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Sunday, July 5, 1933 Npwi Section Page 5 TIIE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER rey yeywgew 4mmm mm mnpvypmp- POLISH BOY Held On Ellis Isle pass the time. Jobs are voluntary. The pay is 10 cents an hour and can be spent for tobacco and a few other small luxuries. Karl, for example, volunteers for virtually any job. Slost recently he's been painting walls.

He wbifitles while he works. His eyes shine with the faith that eventually all will turn out well. He says egaln; "I want to be American." ices of any faith, see movies or TV, play indoor or outdoor games or borrow books from a library of 20,000 volumes in 22 languages. It's not a country club existence. The routine obviously is administered ably.

But the detained still are left with one of mankind's worst enemies: The sense of monotony The wise, like Karl, work to With Many Who Seek To Be Americans Af sy A l-iJP i REMODEL and REPAIR Competent Men To Advise You On Remodeling Dural Tension Screens Porch Enclosures Firestone Velon Screening Looks like bronze, works easier, is permanent and non-staining. 15c sq. ft. Kaiser Aluminum Shade Screening-Keeps out the insects and the hot rays station's peak year, the total hit 1,285,349. Today the flood has dwindled to a trickle.

During wartime the island's population sometimes rose as high as 2000. On a recent day it waj 323. Of these, 76 were "passenger cases" persons temporarily detained, perhaps for only a few hours, because their papers were not in order. Locked doors and wire fences separate them from what I the service calls its male "war-! rant cases" men against whom the government has taken legal action. These range from stowaways to established subversives.

As one of these, what sort of life does Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer lead: He eats the same kind of food, sleeps on the same type of bed and haj the same recreation privileges as passe lger cases. He can write and receive as much uncensorec mail as he wants. He can have two hourly visits a week, though he must talk through a tight screen set up to prevent drug smuggling. With other warrant cases he is segregated from group of known Communists. DORMITORY iS CLEAN Once a week he receives clean bedding and makes his own bea in a dormitory where nearly 100 men sleep.

The dormitory and its bathrooms are clean as are all rooms on the island. He does his own personal laundry. Clothing is provided by social service agencies. Food, served cafeteria style, Is unlimited. This was fhe menu on a recent day: Breakfast cherries, cereal, toast, milk, coffee.

Dinner soup, Veal stew, string beans, potatoes, rice, bread, chocolate pudding, coffee. Supper soup, chop suey, chefs salad, peas, bread, coffee. He can attend religious serv 30c sq. ft. OUR POLICY do not contrtct untlvtt.

materials, rant tools, arranqa finanuing, recommend reliable craftsmen. of the sun. Also Wood Fencing Roofing Wallboards Overhead Garage Doors Floor Tile Kitchen Cabinets Plywood PICNIC TABLES 8-FOOT K.D. 27-5Q WHIL1NG AWAY LONG HOURS ON ELLIS ISLAND For one reason or another, these men are bein held by Uncle Sam in the detention center on Ellis Island, in New York harbor. While awaiti ng disposition of their cases, they engage in light duties for which they are paid, or seek di version in the island's outdoor recreation area, as above.

These men are playing a game of boc cie, an Italian form of outdoor bowling. Wide World Photo. itations has been done. Physical them, rise the gleaming towers prison terms. We want to try to force of any kind on the part of of Manhattan.

show them some of the good attendants is outlawed. There's a tone of genuine sym- things about America." The misery on Ellis Island is pathy among the officials. As Through the island's vast cen-mental It's the anguish of men the edge of the promised land, tral high-Jomed hall have and women who are confined at Philip Forman, in charge of the trudged millions of bewildered Nearby, so close on a summer island, said the other day: immigrants, sometimes at the day that it seems you can touch "These people are not serving rate of 5000 a day. In 1907, the Ample Free Parking Space EA 0787 North End of Burch Ave. Monday Store Hours He Appears To Mean It, But Is Detained As Rest Under Law (Ellis Island no longer is the hustling place of days of high immigration quotas, long before the McCarran Act.

But there is no lack of drama, and there are ttoriea like Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer's. Karl just wants to be an American. To look at the changes in the island, in the wake of the controversial immigration act, an AP newsfeatures writer visited the detention center, so near and yet to far for some alien newcomers.) BY CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK, July 4 (AP) The boy swam across the river in darkness and slipped quietly into the trees. Sleeping by day and walking at night, scrounging food off the country, always vigilant, he went west. Poland was behind him as he made his way through the Russian zone of Germany.

The police chased him more than once. He stayed in a stream when they pursued him with bloodhounds. Emaciated and exhausted, he at last crawled thrcugh the Iron Curtain into West Germany. It waa r-ight in raiikfurt. A huge plane stood near a hangar.

No one paid any attention as the boy watched it furtively. On it was lettered a great word, the most important word in the world to the boy: American. That was where he wanted to go. That was what he wanted to be. LUCK IS WITH HIM When no one was looking, he darted ir.to the empty Pan-American air liner and hid in the baggage compartment.

He did rot know how lucky he was. He might have frozen to death or died from lack of oxygen if he hadn't happened to pick a plane with a pressurized, heated baggage compartment. Hiding among the luggage, the t-oy rode for hours in darkness. Finally the plane descended, a door opened. There were voices and then silence.

That was the moment for him to creep out But his nerve failed him. After a while an inspector pushed into the compartment "Well, iook what's here!" drawled the Inspector. He led the lean, wide-ghonldered, red-haired youth onto the ground. The boy blinked around at New York's Idlewild Airport. This was America.

T' Is was the promised land. "Come on," said the inspector. "You're goint for a little boat ride to Ellis Island." That was on May 21, 1952. Today, the youth, Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer, now 18, still is on the island gateway to America for millions since it became an immigrant station in 1892. At least he sai his name is 12 to 8:30 Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer.

At least he says he came from Poland. But he has no papers, no proof he is w-ho he says. Looking into his blue eyes, however immigration officials are inclined to believe him. "He seems to be a good kid, a nice kid," cays Edward J. Shaughnessy, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

"I wuit to be American," says Kar. There was a time when, he might have made it There was a time when a shrewd examiner, looking at him and hearing reports of h.s cheerfulness and will to work during his exile on Ellis Island, might have thought: It's a big country, let the country swallow him, and he will serve her well. But today Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer has roughly the char.ce of a snowball in August of becoming an American. CONTROVERSY REFLECTED In one aspect Karl reflects the controversy over the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act which authorizes 154,657 quota immigrants to enter this country annually. The Immigraton Subcommittee of the Senate Judi-ciary Committee has been holding hearings on a request by President Eisenhower for emergency action which would permit 240.0C1 mostly refugees, to enter outside of quota over the next two years.

Karl is automatically excluded as an alien stowaway under the act Normally the ship that brings a stowaway here must take him back. If that fails as rarely happens the line Is charged $3 a day for the time Uncle Sam keeps him on Ellis Island. In Karl's case Pan-American has forked over $1200 thus far, making his Atlantic crossing one of the most expensive on record. Opponents of the McCarran Act numerous and vocal could seize on the case of Karl as an instance of unfairness in the law. Assuming that Karl's story is true ano he deserves admittance, it also is true that the same provision of the law excludes thugs and mugs who stow away in the hope of reaching America.

NONE WANTS HIM Under the McCarran Act, as affirmed by the Supreme Court, a person excluded from the United States can be held on Ellis Island until another nation will accept him. In Karl's case Poland has refused to take him back. Thus far, too, the Bonn republic has refused to accept him. In past instances, the immigration service has patiently sought asylum from as many as 17 nations for a person excluded from these shores. This happened in the Instance of Ignatz Mezei, a 56-year-old Hungarian national who lived in Buffalo, N.

for 25 years and was barred as 'a security risk when he tried to re-enter the country after a trip to Europe. Now on Ellis Island, Mezei conceivably could spend the rest of his life there. People have died on Ellis Island, ar.d children have been born tu mothers there. But the longest anyone has spent there Is nearly five years. That was Frederick E.

Bauer, a for mer soldier who served in both the Nazi and the V. S. armies in World War II. He was deported September 8, 19S0, as i undesirable alien. His American wife voluntarily shared most of his confinement.

Their two chlldre were born while he was on the island. The imml service, concerned only with enforcing the law, points tut these as among the most important new provisions for xcludin immigrants under the McCarran Act: (1) Narcotic drug addicts. (2) Persons convicted of two or more offenses, if the aggregate sentence is five years or more. (3) A woman who has been a prostitute at any time in her life. (4) Anyone coming here for the pu-pose of "unlawful commercialized vice." (No known instances have come through Ellis Island.) (5) Anyone who has trafficked illegally in narcotic drugs.

(6) Anyone, excc-it a bona fide refugee, who ever has obtained a visa by fraud. Some wild-eyed people cry that Ellis Island is a kind of devil's island. That is untrue. You can go see for It is clean. The food is palatable and plentiful.

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