The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-01
LYMPIC SHOW STARTS TODAY
 IN HUGE BOWL
Hitler Opens Games as 10000 Jam Every
 Corner of Stadium
By STUART CAMERON Limited Preas Shorts EditOr)


 Berlin, Aug. l--(UP)-At 4 p. m. (noon EDT) today, Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler rises from his seat of honor in oiylmpic stadium and, with ono sentence opens the greatest of all Olympiads.
 More than 10000 spectators damned into every cranny of the huge concrete sunken bowl, rise with him. On the broad green field, al- most 5000 athletes from 62 nations faco Hitler while he says:
 T proclaim open the Olympic games of Berlin, celebrat ting the lith Oiympiad of the modern era."
 Unmatched Spectacle
 When the last word rings out, Q sports extravaganza unmatched in history begins-oae which will ex- ceed even the hopes of Baron Pierre dc Coubertin who organized the modern 0lympiad ct Athens, Greece, in ieo6 with Q handful of competitors from nine nations.
 dermanyS dream of this day be- gan when 1t was awarded the l0i6 0lympics. A stadium was built and preparations were well under way when the World war temporarily eliminated the olympic ideal"
 Now, two decades later, c Germany headed by the man who fought aS c corporal in the trenches for Kaiser Wilhelm-has spent more than S24,- 100000 over c six year period in erecting an athletic plant for the sporting coYnbats of ABA athletes, many of whom weren't even born when Germany first was scheduled to Do olympic host.
 At 0:30 c. m. (4:30 c. m. EDT) 1t appeared that 0ermany'S big day was going to be marred by bad weather. An early morning haze hung low over the city and rain seemed imminent.
 Today'S program was exclusively pomp and ceremony -- Qormany's last chance ct mass hag-waving, cel- ebrations and fetes which are at- tributed to the desire of Hitler to make the world Na7i-conscious.
 From that moment through Aug. 10 the task of running the competi- ton in 22 sports ranging from track and field to weight-lifting, will be in the hands of the international Olympic committee-thc ruling body of the quadrennial games.
 But in the few hours leading up to the ceremonial inauguration of tho games, Berlin will present Q glittery pageant that temporarily will overshadow the actual athletic rivalrieS.
 Tho ceremony ct tho Reichs field starts shortly after noon when Hit. Ter receives members of the IMter- national Olympic committee. Then the members of tho committee will proceed to their stands in the Stadium.
 Hitler will break Q precedent by walking through the long columns of athletes assembled outside the stadium on his way to tho "Fuehrel Loge."
 Greece Leads
 Oncc he reaches his seat, the col- orful parade of nations into the stadium begins. Greece, as home oi the original Olympics, leads, the others following in. alphabetical or. der, the United States next to last in line, preceding only Germany (the German of united is "verein.
 with all the athletes assembled on the field, Dr. Theodore Lewald head of the German organizing committee, will make c brief speech Then Hitler proclaims the games opened.
 A fanfare of trumpets echoes across the stadium. The Olympic flag is raised. Fluttering from s: staffs high on the stadium's walls will be the standards of all compet. ing nations.
 The roar of . cannon then will echo across the stadium and @ fiocl