Evening star., 1932-03-07
CALLS H|NDENBURG
FATHER OF REICH
Bruening Compares Presi-
dent to Washington-0ne
Slain in Prediction Riots.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March president Paul
von Hindenburg was compared to George
Washington by Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening yesterday as Father of His
Country who had been maligned, while
the anti-Fasoist iron front" rallied be-
hind the President for the last week of
the prediction campaign.
One person was killed and IL were
wounded in political fights that kept
police on the Jump in all parts of the
capital in the last week end before elec-
tion day.
The analogy between Washington and
Eindenburg, who is a candidate for re-
election next Sunday. was drawn by the
chancellor in a speech at exercises in
the Reichstag hall commemorating the
Blcentennial of Washingtons birth. 1t
was held under the auspices of various
German organizations. including the
Carl Schurz Society.
Hitler Speaks at Weimar.
Other candidates for President of
Germany devoted the week end to
campaign addresses elsewhere, Adolf
Hitler. the Fascist leader and nominee
declaring at Weimar that his National
Socialists were ready to take over the
government.
The Washington memorial exercises
were given an official character by the
presence of Chancellor Bruening, several
other members of the cabinet, a repre-
sentative of President Won Hindenburg
many members of the Reichstag and
members of the American embassy
headed by Ambassador Frederic M
Sackett.
Chancellor Bruening. giving an elect
tion twist to his words, said the diff
culties facing Republican Germany to-
day were similar to those of early
America and that Washington had over
come them because of his strength of
character
Citing statements of James Truslow
Adams American author, and Dr. Mich
olaS Murray Butler, American educator.
to show how Washington was the VIC
tim of bitter personal attacks, Dr.
Bruening referred to Hinderburg with
out mentioning his name, as similar
target of the Rightists in the present
presidential campaign.
Lesson From Washington's Life.
unprecedented are the personal at
tackS and suspicious of opponents
against man who is still living and
also bears the name father of his coun-
try" he said.
The chancellor said lesson for Ger
many of ''persevere. never give up"
was taught by Washington's life.
Closing with review of prominent
Germans in American history. he ex-
pressed the hope that good relations be-
tween Germany and the United States
would never again be broken off Am
bassador Sackett, responding in English
on behalf of the United States Govern
ment, lauded Gen. Won Steuben, Baron
Won Kalb and other Germans in the
struggle for American independence.
In the largest single demonstration
OF Germany's presidential campaign.
$4,000 Republicans representing the
anti-Fascist iron 'front.' thronged the
Lustgarten while a half dozen airplanes
with Hindenburg's name painted on
their wings roared overhead.
Six Republican Reichsbanner men
were injured in cofiicts after the dem
onstration. The political fights were
particularly intense between Hitler's
National Socialists and Communists
over the week end.
Many Arrests Are Made.
One Nazi was shot dead and four
were seriously wounded. Thirty Nazis
and 80 Communists were arrested.
A bystander was in a critical condi-
ton from a fractured skull received in
a mauling during an affray between
political antagonists.
Otto Wells, president of the Social
Democratic party warned at the Iron
front" meeting that "if Hitler, a for
eign adventurer, triumphs the working
class viii be ruthlessly suppressed"
He appealed to the Socialists to vote
for Hindenburg because he was bull
wark against civil war"
Vice Chancellor Hermann Dietrich
took the stump for Hindenburg at
koenigsberg. He appealed to the Ger
man nation to take into account the
difficulties confronting the govern
ment since the war, blaming Germany's
present dilemma on the world conflict.