Illness of the commissioner of immigration at Washington is holding up plans of the Milwaukee Jewish Orphan Home and private families here to adopt fifty children of German-Jewish victims of the Nazi terror.
At a meeting of the home’s board of directors today, a telegram was received from United States Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., explaining that the local adoption petition was in the hands of the immigratioin bureau, but that illness of the bureau’s head delayed action. Official government sanction must be obtained to bring the fifty children into the country.
Wires were also received by the board from F. Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin’s second senator at Washington, and Thomas O’Malley of this district, promising cooperation in the orphan home’s effort. A communication has also been sent to Secrtary of Labor Perkins, asking her assistance in the proposed adoption.
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