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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
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more of joy and glad
ness. It dispels the ef
fect of care and makes
the heart rejoice. It in-
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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
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JJf The cost is but little the resultant
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If Cross, Sick, Feverish, Bilious
or Tongue Is Coated, Give De
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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
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stomach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throat,
full of cold, tongue coated; give a tea
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hours all the clogged-up waste, undi
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and you will surely have a well, happy
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With Syrup of Figs you are not
drugging your children, being com
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and aromatics it cannot be harmful,
besides they dearly love its delicious
fig taste.
Mothers should always keep Syrup of
Figs handly. It Is the only stomach,
liver and bowel cleanser and regulator
needed a little given today will save
a sick child tomorrow.
Full directions for children of all
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Ask your druggists for the full name,
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