Word: werra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother denied it. Said Beaudette: "I think I'll just forget the whole thing." .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. ...Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp for the U.S. and then skipped the U.S. for Germany, married one Irene Traut.....Of a lovelorn lawyer waiting her return to Brazil, Carmen Miranda told reporters: "He is a very patient man. . . . But Brazil is so far away and here...
...Zapp and Giinther Tonn, officials of the Nazi Transocean News Service (TIME, March 24), arrested on deportation charges because they entered the U.S. as "treaty merchants" and did not maintain that status, were held at Ellis Island. The Government argument against bail reviewed the case of Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flier, who put up $15.000 bail and ran away...
...March Werra started south on a "hunting trip," did not stop till he hit Peru. Thence he went to Bolivia, where he found what he was hunting for-a German-controlled airline to fly him to Rio de Janeiro, an Italian plane from there across the Atlantic, a German airliner back home to Berlin...
Instead the prison train went north from Montreal into the Laurentian Mountains, and Werra, seeing his plans upset, dived out the train window into a snowbank. Speaking French fluently, he had no difficulty hitching lifts with habitants for about 140 miles, through Ottawa to the St. Lawrence. He paddled across to the U.S. at night in a stolen boat, landing near Ogdensburg, N.Y. with his ears badly frozen...
Arrested by U.S. authorities on a technical charge of illegal entry, Werra was sent to New York City, placed in the custody of the German consul on bond. He stayed in New York about a month, touring nightclubs, telling tall tales to bug-eyed and sympathetic ladies from the German settlement in Yorkville...