Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1945 — Page 12

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martial trials in connection with the failures at Pearl Harbor, However, some congressmen continued to insist on public trials. Senator Harry Byrd (D, Va) ‘said that if the 1941 commanders at pear] Harbor—Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short and Read Adm. ‘Husband E. Kimmel—are not given an open court-martial trial, congress should pass a joint resolution directing Trial ‘Very Proper’ Byrd said it would be “very proper” for congress to order a trial But if that course is not possible, he added, congress should make its own investigation. Only through an open trial or a congressional investigation, Byrd said, will “all the facts” be disclosed. The senator also said he understood there were two versions of the Pearl Harbor reports, one

stifled. Whenever the President made a statement about the necessity of preparedness, he was vilified objection to their side of the story for doing it. being told, and agreed with a “I think the country is as much [reporter's suggestion that Short | to blame as any individual in thisjand Kimmel could make statefinal situation that developed in| ments without going through Pearl Harbor.” {courts-martial. The reports made by army and | The President took sharp issue, navy boards which investigated the| with Rep. Andrew J. May (D. Ky.), Pearl Harbor defeat both mentioned chairman of the house military af-| the country’s state of unprepared- | fairs committee, who expressed fear ness for war. Both, however, placed |that the army and navy reports on blame for what happened at Pearl Pear] Harbor might constitute a Harbor in varying degrees upon /|‘“white wash.” individuals. * The President said he did not | Defends Hull juBtos. : ution pe Ald, he did not think May had rea e repor Mr. Truman corrected at his news pa ase of his, the President's opinconference what apparently was an jon there was no white wash. oversight in his statement yester-| Many congressional critics insistday when he released the reports. ed that the administration still has;

At that time he strongly sided with [9% told ait a § Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- Six Criticized son in defending Gen. George C. The official story, as released by |

story before thé public.

abeled “secret” and the other “top |

Marshall, army chief of staff,| President Truman in three separate |

gram through congfess, it was|in onics to put their side of the [soil from the mess of Pearl Harbor

had been rubbed officially on Hull,

The President, said he had NQprarsnall and Stark.

| Secretary of War Henry L. Stimjson in a separate statement de- | fended both Marshall and Hull | President Truman added his ‘voice [to their defense. No official made any effort to wipe the smirch from Stark, Gerow, {Short and Kimmel, whose deficiencies were painted .as sins of omission rather than commission. In no part of the official story sas any blame directly attached to ‘the late President Roosevelt. It | seemed evident, however, that Hull's major decisions bore Mr. Roosevelt's advance approval. And Hull came in for a large slice of blame for precipitating the Jap-

lanese attack.

This blame was voiced in the report of an army investigating board {which also severely criticized Marshall, Gerow and Short.

secret.” He said the “top secret” | against criticism in the army 8nd frequently conflicting docu- | The condemnation of Stark and

version has “not been made public.” He added that he would do what he | could to bring out all the facts * in full detail and without prejudice or | political partisanship.”

ti.e top secret report. It said it|

would stand on President Truman's | Stimson’'s in defense of Hull. earlier news conference statement said he wanted to agree wholly and that certain parts dealing with |completely with what Stimson said | sources of secret information had yesterday in challenging criticism of not and propabably would not be the former secretary of state.

made public. | Was ‘Top Secret’ The navy, on the other hand, said ‘hat the report of its Pearl Harhor court of inquiry had been lab- | cled “top secret” before its release yesterday.

Permitting himself to be quoted Gen. Walter H. Short and Rear lirectly, Mr. Truman said in a press Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, who up

conference discussion: l

“Every time the President (the |terday had been the most frequently blamed armed service commanders, wanted trials to be held

‘ate Franklin D. Roosevelt) made 'n effort to get a preparedness atte}

| board's report.

relations with the Japanese. The war department would not|Truman, comment on Byrd's charge about about Hull.

ordering courts-martial for any of the officers involved, but that he had no objection to such courts- | martial being held.

ments, placed varying degrees of blame for this country's first and [worst 8efeat in world war II upon: ONE—The army and navy com-

Stimson also chided the board for | criticizing then Secretary of State | Cordell Hull's conduct of diplomatic Mr, ES a ie sre pi navy staff| Said nothing chiefs and others in Washington. THREE—The architects of the {country’s pre-Pearl Harbor di-| plomacy. | Specifically named as sharing culpability for the defeat of Dec. 7, | 1941, were then Secretary of State {Cordell Hull, Gen. George C. Mar-| shall, army chief of staff; Adm: Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations; Lt. Gen. Leonard T.| Gerow,; ‘then a major general in| charge of the war plans division | of the war department general staff; Maj. Gen. Walter C. short, | then commander of the army's | Hawaiian department, and Rear | Adm, Husband E. Kimmel, then| commander-in-chief of the U. S.| Pacific fleet. It was the first time that any}

yesterday,

Today he added his voice to

He |

He said he had no intention of

Accused Want Trials A reporter observed that Maj.

intil the time of the reports yes-

| negelct,”

came from Secretary of [Navy James Forrestal and Adm. | Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet who succeeded Stark as chief of naval. operations after Pearl Harbor. Wants Blame Established In demanding court-martial tirals, May said he wanted to establish who, through possible “criminal was to blame for the blood - shed and the ships and planes lost at Pearl Harbor. “I do not,” May said, “propose {to stand for any whitewash of the matter in any respect. Let the truth be told.” The army report said that Hull {decided on Nov. 26 “to kick the whole thing over,” as far as any more temporizing with the Japanese was concerned, and deliver to Japanese emissaries here a 10point counter-proposal to one they had offered as a formula for keeping peace in the Pacific.

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hope. Frequently she expressed to newspapermen her belief that her son would return, although shehad never heard from him directly or indirectly. Captured By Sub Boyington said he was shot down during the morning of Jan, 3, 1944. He had 22 mm. wounds on his head, neck, arms and ear and his ankle was broken. The main gas tank on his Corsair blew up. “I flipped my plane on its back and unfastened the safety belt,” Boyington said. “I dropped 100 feet to the water and was stunned by the impact.” “Finally I located the rubber boat from my plane and inflated it,” he said. “After a few hours, a Japanese submarine surfaced nearby and took me aboard off Cape St. George and transported me to Rabaul.” “At Rabaul, I was blindfolder and handcuffed and my medical equipment was taken away. I was questioned the whole night. I had

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during which time my festering wounds smelled so foul I wondered how the Jap questioners could stand the stench. _ “On the 11th day, another internee was permitted to apply for hot bandages. | “I was held for two months in Rabaul. I trekked into town daily from the camp in the outskirts for continuous grilling. “In March, 1404, T was transported to a secret navy camp for questioning. It was In the country village of Ofuna, Japan. Here I was given the baseball bat treatment, standing with by hands tied while the guard slugged the back

as possible. The latter was so swollen I could see it over my shoulder. “1 was slugged in the jaw approximately 300 times. Similar beatings killed other prisohers. Even Jap civilians took part in administering the beatings. “A pharmacist’'s mate observed 1st Lt. Bill Harris, the son of Maj. Gen. Phil Harris, and who was captured at Corregidor, reading about Russia's success in Europe in a Japanese paper he had fished from the garbage can. “The Jap called all prisoners into

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