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...international "spy ring." By week's end the agents arrested two of Mr. Rumrich's alleged confederates, Erich Glaser, a 28-year-old German-born private in the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron stationed at Mitchel Field, New York City's air defense centre, and Johanna Hofmann, a 26-year-old German hairdresser on the liner Europa. According to officials, all admitted that they were working for a "foreign power" but officials ostentatiously forebore to mention Germany by name...
Nothing of importance was found on Spy Rumrich but crude drawings of a plane and a tank. Spy Hofmann who spoke no English and whose orange-colored hair showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service...
...Hofmann was enthusiastically received by a large audience when, on November 28, he gave his jubilee concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, where he had first been heard in that city...
Born in Poland in 1876, he began to learn the art of music in babyhood, and as a small boy studied with Anton Rubinstein. His career commenced when he was nine years old. Mr. Hofmann has composed music in large and small forms, and has written books on piano playing...
Like Artur Schnabel, he no longer bothers to practise with any regularity. He claims he did plenty of practising in his youth to last him all his life. Mr. Hofmann's favorite avocation is inventing mechanical gadgets. Sonata Op. 53 (Waldstein) Beethoven Kreisleriana (Six movements) Schumann Polonaise in E flat minor Nocturne in B major, Op 9, No. 3 Mazurka in B flat minor Ballade in F minor Chopin Orientale, Op. 10, No. 2 Stojowski Moment Musical in F sharp minor, Op. 94, No. 3 Schubert-Godowsky Elude in C sharp minor, Op 2 Scriabin Kaleidoscope...