Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
Foreign Minister Expected to
Come Here by Train After
Landing From Cutter on
New Jersey Shore.
LINDBERGH HAD PLANNED
TO PILOT HUGE CRAFT
Famous Flyer Forced to Abandon
Air Trip to New York Assign
ment-Had Been Called Back
From Pan-American Journey to
Run Clipper for Diplomat.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Novem-
Der 16.-Cutting a corner
around New York City, where
anti Fascist demonstrations
had been threatened, Foreign
Minister Dino Grandi of Italy
arrived in New York Harbor
today and was transferred
from the liner with his wife
and associates to New Jersey,
where he boarded special
train for Washington.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 49,
Low-lying fogs today baked the
State Department plan to take
Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of
Italy by air from the liner Conte
Grande to Washington.
At noon Pan-American Anyways,
which had rushed a plane from
the factory, recalled Col. Lind
bergh from the South and brought
a four-man crew from Miami es-
pecially to take Grandi to Wash
ington, announced the weather
made the plan impossible.
Go to New Jersey.
Grandi and his party were
taken on a cutter from the liner
to the New Jersey shore and were
to proceed from there by train.
State Department officials had
gone down the bay early this
morning to superintend the pro-
jected transfer of the Grand
party from the liner to the plane.
AS the cutter with the Grandi party
aboard was travelling from Quarantine
to the Jersey shore it was learned that
the Pennsylvania Railroad was holding
q special train at Jersey City. Railroad
officials said the train was available for
Crandi. but they had not been notl1ed
whether ne would use 1t.
The plane came to North Beach Air
c3rt from its Connecticut factory, and
The liner Conte Grande, with the Grand
party on board, reached quarantine be-
f-re noon. The plan to take the Grandi
party to Washington by air was given
up at the last minute when the fog
failed to clear.
AS the Conte Grande dropped anchor
ct quarantine Roger Q. Williams, who
few the Atlantic to Rome, few over
head and dropped bunch of roses for
Mrs. Grandi and sheaf of circulars
expressing the welcome to America of
Fascist organizations.
Indy Turns Back.
Col. Lindbergh had left Hicksville
in his wife'S little land: plane, but re-
turned after brief spin through the
fog. He went to North Beach by auto
mobile.
Aboard the ship yesterday Signor
Grandi was full of enthusiasm and de-
clared he would land on American soil
with IAN open mind and confident
belief in the worlds quick and sure
recovery"
Signor Grand, from the bridge of the
liner last night, threw into the sea a
bottle, such as is tossed into the Gulf
stream on every voyage at the request
of the United States photographic Of
fee to determine the speed and direc-
fion of the current.
The bottle contained note with the
usual directions for its return when
found and some verses by DR.. Guido
Puccio, foreign editor of La Tribuna,
Rome newspaper, who is e member of
Grandi's party.
Grandi and Signora Grand were up
early this morning for the first sight
of land.
Il long for a sight of New York S
famous skyline" Signor Grandi said
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