Baby Adolf

From a Sunday rotogravure page of the Chicago Tribune fortnight ago peered the faces of two small creatures. One was a pudgy-jowled monster. The other was a meek-looking infant with bangs. The ugly picture had a credit line -- Acme Photo. The other one was credited to the German consulate in Chicago. Below the pictures was printed a copy of a letter from the Acting Consul General, Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg, to the Tribune. Excerpts:

"In the Rotogravure section of the . . . Tribune of October 22, 1933 there appeared under the title 'Two pictures of Hitler' two photographs, one purporting to be a 'baby picture' of the present Chancellor of the German Reich . . . and the other showing the Chancellor addressing 500,000 farmers and storm troopers. . . .

". . . The alleged 'baby picture' . . . was sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the Consulate General was recently advised that the photograph stated to be a 'baby picture' of the Reichs-Chancellor is a falsification. The Foreign Office in Berlin transmitted at the same time a copy of an authentic photograph of Reichs-Chancellor Adolf Hitler before he attained the age of one year with the request to bring the matter to your attention. . . ."

Acme syndicate, which released the first picture, says it came from the syndicate's London bureau which got it from Austria, Adolf Hitler's native land.

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