The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-03

They declined to say whether Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen who was in the building, had par ticipated in the meeting.
 Chancellor Adolf Hitler issued a decree that henceforth anyone re- sisting the measures formulated on Sunday night for suppression of the storm troop revolt would be handed over to the normal chan nels of justice.
 The decree was interpreted as meaning that all suspects are now accounted for-dead or in custody and that the government fears no further insubordination.
 Many Face Court Martial
 Investigations, these informanto said, were proceeding. Many per- son5 were in prison facing court mastial. and it was said that new executions might follow.
 Final reports must be awaited, it was said. before the toll of death could be stated accurately
 But the cabinet itself was to decide the question of how many names were to be added to the list of victims of the bloody campaign of reprisal.
 There were hints that some lead CTS thought Hitler waited too long to crub his storm troops and that, had he acted sooner, he might have avoided show down. These ele- ments. it was indicated. would urge stern elimination of dissident lead CTS.
 The Wilhelmstrasse before the Rt tn V,n al lal tor cars while the cabinet met. walks as long as they could, but police continued to keep them on the move.
 Everybody hoped to see Hitler. He remained the dominant figure in the public mind.
 Won Papen Interesting
 Won Papen remained, and seem- ed likely to remain for the pres ent, the most interesting figure politically. His retention in the cabinet, his diplomatic removal to another post or his exclusion as an alien element seemed likely to have bearing on the fate of the suspect storm troopers and in fact on the goal toward which Hitler and his men, at their momentous session, must begin to point their third reich after this crisis.
 As the cabinet met, it was an- nounced that Minister of Econom- 1cs Kurt Schmitt had sufficiently recovered from an illness" to take a long vacation.
 Hitler it was said, visited him for an hour last night.
 At 12:30 p. m. 15 ordinary storm troopers arrived in the Wilhelm strasse and entered the chancel- lery, where the cabinet was in ses- sion.
 Troops Guard Von Papen
 Twelve minutes later a large police truck carrying 60 SS men. the picked black uniformed body guards, wearing side arms and metal helmets, arrived in the Will helmplatz. They formed ranks and marched into the vice chancellery Won Papen's office.
 The crowd outside began buzzing with suppressed excitement. Police constantly warned loiterers to move on.
 !, Minister of Economics Schmitt last Thursday addressed a conven- ton of members of German Cham bers of Commerce abroad, saying that the Nazi government was pre- pared to fight against any reprisals taken by foreign nations as the re- suit of the moratorium on foreign debts.
 After the meeting it was an- nounced that because of the heat, and the strain of his recent work, he had to rest after the speech and that his doctor advised quiet. - Friday, the day before the storm troop revolt, it was announced of 4icially that. exhausted, he would take two weeks vacation. X Schmitt entered the cabinet as a 3non-Nazi but applied for Nazi membership.
 Goal of Hitler
 But more important to the inn mediate future of this nation of S5,000,000 politically conscious people loomed the goal toward which Hitler and his aides would