Evening star., 1939-09-07
i. ). Liner Manhattan
Reaches New York;
2,147 Aboard
Farley and 10 Members
Of Congress Among
Passengers
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. THE United
States liner Manhattan, largest
American ship to dock here since
the outbreak of war in Europe, ar
rived today with Plat persons
aboard, nearly 500 more than her
usual capacity.
The number included 572 officers
and crew All the public rooms and
nearly all other available space
were filled with cots.
Among the passengers were Post
master General James A. Farley and
his two children, Betty, II, and
Anne. IA; 10 members of Congress,
Grace Moore, singer, and her hus-
band, Valentine Parrera; Norma
Shearer, actress, and Elsa Maxwell,
society hostess.
Mr.. Farley said that naturally
return with even greater regard for
America and a feeling of pride in
being an American. Every one else,
of course, felt the same way"
Many of the passengers lost all or
part of their baggage in Europe.
Mr. Farley said he had lost hatboX.
Twenty girls from Southern col
leges, who had been on European
tour, had to sleep in the ships post
office. They were photographed
with Mr. Farley as the only women
who ever slept in a United States
post office"
No BlackOuts on Voyage.
There were no blackouts during
the voyage, in accordance with the
Governments order that American
ships should be easily identifiable
to safeguard her seafarers. The
radio service was not curtailed. The
liner spot-hghted her flags after
leaving Europe.
Anne Bullitt, 15-year-old daugh-
ter of William c. Bullitt, United
States Ambassador to France, was
aboard. The ship also carried 125
German-Jewish refugees.
A large quantity OF gold was
aboard, but its value was not dis
closed
Comdr. A. B. Randall, master OF
the ship denied reports, circulated
by some of the passengers, that
the French government conhscated
metals consigned to Hamburg.
He explained that about 200 tons
of aluminium, originally for Ham,
burg, was taken off at Havre. He
said it was shipped Ito order" by
London commission merchant
and that it could be unloaded any
where the merchant ordered. When
the Manhattan Cancelled its Ham
burg call the London merchant
"simply sold the aluminium to the
French government instead of to
the German government the COM
mander said.
The copper cargo, approximately
100 tons, remained aboard the ship
and was brought back to New York.
The 10 members of Congress were
returning from the International
Parliamentary Union meeting at
Oslo. They were travelling on spe-
cial passports as United States dele
gates to the meeting, which, they
said, obliged them to refrain from
specific comment on conditions IN
the countries they visited
Five hundred relatives and friends
stood waving and cheering in the
rain as the liner approached her
pier.
A squad of American Red Cross
nurses in uniform set up a desk on
the pier and decorated it with Red
Cross emblems. 1t was the organi-
Zations first move to assist arriv-
ing Americans compelled to leave
Europe so hastily they left behind
money, clothing and necessities.
Queen Mary Camouflaged.
Meanwhile, a swarm of Workmen
daubed gray camoufage paint over
red and black stacks of the British
liner Queen Mary, giving rise to a
belief she is being readied for dash
through the submarine-infested At
lantic to home port.
Officials of the Cunard White Star
Line said the worlds largest ship is
not scheduled to sail, but added the
Queen Mary is under direct orders
of the British admiralty. They said
they do not know what is planned.
Still tied up to her dock here is
the French Lines Normandie, the
worlds fastest ship. Both the
Cunard and French Lines an
nounced all employees had been for
hidden to give any information on
sailings or arrivals.
Expected in New York Harbor
later today was the French liner lie
de France, carrying more than 1000
passengers.
Wireless Silenced.
Since leaving LIE Havre, the lie de
Frances wireless has been silenced
and it's whereabouts unknown.
The big Coast Guard cutter Camp
bell was racing in the North Atlantic
today toward the American freighter
City of Flint, bound for Halifax with
PIG survivors of the torpedoed
Athena. The Campbell carries
medical supplies, mattresses, food,
the United States Public Health
Service.
The cutter, shipping officials said,
probably will reach the trelghter IN
less than 48 hours. and the possible
transfer of the injured will depend
on their. conditions.
Sailing of the United States Lines
President Roosevelt for Cobb. South
ampton and LIE Havre was delayed
several hours late yesterday by war
induced labor trouble. Members of
the crew demanded $3.50 bonus
each for the trip, $25 900 insurance
and a so per cent addition to their
salaries for "the risks involved"
To Continue Talks.
The Roosevelt finally got away at
nightfall after the company agreed
to continue discussions, and that if
extra compensation and insurance
of thoy would ho