Evening star., 1938-09-17
REICH TO UTILIZE
JEWISH DOCTORS
Physicians Are Notified Of
Assignments to Military
Units.
~ the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Sept. 17.-Many Jewish
physicians, whose licenses had been
ordered revoked, have been notified
exactly to which military unit they
must report in case of war, 1t was
learned reliably today.
The report was taken to indicate
the urgency with which Nazis regard
the present crisis arising from German
and Czechoslovak differences over mi
nority rights.
Approximately 5000 to 1000 Jewish
doctors in Germany were forbidden in
a decree August to practice after
September 80. There were few excep-
tions to the ban, which closed . chap
ter in systematic drive against Jew
ish doctors which began December 20.
1897, when 5000 were dropped from
stats Of private hospitals.
Hopes for Peace Raised.
In informed German quarters, hopes
for q peaceful solution Of the sudeten
crisis were raised anew by the proc
lamation issued by Sudeten Deputy
Leader Ernst Kundt in Czechoslovakia
calling for patience among his fol-
lowers.
The fact that Kundt pinned his
faith to conversations between Adolf
Hitler and Prime Minister Chamber
lain was regarded here as an indica-
ton the two statesmen may have
come closer to solution than was at
first thought.
It was argued that If Kundt were
not convinced that the outcome Of
the conversations would be favorable
to the Sudeten cause, he would not
have attempted to restrain Sudeten
Germans.
Motion United in Spirit.
While Hitler's newspaper mouthpiece
stressed suggestions for Czechoslovak
plebiscite to settle the quarrel and
repeated the chancellor's sharp words
that behind this warning stands q
nation united in spirit and determined
in will" Germany continued quietly to
put the nation more and more on .
war basis.
Hotels we're combed for possible
workers on the new system Of fortih-
cations on the western frontier across
from France. The number Of walters
became smaller daily.
Foreign commercial attaches. bank
ers and economists said they could not
explain how Germany has financed
her large-scale preparedness meas
ures. They pointed out that new gov
ernment reports show the foreign
trade balance is again turning against
GERMANY. but that nevertheless there
Is no sign Of let-up in expenditures for
war purposes.
While newspaper readers got the
impression that armed conflict still
was possibility despite Anglo German
peace negotiations, officially Germany
insisted there will not be war.
Say Hitler Wants Peace.
Hitler, they said. is determined to
keep his country out of war To many
observers it seemed to become clearer
hourly that the chancellor expects
British and French to help him settle
the Czech dispute.
It was learned that in considerable
number of cases Jewish doctors have
been given orders to report to a par
ticular army unit in event of mobiliza-
ton.
In other instances Jewish physicians
applying for permission to leave the
country have been denied such per-
mission on the grounds that they were
subject &c military orders.
With an eye to possible eventualities,
Hitler decided yesterday to increase the
number of women who enter labor
camps every six months from 10000
to $4,000.
Similarly. in order to be able to
was decreed that henceforth there
would be only one veterans organiza-
ton and that under Nazi party aus
pices.
The Koelnische Zeitung, Cologne
newspaper, said editorially, For every
delay Gn settling the dispute) the
Prague government must. pay a sur
charge The compound interest mounts
steadily"
Home Protection Ordered.
Citizens received another shock
through a sudden announcement by
the National Air Defense League that
almost every house must be provided
with bomb-and-gas-proof shelters.
Hitler, meanwhile, was reported
adamant in wanting virtual pro-
tectorate over all Czechoslovakia.
Without waiting to see results from
second meeting of Hitler and the
British Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain-who conferred at Hitler's
home Thursday-several British Arms
recalled their Berlin representatives,
who left promptly for London.
On the other hand, 80 British en-
gineers and economists continued a
tour of inspection of the new Nazi-built
super highways.
that each compatriot must help set
up the air-raid shelter intended for
him and contribute building material
and furniture and as much money as
he can afford"
Authorities here emphatically denied
the reports but admitted there was a
number of detentions" in Vienna,
where 200 persons smashed windows of
a school in the Czech district and IA
persons, incluring an editor of q
Czech language newspaper, were ar
rested on undisclosed charges. Four
OF the Czechs were released.
German officials estimated that
$4,000 Sudeten Germans have fled
from Czechoslovakia into Germany
with the stream of fugitives continuing.
They are finding temporary shelter
in public halls, in one of which 600
children, $50 women and 275 men
were housed. Some displayed body
marks as evidences OF rough treatment
at the hands Of Czech authorities.