Evening star., 1933-02-23
.H|NDENBURG HELD
BARRED TO PUBLIC
Schaeffer of Bavaria Charges
Hitler Seeks to Curb
y President.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February 23-Charge that
the door to President Paul Won Hin
denburg has been closed to the public
since Adolf Hitler became chancellor
was before the German electorate to-
day.
1t was made last night by Fritz
Schaeffer, Bavarian Peoples party
leader, in a campaign speech at Nurem-
berg. He charged Hitlerites with seek
ing to curb the free will'' of the former
field marshal, although under the
German constitution the powers of the
President exceed those of the chancellor.
This came close upon a sensational
report Of plot to kidnap the 85-year-
old President after the March elec-
ton. Published in Swiss newspapers,
1t was described as too silly" for de-
NAL by the Hitler government.
The threat of Hitlerites that they will
retain the helm of government by force,
If necessary. If the Reichstag and Prus-
sian Diet elections go against them has
given rise to many expressions of doubt
concerning the influence of the Presi-
dent.
The Centrists, allies of the Bavarian
Peoples party, charged that Hitler led
the President into dissolving the last
Reichstag on false information" that
they refused to tolerate a Hitler cab
met. The Presidents refusal to hear
ms old friend, Premier Braun of PruS-
sia, before transferring his powers to
Reich commissioner also caused queS-
tioning among Hitler foes.
AT the time he elevated Hitler to the
| 2llorship, however, the President
took steps to curb Hitler's powers by
making Baron Won Papen vice chancel-
lor and naming a cabinet with a Ma
tionalist majority
Reports that Hitlerites are deter
mined to have a federal commissioner
for Bavaria after March led to the
charges by Schaeffer. But he added
that the "Bavarian people and the de-
! tense organizations would arrest COM
missioner at the border"
| Prussia is the only state new under
rule of commissioner Vice Chancel-
lor Won Papen was given that post.
| Chancellor Hitler told the Associated
Press in an exclusive interview that
Germany will gladly scrap her army If
other nations do away with theirs"
He also discussed his plan for COM
pulsory labor, declaring it would tend
to break down class differences in Ger
many. He said there would be "en-
nobling" manual work for all.
Same Standards for All.
/ In line with Germany's demand for
! juridical equality in arms, when it
withdrew from the Disarmament Con-
ference for more than three months last
year. Hitler said: I'VE insist the same
standards shall apply fora
He declared his governments attitude
toward the United States was one Of
honest friendship" and that he be-
lieved private debts incurred abroad
must be paid back.
| But the debtor from whom one Is
| to get money back must not be first an
initiated by political or economic mea-
sures," he added.
! He insisted his compulsory labor pan
was not associated in any way with ma
! tional defense.
Compulsory labor duty is above all
| to keep hundreds Of thousands Of young
workers from going helplessly to ruin
| on the streets, but beyond that it is to
serve toward bridging class antagonism
! by common education for manual
work. Our young people will learn 20
realize that manual work is something
which ennobles man." he declsrcd.
There is talk of doing away with the
Regular Army and substituting militia.
cannot escape the impression that this
is merely sidestepping the crux Of the
problem. The decisive point Is not sys-
| TENS of defense but equality.
1T is matter of indifference to Us
/ what systems of defense other nations
desire. 1t is not matter of indiffer-
ence. however. whether one nation pos
sesses 100000 men (the -4nn1H imposed
on Germany by the Versailles treaty.,
without reserves. while another, with
its allies can, in the event of War, mobil-
iZe over $4,000 ,000," he said.
I The newspaper Mittagzeitung reports
/ that nine families were m3de homeless
| in GroSsbeeren, a. Prussian village IL
miles from Potsiam, after group of
men dressed in NaI uniforms invaded
the apartment of Mason named
Karl Schlombach, Reichsbanner
member
Herr Schlombach and Frau Schlom-
bach. clad in night clothing, Jumped
from a win6ow when the brown-shirted
men forcibly opsned the doo-, the news
paper said. After the couples flight, fire
started in their rooms which soon
spread over the entire house making
nine families homeless. The Mittag-
Zeitung was convinced that the uni
formed invaGers set fire to the building.
An official report merely recorded the
fire without assigning reaeons and also
claim7d that ony six families we're
maze homeless.