Stephanie began undressing her, he said, but "Gertrude told us it would be all right to put her in ith her clothes on because we were In a hurry." Johnny and Stephanie gave Sylvia the bath upstairs, Hobbs said, and "I had my time taken up keeping her (Gertrude) downstairs She was frantic." At this time, he said, Mrs. Baniszewski was yelling, "She's faking!" "After a while," Hobbs said, "I hpard Stephanie cry she was dead, and then Johnny came running downstairs and said she was dead." JOHNNY and he ran to call the police, who arrived in about two minutes, Hobbs said. Evidence indicates Mrs.

Baniszewski told the police a gang of boys had beaten Sylvia. "Well," Hobbs said, "the policeman was chasing everybody out of the house that wasn't a member of the familv Hobbs said he went to the Baniszewski house and returned home again, and he was aroused from bed about 9 p.m. by police, who arrested him. Hobbs said his mother, who had had cancer for a year, was hospitalized the day after he tattooed Sylvia. He said that although he visited his mother twice after his arrest, she died Nov.

8 without knowing of his arrest on a charge of murder. Hobbs withstood 42 minutes of blistering cross-examination by New, Prosecutor Noble R. Pearcy's chief trial deputy. The questioning brought a tear to the boy's eye near the day's adjournment at 5:09 p.m. New will resume the cross-examination Monday.

The boy denied New's suggestions that instead of giving artificial respiration to Sylvia, "you kept your weight on her so she couldn't breathe, didn't you? you were tromping on her." Hobbs answered most of New's questions meekly, without becoming hostile or irritated as Mrs. Baniszewski was when she was cross-examined by New. New asked, "Now the fact is, Mr. Hobbs, you've remembered only what Concluded From Page 1 to take public transportation if at all SPECIAL SPEEDWAY buses will beam leaving the Circle at 4 a.m. The outlook last night was that Andretti will have only two serious challengers for the pole defending champion Clark and Gurney, who started outside in the first row last year.

Both turned in their best speeds of the year in yesterday's rain-shortened practice session. Clark had his STP Gasoline Treatment Lotus-Ford up to one lap at while Gurney was clocked at 164.5 in his All-American Racers Eagle. Still both have a long way to go to catch Andretti and his Dean Van Lines Brawner-Ford. This isn't the car that Mario planned to qualify this year, but the new Lotus that he had in mind couldn't be prepared in time so he has fallen back on the year-old car that carried him to third place and rookie-of-the year honors in 1965. Virtually nobody gives the official track records of for the lap and 161.23,1 for the four-lap qualifying run, set by Foyt a year ago, a chance of lasting through the day.

In fact, the first three rows could conceivably beat the old marks. Foyt himself does not appear to be in the pole picture. Back this year with a new car of his own design, the four-time national driving champion has been plagued with a series of minor problems and has not been able to get above 162.1 mph. STILL HE IS ONE of eight drivers aside from the front-running trio who has bettered you want to this afternoon, haven't you?" "I imagine I don't knovv," he said. Mrs.

Baniszewski's chief witness yesterday, called by her attorney William C. Er-becker, was a taxi driver who said his records showed he took someone from "3850 New York Street" to "3048 Arlington Avenue" Oct. 23. Mrs. Baniszewski had testified she went to a doctor's office at 3016 North Arlington Avenue that day, but the doctor testified his records did not show he treated her that day.

The cab driver said on cross-examination that he was not sure Mrs. Baniszewski had been his passenger or whether he went to 3048 North Arlington or 3048 South Arlington. He said the South Arlington address would be only about four blocks from Reech Grove, where Mrs. Baniszewski once lived. EARLIER yesterday, Defense Attorney Forrest B.

Bowman Jr. withdrew the insanity pleas he had filed previously for Johnny Baniszewski, 13, and for Coy R. Hubbard, 15, 435 North Linwood Avenue. Bowman said he withdrew the pleas on the basis of reports by court-appointed psychiatrists who examined the boys, and he said the boys want simply to plead not guilty. Judge Saul I.

Rabb ruled Mrs. Baniszewski was physically fit to stand trial before the session began yesterday. She had complained of shortness of breath Thursday, and a physician reported to Rabb yesterday that she was all right. nie knew what a tattoo is she said yes Gertrude said something like, 'Well you branded my daughters (as prostitutes), we're going to brand Gertrude stripped Sylvia's blouse off and they ordered her to take off her shorts, Hobhs said. "Gertrude pulled up a chair in front of her." She wrote the "I'm a prostitute" message out on a piece of paper, he said, then traced the words on Sylvia's stomach with a ball point pen.

Mrs. Baniszewski scratched on the with a sewing needle, he said, and then "she said she was getting sick and told me to finish it." said they heated the needle: with burning matches "tp sterilize jt." He said he etched, "gltort, light strokes" that brought blood that "showed under the skin." About 15 minutes later, Hobbs said "I don't know who thought of it" he and Shirley Baniszewski, 10, took Sylvia to basement and branded' an on her chest with a hot eyehook. Shirley, who was not charged with murder; testified earlier that the stood for Sylvia. HOBBS PRINTED the top loop and Shirley -the bottom loop, 'Hobbs said. However, the top' lonijf "was printed hack-wards, and a "3" resulted on Sylvia's chest.

"Now." New said on cross-examination, "it was your idea, Mr. Hobbs, to brand and mutilate this girl, wasn't it?" "I don't know," he said; it may have been my idea." "Now Gertrude Baniszewski didn't make you do that (the branding, not the tattooing), did she?" New asked. sir," Hobbs replied. you a her if it hurt?" New asked. "No sir," the boy said.

SYLVIA took branding and tattooing with an expres- Pilot Tcsls Concluded From Page 1 about medical ethics. "He would have been grounded immediately," Van Deerlin said. THE ANNOUNCEMENT marie jointly by Staggers and the FAA and CAB representatives, said the medical aspects of the case were still under investigation. It said Pigman's FAA certificates showed "no record of prior reported physical deficiency and none was discovered during medical examinations, which use of electrocardiograms." There never has been a fatal crash involving a scheduled passenger airliner blamed on a pilot heart attack, although autopsies have disclosed unsuspected heart conditions. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) attributed the fata! crash of a Flying Tiger cargo plane in California four years Ro to a heart attack suffered hy the captain during the critical phase of art approach bad weather.

About a dozen private plane crashes annuallv are blamed on pilot incapacitation from IVkinu oni liiih-il I rum I MHi. niv; ffe. MK, I r. I v.l .1 lllllor mis-il" 1 1 red hv Ph-in'oni-, PEKING the pl.mr on a tr.tmmg Might i (low tied near M.ikw in nan 2" mile in luirdi'i with V.ri'n Vict I he I I lie im idem Ol'I'lltTed -10 til oil miles east nf the Chinese horde; after the MIG. whose na lionalit was noi determined by the American pilots, al lai ked a reronnais.ini plane.

The two locations are about Ihree mmlules flving nm apart for the Phantoms, which fly at more than 1,500 miles an hour. It was the I2lh dogfight nf Ihe war and S. officials in Saigon reported il routinely The Chinese editorial said: "NOT FOR a moment should we fnrget the enemy for the danger of war We must raise high the great Red banner of thinking of Mao Ise-iimj' heightening to an unprecedented degree the consciousness of the armed piufoiiiidly deepening their hatred for the enenn, and po'ling all our activity on the (noting of a possible war. and making Ihe most effective preparations for war Ihe Chinese editorial was lollnweil hy warnings from Ihe Chinese Pelense Ministry and the official people's daily newspaper in Peking. A broadcast monitored in Tnkvo said the defense ministry had lodged "Ihe strongest protest with the Johnson administration." It did not indicate how i he protest was lodged.

The U.S. does not maintain official relations of any sort with Communist China SAVE Admiral rs- Admiral 23" TV on Caster-Stand rtoy Big Sopen TV All Around the House Moves About only of VICTOR'S All 4 Stoies Open Sundciv 12 Noon lo Out 3 Shopping Center Stores Open Monday thru Fnduy 1 0 to 9 Saturday lo 6 Downtown Store Open Thursday and Friday 9 30 to 9 Other Weekdays 9 30 to 5 Heal Anclrelli 1 (ill ill r. Others are his teammate I Sheraton-Thompson entry, tleorgc Snider: Al I'riser, who is driving twin to Clark's Lotus. Scotsman Jackie Stewart in the Bowes Seal Fast Lola-Ford; comeback driver Clunk in the Wynn's Watson-Ford; boyish-looking Gordon l.ihi,-cock in the Weinberger Homes Gerhardt-Ford; rookie Carl Williams in the Dayton Steel Wheel Gerhardt-Ford and Jim McElreath in the Zink-Urschel-Shck Rrabham-Ford (hat is very similar to Andretti's mount. how much effect the rains have had on the track is debatable.

Educated guessers yesterday were saying that it would make the trark one to two miles an hour slower. Then Andretti went for a ride around the 2'-mile oval. It is unlikely that anybody will accept a four-lap average of less than 158 miles an hour today. Last year, you could get a seat in the third row with that sort of speed. AT LEAST 22 cars have been over that speed so far this month.

The record for the most cars to qualify on the first day is 22, set in 1962. It's entirely possible that that will be eclipsed today. Drivers who have gone over the 159 mark in practice are Chuck Rodee and Don Branson from the Leader Card team, Gurney teammate Leonard, former world road racing champion Graham Hill and two-time 500 winner Rodger Ward from the John Mecom garage, Lloyd Ruby, also in a car out of the Gurney stable, and two-time pole sitter and I9G3 500 champion Parnelli Jones. Weld in the Novi, Al Miller in the car he drove to fourth place a year ago, veteran Roger McCluskey and Bobby Grim in a roadster with a turbocharged Offen-hauser for an engine have all bettered 158. If practice is any indication, Ford will almost certainly continue the domination that saw it take the first five starting spots and finish the race in 1-2-3-4-7-8-9 order last year.

A new 168-cubic-inch supercharged Offy was supposed to give the screaming Ford V-8 a run for its money this year, but so far it has been a major disappointment. So far only Jones, Ward and Grim, with the turbocharged version of the engine, have been able to get the four-cylinder power-plant up to safe qualifying territory. IN FACT, the fastest Offen-hauser on the lot is one of the old unsupercharged models that the Fords were supposed to have banished to history a year ago. It is the Leader Card Watson that Rodee has had as high as 159.9. Firestone, which has had its tires on the last 41 winners but lost the pole to Goodyear last year, appears to have the inside track to that choice publicity spot this year.

Both Andretti and Clark are running Firestones while Gurney is on Goodyears. If Andretti does the expected and captures the pole, he will be the second national champion in a row to do so. Foyt captured his fourth driving title in 1964 and then went on to the pole last year. The last pole winner to go on to win the race was Jones, who turned the trick in 1963. Boys With Long Hair No Worry To Army General Fort Leavenworth, a s.

(AP) The Army's chief of staff had a word yesterday about "the young fellows with the long hair." "I don't have any worries about them," Gen. Harold K. Johnson told the 445 graduates of the spring associate class of the Army's Command and General Staff College. "We get them in the Army, give them a close haircut, turn them over to a drill sergeant, and in eight weeks they're good soldiers. "In fact, I'm proud of this entire generation of persons," he added.

"They are better educated than young persons used to be, and they have a better understanding. There's a great wealth of talent in today's crop of young people." Gen. Johnson said he received a great deal of mail asking why "we can't do something about the protesters. "Well, the Army fights so that men can remain free. And that includes the freedom of protesters to protest." Arms Pact OKM Manila (UPI) The Philippines will receive $20 million worth of arms and equipment from the L'nited States under an agreement announced yesterday by the Philippine Defense Department.

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