European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Daily Magazine new evidence May Clear Cau wornian s painting captures drama of titanic disaster in which 1,500 Portoni drowned. Him reproduced glowing line at night 3 by John Krueger s&5 London Bureau the. Hug. Line Southampton on ill ill Fald voyage. To new York new evidence related to the 191jtitanic disaster May Lead to new inquiry and the Clearing of a dead Man l Man. English sea Captain Stanley lord Wai conjured by the ordinal Brit ish Board of inquiry. St came to the conclusion that it wan lord s ship the Call torn an that had been sighted by the sink ing titanic and which left the scene with out any Rescue attempt. When the unsinkable Fis million Brit ish liner then the world s largest ship went Down gushed by an Atlantic iceberg 1.517 lives were los lord who died last year at the age of 84, always maintained that the califor Alanwas not the potential Rescue ship and therefore he was not guilty of the Gross negligence charge with which he was new evidence we ii a could lend to Clearing lord has been supplied by Leslie Harrlson genial Secretary of the British mercantile Marine service British broadcasting corp. Documentary entitled the other ship revealed How a 90-year-old confidential report came to Light for the first time last year three month after the Long suffering lord s this report made to the norwegian Consul in Iceland the first officer of norwegian sealing vessel related How after Reading of the titanic catastrophe he realized that his ship had been within 10 nautical Miles of the doomed liner. The rocket and flares had been observed but the sealers hurried away for fear the Sig nals meant they had been observed Violat ing territorial we were the officer s report was quoted As saying with our big excellent ship and eight boats and in Calm excellent weather. What might we not have done. I we had known alas we had no radio on even without this disclosure the bbl broadcast maintained lord was the victim of a Gross and inexcusable mis Carriage of rushed inquiry took place less than a month after the calamity and twas claimed the court was hostile to lord and his hearing was punctuated with such remarks by the judge As you know Youdon t make a Good impression upon and i Don t mind telling you that is my attitude of mind you May perhaps change it the Call Dornlan it waa testified had spent the entire night stationary on the Edge of an ice Field after sending out a monday Jon. 10, 1963 the stars and stripes danger message to other ships in the Vicinity. It had also been in Contact with the titanic before shutting Down its radio room or the night As was customary then after the Lone operator had put la a Long Day. At about the same time it was i Contact with the liner never closer than Between 30-30 Miles the Cal Tomlan the testimony continued was observing an unidentified merchant vessel firing practice flares about five Miles away. This was customary among ships of As a Means of identification however the vessel never did answer the Caufour plan l radio and Morse queries. Lord avowed that the mystery ship which never has been identified was clearly not of luxury liner size or lighting the program stressed that testimony by both titanic and Collator plan wit Nesses also proved that the signals Accord ing to the definitely established positions of the Call Dornlan and titanic could not possibly Havo been the latter. In addition. It was claimed that the Typ of flares said seen from the Call Forlen were not of the More powerful Type Showoff by the titanic. Yet the court of inquiry ruled that what the Call Dornlan had viewed were the titanic distress signals which it failed to investigate. This conclusion was reached too eve though the titanic crewman who had been in the Crow s nest testified there was soother ship in fight. The potential Rescue ship was first observed when lifeboats were being loaded. The some 700 survivors were picked up the next morning with the stationary Call Dornlan nowhere in View. Yet the Call Dornlan lord stated Wainly five Miles away from the vessel it waa observing during the night and which finally steamed off in the direction of Europe. The titanic was new York Bourdon its Maiden voyage. With 2.207 Passen Gers and subsequent attempt made by lord to have his Case properly heard and to remove the stigma from his name was blocked the bbl program asserted. Head to resign from the Leyland line but almost at once got a top and trusted com Mand with another shipping company. He retired in 1927 because of 111 health. Harrison who worked closely with Lordin the Hope of a new hearing said he found him a Man of the utmost integrity and free from an grudges. Bbl concluded it 1 time to put straight Page. 11
