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Sk ey ring RB ae and fractured three vertebrae in her back. Thereafter, she feigned insenity ™. and wes placed in a sanitarium. Mrs. REBACK stated that she thought it peculia that the Germans would bother putting her in a sanitarium after she had become..: of little use to them in the coal mines. In addition, friends of Mre. REBACK, or cene if she had received the injuries she claimed to her spine. In this *” ‘connection, Mrs. REBACK stated she noted that while Madame COUPERUS used a cane in public and.while being observed, she and her maid, LOSSIQCBEAL, noticed that > she went up and down the stairs without the use of the cane and did not Limp. : we “Madame COUPERUS expressed a dieiike for colored people and Jews, ‘and * ', thought Americans were stupid. While Doctor JEL MOSHLNER & was a guest at the “.c° REBACK home during Madame COUPERUS' visit, the latter became. very interested in Doctor MUEHLNER when she learned that he had formerly been a member of the Nazi _ Party and had renounced his former political ideas and had applied for citizen- ship in the United States. Mrs. REBACK stated that Dr, MUEHLNER is a broker connected with the firm of*Merril,.Fineh, Fenner and Lynch. Mrs. REBACK advised that Dr. MUEHLNER was fornerly one of HERMAN ACHT 'é advisers in; Madame COUPERUS cla ged that her father and her mother's ‘father 3 wero Jewish. However, Mrs. DAVI TT, of Amherst Street, Buffalo, who is a asoond » ‘cousin to Madame COUPERUS, was contacted by Mre. EEBACK, and she advised that, although she, Mrs. SCOTT, had never seen Madame COUPERUS, she is positive thet _ . ‘the Madame COUPERUS who was related to her did not have any Jewish encestors. : ‘s Mrs. REBACK learned of the relationship of Mrs. SCOTT to Madame COUPERUS as a: ." result of a telephone call received by Madame COUPERUS at the REBACK home from | ae Mrs. SCOTT's mother, identity unknown, who called Madame COUPERUS on learning. that she was in Buffalo. Mrs. REBACK stated that from the conversation on the telephone, translated by Mr. REBACK, who wderstande Dutch, indicated that Mrs. SCOTT's mother and Madame COUPERUS had never met before, although they were related. Mre. REBACK made a note of the telephone number, which Madame COUPERUS: a requested of Mrs. SCOTT‘'s mother, and decided to call the number back and ascer- 2.'. tain further information about Madame COUPERUS, as her suspicions had been aroused “- She communicated with Mrs. SCOTT by telephone and on this occasion obtained ~ _ information relative to Madame COUPERUS' encestory, which disagreed with the state ment made by Madame COUPERUS that her father and her mother" 6, father were. 9 Jewishs: Mre. REBACK stated that Madame COUPERUS had gone through her’ ‘end he _ husband's papers while she was a guest in her home and was actually caught in he rs . ‘bedroom by. the maid, LOSSIE BEAL. She seemed very much interested in Mr. REBACK