Evening star., 1932-08-01
Doubles Seats in Reichstag,
but Lacks Control-Com-
muniStS Gain Sharply.
Won PAPEN MAY RETAIN
POWER FOR JUNKERS
Radical Leader Among Fatalities
Following Election-Prussia
Issues Final Warning"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August Adolf Hitler's
push for complete power in Germany
was stopped today.
The question, following yesterdays
elections, was whether the present gov
eminent under the junker-soldier Gen
Won Schleicher would continue OF
whether Hitler could negotiate an al
lance with former Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening.
Hitler and his Nazi followers doubled
their strength in the Reichstag over
four years ago, bat fell far shcrt OF
achieving the clear majority they
sought, receiving little more than one
third of the total vote.
Nazis Have 230 Seats.
The official apportionment Of seats
indicated the new Reichstag will have
GOT members, distributed among the
parties as fellows:
Nazis, 230; Socialist, 1873; Centrists
and Bavarian Peoples Party, 81; Com
munsts, 80; Nationalists, 81; Populists,
Z; Christian Socialists, 4; Economic
party, 2; Agricultural Alliance, 2; Farm
ers' Federation, 2; States Party, 2;
Farmers Party, 2.
A press dispatch from Kenigsberg
today said Herr Sauff, leader of the
Communist Party there, and Com
munist named Zrpius died from bullet
wounds received early this morning In
a post-election riot.
The dispatch quoted police as saying
all of the attackers were believed to be
National Socialists.
Attack Jewish Leaders Home.
An attack also was made on the
home of the leading member of the
Jewish Citizens Society, it said, but 1t
was frustrated by police in the nick OF
time to prevent possible serious conse-
Quences.
Bottles filled with combustible mate
rial set fire to the Offices of the news
papers HartungSche Zeitung and Koe-
nigsberg Tageblatt, but the flames were
put out before much damage was done.
The gasoline pumps of a big motor
garage also were set aflre.
There were numerous other disturb
ances which resulted in fatalities.
At Brunswick a man was killed and
several were injured when a bomb ex-
ploded on the doorstep of the home OF
the Socialist mayor.
One man was killed and many were
wounded in fights between Nazis and
Communists in Colditz and Gross
choenau both in SaXOny.
One Killed in Hamburg.
At Hamburg one man was killed and
a number of others, including two po-
hceman, were injured in street fights
and there we're similar disorders in hall
a dozen villages of Schleswig- -Holstein
This afternoon Franz Bracht, CON-
missioner for Prussia, issued last
warning" to all political organizations
threatening heavy punishment II THESE
acts of violence continue.
At Munich, Hitler issued a statement
to his followers in which he called the
election "our greatest success and
pledged them to carry on the fight
with unabated vigor."
THE National Socialist party is now
the strongest in the Reichstag," he said
Our movement, unmatched in the his
tory of the nation, is the result OF tre-
mendous labor and cool deliberation.
In an address to his 100000 storm
troops he said:
AN overwhelming victory has been
won through the supreme sacrlf1ce OF
our comrades Now. as never before
the dead have bound us to the sacred
duty of carrying on the fight for Ger
many's freedom"
Communists Make Gains.
Besides the rightist parties failure .tc
get a majority, the greatest surprise
was the rise of the Communists, who
increased their strength from II seats
to 80. -. ~.
This was taken as evidence that the
rehabilitation of Germany was conthu-
ing and the crushing of the moderate
parties of the Right, even including Al
fred Hugenberg's Nationalists, who, toI
a brief period in 1924, were the chlel
party in the Reich, was accepted as IN
dicatlng that the middle-of-the-road
course no longer appeals to the Ger
man voter.
In a vote which was split nearly
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