The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-29
ALIEN, IN JAIL,
BROKE, FACES
DEPORTATION
Illegal Entry Charged by
U. S.; Lacks Money to
Fight Case.
'DOAKITIS' IS ALLEGED
Plight Held Similar to That
of Other Foreigners in
Expulsion Drive.

Held in custody for a week, Boris
Naumo, Macedonian, today paced
his cell in the county Jail, wonder
ing when the department of labor
will act on the charge that he vio-
lated the nations immigration laws.
AS he waits, persons who have be-
come interested in his plight init
mate that he is victim of "Doak-
tits, a term originating in the mer-
CHESS deportation drive conducted
recently by Secretary Of Labor
James Doak.
Naumoff was arrested Dec. % on
farm near Windfall, Ind, and the
decision of the government may re-
suit in his deportation to his native
land.
Re-Entry called Illegal
According to records of the de-
partment of labor in Washington
and immigration authorities in Gin
clnnati, Naumoff re-entered the
United States in 1890 without au-
thority, after he had returned from
a visit to Macedonia.
The warrant for his arrest was
authorized in Washington Dec. u
and he was arrested at the farm of
a cousin, where he was endeavoring
to accumulate sufficient funds to
replace losses in Gary bank
failure.
The case, according to official
records, is filled with technicalities
which Naumoff, from his cell in
the Jail, asserts he does not under
stand.
He told The Times that represent
atiyes of the immigration Office
talked with him in the Jail after his
arrest, but that he has neither an
attorney nor money to prove that
ne might have entered the country
legally.
Returned in 1880
The department charges Naumoff
entered in the United States legally
in 1913, but in 1920, without under
standing necessary formalities, Nau-
moff accepted the offer of friend
to pay Naumoff's expense for a visit
to his native country.
Four years later, it is charged.
he returned to Canada and later
went to Gary, where he had lived
formerly. In 1929, it is charged he
obtained a re-entry permit based
on his 1913 entrance, and then
came to Indiana in 1880.
This, the department alleges, is
illegal.
Naumoff, in broken English, says
he wants to become an American
citizen. He says that he intended
Strengthening out his citizenship af-
fairs with the money he had in the
Gary bank, but the crash of the
institution blocked him.
Despite his incarceration, Maui
moff asserts that if he is deported
he will return-some way or other.
Branded as DOakitis'
Persons interested in the case
have branded it ''Doakitis." Recent
ly, James Doak, secretary of labor,
was criticised for wholesale arrests
of immigration law violstors iii
eastern cities.
Naumoff told The Times he can
not afford to hire counsel. He said
the only statement he has made
was in his cell to the immigration
inspectors.
Washington dispatches say the
department intends to complete the
investigation in support of the
charge. If it is upheld, Naumoff
will be deported Immediately after
the department makes it's decision.
According to dispatches, Naum-
off can gain freedom by arranging
bond of $500 or can attempt this
move through a habeas corpus &C
ton.
But with Naumoff's assertion that
he has no money, officials indicated
that probably all avenues of hope
are closed to the prisoner.