Evening star., 1935-07-23
GOER|NG D|SBANDS
GERMAN VETERANS
IN CATHOLIC DRIVE
Steel Helmet Dissolution
Feared as Church Unit
Is Smashed.
REICH PEOPLES UNITY
DECLARED DISTURBED
Fight on Jews Is Pursued, With
Ban on Children Going to
Athletic Grounds.

(Copyright. 1885. by the Associated Press.)
BERLIN, July 23.-The organiza
ton of Catholic War Veterans was
dissolved in Prussia today by govern
Steel HelmetS-the German organiza-
ton corresponding to the American
Legion in the United StateS-Said
they feared their own body. through
out Germany, would be the next to be
smashed
The dissolution of the Catholic vet
Grams was ordered by Premier Her
mann Wilhelm Goering of Prussia
who is also German minister of avia-
ton, as further step in the Nazi
campaign to purge Germany of poll
tical Catholicism
1t was said that Goering's action
undoubtedly would be paralleled by
the governments of the other German
states. The decree gave as It's grounds
that the unity of the German people
was disturbed by the existence OF
separate veterans organizations.
Nazi Violence Unabated.
Meanwhile. the Nazi fight against
Jews was carried on with unabated
violence. Some 500 Jewish children
between the ages of 6 and IA today
were informed by the social welfare
workers who were to take charge of
them at various suburban stations that
they could not go. as has been their
custom, to the athletic grounds on the
outskirts of the capital because they
were non-Aryans.
Daily, through vacation period, these
children of the poor have been trans
ported to the sports grounds called
OberschoeneWeide and Wuhlheide, to
play in the sunshine.
Two days ago, however, a number
of Aryan children assembled before
the Wuhlheide and hurled stones at
the Jewish children inside. A con-
siderable number of the children thus
attacked have parents who are Polish
citizens.
The action against the Catholic
veterans followed close behind another
decree which provided that students
In higher schools need not attend re-
Egious exercises.
Decree on War Veterans.
Regarding the war veterans, the Of
fetal decree read:
The Prussian premier, on the basis
OF a decree for the protection of the
people and the state dated February
%. 1888, has dissolved the Reichsbund
of Catholic Front Fighters, including
its subdivisions, because the formation
of confessional organizations of veter-
ans is calculated solely to lead to the
splitting up of the unity Of the people
(Volksgemeinschaft) and to carry
confessional Emergencies into the fed
erations of veterans"
An official order, issued by the edu-
cation ministry, proclaimed:
For all male and female students
of higher schools attendance at morn
ing prayers. school worship periods.
school masses and festivals of a re-
agious character arranged by schools
will henceforth be optional regard
less of whether these are conducted
on work days or Sundays in school
houses or nearby churches.
THE obligation to participate in
these arrangements therefore no
longer exists"
Various interpretations were placed
or the decree-that it might be an
other attempt to break the hold OF
parochial schools. that it might be
an effort to curb religious resentment
among youths, or that it might be
concession to neo-paganists, paving
the way for more general teaching OF
the "Germsnic" religion.
The decree, at any rate, was con-
sidered to loosen further the tradi-
ticral German links between the
state and schools and religion.
This decree followed another, issued
by Wilhelm Frick, minister Of the in
terror, ordering Catholic and Lutheran
confessional youth organizations to
cease all mass appearances in public
and to discard their uniforms and
emblems.
The well drilled Nazi press, mean
while, famed the flames of anti
6em1IlSI0 WILL dllC6oSAOAAo VA oS"-SAA
''racial irregularities.
Typical of this attack were dis
patches from Wesermunde, reporting
the arrest of a 49-year-old Jew for
attacking an Aryan girl, and from
Breslau, asserting that 78-year-old
junk dealer kept five girls in his home
fer immoral purposes.
Direct Action" Persists.
"Direct action" persisted in North
Berlin, where windows of stores owned
by Jews we're plastered with stickers
and signs bearing such slogans as
'You old Jew SOW. This is a Jewish
store, Aryans don't buy here"
That the anti-Semitic campaign was
making great inroads into business was
indicated in remark by two business
men on Berlin's great white way"
the Kurfuerstendamm.
A Jewish clothier told the Associated
Press that his recent sales have been
only rs per cent of their normal vol
ume.
An Aryan restaurateur said his
trade has fallen of considerable be-
cause patrons seem afraid that the
riots portend unsettled conditions in
many phases of German life"
Protest to Be Sought.
Representative Celler, Democrat, of
New York today sought the aid of
colleagues in an effort to persuade
President Roosevelt or Secretary of
State Hull to protest to Germany
against treatment of religious groups
there.
Celler, who urged an economic boy