Show ol n AU A U. U ro T Tn nasin l a isn f I Belgian Orphan rg Finally Gains Citizen Status t 1 t X SH As A's VILLE Tenn it'd That Ps-That That is another story awry u a country but this ono a nd happily Back ack in 1914 when the German I ab f s struck at France through I a Belgian soldier nas tn killed dl by the invaders In and his famIly soldiers soldier's on Abert scattered The Thc t f ged 0 9 found himself suddenly a an orphan fleeing J ing with other refugees refu sees gees into France the first three years ears of tho war Albert lived as a watt waif behind behind be- be hind the lines picking up food ho he could and steeping sleeping anyplace any place e a shell was not likely to 8 Then in 1918 came the Ameri Americans to Aid ld the and English and Albert Alberts strIcken countrymen The boy liked these new string shing soldiers particularly Ute the Fifth th Regiment Regiment Regi- Regi ment of Marines So lie he J tho Fifth through the final victor victor- bus ous days or of the Tar ar as mascot I BEFRIENDED BY SERGEANT the marines was Tel T Y Or of Nashville who Det be De- De t 1 d the tho val and coon oon the boys bats Idol Alberts Albert's obJectIves fir narrowed d down to three to Jl k t the Germans to be be leal can Va Vaughn and to become an Amerl- Amerl the soldiers or of the Fifth Then came he armistice and the first tot of Alberts Albert's desires as was attained nut the the- It was t mo Vaughn to embark with the marines for Amerl America a. a Yo Albert by 4 ert-by ert this time known os as Yau clamored Vauhn-clamored clamored m-clamored to Jc be tak jt to America with his protect I a Bul Du army regulations forbade taking y on board the transport ship so 60 vaughn paid a Frenchwoman man In Br nr i t t. to keep tho lad until money con co td d be sent to 10 bring him toA to A APi n ie rIca ica Olio clay la Albert 1 A week tater later Vaughn In Nashville received a wire from a sailor on an freighter saying that had stowed away aboard th the hip and had I. at Virginia Albert was brought to the th Yau Vaughn hn h ht P hero bero and became to aU all out out- aid appearancES Vaughns Vaughn's adoptS adopt adopt- S et son Ire He alten attended c 1 schools and J to speak the American to Je with but a trace ot of accent GOVERNMENT REFUSAL J for reasons inexplicable to hip pj the tho American government go would not allow nine to a It also refused ed to to let Serget Ser Ser- t tt ct Vaughn hn adopt the bo boy pm 1919 to 1928 Albert Albert amt fOs r s ir Qi father tried trie 1 every ery means to Ct t-e t citizenship for him The The boy v to be a young oung man and m no nol legal l g means of making mali ng him anAn an An n the tho inevitable i t t. t no now a 1 fen fell in with love an The They were WI mar mar- 4 In rIcan girl r l riedA filbert bert went a again to the Amen He had eVery eVery- carf Ad government noY no that goes to mako an American he told the Ulo officials excepting ex- ex citizenship papers Tie Tte government pon pondered cred it t finally nally agreed it if Albert Abert were to leave the country nn and his American wife were Vero to o ask the government to tomake male make her an 6 l too then r And so 1 rs to t be done clone Albert will go outside the of the United Stat States s His wife Will petition petition peti- peti tion the Uie government and after ten years of waiting and hoping the Belgium war orphan will become a citizen ot of the United States |