Evening star., 1941-07-28
u. S. Bars PoIo NegH Re-entry
For Failure to Renew Permit
Two Americans Who
Escaped From Nozi
Guards Return
Nv The Associated Press.


JERSEY CITY, N. j.. July 28.-
Pola Negri. famed Polish actress.
was refused entry into the United
States today when she arrived from
Lisbon on the American Export
liner EXcalibur. Immigration off,
cials said her papers were not in
order.
The 4-year-old beauty Of the
silent screen wept bitterly when i'm
migration officials told her she had
failed to renew the return permit
given her when she left this country
for Europe nearly six years ago.
Miss Negri, who said she had
come to accept a film offer and 10
take out citizenship papers, told off,
GERS she did noL know it was neces-
sary 10 renew the permit each year
Earlier she told newsmen she had
been living with her mother in
villa on the French Riviera at ST.
Jean Cap Ferrat. To augment the
family's dwindling food supply. she
said. she had recently turned 10
vegetable and dairy farming.
Two Zamzam Survivors Return.
Two BritiSh-American ambulance
corps drivers who escaped from
German guards by diving from a
train window and trsmping four
days through France on diet OF
bread and water also returned ana
promptly volunteered for service in
Africa with another corps unit
Within an hour after they arrived
aboard the EXcalibur the two
James w. Stewart, 35, of Oneonta,
| N. Y, and Thomas o. Greenough,
30, of Profit. Va.-had signed up
to sail for Suez August 20 to serve
with Gen. Charles De Gaulle's Free
French forces.
! MI. Stewart and Mr.. Greenough
/ said their break for freedom was
made partly from pique at over
/ hearing German guards aboard the
/ train. which was carrying them and
/ l9 other ambulance corpsmen who
had survived the sinking of the
Egyptian liner Zamzam, ridicule the
possibility of escape.
/ Mr.. Greenough said that when
/ the Bordeaux TO Paris express
pulled into a railroad station June
/ 20, the day after they had left the
coast for an interior prison camp,
he and Mr. Stewart quickly doffed
their uniforms and donned civilian
| clothing given them by other corps
members.
Almost Caught.
After dodging back into the win-
dow once to escape pstrolling
guards. they dived out into the
! darkness.
They almost caught us in the
railroad yards when l caught my
foot in switch" MI. Greenough
said, but we managed 10 jerk it
free before the guards could
reach us"
Their supplies included three
loaves of German sour bread. two
cans of SardineS, can of bully beef
and water. but lack of a can opener
forced them to subsiSt on the bread
| one loaf of which they used as a
pillow-for three nights and four
days.
On the fourth day. weary and
worn out from their trek, they de-
cided to disclose themselves and
risk the chance that they had
reached unoccupied France
The first person We met was an
old peasant woman" Mr.. Greenough
recalled. 'and when we asked her
If We were in free France, she re-
piled. None of France is free"
But they had reached safe terri
tory and French police gave them
passage to MarSeille, where the
American consul arranged trans
portation for them across Spain to
Portugal.
Their 10 fellow corps members
taken to Lure. France. after Mr.
Greenough and Mr.. Stewart es-
capped. were subsequently released
in diplomatic negotiations and will
arrive next month aboard the Army
transport West Point
Two other corps volunteers
Charles A. Mccarthy and Charles
L. Harris, were released inadver-
tently by the Germans after the
zamzam survivors were taken to
Biarritz by their German captors
A oath Corps member, Francis