The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-06-30
HITLER BLOTS OUT
FOES ATTEMPT TO
OVERTHROW Regime
Premier Goerinu Uses Police to
Squelch Revolt Among
Storm Troopers
DRASTIC MEASURES TAKEN
Former Chancellor Killed for
Resisting Arrest a. Con-
spirator

spirator
Copyright 1884, By The Associated
Preso.)
Berlin, June Chancellor Adolf
Hitler Saturday crushed = stubborn
revolution.
Capt. Ernst Roehm, long his closest
friend and his trusted leader Of the
Maxi storm troops, committed suicide
when Hitler had him arrested as q
conspirator.
Kurt Won schleicher, Hitlers pre-
decessor as chancellor Of Germany,
was killed by police when he resisted
arrest Is q conspirator.
Roehm was regarded Is the most
extreme leader Of the radical Nazis;
Won Schleicher was the extreme re-
dictionary who favored the restoration
Of the monarchy to Germany.
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Fhpen,
the man who two weeks ago warned
Hitler that q second revolution led
by extremists was impending, was
taken into protective custody but
soon released.
The Reichswehr-the national army
was ordered to be in readiness
throughout Germany.
Berlin Bglstling With Guns
Reichswehr soldiers. armed with
machine guns, marched down the
great boulevard. Inter
In the heat Of the nations capital.
The soldiers reinforced heavy de-
tails Of police who were scattered
throughout the city, wearing steel
helmets and armed with rifles.
Besides Roehm, q number of other
storm troop leaders were dead within
q few hours Of the time when Hitler
struck. Some Of them committed
suicide: some Of them were killed
resisting arrest, including Edmund
Heines.
The Nazi party announced Roehm
was arrested because he was a con-
spirator, In league not only with Won
Schleicher, but with "a foreign DOW
er" and was, furthermore, Of such an
immoral character that he brought
discredit upon the Nazi movement.
The announcement said that when
Roehm and other leaders were ar
rested under Hitler,s personal direc-
ton. these leaders were found en-
gagged in - spectacle which was SO
sad morally that every trace OF pity
must needs vanish
Not only was Roehm thrown out
to debut Capt. Karl Ernst. leader
Of the storm troops at Berlin, was
summarily disposed Of.
Undesirable Orgies Alleged
Orgies Of an Undesirable nature
BY NaSi storm troop leaders were an
nounced aS responsible for Roehm's
arrest and removal from office.
Ills well-known unfortunate homo
sexual disposition In course Of time
led to such unbearable embarrass-
ment that the leader OF the move
ment and the supreme head Of the
storm troops himself was brought in
to the severest conflict Of conscience, y
the Nad party announced.
The National Socialist party at
once issued an explanatory statement
which said:
Incidents Of q provoking nature
led to Der Fuehrer Immediately re-
moving and arresting two Of the most
compromised leaders.
The execution Of the arrests was
accompanied by . spectacle which
was 90 bad morally that every trace
Of pity must needs vanish.
Some Of these storm troop leaders
had brought boys with them for lust
ful purposes. One Of them was caught
In . most despicable situation and
was arrested.
Der Fuehrer gave orders for the
pittless excision Of this pest and boil.
He viii not tolerate In the future
that millions Of decent people shall
b compromised by individuals with
abnormal tendencies.
Hitler Speaks 70 Leaders
AT II noon. Der Flelrer delivered q |
speech before the higher storm troop
leaders.
"IIe pointed out that for years he !
had protected Captain Roehm against |
m attack Of the severest kind, that |
at last developments had forced him.
however, to place the welfare Of the |
novemsnt and Of the state ahead Of |
lll personal considerations"
A favorable reaction was reported
h Rome Immediately. IN Washing-
Ion no one ct tho German embassy or |
The state department would comment. |
Telephone communications between
Berlin and Paris ware cut OF sud- |