Show FLAM TO PUNISH SLACKERS EVADERS OF NEUTRAL COUNTRIES FACE LOSS OF FUTURE movement to provide for cancellation of papers under way over to revoke declarations being filed in one district isea york bettt een SO and floo aliens of neutral countries who had started the machinery to make them citizens of the united state before this country entered the world war and who avoided being drafted into alie army by making affidavits eliat had changed their intentions to renounce their native country may ba forever barred from becoming citizens as the result of country wido action taken in the last week b itoch ard campbell of naturalization at washington the local result of mr campbells action atas the preparation at the local united states naturalization bureau at 3 beekman street of petitions to revoke declarations of intention filed in the local district which includes all the federal judicial districts of ew lork except the western district at buffalo and also includes hudson conn ty N J more than altti of these applications were presented to supreme court justice in ew county and were signed by him and are now on file the petitions presented by chief examiner M A sturges are all entitled in the matter of the cancellation of the declaration of intention the names of the declarants arants involved in the cancellation applina alons are sent to each local naturalization district from the washington of flee which under a section of the draft law received them from draft boards throughout the countr this law recited that persons making claims for exemption on the ground eliat they had filed only their first papers and did not intend to proceed further would hae their first papers revoked and would be de barred from citizenship in the future the draft boards were in strutted ted to send to the naturalization bureau at washington the names of all persons claiming such exemption with an affidavit by the declarant to that effect and a copy of ills first papers |