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WEATIIK TODAY Cloudy, Showers lligh, 71; Low, Yfurday Hlfih, 71; Low, 71 VOL. 70, NO. 28 th Indianapolis Star TODAY'S CHUCKLE Our major cities are becoming so congested with cart and trucks that there are only Uo kinds of parking left illegal and no. 'Where the pit it of Vie Lord there la Cor, 3-7 kit MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 moto otLivimo Ht ri k. Taken To Hospital.

I McGovern Backers To Fight Delegate Ruling Young Asian Shot Fatally Trying To Hijack Jumbo Jet To Hanoi Suit To Bar Seating Of Challengers Slated For Hearing Today Washington (UPI) Backers of Senator George S. McGovern announced yesterday they will go to Federal court to challenge the credentials committee ruling that stripped McGovern of 151 California delegates to the Democratic convention. Stephen Reinhardt, Democratic national committeeman from California and a co-chairman of the 271-member delegation, said a suit to bar the seating -of the 151 challengers will be filed today for a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge George Hart. REINHARDT SAID the court action was approved by McGovern.

The candi lillilSBSilllilK v. "A (AP Wirephoto) POLICEMAN WRITES REPORT BESIDE BODY OF ASIAN WHO TRIED TO SKYJACK PAN AM JET Youth Shot Dead By Passenger In Struggle At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport Yesterday His name was not given out at Saigon. AH passengers and crew, numbering date described the case as "right on the merits he told us he thinks we are doing the right thing," the California delegation said. The suit asks that the chairman of the credentials committee, Mrs. Patricia Harris, be ordered to certify to the convention only the names of California delegates elected in the winner-take-all primary.

The suit also asks that convention's chairman Lawrence O'Brien bar the seating of delegates who were not elected by the voters in the California primary. This would invalidate the action by the credentials committee Thursday which required that the 271 delegates be divided on a proportional basis with each presidential candidate getting the number of delegates equal to his share of the vote. McGOVERN WOULD BE left with 150 HpWatps nriri Senator Hubert H. o' t. i rnr: IJ mimpnrey u-ivuun.

wuuiu pic 106 delegates if the committee's decision stands. It is subject to a vote by the full convention. Reinhardt said. "The challenge was a desperate, cynical immoral act by Senator Hubert Humphrey and otners and that he did not expect Humphrey would give up his effort to retain 106 delegates. Reinhardt.

ioined in the suit by Wil lie Brown and Delores Huerta, his co- chairmen of the California delegation, claimed that the committee improperly held illegal the California state law which permitted winner-take-all pri maries. He said the committee decision was "an action motivated solely by political considerations." REINHARDT A I the delegation would be willing to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Earlier, sMrs. Harris said the party Turn to page 6, Column 1 HAPPY NEWS Saigon (AP) A young Asian tried to hijack a Pan American Airways 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi yesterday, but the aircraft landed instead at Saigon where the pilot and two passengers clasped him in a stranglehold and an armed passenger pumped five bullets into his chest. The pilot then heaved the dead hijacker's body to the concrete taxiway at Tan Son Nhut Airport.

The hijacker had claimed he was North Vietnamese. A PAN AMERICAN spokesman at Hong Kong said, "As far as we can tell now, the hijacker's name is believed to be Nguyen Thai Binh, but no passport or ticket for him has yet been found. It is believed he boarded the plane at Honolulu." The man carried a package he Ailment Linked To Earlier One Kansas City, Mo. (UPI) Former President Harry Truman, 88, was hospitalized yesterday with a gastro-intestinal ailment. Doctors said he was in "satisfactory" condition.

His physicians said the illness was related to the ailment for which the former President spent 12 days in the hospital last year. "He is doing quite well," said Dr. Wallace H. Graham in a statement. "But a re-examination is indicated periodically." Mr.

Truman's wife, Bess, 87, was at his bedside at Research Hospital and Medical Center. Graham said the intestinal problem was related to Mr. Truman's 1971 bout with colitis, an inflammation of the large intestine. THE NATION'S 33d President was driven in a car 15 miles to the hospital on Kansas City's south side from his 17-room Victorian mansion in Independence, Mo. He was admitted at 3:05 p.m.

EDT and taken in a wheelchair to a private room. John P. Dreves, a hospital spokesman, said Mr. Truman was "in good spirits and talked with hospital personnel as he was taken to his room." Dreves indicated Mr. Truman was in no danger and there would be no further announcements until this morning.

It was the seventh hospital stay for Mr. Truman since he left the White House in 1953. HE SPENT less than an hour at Research Hospital only last Wednesday after a fall suffered at his home. He fell Tuesday, but was not taken to the hospital for rays until the next day, when he complained of a pain in his lower back. Research Hospital has four condition classifications good, fair, serious and critical.

Dreves said he pointed this out to Graham, but the doctor insisted on classifying the former President's condition as "satisfactory." Mr. Truman's bodyguard and lifelong companion, Mike Westwood, accompanied him to the hospital, a seven-story structure of reinforced concrete and stone veneer, and stood by outside his room. UPON MR. TRUMAN'S release from his 12-day stay Feb. 2, 1971, Graham described the former President as "in very good health for an 86-year-old man." Mr.

Truman's longest hospital stay was in 1954, when he suffered complications after a gall bladder operation and was in critical condition for several days. He was hospitalized for four days in 1969, five days in 1966, nine days in 1964 and 11 days in 1963. Mr. Truman has suffered arthritis of the knee in recent years, which interfered with his old habit of taking long walks. But he continued even recently to take occasional strolls with Turn to page Column 1 Prison guards fled in the face of advancing Allied troops and mother and daughter joined a stream of refugees heading for Passau.

The baby was left with refugee acquaintances while Mrs. Morita foraged for food. But she was wounded and it was six weeks before she could return. The house was empty. Her baby had disappeared in the endless stream of displaced humanity.

ELIZABETH GREW up In Hungary. When she married computer-engineer Bela Bartfei in 1966, her foster parents finally told her she was an "orphan." The daughter then began an extensive search for her mother. Last year she tracked down an uncle in Yugo-slavia and learned her mother had married a G.I., Henry Morita. She traced the Moritas to Santa Clara, where they operate a nursery. Friends, neighbors and the International Red Cross worked for a year help Mrs.

Morita get a visa for Eliza-bc'h and her husband. claimed was a bomb in one hand and a long Usife in the other. He said he intended to blow up the aircraft after it reached Hanoi in a "revenge act" for the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the pilot said. After landing at Saigon on a pretext of refueling, the pilot, Capt.

Gene Vaughn, 53, and two passengers got the air pirate off guard, knocked the "bomb" from his hand and wrestled him to the floor. DURING the struggle, Vaughn rolled away and ordered the passenger with the gun to "kill the The passenger, identified as a former Richmond, policeman traveling to a job with a U.S. firm at Saigon, fired five shots into the hijacker from a .357 Magnum pistol. Mrs. Derrick, a keypunch operator for Morris Plan, clocked out from overtime duty at 4:404 p.m.

about 20 minutes before her body was discovered in the lot by a Penn Central employe. SHE HAD BEEN stabbed about 15 times in the back. Investigators were advised any one of three of the wounds could have led to her death. At the time of the slaying, investigators reported, her husband was at work as steel cutter at Kokomo. Jail Inmate Watched Brutal Knife-Slaying Fischer Given Deadline: Noon Of Tomorrow Reykjavik, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer yesterday was given a deadline of noon tomorrow to appear for the world chess championship or forfeit his chance for the title.

The ultimatum, announced by Dr. Max Euwe, president of the Internation al Chess Federation, meant a two-day postponement of Fischer's encounter with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia. The match was to have started at 5 p.m. erday (noon EST). Euwe said a friend of the American challenger was leaving Spassky for New York "to talk with him." ''He will try to convince him to appear.

I can't say who it is," he added. Fischer refused to play the match after officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation balked at his last-minute demands for more money, in addition to a record purse already contracted for. FISCHER AND SPASSKY were to have a guaranteed share of $125,000 the winner taking five-eighths plus 30 per cent each of income from the sale of film and television rights. This alone was 10 times greater than any prize money ever paid to a chess player. Fischer wants an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts.

Faced with a decision of disqualifying Fischer immediately or granting reprieve, Euwe chose the path he said would best protect the host organization. Fischer's representatives here had asked for a postponement on the basis of illness. They said the American was suffering fatigue. THE RULES require that a postpone-, ment for illness must be certified by a doctor that the host organization chooses. Typical of confusion surrounding preparations for the match, the federation doctor, Ulfar Thordarson, for his country house early yesterday morning.

The Russian side reluctantly accepted Euwe's decision. Spassky was asked what he thought of the situation and the 35-year-old champion replied: "I came to play." At a late afternoon news conference where he announced the decision on the postponement, Euwe said: "I think there will be no play at all. That is my personal opinion." EUWE HAD SAID earlier that cancellation would be "a great loss in many respects for the Icelandic organizers who have a great investment at stake and for the game of chess itself." Americans claiming to represent Turn to page 6, Column 1 The Wealher Joe Crow Says: The reason so many politicians are frightened by the undcr-21 voters Is that they listen. Indiana-Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms ending this morning north, this afternoon central. Variably cloudy tonight with chance of showers extreme south, cooler north 1 and central.

Sunny, pleasant tomorrow. Highs today and tomorrow, 70s north, 80s south. Lows tonight 50s north, 60s Indianapolis Mostly cloudy, scattered showers ending this afternoon; consider-, j. ably cloudy, cooler tonight. Mostly sunny pleasant tomorrow.

High today and trnorrow 79. Low tynlght 58. about 150, slid down inflated plastic emergency chutes to safety. Some received minor bruises and scratches and one passenger, U.S. Air Force Lt.

Col. Louis Seig, Colorado Springs, broke his leg leaving the plane. The crew said at Saigon that the plane carried 136 passengers and 17 crewmen. VAUGHN GAVE this account: About 45 minutes after Pan Am Flight 841 from San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam took off from Manila for Saigon, the young man passed notes to the crew cabin threatening to detonate a bomb unless the plane was diverted to Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. The hijacker had taken a stewardess, May Yuen, 23, a Hong Turn to page 8, Column 1 Inside Todav Star News Summary On Page 3 Amusement Food Pages .14,15 Sports Billy Graham 20 Pages Bridge 7 TV, Radio 17,29 Comics 24 Uncle Ray .20 Crossword ..20 Weather ....43 Editorials ...18 Women's Finance 28 Pages ...8,9 Star Telephone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-9211 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4:30 p.m.

Santa Clara, Calif. (UPI) Mrs. Rosie Morita thought the nine-month-old girl she lost in war-torn Passau, Germany, was dead a tiny tragedy among countless others in the final days of World War II. But she was reunited with her daughter this weekend amidst a flood of tears that had built up over 27 years of longing. "I THOUGHT she was dead, I couldn't dream," Mrs.

Morita said yesterday. When Mrs. Elizabeth Bartfei came through customs Saturday night at San Francisco International Airport, she was niet by the mother she had not seen since 1945. They joyfully collapsed into each other's arms. "She looks more like I did at her age.

I can't say she isn't my daughter," said the exuberant Mrs. Morita. SHE GAVE birth to Elizabeth while a prisoner in a Nazi child labor center at Wiener Ncustadt, Austria. Her husband, In a separate prison camp, died about'the same' time. Mother Reunited With Daughter Lost In Wake Of World War II By VICTOR L.

BURFORD An inmate has told police he watched the slaying of a 28-year-old woman in a downtown parking lot from a window in the Marion County Jail. Reports that the inmate had talked to investigators about the June 24 slaying of Mrs. Ralph Derrick, R.R. 1, Westfield, were confirmed yesterday by Lt. Joseph G.

McAtee of the homicide and robbery branch of the Indianapolis Police Department. THE INMATE said he could see Mrs. Derrick being slain by a "white man" in an elevated parking lot owned by the Penn Central Transportation Company at 101 South Alabama Street about 525 feet from the jail. McAtee refused to disclose complete details of the inmate's account of the brutal slaying. The day after the slaying, Detective Sgt.

Howard D. Cramer had declined to confirm a report that a prisoner had seen the killing. Kramer is working with McAtee and Detective Darryl S. Churchill on the case. MEANWHILE, McAtee said he and other investigators are hopeful of solving ihe case as they and crime laboratory experts continue to check clues.

Tests are continuing on Mrs. Derrick's car, which was found last Monday at Cincinnati by Cincinnati police. Investigators also hope to find Mrs. Derrick's purse, containing an estimated $100, which she was believed to have been carrying shortly before her death. Today's Prayer You are Father of all peoples, God, yet today I think of Your blessings on this country abovo all others.

For patriot's dream that sees beyond the years, for the vision of freedom and developing opportunity for all people, I am thankful. May the America I know give i more and more to You. Amen. Lack Of Arms Is JVo Deterrent To Noted Artist Vankoughnet, Canada Myron Angus, owner of a modern art studio here, is regarded as a hard-working artist. It Is said, in fact, that he puts some teeth into his work.

Myron doesn't mind such a pun, because it's literally true. The 46-year-old Canadian, whose hair is turning silver at the temples, is a noted watercolor artist whose talent has made him a highly successful artist, is married and has three children. He also is a man without arms or legs. He paints with a long-handled brush clenched in his teeth. "I might have never been an artist if I hadn't met an armless man who wrote books and autographed them with a pen held in his teeth," said Angus.

"I knew then that one should never give up, In spite of handicaps." HE BEGAN EARNING his living as a bookkeeper In Toronto and lettering panels from his wheelchair on the side. Eventually his watercolor landscapes began to sell, which encouraged him to open up an art gallery and picture-framing business. A few years ago he settled in this little village and built his art studio. His wife drives their large camper so that he can give lectures and demonslra-Hons In the United States. His good humor never fails, "My art teacher told me to hold the brush in one side or the other of Tijfji to page Column 1 (UPI Telepholo) JOYOUS, LONG-AWAITED REUNION Mrs.

liylc Merita (11) Hugs Daughter.

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