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Show 1 ftVF AMR 1 l!M a Mm hi JLrtLWlloI I May Force a Young IB Girl to Go Back jll to Russia ill Chicago, July 2S Cupid began a 'I'H contest with the United States -gov- j )H einmont when Josephine Burmistrug, mM Russian peasant girl, and Ivan Itch- , WM iitch were married In the Greek l church yesterday. Cupid is backed IH by 200 'Chicago women, headed by jH Miss Grace Abbott of the Immigrants' ' lH Protective League, in his fight ;H against the government f jfl Whe"h the 20-year-old girl and her sweetheart were at the altar in the Ij M West Side church last Saturday, pre- !U M pared to be married, immigration. T jl agents appeared .and took the-girl in- Ij M to custody. h H Geo. Litvln, 15 years old, to whom ( M the girl had been pledged ten years jl jH ago, in Russia, was the complainant j M He told the immigration authorities M H she was" In this country In violation M M of the immigration laws. , I) f At the hearing before Immigration M fl H Commissioner Thompson, it was ; l H learned that Litvin had sent tho girl H H $145 six weeks ago to pay ner passage ' W H from Russia to Chicago. 'H While xhe prospective bride and ') jH (bridegroom were holding a prenup- jH tial celebration, the girl met Ivan H Itchlitch, who is 20 years old. They H fell in love and told Litvln of the H fact He was Incensed at the break- I H ing off of the engagement and made I H complaint to the Immigration author!- 1 H ties against the girl. vDI While the negotiations were .on the fiffH young couple were married. The im- H&l migration commissioner has the cas JlFI under advisement H |