Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1942, Page 10

Canada Plans Election On Question of Draft For Overseas Service Date Not Yet Fixed; Governor General Cites War's Spread B7 the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Jan. 33.—Canada yes- terday announced a popular election of the bitterly-debated question of whether the Dominion will conscript troops for service overseas. Warning soberly that the war is “s world-wide conflict between ir- reconcilable forces,” the Earl of Athlone, governor-general, an- nounczd the government ““would seek, by means of a plebiscite, re- lease from any obligation arising out of any past commitments re- stricting the methods of raising men |11 for military service.” The date was not set. Six months before the war Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King sald that so long as his government was in power, there would be no con- scription of Canadians for overseas service. Relterated Several Times. He has reiterated that commit- ment on several occasions—as re- cently as last November 12—and as a result, Canadian forces overseas in more than two years of war have | been limited to volunteers. Yesterday the Earl of Athlone, making the speech from the throne in opening the third session of Can- ada’s 19th Parliament, spoke of these commitments as huvlnfi been made “prior to the spread of the war to all parts of the world,” and urged that the government now “possess complete freedom to act in accordance with its judgment of the needs of the situation as they may arise.” ‘The governor-general said plainly that Canadians must expect “an expansion of the establishment of the Canadian Army overseas” and that the Dominion must produce more_munitions and foodstuffs. Mobilization of Resources. Selective service, he added, would be extended to effect the “orderly and efficient employment of the men and women of Canada for the varied purposes of war,” and there will be “as complete as possible mo- bilization of the material resources and manpower of the country * * *.” Canadian troops who volunteered for overseas service fought valiantly at Hong Kong in December. There are more than 100,000 of them in the United Kingdom?® Some of these participated in last September’s ex- pedition to Spitsbergen. Just before the fall of France a Canadian force reached the French coast, but it was withdrawn before it had a chance to meet the enemy. Some Canadians are at Gibraltar. Large Food Surpluses Reported in Hawaii By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, Jan. 23.—A. W. MacDonald, Federal Surplus Com- modities Corp. representative ad- ministering a $35,000,000 Federal ap- propriation for food, said yesterday there were large surpluses now in Hawali of potatoes, onions, rice, flour, cheese, canned milk, canned fruit and dried fruit. Mr. MacDonald said lima and kid- ney bean seed also was available. Food administration officers under Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, military governor and commander of the Army’s Hawailan Department, will handle price-control details, Tt is not too late. You can help by doing your share of work here at home and investing each payday in United States Defense savings bonds Wyoming Industrialist, 85, Flies Here on War Business A pioneer of the old West who as & boy met President Abraham Lin- coln on his first trip to the Nation’s c:plmmb&m:wnhwm- velopment of magnesium de- posits near years, still work- ing as engineer and industrialist and otherwise constituting a G. W. T. Beek. walking book of national and fam- history. On the family side, he is & great- great-grandnephew of ‘Washington, son of late Senator Beck of Kentucky, who died in office here in 1892, cousin by marriage of former Senator Lee of Maryland, and father-in-law of United States STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1942. ) Norse Reported Sent |De Gaulle and Churchill To Russia by Nazis Confer on St. Pierre LONDON, Jan. 23—German su-| LONDON, Jan. 23 —The Dally Bx- 3 wmnmunahcmh press sald today that Gen. Charles ernor on the ‘was defeated by De Forest Republican. He got the office got the title,” related “ Beck in an interview at the office of his friend, Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming. “Governor” Beck fiew to Washing- ton from Cody. Bodies of 10 Seamen Are Brought to Norfolk By the Assoctated Pross. 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