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DescriptionBert Acosta and Gordon King Berry in The Daily News of New York City on January 15, 1937.jpg	English: Bert Acosta and Gordon King Berry in The Daily News of New York City on January 15, 1937
Date	15 January 1937
Source	The Daily News of New York City on January 15, 1937
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Bert Acosta, the oft spanked bad boy of aviation, yesterday placed his retreat from the Spanish wars on the high plane of patriotism and , pouf for the dollars ! It -wasn't the f 1,100 owed him ; t v- the Spanish Loya'-ists for drop- pins? tvtubs on the Fascists from V : .Hill tm Bert Acosta (left) and his side-kick, Gordon Berry, after arrival from Spain yesterday. ancient crate? it was an urge- to tave lii country from foreign en- j tarurlemcriU that impelled Acosta to give up hi soldier-of-fortune : career in the civil war, he averted (n his. return to New York. Met By G-Men. j Unci ?am showed an interest Irt the affair by sending G-Men to take Acosta and his fisghters side-kick, Gordon Berry, off the French liner Paris at Quarantine. With a reminder that there's a Federal law forbidding enlistment of American citizens in the United j States for service under foreign i flags penalty, three years behind ! bars and ? I ,0 fine the agents!? escorted Acosta and Berry to the ' Federal Building. ! There they were nuestioned prior ; to going before the Grand Jury, probably today, to disclose whether ! they were signed up in this country ! r Spain, and who made the ar-j ranements. They were not arrested. Reluctant to Talk. On this point. Acosta displaved a ! n'tab!e reluctance to talk when he was greeted aboard ship by Special Agent i-eon . x urrou or me ie- jartmer.t of Justice; Chief Assistant United States Attorney John F. Dailey Jr. sni Gre-orv F. N'oo- ! run. chief of the criminal division t the prosecutor's office.

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