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Aviator Sentenced For Taking Planes To Aid Revolt New Indictments Name Mexican Army Officers In Conspiracy By the Associated Press. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Dec. 6 — Cloyd P. Clevenger, New York avi ator, today was sentenced to 18 months in a Federal penitentiary on his admission that he transported two airplanes from the United States to Mexico to be used in the unsuc cessful Cedillo rebelliort early this year. Sentence was passed by Federal Judge C. B. Kennamer of Mont gomery, Ala. The judge yesterday dismissed, on motion of the Government, a charge against the flyer of conspiracy to violate the United States Neutrality Act of 1937. The court freed Howard F. Klein of New York and Mexico City of any part in the conspiracy or the actual violation of the act. Klein pleaded innocent to both charges, and Assistant United States District Attorney George John said the Government had es tablished conclusively that Klein withdrew from the transaction to sell and deliver the airplanes to Gen. Saturnino Cedillo when the State Department withdrew a li cense to fly the two planes to San Louis Potosi. Mexico, from the United States. Second Group of Indictments. In a second group of indictments a Federal grand jury today returned true bills against Gen. Roberto Fierro, former head of the Mexican Army Air Corps; six other Mexi cans. two Americans and a Mexican aviation company, alleging conspir acy to violate the Neutrality Act of 1935. The indictment named as a co conspirator. but did not indict, Felix Gordon Ordaz. Spanish Ambassador to Mexico. Also listed as a co-conspirator was Jose Melendreras-Sierra, Military Attache to the Spanish Embassy. The bill charged 19 airplanes were transported from the United States to Mexico for transshipment to loy alist Spain. The Federal prosecutor said at least 10 or 11 other planes were moved into the southern republic from Texas and California for use as war machines to fight Spanish insurgents. List of Indictments. The indictment specifically charged these men: Gen. Fierro, Col. Rafael Monroe, Gen. Alfredo Lazama Alva rez and Col. Gustavo Leon of the Mexican Army; Fritz Bieler of Cali fornia. Cloyd P. Clevenger, New York aviator: Sixto Del Rio, Carlos Paini and Jose Aspe Suinaga, listed as manager of the C. I. A. (com pany) De Transposes Aereos Pa cifico. The company also was in dicted. The indictment was the second handed down by the Federal grand jury of the Southern District of Texas in two weeks involving al leged Neutrality Act violations. The first, returned at Corpus Christi, named Gen. Cedillo. Clevenger, Klein and three Mexicans. They were charged in an alleged plot to transport American-made planes into Mexico ostensibly for use in a Mexican revolution. Cedillo re cently was vanquished in a revolt by aggressive action of President Lazaro Cardenas. Conspiracy in Capital. The indictment charged the con spiracy to transport planes into Mexico was formulated in Wash ington. D. C.. Brownsville and Mex ico City. The planes. Assistant United States District Attorney George John of Houston said, were bought in this country and the majority of them were flown to Brownsville, thence to Mexico City and from there to Vera Cruz, Mex. Then they were shipped to Spanish Loyal ist ports, he said. Prosecutor John said today's in dictment was based on a different proclamation by President Franklin D. Roosevelt than that on which Gen. Cedillo, Clevenger. Klein, Mex ican Army Maj. Adolpho Pina and two other men, both Mexicans, were indicted at Corpus Christi. Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents have been probing the ac tivities of foreign agents for several months along the Texas-Mexican border, he said. Neither United States Attorney Douglas McGregor nor his assistant would hazard a guess as to whether President Cardenas would deliver to the custody of the United States the principals named in the indict ment. -• Burglar Loots Home, Takes Watchdog, Too B» the Associated Press. CHICAGO—Clifford Smith left his dog. Wheezer, in his apartment to guard the place while he was gone. When he returned he found that a burglar had taken Wheezer along with a $100 ring. Air-Conditioning Used to Treat Rheumatism By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Dec. 6 —The use of air-conditioning as a new treatment for rheumatism was announced to day. The report was made by Albert G. Young. M. D.. of Corey Hill Hos pital, Brookline, Mass., to the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers. He said that in two years use at the hospital of air conditioning had prevented heart trouble in rheumatic fever. This form of rheumatism attacks children principally and is credited with a 40 per cent death rate. The fatalities are not immediate, but re sult several years later from hearts going bad because of the rheu matism. About the only treatment, Dr. Young said, has been rest in bed and warm, dry climate. Air-condi tioning produces this climate artifi cially in the hospital. The first attack of rheumatic fever, Dr. Young explained, seldom causes irreparable heart damage. The great danger comes with re currencies. The air-conditioning, he said, has made it possible to forestall these relapse^. Briton Admitted to Citizenship So He Can Get on Relief A 73-year-old former British sub ject who told Justice F. Dickinson Letts he wanted to become a citisen of the United States to get on relief was admitted into citizenship today in District Court. He is Edward Patrick Scarbor ough, a familiar figure around the New* Center Market. He said he be lieved he had his American citizen ship papers some years ago. but that they were burned in a New York City Hall fire. Twenty-seven other persons were admitted to citizenship. A plea of Mrs. Jean M. P. Mitchell, who was born in Mukden, China, in 1912 of Scotch ancestry, and is a British subject, to become a citizen was deferred pending the production of a New York witness, who can testify as to her entry in this coun $79,C J Is Low Bid On Potomac Span Preliminary Work — Baltimore Firm Offers Price $16,000 Below Estimated Cost By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. Dec. 6.—A low bid of *79,000 was received today by the State Roads Commission for the first construction work preliminary to erection of a new bridge over the Potomac River near Morgantown. The offer, *16 000 less than the cost estimated by the commission, was made by Potts & Callahan Co. of Baltimore. Included in the contract was clearing and grubbing, earth fill, construction of field office buildings for engineers, construction of the east abutment of the bridge and construction of piers for the Mary land approach at Ludlow Ferry. The southern terminus of the span is near Dahlgren, Va. Forty five per cent of the total cost of *3.926.000 was allocated by the pub lic Woiks Administration, with the Roads Commission financing the re mainder through revenue bonds, serviced by tolls. Work began yesterday on prelim inary construction for the new Sus quehanna River bridge at Havre de Grace, which, with the Potomac span, forms a part of a through highway system proposed by the commission. Ten sealed bids were received by the roads unit, second lowest bidder was Robert L. Oates of Baltimore, at *82.534. The Kaufman Construc tion Co. of Philadelphia, which won, ! the first contract on the Susque hanna span, was third with an offer ! of *83.005. - ■■■- — m Labor Board Orders 31 Be Reinstated B> the Associated Press. The Labor Relations Board yes terday ordered the McKaig-Hatch, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y„ to reinstate 31 employes, pay them remedial wages, and to bargain collectively with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers tC. I. O.). The board also ordered the com pany to disestablish the McKaig & Hatch Athletic and Welfare Asso ciation on the grounds it was in spired by the company and was intended to embarrass the Amalga mated before opening negotiations of a new contract. -• International Bazaar To End Tonight The * 10th annual International i Bazaar of the Americanization School Association of the District will end its tw;o-dav festivities at 10 o'clock tonight at the Webster School, Tenth and H streets N.W. In native costume, young women from foreign countries are operating booths with various articles from their native lands for sale. Foreign foods are being served. Proceeds of the bazaar will go toward the welfare work of the association of which Frederic A. Delano is president. Future Army Aviators Experiment With Toys By the Associated Press. Future Army aviators at Ran dolph Field, Tex.—the "West Point of the Air”—are learning to fly with the assistance of toy airplanes. Air Corps officials said today that model airplanes "are all the rage” among student officers, who not only have a cheap hobby, but also are learning things which may prevent disastrous crack-ups. -0 -— Art to Be Exhibited Paintings by local professional ar tists will be exhibited beginning tomorrow and continuing through December 25 in the gallery of the Washington Bookshop, 916 Seven teenth street N.W., under the spon sorship of the Washington Artists Union. The gallery is open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays. -0- _ Struck by Intruder Mrs. Marie Lanahan of 211 Sheri dan street N.W. was struck in the face this morning by a colored man she discovered ransacking the liv ing room of her home. She said the intruder fled after striking her. REROOF Spoeial Xmat OH or Any Overtile BUNGALOW *15950 ATerut :!-8tnry HOUSE S99.S0 Main luf Only <5 no P«r Month Startinr Jan. IS Famoua BARRETT EVERLOX Blow Proof, Curl Proof Shingloa Written Guarantor ARMOR ROOFING CO., INC Emtrion 1191 -* try. Mrs. Mitchell Is the wife of a State Department official, Reginald P. Mitchell. Justice Letts decided to delay the case until he has information about Mrs. Mitchell's residence in this country. The Mitchells were mar ried in 1935 at Hankow, China, and they told the court that they wanted to return to the United States so that their child could be born here. A son. Reginald P. Mitchell, jr., was born in Jacksonville. Fla.. February 26. They reside here at the Fairfax Hotel. Mrs. Mitchell said she came to the United States first in January, 1934, but because her husband's official duties require his absence from the United States on occasion, she wants the court to take constructive resi dence here into consideration. Thorpe Sees Political Control Threat to U. S. Professions Pharmaceutical Group Told Business Curb Is Only First Step Political control of the professions will follow political control of busi ness and industry, Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business, today told the semi-annual board meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association here. In Washington, he said, "a more sobby case” is being made for ‘ Gov ernment dentistry and medicine than was ever made for power and light." Professional men who support public ownership and those indiffer ent ‘‘live in a fool's paradise if they think politics will stop with taking over trade and industry; it will ex tend to the professions,” he said. Mr. Thorpe's speech before the 200 members of the association came at the end of the morning session of the second day of the conference. He declared Secretary of Labor Perkins “shamed ' the United States when she said this country was 25 years behind Germany in social in surance. He then asked why there was such a continuous immigration movement to our shores. Through a series of questions, which he answered himself. Mr. Thorpe based his points on high administrative costs, increased sick periods, shorter hie expectation and slow medical development. He said advocates of state medicine in this country should consider these points and give their answers. “Such a course of cross-examina tion.” he said, “might lead to a similar investigation of claims, for example, as to government housing in England, government retail stores in Sweden, price and wage control in Italy and the dozen other national measures now being ad vanced on the ground that Europe has them,’ ” he said. Most of the three days of the convention at the Washington Hotel are being devoted to technical trade discussions by the board members. Plays Classics, Blind Man Is Freed By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 6 — "Beethoven.” said Judge Her bert Kaufman, "cannot disturb the peace.” So he freed Rudolph Ramat. 69 and blind, of a charge of disturbing the peace by playing his accordion on Market street. “Your honor.” Ramat plead ed yesterday, “I have worked all my life. I don't want any pen sion. I play my accordion, may be not well, but only the clas sics. Listen” And he played Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata" for the judge. On Leong Tong MemLrs To Attend Soo Rites Fellow Chinese, including many members of the On Leong Tong, to morrow will pay tribute to Charles Lee Soo, 69, president of the local On Leong Tong, Chinese merchant organization, who died Saturday in Sibley Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Soo will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Cal vary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Dr. William S. Arbernethy, pastor, and the Rev. Dr. C. C. Hung, pastor of the Chinese Community Church, officiating. Burial will be in Con gressional Cemetery. In the funeral procession from the church to the cemetery will be several bands, some playing Chinese and others Ameri can music. Members of the On Leong Tong from other cities are expected to march in the funeral procession. Mr. Soo’s body is lying in state in a building at 607 H street N.W., where it is to remain until shortly before the funeral. Mr. Soo was known as the origi nal mayor of Washington’s China town. He was head of the corpo ration which runs the Ouysum Res taurant at 610 H street N.W. and his home was at 400 B street NR. He had been a resident of this city for many years. Although he was not a member of the Calvary Church, he was a Christian. Sale of Lot by Bank Hints Dividend Further dividends are in prospect at an undetermined future date for those interested in the closed Com- date of settlement, which will be merclal National Bank of Washing- within 90 days, and Mr. Hardy la ton, 1336 New York avenue N.W., it authorized to accept the note for developed today as the result of an $17,000 payable 60 days after date order signed by Justice Oscar R. with Interest at 5 per cent. Luhring in District Court, authoriz- ^_ _ ing the sale of a lot the bank holds r-_— at the northeast corner of Virginia Foundation Credit Company avenue and E street N.W. Suit* S4i w»»hintt»o Baiidin# Justice Luhring today authorized 18th * New York Arena# Cary A. Hardee, receiver of the bank ! 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