The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-29
JEWISH SHOPS
FORCED SHUT
IN GERMANY
Hitler filings Warninu to
World to Put Stop to
Organized Protests.
BY CLIFFORD L. DAY
United Press staff Correspondent

BERLIN, March 29.-Demonstra-
tons against Jewish elements in
creased today, with sporadic boy
colts in various German conlmuni-
ties, despite the government an
nouncement that its program Of re
taliation against atrOcity lies would
not begin until 10 a. m. Saturday.
Jewish peoples of the world must
recognize that the Jewish wal
against Germany sharply affects
Jewry within Germany" Chancellor
Adolf Hitler said today in discussing
with the cabinet the Nazi party S
measure against anti-German
propaganda abroad.
Further reports from New York,
he said, state that the boycott agi-
tation against Germany still is rag
ing, and also that mass meetings
and radio speeches are agitating
against American citizens of Ger
man origin"
Hitler, who returned by airplane
today from conference at Munich,
party headquarters, said reports
from London describing the appear
ance of automobiles with placardS
calling for a boycott on German
goods gave the impression of a we'll
organized movement.
Referring to the partyS action
against the Jewish people in Ger
many, he said:
Jewish Shop Picketed
ut had to be organized, otherwise
defensive action would have origl-
mated with the mass of the popula-
ton itself, and thus assumed an I'M
desirable form. Through organiZa
ton, the entire action can be held
in hand, thus preventing molesta-
tons of a personal character or acts
of violence"
In Essen. home of the famous
Krup armament works, propretors
of Jewish department stores closed
their establishments hurriedly, on
orders of the Brown shirts.
In Wittenberg and the province
of Brandenburg, Hitler's storm
troops picketed Jewish shops and
forced them to close.
Boycotts of many chain stores
were effective.
All stores owned by Jewish propri-
etors were closed in Darmstadt.
Jews of Gleiwitz voluntarily closed
during the morning, and found their
places of business officially closed
by the new dictator's storm troops
when they sought to open them in
the afternoon.
Patch Steel Helmets Rift
Differences between the NaZiS and
the Steel Helmets in Brunswick APP
peared to be nearing an amicable
agreement. The government lifted
its ban against the war veterans
organization, effective April l.
The Steel Helmet organization
announced that henceforth no ap-
plications from men adhering 70
Socialistic principles would be ac-
cepted, and that applications for
membership by followers of Karl
Marx now pending would be ig
nOred.
Twelve hundred Steel Helmets ar
rested at Brunswick have been re-
leased, it was announced, but $50
leaders of the organization, inClud-
ing many -Hitlerites, remained
in custody.
Irony Greets Protests
Frank Seldte, leader of the Steel
Helmets and minister of labor in
the Hitler cabinet, returned to Ber-
lin Tuesday night.
The German press received the
news of American protests with
some irony, and an ostensible feel
ing of relief that attacks on the
anti-Jewish policy were not more
vigorous.
The Deutsche Zeitung, for exam
pie, quotes reference by Represen-
tative Blanton of Texas in congress!
to discrimination against Jews If
the residential sections of Washing
ton" and warns America Ito pu
her own house in order