Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16

| Fat, was dead. The other four were
sent to prison for year. The driver,
an old offender at Chink running, was
given three. About year ago, at a cost
of $50 apiece, the Government deported
| Chong Fat and many others back TO
! China$.
IF YOU would not be cheated ask
| the price at three shops" Chong Fat
told his oldest son when he reached
Swallow. Il have lost the savings Of q
| lifetime and my health, too. Oh, well,
who cannot catch fish must catch
shrimps''
But all contraband Chinese do not,
like Chong Fat, walk into border patrol
traps do not, like Chin Gin, get q
border patrol bullet in the abdomen.
There were, for instance the IL that
were taken aboard the fishing boat at
Ensenada. They were put in barrels
which were headed up. on San Diego
| the barrels were thrown overheard.
Seven of the Chinese reached shore and
| waiting friends But something went
wrong with four barrels. Fishermen
found them water logged. the collins of
four.
Real collins were used to sfnuggle IS
the Dollar liner President Lincoln. I'M
migration officers were tipped off that
a Chinese member of the crew was
to collect 81, 100 q head for each alien
landed safely in San Francisco
At Honolulu searching party Of six
inspectors went through the vessel
twice. Then one stumbled over stack
of collins in the hold.
He found a young Chinese In cof1n,
food and belongings beside him. The
inspector called back his mates. Cof-
fin after coffin was opened and emptied
of bootleg Chinese.
The Chinese, a peculiar race, seem
to have an enduring passion for get
ting into countries in which they are
not wanted. The smuggling of Orient
ais across United States borders has
been a lucrative traffic for years. 1t
has become more so since the 1924
quota law became effective.
Airplanes now are used to carry
Chinese from Mexico into the South
west. At least two hundred Chinese,
it is estimated, have been brought IN
by air. On January is last Los An
geles immigration officials, seeking a
fleet of smugglers' airplanes, seized two
which they said had been used for
this purpose.
Unlike the old days, when Chinese
were landed from tramp steamers of
the California coast for 5000, today job
lot smugglers are charging $1,000 to
81 500 head.
In airplane smuggling the Chinese
are sometimes put aboard at Mexicai,
Mexico, and carried to ranches near
San Bernardino, Sacramento and San
Francisco. The smugglers in one Or
ganization used six planes and were
negotiating for a tri-motored 20-pas-
senger ship when the Federal men
raided.
"a, Tongs Sometimes Pay.
Yellow, men must pay more, because
it's harder to get them across the bor-
der. Their faces, you might say, are
the smugglers,. fortune. Funds for
bringing in Chinese are supplied by
tong members sometimes. Usually the
Chinese pays his own way.
There Is. Government men insist,
100000 Chinese American concern,
with agents in many places, which has
a far-fung organization for bringing in
Chinese. The struggled one virtually
sells himself into serfdom. for he pays
most Of his $1,000 or even $4,000 on
payments after he gets In.
The tip you give the waiter In chop
suey restaurant may he 1.-THE to the
smugglers' trust, for often the poor
years after they have paid their debt.
The blackmail money Is paid to buy
silence and to avoid being deported,
Another jumping-od point for con-
traband Chinese is Cuba. According to
Secretary Of Labor Davis, there are
10000 on the island; working In the
sugar cane plantations waiting their
chance to get into the United States.
There are 1,146 miles Of Florida coast
line, costly, difficult miles to watch,
with immigration patrols scarce. Some
times Chinese are thrown overheard
when Coast Guard boats chase Florida
smugglers.
There Is a traffic, too, in "chock-gees."
These Scrock-eees" are the certificates
of identity given Chinese offlcially adj
mitted. Chinese are the only aliens so
registered.
The San Francisco birth records were
destroyed in the fire. Many struggled
Chinese, when arrested, beats deporta-
ton by claiming that his mother was
Chinese woman in San Francisco. So
many use this dodge that immigration
men have proverb:
Chinese mothers have twins twice
year."
Chinese Eager to Get to New York.
Most of the aliens smuggled into the
New York district are Chinese. All
China, 1t ID said, Is simply crazy to
come to New York. The growth of the
so-called Chinatowns In New York and
Newark are made possible only be-
cause many of the residents of these
districts were smuggled In. Several
years ago Federal authorities estimated
that 800 Chinese had been. smuggled
into Hoboken and Brooklyn in a period
Of five months.
When Emory Buckner was United
States attorney he raided New York
chop suey joints and gathered In 900
Chinese; Two hundred were deported
at O cost to the Government Of $50, 900.
A New Yorker by now is pretty well
disillusioned about whisky pedigrees,
but he still can get Chinese servant
right of the ship"
The reason more sfnuggled Chinese in
New York-and all over the country for
that matter-are not arrested Is be-
cause the Government hasn't the an.
preparations to pay their transportation
back to China.
The Chinese keep coming in. Nine of
them slid down rope from the stern
OF the Asiatic Petroleum Co.'S tanker
Chiffon at Bayonne, N. j., dock. They
struck out In the moonlight for the
0OotCAA ASl0Alu S1lOLc. LIE eDD Tide
swallowed two, tugs picked up seven.
Three Hip Sing tongmen were arrested
on charges Of smuggling seven country
men into New York to carry on the
war with the On Leong tong. Six
| Chinese, seized by the police, said they
had spent 46 days in packing boxes on
the trip from China. One died and
the medical examiner said it was
| starvation.
Vermont and Maine sheriffs are kept
busy experimenting Chinese being snug
gled over the Eastern border. Some
times Vermont village jail will be filed
with Chinese. At Detroit the usual price
is $500 for bringing Chinese in from
| Canada.
$4,000 desert" Ships.