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Show Ship Master Says He Was Misquoted About Testis' Captain Frederick Sorenson Denies Saying Carey Was Guilty of Criminal Negligence; Neg-ligence; Reporter Testifies. "Til? : ; NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (UP) The question of what Captain Frederick Fred-erick Sorenson, a licensed ship master who was a passenger on. the S. S. Vestris, said upon his arrival back in New York, was the first point taken up today at the federal investigations Into the sinking of the South American liner. When Sorenson was brought in on the rescue liner American Shipper, Ship-per, he was quoted widely as say ing that Captain William J. Carey of the Vestris was guilty of crim-j inal negligence, and that the life-! boat crews were "murderers." ! Yesterday on the stand the commerce com-merce department hearing, and again at the hearings before U. S. Commissioner Francis A. O'Neil, Sorenson repudiated these statements, state-ments, called newspaper reporters liars, and said they had "tiwsted and sometimes made exactly opposite" oppo-site" his statements. The commerce department hearing, hear-ing, conducted by Dickenson H. Hoover, supervising inspector general gen-eral of the Steamboat Inspection service, was the first to get under Way this morning and James Ed- mund Duffy, ship news reporter of the New York Telegram, was the first witness called. Duffy was one of the first men to interview Sorenson and was one of the reporters criticized by Sorenson Sor-enson yesterday. Duffy started reading from his original notes, jotted down as he interviewed Sorenson the day the steamship captain returned. Duffy was emphatic that Sorenson Soren-son had said that the lifeboats of the Vestris were "rotten." Yesterday Yester-day Sorenson said the lifeboats appeared ap-peared in good shape, and that he saw only one hole, that even appearing ap-pearing as a new hole. Then Duffy read into the records a story printed under his signature in the New York Telegram yester-. day, telling exactly how the interview inter-view was obtained and the things he heard Sorenson say. This news story said Sorenson had been bitter in his discussion of the ship's crew and the general condition of the Vestris and the lifeboats. |