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...alleged spies named in the indictments, 14, including a key witness named Dr. Ignatz Griebl, are believed to have left the U. S. Two, Lieut. Commander Udo von Bruen, and Lieut. Commander Hermann Menzel are minor officials of the German War Ministry. In captivity awaiting trial are only four: Otto Hermann Voss, a onetime employe in the experimental section of Seversky Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Net Netted | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup, the Department of Justice asked for a grand jury investigation. Leading witness was to be a Manhattan doctor, Ignatz T. Griebl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: International Spies | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Griebl had a copy of a secret code, used by Miss Hofmann. He was the addressee of a letter found among her personal effects. He was a onetime president of the now defunct Friends of New Germany. Government agents counted on him as a star witness. They were shocked last week, when the investigation started: Ignatz Griebl had boarded the Bremen and was on the high seas, bound for Germany. At first glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: International Spies | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Ridder Brothers, proprietors of the New York Staats-Zeitung and the New Yorker Herold, influential U. S. German-language dailies, rose to charge Nazi Spanknoebel with attempting to dictate to their papers, charged that German Day was about to become a Hitler Day celebration. The audience jeered. A Dr. Griebl attempted to hit Bernard Ridder. Somebody twice pulled the chair out from under the Jewish treasurer, and a delegation of the United Societies Party wound up in City Hall to hear a riot act read to them by prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, who had forbidden the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fomenter Ousted | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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