A federal indictment was returned by a grand jury here to-day, charging the well known flyer Loren Mendell with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle Orientals ito the United States.
Mendell set an__ aeroplane endurance record with Roland Reinhart, in the biplane Angelina on July 12, 1929. Admirers presented a duplicate of the biplane to the we nen, though their record was:
ducen soon afterward by ale Jackson and Forest O'Brire in. the St. Louis Rotin.
After a tims, Mendel bought Reinhert's shire in the gift plane, snd it was in this ship that Mendell was crested a few weeks ago just, after crossing the Mexican oorler with several Ciinese aboard.
While it was "dent that Mesiel! was not slone his enterprise he Meclared tha: Se word "take hi suedicn<" and he refused to reve ration ast his companions.
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