The arrest in Vienna of 82-year-old Hofrat Salomon Frankfurter, noted librarian and philologist, was reported here by a special Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent who arrived tonight from the Austrian capital. The aged scholar, who formerly was director of the Vienna University Library, was dragged from his bed at midnight and taken to prison.
The presidents and 16 prominent members of four lodges of the B’nai B’rith, international Jewish fraternal order with headquarters in Washington, were also arrested last night, charged with communism. Among those arrested was Alexander Teitsch, president of the board of the Jewish High School.
The Academica Judaica, where hundreds of Jewish students formerly were fed, has been transformed into a barracks for Nazi storm troopers. All Jewish taxi Drivers and private chauffeurs have been dismissed. The position of the Jews in the provinces is described as even worse than it is in Vienna.
Fritz Kreisler, Austrian Jewish lawyer who fled here from Vienna after the abortive 1934 revolution, committed suicide today by leaping from a window in his apartment. His mother lost her reason from the shock. (Kreisler is not to be confused with the famous Austrian violinist of the same name, who is a Catholic.)
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