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...Sawdust. After six weeks of testimony concerning the stupidity and naivete of German spies in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 14), the No. 1 espionage trial of recent times ended in Manhattan. Convicted by a Federal jury were: Johanna Hofmann, 27, a Dresden redhead who roamed the world as a hairdresser on German ships, wound up carrying spies' messages on the liner Europa; Otto Hermann Voss, 39, an airplane factory mechanic who turned in much junk and one set of valuable pursuit-plane plans to the Nazi intelligence service; ex-Private Erich Glaser...
While the jury was out, reporters at the press table got sorry for pallid, sobbing Miss Hofmann. They bought some lipstick for her, learned that she doesn't use lipstick. After the jury reported, Judge Knox said he was sorry, too, but would have to make an example of her. For her: four years: Mechanic Voss, six years; Friends Rumrich and Glaser, two each...
Present for the telling in Federal Judge John C. Knox's courtroom were Johanna Hofmann, a red-haired hairdresser on the German liner Europa, ex-Private Erich Glasser of the U. S. Air Corps, and one Otto Hermann Voss, formerly a mechanic in a Long Island aircraft factory (Seversky) which makes planes for the U. S. Army. Still at large, presumably in Germany, were 14 other defendants...
While it is his ubiquitous Prelude in C-Sharp Minor that has won Rachmaninoff his fame with the public, discriminating concertgoers have long rated him as one of the two greatest living pianists. (The other: Polish-born Josef Hofmann...
...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 and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers the secret code used by Army planes in communicating with their stations. Since the U. S., unlike Germany, does not punish espionage by death in peacetime, stiffest sentence the spies faced...