NEW TREATMENT OF GERMAN CRIMINALS STARTS JANUARY 1 Na.I "Genuine Justice" On Eve Of Inauguration; Sterilization Is Part of Plan; Execution For Arson to Be a Early Major Move. (Herewith is presented the second in a series dealing with legal reforms being instituted in Germany under Chancellor Adolf Hitler). By WALTER BHOCKMAN Associated Prcs Foreign Stall Berlin, Dec. 28 (I'l-It is too late for convicts in German penitentiaries to resolve to make good this new year. On Jan. 1, 1934, a new penal code goes into effect. It is described by some as perhaps the most drastic or' modern times. Many of tho"e new behind the bars face extended sentences as a result. Since the advent to power of Chancellor IPtler, f0 persons have been executed under specially parsed and still existing laws Interpreted partly to apply to political and criminal slayings. Awaiting execut!on in his cell nt Leipzig, Marinus Van Der Lubbe, young Dutch bricklayer, is the first man ever sentenced to death for arson in Germany. The law under which he was condemned last Saturday was passed just after the Reichstag building fire, Feb. 27. It was declared retroactive, making Van Der Ln lire's confessed crime of starting the fire high treason. Beginning with the new year, vigorous measures- hailed as "genuine just ice"-will be inaugurated Committees are at work "Hitler-izing" some 20 kinds of justice, ranging all the way from matrimonial to maritime. Compulsory sterilization laws go into effect Jan. 1. too, along with (Page Three, Please)