Evening star., 1935-07-19
Catholic Church Politics Not
Only Foe of State, Hitler's
Government Warns as
Campaign Widens.
OUTBREAKS REPORTED
BEFORE JEWS SHOPS
Banners and Newspaper Head
lines Warn Hebrew Residents
to Leave-Berlin Marriage Ii
cense Bureaus Berated for Not
Forbidding Intermarriage.
Ry the Associated Press.

BERLIN, July 19.-Indications OF
Nazi drive against politics in Ger
many's Protestant churches as well
as in the Roman Catholic were seen
today simultaneously with the ap-
pointment of an avowed anti-SemitiC
as head of the Berlin police.
Count Won Helldorf was named
president of the force to succeed Mag
nus Won Levetzow. who resigned under
the criticism that he had failed to
chase the Jews out of Berlin. or at
least restrict them to the ghetto.
Roman Catholic priests we're warned
against taking part in politics by
Reichsfuehrer Hitler's Voelkischer
Beobachter.
On top of all this the National
Zeitung at Essen, which is regarded
as the personal mouthpiece of Gen
Hermann Wilhelm Goering. minister
of aviation, premier of Prussia, and
head of the secret police, warned
Protestants that opposition to Reichs-
bishop Mueller and German Chris
tian' Nazis could expect as hard a
fight as the Catholic hierarchy.
Interchurch Fights Scored.
"One may be sure" the newspaper
declared. that the watchful eye OF
the state will be directed not only
against political Catholicism, but that
1t equally intesely observes the cur
rents inirnical to the state which are
gaining ground in parts of the Protest
ant confessional movement"
1t was Count Won Helldorf who. in
1929, organized the first anti-Semitic
demonstration on the KurfuerSten-
damn. where several Jews we're beaten
up this week in anti-Semitic out
breaks.
He was appointed by wilhelm Prick,
minister of the interior, following a
stormy meeing of Nazi party leaders
and officials.
Anti-Semitic Drive On.
An official statement. issued follow
ing the meeting. declared:
1T is the honorary task of the (Nazi)
party, the police and the city admin
istration to cooperate and preserve
the character of Berlin and make it
worthy of being the capital of the
Nazi Reich"
An anti-Semitic campaign mean
while developed openly In Schoenen-
burg. a Berlin suburb. banners were
stretched across the streets anounc-
ing. I'VE do not want to see any Jews
in Berlin" ''Out with the Jews and
similar messages.
The official Nazi news journal
Nsx attacked the Berlin marriage
license bureaus with a headline: rs
racial shame still tolerated in Berlin?"
Although no legal DEGREES exist which
forbid the intermarriages of Aryans
and non-Aryans, the city adminiStra-
ton was berated for not forbidding
such marriages at registration.
New antiJewish outbreaks cropped
up in the northern district of the city.
where customers we're chased down
side streets and manhandled.
A group of bowling youths attacked
customers coming from one large
Jewish-owned ice cream plant last
night. Eye witnesses said purchases
were snatched from the hands of Gus
toners and thrown into their faces.
Members of the Hitler youth or
Eanization and Storm Troopers-not
in uniform-were reported much in
evidence.
Although Gen. Goering's anti-priest
order. issued by the chief of Ger
many's secret police after a conference
with Hitler in the Bavarian noun
tains. had been anticipated, 1t aroused
great concern among Catholics here.
Catholic circles asserted that Goer-
ing had opened the door to extensive
Nazi spying among Catholics. and that
every priest would be reported to au-
thorities if he seemed to say anything
against the regime.
Goering based his action on re-
peated assurances that Nazi-ism con-
stitutes a safe bulwark against boil
shevism
With nostilities having reached
point which Catholics interpreted as
an open breach between their church
and the government, priests said they
would Immediately exhort their flocks
to await the outcome of the annual
conference of all German bishops at
Fulda early in August Catholics in
dicated that the bishops probably
would lay down important precepts for
their guidance In the controversy.