, Germany's number two
Nazi, is working on a
$40-a-month relief job in an Ohio stone quarry.
The
cousin is Karl Frederick William Goering, 62, who is
swinging a sledge in
Freeport Township, near here.
He calls it a trick of fortune that shoved
him penniless onto a side road on the far side of the world
while fate smiled on his first cousin back in Germany.
The American Goering has had his own fling at
pomp and splendor as a member of the imperial guard of the
former
German Kaiser's palace in Berlin.
Erect and well-disciplined, he shows his
military training even at work in a relief stone quarry. He
tells with pride of his service under three emperors -
Kaiser Wilhelm the First,
Frederick, the ninety-day ruler,
and
Kaiser Wilhelm of the World War fame.
During his service in the imperial palace he
frequently saw the Kaiser at close range.
Goering, who became an American by change,
never boasts of his relationship to
Premier Goering. His
kinship was accidentally revealed when he registered for
relief work.
He came to the United States shortly before
the World War on a visit to his wife's brother here. The
brother died and the German consul advised him to stay in
this country.
Goering had $12,000 on deposit in Germany but
this was lost in the financial crash that followed the war.
He managed to borrow $250 on this money as security from an
Ohio bank but he cannot get that much back to pay his debts.
"I'm an American and don't want publicity,"
he said today. Goering indicated all he desired was work to
provide for himself, his wife and son.
He said he did not worry about the fame and
glory that had come to his cousin. "I am a loyal American
now and don't care what happens in Germany," he said.
Goering said he was born at
Oranienburg , near
Berlin, the son of the eldest of thirteen brothers. The
premier was the son of the youngest brother and was born in Acken in the province of Saxonburg.
For many years Goering worked as a coal miner
at
Bellaire and
Shadyside, Ohio.
