The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-05
NAzI LEADERS
IN EMERGENCY
PARTY SESSION
Present State, Future Trend
and Fortune Topics
of Discussion.
PAPEN'S FATE MYSTERY
Eiuhty Hitler ChieftainS
Meet to Feel Pulse
of Nation.
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Copyright. 1898. BY United Press
BERLIN. July 55.-Nszi political
chieftains, the men who know the
towns and provinces and people in
the streets. met today to discuss the
partys present state and its future
trend and fortunes.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler ordered
what amounted to an emergency
national party convention. He and
Rudolph Hess, German counterpart
Of Postmaster-General James j.
Farley. were expected to join the
convention today If it seemed adj
visable.
There we're eighty delegates in
the conventiOn-state governors and
federal and district leaders from the
states and towns. They sped yes
terday by airplane and special train
from all over the country to the
convention city-Flensburg, on the
German-Danish frontier, away from
the turmoil of the capital.
In addition to the eighty there
we're sixty or more aids and ad
visers. In charge were DR.. Robert
Lev. leader of the national labor
front. comprising all former work
ers' unions. who was chairman: DR..
Paul Joseph Goebbels. minister OF
propaganda. Baldur Won Schirach,
leader Of all the youth organizations;
julius Sreicher, one Of the chief
party publicists and editor Of the
weekly newspaper Der Stuermer;
and Northumberland Franz Rit-
ter Won Epp. governor of Bavaria
and the Nazi partys military ad-
wiser.
Van Papen Future Unknown
Their Job. it seemed, was to dis
cuss the state of the people while
the cabinet here discussed the state
of the nation. and to make sure the
bloody ROehm revolt left the Naz
partv stronger for the loss OF lead
ers who had become embarrassing.
The future of Franz Won Papen,
vice-chancellor, representative OF
President Paul Won Hindenburg and
spokesman for the army and the
Catholics in the cabinet, still was
uncertain.
Official announcement that he
would remain in the cabinet for the
present. despite the humiliations TO
which he had been subjected, deep
ened an apparent mystery.
Offers to Resign Post
He was placed under protective
,-rrest Saturday. and remained in
that state until Monday night, $50
ted in his home under guard OF
the same SIS men who "liquidated
other non Nazis with pistols.
New arrests continued. At MeSer-
itz. Prussia. GregOr MeiSsner was
announced to have been sentenced
to death by a regular court for the
murder of Kurt ElshOlz, a Nazi dis
trict treasurer, two weeks ago. He
is a Catholic. II was alleged that
Catholics were responsible for the
shaving. and that the local branch
OF the CdlilOllC 1outA "a SoAi4@se
had been suppressed.
There had been no announcement
such as was promised-of the total
killed az the result of the Roehm
revolt slice Tuesday night. Then
the propaganda ministry gave the
total as fOrty-SiX.
New deaths were being turned up
daily although it was not taken to
mean that new killings were IN
progress but merely that unrevealed
Weekend killings were coming to
light.
The best private sources tailed
fairly closely with official announce
ments, still putting a tentative max
imum Of around fifty or sixty
throughout the country.