Show SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST DANiElS DECKER REVIVES DISPUTE IN IN ATTACK UPON t ON SECRETARY OF NAVY Comm Commandant of Seventh Naval District Dis Asserts That Testimony Before Before Be Be- fore Committee Was Deliberately Deliberately Misrepresented Washington The The Sims-Daniels Sims row over the navy navys navy's s conduct of the tire war was revived on June 26 with the tire publication publication pub pub- of a it letter from Rear Hear Admiral Benton C. C Decker commandant of the Sev Seventh nth naval district FlorI Florida a in which winch he charges that Secretary Daniels In his before the time senate Investigating committee Intentionally intentionally interi- interi and deliberately misrepresented misrepresent ed certain attacks of Rear Hear Admirals Sims Fullam and Fiske The letter dated June 17 and a addressed ad dressed to Chairman Hale of the committee committee com corn was published In the Army and Navy Register a service magazine Admiral Decker said he had also sent a copy of it to Secretary Daniels Admiral Decker formerly was naval at Madrid but was removed during the war Secretary Daniels has s stated that his removal followed representations from Ambassador Wll- Wll Villard I lard d to the state department that he was encroaching on diplomatic functions functions in his activities s there The Tire admiral declared In his Iris letter that from my personal knowledge of Mr Daniels' Daniels character I am led to believe believe be be- lieve that whatever Is cited in his statements to the discredit of the tire cers Is so perverted and amid twisted as to give the tire actual facts a false mean merin- merin ing in an any reorganization tion of the navy today Admiral Decker c continued i the navy needs navy needs need and the best interests interests interests in in- of the tire countr country demand that there shall be placed in the tIre na navy department department de de- de- de a naval officer big enough and broad enough and of sufficient ability to maintain the standards of the navy against the encroachments of the civilian secretaries who seek to make of the naY navy a political or or- |