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Vol. 101, 2ING. 256
Cuban Revolutionists Threaten To Destroy American
Property To Force Intervention If They Lose Battle
SOLUTION CLAMED
B CHICAGO POLIGE
9 KIDNAP GASES
Four Alleged Kidnapers
Are Being Held and
Ten Others Sought
ATLANTAN VICTIM
Investigators Explain that
Arrests Solved No
Recent Cases
CHICAGO.—(AP)—The °*solution
of ut least nine kidnapings by a
gang in which the victims paid
ransoms estimated from $400,000
to $600,000 was eclaimed by police
Thursday as they held at least
four of the alleggd kidnapers.
The last of alleged victims of
the gang said by polcie to have
been in virtual . retirement since
enjoying peak prosperity in 1930
and 1931, was topped by James
Hackett, suburban Blue Island
gambler, kidnaped twice and
forced to pay a total of $150,000.
Others were: William @ Urban,
Peoria, 111.,, gambler, reported
ransom, $100,000; James Ward,
Joliet, 111, brewer seized in Chi
cago Heights, ~ $45,000; - John J.
Lynch, official of the General Nelws
pureau, which provides bookmak
ers with raecing information, $50,-
000; three unnamed Aurora, 111,
gamblers, each reported to have
paid SIO,OOO, and two lowa men,
also unnamed, whose ransom pay
ments - were variously reported at
$20.000 each and a combined total
of $16,000. "
Frank Souder, Benton, Ill.; Ju
lian Jones, St. Charles, I1l:; Dean
Swolley of Pecria, and a fourth
man whose name was not revealed,
are in custedy. T
However, from information al
ready obtained authoriNes were
reported seeking nine or ten other
men, including Edward Wagner,
reputed member of the old Illi
nois Shelton gang. s
Investigators explained that the
alleged gang had nothing to deo
with recent kidnapings, and one
morning newspaper . said that in
its hey-day it had considered ab
ducting Edward J. Kelly, now
mayor of Chicago, and had defied
Al Capone, now a federal prisoner,
when he attempted to bargain for
the release of Liynch.
To the list of victims the Her
ald and Examiner added Albert
Blair, from Atlanta, Ga.
Weltner Says University
Operated on $1,500,000
Less Than in 1932
ATLANTA, —(&)— Georgia's in
stitutions of higher learning in the
University of Georgia system are
being operated at §1,500,000 less
than last year.
This “information was given by
Chancellor Philir Weltner of the
stem in an address before the
\tlanta, Masonic c¢lub. There are
¢venteen institutions in the sy-
I. There were 26 when the
vard of regents took over opera-
Weltner sgid he thought that at
e end of the year all salaries and
I bills will be paid,
Weltner .said he thought that
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Problem of Contrel of Liquor Traffic
And Its Taxes Get F. D. R.’s Attention
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Presi
dent Roosevelt is turning his at
tention to the liquor traffic prob
lem now that 37 states—one more
than the necessary three-fourths—
have voted to take the eighteenth
amendment from the constitution.
A program of tax legislation to
be submitted to congress along
with- repeal of the Volstead act to
pvermit sale of distillates in the
Distriet of Columbia and the ter-
Iltories will be considered at a
neeting of department representa
lives at the White House Friday.
This program includes plans to
keep arid those states that did not
vote to ratify repeal, and may re
vive the sending of the much fear
“d pre-prohibition revenue agent
into mgonshine areas.
Objectives of the program are
t“mperance and methods of dis-
Pensing aicohelic drinks without
e return of the old-time saloon.
In addition, steps are to be taken
tirough the coast guard to prevent
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ARTHUR CUTTEN
CUTTEN TESTIFIES
AT SENATE PRNBE
John ]. Raskob Appears
Voluntarily Before Sen
ate Investigators
WASHINGTON, —(#)— Arthur
Cutten, noted stock and grain
trader, told senate «investigators
Thursday *he did not put up any
cash for his participation in" the
Sinclair consolidated oil stoek pool
’ot 1929 which yielded profits of
‘512,000,000. . ;
’The grey haired trader, whose
ishare of the profits were $3,000,000,
said he sold stock before it was de
livered to him by the oil company
and paid for it from the receipts
of the sales. X
Cutten testified to the senate
banking committee immediatey af
)ter John J. Raskob, former chair
man. of the Democratic national
}eommittte, had explained that
only 230 shares of stock were sold
‘by a syndicate in which he and
}Alfred E. Smith, the 1928 Demo
cratic presdentiai nomnee, parti
}cipated in 1929,
| Cutten said he managed the Sin
}clair pool in 1124 and 1929 and in
addition to purchasing 1,130,000
Lshares from the oil company for
‘333,900,000 he and his assocites
brought 702,760 shares at varying
!prices. A total of 1,702,760 shares
‘were sold, he testified. 9
Speaking in a low voice barely
audible to committee ~members,
Cutten explained he had orders by
‘telephone to buy and sell.
Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy oil op
erator and head of ,he Sinclair
‘company, had been subpoenaed to
appear today, but his testimony was
postponed until next week on ac
counf of illness,
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DOGS, PERHAPS
BALTIMORE — (#) — Nick and
Dick, two dogs locked in their
master"s produce store, telephoned
for help and got it.
~ “The receiver is off the hook and
there are some awfully funny
noises coming over the line,” the
operator told police.
When police arrived, they found
the two dogs had knocked the tel
ephone off the desk and were
keeping warm by running around
the store, barking.
smuggling of foreign liquor across
the ‘eastern and southern coasts
where rum fleets are reported con
centrated in move te evade the
$5 a gallon import tax. .
The house ways and means com
mittee will open hearings on liquor
taxation legislation November 27
to prepare a bill for early congres
sional actien in January. Nobody
yet knows of course, how much
money the taxes will raise. '
. The present tax is sl.lO a gallon
on whisky, gins' ang brandies. Al
though it has been predicted ‘that
this will be increased to as high
as $3 a gallon, members of a sub
committee studying the question
claim it will not exceed $2.20. They
say a higher tax might encourage
the bootlegger to continue in his
business,
/ President Roosevelt had the jus
tice, commerce, agriculture treas
ury departments prepare a volum
inous report on the liquor problem
for his consgideration Friday. It is
being guarded carefully.
Early Repeal Comes As
. Surprise Even To Wets
| Repealists Expected Issut
. To Be Dragged Out Ten
More Years
‘! ; (By NEA Service.)
! WASHINGTON.—OnIy -a. year
lago some of the most militant and
loptimistic wets were sloganeering
[“Repeal by 1934!”
| They didn't know their own
Istrength.
i For today they already stand at
ithe end of an epoch—an epoch
| marked by two-sided Dbitterness
| and strife, by liquor gangs and
i poisonous syntheticismfi by harsh
!laws made and broken, by speak
| easies, - rum fleets, judicial paraly
| sis, jammed jails, corruption and
| incompetence in high places, home
}hrew and pocket flasks.
i The blunders of the drys, the
gradual organization of their op
iptment’s, the desertion of promi
inent members of the-«dry cause,
!the business depression which lent
xexpedieney to the repeal campaign
|~—all were cogent factors in the
|trend. Yet as recently as 1931
Dudley Field Mal\one was calcu
lating solemnly that it would take
25 years to anul the Eighteetnh
amendment. And nearly twelve
years before that, when prohibi
ltion became effective on the morn
ing of January 16, 1920, there were
many who ‘agreed it would remain
for at least half a century. :
The record, however, shows that
| there was powerful opposition
Il‘rom the first. Brewers and dis
tillers and organized labor cham
’pioned the doctrine of state’s
irighs., The hard-liquor men had
‘mfried the fight into state legis
latures to try to prevent ratifica
!tioh. The beer men were the ones
who briefed the case against the
lVolstead Act and asked a presi
dential vote. They also hired Elihu
Root to carry an appeal to the
| Supreme cowrt in 1920, :
“Now for an_era of clean living
i and clear thinking,” benevolently
i declaimed the Anti-Saloon League.
| But on the very next day, when
‘four stills were seized, it became
| #pparent that enforcement might
| be more of a chore than had been
I:mticipated. Shortly thereafter
two Federal agents were arrested
| for corruption. By March the
| state of Mississippi had voted
ldnwn a proposal to aid Federal
ienforcement. In June, prohibition
lasents seized a stock of liquor
| from the special train of the Mas
]s,ac-husetts delegation to the Re
| fublican National Convention, and
§L~‘qn Fiancisco was reported ‘“wide
| open” for the Democratic conven
!tion. About this time Chicago re
ported that its courts were becom
'ing hopelessly choked with prohi
bition cases.
i In December, 1920, the Associa
tion Against the Prohibition
Amendment was incorporated in
the District of Columbia. Here
lwas the beginning of serious op
| position to the drys. The latter
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GUPERVISOR NAMED
O ELEF MRS
John Murry David, West Pough
erty street, has been selected as
supervisor of Wwork projects in
Clarke county, it was announced
this morning by Mrs, Frark Cam
stra, administrator of the Clarke
County Emergency = Relief funds.
Mr. David was selected following
a telephone discussion with R. L.
MacDougai, state supervisor of
work projects.
Mr. David ir a graduate of
Georgia Tech, where he was a co
operative student and received
practical training in engineering.
Since his graduation, he has had
experience in numerous forms of
engineering, including electrical
and telephone engineering. He has
been connected With the Western
Electric company and the Georgia
Power company. ¥
i The garden supervisor for
iClarke county has not been select
ed yet. This supervisor *will sup
lerintend the planting of winter
gardens among the unemployed
Léhis year, so that they can grow
egetables.
Letters were sent to the various
merchants in town today, asking
their cooperation with the relief
committee. They are requested to
inform M¥s. Camstra of any jobs
which they have open, so that
the work will be given to those
unempieyed who need it.
NOVEMBER ALLOTMENT
WASHINGTON.:~ (AP) — The
Federal Relief Adminstration has
allotted $603,497 to Georgia for un
employed relief in November. The
grant makes the total to date to
that state $3,907,864, 2
Athens, Ca., Thursday, November 9, 1933
JURY HAS CASE -
IN AXE SLAYING
Packed C&Em Hears
Two Day Trial at Lees
burg, Ca.
LEESBURG, Ga. — (AP)— The
fate of Hcward Sumner, Homer
Ellis and Roy and L. J. Israel, al
leged participants in the ax slay -
ing of Wade McElmurray, Leeée
county farmer, rested in the handss
of a jury today as a two-day trial
for the accused quartet was end
. The hearing, begun Wiednesday
afternoon after a jury has been
selected with great difficulty, wa
terminated shortly before - noon
Thursday with the state appealin
to the jury for the death penaltyi
Leon Sumner, brother of Hows
ard, was still at liberty and wa§
not tried with the other defend«
ants. 3
The trial was featured by an ate
tempt on the part of the defense
to shif;y the blame for the actual
killing from Howard Sumner to
Leon Sumner, Howard Sumner was
named by Mrs. McElmurray, wid
ow of the victim, and an eye-wit
ness to the assault, as the actual
killer. The state countered with
a switch in the instrument of
death, offering in evidence a metal
bar which the prosecution c¢on
tended was the instrument used to
strike the fatal blow. The defense
preseénted witnesses who said that
the two blows which McElmurray
is alleged to have sustained were
iboth delivereq with the. ax.
| A packed court room followed
the testimony Wednésday after
noon and Thursday morning as
many witnesses were summoned to
'the stand, - MeElmurray's slaying,
both sides testified, was the out:
'growth of an argument which took:
place when an automobile in which
'the defendants were riding ran
over some flowers in the McEl
’murray yard.
COTTON 5 HEHER
Crop Reporting Service
Here Estimates Gain of
35,000 Bale in State
Georgia’s cotton erop is indicated
at about 1,105,600 bales, 35,000
bales higher on November 1 than
forecast October 1, the Georgia
crop reporting service sald in an
official report at its office in Ath
ens today.
Indicated yield.of lint cotton per
acre’ on the 2,150,000 acres esti
mated in the harvest, the report
said, s houl d approximate 246
pounds compared with 154 last
yvear, 215 in 1931 and 111 in 1930.
The estimated acreage for harvest
makes allowance soy the 695,000
acres destroyed under government
contraet plus reported abandon
ment after July 1.
Despite the decrease of 19 per
cent in acreage from last year,
‘production bids fair to show a gain
}of 29 per cent over the final out
turn of 854,000 standard bales of
1932,
’ Weather during practically all of
October was favorable for picking
with ihe exception of some rain in
the third week. On November 1
there was very little cotton left
in the field and mostly late scat
tered bolls in the northern part of
the state,
~ Advancement of harvesting ope
rations throughout the season has
been ahead of any year since the
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Tate Wright Explains Why Ad Valorem
Taxes of Subdivisions Are “Too High”
\ Tate Wright, clerk and county
attorney, thinks that the burden
of ad valorem taxation is being
levied by the counties and subdi
visions, and not by the state.
~ In explaining why this is so, Mr.
Wright said:
“Some equitable form of taxa
‘tion other than ad valorem that
will relieve our people from county
ad valorem taxation as well as
state advalorem tftaxation is neces
sary in this state to relieve the
burden of the ad valorem taxpay
er. Our present system of ad va
lorem taxation is not much more
than a tax on real estate and vis
ible property. Real estate is bear
ing the burden. To relieve our
people of this burden, it i{s neces
sary that relief come from reduced
county taxation.
- “Phe counties can levy only an
ad valorem tax. The state is not
thus limited, but can levy other
forms of taxation, provide for
—ESTABLISHED 1832—
MUSSOLIN ASKING
SHEEPING EFDRNS
FOR TALIAN TRADE
Would Have Government
Put Squarely Into
Profit Making
FIRST STEPS TAKEN
Deputies Given Proposal
For Deposits Cuarantee
By Government
| ROME —(AP)— Premier Musso
lini Thursday asked the chamber
of deputies to approve '‘a decree
whereby the government may guar
antee and participate in stock is
sues of private ecompanies and
guarantee the principal and pay
ment of dividends to stockholders.
The proposed law would trans
’form the whole industrial capital
;izing_ system of Italy, and is-in
tended to guarantee dividends to
stock subscribers regardless of the
‘\compamies‘ conditions,
If the company is profitable, ad
ditional dividends will be added.
. The government will = operate
through tne Industrial Reconstrue
tion institute which is similar to
the -American Reconstruetion Fi
nance corporation.
~ The institute’s first step is to
guarantee a 400,000,000 lire ($32,-
000,000) issue of bonds for the new
Piedmont telephone company.
This move was provided for by
kMussollni Tuesday when the en
forced reduction of the capitaliza
tion of the Piedmont hydro-electric
company, one of the four largest
Italian corporations, wasg revealed
The capital was reduced from
i 847.000,000 lire $67,760,000) to 339,-
000,000 ilre ($27,120,000.)
N Separates Services
l The premier then separated -the
{telephone services from the Pied
mont hydroelectric company, com
‘bining them into one company for
which the bond issue was announ
ced,
‘ Finaneial circles said Thursday
that owfllg to the public’'s tradi
tional préference for government
securities, this may result in gov
ernment financing of all industry
—with the government not only
contrglling the operation of indus
try as it does at present under the
corporative state, but even sources
of investment for industry. :
Mussolini said in his report to
the chamber that the decree was
designed to “re-educate the inves
tor to participate directly in stocks
of productive activities through
opportune investments which as
sure him the worth of his invest
ment; protest struggling companies
from speculative maneuvers; and
prevent companies which are re
maining on their feet. from being
absorbed by over large trusts.”
Thalian - Blackfriars An
nounce Players in "‘Beg
"
gar on Horseback
Two Athens students have been
selected to play parts in “Beggar
on Horseback,” the Broadway
comedy success by George S.
Kaufman and Mare Connelly,
which will be the first Thalian-
Blackfriars play of the year, open
ing a two-night run in Seney-
Stovall theater, Thursday, Novem
ber 30.
D. B. Nicholson, jr., son of the
Rev. and Mrs. D. B. Nicholson,
and Tap Bennett, jr, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Bennett, are the
—_— |
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state functions, and pay a part of
the proceeds back to the counties.”
Continuing, he said:
“In 1932 the average ad valorem
tax rate in the counties of Georgia
amounted to 13.21 mills, besides
the millage levied by the school
districts of the various counties
and in addition to the levies made
by the other subdivisions.
State Better Off
“The state itself is in far better
financial condition than the coun
ties,” Mr. Wright assertedi. “As of
December 21, 1929, the subdivis
ions of this state were owing a
total bonded indebtedness, of $82,-
775,066.49. At that time, the state
of Georgia had a bonded indebted
ness of only $4,880,202. The coun
ties of Georgia at that time owed
for county purposes, in ruond fig
ures, 28 million dollars. Twenty
two million dollars of the 28 was
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Rotund,” genial Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia,
here is shown in an excellent character close-up as he arrived in
New York harbor enroute to Washington for a history-making con
versation with President Roosevelt on resumption of diplomatic rela-
tions between the two nations.
AGREEMENT 5 SEEN
N SOVIET DEALINGS
Litvinoff Meets Hull for
Third Time; Sees Roose
velt This Afternoon
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Secre
tary Hull and Maxim Litvinoff
Thursday approached preliminary
understandings on Russo-Ameri
can relations in preparation for a
late afternoon conference between
President Roosevelt and the Soviet
commissar,
Before Litvinoff's arrival,” Secre
tary Hull told newspapermen that
until the conversations had reach
ed a more advanced stage, he was
unable to outline them publicly. He
expected Litvinoff to reach the
White House about 5 p.m.
Asked whether this meeting with
Fresident Roosevelt might be the
last necessary, Hull said he could
not undertake to reply-
Spurring the two statesmen in
their third state department meet
ing was the pace set by Mr. Roose
velt in his own swift and friendly
dealings with te Soviet commis-
Without waiting for a formal
business engagement, the Presi
dent used an after-luncheon’ hour
to chat personally with the Russian
envoy. ‘ ;
Litvinoff came away pleased
with the progress made. 3
Both sides were bound for the
moment to a silence broken only
by two joint and tersely formal
communiques. 9 :
A meeting Thursday between .the
President and Litvinoff hinged on
progress in the Hull-Litvinoft
talks. Aside from his state de-
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LOCAL WEATHER
Fair tonight and Friday,
warmer in south and extreme
east portionsg tonight; colder in
north and west central.
TEMPERATURE
FlShest. .. 5o s dane nna iR
EOWBEE . . ik awsiace RGN
Mean. .coes saevns sevses 2.45.5
MO EIRL. L iins cvd covs avninßßi
: RAINFALL .
Inches last 24 h0ur5.%...... 0.00
Total since Nov. 11......... -84
Excess since Nov. 1........ .04
Average Nov. rainfall...... 2.89
Total since January 1......30.90
Deficiency since January 1 12,68
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COMMERCE NAMES
HARDMAN MAYOR
Younger Brother of For
mer Covernor s Elected
Without Opposition
COMMERCE—John B. Hardman,
youngest brother of former Gover
nor L., G. Hardman was elected
‘mayor -of Commerce Wednesday
\without opposition. A total of 692
'v‘otes were polied in the election.
Dr. J. C. Verner, mayor pro
tem and a member of council, was
re-elected councilman at large
'with 418 votes and Jessie Harris
was also elected ‘councilman-at
[large, with 404 votes.’
’ Dr. Paul T. Scoggins was elect
ed to council from the First ward,
withouy opposition.
t Lonnie Williams was re-elected
from the Second ward.
Lamartine Hardman, jr., son of
the former governor, was elected
from the Third ward without op
position.
j In the closest race Dooley Short,
was the winning candidate for
council from the Fourth ward over
‘W. M, Thurmond. Mr. Short poll
ed 67 votes to 61 for Mr. Thur
imond.
German Crown Prince Recalls Momentous
“November Days” on Eve of Plebiscite
POTSDAM — (AP) — Germany
lost the war, Crown Prince Wil
helm - asserted Thursday, because
she declined to curb drastically
the Marxlst-lntemat}onal poison
ing of the people.
Writing in the Lokalanzeiger,
the Crown Prince reviewed what
he termed Germany’s fateful “No
vember Days” of the last 25 years.
He described how in November,
1918, the old Reich’s political lead
ers finally yielded and broke down
under the pressure of revolution
ary elements which aimed to over
thrown constitutional monarchy.
This, he said, “was accomplished|
in the thick of the hardest fight forl
existence against a world of ene-i
mies who were determined to an
nihilate the German nation.
“Because no effort was made to
stay with an iron hand the bpro
cesses of - Marxist-International
poisuning of the people. we lost the
war.
“It was the last imperial chan-|
cellor himself who laid the axe to;
the roots of the shaking fabric
state. Thus jmpotence and treach
ery were equally guilty in the
CUBMN FORGES OPEN
FE TODAY AGAT
IEBEL STRONGHOLE
' HAVANA—(AP)—Leaders of ti
'ABC, the radical and ,‘m
/lutionary society, . broadcast a
warning Thursday that they i=
'tend to sack American property
land provoke intervention by th
| Uniteq States, if their fwo-d
\battle’ for the control of the gov=
. ernment is not decided by Bp. m
| At the same time they warned
' the public to stay off the stréefs
as they intended to fly airplane
‘over the city and bomb the pal
lace of President Grau San Mart
|at that hour. T
| 'They also specified 3 p. m., as
the moment for dvnamiting all ve
hicles found on the streets, = &
| Artillery In Action
. Artillery went into action at @
a. m. as loyal government sold- =
ierg attacked the Fortress Atares
where some 2,000 rehels were en
trenched. ~ : S
After the opening artfllery Salvo,
the firing increased in in‘ensity.
The loyal troops unlimbered as
leas; four 3-inch field pleces and
loperated' them “at will”. They
|were operatindg the field * :
[rapidly and scoring about one di= =
‘lrec* hig on the fortress out of five =
|shots. ‘ j
Atares’ defenders answered the =&
artillery - fire with machine guns =
and rifles. S
| Once the dssailants missed th i
[targey and the stray shell killed a
[woman watching the battle from
'the balcony of her house
|than a mile away. A
l '‘The defenders of Atares forte
ress soon added an‘i-aircrafy guns
40 the torrid fire from their mas
’chlne guns and rifles. L
| Use Vantage Point L
i ™ epldiers who had capturéd
. San Ambrosio retaliated by using
ithat fortress as a vantage poini
|from which_to direct additional
- guns agains¢ Atares.
|l Civillan members of the ADC
irevolutionary group occupied fi
|age points on rooftops overlos 1;1
|ing San Ambrosio and sniped fi}g ;
ily a¢ the soldiers there, && &
| The thick and anclent walls of =
'the castle, towering commandin; ey
over Havana since 1787, held the &
hopes of Cuba’'s desperate ~
las—with 52 known dead and 183 =
‘'wounded-—~they battled to re 3“
lCar]og Manuel De Ces'ped'g?;; _ e &
|presidency, T de
,‘ The revolutionists concentrate §;~
"i (Continued on page sevefl.i;fi
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' BANKS TO OBSERVE
| HOLIDAY SATURDAY
4 BS SR 360 e fi.”:‘ ‘6; 5
i Athens’ three banks will observe
|'a. holiday on Armistice day, Satu -
lday, November 11, but all the =
other business houses here will be &8
lopen as usual. The postoffice ==
jalso will observe regular -‘h“nix 3
{instead of the customary holiday =
_|schedulé, ‘ :
| ‘Saturday will be the fifteenth’ =
lanniversary of Armistice day, &
|which marks the occasion back in =
11918 when the Allies and the Gers =5
‘mans ceased firing at each oth,gg.f
¥ i
criminal coup d etat of Novembef
[9, 1918," he said, continuing: M
~ “On November 10, 1908, .:
‘mentarism won its first wictery
which proved serious to the pe "fi
sonality princgole incarnated in the
bearer of the crown. oo
“Exactly ten years later, the
Kaiser Reich preished from a trai
tor's ‘dagger assault’ of a senses
less as well as an unmanly. reves
lution. B
“The attempt at an internal ine
surrection in November, 1923, ag
a precondition for .forcing . outer .
liberation by fight, failed by trea
son.” C e e
The Crown Prince concluded
with the reminder that 3“’"
momentous November day lies
ahead—meaning the election and
plebiseite through which the g
ernment seeks support of its. fops
eign policy next Sunday. >‘
“It is the duty of the last Gers
man,” he said, “to
plebiscite bill with a yea® =
Hailing /the Nazi regime, he ¢
clared “the third reich is stam
firmly on the new foundations,
chored in the personality prinel