Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-05 | Page 1 | Admiral Likelly to Win Fight for Children

ADMIRAL LIKELY TO fl FIGHT FOR CHILDREN Admission of His Adopted Russ Youncisters Thought Probable. :i i m . i . Jan. 5 remporarj admisnlon to t'"- conn ol the seven Russian - hllilren brought ba b bs Re ir tdmiral Hugh A, McCulIy, former Kmcricitn t . eononiiselonor al Bcbaa-topl, Bcbaa-topl, was ird i cd toda bj the Imml g rati on bureau. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. The sven Russian children brought to the Unil-ed Unil-ed States for adoption by Rear A.dmi- .rni Hugh A. McCully. former Aincrl-i.iii Aincrl-i.iii hlsli i-onnnn-sioner at Sebastopol. and ordered deported h immigration uuthorlties at. Ellis island, probably will be admitted to the country. It was Bald today at the department of lahor. Officials said that in view of Admi-raiMcCull Admi-raiMcCull s statement that he lntend-ed lntend-ed to educate the children and make them his heirs. Secretary Wilson was . spected to order their admission. The seven children were ordered excluded exclud-ed from "the country by an immigration immigra-tion board of Inquiry at Ellis Island Tuesday, The order fell like i wet blanket on. the hopes of tl-" ,oung3ters and the admiral, wi.j had played Santa oiam; and father to them all the way from their native land on the collier Kum-apo. Kum-apo. They were to be his wards and his hci. sharing his homo at Washington Wash-ington and enjoying all the educational education-al facilities he could give them Eut the admiral announced that he Immediately would take an appeal to the secretary of labor at Washington, that he was ready to post sin many high bonds as would be asked, and that he Intended to fight to the l.isi ditch for admittance of the children. In the meantime, pending a ruling from Washington the children will be detained at Kills Island. The technical exclusion ruling of Ellis El-lis island officials was that the children child-ren "were liable to become public charges."