Bonham

Appellee is a woman of one-half white and one-half Japanese blood. She was born in Japan and continued to live there until she came to the United States under the conditions below indicated. During the American occupation of that country she met John Bouiss, then a citizen of the United States serving in our Armed Forces. They cohabited and although appellee’s moral character is not in issue the record shows that in Japan she also openly engaged in immoral practices with various other men.

Subsequently John Bouiss left Japan aboard a United States vessel, and appellee somehow secured unauthorized passage upon the same ship. On this voyage they were married upon the high seas and upon arrival in Seattle, Washington, appellee was taken to the immigration station where she was given a hearing before a Board of Special' Inquiry which denied her permission to enter the United States for the reason that she was found to be an immigrant alien not in possession of a valid immigration visa, and an alien ineligible to citizen *679 ship and not entitled to enter the United States under any exception of paragraph (c), section 13 of the Immigration Act of 1924, 8 U.S.C.A. § 213 (c). The Board…