Evening star., 1939-09-06

6. U. Vice President
Arrives From Europe;
News of Others Abroad
As thousands of Americans. in
Guiding many residents Of the Wash
ington area, remained stranded in
war-torn Europe, one of the return
ing travellers, DR.. Edmund A. Walsh,
S. j., vice president of Georgetown
University, said today the situation
demonstrates "the absolute neces-
sity of strong and adequate Ameri-
can merchant marine"
Guns Near Peace Palace.
DR.. Walsh arrived in New York
yesterday on the President Roose-
welt. which in the present emer-
gency, he said, was not passenger
ship but transport. Men, women
and children slept in every nookkand
corner, DR.. Walsh said; hunAeds
were left on the docks for lack of
space, baggage was lost and families
separated.
This is the second time I have
experienced in Europe the outbreak
of similar catastrophe, as I found
myself in Austria at the commence
ment of the first World War" DR..
Walsh remarked. "Once before I
witnessed the chaos and heartache
due to the lack of American ship
ping"
DR.. Walsh, who is head of the
Georgetown Foreign Service School,
was in the Netherlands 10 days ago
finishing a session of the Academy
of International Law in the Peace
Palace at The Hague AS the session
ended, the Dutch Government be-
gan erecting anti-aircraft guns in
the immediate vicinity of the Peace
Palace. DR.. Walsh made his way to
England to catch the President
Roosevelt.
He found London preparing stoi-
cally and methodically for SIEGE"
Waterloo Station crowded with chill
oren en- route to shelter zones, and
precautions taken against air raids.
DR.. Walsh sees Soviet Russia as
maintaining IAN ominous silence"
while the Western Powers exhaust
themselves in war, and predicted
that, if the present conflict con-
tinues and spreads, "the only true
victor will be world communism"
DIR. Sexton on Dutch Ship.
DR.. r. Lyman Sexton of Washing
ton and Chevy Chase, Md, is among
local residents whose itineraries have
been suddenly changed by the war.
DR.. Sexton, who sailed the first part
of August for Europe via the Italian
line, was obliged to cancel his re-
turn trip On the Conte di Savoia
and return by the Royal Dutch Mail
steamer Johan v. Oldenbarnevelu,
which is due in New York tomorrow.
Among others who are still in
Europe is Emile Beauvais, jr., oper-
ator of local beauty salon, who was
to have returned from France on the
Normandie on September %. Mr..
Beauvais cabled his father that he
was at LIE Havre waiting to return
on the first steamer available
DR.. and Mrs. George Bowerman,
who sailed from New York on
August Is, were scheduled to return
to the United States on September
%, but as yet no definite word has
been received by the agency through
whom they arranged their tour.
DR.. Bowerman is District librarian.
Miss Morton's Plans Cancelled.
Miss Mary Morton, sister law
OF Senator McNary of Oregon, sailed
on the Queen Mary last month, and
was scheduled to sail from England
on September 3, but has also been
obliged to cancel her original plans.
Friends have not yet heard from her.
DR.. and Mrs Gardner Means are
among Washingtonians who had
planned to return on September 2
via the Swedish steamer Kungs-
holm, but no word has been re-
ceived of their present plans.
DR.. Albert j. Mccartney, pastor
Of Covenant First Presbyterian
Church, in Europe with his wife and
son Benjamin, cabled his church
from London yesterday saying "all
safe" According to another son,
Noble, who reached Washington
from abroad yesterday, the pastor
did not say when he and his family
were planning to leave for home.
Another pastor and his family,
DR.. Carl c. Rasmussen If Luther
Place Memorial Church, are travel
ing IN Europe. The only word rec
ceived at the parsih was letter
mailed on the way over. Accom-
panying the Rev. Mr.. Rasmussen
are his wife and two children, Carl,
Jr, and Mary Elizabeth.
Alexandrian Unheard From.
The Rev. Joseph Leitch, assistant
pastor of st. Mary's Church, Alex
andria, Va, who left the middle of
August with his mother and sister
for vacation in Europe, has not
been heard from, it was stated at
the parish, He had originally plan
ned, 1t was said, to sail home on
September 9 on the German liner
Bremen.
Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes, ed
itor OF the magazine of the Daugh-
tiers OF the American Revolution.
and Miss Katharine McKiever of
the National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference, who left early in August for