Evening star., 1939-09-05
$21,ooo,ooo!. }. in Gold
And Us Extra
Passengers Carried
Somorio Brings SIS
Americans Back
From Europe

From Europe
~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-With $50
passengers crowded into improvised
quarters, the United States liner
President Roosevelt arrived from
Europe today.
In addition to her 125 extra pas
sengers she carried $2l, 100000 in
gold.
The Cunard White Star liner Sa-
maria, a day late, followed with 693
passengers from Europe, 245 of them
Americans.
Meanwhile, whereabouts of the
great North German Lloyd liner
Bremen, which sailed from New
York last Wednesday night without
passengers or cargo, continued a
mystery. The $4,000, 900 vessel an
nounced her destination as Bremen
haven, but it was believed she may
have turned southwark, hoping to
reach Vera Cruz, Mexico, where an
other German liner, the Columbus,
docked yesterday instead Of going to
Germany.
1,044 on Samaria.
The Samaria had 1,044 passengers
when she left Liverpool among them
555 Americans. At Boston 351 pas
sengers debarked. She also carried
gold valued between s12,000,00 and
$15,0O0,000.
The President Roosevelt had on
her forward deck new type Of Brit
ish motor torpedo boat carrying four
torpedoes and ick-firing guns.
The torpedo boat was to be taken
to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for DEM
onstration to potential buyers, said
Kenneth Perry, a retired British
naval officer, who came over with it.
Mr.. Perry said it cost about $780,
600, weighed As tons, had a range of
over 1000 miles and was consider
ably faster than the 40-knot maxi
mum of previously built boats. It
draws ~ feet of water and can be
used in the mine infested waters
because mines are usually 10 or IS
feet below the surface, he said.
The French Line officers said to-
day the Champlain was due here at
$3.50 pm. (E. S. T0.
Blackouts Observed.
Passengers on the Samaria said
blackouts were observed; that the
ship followed Zig-Zag course
and at times was conveyed by naval
vessels, but officers denied the re-
ports of convoy.
The British liner Queen Mary and
the French Normandie were still
docked in New York, with sailings
Indefinitely postponed.
The Holland America liner Nieuw
Amsterdam, which reached New
York last Friday jammed with
refugees, sails at noon today with
Prince Consort Felix of Luxembourg
and Crown Prince Jean, his son,
aboard. Before departing the Prince
received Joseph Davies, American
Ambassador to Belgium.
Passengers on Roosevelt.
Among passengers on the Presi-
dent Roosevelt were DR.. Charles
Crocker, wealthy San Franciscan,
and his wife, the former Peggy Bro
kaw of New York; Mr. and Mrs. Ten
Eyck Wendell and Mr.. and Mrs.
William c. Breed, socially prominent
New Yorkers; Mrs. Hamilton Fish,
wife Of the Representative; Repre-
sentative James Patrick McGranery
of Philadelphia, D. H. Tyson of Bur-
lington, N. j., and Rear Admiral
George Rock, U. S. N, head Of the
Webb Institute of Naval Architec-
ture.
Smelling of the Hamburg -Ameri-
can freighter Olinda, sunk in the
South Atlantic yesterday by the
British cruiser Ajax after the crew
had abandoned ship, left no doubt
Of the fate of German ships caught
on the high seas. The Ajax took
off the AZ members of the Olinda
crew in two life boats which had
to maneuver through heavy seas.
May Have Doubled Back.
The Bremen sailed last Wednes-
day without passengers and cargo
after a 40-hour delay resulting from
stringent search by United States
customs officials for ornaments.
North German Lloyd Line officials
described the search as "an un-
friendly act"
The German passenger ship ORR
noco, the German oil tanker Emmy
Friedrich and the German freighters
Rhein, Idarwald and Phrygia are
anchored at Tampico.
The German freighter Arsuca,
carrying large supply of newsprint
for the government-controled news
print agency, was reported to have
anchored at Havana.
. Speeding of the return of Amer
lean war refugees was expected to
follow resumption of sailings by the
Italian Line, Cancelled last week
temporarily because of the i'm
minence of war.
Rex to Sail Friday.
Count Ciano, italian foreign min
lister, told William Phillips, the
American Ambassador in Rome, the
liner Rex would sail from Genoa
Friday with 1915 passengers.
Ships of other neutral lines and
conveyed vessels of the British