Evening star., 1935-08-08
FREEMASONRY END
ON SATURDAY IS
HAILED BY NAZ|S
Abolition of More War Vet
erans' Organizations Is
Also Announced.
DISSOLUTION OF LODGES
DIRECT BLOW AT JEWS
Hitler's Newspaper Declares
Move Finishes Special Chapter
in World History"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 8-The end of
all Free Masonic lodges in Germany
and the abolition of more World War
veterans organizations were an
nounced today.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler's newspaper,
Voelkischer Beobachter, stated that
on Saturday the last Masonic lodges
in the Reich, the State Lodge of Sax
ony, the Dresden Great Lodge and
the German Brethren Chain Of
Leipzig will be dissolved.
Secret police today dissolved the
veterans steel Helmet" formations
in Berlin, Brandenburg. Pommerania
and Eastern Mark, the territory along
the western ridge of Pomorze, Poland.
The dissolution of the veteran units
was accomplished on the basis of the
law of February %, 1888. for the pro-
lection of the people and the state
The property of the Steel Helmet
units was seized.
Attack Against Jews.
A4lSI uloSOluIlOIl VI lie Olu
Free Mason Lodge July 81 and the
gradual disappearance of smaller
lodges in a year-long campaign, the
Free Masons in Germany-first So
called state enemies would
be wiped out completely.
Hitler's organ, asserting the secret
aim of Freemasonry was a Jewish
world republic, said the forthcoming
dissolution would finish a special
chapter in world history. and the
guardian of the NaZi ideal would be
alert"
Jews accused of trying to hide their
race to escape anti-SemiriSm appeared
to stand in the center CT Nazi deter
mination to purify German blood.
Der Angriff, newspaper of Dr. Paul
Joseph GoebbelS, minister of propa-
ganda, directed an attack against
Jews covering up by becoming Chris
tians and asked how much longer the
Protestant church would continue to
baptiZe Jews.
Protestant Pastors Cited.
The newspaper named two Protest
ant ministers IN Berlin who, it said,
have baptized IA Jews since the Nazis
have come to power.
To-day the youngest boy knows the
orthodox Jew cannot u made believ-
ing Christian through a handful of
water" said Der AngriH.
The secret police also have known
baptized Jews to use willingly the
baptismal certificate Tor what is little
more than a swindle, III that former
Protestant Moses Finkenstein after a
year becomes Catholic Moses Finken-
stein.
His personal record later shows he
came from the ranks of Professionalism
to Catholicism
Despite this, said the newspaper,
some Protestant ministers continued
to baptize Jews, but I'VE have con-
vinced the largest part to have no
more hope in Israelites"
One provincial newspaper suggested
that all Jewish stores should bear
signs identifying them as such.
Many Germans are determined not
to buy from Jews, but are they in a
position to carry out this desire?" it
asked
Refer to New York Mayor.
"a Jew working under cover is the
most dangerous. How Jew would
act if he had power we saw in the case
of La Guardia, New York's Jewish
mayor, who tried to prevent German
from conducting his trade
(NaA speakers in New York re-
Gently asserted that Mayor Fiorello
H La Guardia had some Jewish blood
after he refused a license to German
masseur on the grounds that Amer
leans had been Disseminated against
in the Reich)
How to hold down prices was still
puzzling officials, while two more
Stahlhelm (Steel HelmeD veterans
units disappeared-one by edict and
the other voluntarily"
One butcher shop was closed at
Herborn because its proprietor boosted
the price of sausage. Nine shops we're
threatened with forced closures. but
the other eight merchants agreed to
lower their prices.
How to Arrest Jews.
Directions on how to arrest Jews
were published in the Schwarzekorps
(Black Corps, organ of the Schultz
Staffel, blackshirted Nazi picked
guards.
The newspaper said private persons,
even though not empowered by certifi-
cate, were nevertheless entitled to
"arrest Jews temporarily, even If they
didn't commit severe crime"