Evening star., 1939-01-21
Reich Continues
Hunt for Jews
Outlet Abroad
Ready to Resume
Talks, Goering
Tells RubIee
BACKGROUND


NasiS, confronted Uith fndn-
cidl burden gro,Ding out OF re-
armament and cast public 1Uorks
projects, found orthodox eco
nomic ideas of DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht increasingly onerous.
Chancellor Hitler yesterday re-
moped Schacht from presidency
OF Reichsbank, naming Walther
Funk. economics minister, to
succeed him. Funk is radical
. Nazi advocate of heavy spending
for arms and construction.
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Jan. 21.-Field Marshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering, today
assured George Rublee, American
director of the IntergovernmentaI
Refugee Committee, that Germany
was ready to continue trying to find
ways of sending her Jews abroad.
Mr.. Rublee, who arranged to go to
Paris tonight. said he would return
to Berlin early next week. He said
that the negotiations would continue
on the basis of the plan already Of
fered by and discussed with DR.
Hjalmar Schacht, ousted yesterday
as president of the Reichsbank.
Mr.. Rublee asserted that his talk
today with the No. 2 man of the Nazi
regime was very cordial and salts
factory"
The Schacht plan, which Mr.. Rub
lee and two American assistants
came here january 10 to discuss
made the assistance of other govern
ments in an expansion of Germany s
export trade a condition of Nazi CO.
operation in German Jewish emigra-
tion arrangements.
Statement Issued.
It was Mr.. Rublees first meeting
with Goering. Afterward the Amer
ican issued the following statement:
"Mr. Rublee had a private con-
ference with Field Marshal Goering
this afternoon. Mr.. Rublee there
fore is in a position to state that the
negotiations commenced with DR..
Schacht have not broken down but
will be continued with Ministerial
Director Wohlthat. an official espe-
cially designated for these negotia-
tions.
Mr.. Rublee is leaving for Paris
tonight for the purpose Of confer
ring with the chairman and vice
chairman of the Intergovernmental
Committee. He will return to Berlin
early next week to continue the con-
versations with DR.. Wohlthat."
DR.. Helmuth Wohlthat is an Of
f1cial Of the ministry of national
economy, in charge of the Office for
commercial payments abroad.
Yesterday Mr.. Rublee received
what he believed was notice that
the conversations were terminated
Today German officials said there
evidently had been a misunder-
standing.
Schacht Purge" Continues.
Meanwhile, Reichsfuehrer Hitler
continued his eradication of the con-
servative influence of DR.. Schacht
from the Reichsbank and at the
same time moved to increase Ger
manys armed strength with decree
that every able-bodied man over II
must keep fit for military service.
The Fuehrer removed from the
banks directorate two followers of
Schacht, ousted yesterday from the
presidency. Friedrich w. Dreyse was
succeeded as vice president by Ru-
dolf Brinkmann, right-hand man of
DR.. Schacht's successor as president
Economies Minister Walther Funk.
Both Dreyse, the boards oldest
member, and Ernst Huelse, the other
director removed, joined DR.. Schacht
In opposing unrestricted spending
and financing by piling up huge
short-term debts. Their ousting left
little doubt that the shelving of DR.
Schacht resulted from sharp differ
ences Of opinion with ambitions of
Nazi leaders
The stock exchange reflected
professional dealers Interpretation
of Hitler's moves as "inf1ationary'
(See GERMAN pace A-el