Evening star., 1932-08-30
HITLER LIEUTENANT
/ RE|CHSTAG HEAD
Goering Elected as NaziS
Score First Victory in
Stormy Session.
Continued From First Page.)

: - =
the Office traditionally goes to the nom
inee of the largest party, Goering S
election was regarded ss certain.
Goering captain in the World War,
is called the diplomat of the brown
house." Hitlers headquarters in Mu-
mich. In 1918 he commanded the Ia
nous flying squadron named after
Baron Won Richtofen.
After that he trained flyers for a
while in Denmark and Sweden. He was
Hitler's right-hand man in the beer
cellar putsch" of 1923. He was wounded
in that escapade and fled the country
to escape imprisonment. He has sat in
the Reichstag since 1928.
Prussian Diet Opens.
TIE Prussian Diet opened while the
Reichstag members were participating
in the divine service which customarily
precedes the first session.
The ministerial benches were empty
and the speaker gave the floor first to
Heinrich Hirstiefer, who was acting pre-
mier when the federal government
elected the Prussian cabinet from Of
fee. In lcng statement Herr HirtSiefer
traced the events which led up to re-
moval of the PrusSian cabinet and
sought to show that the federal gov
eminent had acted unconstitutionally.
The present federal commiSsionership,
headed by Franz Bracht, already has
indicated that it regards the Diet as
little more than a dummy organization
to which the present government is not
responsible. Herr Bracht said the other
day that he was willing to appear before
the Diet, but that if he did SO it would
be merely matter of courtesy, since
Ic h ell 81
the President.
It was little past 3 o'clock when
Frau Zetkin mounted the rostrum as
speaker pro tenn and opened the session
of the Richstag.
She was in the chair by virtue of a
custom that the senior member of the
House shall open the new session. The
National Socialists and their allies have
objected StrenuouSly for several days
to her selection, characterizing her pres
ence IN the chair as an insult to the
nation.
She is feeble and emaciated now, but
still burning with revolutionary fervor.
Two women Communists were at her
side as she hobbled to the speakers
chair and sounded the gong calling the
House to order.
Communists Give Salute.
Two hundred and thirty Nazis, in full
brown-shirt regalia, sat among the SOB
members. AS Frau Zetkin mounted the
rostrum the Communist deputies rose,
extended their fists and greeted her
with shouts of "red 'front.'"
Contrary to expectations, the Nazis
ignored this demonstration and the
speakers opening address was met with
stony silence.
FrTz 1. ~. @xx-I,., -, lax,a n6
that some means be found to keep a
Communist out of the chair were
chastened yesterday by Hitler himself,
who ordered that they behave and give
the Nation an example of discipline.
Another reason for their good be-
havior lay in the fact that they de-
sired to do nothing which would give
the chancellor an excuse to present a
decree of dissolution before the Reichs-
tag even got started.
Strong police guards were at all ap-
proaches to the Reichstag building and
tickets of admission, having been pro-
cured weeks in advance, were no longer
available. No one without pass was
allowed near the building and those
who did get in were obliged to show
their tickets five times on the way TO
the assembly hall.
Won Papen- Hitler Breach Widens.
On the eve Of the opening of the new
Reichgtag Chancellor ven Papen fatty
told Hitler yesterday he could not take
a hand in the government of Germany
and Hitler replied in kind last night.
After the National Socialist chieftain
had broken bread with the chancel-
lor and Defense Minister Kurt Won
Schleicher the Associated Press learned
from an authoritative source that the
former had been told it was too late
to consider his proposals fer seat in
the cabinet.
In a spirited address to the 230 Ma
tional Socialist members of the Reich
stag, by far the strongest bloc, the re-
pulsed Fascist leader indicated the
breach between him and Won Papen
had widened to point where he could
not possibly support or tolerate the
present government.
Returning violently to the death SEN
tences imposed on five of his adherents
for a political Staying, Hitler said:
so long as the government makes
Beuthen possible, the Nazis cannot sup
port it. To me it is not understandable
why five NaZis should be placed under
the knife because of one Polish insur-
gent who fought against our brothers
in Silesia"