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Show WILSON SAVES WOMEN FROM DEPORTATION NEW YORK. Aug. 26. A special order from President Wilson, which reached the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam just before the liner sailed today, saved Mrs. Sarnh flchimelson and her daughter, Esther, from deportation. The woman's husband was executed by the Russians in Suwalki, Russian Poland, for selling bread to the Germans after the Teutons first captured that place. When the Germans retook the town tlie widow, her dauphter and her eleven-year-old son were sent to Berlin Ber-lin and given a passport to America, with orders not to return. Arriving here, tlie immitciTi Uon authorities authori-ties ordered the girl deported for feeblemindedness, feeble-mindedness, and r.he mother was ordered to accompany her! The. hoy was permit-J ted to go to relatives in Chicago. |