U.S.A. SPY HUNT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 7

U.S.A. SPY HUNT

MORE WITNESSES VANISH MYSTERY INTENSIFIED. SALE OF MILITARY SECRETS ALLEGED. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. NEW YORK, May 20. In addition to Dr. Ignatz Greibl, one-time national leader of American Nazis and one of the chief witnesses in the Government’s greatest peace-time spy hunt, has disappeared mysteriously a few days before the opening of the grand jury hearing, several other important Government witnesses in the spy case have disappeared and are believed to have left the country. The Assistant United States Attorney, Mr Lester Dunningham, told the Federal grand jury in a secret session that Dr. Greibl’s fate was still an unknown mystery. The witness today was a woman identified as Miss Kate Busch, statuesque proprietress of a nursing home, who stated that she was once temporarily employed as a nurse at President Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home. It is believed that Miss Busch is to play a key part in the Governmentplanned exposure of the international spy fraternity, created by agents of Germany. Miss Busch and Mrs Greibl were questioned together for two hours and later gruellingly cross-examined by Gmen. When they left both women were agitated and argued together heatedly. Miss Busch is not only a close friend of Dr. Greibl but is said to have considerable knowledge of the American wing of the espionage organisation. To prevent further disappearances the court has raised the bail of Otto Voss, accused of selling military secrets to Germany, from 10,000 to 25,000 dollars. Voss and Hermann are locked up in the Federal House under detention to preclude the possibility of their disappearing. Mrs Roosevelt says she has not heard of Miss Busch.