Short and kimmel to Face
Trials at Court Martials
WASHINGTON, March 2—Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson announced that court martial has been di
rected for Major General Walter Short, Commander
of the Army’s defenses in Hawaii at the time of the
Pearl Harbor attacks.
Secretary of the Navy Knox also announced that
charges of dereliction of duty would be brought against
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and that he would
face a Navy court martial.
Short’s application for retirement was accepted ef
fective today.
Kimmel’s resignation was accepted and made effect
ive yesterday.
Civil Radio
Cooperation
('ommended
Cooperation of military and
civilian communication in Infer
ior Alaska in observing rigid but
necessary censorship regulations
was commended today in Fair
banks by Lieuteant R. W. Hous
< r, United States Naval Surveil
ance and Liaison officer.
With Chief Radio Man 1. P.
Crowder, Lieutenant Houser is
stationed in Fairbanks as coor
dinator of the numerous com
munications services using the
airways besides the United Stat
es Signal Corps and its commer
cial Alaska Communication sys
tem branch.
Cooperation Satisfactory
The Navy officer stated that
a;l agencies—including the Fed
eral Communications Cammis
sion. Civil Aeronautics Adminis
the lieutenant believed
Communications and other aero
nautical radio systems, and ‘ham’
operators have been adherng to
the stringent censorship rules to
the satisfaction of military au
thorities.
Chiet function of the naval sur
vt illance, however, is monitoring
radio communications from coast
ai radio transmitters, an assign
ment which will not reach its
peak in importance and detail
until the return of the fishing
fleets to Alaska waters.
Fishing Fleet Problem
Lieutenant Houser said Con
gress has not yet decided whe
ther fishing vessels will be .per
mitted to install certain types of
radio transmitting equipment
during the forthcoming season.
In the event permission is grant
ed, the transmitters will probab
Pension Bill
For Lawmakers
h Killed
WASHINGTON, March 2- The
Senate completed legislative ac
tion on a measure repealing legis
latinn permitting congressmen to
obtain government pensions.
With only a score of members
present, the Senate accepted a
joint House-Senate confenr.ce
report approving the pension re
peal.
As an amendment to the House
b;!l this bill provided continued
pay to members of the armed
forces and the government’s civ
i'ian workers reported missing or
in enemy custody, in which case
payments will go to dependents.
lv be restricted to emergency or
air raid warning messages only,
tration, Pan American Airways
“Ham” operators on land are
already abiding by the latter re
s'4 rioted transmission permits.
Fairbanks was selected as the
site for a Navy surveillance and
liaison headquarters simply be
cause of its central location to
most northwestern Alaska coast
al points, Lieutenant Houser ex
plained.
GETS CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL
The war department announced that President Roose
velt had awarded the first Congressional medal of the
war posthumously to Second Lieutenant Alexander R.
Nininger, Cleft). Nininger, 1941 West Point graduate,
was attached to the Philippine Scouts on Bataan Pen
insula. He engaged in furious hand-to-hand fighting
beyond the cayy of duty and destroyed enemy groups
before he was killed. The medal, highest award that
may be made, is shown at right.
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It is sometimes better to suffer
wrong than do it, and happier to
be sometimes cheated than not
to trust. — Dr. Johnson.
Mnmuinr. rimi,■■■..■-% i
CALLER _j. Edgar Hoover,
director of the federal bureau of
investigation, or FBI, leaves the
White House after a conference
with tlie President regarding the
tapping of wires as a means to
gain conclusive evidence against
spies and saboteurs.
AXIS TORPEDO DTIIY S ASHORE
A torp o "lied by an Axis submarine in its attack on tankers off Aruba is insoe t
el by Dutch (left) and U. S. Army officers after it drove up on the beach unex
plored. Late the 18-foot pojectil exploded- killing four Dutchmen who were try
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CHOICE OF SPORTS W R I T c R S—Add to the list of honors awarded .?• * DiMaggio
(right) of the N.Y. Yankees the ranking of “Outstanding Athlete of 1941,” so named hv t».e Philadel
phia Sporting Writers, .lee shared the spotlight vfth Willie .’T'-npo (left), billiard champion, who was
named the “Most courageous athlete of 1941.” ( > Peterman wt-mer) heads sporting writers asm .auun.
FLIERS SAFE AFTER LIFTING ON SEA
Twenty men and a dog, passengers and crew of a huge British Sunderland flying
boat, were safe after the plan was forced down in a battle over the Mediterran
ean. Upper photo shows some of the men sitting on a wing as the plane drifted
toward land. Lower, two and half hours later the men are safely ashore with onlv
one member of the crew, the gunner, injured. The huge flying boat soon began
to break up under the pounding of the surf near Apollonia, in Cyrcnaiea.