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Death in New York Sanatorium Ties to Deportation Effort
Hop Lee of Gettysburg learns of the death on January 1 in a New York sanitarium of Ho Dan Hop, alleged to have been targeted in a December deportation of Orientals. Dan Hon, about 27, had arrived in New York City years earlier, collapsed under strain, and died of exhaustion. Burial was in a Long Island cemetery amid a government immigration inquiry.
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Hop Lee
Gettysburg
Higeon
Ho Dan Hop
New York City
United States Department of Immigration
Washington
Barial
Long Island
Dan Hon
Carlisle
Smith
Youngstown
Dr. Hobson
Elias Leibig
Millbach
South Mt
Leibig
Taxinc Corps
Francis M. Gallatin
York
Ruth
Dorothy