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Show Rear Admiral Sims H Vigorously Assailed" H WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Rear Ad-miral Ad-miral Sims, a leading figure in the naval decorations' controversy and in tho pending senate investigation of H the navy's conduct of the war, was vigorously attacked today in tho H house by Representative Byrnes, Dem- jH ocrat, South Carolina. jH Declaring that if the admiral was jH admonished by a high naval official not to let the British "pull the -wool" over his eyes as he testified recently before the senate naval decorations committee, he violated a confidence in IH making the instructions public. Rep-resentative Rep-resentative Byrnes said he deserved IH "the condemnation of every American -and a dishonorable discharge from the fl Characterizing Admiral Sims as a "hyphenated politician," Mr. Byrnes ; charged that when serving as com-1 com-1 mander of American naval forces in ' European waters during the war he bad "libeled the army and deprecated the work of the navy" and had urged ! that the United States leave the con-: con-: trol of the seas to Great Britain. |