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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ! Operatins under pietnct of Columbia
to sell for $25,000 to Harry Hirsch 1*
and Hyman Avrunin this property Loans Ava,labl*
Under the terms of the jurist 's i To Responsible Salaried People
order, $8,000 will be payable on the W1STAR M baldtobton PreiuTent
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