Evening star., 1932-03-10
BERLIN PREPARES
FOR BALLOT RIOTS
Public Warned of Sunday
Possibilities, but Assured
of Police Strength.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 10.-Government Of
ncials prepared today for any eventual
ity which might follow next Sunday S
presidential election, even a general re-
volt of Adolf Hitler's National So
cialists.
Some uneasiness developed yesterday
over the possibility of an uprising of the
Nazis in case the election goes against
them
Two Hitlerite engineers, Theodore
Eickel and F. Kemmet, were arrested at
LudwigShafen, charged with Illegally
manufacturing 80 bombs. An editorial
in the Nazi newspaper at Halle declared
there must be no second balloting even
II Sundays election brings no absolute
majority for any Of the four candidates.
Assurances Of Police.
Police chiefs throughout the country
assured the people that they were ready
to prevent any illegality, even if 1t be-
came necessary to use the strongest
measures
Gustave Noske, provincial governor
In President Paul Won Hindenburg's S
home town of Hanover, was especially
outspoken. As minister of defense in
The first days of the republic Herr
Noske put down Communist uprisings
with an iron hand.
Before me stand 1000 steel-hard
trained men," he said, pointing to the
assembled Hanover police From q
thousand gun barrels into which all
who dream of forcible seizure of power
can look, not only can shots emanate,
but they are bound to hit the mark.
It is well for everybody in these serious
times to know what's what"
Curb on Newspapers.
Newspapers have been forbidden to
post election results in their windows
next Sunday or to project them on
lantern screens. Citizens have been
urged to sit in the safety Of their homes
and listen to the election returns over
the radio.
President Won Hindenburg'S only
campaign speech will be radio broad
cast from his study tonight
The Presidents address will be broad
cast at $3.50 pm. over nation wide
hook-up. For several days the strong
willed, vigorous minded octogenarian
hA.j been rewriting and polishing what
has been described in official circles as
his report on a seven-year steward
ship"
Write Important Message.
Although ordinarily documents of this
kind are first drafted by lesser officials
and submitted to their chiefs for ap-
proval, alteration and inclusion of per-
sonal phrases and expressions, the
doughty old warrior President declined
such assistance telling his COW workers
that such an important message must
be written by the man himself who as
sumes the responsibility for it, -
With strict Interpretation of the con-
struction in mind. however. he insisted
that Chancellor Heinrich Bruening,. as
political head of the nation, approve
the speech before it is uttered by him
into the microphone in ais simple
study on Wilhelmstrasse.
The President is scheduled to speak
Is minutes.
Election Officials Busy.
Thirty-five election district Offices
throughout the country have been work.
ing overtime for the last two weeks,
some of them hiring as many as 400
from the ranks of the unemployed, to
bring their election lists up to date.
From March 3 to March 6 these lists
were exhibited in public so that every
body was able to convince himself his
IlaIllc WAS properly eIlUSIeO IN Ille llSC
OF his precinct. Not being mentioned
in the official list means the loss Of the
right to vote
Germany's voting population. all men
and women who have completed their
Goth year on March 13, has increased
since the last Reichstag election In Sep
tember, 1890. by, roughly 900 900, and
numbers now 100000.
Voters Number 35,200,O00.
1t is generally estimated in political
circles 80 per cent, or about $4,000 900
voters, will distribute their ballots
among the four candidates. President
Won Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler are
the favorites The Nationalist Theo-
dore Duesterberg and the Communist
Ernst Thaelnann are regarded as out
siders.
In compliance with the presidential
election law, the candidate who polls
half the votes cast is elected. If the
estimates prove accurate. either Won
Hindenburg or Hitler would have to
poll, roughly, 17,6oo,o0o votes to win on
the first ballot
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