Evening star., 1941-05-19
Zomzom Passengers Included
Ambulance and Church Groups
Son of William Fovershom, the Actor,
Left Stage Career to Join Corps

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Members of the British American
Ambulance Corps and misSionarie!
OF three churches with their familie.
are believed to be among the IN
Americans on the ILL fated Egyptian
steamer zamzam, reported sunk In
the South Atlantic.
The British American Ambulance
Corps was recruited this spring for
service with the British forces in
the Near East and were on their
way to take up this service.
The leader of the group was
Francis j. Vicoravi of New York,
who had served with the American
Ambulance Corps behind the Magi-
not Line. France awarded him the
CroiX de Guerre. At the fall of
France he was captured by the
Germans and held in a concentra-
tion camp for two months.
The other officers of the unit were
William A. Wydenbruck-Loe so, of
New York, and Frederick w. Hoeing,
90, also Oh NEW 1OIk.
Served in World War.
Mr.. Wyndebruck- served in the
World War as a captain in the
Hungarian army. He came to the
United States in 1924 and became
citizen 712 years ago.
Mr.. Hoeing was a son of the late
Charles Hoeing. dean of graduate
studies at the University of Roch-
ester. A graduate of Amherst in
1929, he was ON leave of absence from
history instructorship at william
and Mary College at Williamsburg,
Va. Mrs, John Montignani, an aunt,
said today letters to his mother
since the zamzam left New York
in March told of sleeping on deck
with life belts, sea Biscuits and
individual supplies of water strapped
to us"
Actors Members of Corps.
Two of the ambulance drivers,
Philip Faversham, son of the late
William Faversham, the actor, and
Ray Colcord, jr., "a, New York, had
given up stage careers to Join the
unit.
Faversham had played with Cor
nelia Otis Skinner in ''Candide" and
with Clifton Webb in the Chicago
company of THE Man Who Came
to Dinner"
Colcord. a graduate of Missouri
Military Academy and former Uni
versity Of Missouri student, attended
the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts from 1887 to 1889. He had ap-
peared in Swinging the Dream"
and "SchoolhouSe at the Lot"
John w Ryan, 81, of Newton,
Mass, one of the ambulance drivers,
was student at the University of
North Carolina.
Young Ryan obtained leave of
absence from the university in the
hope of serving eventually as an
ambulance driver for Gen. Charles
de Gaule's Free French forces.
His father. George Ryan, is the
author of a widely read column % Top
o the Morning" in the Boston Her.
aid.
Others In Group.
Others on the list were:
Michael Kirchwey Clark, 81, of
New York, SON of Freda Kirch-
wey, and OF Evans Clark, head
of the Goth Century Fund. He
studied at Exeter and Antioch Col
lege.
James w Crudgington, 81. of Gin
cinnati, son of DR.. Robert l.. Crud-
s1ngton. He was Junior at Prince
ton.
William A. Davidson, %. of
Worcester. Mass. and Hilaleah. Fla,
a graduate of Norwich University,
Northfeld, VT.
James w. Stewart, So, of Oneonta
N. Y, former ice company executive,
Thomas Olney Greenough. 30. of
Prof1t, Va, former teacher at Lake
mont Academy, Lakemont, N. Y.
George c. Finneran, 81, of Rye. N.
Y, real estate salesman.
Henry Emsheimer, SO. of New
York.
George Q. Tichenor, "A. Maple
wood, NJ.
George Nc F. Butcher, 81, of Seat
tie, Wash, who received a years
leave OF absence from Yale Univer-
sity.
Robert Louis Redgate. 49, of Har-
rison, N. Y, youngest of the drivers.
Raymond Havilland, 20. of st.
Louis.
Arthur Tilden Jeffress. 35, of West
Hollywood, Calf, a graduate of
Harrow and former Cambridge Uni
versity student.
Arthur Krida, jr., IS, South Kent,
Conn, who eloped to Gordonville.
Va, two days before sailing. with
Georgette de Vilaine, a script writer,
Of Westport, Conn.
Charles A. Mccarthy, 30, Weston,
Mass, awarded the Croix de Guerre
while serving with the American
Volunteer Ambulance Corps in
France last summer.
John Morris. 28, of New York.
Arthur Mueller, 80. of Butte. Mont.
Charles Langdon Harriss, 20, New
York, a Princeton sophomore.
170 Missionaries Aboard.
One hundred and seventy mis-
sionaries were reported aboard the
zamzam.
Headquarters of the Seventh Day
Adventist Church said they had a
missionary party of nine aboard.
They we're:
Miss Helen Hyatt, daughter of a
pioneer South African missionary,
who has spent most of her life in
Mrs. Violet Hankins, wife of q
South African doctor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley johnson of
Walla Walla, Wash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas jefferson
Jenkins, graduates of the Emanuel
Mission, Berrien Springs, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Russell
and child. Russell was a Canadian.
Mrs. Russell was the former Caro-
line Hall of New York, a graduate
of the Greater New York Academy,