The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-30
S|XTY-TWO ALIENS
BECOME CITIZENS
Incidents, Humorous and Pa
thetic, Are Brought Out
at Hearing Before Court

Sixty-two aliens coming from fourteen
countries were made citizens of the
United States yesterday following IL
hearing before Judge w. l. Grub in the
United States district court. The court
room was well filled with interested
spectators as these men swore away all
allegiance to every foreign power and
affirmed their intention of becoming
American citizens The oath was admin
Istered by Maj. Charles j. Allison. clerk
of the court.
All records were broken in the number
Of citizens seeking citizenship at this
time. According to court officials. the
docket set for hearing consisted of 14o
cases and was one of the largest num-
her set at one time in the south.
Germany led among the nationalities
and furnished as many applicants as the
next two in order while Russians came
next, and were followed by Italians.
Other countries represented we're Ru-
MANIA Greece. Poland, Finland. Swe-
den. Denmark. England, Portugal and
Turkey.
Various reasons for becoming citizens
of the United States were given by tho
applicants when the cases were present.
ed by ]. e. Jackson. of the bureau of
naturalization with headquarters at New
Orleans ana one German stated he
wanted to become a citizen Of the youth
full country that could stage such
splendid fight as the United States did
during the past two years A Rumanian
declared he preferred America because
it has prohibition.
When asked il he believed a man
should have more than one wife, Pole
stated yes" Thinking that heahad not
understood the question. it was asked
| over and, realizing that he had made
mistake, he said: NO one wife too
much" An Italian stated this was such
| a big country he was very proud to be-
| long here while another declared IL We
have more governors. meaning larger
number of representatives and senator's
this country would have better laws.
| Hearing for soldiers will be held toda.
and thirty cases have been set for this
, time.
| Many incidents of a pathetic as well as
humorous nature occurred yesterday dur
| ing the hearing when the following were
naturalized: Carl Richter, Charles
thur, Omar Wagner, Szaia Dank, s1n
| Saroff Nathan Stein. John Gerdes. W.
! liam f. H. Schaefers, Alfred ella SER
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Graffeo. George Regards, Antonio
| Smeraglia, Louis Epstein. Isaac Sire q,
Jonas Sundheimer, Nicholas Pettas. Cor.
nelius van der Berg, Isadore Samuel EH-
| gle Louis Berman, Robert Cefalu, Isaac
| Royal David Micaiel Moore, Theodce
| Evaneelou Nicolaou. Berardo Vigilar
James Mcintyre. Ike Rosen, Louis Els
| berg, James Mark Synonds. John Era
! McNames. Peter Peterson, Simon ID
| gfard Steiner, Sam Passafmus. Save
! Parcarello, Carl Hansen Lind. Jar
| Horne. Cashier Bouchet. Albert Micl
| Leopold Palmyr Fossat Mike Cole
| vincenzo Stable. Pee Ballas, Clio
Gadilhe. Charlie lyme Abdela Jose
! Alex Nassau. Joe Tamborello. Pie
| Tamborello, Joe Ferlissi, Walter Grfi
! Charlie Olson, Joe Uolis Kabase, Pie
| Madonio. Peter Portere. Claude Extrl
| Carl Gordon, Nathan Pant, Vincei1a
1 Scacia James Biddle. William Ephraf
| Sprake. Samuel Ervine and En- ne
J Mounier