"Career with a Future"

There was something about the five young Canadians that made U.S. immigration men suspicious. At the Detroit border the Canadians insisted that they were entering the U.S. only to see a movie. But a search disclosed that some of the five had draft cards from a Toledo board in their pockets. They were detained.

Almost at the same time, three more Canadians were picked up walking a road near Detroit. They too had draft cards. Authorities asked questions. Next day an immigration man walked into the U.S.O. lounge in Toledo's Union Depot, called out: "All Canadians step this way!" Eighteen young men answered the call. In four days some 37 Canadians, all hoping to join the U.S. Army, a "career with a future," were nabbed. All were deported.

What had happened, apparently, was that a few Toledo (and possibly Cleveland) draft boards were piecing out their quotas with young Canadians who could not get jobs at home and had exaggerated notions about G.I. pay and benefits (which are no better, Canadian living costs considered, than the Canadian Army's). The fact that a recruit must have lived in the U.S. at least 30 days did not seem to bother the draft boards. Said one Canadian: the Toledo board to which he applied arranged everything, even a bogus address. "We were told what to say and what to fill out. They told us . . . not to return to Canada with our application papers as then we might get into trouble."

At week's end, with an investigation under way, District Immigration Director Eddie E. Adcock estimated that perhaps as many as 1,500 Canadians had crossed the river in recent weeks to become U.S. soldiers.

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