Evening star., 1933-03-12
100000 OFFICES
AT STAKE IN VOTE.
Million Run in Two Reich
Elections GoerinJ Pians
Communist Cleanout.

BERLIN, Mach 1l.-Chancellor Adolf
Hiler's iron broom will be welded more
vigorously than ever tomorrow when
two more elections will be held through
out the Reich These are the pro-
vincial and municipal communal elec-
tions.
1t is estimated that the fate of 200,-
900 officehclders will be at stake. Ap-
proximately million candidates arc
running for the places.
In Berlin alone, where the Com
munists hitherto have been dom aant
T,403 candidates are running fc- 225
municipal cffice3 and 76o che: jobs
in greater Beriia's 20 district.
The fate Of Observation-Disclosures
councilmen end other officials may be
imagined from q speech delivered yes
terday By Hermann Goering, minister
without portfolio, at Essen.
Goerins Prepares Dccrcc.
This coming Sunday there will be a
big cleanout and it will only be the
beginning" Capt Coering said. The
German communes. once the strength OF
the German people, are ruined and
overburdened by debt. The worst form
of corruption has been rampant.
Il have prepared decree, called the
anti-corruption decree, which will tear
up the present accursed system OF graft,
root and branch"
The cabinet minister intimated that
his measures would be retroactive and
that persons found guilty Of graft would
be called upon to refund their spoils.
He hinted that the pensions OF such
offenders might be revoked
Chancellor Hitler, in a final CAM
paign appeal to the nation, asserted that
solidarity in Germany must come be-
fore solidarity with foreign powers.
Reunited Germany First.
"Our first task Is to- reunite Ger
many" he said Peace Is beautiful
and so is strength No one wants our
hand. They want only our money. An
understanding between two parties Is
only possible between equals where
there is equal strength"
The ordering of the election in Prus-
sia, where officials in all city and town
councils and kindred bodies will be
chosen, was part Of the government s
strategy to get control OF the Prussian
Olcl. 1O gain COiilplClc Collt1oi Va tiAA'
body it was necessary to dominate the
Prussian triumvirate, composed OF the
premier, the Diet president and the
president of the state council. the
government hopes that the replace
ment of opposition oficeholders by Hit
Ter supporters will result in the selec-
ton of Nazi as president. of the state
council.
The newly elected Reichstag, in
which the government parties have a
majority. will meet March 81. IN the
Kroll Opera House, opposite the Reich
stag Building, which was damaged by
preceded on the same day by solemn
inaugural ceremony at the Potsdam
Garrison Church, where Frederick the
Great is buried, with President Won
Hindenburg officiating. The new Reich
stag is expected to take an extended
vacation, possibly two years, almest i'm
mediately after it meets. This will
leave the Hitler administration in full
control cf the government.
Will Have Clear Majority.
DR.. Wilhelm Frick, minister of in
terror, is authority for the statement
that the 81 Communists elected to the
Reichstag last Sunday will not be al
lowed to take their seats. Thus the
Nazis will have a clear majority and
will not have to depend on the support
Of their Nationalist allies. .
The extending of NaZi rule to all Ger
many was continued today with the dis;
solution of the Republican Reichsban-
ner organization in Bavaria. This was
ordered by Gen. Franz Won Epp, the
federal commissioner who has taken
over control of Bavaria for the CEN
trail government. Two Bavarian Popu-
list newspapers were suspended for a
week
German Jews have received the gov
ernment's promise that they will be
fully protected by the law, but many
OF them, impelled by anti-Semitic dem
onstrations on the part Of the Nazis,
are taking precautions for their own
safety.
Produce Exchange Invaded.
Numerous Jews have considered it
wiser to leave Germany until conditions
are more nearly normal. Among them
are Theodor Wolff. editor of the Ber-
liner Tageblatt; Prof George Bernard,
former editor of the Vossische Zeitung;
Oscar Conn, former Socialist member
of the Reichstag; Alfred Kerr, dramatic
critic; Bernhard Weiss, formerly sec
ond in command of the Berlin police;
Isaac Steinberg, Russian emigre, who
was minister of justice in Lenin's first
coalition cabinet; George Tietz, head of
a large department store, and Robert
Weismann, states secretary in the for
mer Prussian cabinet headed by Pre-
mier Otto Braun.
The produce exchange at Breslau
was entered today by Nazi storm troops,
who searched the place for arms and
ousted the occupants. Several jewish
owned department stores there were
forcibly closed, and the storm troopers
elected Jewish judges and lawyers from
the courts.
At Gotha chain stores were attacked
by group Of men who started de-
molizlling them, but fled when police
arrived Some arrests were made. Nazis
declared the rioters were Communists
disguised as HitleriteS.