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War Brings Greater Hardship To 200,000 Jews Still In Germany
By Joseph W. Grigg, Jr.
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
BERLIN, April 19 (UP).—A year and a half of war and the sacrifices it has im- posed on all Germans has brought new hardships and distress to 200,000 Jews who still remain in Germany despite the government's severe anti-Semitic programme.
But, by a paradox, the war has broken down to some extent the rigid ostracism, bordering on actual ghetto conditions, under which these Jews lived since the violent anti-Jewish outbreak of November 1938.
publie of minule quantities of coffee, tea, candy, crackers, fruit and canned gonds.
As result of acute wartime labour shortage, thousands of Jews both men and wonien-have been drafted to work, always under the sharpest supervision, in munitions works and other factorica where they previously had been barred completely.
Perhaps the most severe war- they are registered in advance. Fur- time hardships imposed on Ger-thermore, Jews are barred from oc- casional distributions to the general man Jews is that they get no ration cards for clothes or per- mits for shoes and coal. Upon introduction of ration cards a few months after the outbreak of the war, it was announced that they would not be issued to Jews. It was claimed the Jews were well-stocked with clothes and needed no more.
Lack Shoes
The Jews were not given clolling cards for 1941. Without such a card It is Impossible to buy clothes. Since the beginning of the wor they have been unable to obtain permits to buy shoes, and only In some instances have they been allowed to have their uld shoes repaired.
The Jewish community faced this problem partially by donation of shock and clothing by better-off Jews to the poorer ones. Doubtless many Aryan Germans on the quiet" occa- sionally give east-off clothes to former Jewish friends.
The Jews have the same basio food ration as Aryans, but the ration
are marked cards
with * large "." Instead of having them delivered cach month at home, the Jews must go in person to the foot card offices at a speel- filed time to collect their own cards.
Desperate State
They are not allowed skimmed milk, sh, game and poultry, which theoretically are not ralloned, al- though in practice these can only be bought by Aryans at stores where
Jews were emigrating frm the Reich
as fast as other countries would take
April 22, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NO
BUT WHY
NO! ALL DIS SUDDEN GENEROSITY
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them. Since then, and until recent- Dr Walter A. Maler and family. Dr Maler is the noted speaker of ty, emigration has slowed down to a America's outstanding religious broadcast. "The Lutheran Hour," which mere trickle, mostly by Siberia and is heard on Sundays over a network of 265 stations Including Manila
(KZRA-5.25 p.m.) and Shanghai (XMIA—3 p.m.).. Japan. In recent weeks, the United States has given several hundred, visas to Jews who travelled Switzerland and Lisbon.
vin
Special Reserve Plan After the conquest of Poland, it Many Jews, who were reduced al-
was apparently the government's through being barred from virtually Jews from the tnost to desperate economic state original intention to transport all Reich, including every kind of employment, welcomed Bohemia and Moravia, to ກກ arca being drafted by German authorities around Lublin, where a special re- for factory work.
serve serve was to be created, This The strictest supervision is exer-process
started
with the Iriass elsed over the Jews In the fac transportation of nil Jews freen tories, who generally work 10- Nuerischestrau and several gether in groups isolated from the
protected itles last winter, Aryans. None the less, they are normally paid approximately the same wages as the Aryans.
other
The sudden expulsion of Jews from Stettin and other parts of
of Pomerania
Japanese Naval Strategy
Is Held To Be Backward
"THERE is no original design. in Japan's warships or air- craft, so it is reasonable to expect lack of original thought in | Japanese naval strategy," says the London magazine "Flight."
"All Japan's show of force has
at a
a few hours notice occurred a few been obtained by aping the Thousands of Jews, including mid-months later. Here this process British Navy," the journal as-
dle-aged and elderly women, were came to a standstill for the time be- called up both last winter and this ing for reasons unknown, although winter for snow-shovelling gangs, it is presumed that it was largely to Last winter they were paid the same difficultles in the culminating feuds rate as Berlin's municipal street- in the Lublin area, cleaners. One of the chief hardships, however, for the Jews taking these jobs and those in the factories is the lack of proper clothing
Other Disabilities
Death Of Circus King Reported
Hagenbeck, one of the aristocrats
serts,
"The Pacific is ideal for the use of aircraft-carriers.
"Japan's tonnage
aircraft- It earriers is one-third that of Britnin and the United States,
"Japan's aircraft-carriers are: "Kaya (20,000 tons); with 60 air- craft.
All the disabilities imposed on the Jews before the outbreak of the war are still enforced rigidly;
"Hiryu (10,050 tons), and Hospu No Jews may enter a cafe, res-of the circus, has died in a British taurant, cinema, theatre, museum. 10 a German radio announcement, craft.
internment camp in Ceylon, according (7,470 tons), each carrying 40 air dance hall, swimming pool or other He died on December 15, it was place of
are amusement, They barred from Berlin's two main added. aircets-Unter Den
Kurfuer Stenda Linden
and
Three generations of the Hagen-
Blind-But The Army Took Him
RONALD MITCHELL, twen- ty-year-old trainee at the Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind, who is registered as "a blind, [person," has just returned to his "Ryuzo (7,180 tons), carrying 24work as a brush-maker at the institution after five months' service in the Army.
planes.
In the parks beck family have been in the circus "In addition, there дре five they may only sit on special yel- business. Carl who started the specialised seaplane corriers, each of low-painted benches marked with family "elreus from a fish shop in about 10,000 tons. the letter "." They are barred Hamburg, died in 1913. The circus from any professional or social was at the Agricultural Hall, Isling- contact with Aryan Germans. ton, in 1935, and
Inter Up to the outbreak of the war Glasgow.
Was
On
June
17.
1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced.
the first week produced over
$1,000,000
to
will you help
double that figure
that figure before
June 17,
17, 1941?
1941?. $240,000`is
all that is required.
al
Naval Air Service
"The Naval Air Service is credited with between 40 and 50 squadrons.
Ronald, who was twenty last June, registered in July, and at that time Mr. F. W. Hobby, manager of the Blind Institu- tion, was on holiday.
"Each of Japan's nine battleships Because of this the usual exemp- about which Information is available {tion-certificate-sent to the employ has ore catapult, and carries two orment exchange when "blind persons" three seaplanes,
sent in Ronald's! was not
register
case.
"All Japanese cruisers of over A month later he was called up. 5,000 tons carry aircraft. Most of drafted to the Royal Army Medical them are filted with catapults."
CRITICISM IS
SO BRACING
THE view that "it's not quite cricket" to criticise in wartime those in authority was vigor- ously contested by Captain H. H. Balfour, Under Secretary for Air, in a speech to Oxford Uni- versity Conservatives recently.
corps.
Reads Large Print
This is his own story:-
"I was told before I left to joln my unit that I was all right except for my eyesight...
E can
"I am not actually bind. read fairly large print by holding the paper close to my eyes, but immedi- ately daylight begins to fall I am totally blind. When night comes I see absolutely nothing. well with my drills,
"Nevertheless I managed fairly'
Gets Discharge
"No one pald much attention to me for a time, but it gradually be came known that I had to be led by
If ellizens individually or through the Press are ever stopped, he said, from criticism which, while some one else at night.
endangering the safety of the 'realnr,
is frank and free, away goes that
"I couldn't go alone for supper or for breakfast in the dark mornings,
liberty whose preservation is one of and this came to be talked about. our primary war purposes,
"Go on criticising actions
and
"Once things got moving in this
charge."
Individuals, because, provided this is way I wasn't long in getting my dis-
in a constructive spirit, with the sole purpose of increasing our war effort,
it is healthy and stimulating for all of us, whatever are our personal reactions."
Gracie Fields Now "Broke”
"I am broke," Gracie Fields, English film and radio star, suid in Now York recently.
"My £312,500 a year income from films and radio has been wiped out," she said.
"I earned £40,028 in Corada for the British war effort and £18,700'in the United States."
Gracie Fields took part in a carni- val for Britain at the New York Radio Music Hall.
Formerly one of the highest-pald All actresses in the world, Gracie Fields went to America last June with her husband, Monty Banks,, the producer,
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