Evening star., 1935-08-09
SHORTAGE OF.FOOD.
FEARED BY NAz|S
Prices Reported Steadily
Rising-.0fficiaIs to Con-
slider Problem Soon.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August "a deficiency in
certain German food supplies was de-
scribed by an authoritative source to-
day as q possibility, with a definite
shortage OF fats and fruits already ex-
isting and with vegetable crops In
doubt.
The authority said staples, like
bread, grain and meat, were in a
good position, but that prices were
rising, steadily and that the work.
ingman was having dificulty getting
what he wanted.
Three high Nazi oficials-Count
Wolf Hendrick Won Eelldorf, head OF
Berlin police; Julius Lippert, state
commissioner for Berlin, and Prussian
State Councillor Goerlitzaer-were un-
derstood to be meeting Monday to con-
slider the questions Of food.
The government policy appeared to
be to restrain prices of staple ccm-
modities. letting prices for foods
which could be classified as luxuries
rise as sort of disciplinary measure
Cite Horrors" Abroad.
While the Reich press turned again
to "other nations horrors and riots
and hailed liquidation Of the Danzig-
Poland customs dispute as a victory
for the German cause, the Nazi drive
against state enemies" presented sew
eral new aspects.
After yesterdays dissolution of nu.
merouS Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) vet
erans' groups, the local Steel Helmet
organization at Weidar dissolved
| itself"
News Of dissolution of the Steel Hell
met unit at Buenos Aires also reached
the Berlin organization.
A priest named Reckmann was sen
fenced to four months imprisonment
and a Catholic chaplain named Holt
kamp to two months at Gladbeck be
cause they tore red notices agains
political Catholicism from billLsoards.
A monk. Isidor. of the FRANCISCAN
Monastery at Waldbreitbach, cente
Of one Of the numerous money SNUG
Cling trials, was arrested because "hl
as leader Of the Institute for Feebll
Minded Persons ordered some inhab
itants to destroy notices or pain
them black"
Labor Front Preferred.
A measure against the Catholic
Workers Association was taken b!
the City Of WattenScheid, which an
nounced that work orders would b,
given only to members Of the German
Labor Front.
All Berlin morning newspapers an
nounced the "Danzig- Polish agree
ment" with such comment as "retrac,
ton of Polish customs measures
against Danzig-DanZig therefore null
hfied counter
Details of the agreement reached
yesterday between representatives o.
the Free City Of Dandg and Warsaw
however, were withheld for the pres.
ent from public scrutiny.
| "a four-part agreement for settling
the dispute provided that Dandg can.
Gel a decree permitting German good,
to enter the Free City without pay.
ing customs, that Poland cancel it.
prohibition collecting Polish custom:
fees at Danzig, that payment of rail-
road rates beyond DanAg territory
be paid in Polish zlotys, and thai
negotiations be made for financia
management Of the port exclusivel!
in zlotys)
Nearly all newspapers displayed
prominently accounts of strike dis
orders at Dallas, Tex, under such
headlines as Women Turned Int
Hyenas-Cultural Disgrace to Texas.
Anti-NaZis Gather.
NEW YORK, August CP.-Ar
inti-Naz gathering in Madison Squar
Garden last night cheered six mel
accused of having torn a swastika ia,
from the bow of the Bremen, callec
for an American boycott of the Olym
pic games in Germany, cabled Adol
Hitler a demand" for the release o
anti-NaA prisoners there.
A telegram also was sent to Secre
tary OF State Cordell Hull protestin:
the imprisonment Of Lawrence 3
Simpson, an American seaman, VIII
was arrested for distributing anti
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