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I THE DAILY TIMES NEWS UgJit Weathe Burlington The Hosiery Mill Center at the South; With Numerous Other Progressive, Diversified industry. Cloudy, warmer In interior, nln tn wnl portion torujui. dy purtly cloudy. VOL. 54 NO.

219 ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE BURLINGTON, N. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938 FULL NEA SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS BRITAIN AGREES TO PLAN TO REMOVE JEWS Lewis Confers On Nazi Persecutions Will Tell Hull Of Anti Semitism Embassy Home In Attache New Rap Ordered At Nazis FINDING OF HOMES FOR OUTCASTS 'URGENT' In earnest conference will Rev. Charles Owen Rice of Pittsburgh, John protest against German Jewish persecutions broujrht ringing response from delegates. Third Term Of F.D.R. Expected Cry Of CIO ANGLO U.

S. TRADE PACT SIGNED IN CEREMONY Embraces Total of Billion and Half in American Trade. GERMANEXPORT TRADE TO SUFFER Washington, Nov, 17 (AP) The greatest commercial accord in recent history, embracing a total American trade of $1,500,000,000 a year, was ready today for signature by high officials of the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Formal ceremonies for concluding the reciprocal agreements, apex of Secretary Hull's commercial program, started at 4 p. m.

(Eastern Standard time) in the famous East room of the White House. Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie Kins of Canada, Six Ronald Lindsay, the towering British ambassador, and Secretary Hull were designated to sign the bulky documents for their governments and to make short speeches extolling the pacts as an aid to world peace. Discuss Defense Tlans Daring a two day visit here, Mac Keneie King also" is expected to confer with President Roosevelt on the latter's plans for mutual defense of the Western hemisphere.

With relations between the United States and Germany strained over Nazi violence against the Jews, the Anglo American trade agreement appeared destined to bring the United States and Britain closer together and to push Germany still farther away. Germany, now on the United States' economic blacklist because of her discriminations against American trade, is not eligible for the same tariff reductions granted Britain under the new agreement. As a result, her exports to the United States are considered certain to suffer. officials believed the treaty might act as a restraining force on Gcrmanv, perhaps inducing Adolf Hitler not only to quell anti Semitic outbreaks but also to seek a similar trade agreement with the United States. Secretary Hull was visibly pleased over conclusion of the pacts with Great Britain and Canada, bringing to 19 the nations which have signed reciprocal treaties with the United States.

The others are Cuba, Brazil, Belgium, Ecuador, Haiti, Sweden. Colombia, Honduras, The Netherlands and colonies, Switzerland, Nicara Moving Toward Adjournment of Convention, Lewis Labor Organization Adopts Policy Program Endorsing Liberal Legislation, Supporting New Deal; Name of Rep. Dies of Texas Booed. Hugh R. Wilson, above, is on his way home from his post as ambassador to Germany lor consultation with Secretary of State Hull, who is deeply perturbed over persecu '7on of Jews.

CATHOLICS ADD TO NAZI CLAMOR Al Smith and Other High Laymen and Church Dignitaries Protest Pogroms. New York, Nov. 17 (AP) Protest by prominent Catholic church men was added today to a growing' volume of denunciation by American civil and social organisations against nazi oppression of racial and religious minorities. The Catholic protest was made by Former Gov. Alfred E.

Smith and four high church prelates last night in a nation wide radio broadcast, It came on the heels of an announcement by Stephen T. Early, White House secretary, that president Roosevelt's criticism of Germany's attacks on Jews was also intended to apply to nazi persecution of Catholics and other religious groups. After condemning the nasi outbreaks, Smith expressed approval of President Roosevelt's stand. Archbishop John J. MiLty, speaking from San Francisco, joined the other prelates in urging German Jews to sustain their persecution 'without resorting to force.

"Let us give sympathy and help till the trial be over," he added "but let. us not be betrayed by revenge or tempted by any precipitate act to put our trust in any form of force." Other speakers, raising their voices "not. in mad hysteria, but in grim indignation," were Bishop john Mark Gannon, from Cleve land, Bishop Pefer L. Ireton. from Baltimore, and Mgr.

Joseph Corri gan, rector of Catholic university, from Washington. Demands lor a boycott of German goods and for permanent recall of the American ambassador increased, bringing fresh protests from leaders in fields as diverse as sports, education, religion, politics, entertainment and literature. They included those from Glenn S. (Pop) Warner, Temple university football coach, governors of "Minnesota. Maryland and Florida: Methodists, Episcopal, and Baptist cnurcn dignitaries; rolessnr Harold C.

urey, Coiumbia university noble prize winner in chemistry; Mayor LaGuardia. and Orson Welles, Broadway and radio drama producer. JAPS TO NORTHWEST hanshal. Nov. 17.

JaDan ese said today their air force based at iianttow penetrated to tne iar northwest In a raid on Luchow, capital of Kansu province which The raid conformed to the declaration Japanese would carry the war to the inland border provinces to cut Chinese communications with Soviet Russia, Burma and India. DALADIERMAY SEIZE CONTROL Threatens to DissoKe Chamber of Deputies if "Three Year Plan' Is Rejected. Paris. Nov. 17.

Premier Daladicr was reported by deputies today to be planning to dissolve the chamber of deputies and rule France lor a time without parliament if it refuses to ratify his yen plan" for reviving French economy. Such a step reported unaei consideration as socialists communists massed forces to fignt the cabinet's economic and financial decrees and as the General Confederation of Labor, with an enrollment of 5,000,000 workers, called for a general strike U' necessary to defeat the decrees. President Albert Lebrun, Dala dier and Finance Minister Reynaud scheduled fresh radio appeals to the nation for backing in their program for raising taxes, lengthening working hours and speeding Industry. They were to speak at a French Newspaper Federation banquet at 9:30 p. m.

Deputies said Daladier's projected dissolution of the chamber, rumored frequently in tne month, was disclosed in part by the premier to the governing committee of his radical socialist If his decree laws do not get immediate ratification when the lower house meets December 6. he would dissolve It. Under the constitution he is empowered to wait six months before calling a newly elected chamber. Da'iadier was believed to have a promise of support from President Cebrun and a majority oi the senate whose consent is necessary for dissolving the chamber. Socialist deputies, meeting at the call of ex Premier Leon Blum, voted unanimously today to oppose Daladier's government on the ground that its decrees exacted too much from workers and too little from capitalists.

Opposition from war veterans also mounted. Henri Pichot, president of the Federation of War Veterans' associations, pronounced "absolute condemnation" the cabinet decrees. I INDICATION OF U.S. RUPTURE FAST GROWING Commercial Adviser of Embassy Will Return to U. S.

FOLLOWSWILSON IN HIS EXODUS Berlin, Nov. 17 (AP) Douglas Miller, commercial attache of the United States embassy, was called to Wash ington today less than 24 hours after the departure of Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson. Miller was directed to report in Washington not later than January 1. The calling home of Miller was regarded by the American colony in Berlin as a significant indication that the United States de partment of commerce had lost interest in Germany for the present.

(The Berlin announcement came on the same day set for the signing in Washington of broad commercial treaties among the United States, Great Britain and Canada. (Ambassador Wilson was summoned homE by President Roosc elt for report and consultation the German anti Jewish cam paign) No successor was named to Miller, but his assistant, Robert M. Stephenson, was authorized to carry on his duties. Had sougiit Transfer will leave whh his family about the middle of December on the S. S.

Manhat It was known that Miller asked three months ago for a transfer as he felt he needed "change of scenery." At that time the department, ot commerce was reported to have considered him indispensable, ss there were hopeful signs of a better trade understanding with Germany. Miller's annual reports on the German economic situation were known to go far beyond the scope of business alone. They reflected an Insight into the German psychology and contained genera material of an analytical nature. Simms Reelected As President of Baptists of N. Raleigh, Nov.

17 (AP) R. N. Simms, of Raleigh today was re elected president of the North Carolina Baptist state convention. The delegates chose Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, president of Mars Hill college, as their first vice president, advancing him from the third vice presidency, and put Dr.

A. J. BarLon of Wilmkigton in as second vice president. Doctor Barton had been first vice president this year, and succeeds Dr. W.

Paschal of Waie Forest. Dr. B. A. uowers of Gaslonia elected third vice president.

'me convention authorized its committee on pensions to continue its negotiations with the board of relief and annuity of board of relief and annuity of the Southern Baptist convention regarding pensions for ministers over 65 years of age. President Simms reported the committee was "definitely in favor" of a pension plan but had not completed terms to offer the convention. The convention authorized the board of the church in the state to put a pension plan into effect, and the committee reported it hoped to complete its woTk by July 1, 1S39. head of the organization for Ger mans living aoroaa. exronea me young embassy secretary as a blood witness to the nasi cause.

They vowed the fight against international Jewry would be unrelenting. Bohie referred to Vom Rath as "the eighth victim abroad of the Jewish Bolshevist lust for murder" and asserted: "The shots fired at Davos (Switzerland, where Gustloff was killed), Barcelona and Paris had but one aim Germany, the third Reich. "Germans living abroad are everywhere attendine to their callings and work as loyal suests of the states which they live. "Yet they are today targets for hatred, persecution ana me calumnies of international sub hu mamty, which concentrates all its strength upon the destruction of the resurrected reicn." Hitler did not speak. Flam waved at half staff over all public buildings, schools and many many.

Tim "Eiphlh Martyr" The rcichsfuHuTT rnlrrcd t. (Continued on page two) DANIELS, ODUM OUTLINE TASKS FACING SOUTH Economy, Society Needing Reforms, Symposium Told. WALLACEWILL SPEAK FRIDAY Durham, Nov. 17. (API Jonathan Daniels, editor of the News and Observer at Raleigh, described the South today as holding both a "threat and promise" for America due to its problems, which he said are problems of the Daniels spoke at an afternoon session of a two day symposium at Duke university on a Changing Economic Base Of the South." Prof.

Howard W. Odum of the university oi North Carolina and Gerald Johnson of the Baltimore Sun also spoke, and Johnson presided. Tomorrow Henry A. Wallace. secretary of agriculture, will heaa four speakers.

"Does the South Constitute a Peculiar Economic Problem?" was Daniels' topic. Last year he toured the South to get data, for a book recently published on discovering the region as it is tooay. sain the south led the nation in pro duction of children which inten sified its economic problems. momic problem No. 1," Daniels said, "is not merely a problem so eld that even the wisest of sociologists may fear that men North and South may grow weary and impatient with continuous talk about it.

It is also a problem running before Us into the future. The old illiteracy of the South is a part of the' old poverty oi the South. "Far more important, the present poverty of the South is basis for fear in the nation of a continuing ignorance coming out ot the South. And not education merely; where there is hunger in the Southern land, inadequate feeding on the Southern land, an undernourished America is growing. A South too poor to educate, a South too poor or too something to feed, (though Southern states in proportion to their wealth have made greater efforts than richer states with better school) is making America." The Southern children, Daniels said, "with their rickets and their lack of knowledge and skills," will move into other sections oi the nation.

He said the. South did present a peculiar economic problem, but that it was "a human problem the solution of which is as imperative in the nation as in the region." Foreign nations have erected tariff walls against mevican products, he pointed out, but In America "the South provides suci a potential market as no Other a i anywhere possesses a "Will It remain unable to consume the goods it needs in a land which more and more needs con sumntion of the goods it can pro duce?" queried Daniels. "Here in this land then is both unique problem and unique opportunity. "The South presents both threat and promise. Dixie is no longer content to stir in its own juice its own pot liquor.

Its children are no longer content to starve on the old red hills. Perhaps fortunately for it the North "annot escape the consequences of tne Southern problem. The only defense against the South is the salvation of the South, and that is a task for both this region and the nation." Odum Is Heard Durham, NOV. 17. tAP) Prof.

Howard W. Odum, director of the institute for research in social science at the University of North Carolina, said today that three tasks faced the South In its efforts to make the most of its opportunities. First, he said at a Duke university symposium on "the changing economic base of the South," is the education and motivation of the young people of the South, and, at the same time, the adult population of tho region in the meaning "and significance and importance jf work, of high standards of living, of housing, cl skill; in the meaning of the nature and value of natural resources, of iand and water, and flora and fauna, and all that long catalogue of natural wealth in which the South excels, and in the training of the emotions," "Occupational Opportunity" Odum, in his prepared address, said the second task was to set up a new and expanded framework "of occupational opportunity in the South and the insuring of provisions for industry, commerce, agriculture, professions, social and distributive services, adequate to support the education and mo'l vatlon of the schools towards a (Continued an peg two) Orders Jews Out Of Nazi Schools Pushing; Germany's anti Semitic wave to a new extreme, Dr. Bern hard Rust, Nazi Minister or Education, lias expelled all Jewish students from the German school DEATHPENALTY GIVEN SLAYER Wilming fon Negro Sentenced to Die in Aliened Intoxicated Killing; of White Woman. Wilmington Nov.

17 (AP) James Henderson, 20, a negro, was under sentence of death today on conviction of first degree murder in the slaying November oi Mrs. Stella C. Hobbs, 13. The uegro was convicted last night and Judge W. H.

Burgwyn sentenced him to die in the gas chamber January 27. Henderson noteti appeal. Henderson told the jury that he struck Mrs. Habbs with a lug wrench but. that because of intoxi cation he had no recollection of events preceding the incident.

On L.jial testimony ci ense attorneys argued that a first degree verdict, would be unjustified because the state had not proved that the crime was premediated. The negro said he had intimate relations with Mrs. Habbs, a grocer's widow, before she died but asserted "she couldn't have known anything about that." The state armed that Henderson criminally assaulted Mrs. Hobbs I it Hit RttMmiibile wrtvkrtl or lonely 13th street extension and that he killed her to hide that crime. or that he slew her after she threatened to expose him for the assault.

SEEK NAVAL AMITY Honkong. Nov. 17. Japanese and British naval commanders are trying to establish a. friendlier feeling between the two navi.es.

Vice Admiral Shlzawa. commander of the Japanese fleet in south China, and Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble, commander or British forces in Hongkong, conferred today on "the betterment of Annlo Japanese naval relations," a Japanese communique said. TEMPERATURES for the LAST 24 HOURS North Carolina: Cloudy, warmer in the interior, fog with some mist or light rain in west portion tonight; Friday partly cloudy, followed by showers in west and central portions; colder Saturday. Charlotte, Nov. 17 (AP) Official weather bureau rceords cf the temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours endinjr at 7:30 in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station H.

L. Rf Ashevillc 52 4S .00 Atlanta 54 48 2.52 Augusta 58 50 1.18 Birmingham fi4 52 1.64 Charleston C8 58 .12 Charlotte 57 50 .00 Chicago 54 42 .00 Columbia 60 52 .14 Denver 64 3C .00 Detroit 4R 40 .00 Evansvillc 58 50 .00 Galveston 70 70 .00 Greensboro 54 44 .00 Hatteras 68 S4 .10 Jacksonville 80 66 .00 Key West 84 74 .00 Little Rock 78 54 .00 Los Angeles TB aO .00 Memphis 66 of. .12 Meridian 76 fi .00 Miami 82 72 ,00 Mpls Stp 46 30 .00 Mobile 82 68 .00 Mt. Mitohell 42 36 .00 New Orleans 82 68 .00 New York 52 40 .42 Raleigh 58 44 .00 San Antonio 86 66 .00 San Francisco 64 50 .00 Sparta nbiirjr 66 .00 Washington 16 1 .02 Vilminglon 64 54 'Kennedy Plan Is to. Find Colonies for Absorption.

U. S. MAYRAISE QUOTA LIMITS London, Nov. 17 (AP) The British government waa said by a high authority to to have agreed to try to operate a plan offered by United biales Am uassaaor Jo seph P. Kennedy for removing thousands ot Jews now sut ferine from a wave of violence and restrictive decrees in Nazi Germany.

Frime Minister Chamberlain told the housg of commons that th matter of finding new homes for such refugees was bsing treated one of urgency. He said the problem had been ta ken up with governors of a number of British colonies, Including the governor of Tanganyika, former German East Africa, now a British mandate. Statement Nest Week. He added that he hoped to make a statement on die whole question early next week. Toe prime minister then agreed to a commons debate next Honday to the treatment of racial minorities in Europe and the refugee problem.

He also announced a debate next Thursday on Palestine, the future of which the government plans to con sider in bji early conference with Jew and Arab leaders. The united States ambassador was known to have laid his proposals before Chamberlain in a long conference Tuesday and British government considered them in its meeLing yesterday. xne "itenneay pian nas oeen described authoritatively as calling for an effort to remove majority of the 600.000 Jews now in I Germany to North and South I America and parts of the British. "Mortgage" Quota. Berlin, Nov.

17. (API Prominent Jews suggested today that the United States "mortgage" the Gorman immigration quota for the next three years and accept 81,000 Jews immediately. Frantically trying to arrange fr them, they pleaded that America, England and Prance Hnri Germany permit the German Jewish population to emigrate without passports and visas "because of the acute need." The Jews kept away from population centers today, afraid that the funeral a' Dusseldorf of Ernst 1 Vom Rath migh lead to more vio lence like that of a week ago after I the Paris embassy secretary died of wounds from a Jewish boy's re volver fire. jewisn estimates today were that 56,000 of their number had been arrested, an increase from the 40, 000 figure they gave yesterday. The first reaction to President Roosevelt's press conferenca statement of plans for en air force that could defend both North and South America came in an editorial published by Vodkischer Beobachter, Chancellor Hitler's newspaper.

It said the president pictured an "imaginary menacc" to America, and that "suspicions were cast on other powers in the interest or United States armaments." There still was no indication of what feeling may have been aroused by the president's statement against Nasi tre rnt of the Jews. 500,000 Still in Germany. The Berlin group which proposed the emigration plan said there now are 500.000 Jews in Germany, not including Austria, and Sudetenland. They suggested; Of these, 50,000 be accepted by Palestine. Another TO0.0O0, over 60 years of age, would remain in Germany.

Wealthy relatives in foreign countries could tak and support Pajama Clad Body of Woman Found In Garage Springfield, Nov. 17. The pajama clad body of 23 year old Elizabeth Dorr, junior leaguer and Smith college graduate, was found today in her parents' garage. While police and Medical Examiner C. J.

Downey pushed an Investigation, Dr. T. S. Eicon, family physician, said his examination disclosed no poison or violence. A daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Percy O. Dow, the ycung woman was graduated from Smith last year. iiotn tamny cars were in uia garage, police reported, with the Ignition shut off and both gasoline tanks filled. The family attended a theater party last night, returning about 1 a.

r.u officers said. When Mrs. Dorr went to her daughter's room nbout 10 o'clock this morning sh was missing. A search resulted in th discovery cf tb Pittsburgh, Nov. J7.

(Pj Tne Congress of Industrial Organizations convention, grinding out a policy program for liberal labor legislation, indicated today It. would tnke action on proposals endorsing the new deal and calling for a third term for President Roosevelt. George Bucher, of Philadelphia, a oeiegare oi me umteo urniuue vvoi rier. i endeavored to ob tain passage under suspension of rules of a resolution lauding the new deal's program and putting the CiO convention on record for a third term for the Roosevelt ad ministration. CIO General Counsel Lee Pressman interrupted Bucher's motior to suspend the rules with the ex planation that the resolutions committee still had under consid iration several resolutions calling for blanket endorsement of the third term for the White House incumbent.

Favor Social Security The 500 delegates a few minutes later went on record as approving a social security program, endorsed adequate care for the aged, needy, blind and widows, approved the president's national health committee's activities and ordered a survey of the health cooperative field. The convention leered the name Martin Dies, chairman of the house committee investigating un American activities, when a delegate In oduced a motion calling for an "investigation of the un American activities of the Dies committee." J. E. Crossbmd, of the Industrial union council of Texas, Dies home state, offered rJie resolution and said of Dies: "He looked young and bright and they tnougnt lie wouia oe anotne: Huey L.ong ana another Hitler. The ieers and booes started when Crossland first mentioned the name "Dies" and continued as he declared it was impossible to get "rid" of the congressman at the last election because "some people still believe he may do some good." Jeers were loudest as the speaker added Texnns were "ashamed of Then.

Crossland said: "We are apologizing for him. But we don't want this convention to go on rec ord as condemning him but to read into the record our want ments." Civil Rights Bureau The convention took no action upon Croasland's resolution, but adopted a civil rights bureau resolution advocating creation of a permanent independent bureau in the federal government to be respon Continued on page two) The secretary reminded Georgia tobacco growers that their income from the 1938 crop was the largest on. record "even after penalties in connection with the marketing quotas are paid. "As in the case of flue cured tobacco growers generally," he said, "the income of Georgia growers during the last five years has been more than double that received during the previous live years." The present income situation with respect to cotton, he said, "is not quite so good as it was in the four vears from 1933 lo 1937 but it is stiU nearly twice as good as it was in 1932." But he said the governmant payments, "together with the cotton loan, the acreage adjustment program, and the marketing quotas, provide the. cotton growing industry, a I said a moment ago, with a haven in time of storm, xxx Crop, Low Prices "You did't get that program low prices caiiscu by the huge crop of 1937 when you had io tCoatinusd on gage tore) Wallace Tells Farmers AAA Is Economic Savior gua, France ana i Costa Eica, El Salvador and Czech osiovama.

Embraced in the two new agreements are about 1.000 articles of export and import. Each, treaty, in printed form, is the equivalent of a good swed book. London, Nov. 17 CAP) Great Britain today welcomed the impending signing of her trade treaty with the United States as a further step on the road to active Anglo American cooperation in a troubled world. The government, it was understood, also honed the agreement would serve to prepare American opinion for an eventual war debt settlement releasing Britain from the terms of the Johnson act Cwhich forbids defaulting debtor nations floating loans in the United States).

Although officials expected the treaty to increase trade between the aTattaching to it symbolic rather Prime Minister Chamberlain told the house of commons that the new treaty would be published before the commons adjourned tonight. Last July 27 Chamberlain said he felt the pending treaty, if concluded, ''may prove to be Cue forerunner of a policy of wider application." Events since the Munich settlement over Czechoslovakia were believed to have reinforced this hope despite America's mixed reception of the Prime Minister's European appeasement policy. Chamberlain agreed to let commons debate the trade treaty hut added that legislation as a result of the pact "will not be necessary except for one small item which can be included In the finance bill (the budget." Gannett Expects F. D. To Lose In Third Term Try Miami Beach, Nov.

17 (AP) A belief that President Roosevelt would lose if he sought reelection to a third term was expressed today by E. Gannett. Rochester, N. newspaper publisher. Gannett Issued a statement saying he was misunderstood in an interview Tuesday in which he was quoted as forecasting Mr.

Roosevelt would run in 1940 and would win reelection. "I predicted the rcnomination of Roosevelt in 1940. but not his re election," the publisher said. "I added that it would not be easy to defeat him. I might further say that I nm so rncourngdi ny inc recent elections that I naturally cx pec Mr.

Roosevelt to lose if he iefe a third term." Colorful Martyr's Funeral Given Jew's Nazi Victim Macon, Nov. 17. (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace here today told cotton and tobacco growers that they must keep their agricultural adjustment administration programs "if you want to save your economic life." Tiie secretary compared tho AAA programs to ships "in a sheltered haven, away from the winds of the world economic storm." "Those winds are rising to a hurricane gale, the force of which most of us In the United States do not yet appreciate," the secretary said. "Stay By Your Ship" "And.

so I say to both groups (cotton and tobacco farmers) stay by your ship, and don't let anyone lure you off from it. Don't give up your ship if you want to save your economic life." Secretary Wallace spoke on invitation of the United Geoigia Farmers and the Georgia Cooperative Council. Georgia, with other cotton and tobacco producing states, will vote December 10 on I lie question of continuing marketing quotas on cotton and flue cured tobacco for 1939. Duesseldorf, Germany, Nov. 17 (AP) With a challenge to the world, the nazis gave a martyr's funeral today to the assassinated diplomat Ernst Vom Rath.

Adolph Hitler, many other high officials and the whole nation by radio heard Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop close a funeri oration with an ominous repetition of the words the reichs fuehrer himself used on a like occasion In 1936: "We understand the challenge, and accept it." Vom Rath was killed by a young Jew in the German embassy in Pans last wees, 'ine aeain town ed off a wave of anti semitlc violence in Germany. Jews More Fearful Tnriov's imnriswe. ceremonies ir the swastika draped Rheinland hall recalled the funeral, at which Hitler spoke, of WUhelm Gustloff, nazi organizer in Switzerland who was killed Feb. 4, 1936, by a young Jugoslav student. That event precipitated intensified antl semltism.

German Jews expected new actions mid Tosmciive measures lu iuiiuw the burial Irxlav. Von rtlbfoeiilvort and Ernst Wtlhcim some, state secretary ana.

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