BERLIN HEARS FORD IS BACKING HITLER

Bavarian Anti-Semitic Chief Has American's Portrait and Book in His Office.

SPENDS MONEY LAVISHLY

One German Paper Appeals to the United States Ambassador to make Investigation.

Copyright, 1922. by The New York Times Company. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

BERLIN, Dec. 10.—A rumor is current here, that Henry Ford, the American Automobile manufacturer, is financing Adolph Hitler's nationalist anti-Semitic movement in Munich. Indeed, the Berlin Tageblatt has made an appeal to the American Ambassador in Berlin to investigate and interfere.

Doubtless there is some ground for suspicion that Hitler is spending foreign money, for the paper marks his admirers throughout Germany contribute toward his movement would hardly suffice to pay for such large expenditure as his personal and business establishments require. His spacious headquarters in Munich are splendidly furnished and his organization employs a host of highly paid lieutenants and officials.

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