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Show I records, it is stated, entitle them to toll citizenship in this country. Variolic nationalities na-tionalities are represented anions the men who will be made Americans today. Two new oflieers reported to the post for doty yesterday, including Captain Hubert F. Christ ianson. a Salt Lake dentist, den-tist, who is assigned to duty at the post as dentist to assist Major Tyler in the dental work of the post. Captain Taylor, a medical officer from Ogden. also reported report-ed for duty at the post hospital. lieutenant Stephen Peretzky has assumed as-sumed duties as actios; personnel officer of the Twentieth Infantry, and, as such, becomes a member of the staff of Colonel Alfred llasbrouck. post commander. Hat-talian Hat-talian Sergeant-Major 11. C. Scribner has been made .sergeant-major of the personnel per-sonnel department, with the rank of regimental regi-mental sergeant-major. He is assisted in the work of the personnel office by three other sergeants. This department has to make out and handle all payrolls of the post, thus relieving the company organizations organ-izations of much paper work and giving the companies more time for strictly military mili-tary training and work. SOLDIERS WILL BE 1ATURILIE0 TODAY Members of Twentieth Infantry In-fantry Numbering 113 Will Take Oath. Today will be military naturalization day in Juds'e Tillman D. Johnson's division divi-sion of the federal court here, and 113 members of the Twentieth infantry at Fort Douglas will be made naturalized citizens of the United States. ' This action is' in accordance with a naturalization law recently passed by congress and pursuant to a general order of the adjutant-general of the army providing pro-viding for' the holding of special naturalization natu-ralization courts for the immediate naturalization natu-ralization of all aliens now in the military service of the country In the various camps and posts of the country. Tiie order includes even enemy aliens in the army, provided the enemy aliens can furnish satisfactory, proof of their loyalty to this country. Paul Armstrong, district naturalization examiner, with headquarters in Denver, Colo., is in the citv and was at Fort Douglas yesterday preparing for the naturalization natu-ralization proceedings to be held in Judge Johnson's court today. It was found that 113 men, including one commissioned officer, of-ficer, were not citizens of the country and had not taken out first papers. All of these will go before the court today to be made citizens in the fullest sense of the word by the special naturalization natural-ization proceedings to be held today. About half of the number will appear in court at 9 o'clock this morning and the other half at 1 o'clock this afternoon, to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and of citizenship in this country. Among the aliens now in the service at Fort Douglas who will be naturalized today to-day are a few men of German birth, but they have been in the military service of this country for a long time, and their |