Evening star., 1933-03-25
JEWS PERSECUTION
DENIED BY GOER|NG
Nazi Leader Declares Out
breaks Not Based on Race.
Smiles at Protests.
Continued From First Page.)

masses reacting thereto in q different
manner from what the proponents de-
sire.
What we are doing domestically is
our affair and there is no more reason
for protesting abroad than there is for
holding protest meetings in Germany
against, for instance, Frances employ
ment Of black soldiers"
Capt. Goering pledged untiring efforts
to maintain law and order.
mo minister in Germany" he as
serted, worked as hard or accom-
plished as much work as !, upon whom
the responsibility for the police rests.
work daily until late at night.
"As for you Of the foreign press. I
can only congratulate you upon the
good fortune you had to witness these
historic hours when the nation again
found itself.
LAS to visitors to Germany, all, in
cluding Jews, can travel unmolested."
He invited the group Of correspond
ents to visit Ernst Thaelmann, candi-
date for President in the last executive
election, and others who are In Jail to
see that they are unharmed.
At Munich today the minister of
justice ordered all Jewish judges In the
criminal and disciplinary courts trans
ferred to the civil courts. He also d.
rected that Jewish states attorneys must
no longer appear as public prosecutors
in behalf Of the state.
Problem Of Eastern Jews.
Chancellor Hitler will take action to
adjust the whole problem Of Eastern
Jews. refugees from postwar persecu-
tions in Poland. Hungary, Russia and
other Eastern nations.
Close upon this statement from an
official NaI source came Wolh Ger
mani News Agency dispatch stating
that Eastern Jews are to be exiled
from the Palatinate. First suppreSSive
measures against these Jews were in
voked Thursday in the Palatinate, q
state on the western frontier, when they
were forbidden to withdraw bank and
postal accounts.
Police were kept busy yesterday in
Halle, a city in Prussian Saxony, dis
pelling crowds that gathered in large
Jewish stores and q new Woolworth
chain store branch. The police we're
forced to close the stores.
Minor incidents marked the opening
of the Woolworth branch and the attt-
tude of the crowd became so menacing
that 1t was temporarily closed. both in
the moring and the afternoon. Chain
stores have been the objects Of political
attacks.
Moves for Farmer.
Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler has
made his first move to carry out his
four-year plan for the salvation" OF
the farmer. announced in a speech
early in February shortly after his rise
to power. The government has created
a monopoly of oils and fats, effective
next Wednesday.
This was expected to bring about use
OF home-produced commodities. with
import duties on margarine and other
fats raised to IS marks per 100 kilo-
grams (about cents q pound). Soap
and candle makers were forbidden to
use imported materials.
Hitler also has promised q four-year
plan for the workers and later an
nounced this would take the form OF
compulsory manual labor, which would
wipe out class divisions.
Seeks Church Friendship.
Capt. Goering had long private con-
ference last night with the Popes rep
resentative IN Berlin, Msgr. Cesare Or
sen1go. The Italian Ambassador ar
ranged the meeting and later joined In
the conversations.
This followed close upon Hitler.
speech In the Reichstag, pleading fol
amicable relations with the Vatican
Political circles regarded It as an effor,
to prevail upon German Catholic bishop.
to change an allegedly hostile attitude
toward the Nazis.
The Catholic Centrists, the only large
opposition party campaigning against
the Nazis in the recent election after
general suppression Of Communist ant
socialist newspapers and meetings
Joined the Nazis in voting Thursday fol
the enabling act giving Chancellor Hit.
Ter dictatorial powers.
The ofncial press department for the
NaZl commiSstonership in Bavaria an.
nounced that the blocking of the bank
and postal savings accounts of Eastern
jews IN Pirmasens and Landau in the
Palattnate was special act of the dis
trtct commissioner, while the whole
proniem Is to be regulated from Berlin
by the federal government.
Withdrawals Halted.
The Wolf Agency dispatch Of las,
night quoted Commissioner Gaspary, al
Pirmasens, the Palatinate, as orderins
banking accounts Of all Eastern Jew
residing there blocked for the time be.
ing. The dispatch said the account,
will remain blocked until these Jews
who as is known, are to be expelled,
shall have met their obligations towart
German tradesmen.
Commissioner Kleemans, at Landau
the Palatinate, was reported to havs
blocked banking and postal accounts ol
Eastern Jews who immigrated since
1914. Another Wolff dispatch quotet
him as saying ut seems the Jews arr
trying to sabotage the national govern
ment and German business by with.
drawing ~ their money from thu
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