Evening star., 1938-11-19
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Nov. 19.-The name Of
Jehovah was ordered erased from
Protestant churches throughout Nazi
Germany today by President Fried
rich Werner of the Supreme Evan
gelical Church Council.
His order said the name OF the
God of Israel must be obliterated
wherever it is displayed in Protestant
churches. The names Of Jewish
prophets-all prophets of the Old
Testament-alsow were ordered erased.
This action was regarded as a
sequel to threats in various parts
of Saxony that Christian churches
allowing these names to remain
would be burned as were synagogues
in the wave of anti-Jewish violence
which swept Germany last week.
Preparations Long Made.
The newspaper Boersenzeitung said
Nazi leaders, long before this out
break and the subsequent $780,
100000 fine imposed on the Jew
ish community, had made ready to
despoil Jews financially. 1t declared
that the promptness with which the
bill was presented shows the prep
arations had been made long in
advance"
"All informed persons knew that
financial action was bound to fol-
low political action in the process of
Aryanization.
"Vom Rath's murder only precipi-
tated this intended course of ac-
ton"
The outbreaks. in which syna-
gogues were burned, Jewish owned
property destroyed and thousands
of Jews arrested, followed close on
the shooting of Ernst vom Rath,
Germany Embassy Secretary in
Paris, by a young Polish Jew, Her
schel Grynzpan.
1T is not the governments inten-
tion to segregate Jews in ghettos
nor forbid them to shop In Aryan
stores" said Boersenzeitung.
Forced Quartering Urged.
The newspaper suggested the
question of what should become of
Jews evicted from their homes
should be solved by quartering them
with their more wealthy co-religion-
lists.
Addressing a Nazi business organi-
zation last night, Robert Ley, chief
of the Nazi Labor Front, declared
there must be no misplaced COM
passion for the Jews.
by fattening on our population
they have incurred a debt that can
never be wiped out.
For us 1t is a question of to be
or not to be. The Jewish problem
must be solved radically and finally
Isolated instances of antt-Semitic
activities continued to be reported.
80 Per Cent of Wealth Taken.
Munich reports said several
wealthy Jews OF Nurnberg. home of
the radically anti-Jewish Julius
had been taken into Labor
Front headquarters there and forced
to sign away 80 per cent of their
homes. shops and other property to
the Labor Front. Then they were
told to leave Nurnberg within three
months.
Newspapers were delving into his
tory, attempting to find precedents
for justifying the anti-Semitic
measures which have resulted in
both the United States and Germany
calling home their Ambassadors for
reports on the situation.
The German envoy to Washing
ton, Hans Dieckhoff, was ordered
yesterday to return to Berlin for
report on American reaction to the
anti-Jewish campaign. This fol-
lowed four days after President
Roosevelt called United States AM
bassador Hugh r. Wilson home for
a report.
Boersenzeitung cited three cases
as precedents for the $4O0, 900 900
fine. The nation was told of them
by broadcast last night.
The newspaper said a French
sergeant was stabbed to death in a
Berlin street in July, 1919, and that
Marshal Foch of the Allied armies
fined the city 100000 gold francs
as well as 100000 gold francs COM
pensation for the sergeants rela-
tives.