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Show 'MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY' FREED AT ELLIS ISLAND NEW TOPK. Dec. 2. MacGregor Ross, known to immigration officials from coast to coast as "a man without a country," and whose nationality has been a conundrum for the last two years, will be given temporary liberty on an order pr inted by Federal Judge Grubb. The court granted a petition of iflsa Rose Weiss, his attorney, to release the man, who Is almost 70 years old. from Ellis Island, pending I an appeal agulnst deportation. A bond of $1000 will be filed. Ross was brought across the continent conti-nent two years ago from Seattle, where ho had been arrested in a raid by federal officials as an I W. W. agitator He was ordered deported, bul was released by order from the federal court hero and he returned to Seattle Last February he w.,v brought to New York again for deportation, de-portation, this time charged with dl--tributtng I W. W. literature. His native na-tive land could not bo determined and the immigration officials wore pus-sled pus-sled where to send him. Ross claims Tinted .States citizenship, but js unable un-able to prove It. oo- |