GREAT SPY HUNT

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20503, 20 May 1938, Page 7

GREAT SPY HUNT

WITNESS DISAPPEARS LEADER OF AMERICAN NAZIS DEPARTURE FOR GERMANY (United Press Assn —Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, May 19 The former national leader of American Nazis. Dr. Ignatz Greibl, who was to have been one of the chief " itnesses for the United States Government in the greatest spy hunt in a time of peace, disappeared mysteriously only a few days before the opening of the grand jury’s hearing of the case.

Federal agents learned that Dr. Greibl sailed for Germany by the liner Bremen on Thursday and they requested the French authorities at Cherbourg to ask him to return to the United States. However, the captain would not allow them to make contact with him.

The Federal agents are trying to ascertain whether Dr. Greibl was forced to go to Germany by threats. His wife laughs at the suggestion that he was kidnapped by Nazis, and says lie will return in three weeks.

DOCTORS WIFE MYSTIFIED PARTING ON THE PIER “1 NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN"’ . United Press Assn.—Elec. TeL Copyright (Received May 20, 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 19 The Greibl mystery surrounding the disappearance of Dr. Greibl deepened when his wife stated: *T cannot believe that he would have left me like this of his own will. I honestly Ido not know whether my husband is alive or dead. When he left me near the pier he said, T will be back in half-an-hour. I have an appointment with some one on the North German Lloyd pier.’ I never saw him again.” She added that her husband severed connection with friends in the new ; Germany several years ago.