Show ROOSEVELT GIVES GIT VIEWS OF NEWPORT'S NEWPORT S VICE TICE TO INQUISITORS I WashingtOn May 20 Assistant Assistant O. Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Roo Roosevelt evelt testified before beloro a naval board toda today that ho he at nt no time had bad knowledge of ot the methods of or vice suppression operators assigned at Newport R. R I I. I last Ma May whose whoso al alleged alleged al- al l- l misconduct Is being Investigated Details of oC procedure In securing evidence against enlisted personnel and ancl civilians under suspicion of or moral perversion w were re left entirely in the hands of ol Lieutenant Hudson in whom I placed tho the highest confidence the assistant secretary declared CondItions Conditions Condi CondI- had boon been shown so Indisputably had bad at Newport by a prior court of or in inquiry inquiry In- In that further Investigation was Impora Imperative lve |