The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-04-21
1000 Passengers
Start for Europe
aboard Olympic
Sainbridge Colby Among the
200 First Cabin Voy-
ayers.

yAe White Star liner Olympic sailed
yesterday for Cherbourg and Southamp-
ten with more than 700 first cabin pas
ssngers. record for spring since the
end OF the war. She carried also 400
fn the second cabin and $50 in the
s,eerage. and an unusually large and
enthusiastic throng was on the pier to
ASa tho multitude off.
Cambridge Colby, who has been
booked on other White Star ships for
several weeks. was enabled BY settle
rtant of business matters to get off
nv the Olympic. He remarked that he
ehrsdered the speech Of President
Hsf1ing at the Bolivar statue unwilling
vefy Zine. He will be away two months
an legal business.
hrs. william Brown Meloney, chair
man Of the Marie Curie Radium Fund
Committee, sailed to visit Mime. Curie.
York by the Olympic within three
weeks. Nine. Curie will be welcomed
by representatives of 100000 college
women headed by Mrs. Edgerron Par
sons, president of the New York branch
of the Association OF CollegIat e
Alumnae, and will be escorted to Wash
ington. where she will receive, on MAJ
20, from the hands of President Harding
a gram of radium worth 100000 Mrs.
Meloney said that while the fund was
not complete. she was sure the women
would not fail to make it so. and she
advised the contributors to give now
.~.~s< t~ose %v.ao ~
Equitable Trust Company.
John A. Penton, editor Of the Marine
RerieU Of Cleveland. sailed to make a
study of shipping abroad. He said a
real American policy in shipping did not
mean injury TO foreign shipping. and
that America should demonstrate to the
foreign nations that she had no desire to
do injury to their maritime interests.
Mr.. Penton said he saw new era dawn
ing in shipping, and that a merchant ma
sine for the. United States meant that
there would be more friendly legislation
on behalf OF all shipping entering Ameri-
can ports-a Tightening Of the burdens
now imposed by our navigation laws
upon British. French and other foreign
as we'll as American ships"
Other passengers were Col. Arthur
Woods. formerly Police Commissioner.
who said he intended to spend about two
months in England, Germany and Bel
GUM solely on business McLane Van
Ingen. Gen. Charles II. Sheriff.. Major
George Haven Putnam, Miss Caroline
Stevens of Castle Point, P. G. Wode-
house. novelist, and Mrs Wodehouse ;
Lady Julia Henry, Count Suberville,
Henry Mason Day, president Of the
American Foreign Trade Corporation,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Lowenstein.
Twenty minutes before the Olympic
sailed Detective O'Leary went aboard
and headed for the purser's office. With
the aid OF that official and some others
Of the ships crew he found Frederick
Belajec and his wife. Lydia, end ar
rested them on warrant issued in
Homestead Pa. charging grand lar
ceny.
He rushed the prisoners to the deck
and found the lines were cast Off and
the gangplaniSs had been withdrawn.
One OF the gangplanks was hastily put
in place and with the woman leading the
party debarked. rhe Olympic then
started her voyage.
The precise nature OF the charges
against the prisoners was not known at
Police Headquarters. Tho warrant was
issued April Is by Justice OF the Peace
Frederick Hahn on the complaint OF Leo
Haft & Co. IF Homestead.