The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-04-30
TITANIC PROBE
| IN final STAGE
OF QUESTIONING
Crew Released and Wireless Off.
Gals are Questioned About Send.
ing Of Messages
WOULD PROHIBIT SECRECY
Senate Committee Makes Clear that
it viii Try to Stop With.
holding Of News
WOULD PROHIBIT SECRECY

Washington, April 29.---After a
day of discussion, intended to dis
cover the needed reform in the use
of wireless telegraph, the Senate in
vestigating committee entered into
the final stage of its work today,
The officers and crew of the Titanic
were released and are free to return
to their homes in England At the
same time j. Bruce lsmay, managing
director of the International Mer-
camille Marine, will be quizzed
searchingly as to his ideas of regu-
lation to make repetition of the
disaster impossible.
Many Are Questionable.
Guglieimo Marconi, inventor of
the wireless; F. w Samis, chief en-
gineer of the American Marconi CO.;
Wireless Operators Bride and Cot
tam; passenger, Hugh Woolner of
England. and Fourth officer Boxall
of the Titanic, were today's wit
nesses. Virtually all agreed that
better regulation of wireless COM
munications at sea were essential. 1t
was made clear, early in the hear
ing, that the committee already has
made up its mind to advocate legis-
lation, preventing wireless operators
IN ship board from holding back de-
tails of any disaster.
Marconi and SAINTS agreed that a
mistake had been made in sending
the message to Bride and Gotham, on
board the Carpathia, not to give out
anything until they had seen Mar
conf or SAINTS ashore.
To Hold Officials.
Senator Smith held out no promise
rs to when the officers of the White
star line would be dismissed, but is
was the general understanding that
they would be freed as soon as Ismay
is examined. This, 1t was expected,
would not take longer than the ad-
iitional facts, brought to surface,
made 1t necessary.
Endeavoring to repudiate any in
timatlons that he had sought, In any
,vav 70 c,tppraro M dalav uaua of
the sinking of the Titanic, Marconi
appeared for third time before the
Senate committee. He discovered,
after leaving Washington last week
that he had sent a message to the
operator Of the Carpathia, urging
him to send news of the disaster to
The wireless station at Siasconsett,
| Miss, or to vessels OF the United
5tatss navy. He read copies of these
| messages and declared that, when he
was examined by the committee be-
ore, he had forgotten about the
message
Maroon Shows Message.
He also produced copies of many
messages which passed between the
Marconi office and the Carpathia in
IN endeavor to get definite informa-
ton of the wreck and the survivors.
He was excused by the committee In
order that he might sail, tomorrow
FOR England.
Marconi read several additional
messages asking for news of the
survivors or dead Among those In
CURED about being Mr. and Mrs. Isl
dor Strauss, Col. John Jacob Aston,
Charles NJ. Hayes, Major Archibald
3utt and Benjamin Guggenheim.
why did you not get replies to
he messages sent by high officials
Of the Marconi Co.?
Can't Explain Messages.
II have no explanation to give,
Except that the operators, believe,
we're busy on the Carpathia all of the
time sending messages from the Car
oathia, for those on board, to their
families and friends ashore"
Marconi said he did not believe
that the captain of the Carpathia
had any disposition to prevent the
sending Of news.
f. w. SAINTS, explaining what had
lctuated him In sending messages to
Operators Bride and Gotham on the
'arpathia, to hold their stories for
four figures" He said he had made
his own arrangement with the
newspapers, for them to sell their
PERSONAL stories and had sent mes
iages to the boys, informing them
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