The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02

cessor substitute as chancellor president in case of his death or his absence from his duties.
 An oath binding the Reichswehr to absolute loyalty to Hitler as commander in chief was promul- gated at once. It will be taken by every German soldier.
 Change Quickly Made
 The Nazi machine functioned with utmost precision.
 Hindenburg died at a. m.
 At 9:45 Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, announced over the radio:
 German people! Reich Presi- dent Hindenburg at 9 a. m. passed into eternity"
 Soon afterward an announcer said:
 There will be another announce ment shortly
 At 1O:15, 75 minutes after Hin denburg's death. Goebbels an- nounced that Hitler was president He explained:
 ''In consequence of a law passed by the cabinet last night the leader takes over all the powers of pres- ident.'
 The old order was past. It had overlapped the new, as personi- fled by Hitler, by 16 months.
 AS Goebbels spoke his staccati in- to the microphone, housewives. who at their work heard the death announcement were passing it from door to door, and it went from street to street and from town to country all over Germany.
 People Hear of It
 When the announcement came that Hitler was leader at last. witn- out the stubborn hand of Hinden- burg to oppose him when old and new clashed, householders and porters were just bringing out their black flags, or Nazi flags draped in crepe.
 The flags on public buildings were half staffed.
 Traffic, and Berlin's work, went on.
 Knots of people began gathering at street corners. z.
 The huge swastikas, and the black. white and red flag. on the Reichstas building dropped on their poles in the quiet air.
 It was the burning of the Reichstag that put Hitler in real power by giving him an excuse to crush the left wing opposition clements.
 At Moment of Death
 While Germans wondered what the future would bring. the radio flashed out its waves silently over the street crowds the next an- nouncement from Goebbels:
 "The law which permitted the leader to take over the Reich presidents duties went into force at the moment of death.
 ''The German people will give the Reich president state fun eral."
 Wilhelm Prick. minister of in- terior, announced period Of na- tional mourning.
 Orders were sent out that flags should fly at half staff for two weeks on all military buildings an' half mast on ships
 Officials and public servants were ordered to wear mourning panus on their left sleeves.
 Orders for Mourning
 Defense Minister Werner Won Blomberg. Goebbels announced, ordered that all army officers wear mourning two weeks. Those of the first. third and sixteenth regiments, with which Hindenburg was asso- ciated, will wear mourning four weeks
 The guard of honor for linden burg's bier was drawn from the third.
 Twenty-one gun salutes by all warships were ordered from an" tomorrow and at 8 am. on the funeral day.
 All Nazis were ordered to wear mourning bands for two weeks ana to play no music.
 Public entertainment was can celled for today and for the das of the funeral.
 Church bells were ordered ty Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller 10 be tolled today and daily until the funeral.
 No public music must be played until the funeral. n, On the funeral day traffic will DC halted for one minute and factory workers will stand idle.
 Goebbels finished his announce. ments at 1925, after talking lo minutes. II,
 An orchestra played the old, soldier song: T Had Comraue.
 Third Reich Has Started
 The new phase of the third. Reich had started.
 For the first time in ms 10 months in office Hitler was m charge not only of the Nazis and the police, but of the treaty limited army of 100000 that is regarded as the finest in the world.
 It had been admitted that the Reichswehr, which was under Hindenburg as commander in chief and to a man was for him, could have crushed Nazism.
 It was significant. therefore, that Blomberg in the post mortem proclamation to the Reichswehr said:
 .'our grief is mingled with pride that he was one of ours. His ex- ample will forever admonish us to devote our lives to the Father land.
 Remembering this heroic fig ure. we march into the future full of confidence in the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler"
 It was Hindenburg's epitaph and Hitler's commission as commander- in-chief.
 In the chancellery and the other government buildings here there was the epitome of life, as at the chateau at Neudeck there was the epitome of death.
 It was. no less than In mon. archy where sorrow for dead king must be tempered with anti- cipation Of the new, case of The