In re Hoffmann

COSGRAVE, District Judge.

Adelheid Hoffmann’s petition for naturalization was denied at the hearing for reasons given from the bench. The immigration and naturalization service have suggested that the court give written expression to its views.

Petitioner was born in Germany in 1871, entered the United States in 1900, and was naturalized by the United States District Court in New York in 1908. In 1920 she married John Ploffmann, an alien, thereby losing the citizenship gained in 1908 (Act of March 2, 1907, § 3, 34 Stat. 1228, see 8 U.S.C.A. § 9). Her husband died in 1931. In August, 1935, she…