Evening star., 1941-09-28
Himm|er Aide Named
Czech Chief; Drastic
Measures Reported
Courts Martial Set Up,
State Of Emergency Is
Declared, British Say
B. The Associated Press.

3! the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 81. - Reinhard
Heydrich, German chief of security
and right hand man to Heinrich
Himmler, head of the Gestapo, was
named by Adolf Hitler today to
take over the job of Baron Konstan-
tin Won Neurath at Prague as Reichs
Protector in Bohemia and Moravia.
The British radio said Heydrich
Immediately proclaimed a state
of emergency. set up courts
marital, and ordered death SEN
tences for offenses against order
to stifle war industry go slow"
strikes and railway sabotage in
the former Czecho-Slovak repub-
lie.
ut was reported at the CZecho-
Slovak legation here yesterday
that saboteurs had blown up the
electrical distributing system at
the Skoda arms plant in Czecho-
Sloyakia, killing 900 persons and
interfering with munitions pro-
duction for German needs. Skoda
tanks took a prominent part in
the German conquest of France
and presumably have been in the
forefront of the fighting in Rus
Sia.)
Won Neurath, former foreign
minister, asked Hitler to relieve him
temporarily for reasons of health
an official announcement said. He
had held the post since the dis
memberment of Czecho-Slovakia in
March. 1899.
Heydrich, 81, is a group leader
of the black uniformed S. S., which
he entered in 1881 After a rapid
rise in that organization, he be-
came director of the Berlin office
of the Gestapo in April, 1884. Two
years later he was appointed chief
of the security police, in which post
he combines the direction of security
headquarters of Himmlers Gestapo
organization, the PruSslan Gestapo
and the Bavarian political police.
Heydrich was sent to Norway
shortly before the state Of civil
emergency was recently declared for
the Oslo area to combat strikes
and sabotage.
% More Executed.
Earlier two German residents
were sentenced to death for listen
ing to foreign broadcasts and %
more persons in German-controlled
territory were reported executed for
other offenSeS.
Despite all warnings" said DNB
of the two death sentences, "vari-
Gus countrymen still allow them
selves to be miSled into listening to
untrue foreign reports and spread
ing them.
They thereby permit themselves
to be misuSed as the cheap tool OF
enemy agitation, cripple their own
powers resistance and stab the ma
tional community in the back by
treasonable support of the enemy
At the same time execution of 20
persons of unnamed nationality was
announced in Belgian newspapers.
(Vichy advices said 20 hostages
apparently the same mentioned
- the Belgian dispatches-were
executed Friday morning at Lille,
industrial center in NaZi-occupied
Northern France, as the result of
a serious railroad accident caused
by sabotage.
dispatches from Paris also said
German authorities there an
nounced the firing squad deaths
of two more Frenchmen, bring
ing to 81 the hostages and others
who have been shot by Germans
in France
(The so-called anti Communist
court in Bordeaux also sentenced
IA residents of Avignon to prison
terms ranging up to Is years and
life on charges of furthering
Communist party propaganda.
In some cases fines were added
First Death Sentences for Radio.
The two death sentences an
nounced in Berlin were the first
known instances of the extreme
penalty being applied for tuning in
on foreign stations.
Announcement of 20 executions
was attributed by the Brussels news
paper, Bruesseler Zeitung, to the
German command of occupation
forces in Belgium and Northern
France. Execution of the men was
(See UNREST, Page A-4)