Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-20
Arms Cache Seized
In New York, Linked
To Cuba Revolt Plot
By the Assoeioted Pyess

by me ASSoetoteo tFeSo
MAMARONECK, N. Y, Dec. 20. +!
i Westchester County police
raided an abandoned gasoline
station in this New York suburb
yesterday and seized large cache
|of munitions which authorities
linked to a planned Cuban revo-
luton.
The descent on the boarded up
Istation yesterday uncovered about
two truckloads of napalm gre
|nades, rifle grenades, bazooka
shells, rifle clips. gunpowder. par
|achute flares and a drum of ma
palm powder.
After the raid police arrested
three men. including Alfred Man
helm, 20. a munitions dealer.
WeStchester County Sheriff John
E. Hoy and Assistant District At
torney M. Morton Edmiston said
Mannheim told them he was COL
lecting the arsenal in behalf of
|ex-President Carlos Prio Socar-
|raS of Cuba.
Later, Mannheim denied to news
men that he mentioned Cuba. and
Isaid he was getting the munitions
for an unidentified customer.
Prio Socarras was ousted by a
military coup last March and
Cuban Strong Man Gen. Fulgencio
IBatista-a former President-took
over. Gen. Batista since has been
named President of Cuba.
Prio Socarras fed to Mexico,
then to Miami, where he and his
followers have been taking politi-
cal potshots at the Batista re-
CINE.
At Miami, former President Prio
Soccarras denied knowledge of an
alleged counter-revolutionary plot
against the Batista government.
He said he did not know the az
rested men.
Third Man Seized.
Police became suspicious of
unusual activity around the sup
posedly deserted gas station. and
raided it. Mannheim, who lives
on Park avenue in New York, was
seized when he drove up to the
station with Frank Connell, 40.
of Brooklyn. Although Connell
said he was just along for the
ride, he was accused of being in
charge of shipping the cache.
Last night a third man, Jose
Duarte, IS. was arrested in nearby
Yonkers. Mr. Hoy named him as
purchaser of the munitions.
Police said at least two others
were being sought.
All three men were arraigned
and charged with felonious pos
session of firearms. Mannheim
was released in $500 bail. Con-
nell and Duarte were held without
bail in Westchester Jail pending
"a hearing next Tuesday.
Mannheim said he had Federal,
State and New York City licences
for the storage, possession and
transportation of arms and am
munition. adding: 1T is stand
ing procedure in the arms busi-
ness to accumulate inventories
for customer pending his get
ting licenses and documents for
them"
Surplus Army Goods.
Mannheim said the cache was
made up of surplus Army ma
terials. Authorities said Man
helm told them he was approached
several months ago by man who
represented himself as an agent
of Batista, but that he learned
several weeks ago the man was
working for Prio Socarras.
Mannheim was further quoted
as saying the man gave him $15.-
500 for expenses and a $4,000
letter Of credit on New York
bank for the purchase of 100
Garand rifles-an order he was
unable to fill.
i Last October 3 in Fort Worth,
Tex. two exiles from Cuba re-
ported to police that they were
robbed of $240,O00. The robbery
victims were identified as Manuel
F. Madareaga and Candida de la
Tore. An associate, not in town
the day of the robbery, was a man
named Jose Duarte.
Arrested in Robbery.
On October 4, a Fort Worth
used car salesman was seized in
connection with the robbery and
two others were being sought.
Asked if he had been an associ-
ate of the Texas robbery victims,
Duarte said: You can quote me
as not denying it,"
Duarte said he is a veteran of
World War II and an American
Legionnaire. He added:
Il am entirely responsible. No
one else is connected with this.
Whatever may be said about me,
there is no connection with any
former government. I'll take the
rap" :,