KNOWN PASSENGERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 5 September 1939, Page 5

KNOWN PASSENGERS

PROMINENT AMERICANS SCHOOLGIRLS INVOLVED (Reed. Sept. 5/ 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 4. The Americans aboard the Athenia, include the wife of Mr. Addison Mallery, Mayor of Saratoga Springs; Miss Rowena Simpson, daughter of the vice-president of the Houston National Bank of Commerce; Miss Helen Hannay, daughter of Judge Allan Hannay; Miss Dorothy Fouts, daughter of the attorney; Miss Betsy Brown, daughter of a prominent Texas attorney; Miss Genevieve Morrow, daughter of the president of the Houston Chamber of Commerce: the daughter of Mr H. Hull, engineer of the South-Western Telephone Company; wife, son and daughter of Mr. Robert Bridge, disaster irelief. director of the American Red Cross; Miss Margaret Rooks, professor of Italian at Smith College and Mrs. Mark Feder, chairwoman of the Cincinnati Women’s City Charter Committee; Jane, daughter of Major-General Archibald Sunderland, chief of the coast artillery of the United States Army; the 10-months-old daughter of the film producer, Mr. Ernst Lubitsch. It is known that there were at least three children aboard and also a party of school girls returning from a 'tour of England. A Vancouver message states that Sir Richard Lake, former LieutenantGovernor of Saskatchewan; and Lady Lake were aboard the Athenia.