Show Survivors of Titanic Disaster Plan Services Friday to Honor Memory of Heroes Who Perished Scenes of Horror When Big Liner Hit lit Iceberg and Sank Recalled B Br By United Peru NEW YORK April H 14 Heroes Heroes who died and men who be called cowards during a night and da day of horror 20 years ago aso when the Titanic was cracked by a de deadly unseen Iceberg iceberg ice Ice- berg and went down with 1513 passengers pas paz were recalled today by sur survivors They planned services Friday in honor lonor of those who p perished during that dramatic h hopeless night while the Carpathia speeded toward the scene eventually picking up of the survivors The White Star liner at nt that time the greatest ocean ocean going going vessel ever built struck the Iceberg on her first voyage across the lh-c Atlantic Most o of the victims were men who gave Fave women women wo wo- men and children first call on places in the lifeboats Monuments honoring those who perished will be decorated with flowers flow now ers its at the Seamen's Church institute here in Potomac park Washington D. D C. C and In Southampton England The New York service will center aro nd the Titanic Memorial lighthouse lighthouse light light- I house tower a beacon visible 10 miles mUes at sea WILL SALUTE DEAD Vessels of the International Ice patrol patrol pa pa- established in northern waters as a direct consequence of the tragedy will salute the memory of the he dead One of the survivors of the tragedy Edith L. L Russell speaking in New NewYork NewYork York ork City recalled as one of her sharpest harpest Impressions the mournful incessant hooting of the Carpathia's foghorn ogborn as it took the survivors into New few York She told how J. J Bruce Ismay then managing director of the International ional Mercantile Marine saved her life lite by securing her a place in a life life- boat He saved my life MI Miss Russell said aid Even when women were being being beng be- be ing ng placed in the boats many people aboard did not believe the liner would actually be in danger dancer of sinking It seemed unbelievable Only a few minutes before when the Iceberg rushed brushed by we had picked splinters of Ice cc off the deck as an amusing incident of the voyage When the order came cameto cameo to o put on people jol jo ed about the he style of them TAKES SUDDEN DIVE I know that many did not believe belleve the he boat would sink sink not not even when we were in the boats Suddenly we saw the stern go straight up in the air All the lights were blazing The Thel stern stem stood up above us like one of New Yorks York's skyscrapers with all the windows lighted up in the evening Then it went straight down and dis dig I appeared The loss of life lite in the Titanic THank tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy exceeded both the Lusitania and Eastland disasters When the Lusitania Lusi Lusi- tania anla was torpedoed by a 3 German submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine in 1915 1198 lives were lost The Eastland turned turtle at its pier in n Chicago in 1 1915 with casualties a ies I |