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NY 100-81752 B. Motions, United States District Court, Southern District of New York A motion was filed on January 25, 1955, returnable on January 31, 1955, on behalf of defendants MINDEL and JONES asking for reduction and/or suspensions of their sentences on the grounds of MINDEL's age and health and on the ground of JONES! heaith, Incorporated in the motion papers was a _ statement that Getendant JONES was willing to de t the United States (JONES subsequently departéd for England voluntarily on December 9, 1955, under an Immigration and Naturalization Service deportation warrant). On April 1, 1955, United States District Judge DIMOCK denied the applications of MINDEL and JONES and recommended that MINDEL be transferred to the Federal Medical Center for Prisoners, Springfield, Missourl. Judge DIMOCK's decision stated that the motion for reduction of JONES' sentence would be granted unless the Government filed a formal statement that a special diet, required by JONES, was available at the Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson, West Virginia, and that such a diet would be furnished to JONES during service of her sentence, The Government filed such a statement on April 12, 1955. On April 5, 1955, the defense applied for deletion from Judge DIMOCK's desision of April'l, 1955, the recommendation that MINDEL be transferred to the Federai Medical Center for Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri, and the deletion was granted on April 11, 1955. The defense applied on January 31, 1955, for an order to show cause why a new trial should not be granted based on the affidavit of government witness HARVEY M, MATUSOU, wao alleged that certain matters to which