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Police Checking 5 SLA Bodies fix By RON ROACH LOS ANGELES (AP) Authorities worked through the night attempting to establish the identities of five bodies recovered from a fire-gutted house believed to be a hideout of the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said today the bodies were examined for scars and other identifying marks. The coroner's office said it had requested dental records on abducted newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst as a "matter of routine." A spokesman for newspaper executive Randolph Hearst said the FBI told Hearst one of the dead was SLA leader Donald DeFreeze. But the FBI de nied agents Identified DeFreeze who was known as SLA General Field Marshal Cinque. The FBI also denied telling the Hearst family any such thing.

The SLA has said it kidnaped Miss Hearst, 20, who was dragged from her Berkeley apartment on Feb. 4. The coroner's spokesman said dental checks on the bodies had begun and autopsies would be conducted later. All five persons at least two of whom were women perished during a furious hour-long gun battle last evening in which some 500 heavily armed police fired tear gas shells. The frame house in South Los Angeles was sprayed with thousands of rounds of ammunition during the siege and caught fire during the battle.

Authorities said they were unable to positively identify any of the bodies because they were badly disfigured in the fire, which was believed to have been touched off by a smouldering teargas shell. Acting on a tip, flak-jacketed officers took position around the house at about 5:30 p.m. PDT and then called out to the occupants over a bullhorn: "Come out with your hands up. The house is surrounded." Two minutes later, a policeman fired a tear gas shell into the house and immediately drew a volley of fire from semiautomatic weapons inside the yellow stucco building at 1466 E. 54lh St.

"It was a war, no other way to describe it," said Police Commander Peter Hagen, summing up the action that followed. About an hour after the first shots were fired, thin tongues of flame suddenly shot from windows and the eaves of the roof. The shooting stopped 15 minutes later. Billows of black smoke cast a pall around the house, obscuring the view of police sharpshooters and hundreds of excited spectators. Hagen said two of the bodies both women, one black and one white were found lying in the hallway.

Ammunition in belts strapped to their waists exploded in the intense heat from the blaze, manning the bodies Continued on Page 2 Policeman assists child away from SLA hideout. r01 i. UPI. THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS HOME WAROOOOM Partly cloudy and warm tonight through row; low tonight 64; high tomorrow 82. Page 39.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty." II Cor. 3-17 SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1974 Ik 105th YEAR Soggy race fans run for dry lh0 Jo fc 15 tic Per Wee Carrier Delivered Speedway Qualifiers Mike Hiss Gordon Johncock Salt Walther Dick Simon John Martin Tom Bigelow No. Driver's Name Average 68 MIKE HISS 187.422 187.891 187.227 187.422- 187.498' 20-GORDON JOHNCOCK 186.567 188.490 186.335 185.759 186.287 5-MARIO ANDRETTI 186.643 186.374 185.644 185.542 186.027 44-DICK SIMON 1S2.77S 184.275 185.874 185.109 184.502 77 SALT WALTHER 183.711 184.124 184.162 183.711 183.927', 42-JERRY KARL 182.593 182.113 181.269 179.856- 181.452". 89-JOHN MARTIN 181.855 180.361 180.01 179.426- 180.406" 27-TOM BIGELOW 181.452 179.856 179.781 179.187 180.114 start of last year's race, put himself solidly into the field for the 58th 500 with a four-lap average of 183.927. Wal-; ther, too, matched his first lap and jhis: fourth lap 183.711.

Dick Simon, following Al Loquasto, who waived an attempt to qualify after, tnree warmup laps, stuck his No. 44 Foyt-powered Eagle into the 33-car field with a 184.502-mph average, topped by his third lap of 185.874. "It took me a lap to get used to things out there," said Simon, whos first lap was a "slow" 182.778 mph. iu i.Lniii mi mmm t'-tj Mario Andretti Jerry Karl If land through a flooded area behind the south end of Tower Terrace The NEWS Photo, Joe Young at the Speedway yesterday. Trees Downed Streets Flooded By Heavy Rains By WAYNE FUSON, Sports Editor Mike Hiss was No.

2 on the list before qualifying attempts began today at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway but he was No. 1 when it came to posting speeds although he failed to knock A. J. Foyt out of pole position. Hiss followed Gordon Johncock, winner of last year's rain-shortened 500-Mile Race, onto the track and zipped off a four-lap average speed of 187.490 mph with a high of 187.891 (his second lap) and a low of 187.227 (his third lap).

Hiss, a 32-year-old veteran of two 500s, wrapped the whole thing into a neat bundle with 187.422 rnph on both the first and last laps. "I couldn't be any happier," Hiss said. "This is the finest race car in the world." Related Story on Page 18 Johncock, with a four-lap average speed of 186.287 miles per hour, joined the 15 drivers who qualified last Saturday on the first day of qualifications. But he was well below the top speed of 191.632 mph posted last week by three-time winner A. J.

Foyt. And he wasn't even close to the qualifying records of last year's pole-sitter, Johnny Rutherford, who owns the one-lap mark of 199.071 and the four-lap record of 198.413. Johncock's qualifying run today opened with a 186.567 mph lap and then slowed progressively to a 185.759 mph fourth lap. In between were laps at 186.490 and 186.335 mph. Johncock, who used a larger-than-average turbocharger on his George Bignotti-prepared car (as did Wally Dallenbach last week) said: "If anybody thinks they can drive my car faster than this, they're welcome to try it." That comment was in response to some who criticized Dallenbach after last week's qualifying, saying he "should have put it on the pole with that big blower." Shortly after Johncock's run, his red No.

20 was impounded by Frankie Del Roy's crew of USAC inspectors, possibly because they discovered a rules infraction. "I'm going to stick around," said Johncock, "because I may have to run again." The 186.027-mph average posted by 1969 winner Mario Andretti and then the 180.406 average logged by John Martin locked Foyt into pole position for the May 26 running. Andretti and Martin were the last of the 10 drivers who still had a shot at the pole when qualifying resumed today. Although he was well off Foyt's pole-setting speed. Andretti, a two-time pole-sitter, was delighted just to be in the race.

"I'm glad it's finally over," he said after wheeling his red and white No. 5 Eagle into the pits. "It has been a long month even though it has been a short month." Torrential rains yesterday brought large puddles of water and mud to the infield parking areas today and Clarence Cagle, superintendent of grounds, prohibited parking on the golf course but did allow parking in other infield areas. In the "Snake Pit" (the No. 1 turn infield large puddles of water covered the area this morning, then later the area was turned into a muddy and soggy mess as the puddles disappeared.

John Mahler, after posting laps of 179.497 and then 180.687 mph, was forced to abort his qualifying run when his engine soured and he shut off the engine while negotiating the second turn on his third lap. Then came Salt Walther, a valid candidate for anyone's list of courageous comebacks. Walther, critically injured at the High winds, thunderstorms, and hard rain struck Indianapolis yesterday, downing trees, flooding some streets and causing damage to a few buildings. Tornadoes were sighted in the county, but no damage resulted from the few reported touchdowns. A tornado warning was issued for five Central Indiana counties, including Marion, but it was later lifted.

The National Weather Service said winds of up to 55 miles an hour hit the qjty. More than 1.5 inches of rain fell on some parts of Indianapolis during the half hour from 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. The high winds damaged the roof of School 109, 6150 Gateway Drive, and ripped off a section of roof of the three-story building housing the Kran-nert Institute of Cardiology at the Indi State Police Arrest 50 At Speedway More than 50 arrests were made during the first few hours after the gate opened at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today as Indiana State Police beefed up patrols within the track grounds to prevent a reoccurrence of last Saturday's "Snake Pit" disturbance. Speedway Patrol officers and riot-equipped state troopers throughout the morning toured the No.

1 turn infield area, where last week a melee broke out between State Police and bottle-throwing fans. Four individuals wen; arrested within 15 minutes after the gate opened at 7 a.m. and it was reported that "numerous young persons'' also were emptying coolers and throwing away bottles concealed in paper sacks when they entered the track area and saw police manpower there. Capt. John Shettle.

in charge of the Speedway detail for the State Police, said 140 troopers normally assigned to traffic duty outside of the track were added to the infield patrols during periods of light traffic. Forty State Police, some accompanied by guard dogs, were assigned full time to patrol inside the track. Shettle said. By mid-morning, according to Maj. Earl Gilleland of the Marion County Sheriff's Department, 23 of those arrested were transported from the Speedway to the Marion County Jail.

Gilleland said 14 juveniles charged with illegal possession of alcohol were among those arrested. One juvenile girl found unconscious at the track was sent to General Hospital and was believed to have been under the influence of narcotics, he said. Traffic problems around the Speedway remained minimal as some fans stayed home, waiting for a break in the overcast sky. Track officials estimated the crowd at 11 a.m. as 50.000.

Park, according to city Parks and Recreation officials. Winds blew the old football press box on the left side of Bush Stadium into the playing field. In the 700 block of North Euclid, youngsters in canoes paddled across their submerged front lawns. IN THE NEWS Amusements 10-11 Obituaries Books 40 Sports Business 20-21 TV Radio Church 3-6 Want Ads Comics 12 Women 21 15-17 13-14 22-39 8-9 Editorials 7 The NEWS Phone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Want Ads 633-1212 Circulation 633-9211 left in a red compact car, while the other fled west on foot. In another shooting incident a 26-yoar-old city man was shot and killed in a Lawrence plumbing and heating store shortly after noon yesterday.

His brother is being held on a preliminary charge of murder. Police said Jack W. Keene, 36 S. Euclid, was struck in the left side of t'le chest by a bullet fired from a 32 caliber pistol. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Earl V. Keene, 34, 4107 N. Clinton, was arrested in connection with the shooting which took place at the Keene Plumbing Heating store at 4359 N. Clinton. ana University School of Medicine.

No one at School 109 or at the I.U. building was injured. A tornado emergency plan was activated at School 109 with the 430 pupils in kindergarten through sixth grade herded into the halls. After the storm passed, the pupils were sent home. School officials said several classrooms were damaged by water.

Flash flooding hampered traffic in the city, especially in water filled underpasses. During the storm, police reported several intersections in the city covered with water. Tornadoes were reported seen in the areas of 38th and Franklin Road; 21st and Emerson, and in Lawrence. No touchdowns were reported in the areas. High winds knocked down about 30 trees and a building in Brookside Wilson said when he knocked on the apartment door, a woman, later identified as Miss Whitaker, answered but refused to let him in.

Wilson said he kicked the door open and found Johnson "near death" in a living room chair. Miss Whitaker, who was able to walk to a waiting ambulance, told police they were shot by two males. Police said Johnson apparently had let the assailants in through a buzzer intercom system. Investigators believe the execution-style shootings were related to drug traffic in the city. Witnesses said one of the gunmen 2 Shot In Head; Man Dies A 31-year-old city man was killed today in a narcotics-related shooting that also left his girl friend critically wounded, police said.

Police said Willis C. Johnson was found shot in the back of the head and right hand. He was pronounced dead on arrival at General Hospital. Police said Ramona Whitakcr, 30, 1109 Brook Lane, was in critical condition at General Hospital with gunshot wounds to the head and right hand. Patrolman Frank Wilson, who made the Initial investigation, said he was railed to Johnson's apartment at 234 E.

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