Evening star., 1932-04-11
H|NDENbURG WINS
GERMAN MAJORITY
Bruening viii Keep Post as
Nations Head Asks Re-
neWed Unity.
BY the Associated rress.

' DS tlit saSNNA4 A4ahEN r ItNNs
BERLIN. April l1.-Field Marshal
Paul Won Hindenburg. second President
of the German Republic, settled back
in his presidential chair today at 81
for another term Of years.
In yesterdays run-off election he
rolled up a plurality of nearly 6OO0,-
coo votes over Adolf Hitler, National
Socialist candidate, his chief opponent
The vote, as announced early today,
was:
Won Hindenburg ...........19,359 642
Hitler ..............,.... .13, AT ,46O
Thaelmann tCommunisD -. 3,706388
Invalid Observation-Disclosures. 8,204
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .36, 491 ,694
Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, at
Won Hindenburgs request. consented
to remain in Office. He offered formal
resignation when he copgra tulated the
President on his victory, but withdrew
it later.
Three Die in Disorders
The winner will have the satisfaction
of knowing he is majority president.
1AlbAACG6h W SNL a lllnJOLAIN al
the first election March 13. he rolled
up majority of 2,235,794 yesterday
over the combined vote of his two op-
ponents.
One National Socialist and one Re-
publican were killed during fights in
Hamburg and Bremen. Another man
dropped dead from excitement. Three
| score persons were injured and hun
| dreds arrested.
Early this morning Hitler called on
his followers to gird for the Prussian
Diet elections on April "a in an effort
| to march a step farther toward the
goal he called German liberation"
This Nationalist Socialists know not
| what rest is" he said.
That the Hitler movement apparently
came to a standstill yesterday would
seem to be indicated by the fact that
although his increase from 31.1 per
cent of the vote on March 13 to $3.50
per cent yesterday was substantial vet
the difference did not equal the vote
cast for Lieut.. Col. Theodore Duester-
berg, Nationalist candidate in the
March election, who withdrew from the
run-off.
A large section of the Nationalist
was shown to have failed to swing to
Hitler and President Won Hindenburg
increased the percentage of his own
vote from 49.6 to $50.
Perhaps no public man in Germany
was happier over the result than Chan
cellor Bruening, who sat in solitude in
his study late last night, putting on his
inevitable black cigar, as the returns
were delivered.
Press Halls Results.
I. He plans to leave Berlin Wednesday
for Geneva for negotiations of vital in
terest to Germany and he also must
soon face Germany's international
creditors at Lausanne. One of his
chief pleas during the campaign was for
an Endorsement of the President as
symbol of Germans unity and deter
mlnation TO come back" by peaceful
means.
The leading newspaper of the Rhine
land, the Cologne Gazette, said this
morning: The nation prefers the
straight sacrifcial road of common
sense rather than the promises and
experiments of radicaliSm." The Volks-
zeitung of Cologne called the Presi-
| dents reelection "Germanys with
! orawal from radicalism"
The Social Democratic Vorwaerts
sad that "HencefOrth efforts must be
concentrated to keep Hitler from med
ding with the nations plans and seiz-
! ing power Illegally
Hitler's gain OF, roughly, 1000 900
| over his total in the March 13 election
came chiefly from districts where
| Duesterberg's steel Helmet" organiza-
! ton of war veterans is strongly or
! ganized, such as in Potsdam and
| Thuringia.
| When the President rose this morn
| ing and members of his household con-
graduated him. he modestly observed :
! May Gods blessing rest on this de-
! cisiOn Of the German people and turn
| everything for the fatherland's good"
He was evidently in the best Of
| health and spirits After breakfast the
venerable octogenarian sat down to
write what he called an "alfocution"
! to the German nation, in which he
thanked the voters for the confidence
they had shown, solemnly repledged
his fidelity to the fatherland and urged
that all partisan strife be forgotten.