Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12

are aVOlQlng the risks or slowing away.
and instead coming to terms aboard
with the smugglers' syndicates, which
have contacts with ship officers and
crews.
"One boat" related Secretary of Labor
Davis. "docked not long ago with more
than 200 sailors aboard. When she left
she took less than 100 of these, The
rest had deserted In fact, that was
the sole object of the voyage.
They shipped as sailors-many had
never been to sea before-merely as a
means OF lodging the immigration
officials. This group included Malays.
Syr1ans, Hindus and others from re-
stricted countries. Not only were they
the undesirable types, but they repre-
Sented some of the most undesirable
specimens of undesirable groups
We found one bunch of SO such
men, added Secretary Davis, working
as strike-breakers inside a stockade in
an Eastern State. They didn't know
what bath was. Fifteen had loath-
some. contagious diseases One was
insane. They would not hesitate to kill
In fact. one man whipped out a long
knife when our agents we're questioning
them and would have killed the inter-
prefer II our men had not thrown them
selves upon the attacker and disarmed
him. The whole bunch was shipped
back to Europe. 1t cost the Government
$3.50 to 5000 apiece to deport them"
Agree 10 Quit Ship.
A recent scheme of some snip captains
is to sign emigrants on the crew in
European ports, with the understanding
that they will skip ship as soon as it
docks in New York. The skipper keeps
for himself the one-way sailors wages
Usually he collects $50 or slOo more
as bride from the eager peasant.
The captain Of the Belgian Lloyd
freighter Elzasier, arriving from Ant
Werp last Summer, discovered two stow
awayS, Italians. Promptly he turned
them over to customs officers. But the
aliens. Giovanni MARITIME and Nicola
Pacitta, said they had paid $3.50 each
70 Philip Melvin, second engineer, and
Gerard Paridaeus, donkey engineer, to
be struggled aboard at Antwerp.
The two "coal-bunker passengers
were the principal witnesses when the
second engineer and the donkey man
were tried before Federal Judge Atwell
In Brooklyn. The smugglers were sent
to Jail for three months.
AS soon as struggled aliens are I'M
~AsNSsSA Nk0A& ANOW 4OAh pACAo tk1Gy
scurry like rats for dark hiding places.
Sometimes they scurry so fast they
reach Pittsburgh, st. Louis and Chi
cago before they stop for breath.
Often their joy at getting in Illegally
Is shortlived; they are arrested by
police and turned over to immigration
officials
A total Of 1853 OF these undesirable
aliens was brought to Ellis Island on
October 2 as one of the regular, peri
odical clean-ups.
Fifty were women. Some of these
were involved in white slave" cases.
1.-TWO or three times month we re-
ceive groups of undesirable aliens for
deportation" explained DR.. william F.
Schlaar, head Of the deporting division
at Ellis Island. They are brought here
in many cases from cities in the West
The group brought here today is about
the usual size. / believe the groups
may grow larger as a result Of incress-
ing activities of the immigration serv-
ice"
Traffic at Other Ports.
OF the 1000, 900 to 100000 aliens
who entered this country illegally, &C
cording to the estimate Of Harry E..
Hull, United States commissioner gem
eral Of immigration, many penetrated
into the country through the port of
New York.
When rum row fiourished off New
York, many aliens were smuggled In
the speedboats that went out to gather
rum shipments. At present the smug-
Cling of aliens is done on the regular
passenger and freight boats entering
IA hn IJr,ya
loaded at the ports of Boston, Phila-
dephia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah
and Jacksonville.
None Of the 800 men of the Border
Patrol--organized in 1925 and COM
posed largely of ex-service men, de-
tailed for illegal alien hunts--is sta
toned at New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston.
San Francisco or any other "open
port" The patrolmen are on the Dor
der mostly, travelling on foot, horse
back and motor cycle.
Consequently, when alien border
jumpers are seized in New York. the
credit must go TO the Customs Service
and, occasionally, the New York Police
Department and the Coast Guard rum
chasers.
immigration officials say there are
thousands OF men, women and chill
dren IN the foreign districts of New
York who entered the country illegally.
They say, moreover, that many of these
persons came in by way of Canada.
Cuba or through Atlantic coast ports
other than New York.
Many Criminals Struggled I'm.
Frequently the New York police ar
rest underworld characters charged
with murder, robbery, racketeering
and payroll stick-ups and learn that
their prisoners are alien undesirables.
criminal-minded debris which Europe
gladly unloaded on this country.
1t is no secret now that courts in
Sicily have given criminals the choice
Of banishmenf on some filthy, bleak
Sicilian island or flight to America.
AS long as the Immigration Bureau
is hampered by g. lack Of funds to en-
ploy a sufficient force to apprehend
these alien undesirsbles. the invasion
will continue
Now well financed. cleverly oraanize0
srlugglers' syndicates solicit business
abroad ano transport aliens Illegally
into America IS revealed in article
number B tomorrow.