Presenting a new set of witnesses, Assistant United States Attorney William Prager yesterday resumed hearings before the federal Grand Jury on Nazi affairs in this country.
While Mr. Prager would admit only that hearings have been resumed “for the purpose of gathering further evidence” on Nazi organizations and operations in this country, it is believed that the case is being prosecuted with a view toward securing indictments against a number of German agents of the Hitler Government now working in the United States.
Count Sauerman Douglas, known at present as Dr. Albrecht Sauerman, was questioned at length by the Grand Jury yesterday.
Miss Elizabeth Adams, secretary to Joachim Deutsch, was also put on the stand yesterday, where she was questioned by the federal panel.
Walter Kauf, convicted by a Newark jury as Spanknobel’s bodyguard for having carried concealed weapons to a meeting of the League of Friends of New Germany and for having wielded a lead pipe in a riot which took place after the meeting, was also before the Grand Jury. Plans to deport Kauf were protested by Representative Samuel Dickstein on the ground that he could give valuable testimony before both the Grand Jury and the House Committee on Immigration, which, under the chairmanship of Dickstein, is conducting its own investigation into Nazi operations.
Engeborg Roell, another prominent member of the German community, also testified yesterday.
Hearings will be held again today.
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