Evening star., 1935-08-03
SWISS NEWSPAPER
BANNED BY NAZ|S.
New Penal Code Designed
to Cement Nazi.iSm.
Jews Protest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 3.-The Prussian
minister of interior today joined DR..
Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister OF
propaganda, in his action against for
eign journalists by banning lndef-
nitely the Swiss newspaper, Thur
xauer Zeitung.
While the propaganda minister was
trying to create more favorable COM
inents about national socialiStic Ger
many by what many believe to be a
cleaning of the ranks of foreign jour-
nalists," other endeavors were di-
rected toward a move to cement Nazi-
ism domestically.
A new criminal code is proposed to
strengthen the party. Suggested by
Roland Freisler, state secretary for
the ministry of justice, the new penal
code. embracing seven points, would
punish with the utmost severity, in
some cases death, any effort to un-
dermine or even point at" the Nazi
party.
Plan Munich Celebration.
The third movement to win friends
for the state is seen in the propa-
ganda celebration of "the liberation
march of the Nazi movement in Mu-
Mich in November" Reichsfuehrer
Hitler has officially made Munich
capital of the Nazi movement"
Although the extreme anti-Semitism
of recent weeks has been somewhat
curbed by orders forbidding individual
action, local anti-JewiSh chickering's
continue.
The Pommersche Zeitung, in Stettin,
has given an ultimatum of "a hours
to a group of Jewish firms to recall
their joint protest to Hjalmar Schacht,
minister of economy.
The Nazi party in Stettin," said
the paper, expects the Jewish pro-
vocateurs to withdraw the mendacious
contents of their telegram within "a
h urs.'
Purchasers Insulted.
Five Jewish firms, protesting
against anti-Semitic demonstrations,
had wired Schacht:
Seasonal barg sales in the jew
ish stores are being very much him
dered by anti-Semitic measures. Pa
trols of leaflet distributors carrying
nners are maSsing the people in the
streets and their insults to purchasers
have hindered business. Without i'm
mediate executive help there will be
serious danger TO business"
7eichsfuhrer Hitler's paper, Voek-
fischer Beobachter, "eferring to the
protest, said;
IAN official report" vat these ele-
ments are connected with commun-
ism G even with Jews, but in no
case were there Nazi party members
among the demonstrators"
Two new DEGREES struck at religious
organizations. Hans Kerrl, beginning
as minister of religious affairs, de-
prived the Hanover Lutheran Church
of it's financial independence, and de-
creed a special finance department,
headed by DR.. Carsteb, a Nazi of Kiel.
simultaneously the Saxon minister of
interior dissolved "Mazaeznen Bund, y
a religious union based on the philos-
ophy Of Zarathustra.
Peace Oaths Taken.
The union recently celebrated con-
frmation at which the following oath
was administered to its youthful
members:
Il dare not raise my hand or my
weapon against my brethren or my
enemies. Whoever use the sword shall
perish by the sword. 1 shall declare
to my opponents: want peace and !
shall meet my difficulties by peaceful
action"
The campaign by the propaganda
ministry against foreign correspond
ents claimed as its first victim Ernst
Klein of the Basle, Switzerland. Mach
richten, Protestant newspaper. He
was given five days to get out of Ger
many.
Other journalists, some of whom
have been in Germany for a dozen
years, have been warned that some OF
their reports we're displeasing the
Third Reich.