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Jews. other editorials in local news
napers were directed against mem
hers of student frateri.ities ana other
"reactionaries."
Two more Roman Catholic priests
went to trial Oh charges OF SNUG
Cling money.
The trial was merely the continual
ton of a series of such procedures
under which several monks and nuns
have been brought into court on &C
cusations of having broken the law
which prohibits the removal OF gold
or foreign exchange from Germany.
But the German press made much
of it in continuation OF rapidly
developing anti-Cerholic campaign.
Wholesale arrests of both laymen
and priests in Freiburg, Baden, were
predicted by Catholics there since
their priests violated the government
al decree yesterday against references
from the pulpit to politics. Premier
Walther Koehler of Baden said ne
was ready to 60 1.-The limit" in carry
ing out orders.
Accused Of Smuggling.
The two priests who went on trial
today were Proctor Martin Utsche and
Rev. Father Rudolph Wilmsen, both
of the order, the Missionary OF the
Hottest Heart of Jesus. They were
accused of smuggling money into the
Netherlands and France.
Their organization raised 200, 600
franc loan in France and received the
Reichbank's permission to pay the
interest on it. but the government
now claims that the organization re-
ceived only 10000 francs of the loan,
while the rest was sent to the Bis
marck Archipelago and to Rome.
The government claimed the Ger
man order was not entitled to de-
mand permission for the foreign ex-
change with which to pay the interest
for the entire loan. 1t also claimed
that an additional 52,661 marks for
the purchase Of dollar bonds was
smuggled into the Netherlands.
The Catholic Church in general
adopted q policy of watchful waiting,
most of the priests, knowing govern
ment agents were listening, having
confined their Sunday sermons to
spiritual topics.
In Baden and other distant districts,
however, the decree by Franz Guert-
ner, minister of justice, directing
prompt punishment for priests violat-
ing the injunction of Gen. Wilhelm
Goering against political Catholi-
cism" was not published until today.
Catholics both at Baden and in Ba-
varia regarded the situation as espe-
cially grave.
The police, however, did not take
immediate action against the Baden
priests who read episcopate letters
from their pulpits, calling the Nazi
drive against the Catholic youth Or
CARNATIONS a violation of the con-
cordat with the Vatican.
With stern enforcement of the gov
eminent decree expected momentarily
in Freiberg, the church-state struggle
took an even firmer hold in other
Baden cities, such as Karlsruhe, where
Catholic Youth Societies have been
banned.
From Muenster, another city in
Western Germany, a Catholic farmer
named Partman was reported Jailed
for predicting that Catholic farmers
would clamp boycott on National
Socialistic business men.
At Osnsbrueck, the governor warned
priests that they placed themselves
outside the national community" by
failure to be1ag their churches on
national holidays.
Protestant oppositionists expected
to be left alone until after the Cath
Ole Church has been dealt with.
They did not relax their vigilance
however, for Hans Kerrl, the new
minister for church affairs, is known
as a close associate Of Reichsbishop
Ludwig Mueller, whom the Protestants
have opposed.
With the anti-Catholic campaign
still holding the foreground, however
the Nazis took the occasion to carry
out undercover rebuilding Of their
party.
The first signs Of reorganization OF
the labor front of Robert Ley, trade
union commissioner, became apparent