The Washington times., 1935-07-26
SELDTE, LEADER
OF FACTION,
DOOMED
Decree Places 6 urb
On Catholic Youth
Privileges

TIINIICSSS
KoENIGsBERG, East Prussia,
July 26. G.N.S0.-Governor Koch
today dissolved the steel helmets,
powerful war veterans organiza-
ton, throughout East Prussia and
ordered their property confiscated
on grounds Of propaganda against
the Nazi state.
Following determination of the
steel helmets in three Mecklen.
berg cities yesterday and similar
action earlier in other localities,
1t was expected that the entire
order would be merged with two
other veterans groups, elimlnatr
ing Franz Seldte. Minister Of La
Dor, as the ex-SoldierS' leader.
Remarks Criticized
Summarizing the reasons for
suppression Of the Steel Helmets,
the newspaper Der Angriff said:
"There have been . number
of examples Of antistate atti-
tudes on the part Of reaction
ary Steel Helmets members.
For instance, at Arnau, in East
Prussia, Steel Helmet leaders
reused Nazi ire with such re-
marks as it's a pity the swaS-
tika was not removed from our
flags March 16, We got stiff
celebrating and making daring
Jokes about the third Reich"
Other steel helmet leaders were
represented as branding a NaZi
party film depicting the great
party congress at Nuremberg as
"a blatant case of religious in
sanity"
GOering Slandered
Still other steel helmet chiefs
were charged with Slandering
Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering's
air force. One of them was
quoted by Angriff as saying:
II am too good to sacrifice
myself for the sake of the pro-.
gress of aviation. Let dare
devils be lured by money to
gamble with their fate"
BERLIN, July 26 lIN.S0.
Foreshadowing iron-fisted suppress
sion of all Catholic youth activ-
tiles in Germany, Heinrich Hmm
Ter, chief Of the .Nazi secret police,
today isued a drastic new set Of
regulations curbing their rights
and privileges.
Principal points in the decree
follow:
1. Open air meetings are pro.
hibited.
2. Uniforms and badges identi-
flying wearerS as members Of re-
IgiOus organizations may not be
worn.
3. Flags and religious banners
are not to be carried and Catho-
lie youth members are forbid.
den to have bands play at their
indoor meetings.
Ban ON Marriages
At the same time a blanket
ban in the palatinate on marri-
ages between Jews and AryanS
was ordered.
Joseph Buerckel, former Nazi
governor of the Saar, now leader
in the palatinate, imposed the
rule against intermarriage after
a crowd had prevented the wed.
ding of Ernest Solomon Friede,
a Jew, and Hedwig Happelhoefer,
a divorce.
The couple had won their bat
tie after a magistrate refused to
marry them on grounds of racial
disgrace" A higher court repri-
manded the magistrate, ordering
that the marriage be held, on
the basis of existing laws.
News Of the decision spread rap
idly, resulting in demonstration
and Buerckels order that no mag
istrates may perform such mar
riages.
Fifteen hundred demonstrated
In front of the boys parents home
after two 15-year-old Jewish boys,
Manfred and Moses Gottschalk,
were arrested on charges of as
saulting a 14-year-old Aryan girl
near WeisSenSee Station.
ThrOng Is Quoted
The parents full address was
published in the Nazi official
newspaper, Voelkischer Beobach.
ter, this morning.
Nazi leaders preserved order by
haranguing the crowd, asking
them to maintain discipline, and
promising the boys would be tried
soon.
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