IN RE JOST

Docket No. 4400.

117 Cal.App.2d 379 (1953)

256 P.2d 71

In re ARTHUR JOST for Naturalization. ARTHUR JOST, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

April 20, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wirin, Rissman & Okrand, A.L. Wirin and Fred Okrand for Appellant.

Richard W. Petherbridge, Randles & Randles, and Anthony V. Randles, Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Walter Binns, United States Attorney, Clyde C. Downing, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief Civil Division, and Robert K. Grean, Assistant United States Attorney, for Respondent.

William A. White, Malcolm Champlin, B.W. Gearhart, Alfred P. Chamie and Howard R. Harris, Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


GRIFFIN, J.

On May 25, 1950, appellant, a native of Canada, petitioned for naturalization. The law then in effect (Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stats. 1137, 1157 [8 U.S.C.A. § 735], as amended by Internal Security Act of 1950, 64 Stats. 987, 1017, U.S. Code [1946 ed.] Sup. IV § 735), provided for two oaths, one of which must be taken for admittance to citizenship. The first, (b) (1), so far as here involved, contains the clause that petitioner will "support...

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