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EVERYWHERE
Herr Hitler's Ancestry
The riddle of Herr Hitler's ancestry continues of provide work |for rival firms of genealogists,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933.
U.S. POURS DOLLARS INTO CANADA
GREAT CHANCES BRITAIN IS SLOW TO GRASP
(By Julian Duguid.)
The latest contribution to the theory that he is of Jewish descent Is the discovery in the Jewish cemetery of Bukarest of the tomb of a certain Adolf Hittler, an Aus- trian subject, who died in 1892.
The gravestone, which has ap ornate design has two texts: one in Hebrew and one In Rumanian. buildings against a background of buildings, hotels and libraries, pub- social clubs, which The Rumanian text runs: "Here dun hills, the same baked earth and lic offices and
When the train pulled in to Sud-Civil Service, I must stand by what It I heard and saw. Not once, but bury, Ontario, my heart sank. was a Sunday morning, and from my fifty times since I landed, men of over poll. acquaintance with mining towns in all grades have wailed the Andes, quite horribly familiar.ticians.
There were the same
forlorn
Canada
riddled
with huge
lie the mortal remains of Adolf sing-heaps: all vegetation killed by would be appropriate to treble the Hittler, died the 28th October, the sulphur fumes from the smel population. Hundreds of miles of roads lead to villages of perhaps 1892, at the age of sixty. Pray for ters. him."
It was as if these houses knew fifty souls. They are the result of Although there is nothing to they would be abandoned to-morrow many generations of promises to show that Chancellor Hitler is a de- should the mines give out. Yet the constituents. scendant of this other Adolf-it will Inhabitants. I knew, would account now be difficult to deny that Jewish Hitlers existed in Austria.
it blasphemy to speak against the place.
one word
Famous Nickel Mines Sudbury is dominated by
the
It
is
Three Londons
Everybody admits the evil, but so long as each Province has a separ• ate Government there does not seem much to be done. Probably the answer is to increase immigration
The Official Tree Meanwhile, the official ceatral office for German personal and enormous chimney of the Copper
in a grand but controlled manner, family history has published the Cir smelting plant.
and prohibit election pledges for at genealogical tree of the Chan-largest in the Empire, being 610ft least twenty years. jcellor's family,
the
tall and 45ft. in diameter at the top. Next morning I called on thio Herr Hitler's oldest known an-In clear weather an aviator can local newspaper. The chief report- cestor. Caspar Brodst, was born in gauge the wind-drift from 80 miles er looked up from a slip on which 1599. This line of ancestors on away. Nor is such majesty unfit were typed the doings of London,
his mother's side goes back nine ting. For Sudbury is important, Ont., London. Mass., and London, generations. The family Poelzl, really important, though it may not Eng.-in that order and naked my from which his mother is descend-be famous outside of mining circles.business. When, finally, he grasped led, can be traced back to 1752, and on his father's side the line goes back six generations in succession to 1672,
The great Frood mine, with the that an English writer was actually staller Falconbridge and others. interested in Canada his face un- together control 90 per cent of the froze and he shook hands. And world's supply of nickel. This there was something in his eyes Originally the name recorded is
means that the vast majority of bul-which made me wonder just how Hiedler. Then it becomes Hattiert jackets, electro-plated goods, and far we have let the Dominions slide. and finally Hitler. As a rule the
"Well," he said, with real friend- reserve. The law was enacted name is put on a par with Kuttler, the small money coins of Canada,
France. Italy. Switzerland, andliness, "I wish there were more of when the Bank was paying out and is taken to mean hut-builder.
our newa through gold freely in exchange for its Actually it is the term for the boat-Belgium are born in these northern you. We get
hills.
Yankee sources. What can I do Hong Kong. Wednesdty, Nov. 29, 1933. notes and when indefinite con-men who transported the salt ob-
It means also that transformers, for you?" tinuance of that policy was ex-tained at Hallin down the Salzach pected; it has not bech enforced to Salzburg. It is of pure Aryan motor and generator plants. struts since British suspension of gold origin. payments. At the climax of the in-German currency collapse in Su-September, 1923. when a dollar
Ownership of Gold.
Your Daily Smile
noons.
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gang of
It is a sobering thought, For descent. We passed Americau capital and enterprise are them, dour-faced brawny men in very largely responsible.
on our way to the In the crash helmets, event of opposing Interests between office. The manager, who had been the United States and ourselves,horn an Engliehman, lit his pipe. Sudbury might figure in the bead- America's Big Stakes lines.
The
1 told him. and at four o'clock wa out in his car. As we drove in auto-engine pistons, thermostatic sel melala. Lanks for hardening chemi-through the yellow countryside he cals, metals, tanks for hardening explained that the mine we were to A point of international
chemicals, electric machinery cast visit had once belonged to Edison-
hed terest was decided by the
ings, jewellery mountings in white almost. The great inventor preme Court of the United States would exchange for 50,000.000
A TONIC
gold, die castings, electric furnace rank an experimental shaft to with in deciding against the Roosevelt paper marks, the German Gov
A barber saya that many of his castings, and the
mere ordinary in fourteen feet of the wealthy had thes administration in the case which ernment decreed that precious became known as the "gold-metals gwned by its citizens, asyoung men customers take regular metals for plumbing have, in some copper deposits, and
mud massages for their
com-Iway or another, with different per- abandoned it. hoarding test case." The in-well as their holdings of foreign
method plexions. Another
is to centages of alloy, come from here, It was now manned by hundreds of New Brunswick miners, of Scots dictment of Mr. F. B. Campbell. exchange or negotiable securities, an American citizen, for refus. might be seized. But even that play Rugger on Saturday after-ton ing. in defiance of the Federal decres provided for special com- statute of March 9 and subse-pensation in the shape of parli quent executive orders, to sur-cipation in a so-called "gold loan,"
Wrestling is claimed to be the render to the Government gold and it had to be preceded by healthiest of sports. For a grapple in his possession, was avowedly suspension, on the ground that
a day keeps the doctor away. an action to test the constitu- "public security and safety are
"When are you going to help tionality of that law. The Gov-jendangered," of certain articles
the rein
German Constitution.
The Man From "Tronner" us develop?" he asked quietty. ernment's lawyers frankly
"'] cannot find wards to de-
"Those red smears on the map cognized that such a test ought Penal statute of March 9. being!
During the whale of a long sum
ought to mean more than hot air. to be made.
absorbed atmosphere. Defendant's an- part of the "Emergency Banking scribe the husband who returns
their
The country is hardly more than swer contended that the statuto Act" and decreeing compulsory home after midnight," declares amer day I
scratched; and Americans violates the Fifth Amendment to surrender of gold only "when-woman novelist. Some women cao. The facts about nickel, and
implication, were known to me; but of the
staking it for all they are worth." the United States Constitution, lever. in the judgment
I wanted to see whether England
This was true. In 1931, when which provides thut no person Secretary of the Treasury, such Don't I Know It?
"If you want to spend a chilly had any part in this at all.
the last statistics were published, shall be deprived of property action is necessary to protect the week or two," says a traveller hotel lounge was illuminating.
America held more than four bil- "without due process of law, nor currency system of the United
"pay a visit to Siberia." Another There, on the notice-board, were on dollars worth of Investments shall private property be taken States," was clearly designed to method is to bring a crowd of the five advertisements. In the centro, in Canada; almost twice our own. for public use without just cam meet conditions which do not to boys home to supper pensation." There is no clear day exist. During the "mora- and obvious precedent in the torium panic" in March there court's constitutional decisions; was withdrawn from the Reserve for the Government's action re-banks, through presentation of quiring bolders of gold, under notes for redemption, $517,000,- drastle penalty, to surrender it 000 gold, and of this nearly one- in exchange for legal tender notes half was taken for hoarding pur-i "There ought to be some name," was itself unprecedented. When poses. "Emergency legislation"!
bowls an infuriated motorist, "for the United States "went off the under such circumstances had at] the careless pedestrian." Up to gold standard" between 1861 and least a reasonable defense. Buti
now he has always been called "the 1879, private possession of gold the subsequent complete suspenate." was not only tolerated but, sion of gold payments, under the through purchase of gold at a Congressional resolution of June To-day's little Thought premium by the Treasury from 5, has entirely altered that posi- individuals and through sales of tion. Except by official license, they are women. gold to them, it was officially re-no one can now get gold at the cognized. During and after the Federal Reserve. The system it Answer to Correspondent recent war both France and Ger-self has added $1,900,000,000, to No; "family ties" are not those mining stocks nor of girls, as do many prohibited export of gold, its own gold, holdings since that your relations give but neither demanded surrender March 8. It now holds $106,000-your birthday. of private holdings under penalty. 000 more than the highest re- In 1914 and 1915, the effort of cord prior to 1933, and there can both Governments to effect ex-be no "raid" upon it. Clearly, change of privately owned gold therefore, compulsory surrender for banknotes was based, not on of gold from private holdings is
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the pivotal reason for the presence United States citizens were in many of 20,000 inhabitants, was a placard of the highest executive positions, of the assayer's office. Without his judgment of ore no safe business would be passible. On either alde were photographs of two churches, Methodist and Presbyterian.
in Canada have advanced 900 per cent. And where the main chance is concerned, New York is pretty shrewd.
Person-
In the windows of the lounge, "Why don't you do something?" overlooking the dusty street. said the manager. "God knows we number of hard-faced men were have tried to interest you. talking. They had that peculiar ally we may prefer you to Amer~- metallic glaze inseparable from cana; but we are a rising country. those who deal in minerals. From If you won't invest we must go. time to time they removed cigar-elsewhere.” Girls will be girls. Even when butts, from their teeth. I enjoyed (Continued on Page, 12),
K quiet eavesdrop.
In a way their conversation was surprising. They spoke neither of you on their South American brethren, but bilter of politicians. They were but interested, miraculously well- Informed. In a far corner a man who pronounced Ottowa "Orter- wor," and was therefore a native
who called Toronto
Facts You Did Not Know.
compulsion, but explicitly on the no longer "necessary to protect; Metal corner strips have been in. of that city, was arguing with a ples for voluntary surrender of the currency system.". On the vented for uniting canvas on walls friend gold coins as a matter of patriot-other hand, thero does exist the or ceilings of rooms to facilitate ism. The French devaluation possibility of a situation which wall papering. law of 1928 reduced the gold con-would make the continued seques.
"Tronner, "
CANTON IMPORT
DUTIES.
Strike Discriminatory Imposts Suspended.
Canton, To-day,
With the seillement of the strike
I turned to my next-door neigh-organised by the Chinese seamer [hour, and had scarcely opened my against Messra. Butterfield and tent of the monetary unit and de-tration of privately owned gold Bottles made of green glass mouth before he seked after the Swire, the Canton Seamen's Union His inquiry waland the Chamber of Commerce monetized pre-war gold coinage; an act of glaring wrongfulness provide better protection for frait Old Country. novertheless, the Government and tyranny.
Imagining the juices than those of any other perfunctory, however, as if three have jointly announced the imme- thereafter purchased from war-currency-inflation, fanatics to colour, according to a New York thousand miles of water had, in diate suspension of the collection. time hoarders, at the bullion have their way unchecked. ex-State Agricultural Experiment sulated his mind. He was Cana-of "voluntary contributions" on dien born, with no ties."over there," imports from Hong Kong and other value, very great amounts of such perience renders it at least con: Station scientist,
Why do we remember poli-ports. pre-war coins. Great Britain's celvable that the currency would
Following the announcement the "currency amalgamation law" of depreciate to a nominal valuation. Having produced faster ocean ticians?" he asked slowly, "ovan 1928 did, indeed, provide that Throughout past history, the lay-liners by decreasing their under those that were no good! We-ell Seamen's Union Authorities have any person in the United King-ing aside of gold, often in small water resistance, German marine We are an empty country, grossly withdraws their collectors and in- dom, owning any gold coin or amounts, has on such occasions architects are experimenting with over-governed. Bay, wouldn't you spectors from all wharfs. Goods: bullion to an amount exceeding been the private citizen's one remodels in a wind tunnel to reduce remember a guy that kissed you at shipped to Canton from Hong Kong
elections and afterwards bit your yesterday were free from impost £10,000," might be required by course to save something from their air résistance,
ear? We have Dominion, provin- Central News Agency, the Bank of England to sell all the wreck, That the United
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for any part of it to the Bank at States Government should be the For adjusting the timing of auto-cial, and municipal politiciens, and
The body of Kara Hon, aged. 87, Chineas clerk, employed at the Royal the statutory price. This, how first to declare that such refuge mobile motors an electrical device what they have us can be spent on ever, was clearly a measure of shall, under any and all circum- has been invented; that flashes ourselves,
-We left it at that; and, while 1 Naval Yard, who was reported,missing. from his home at 14 Bowring Strest protection against the possible starices, be denied to ita: people, beams of light when contacts are Contingency of a Tudden and ab- is a new and fantastic incident in made, the dashes lining up If the apologise to those whose ideas of last Saturday, has been found in the normal "strain on the central gold financial history.
timing is correct,
Empire are based on the Indian harbour by the Water Police
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