Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — Ask President To Keep Mayor-Elect From Serving. [ARTICLE]

Ask President To Keep Mayor-Elect From Serving.

Senators Watson and New, of Indiana, askqd President Wilson, Inday to take steps to prevent Fred C. Miller, bom of German parents and without final naturalization papers, from becoming mayor of Michigan City, Ifid., next Monday. They urged that regulations governing alien enemies be changed so as to prevent them from holding public office. « Proceedings were instituted in the federal district court in Indiana to prevent Miller from assuming office, but Federal Judge Anderson, although criticizing the citizens of the city for electing a man to the office who was not a citizen, decided that under the law he was powerless to interfere. An appeal then was made by a group of Michigan City citizens to the Indiana senators to urge the {(resident to take some action. Miler was born in this country of German parentage and is said to have taken out his first naturalization papers.