Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-20 | Page 9 | Would-be Citizen is in Predicament

WOULD-BE CITIZEN IS lN PREDICAMENT Geiman Who Piled Application Four Days Eefore War Was Declared May Not Be Admitted. OGDEN. Nov. IP. Despite the fact that his application for first papers was filed four days in adva nee of this na-1 na-1 1 ion's declaration of war against Germany, Ger-many, Frederick Carl Rabe, native German Ger-man and a resident of the Ogden valley, i may find it impossible to become a full-! full-! fledged American citizen at this time. I The situation developed in Judge A. E, I Pra tt's court today at a naturaliza tion examination on applications for final citizenship citi-zenship papers. Under the federal law it is impossible for an alien of any foreign country with which the United States is at war to become a citizen if his application for naturalization was filed in the court during dur-ing the period of such war. Although Rabe's application or declaration was filed four days prior to the declaration of war by congress on April 6, the question was brought up today that the application applica-tion was not officially before the court until a. state of war existed between the United States and Germany. Judge Pratt took the matter under consideration considera-tion and continued the hearing In Rabe's case. Nineteen applications for citizenship pa pers were considered at today's hearing, hear-ing, the government being represented by Paul Armst rong of Salt Lake, naturalization nat-uralization inspector. Only seven of tlie applications were granted. The new citizens created today and their native countries are: John Peter Spahn, Russia Rus-sia ; Peter Adianes Vellinga, Holland ; 1 John Louis Joseph Vernirewe, Belgium ; I Ambrose Sailer Charlesworth, England ; i Henage W he tton. England; Clement Jo- ; seph PirotU, Belgium; Pierre Chaix, France. I