REFUSED TO MAKE ONE

Chicago Judge Could Find No Precedent for Naturalizing a Japanese.

By Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Friday, Oct. 3. -- After vainly searching for some legal precedent that would justify a different decision, Judge Carter has refused to grant naturalization papers to Lee Guy Dean, a Japanese, who made application with a view to becoming a citizen of the United States.

"The statute of naturalization," said Judge Carter, "reads that any free white man or any native of Africa or any alien of African descent may be naturalized, but that does not apply to Mongolians, and a Japanese is surely a Mongolian."

The only decision bearing directly on the case which Judge Carter could find was one made by a Massachusetts court, and that was to the effect that an application from such a source could not be granted.