Nagle

These are appeals by Soo Hoo Hung and Soo Hoo Mook from orders of the District Court denying their petitions for writ of habeas corpus. Appellants are Chinese boys, 8 and 12 years old, respectively, who arrived in the United States in August, 1923, seeking admission as sons of Soo Hoo Hing, a citizen of the United States. Immigration officials denied the applications, and upon appeal the Secretary of Labor dismissed the proceeding.

Soo Hoo Hing is a citizen of the United States, and the question throughout the proceedings has been as to the alleged relationship of father and sons, said to exist between him and the boys. It is established by the record that Soo Hoo Hing made four trips to China and that his visits in point of time made it physically possible for him to be the father of the boys; but the board of review found material dis-’crepaneies between his testimony given in the present matter and that given by him on a former occasion (1922), when he swore that he was the father of one. Soo Hoo Jin, who was eventually deported because the claimed relationship did not exist.

There were also discrepancies in some of his statements of the dates of the birth of two of his…