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OH, DEAR. IF I DON'T DIET SOON. I'M AFRAID I'LL LOSE MY HUSBAND!

I KEEP

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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.

as fast as other countries would take

via

As result of acute wartime labour shortage, thousands of Jews were emigrating frm the Reich Jews both men and women-have been drafted to work, always since then, and until recent- Dr Walter A. Maler and family. Dr Maler is the noted speaker of under the sharpest supervision, in munitions works and other ly, entgration has slowed down to a America's outstanding religious broadcast, "The Lutheran Hour," which factories where they previously had been barred completely. mere trickle, mostly by Siberia and is heard on Sundays over a network of 265 stations including, Manila

(KZN)—5.25. p.m.) 'and Shanghai (KMHA-3 p.m.). Perhaps the most severe war- they are registered in advance. Fur-Japan. In recent weeks, the United has given several hundred time hardships imposed on Ger-thermore, Jews are barred from oc- States

who travelled man Jews is that they get nocasional distributions to the general visas to Jews

public of minute, quantities of coffee, Switzerland and Lisbon. ration cards for clothes or per- tea, candy, crackers, fruit and cunried Special Reserve Plan mits for shoes and coal. Upon goods.

After the conquest of Poland; it introduction of ration cards a Many Jews, who were reduced al-was apparently the government's most 10 desperate economie state

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 clothing cards for 1941. Without such a card

through being barred from virtually Jews from

original intention to transport all

Die

the Relch, including

Japanese Naval Strategy

to an area Is Held To Be Backward

this

every kind of employment, welcomed Bohemia and Moravia, being drafted by German authorities around Lublin, where a special re-

serve for factory work.

was to be created. This The strictest supervision is exer-

started with the process

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"THERE is no original design in Japan's warships or air elsed over the Jews in the fac-transportation of all Jews from tories, who generally work to-Nuchrischostrau and several other craft, so it is reasonable to expect lack of original thought in gether in groups isolated from the protected cities last winter,

Japanese naval strategy," says the London magazine "Flight.” Aryans. None the less, they are The sudden expulsion of Jews from

"All Japan's show of force has normally paid approximately

Stettin and other parts of Poncrania it is impossible to buy elothes. Since same wages as the Aryans.

at a few hours notlee occurred a few been obtained by aping the Thousands of Jews, Including mid-months the beginning of the war they have

later. Flere

process British Navy," the journal us- been unable to obtain permits to buy,dle-aged and elderly women, were come to a standstill for the time be scrts. shoes, and only in some lustances; enlled up both last winter and this ing for reasons unknown, although have they been allowed to have their winter for snow-shovelling gangs. it is presumed that it was largely to Last winter they were paid the same difficulties in the culminating feuds old shoes repaired,

The Jewish community faced this rate as Berlin's municipal streel-

in the Lublin area. problem

by donation of cleaners. One of the chief hardships, by better-off Jews) however, for the Jews taking these Doubtless many jobs and those in the factories is the Aryan Germans "on the quiet" ocen- lack of proper clothing. sionally give cast-off clobres to former Jewish friends.

shoes and

to the poorer

food

ones.

The Jews have the same basie ration as Aryans, but the ration cards aro marked with a large "3. Instead of having them delivered each month al| heme, the Jews must go in person to the food card offices at a speci- Ded tinie to collect their OWD

eards.

Desperate State

They are not allowed skimmed milk, fish, gone and poultry, which theoretically are not rutioned, al- though in practice these can only -be-bought-by-Aryans-at-stores-where-

Other Disabilities

All the disabilities imposed on

the Jews before the outbreak of

Death Of Circus King Reported

Hagenbeek, one of the aristocrats

The Pacife is ideal for the use of alreraft-carriers.

Ir aircraft- "Japan's tonnage carriers is one-third that of Britain and the United States.

"Japan's aircraft-carrlers are! "Kaga (28,900. tons), with 60 air- craft.

"Hiryu (10,050 tons), and Hospu

Blind-But The Army Took Him

the war are still enforced rigidly of the circus, has died in a British No Jews may enter a cafe, res-internment camp in Ceylon, according i (7,470 tons), each carrying 40 air/Dundee Institution for the Blind. taurant. cinema, theatre, museum, to a German radio announcement.craft. dance hall, swimming pool or other place of amusement. They

are

He died on December 15, it was barred from Berlin's two main added.

RONALD MITCHELL, twen- [ty-year-old trainee at the Royal who is registered as "a blind, person," has just returned to his "Ryuzo (7,100 tons), carrying 24 work as a brush-maker at the planes.

institution after five months' Birects Unter Den Linden and Three generations of the Hagen-

addition, there are five service in the Army. Kurfuer Stendamm. In the parks beck family have been in the circus - "In they

Carl. who may only sit on special yel-business.

started the specialised seaplane carriers, each of low-painted benches marked with family circus from a Ash shop in about 10,000 tons. the letter "J." 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 was later al Up-to-the-outbreak_of_the_war_Glasgow.

June

17,

1940,

the

Bomber Fund was commenced .

the first week produced over

$1,000,000

will you help

to double that figure before

June 17, 1941? $240,000 is

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Ronald, who was twenty last June, registered in July, and at Naval Air Service

that time Mr F. W. Hobby, "The Naval Air Service is credited manager of the Blind Institu- with-between 40-and-50-squadrons.tlon, was-on-holiday.

Because of this the usunt exemp- "Each of Japan's nine battleships about which information is availabletion certificate sent to the employ- has ore catapult, and carries two or ment exchange when "blind persons" register was not sent in Ronald's three seaplanes.

case.

"All Japanese cruisers of over 5,000 tons carry aircraft. Most of them are fitted 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. for Balfour, Under-Secretary Air, in a speech to Oxford Uni-

A month later he was called up, drafted to the Royal Army Medical

corps.

This

Reads Large Print

his own story:

"I was told before I left to join my unit that I was all right except for my eyesight.

"I am not actually blind.

I can read fairly large print by holding the paper close to my eyes, but immedi ately, daylight begins to fall I totally blind. When night comes I see absolutely nothing. well with my drills.

Bm

Nevertheless I managed fairly

Gets Discharge

versity Conservatives recently. "No one paid much attentlar to If citizens-individually or through me for a time, but it gradually be- the Press are ever stopped, he said,came known that I had to be led by from criticism which, while not some one else at night.

endangering the safety of the realm, "I couldn't go alene for supper or is frank and free, away goes that for breakfast in the dark mornings, liberty, whose preservation is one of and this came to be talked about. Our primary war purposes.

"Once things got moving in this

"Go on criticising actions and way I wasn't long in getting my dis- Individuals, because, provided this is charge."

in a constructive spirit, with the sole purpose of increasing our war effort,

it is healthy and stimulating for all of us, whatever pro our personal renctions."

Gracie Fields Now "Broke"

"I am broke," Gracie Fields, English film and radio star, said in New York recently.

"My 4312,500 a year income from films and radio has been wiped out," she said.

Learned £40,025 in Canada. for the British war effort and £10,780 in the United States."

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Gracle Fields took part in a carni- val for Britain at the New York Radio Musle Hall,

Formerly one of the highest-paid Alm actresses in the world, Gracie Fields went to Amarica Inst June with her husband, Monty Banks, the

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