Clancy today dismissed writs of habeas corpus obtained by counsel for red haired Miss Johanna Hoffman and Gunther Rumrich, her alleged compan-fon in espionage.
Rumrich, deserter from the US. Army, and Miss Hoffmann, hairdresser in the liner Europa, were arrested last February and accused of conspiring to sell American military secrets toa foreign Power. They were Purchase of Whale Oil London, May 11.
Government purchase of whale oil for war emergency purposes, which was announced by Sir John' Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Fecent Budget speech, was the sub-Jeet of a question in the House of Commons yesterday by Sir Robert Rankin, Conservative member for the Kirkdaie division of Liverpool.
Sir Robert Rankin asked whether it would be possible to purchase palm foil" and cocoanut oil from West /Africa, Malaya and Ceylon instead of whale' all from Japan.
Mr. J. Colville, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, replied that no whale foil had been purchased from Japan.
Whale oil, he added, was more suitable for storage than any alter native source of edible fat, and it was the only commodity of its ki which could be purchased without running a risk of undue rise in prices jand injury to normal users—Reuter.
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