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More AboutDeportationHearing for Sodo(Continued From Page 1) Jcontinued at the government's re- Iquest, to gain more time to gather additional evidence for the case.Sodo was granted citizenship inMarch, 1949, The following month his wife, Patsy Mae, was granted annulment of her 11-year-old mar-1 riage because her husband lied about his citizenship when theyjwere married a week before Christmas in 1939.Superior Judge John G. Baran! of East Chicago ruled that falsification of a marriage license wassufficient reason to declare thei wedlock illegal. 1• • •AX APPEAL of the Calumet City, Court's ruling which granted Sodo citizenship was made by Otto Ker-,ner Jr. of Chicago, then U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He filed a petition with the Illinois Supreme Court requesting a review of Sodo’s right to become a naturalized citizen, t IThe appeal was made on the ground that Sodo was not of goodmoral characted and had made afalse statement to immigration examiners when he said he was anAmerican citizen on returning from Mexico in 1949.The government’s charge is based on the time since Sodo last en-jtered this country, when he returned from a visit to Mexico in1949, according to James J. Carey,officer in charge of the Immigration and Naturalization office atHammond.He said Sodo had been in theUnited States for many years priorto 1949, Sodo’s residence current-j ly is listed at Rt. 3, Cedar Lake. :
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Hammond Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 14, 1955
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