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The hopes awakened in a number of Jewish immigrants in the Far East by a newspaper report that immigrants resident in the Philippine Islands for one year would be admitted to the United States outside the quota were destined to be short-lived. The Harbin office of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, which aids the large number of Jewish emigrants who pass through there on their way to South American countries, upon official information, contradicted the report, which was without foundation, states the Hias headquarters in New York.
In order that a resident of the Philippine Islands may enter the United States free from the quota, that immigrant must be a Philippine citizen and it takes five years legal residence before such citizenship can be secured. A Philippine citizen has to reside one year in the United States before he can become an American citizen. Admission from China or elsewhere to Manila, Philippine Islands, can only be secured through a recommendation of a Philippine citizen and very often the American Consuls insist upon recommendation letters from American citizens.
Bernard Wiess of Monticello, N. Y., was elected to the office of Special County Judge and Surrogate of Sullivan County. He is the first Jew to be elected to county office there.
Judge Wiess, a Democrat, was appointed last year by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to fill a vacancy and was re-elected in a county normally Republican.
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