3 t If you oely knew what, pleasure the TTTE MOTCXTNXJ OKEGOXIAN. TUESDAY. APKIi; 30, 1912. Mtmmmmtmmmm-w no TITANIC INQUIRY IS AT FINAL STAGE Officers and Crew to Be Freed Today Wireless Meth ods Probed. ISMAY YET TO BE QUIZZED Legislation to Prrrent Operators on Shipboard From Withholding m of Disasters to B Ad vocated by Committee. WASHINGTON. April 2S. After a day of d.lscusslon Intended to discover the needed reform In the use of wlre les telegraphy aa ea. the Senate com mittee Investigating the Titanic disas ter entered today on the final stage of its Inquiry. Tomorrow the officers and crew of the sunken ship will be released and will be free to return to their homes In England. At the same time J. Bruce Ismay. managing- director of the International Mercantile Marine, will be qulzxed as to his Ideas of regulations to make a repetition of the disaster Impossible. Wlreleaa Legtalattoa to RM It It waa clear early In the hearing that the committee had made op Its mind to advocate legislation preventing wireless operators on shipboard from holding back details of disasters. Mr. Maxconl and Mr. Sammls both ack nowledged that a mistake had been made In sending; to Operators Bride and Cottam. on board the Carpathla. mes sages not to give out anything until they had seen Marconi ashore. Kdward Sammls took the stand when Mr. Marconi waa excused. Ha resented bitterly the Imputation that be bad been the cause of suppressing the news from the Carpathla which, be said, bad resulted In neighbors "pointing the finger of scorn at him. lie said he told the Carpathla'a wireless operators to bold their personal stories for sale, to furnish a reward for them. MtMio "Vet Dtrrt. I did not send the messages direct ly. said Mr. Saramla. "I telephoned to Mr. Davidson In charge of the wire less and Instructed him to tell the boy a that arrangements were made to care for them. I thought It would brace them up. Mr. Sammls said the arrangement to "care for" the operators were mada by Mr. Marconi and Mr. Bottomly. the general manager, and that be merely had carried out the plan as described. The witness acknowledged that prob ably a "mistake" had been made In the manner In which the stories were placed. "1 think It would have been much better to have placed them with tha Associated Tress." he, said. "They then would have had general circulation and there would have been no aore toes," 'ewa Xet to Have Preference. kammis said the international tele graph code commission bad already f:one on record as putting news dis patches last on the list of wireless business as to precedence. Sammls said that Bride and Cottam. operators on the Carpathla. should not be blamed for not sending news from the ship. "If there is any blame." eaM Sara mis. "It should be upon the captain of the Carpathla.. The captain of a ship I censor of all wireless messages sent from a ship. The operators are there to send and receive. They send noth ing that the captain doea not pass on." Sammls said that American wireless operators on board ship receive 143 month. The English operators get 14 a month. fraaklla Attaelvra Wireless Men. ' P. A. S. Franklin, after a consulta tion with Mr. Ismay. addressed tha committee as follows: 1 want to say on behalf of Mr. Is W, president of the International Mercantile Marine, owning tha White far LJne. and myself personally, that ve absolve the wireless and cable companies from withholding from the committee any measagea aent or re ceived In connection with the disas ter." Hugh Wollner. of London, a survi vor of tha Titanic, waa next called to the stand. Mr. Wollner said he Inspected the lifeboats and the life apparatus. He said he considered tha work of the s'ors very slow. "I heard Captain Smith say he wanted all tha passen gers to go to the 'A' deck to get Into the boats there." said 'Wollner. "I aaid. "Captain, haven't you forgotten that all those windows on 'A deck are closed 7" and he said. My God. you're right: call those people back.' Only a few bad gone down and they came back. Everything went all right af ter that." Straoa Hrr.hn Refold. "From your own observation, do you believe all the women and children got away?" "I do, all except Mrs. Straus. She refused to leave Mr. Straus, although I ma.Ie two appeals to her. I said to Mr. Straus. "Surely no one mill ob-Jrt-t to an M gentleman like you get tlug Into the lifeboat. and he replied. will not go before the other men.' Woolner related the Incident leading to the flashes of a pistol when the first collapsible boat waa being filled. "I heard Murdock. the Brat officer. shouting to a group of men. "Get bark out of here, get bark out of bereT "Men Italians. I think they were were crowding Into the boats. We helped Mr. Murdock pull them out of tbe boat, as they were blocking the way of the women. We pulled the men out by tbe legs and any way we could. They were rather limp; didn't seera to have -much spring In them at all. As soon as we got them out of this boat we lifted the Italian women Into the boat and It was lowered." Harold Bride, surviving operator of the Titanic, was recalled. Operator iets SI00. Bride first waa asked bow much he received for selling the story of his Victor-Victrol wouldn't be wi 4J Music in the home means more of joy and glad ness. It dispels the ef fect of care and makes the heart rejoice. It in- e t m -m spires to nooier ana better thinking and renews courage and determination. In short.it soothes the savage in us and quickens all that is truest, grandest and best. The Victor Victrola brings to your fireside the voices of the world's most renowned artists the finest selections of in strumental music as produced by the famous orchestras and bands the violin solos of Kreisler.Kubelik, Elman and Powell JJf The cost is but little the resultant great and perpetual. Steinway and Other Pianos experiences on the wreck to a Pew York newspaper, and He sal a n. goi 1000, . Telling of his escape irom me 11- tanlc Bride aaid: "After the captain told operator Phlllina and me that we could so we . stared on the boat a while and Phll- lina aent another C Q. V Alter mat I don't think we got an answer. If he did he didn't tell me." "Whit waa the hour when the Cali fornia tried to get youT" asked Senator Smith. "About S o"clock." MDI1 jrou not refuse to answer for him for about an hour because you were busy with your accounts?" "It was about 10 minutes, i minx. I picked up the Callfornian'a warnings of Icebergs nearby while ahe waa sending- It to the steamer Baltic As near aa I can recollect, tne message, u to the effect that the Callfornian had Just passed three large icebergs. giving the ship's latitude and longi tude." Tragedy Xot Xeeesmary. The witness said he took the mes sage to the bridge and gave It to the officer In charge. No other warnings of Ice were received, he said, that day or night, as far aa he knew. Operator rhllllps. ssld Bride, figured that the steamer Franwiurt waa mucn to the Fran 'ther might be a very different story todas." -Yes. air." pride said that at least 10 minutes ...4 tha nlllalon before the -;:. : . ,.n , aid b- sent out. J. O. Boxhall. the fourth officer, was asked again about the lights of a steamer seen from th. deck of the Titanic, the night of the ' disaster. Boxhall said he was quite positive they were a steamer's lights. Ugfcta Five Wile. Away. "She waa coming toward us and I thing about fiv. miles away." said Box hall. "I saw those lights after the order to take to the lifeboats, and when I got Into my boat, after firing the rockets, she had turned around and I could see the stern lights." Boxhall testified thst all ships rock ets were not distress signals. Some ahlDs ts. a system of rockets for stg nals wl.en passing In the night. These, ha said, miaht hara been the rockets which passengers on the Callfomlan aav ther saw on a distant ship. Senator Smith said he had evidence that the Callfomlan was only 14 miles from th. Titanic. "Do you think you could have seen the lights of th. Call fornlan?" ha asked. "I don't know." aaid Boxhall. Tlv. miles is the greatest range the British Board of Trade requires ships lights to show, but we know thst they can be seen farther on clear nights. But I should think that we could not have seen the Callfornian'a lights that far that n'aht." "Ha 1 th. California fired rockets to signal you that night do you think yon wuld hav. seen them It miles?" "I think not." said Boxhall. POLITICS EXPENSE ASKED e-enatc Pare Resolution on lt(M and It-OS Presidential Campaigns. WASHINGTON. April . Th. Sen ate today adopted the Culberson reso lution calling for a full report on con tributions to th. National committee of all parties la th. Presidential and Con gressional campaigns of lt04 and 10S. The Inquiry la Intrusted to the com mittee on privilege. . and elections which Is instructed to supply the Sen ate with full Information aa to amounts as well as ta-giiln th names of contributors. MVn,,M because of stronger signals'?" Panning to make it one .ft .h. c o n ...... I K-esi laetor. in university lire, Th ' ' ..., T' ..r nnlon students from the 'Aebfoot s T,-.,. i. -".- - " ... .no jnrnll.H .nil 1 f Ik... V III Morrison at JEW CLUB FORMED Oregon Students at Washing ton "IT Organize. 60 MEMBERS ENROLLED Society Promises to Become Big Vhc tor at Seattle; Web foot State Now Ranks Second in At tcmlance at Institution. L'XIVERSITT OF WASHINGTON. Se attle, April 2. (Special,) Oregon men and women attending the university have organised an "Oregon Club." and he ere tate from the metropolis of the southern neigh bor. Oregon ranks second to the Ever green state In point of attendance at the big Institution, and Portland holds the record for cities outside Washtng- ton. To work for railroad rates home, keep up the "Oregon spirit1 among the student put a representative number men in position of authority and to the club. Oeorge Hutton. of Portland, a Columbia College man, is now a mem ber of the board of control, the ruling MEMBERS OF OREGON CLUB AT 4 . i-i -n 1 mTr-n-iT-i 1 nnn mummm-!- wna I IT r"-1- "'"n n 1 ( " ' . . - : J I . """"-., : ' -. . .. . .:,:; -' T f. t "J .. . v';" f i. ; f ti - i mt-' " : ; ; 1 . : 1 1 v 1 i 4 G. Reraard K.ble, mt Orrgaa City. I. President of the New College Oraranlaatlon. Which Haa sixty Members. Oressa Raaka Meeoad la Attendance at the lalvrralty, aad the Students Hold Considerable Influence la tbe Varloas College Circles. a brings pleasure Sixth student house of representatives, and the organization expects to add others by taking an active part In student elections. G. Bernard Noble, of Oregon City, is president of the club. Portland Students Are Many. Portland students at the university are: Seniors Uelbert G. Carr. Horace I McCoy and Justin W. Ottestad. Juniors Ethel M. Beckforo. Thomas H. Boyd, George and William Hutton, Wil liam P. Stevens, Francis Walsh and Horace A.' Wilson Sophomores Lois Bain, Ellis H. Bean, Ben K. Bessesxen. Hobert Harlow, Cecil Splcer and Thomas Relerson. Freshmen Alice Autsen, Marlon O. Blake, Edwin and Elmer Leader, Frederick B. Mercer, Leon G. Wlllemln and Ray C. Yeast. Medford, far down In Southern Ore gon, follows Portland in point of num bers, with three students, and 20 smaller towns acknowledge one and two such, as follows: Medford, Daragh Earhart. Harold 1. Carey and George C. Henderson; Pendleton, Richard De vine and Blanche Badley; Linnton. Mar shall Malone and Jerome Mann: Island City, Stella Hunter and Xtta McKld dle: The ralles, Tracy Griffin and Her mann Anderson:. McMinnvllle, Clarence A. Argo; Newberg, Elsie Andrews: Eu gene. Cecil P. Bell; Canyon City. Jacob M. Blank: Wamtc, Sam M. Driver; Wil- lamlna, Elva Dundos; Roseburg, Ed ward E. Harpham: Marshflcld, Lucy S. Horton; Hood River, Lottie O. Kin nlard; Ontario, Alice Mallet: Burns, Bertha Rose Murphy: Forest Grove, Gllda L. Murphy and Elizabeth M. Pol lock: Oregon City. G. Bernard Noble; Oakland, Ray Rader: Canby. Earl D. Robinson; Alsea, Lorena Steele; Marsh- field, Nellie B. Tower. Arts and Sciences Attract. Statistics given out by the Recorder's office show that by far the greater number of Oregon students como to Seattle to take the popular course In arts and sciences, which now offers the most valuable degree attainable since the university has been recognized by the United Slates Department of Edu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WHERE STUDENTS FROM WEB- FOOT STATE ARE BIG FACTOR. into for one Any Victor dealer in any city in the world will gladly play any music you wish to hear, Victor-Victrolas $15 to $200 Victors, $10 to $100 Victor Talking Machine Company Camden, N. J. cation as In the first class. Others are enrolled in engineering, law, forestry; mining and pharmacy. SURGERY ISBY WIRELESS Ship Surgeon Gives Advice to Lonely Islander 420 Miles Away. NEW ORLEANS. April 29. How a laborer on Swan Island, a lonely wire less station In the Gulf, suffered a crushed foot; .how the wireless oper ator on the island communicated- with a ship 420 miles away, raised the sur geon and got him to explain the proper way to amputate; then how the oper ator's assistant performed the opera tion. Is a story told by the manager of a big shipping firm today. On Swan Island Is a wireless station, one of the links In the chain to the tropics. When a laborer's foot was hurt In a tram car accident the oper ator concluded an operation was im perative. There were no medical books at hand and no one at the station ever had hacked at a fellow being. The operator called a fellow crafts man on a ship passing 420 miles below Into the Caribbean Sea. The situation was explained to the ship's surgeon and. detail by detail, he explained Just how the amputation should be handled. After the arteries had been tied and the wound dressed, the patient re covered his senses and insisted on pressing at the wireless key to ex press his thanks. At last account he was getting well. ELECTRIC LINE IS RUSHED Rails Laid Five Blocks at Albany. Freight Depot Nearly Done. ALBANY. Or., April 29. (Special) Work is being rushed on the Oregon your nome single I SHs ill H I iJs It' sillily Victor-Victrola XVI, $200 Mahogany or quartered oak Co. Morrison at Sixth "Electric Railway in this city, and five blocks of rails have been laid on Fifth street, the thoroughfare over which the passenger line traverses the city. The freight line enters the eastern limits of the city on the water front, and this street will soon be ready for rail-laying. A large crew is employed now in driving piling for bridges over the Pennywinckle gulches, between Cleveland and Sherman streets. The freight depot of the Oregon Elec tric occupies a space 34x110 feet at Wa ter and Jackson streets, and Is nearly completed. The passenger station will be at Lyon and Fifth streets, and will be of brick and stone construction. RAILWAY LAWS FOR ALASKA Commerce Commission Rules Tliey Apply There as in States. WASHINGTON. April 29. Holding that Alaska is an organized territory and not a mere district, the Supremo Court of the United States today de cided that the Interstate Commerce laws extend to it. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion had declined to pass on a com plaint by the Humboldt Steamship Company against the White Pass and Yukon Railroad on the theory that it had no jurisdiction over Alaska. A solution of 10 per cent borax and 5 per cent rosin Is driven into wood by elec tricity In Frflnce to preserve It. MOTHER! WATCH THE CHILDREN'S BOWELS If Cross, Sick, Feverish, Bilious or Tongue Is Coated, Give De licious "Syrup of Figs." No matter what ails your child, a gentle, thorough laxative physic should always be the first treatment given. If your child Isn't feeling well; rest ing nicely; eating regularly and acting naturally it is a sure sign that its little stomach. liver and 30 feet of bowels are filled with foul, constipated waste matter and need a gentle, thorough cleansing at once. When cross, irritable, feverish. stomach sour, breath bad or your little one has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throat, full of cold, tongue coated; give a tea spoonful of Syrup of Figs and In a few hours all the clogged-up waste, undi gested food and sour bile will gently move on and out of Its little bowels without nausea, griping or weakness, and you will surely have a well, happy and smiling child again shortly. With Syrup of Figs you are not drugging your children, being com posed entirely of luscious figs, senna and aromatics it cannot be harmful, besides they dearly love its delicious fig taste. 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