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Senators Recall Pilot of Titanic UVtUStf,,!' largest "" The Herald has the WEATHER FORECAST. morning home circulation, and prints all the news of the world Increasing cloudiness each day, in addition to murjr probably followed by showers THE WASHINGTON HERALD exclusive features. NO. 2024. VASfflNGTON: P. C ,SUffDAY. APRIL 21. 1912. --JQRTEOtJR '.PAGES. J FIVE CENTS. A "TTHTfallE EXPLOSION." NOTHING WAS SAVED. SENATORS RECALL IfflWIEOILL GRAND MEMORIAL MANY LIVES LOST PILOT OF TITANIC PASSES SENATE TO TITANIC DEAD WITHOUT DEBUTE IITIEMPITIL OF MISSISSIPPI j LbBBBBBBBBbK IBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBsi " Quartermaster Hichens, Who Was at the IBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBUr WE B!LbBBBBBBBBSSBBB Measure Creating Service National Monument to Cost Twelre Villages Ars Onder Wheel When Crash Came, Taken from bbbbbbbbbbbbbbR sHHIIIIIH VH Commission Changed by - 500,000 May Be Water and Thousands SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSafc 4 N Outgoing Ship Under Subpoena. One Erected. Are Homales. Amendment tSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsliiBBBiBBBBBBBBBBB! DJBECT PRIMARIES NEXT TBIBUTE TO 3IAJ. BDTT FEVER BREAKS OUT PETTY OFFICER WILL COME HERE rv & ,. "3vsLrHissssssi OTHERS GIVE TESTIMONY Bristow Insists. Presidential Totes Prominent Business Men of Wash Army Surgeon Sent by Department WITH TO -, for District --Be Taken Up- ington in Heartfelt Sympathy to Inaugurate Sanitary Measures sBHIIIIIIIslH'K'J Monday. with Movement. in Stricken. Districts. New York, April 20 The Senate committee appointed to investi- - Containing only one amendment by closed of unearthing develop Costing dollars, New Orleans, April 30. Harassed on gate the sinking of the liner Titanic a day commission Is given the right at'Ieast ha!f,amlllton which the and for which Congress will be asked to all sides by the mighty Mississippi, which by having Quartermaster Hichens, of the to hold public hearings, the public util ments of supreme importance appropriate COO.000. - national N monu at the present time Inundates twelve Itles bill, giving the District Commission the outgoing liner Lapland at Sandy Hook and ment will be erected to the memory of prosperous villages In Mississippi near Titanic, taken from era the authority of a public service com- Archjbald-W- . to Presi- Greenville, and handicapped by lack of passed Senate jesterday aft MaJ. .Butt, aid brought back to this city under a subpoena. mission, the and hundreds of other cour- money and facilities with which to battle ernoon by a, voce vote, une dent Taft with 181 other members suss: viva oiu ageous men who their lives the water which Is sweeping over their Hichens had started for Southhampton represented the redrawn amendment to TisvxjSEORGE, surrendered MRS. T. IV. CAVETDISH, women children-aboar- we very homes, the people of Greenville to- vessel, having been released by the com- tbe original measure as Introduced by that the and of the crew of the Daughter of Henry Siegel. the millionaire Titanic might be night have sent out countless messages Senator Galllnger It was passed with sved. every spurce. calling for aid. officers and members the ship's crew had been brought In on John Hals Hammond, who was Inti to available mittee after several of merchant. She was the the approval of Senator Works of Cali Mrs. George D "Wldener. with her maid. A message recetred here saya mately acquainted MaJ. "Butt. Is examination After the Lapland had Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. fornia, who was chief opponent to the was rescued from disaster. with at least 30 000 persons are homeless, and selected to remain for further the Titanic one originators movement. In relating her experiences she said original Galllnger bill. She was returning with her husband, of the of the that many lives have been lost. Some sailed, however, Senator Alden Smith, chairman of the committee, dis- were many preparing which lis the heartfelt ot estimates place the number of dead at "There lifeboats to who wont -- down with the hundreds of Powers of Commission. is understood In 3 This, however, has not been con- new it imperative that Hichens testify. The be launched when my husband and I other heroes, trip to Paris, where the President It that covered facts which made The new bill, as passed, gives tbe Com- from a by Con- firmed. reached the deck. He ran for ope of the Philadelphia society had spent addition to tbe appropriation twenty held until a tug arrived. Hichens is missioners absolute right to determine moan gress country will be given A raging flood covers square wireless was used and the Lapland them and then my husband thrust some weeks In selecting fitting the entire In vicinity, water pouring not only the amount of stock which each a trousseau to mem miles the the wheel when the biscuits into ml hand, kissed me and. daughter, who soon an opportunity to contribute the into two bayous, and Is expected to said to have been at the Titanic's she struck berg. company owns (thereby determining the for her was to be Is lifted me into the boat. In which were married. Parisian dressmakers declare ory ot the military hero, and belief reach the levee at Greenville Before concluded hearing in New York amount of capitalization per mile, on 3200 000 additional The investigating committee its twent) three women. He kissed me again that the creation purchased by Mrs. expressed that morning and told me would be right street car and telegraph companies), but can be raised Twenty-on- e negroes are known to to-d- and subpoenaed Bruce Ismav and other officials of the White that he all Wldener and nearly entirely designed by J. authorizes the commission to consider Following suggestion MUs Mary have been drowned near Benolt Great y and joined tbe other men as we were one the of Star Line to appear before It In Wash-- the differences In stock and prevent tbe herself was of the most complete loss of life Is believed to have occurred lowered Into the water They all seemed expensive ever bought city S Hamilton, director of the Hamilton lngton at 10 30 o clock Monday morn the "Waldorf This was told by transfer from one company to another ot and la the Institute, a movement was started by In the section between Beulah and ing happy that their wives were being car- of fashion. The unequalcd collection of Greenville Harold Bride, the second wireless oper- ried safely away from the damaged ship. stock held, thereby making the corpora The "Washington Herald yesterday to All available survivors of the Titanic ator of the Titanic. He declared that as tions or the District In any way "de- finery with several thousands of dollars raise funds for the erection of a fitting "Villages re Inundated. 4 and kept calling and reassuring us that W now will be called before the committee. early as JO o'clock the Calif ornian called pendent" on each other worth of Mrs. Idener's wardrobe Is memorial. The towns or Scott. Avondale, CoL him, "Ice report." everything would be all right, that the at the bottom of the sea that ended the meeting held of Including Mrs. John Jacob Astor. with an He said that With the passage of the bill in the At a at the Chamber Wlntervllle, Choctaw, Dunlelth, Archibald Grade, and relatives of all at the time, he was busy writing a ship could not sink The next thing life of her husband, who worked heroic- Commerce a call was prepared for a Hollknowe. Helm. Elizabeth. Napanee, prominent men were lost. and Ignored was that terrible explosion, the horrible Senate It Is entirely probable that the ally In his effort to get all the women mass meeting 3 o clock "Wednesday the who that,he the call - at Stonevllle. and Lenand are several feet German Operator Riled Him. Half an hour later he heard the shrieks and the disappearing of the great House members will force Its'consldera- and children into the lifeboats before the afternoon In the rooms of the Chamber beneath water, the scantll) clad and call the Baltic, begging to give ship The we spent In tlon and require its passage within the great ship went down. for the purpose of discussing prelimi- people In some of them, being Members of the committee expressed time that small desltute her the report. He then took It, d boat after those noble, heroic men went next two weeks. This sentiment was ex nary plans for the erection of such a marooned on the roofs of their houses. to call "every man, It, the determination and gave It to the officer on down of Mr. pressed by Chairman Ben Johnson, of the memorial. A temporary organlxatlon Calls for aid In the delta counties any- bridge. were hours torture I raw hereinafter provided for. a hearing steps will woman and child" who can tell the Titanic's House District Committee. Jesterday provisions, so will be perfected, and be taken north of Vicksburg are hourly grow- so sur- Ismay when he came on board the Car which far as applicable, looking appointment ot a na- thing about the disaster The ouster) which has far Is no question" said Mr John apply to Hearings. to the ing more urgent The relief forces are ope- message, which af10 o clock pathia. He was trembling from head to There shall such The committee, which shall undertake Harold Bride assistant wireless rounded the son. corpora commission shall, within ten days tional working feverishly to send out supplies commit- Monday morning-wa- s bj Bal- foot, and kept mumbling I m Ismay Tmt what a regulation ot aft to by subscription the necessary off rator on the Titanic, told the caught the " er such valuation Is determined, serve raise before rail communication Is shut tee that the German ship tic, giving the first news of the Titanic's I'm Ismay tions In the District is one of the most funds for the memorial.
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