Show HE HE MAKES A JOKIE JOKE OF DEATH radio operator on doomed ship grim humorist to last T talks akil ikil as if he were going on lark in port instead of to bottom of sea not a soul saved from vessel new york the grim humor of a tireless operator who bo laughed at death and hushed hits bits of wit v into tile lie ether it as his ship the no megumi sitani aidi er cr Uron grontoft toft with thirty persons 00 oo board wallowed und and slowly sank during a arild athistle hurricane watt was recorded on oil the alie radio log of the lun dan ish steamer estonia Ks tonia each dethill of tile the trips hips plight pl lelit each call for aid was supplemented hy by tile the jesting comment of the rullo rudio anat whose identity identify Is still unknown lie ill talked us as if lie he were going on it lark in port instead of to the bottom of the sea tits his last message a disjoint d one was it a series of 0 as the butt of the joke the estonia itself hard lilt lit in the HU tolle aulle gale made a ali atit but successful effort to reach the grontoft Gron tott I 1 fifth first sent out calls for aid ien about JOU tittles miles cut cu 1 t of calpe race the essonla ct tomilu lit that hint kinle wim was forty eight miles west vest of the disabled norwegian nuu and steaming in lilt 1111 dejection capt huns jorgenson ordered tits his ship about and it steamed slowly townie town id the grontoft radio operator hansen engaged tile lie operator ope rotor of the lie Gron grontoft tort lit in conversation the bitter sent out first the following a stereotyped irony of the hens beas god pity the poor sailors on a night like this then followed a seril series s of if ba ila ha and say bay lie he continued tile of old man mail thinks this calm will be oer by nightfall we sure need some breeze an hour later an urgent call for aid was fas sent out by the Groa grontoft tolt nuu and ite it I 1 operator jested again vall e 1 the steward Is 14 making zite w lclive R for the lifeboats looks alku we were gang on oil a picnic again a half flour later inter lie he sent bent alie the old acou fills it list like ille u rundown lied beel tills this isi Is no rather eather for a fellow to be out in ID without gin uw um brella hold on returned hie file onins wireless well tie be alongside soon the grontoft did slot not reply until forty later inter then we ore are banking stern first the boots boats fire anre smashed cant hold out uny any longer Kr alie illie skipper dictated tant lie ought to know abere did I 1 put my illy lint hut sorry we cant wait for you pressing business else elsewhere here six hours after picking up hie file first coll call front froni tile grontoft Gro aloft the essonla reached its reported report pd position anti trough it cruised eliout for four bours failed to find even a n trac of ret kage the number of hours the hie fog illo till I 1 the atlantic coast Is greater toward the lh north and has amounted to at all I 1 ninny us laoo hours houra per year |