Carr

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court discharging a writ of habeascorpus and remanding appellant to the custody of the appellee for deportation pursuant to an order of the Acting Secretary of Labor previously made.

Appellant, an alien, a subject of Japan,, about 54 years of age, entered the United States on May 31, 1903 at the Port of-San Francisco as a passenger of the S. S. America Maru and was admitted for permanent residence. He is married and has four American-born children. For some 30 years he has resided in the City of Los Angeles, State of California, and during most of this time has been engaged in the hotel business. For five and one half years preceding the hearing he was-the manager of the Hotel Nesta in Los Angeles, in a district frequented by bootleggers, gamblers and prostitutes. The hotel consists of 32 rooms occupying the-2nd and 3rd floors of the building, some-20 of the rooms being rented by permanent guests and the remaining rooms being used' by transients.

Acting upon a report from the Police-Department of the City of Los Angeles that many arrests for prostitution had been made at the hotel, appellee applied to the Department of Labor at…