IMMIGRATION: Romance at the Soo

John W. Hampshire of Ft. Wayne cannot go into Canada. His Canadian wife cannot enter the U. S. For months their only meetings have been aboard the international ferry Agoming running from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. to Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Sometimes a sympathetic captain let them sit in the engine room to keep warm and hold hands. Last week ice in the Soo temporarily stopped the ferry, ended their romance for the winter.

John and Mary were married in Toledo in 1930 and went to Ontario to live with Mary’s parents. John lost his job and was refused relief because he was a U. S. citizen. In desperation he stole some gasoline, was sentenced to jail and deported. Mary could not go with him because she had once been in a reformatory, was an undesirable alien. Last November John tried in vain to persuade the Labor Department to let Mary cross the border for Thanksgiving. Said he last week: “I guess there is nothing more we can do. I’ll have to go home and try to get a job.”