Evening star., 1934-09-02
HITLER MAY NAME
OZARK HORSE" AID
Speculation Stirred as Plans
Are Made for Nurnberg
Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September with the
pomp and pageantry of the annual
Nazi party congress at Nurnberg next
week as his backdrop, Adolf Hitler
may choose to tell Germany the name
Of his second in command.
Sources close to Der Fuehrer said
tonight he might pick the Nurnberg
meeting for his all-important an
nouncement.
Who the man would be, however,
none ventured to predict.
Out of the furor of speculation
rampant ever since Hitler, at the time
he assumed the presidential powers
of the late Paul Won Hindenburg, re-
vealed plans to select his deputy and
political heir, three names have
emerged They are:
/. Rudolph Hess. tall, handsome
minister without portfolio in the Hit
Ter cabinet. AS Hitler's representa-
tive with full authority to settle party
matters, Hess commands the potent
support of an inner clique of Nazis.
2. Gen. Werner Won Blomberg,
hard bitten commander of the
Reichswehr, the German regular
army, who is supported by that steel
helmeted organization.
8. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's
fiery, inventive minister of propa-
ganda, who has his own following.
Also mentioned, though not so
prominently, are Herr Wilhelm Goer-
ing, minister for air, and Viktor
Lutte. leader of the Storm Troops.
Dark Horse" Possible.
Neutral observers who know Hitler
pointed out tonight that no single
member of his brain trust" can fore
cast what the chancellor will do,
and hence Nurnberg may be surprised
to hear Hitler has chosen some dark
horse" previously unmentioned.
A triumvirate was considered not
unlikely, too, on the assumption that
Hitler would hesitate to confer too
much power on any one man.
The announcement of Hitler's deputy
was not the only major political de-
velopment expected in connection with
the Nazi congress-an affair to be
staged with all the pomp, all the
brilliance, all the imagination that
characterize such mammoth demon
strations of loyalty to Hitler.
In the course of seven major ad-
dresses he will deliver, during the
time he is not engaged reviewing Nazi
paradeS, Chancellor Hitler is expected
to embellish the party'S views on
foreign policy and economic matters,
and lay the groundwork for extern
sive party reorganization involving
hundreds.
Papers Are Silent.
Speculation as to the identity of
Hitler's deputy failed to appear in
any German paper, despite the
columns devoted to preparations for
the Nurnberg festival, the closing of
the famed Oranienberg concentration
camp and the combining of the Storm
Troops and Nazis Motor Corps.
These last two happenings Berlin
took to presage further important de-
velopments in the national Socialist
battle to unity Germany under its
banner.
Closing of the Oranienberg camp
and release of the Communists.
Socialists and other assorted enemies
of the state" held there the capital
took to mean that Nazi-ism henceforth
Will try to WOO and win, instead of
fighting, its enemies.
The Welding of the motorized Nazi
and Storm Troop Corps into one unit
was interpreted as further evidence
of Hitler's intention to shake up the
party.
BalIyhOO for Gathering.
With true Nazi fervor the party
has billed its Congress, opening Tues
day, as the biggest ever"
Diplomatic representatives of ia
pan, Turkey, Venezuela, Bolivia,
Egypt, the Dominican Republic,
Greece, Poland, Chile, Persia, Mexico,
Guatemala, Panama, Uruguay, AZ
ghanistan, Nicaragua, Portugal, Lux
embourg, Bulgaria, Lithuania and
Hungary have accepted invitations to
be present.
Considered significant, however,
was the fact that no representative
of the so-called major powers, with
the exception Of that Of Japan, ac-
cepted.
Last year the Italian Ambassador
was the only big power" envoy to
attend.
The conventions theme has been
struck in medals showing an armored
knight with a SwaStika, the Nazi
party symbol, on his shield
/ A NaZi leader tonight termed the
Congress ''the elimination of the rise
of national Socialism" as figures
were issued showing just how big an
event it is expected to be.
| There will be 525 special trains
carrying Germans to Nurnberg
against 302 last year. Thirty thou.
sand visitors will be housed in fac.
tories, Al 900 in Nurnberg homes
while the rest will live in tents pitched
on the outskirts of the city.
For these last, 10000 hundred
weight of straw is being procured fo
bedding.
Food Is Problem.
Challenging even the excellent Ger
man Nazi discipline was the task pre-
sented by sanitary arrangements ant
food supplies for the horde of visitors
but even this problem, it was emf
IDENTIFY predicted, would be solved.
Hundreds have been busy for TIVE
weeks decking ancient Nurnberg, 1,50C
years old, in festive garments for th
occasion.
Among the visitors will be 1900
Nazis living abroad. Twelve thousan,
carrier pigeons will n released durin'