Texas tourists escape watery grave

AHouston judge learned on Sep. 8, 1939 that his daughter not only had survived the U-boat sinking of the British passenger ship Athenia but also had been hailed as a heroine by the American ambassador.In her last letter before leaving Europe, Helen Hannay asked her parents not to worry. “There may be a delay, but we will get out all right. We aren’t in the least afraid.” The teenag...