Evening star., 1942-12-09
81 Persons Take Oath
OF Citizenship in
Alexandra Court
19 Soldiers, Marine and
81 Civilians NoturoIized;
II Nations Represented

Nineteen soldiers, a marine SER
geant and 80 civilians became citizens
yesterday in naturalization pro-
ceeding in United States District
Court in Alexandria.
After a brief address by Judge
Luther B. Way, the citizenship oath
was administered by Maj. Paul Kear,
clerk of the court, to applicants who
represented 81 different countries.
After the naturalization, the DR..
Elisha Dick Chapter of the Daueh-
ters Of the American Revolution fol-
lowed its custom in conducting i
brief ceremony of welcome.
Sergeant Naturalized.
Among the service men naturalized
was marine Sergt. Gerald Patrick
Finn. Born in England of Irish
parentage, he came to the United
States at 16 with his parents and
Tour younger brothers. His father
hled his first papers and assumed
That his sons would acquire citizen
ship automatically, but he did not
receive his final papers until Seret
Finn was over 81.
Sergt. Finn, now "a. joined the
army IN 1925 and remained in serv-
ice for three years. In 1887, under
the impression that he was an Amer
lean citizen. he joined the Marine
corps and was stationed in
Shanghai. AL
An amateur musician. he plaved
IN the orchestra of the Ballet Russe
ana met White Russian princess
VINO was member of the troune
and married her.
shortly before the entry of the
United States into war, Serpt Finn
trled to get his wife out of China
ana 1t was only then that he found
ehat ne was not citizen.
Arriving in the United States on
tne last boat out of China, Sergt.
F1nn told the Marine Corps officials
OF his difficulties, and because of
MS excellent record in foreign serv-
ice he was allowed to remain in the
corps despite a regulation reouir-
ing all marines to be citizens. He
has several decorations for foreign
service.
Mrs. Finn in China.
Mrs. Finn is living in a French
concession in China under her
maiden name, and now has an 49,
months old daughter, Patricia,
whom her father has never seen.
All OF Sergt. Firms brothers are
in the armed forces, and he hopes
to become commissioned officer.
Besides Sergt. Finn, servicemen
stationed at camps nearby who be-
came citizens include - England:
First It., Henry Smith, Ezra Shine,
John Abrahamson, Robert Troup,
Leonard F. Stelfax, Frank Ethering-
ton and Edward Brownrigg:
Canada: Eric Cunningham, Paul
Rene Brault, Alex H. Green and
John Jones; Germany: Werner
Moritz and Ernest M. Loew; Poland:
Morris L. Tatelbaum and Sam
Schwartz; Scotland: John Goddard;
Italy: Colombo A. Bonanni; France:
Camille Postiaux and Joseph B.
Polliotto.
Civilians who were naturalized
yesterday included:
England-Harold Jarrett Burrell,
Thomas Edward Budd, Mrs. Delos
H. Smith, Mrs. Ellen c. Cording,
Harry Hammond and Charles Ar
thur Siepmann.
Canada-James A. Mcintosh, Mrs.
Helen Carol Shaw, John N. Four
nier, Henry Gordon Miller and Mrs.
Rhena Amerilla Lahne.
Ireland-Mrs. Mary p. Lloyd;
Wales-Mrs. Gwen Shute; Greece
Bavlos Thodos; Estonia-Mrs. Olga
Wheeler: Bohemia Rudolph Kor-
bas and Joseph Korbas, brothers;
Switzeriand-Mrs. Agnes K. Zim-
norman, Mrs. Alice Gordon Grieve:
France-Mrs. Cecile M. Newman;
Russia-Leon Rubin, Mrs. Matilda
Cohen; Sweden-Eric G. Hildstrom:
Czechoslovakia-Mrs. Marie Sperk;
Australia - Sydney B. Tomley;
Lithuania-Stan J. Guoks, Mrs.
Fannie Davis; Denmark-Mrs. Ger
da Kristen Jensen, Mrs. X. w.
Wicker: Finland-Mrs. Jennie Rust;
Belgium-Louis Martin Aspeslagh;
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