Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-12
MANY INQUIRIES FROM I
 LOCAL ALIEN ENEMIES
Judge Parsons Secures Official Inform
 ation For Their Benefit.

There have been so many inquiries of late at the office of the superior court in this city concerning the status of alien enemies that Hon. George E. Parsons. court clerk, has taken the mater up with United States Attor- ney<Thomas J. Spellacy at Hartford for the purpose of obtaining official in- formation concerning the law relative and the obtaining Of permits. Tn answer to his inquiry Judge Parsons received a. few days ago the following letter from MT. Spei1acy: Hon. George F. Parsons.
 Clerk Superior Court
 New London County,
 Norwich, Conn.
 My Dear MT. Parsons: I beg to ac- knowledge the receipt of your letter in which you inquire concerning the law relative to the registration of alien en- emies and the obtaining of permits
 The Department of Justice will prob ably within a few days announce the regulations promulgated by the Attor- ney General in accorda nee with the Proclamation of the President. Until we obtain thees regulations, we are proceeding under the old proclamation of April 6. 1917. This requires that prohibited area should obtain permit from the United States Marshal. ] believe that all the alien enemies in the state are familiar with this proc
 
 has been in a restricted area without q permit, he is. of course. liable to i'm mediate arrest. The restricted areas embrace among other things, places within one-half mile of any factory manufacturing goods for the army and navy. There are other territories re- stricted, but this would be the prin- cfpal one.
 The permits allow them to go into thees restricted areas. I shall be very pleased to notify you of the regula- tions of the Attorney General when they are promulgated. Respectfully l THOMAS J. SPELLACI@ C. $. Attorney. , On Tuesday Judge Parsons received from United States Marshal Chester field c. Middlebrooks of Hartford. the following directions to alien enemies making application for permits: The first step is to procure photo i graphs of yourself. If you haven't them. get them at once and return here only when they are on hand. The application must. be accompanied by three unmounted photographs of the applicant, not larger than 3X3 inches in size The photographs must be on thin paper and should have a light background.
 l Applications are not to be taken l out of this office. They must be pre- pared here.
 Any alien enemy being employed by
 
 certificate of. his employer, as provided in the application form.
 Applications. employers certificates. photographs, bonds and undertakings by sponsors are to be signed here This inecessitates that applicants, employ CTS. bondsmen and sponsors shall ap- pear here in person and af1x their sig natures in the presence of the officer. Any person who has made the above application must look to the officer be- fore whom he takes the oath herein prescribed to communicate to him the result of his app1icat ton. After your application and the accompanying cer- tifica tHs. etc, have been duly pre- pared and sworn to, you should not apply again to this office until receipt of the notice of the result of your ap- The areas within which alien eTfe- mics without permits are forbidden to enter consist of localities within one- half mile in any direction of any fort, camp. arsenal aircraft station, govern ment or naval vessel, navy yard, fac- tory or workshop for the manufacture of munitions of war. CT of any products for the use of the army or navy. In the event that your application be again in case you have further evil dence to show that the same might be approved, but until you receive a per- init you must at your peril reTV in outside of all forbidden areas. Any alien enemy coming within a prohibited area for any purpose wfsnt- soever. not being granted a permit for that purpose. will be summarily arrest 1 ed and detained.
 CHESTERFIELD G. OKS United States Marshal. Hartford Conn