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HERMANS CAff'TBE NATURALIZEDClerk of City Court A. 0MacDonald ReceivesWord To This EffectThis Morning.Germans who have taken out theirpapers to become clttaen* of the United States can not be naturalized untilafter the war. Notice to this effect was received this morning by Clerk of the City Court A. G. MacDonald and be was asked to call the attention of the Judge of the Alton City Court tothisThis order will effect a large nunvher of Altonlana who had taken outtheir second papers and were to have l,m-n naturalised at the April or the September terms of the Alton City(’oiirt. Among those who will be af-(HfU'd this year are Herman Gossrau, Richard Spendler, Fell* Goebeler, Rene Louis Becker, and Herman O. W. Gnerich. Besides this there will be many times that number who have taken out their first papers.The letter from Washington to the Clerk of the Court is as follows:To Clerks of Courts of Naturalization:A state of war having been declared by the Congress of the United State* as against Germany, your attention la invited to the fact that until the war is over, and until a declaration of peace, no German subject may, under the provisions of Section 2171 of the U. S. Revised ^tatutes, be naturalized a citizen of the United States of America.J. BRECKENR1DGK.* so!8
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Sat, Apr 07, 1917
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