The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-06-14
30 ALIEN SOLDIERS
MADE u. S. CITIZENS
Camp Jackson Furnishes Men Re-
presenting Eighteen Nation
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site of Americas army of liberty wa
aptlY illustrated at the RichlanC
county court house when one cap
tain and 90 enlisted men, stationed
at Camp Jackson, took the oath o.
allegiance to the government of the
United States and were given their
naturalization papers. They repre-
sented practically every nationality
and every form of government, from
the icy steppes of Russia to the
/ equatorial cline of Cuba.
They were examined by Federal
Examiner William NJ. Smoak, of All
| ken, a magistrate OF that county who
has been granted leave of absence by
Governor Manning to carry on the
work in the camps of South Caro-
lima. They were accepted for citi-
zenship by Circuit Judge William H.
Townsend, Of Columbia, and the
oath of allegiance was administered
by j. Frost Walker, clerk of court
for Richland county. Court was ad-
journed for the day to put through
the naturalization process.
OF those who took the oath of al
legiance, five wore alien enemies
four from Austria-Hungary and one
from Germany. One of the Aus
trians said that he had a brother
fighting in the armies of the central
phatic desire to become a citizen of
this country. Each one of the men
appeared delighted when they were
handed their papers of citizenship,
and many of them proudly exhibited
the papers to their friends. Other
countries represented by men who
became citizens were: Denmark
Italy, Belgium, Greece, Canada,
Scotland, Servia, Russia, Ireland,
Wales, Poland, Sweden, Holland
England, Cuba and France There
are over 100 other aliens at Camp
Jackson who will take the oath of
allegiance next week
Examiner Smoak said that there
were approximately 5000 aliens at
Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, to
take out their papers of citizenship
or this number, $50 became citizens
last week he declared
Each one Of the men is given a
thorough examination by the intelli-
gence department of the army and
their papers ere prepared by the
judge advocate generals office OF the
camp before they are presented to
the courts for citizenship.
The method by which aliens in the
naval and military service OF the
United States en- become citizens or
this country is explained in subdi-
vision OF section of the act OF
June %, 1916. as amended by the
act of June 8, 1918, which says:
ANY alien serving in the military
or navaf'service Of the United States
during the time this country is en-
gagged in the present war may file his
petition for naturalization without
making the preliminary declaration
of intention and without proof of the
required five years residence within
the United States; and any
alien, or any person owing perma-
nent allegiance to the United States
embraced within this subdivision,
may file his petition for naturaliza-
tion in the most convenient court
without proof of residence within it's
jurisdiction upon the jurisdiction OF
the courts specified in section 8 of
the act of June 20. 1906, provided
he appears with his two witnesses
before the appropriate representa-
tive Of the bureau of naturalization
and passes the preliminary examina-
petition for naturalization in the
office OF the clerk of court, and in
each case the record of this examina-
tion shall be offered in evidence by
the representative of the government
from the bureau of naturalization
and made part of the record at the
original and any subsequent hear
ings; and the certificate OF
service showing good conduct, signed
by duly authorized ofiGdr$. 3.
shall be deemed primaH n facie evil
dence to satisfy all OF the REQUIRE