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Show MISUNDERSTANDING IS CLEARED UP SN FRANCISCO, March While maidnif reaoy tho steamer Herman, on which 'ho will sail for the Arctic on April Captain C. T. Pedersen met Vilhlalmur Stefansson, the explorer, here, today for the first time since 1912, whe.n Pedersen was engaged by Stefansson to navigate the ill-fated steamer Karluk before the command was turned over to Captain Robert A. Bartlett. With tho meeting was cleared a misunderstanding misun-derstanding of which, it proves. Captain Pedersen was the innocent and unsuspecting unsus-pecting author and the explorer the victim vic-tim as the result of an interview ascribed to Pedersen In which the latter was quoted as stating that Stefansson was directly responsible for the loss of the Karluk. |