14 Seattleites Returning on Exchange Ship

Fourteen residents of Seattle are among the 1,451 men, women and children aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholm, which is returning evacuees from the Western Pacific area, the State Department announced today. The ship is expected to arrive at New York next Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

As on the previous trip of the Gripsholm when she brought a full list of American and other nationals from Axis countries in Europe, no visitors will be allowed on the pier until the examination of passengers has been completed. On the earlier occasion the process consumed several days, and many homecomers did not set foot on United States soil for a week after the vessel reached New York.

Seattleites Listed

Residents of Seattle aboard the Gripsholm were listed by the State Department as follows:

John Q. Adams, Kenneth Campbell, James Wilton Clague, Reubin Dwight Hill, Libbie Liebgold, Mattie Josephine Peterson, Lois E. Prosser, I. Rogers, Alma June Tauber, Arthur Leroy Watrous, Thomas B. Wilson, Thelma S. Williams, Mitsuku Hirata and Tamayo Hirata.

Mrs. Frank M. Watrous, 8602 Renton Ave., mother of Arthur Watrous, a 24-year-old missionary who, for the past three years, has been in Kowloon, across the bay from Hongkong, said today that she has not heard from her son since last November. Although she had known that he was about to be returned to this country aboard the Gripsholm, she did not learn until today just when the ship was due to arrive.

Others Home-Bound

Other home-bound passengers from this area include:

Irving N. Linnell, Medina: William E. Yuni, Aberdeen: Olive T. Christensen, Everett; Allen Leslie Ham, Centralia; Edwin F. Koch, Dorothy Jean Snyder, Dorothy A. Snyder and James P. Snyder, Tacoma, and Arthur B. Myhre and Alexandra Myhre, Enumclaw.