Evening star., 1932-08-26
HITLER REPORTED
TO HAVE COLLAPSED
Nazi Berlin Office Calls Ru-
NOR Nonsense, Saying
7 Leader Is in Mountains.
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, August 26-Adolf Hitlel
had disappeared from his accustomed
haunts today and runor spread that
he had ben taken to a sanitariun after
q nervous collapse.
Two newspapers carried the story and
Hitler's associates in the National So
cialist party spent most Of the morning
describing the rumor as utter nonsense
"The wish is father to the thought,
said Mai. Hans Weberstedt, head OF the
Nazi publicity Office in Berlin, Hitler
never felt better in his life. He has
sane up to the mountains above Berch-
tesgaden."
The party headquarters in Munich
called the story of his breakdown an
absolute lie" Ernsthamfstaengl, the
publicity chief there, said Hitler mao
gene on a long fishing trip.
Nevertheless the rurnor persisted. II
was said Hitler's violent language In a
message to Chancellor Won Papen the
other dav concerning imposition OF tne
Jaath sentence on five Fascist at Beu-
then showed that his nerves were un-
etr,1np One story going around toady
soid Hitler made strange lmplessloiI ,a
an the chancellor when they talkeu W.
weeks ago by constantly siappuls ~.
thighs in a nervous gesture oulhls '4ie4-
conversation.
Work Creation Planned.
No+;oralization of several key indus
.-;oe and further taxation OF German
canital to finance gigantic laooI cle-
o+ion scheme were discussed TO-DAY as
POSSIBLE projects of Chancellor rfaiiA
Von Papens government: s,- y,
Aroused by these reports, leadlng IN
s,,etr;aIists have called on the chan-
ceIior it was learned today, TO ualk
over his Forthcoming economic poncy,
,ybich will be disclosed in an address
tn Westphalian farmers at MueiiS'et
Sunday. - q oro,,n
,o.+erdav To confer with Herr Won
Saren They included the famous Ut,
KrInn Won Bohlen Und Halbach, neao
of the Krupp works; LuoWlg hasti'
fnancier and industrialist; Carl BOSCH
dve magnate, and Frledrlcn Foii
Siemens. electrical manufacturer.
# has been intimated that plans are
stoot for "systemized economy which
wight mean naturalization OF key IN
dustries for economic purposes.
Reported Tax on Capital
There were also hints that the gov
ernment is contemplating a plan 10
f7nance a labor creation scheme oy
general tax of 8 per cent against Ger
man capital, or by per cent COM
,,,11eorv loan from private citizens 70
the government. ..
The general idea would be to get
the wheels of industry moving "1tn
additional money issued on the pasls
of the loan or tax. This increase IN
currency. its advocates assert, Wouio
increase the taxable capacity OF the
naticn IN such a way that the strong
reflux of money would preclude the
danger OF imitation.
Dr. Hans Luther, president OF the
Reichbank, and other business men
were reported as objecting to the plaIi
and doubling that it would prove prof.
liable in the long run. Ihe mous-
trialists' position regarding the loea
was not divulged pending the oeci-
sion of the cabinet as to how the
money should be raised to finance the
labor scheme.
In the political field, meanwhile, ne
rotiations for a coalition between the
Centrists of former Chancellor Heln-
rich Breuning and Adolf Hitler's Nazs
appeared to have failed definitely.
There were some reports that the
government hoped for disorderly
deadlock when the new Reichstag con-
venes next Tuesday, thereby permit.
ting a dissolution decree that would
leave the government in the position
OF practical dictatorship.
Report to Hindenburg.
Chancellor Won Papen will depart for
Neudeck, East Prussia, on Monoay 70
rs oort to President Won Htndenburg
at his country estate on the political
situation.
At the same time he will submit the
details of the labor creation scheme
and the economic program as a whole,
which probably will be made effective
in the middle Of next week by emer-
gency DEGREES.
The chancellor is expected to obtain
the Presidents signature to a decree
dissolving the new Reichstag in case 1t
proves recalcitrant.
Political interest has shifted from the
dramatic events centering in the
Beuthen death sentences against f1ve
Fascist political killers, to the govern
ment's economic program, which the
cabinet meant to complete today. The
newspaper Berliner Zeitung Am Mittag
said the government was considering a
floating employment project to be
financed by a compulsory loan.
In Thuringia today the Farmers
party and the German Nationalists in
the Diet voted to sustain the National
Socialist cabinet, headed by Fritz
Sauckel, district leader Of the Nazis.
The police president yesterday sus-
pended the Communist paper Rote
Fahne for eight days because Of violent
attacks against the emergency speed