Show SIMS SIM ASKS A K JEEP DEEP PROBE NAVY He Declines to Recommend Remedies Until Further Disclosures Are Made 1 of Departments Department's r War ar Conduct By r A rr Press u. u W V ASHINGTON March IS 18 Ec Responsibility Re Re- for conditions which prompted Rear Hear A Admiral miral Sims to indict the navy y departments department's conduct of time the War can be bo determined only on oa full fun investigation iu of his charges ch the officer declared to today ay before the tho Senate Sen ate i investigating ng committee concluding concluding ing n his bis direct testimony For that thill reason Admiral Sims said he had no well wen founded recommendations to make as to remedies Until further Investigation disclosed whether tho errors and mistakes he has chars charged w t o d 1 faulty organization n ol oi ln ctt l leI n l ha le tJ Jao j would not ot att to formulate r remedial pro pro- proposals o l Digest Cross examination of or Admiral Simas Sims Sim J was as postponed until on re reQuest request request re- re quest of or Senators Pittman Nevada Nc and arid Trammell Florida Democratic mem members members bers of or tho time committee Senator Pittman Pitt Pitt- man mm said eald he had requested the post that ho might ht have time t U tt rend read Admiral Sims' Sims testimony To point out violations of oC well wen known and generally accepted pIes of ot warfare warfare- such as have been shown hy ly m my testimony Is in itself to suggest tho the remedy which Is obviously I to avoid such violations In the future said Admiral Sims In closing his state state- I ment meat Previously ho had summarized In thirteen specific counts tho the charges ho he made mado against tho time navy department and emphasized stron strongly ly his reiterated assertion that ho did not desire that any of or his testimony be bo understood tood as conditions conditions conditions condi condi- charging responsibility for tor the he ho criticized to any Individual His own knowledge o of or con conditions in the department durin during tho the war was waR too limited to warrant any such accusation he declared Captain to 10 Testify Capt Horace Lanning now commander commander com corn mander of or tho destroyer force ores In tho the Atlantic and assistant chief chic of at naval Continued on Pa Pago o 3 i IMS M ASKS DEEP i t I PROBE INTO NAVY X Continued from Page 1 1 antI ami acting chief chic of or tho bu- bu neau of n navigation during the tho war has called by the tho committee to testify i followInG ho tho cross of or Ad- Ad I Ia I |