Evening star., 1941-02-05
Appeal 10 jackson
May Keep Scottish
Refugee in Arlington
Michael Storrie, 9,
Ordered Deported,
Insists He Hod Visa

If Attorney General Jackson can
see his way clear to invalidate de-
portation order. 9-year-old Michael
Storrie won't have to go back to a
school where bombs are heard at
tea time.
He will enroll, instead, at John
Marshall Elementary School in Ar
lington, Va. and open the mouths
of pupils there with his story of life
in England, wartime travel and ex-
aminations at Ellis Island.
Ordered Deported.
Michael sailed past the Statue Of
Liberty Monday, refugee bound
for the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
c. Mcintosh of 4431 Nineteenth
street north, Arlington immigration
authorities caught him up at Ellis
Island and issued deportation or
der because he had no visa, his
hosts reported today.
The officials said they had TO do
it," but promptly decided to give
him an appeal to the Attorney Cen
eral. Michael insists he had a visa
in his luggage when his father put
him on the liner Exeter at Lisbon
but it's lost now
Department of Justice officials
communicated with Ellis Island au-
thorities today and said afterward
that the parole procedure under
which the boy was released called
for hearing here before the Board
of immigration Appeals.
On the result of that proceeding
the Attorney General will decide if
the State Department is to be asked
to waive the visa requirement which
barred Michael from admission here
through regular channels.
Practically a War Orphan.
If Michael isn't war orphan. he
is the next thing to it. Mother has
been in Bermuda during the war,
censoring mail. Father, Scottish
mining engineer usually working on
the African Gold Coast, has been
busy in England with war duties.
Alone. at a boarding school in
Bedford. about so miles outside Lon
don, Michael watched the old BOYS
spend their hours drilling for mill
tary duty. and felt a bit lonely be-
cause he was too young to take part.
Boys with bicycles rode out to survey
bomb damage and report the sight
of a decapitated German airman,
who tangled with his propeller as he
bailed out.
But I didn't have a bicycle, 3"
Michael said.
This blue-eyed boy, with a ready
grin, is the first to be brought here
under plans of the Soroptimist
Club, of which both his mother and
Mrs. Mcintosh are members. His
father took time off to fly with him
to Lisbon, and put him aboard the
ship last week, with a fond goodby.
Sees Mother Briefly.
Mother met him when the boat
stopped at Bermuda, she had to say
hello and kiss him good-by within
three and a half hours.
When they got him here today,
his hosts took the boy to their
secluded Fairfax County farm, %
miles from Washington, where he
soon forgot the deportation order
which hangs over him, in the task
of making friends with a black cat,
Eeny, and an English setter, Ginger.
If he is allowed to stay in America,
Michael is sure he will have no
difficulty in school. Mrs. Mcintosh
will see school officials in Arlington
tomorrow morning, to see what
grade compares to the British Junior
A form"
1t was the second attempt by the
Mcintosh family to give refuge to
British children. They we're as
signed two last fall but the children
were lost when their ship was sunk,
the Associated Press reported.