Weekly journal-miner., 1918-02-13
IA APPLICANTS ARE REFUSED
 CITIZENSHIP
ALL BUT ONE OF LARGE
 GLASS TURNED DOWN
 FOR VARIOUS REASONS WHEN EXAMINER COMES TO INVESTIGATE CASES
(From Saturdays Daily)

(From Saturdays Daily) One lone man, native of Italy, cut of the class of Is naturalization cases heard in the Superior court yesterday, succeeded in having Ameri- can citizenship conferred upon him, Joseph Brantezani being the lucky applicant for permission to count himself one of Uncle Sam's own. The other II cases were either dismissed or continued until next August be- cause of the failure of the applicant to appear or because he had neglect cd to conform to the exacting require ments of the naturalization process. Che Austrian, Mihayl Dragich, was refused citizenship by Examiner Handy, merely because he was a na- tive of country with which the Uni ted States is now at war, and it was not considered expedient to admit an enemy alien when the hostilities con tinued The cases came up before Judge Sweeney, the department of labor's naturalization bureau being represented by Mir Handy of Los Angeles.
 The case of Max Stokowi was dis missed when it was found that his original declaration of intention had been filed in l906, or more than seven years prior to the application for final papers.
 lDemetar Cavich. Peter Valezza. Michael Coppinger, Philip Paletti Robert Fenley and Rosendo Albarez all of whom were to have had their cases disposed of at this time, failed tC appear, and their applications were continued until August 9, 1918, the date of the next session of the natur- alization officials. In most of the in- stances, the applicants had not had due notice of the time set for hearing their cases, and consequently failed 10 get here.
 William John Taylor. son of Tom Taylor, failed 10 get his papers be- cause of the fact that his principal witness, Rev. R. O. Rampont, had not known him for the full five years as required by the statutes. Father Ram pont some time ago spent more than 20 months in France in army work, and this period deducted from the five years during which he had known Mir. Taylor, was sufficient to cause the case to be continued until next August.
 Anton Toneck, after arriving here, learned that he had come in bit too soon, and that his case was not ready to be taken up until the next session.
 The witnesses who had been call ed in to testify in behalf of Frank pelaini, were present, but Mir. Delaini was not, and Mir Handy examined the witnesses and finding that Delaini was entitled to his papers. directed the clerk to notify him that he could have h.s citizenship documents at any time he called for them
 Emile Paul Victor Leveque had his case continued while the matter of qualifications of his main witness was taken up by the court. There was some doubt as to whether the witness was a blown-in-the-bottle American himself, and the matter held fire for the time being.
 Mihayl Dragish, the Austrian who wanted citizenship, had all of his wit nesses present, and had apparently | completed all of the necessary steps, tut was ruled off the turf because of the fact that he was from an enemy l country
 Joseph Rambaud was turned down because of the fact that he had filed his declaration of intention more than seven years ago.
 Edward Dubois was compelled to wait while longer for his final papers until the department made an investigation of some alleged flaws