Otto Schick, editor of the Berlin bureau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Nazi authorities, is accused of having sent a cablegram to the London bureau of the news service asserting that $200 was confiscated from a Berlin rabbi, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was informed today. (The London office of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has advised Jacob Landau, managing director of the news service, that this message was never received.)
Officials declared that Schick will be sentenced to two weeks in prison. He is being held at the central jail and it is ### other representatives of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency may be able to communicate with him tomorrow. Schick is an Austrian citizen. His duties consisted in distributing Jewish Telegraphic Agency news received in Berlin among the newspapers of Germany which receive the Jewish Telegraphic Agency service. He was also editor of the Berlin Bulletin of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Word of Mr. Schick’s arrest was first received here Thursday but no grounds for the action were disclosed by the Nazi officials.
Nazi authorities have frequently expressed sharp dissatisfaction with news stories credited to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and have on several occasions threatened to close the agency’s Berlin office.
The State Department at Washington has been asked to aid in effecting Mr. Schick’s release.
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