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the rest of the article: Hildenberger declared however that Miss Holiday was the victim of the worst type of parasite you can imagine." "They followed her around," Hidenberger told Judge J. Culle Ganey, "and charged her $100 for dosages of narcotics that cost ordinary users only $5 or $10. S S "She made a quarter of a million dollars in the last three years and all of it is gone,' he added. Wanted To Plead The tall, slender singer, visibly moved, confirmed Hildenberger statement. She declined counsel stating she wanted to plead guilty and to be sent to a hospital. Judge Ganey told Miss Holiday in imposing sentence of a year and a day yesterday, that the government was going to give her "benevolent" treatment at the reformatory. In return, the jurist said, Miss Holiday must cooperate to the fullest extent with federal agents in their efforts to "track down" the source of the heroin supply she was receiving. "Don't hold out on those who are trying to help you, Judge Ganey told the tearful Miss Holiday. Joseph Bransky, head of the federal narcotics bureau in this area made a plea for Miss Holiday, telling Judge Ganey that unless she is "isolated" from those who got her into the addiction, "she doesn't have a chance to break herself of it." Federal narcotics agents told the judge Miss Holiday was arrested in New York last Tuesday on a tip from the Chicago ofrice. She recently completed a two-week engagement at a local theater.