Noted Actor, Journalist Arrested in Vienna; Seized Leaders Allowed to See Wives

Ludwig Stossl, well-known actor of Max Reinhardt’s Josefstadt Theatre, and Dr. Irvin Honig, former correspondent of the Prager Tageblatt of Praha, are among the latest Jews to be arrested by the Nazi authorities, it was disclosed today.

For the first time since their arrests, several Jewish leaders were permitted to communicate with their wives, all of them stating that they were being treated well. A number of the arrested, including Dr. Desider Friedmann, president of the Austrian Zionist Organization, and Oskar Greenebaum, former president, have been transferred from Rossauerlande prison to the twentieth District School, which was transformed into a prison.

Bruno Walter, exiled German-Jewish conductor, who recently ended his connection with the Vienna State Opera, and Lothar Wallerstein, discharged Jewish director of the opera, have been forbidden to participate in the forthcoming music festival in Florence through action by the Italian Foreign Office, the Neue Wiener Tagblatt reported, asserting that they would be replaced by “Aryans.”

A number of Jewish merchants in the lower Austrian town of Wiener-Neustadt have been forced to display signs in their windows reading, “This shop belongs to a pig Jew.” While most signs have been removed from Jewish shops in Vienna, anti-Jewish placards are displayed in some public offices. Signs have been posted on the walls of the municipal building in the Twelfth District declaring, “The S.A. (Sturm-Abteilung, or Storm Troops) warns against buying from Jews” and “He who buys from Jews is a traitor to his country.”