Bonham

We have withheld disposition of this case pending decision in the Supreme Court of Delgadillo v. Carmichael, which has now been decided, 332 U.S. 388 , 68 S.Ct. 10 .

The facts on which appellant was ordered deported present an even flimsier case of “entry” than do those involved in Delgadillo v. Carmichael. Briefly, they are that appellant, a Japanese national, entered this country in 1907, remaining in the continental United States until 1934 when he went to Alaska as a seasonal employee of a Seattle cannery concern, to be returned to Seattle at the season’s end. His transportation, both going and coming, was arranged by his employer. In returning from Alaska to Seattle the vessel on which he was transported made' an unscheduled stop of three hours at Victoria, British Columbia. Appellant was below at the time and knew nothing either of the intention of the ship to leave United States waters or of the fact that it had done so. The vessel then proceeded to Seattle, where appellant disembarked. In 1941 a warrant was issued by the Department charging that he had been found in the United States in violation of the immigration laws. Deportation proceedings were had pursuant to the…