The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-19
CATHOLIC CLERGY FACE MASSARRECTS
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 without portfolio. He is also a Prussian state councillor and Reichstag deputy.
 He is a close confident of Goer- ing. As Prussian minister of jus tice, he went even further than the drastic federal laws in purging his department of mon aryan" ele- ments. He is 47, tall, broad-shoul- dered, with short grayins hair and q small Hitlerian mustache. He often accompanies Goering on trips.
 Urge Attacks on Jews As the government opened its campaign against Catholics, the of fically guided press stimulated it's it's attack on Jews.
 Spreading from the provinces, there was new campaign to drive
 Jews from public bathing meaches | everywhere, and notably at the
 popular Berlin beach, Wannee. Reports of Jews sent to concen- tration camps for criticizing Nazis increased, and Nazi organs began relating stories of Catholic priests who criticized the government or
 otherwise showed "disloyalty." There was great interest in the
 future, under Kerrl, of the Evan | gelical church fight. Ever since the inception of the Nazi State, thous- ands of Evangelical clergymen
 have dared prison and ruin to op- pose sturdy efforts to incorporate them in a purely Nazi church. Hti- Ter long refrained from interfer- ference in the fight, and hence at times Reichbishop Ludwig Muel-
 Ter, the Nazi church head, has been
 embarrassed in his efforts to force
 oppositionists into line. Berlin Police Chief Resigns Berlin, July 19.-(UP)-Chief of police Magnus Won Levetzkow of Berlin today submitted his res- ignation to minister of interior Wilhelm Prick who accepted it and appointed a successor. The move was believed to be result
 of excesses committed during the
 Anti-Jewish demonstrations on
 Monday.
 Count Wolf Won Helldorf, chief | of police of Potsdam, was named Temporarily as head of the Berlin force by Prick, subject to the ap-
 proval of Chancellor Adolph Hit Ter.
 Following Won Levetzkow's res- ignation and prior to the appoint ment of Helldorf, conference was held, attended by Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlighten- ment Paul Joseph Goebbel, He'll dorf and other high police and ov4 Nff fa1e nA SxvI, f1I, { agreed that the police and the Nazi party should cooperate more closely in the future.
 Why It Was Done The proposed cooperation was agreed upon in an effort to defeat communist subversiv activities IS well as reactionary movements and Bolshevist and Jewish aggor- ance." It also was agreed to pre- serve Berlin's character as 8 town conquered by national socialism" The reference to communist sub- versive activities was considered particularly significant in view of the increase of community activity in Germany. Reports have indicat- ed that members of the suppressed communist party are working in secret .'cells" of five members
 each and that some communists
 had worked their way into Nazi confidential councils in industry. Successor Is Named
 Berlin, July 19.-(UP)-Police
 chief Magnus Won Levetzow re-
 signed suddenly today and was l immediately succeeded by Count
 Wolf Won Helldorf, iron listed anti-semetic. The. move was in- rterpreted as a presaging a more rigid, but strictly legal, drive against Jews in the German cap ital.
 High quarters attributed Levet- zow's resignation to long standing differences with radical Nazis, in- tensified Monday when Levetzow committed excesses" in curbing anti-semetic riots.
 Numerous storm troopers were
 arrested, drawing fire of ranking
 Nazis who were believed to have prevailed on Paul Joseph Goebbels,
 minister of propaganda and en- lightenment, to demand Levetzow's i resignation It was recalled that
 he and Goebbels clashed year
 ago over the blood purge. Won Helldorf who until today
 was chief of police of Potsdam, is strongly anti-semetic and in
 months past organized and led an- | ti-Jcwish demonstrations. He was arrested himself in 1881 in connec- tion with the big Kurfurstendam Jewish purge.
 1 More Rigid Policy It was emphasized in Nazi party circles today that Won Helldorf's appointment is expected to mean more rigid application of the anti emitic policy "but by legal means" essarily indicate the police depart ment will condone a policy of vio- lence but rather it means more
 orderly conduct of the Jewish
 drive, particularly by the storm I troopers who welcome Helldorf's appointment.
 There was no advance warning
 of Levetzow's dismissal. It fol- lowed closed conference presided
 over by Goebbels. A short time later Minister of the Interior Will liam Prick announced the former ] vice admiral and ranking storm troop officer had quit. Conference Program The conference had agreed, it was announced, that police and the Nazi party should cooperate more closely in the future in an effort to defeat communist, subversive activities as well as reactionary l movements and bolshevist and Jewish arrogance" The keynote of the conference was that Berlin shall be maintained as a town con- quered by national socialism," The reference to communism was regarded as significant because the party Is more active than ever and is reported to have penetrated to important Nazi councils, but Levetzow is strongly anti-com- munist. thus probably emphasizing his dismissal for two tempered treatment of the Jews.