Carr

Wong Eoo Gwong, appellant herein, a person of Chinese descent, in July, 1930, applied for admission to the United States as a blood son of Wong Sheh Woo, a native-born citizen of the United States. Appellant’s application for admission was denied by a Board of Special Inquiry sitting at San Pedro, California, and their exclusion order was sustained by the Secretary of Labor on appeal, August 25, 1930. Prom a refusal of the United States District Court of the Central Division of the Southern District of California to issue a writ of habeas corpus comes this appeal.

The Board of Special Inquiry denied admission to appellant “on the grounds that he is an alien immigrant of a race ineligible to citizenship not exempt by any of the provisions of section 13 (e) of the Act of 1924, as a Chinese person n,ot in possession of a duly visaed section 6 certificate, and as a person likely to become a public charge, he not having established the claimed relationship.”

The last phrase, “he not having established the claimed relationship,” is the basis of this appeal from the decision of the board and is the only question that concerns us here.

There is nothing in the record to indicate that…