Show SURPRISE AT NAVY INQUIRY Officers Offer To Tell Everything About Shipwreck SA A DIEGO Calif Sept 22 Dramatic IA Dramatic avowal of their pur pur- pur I purI po p to aid the court the public and nd the naw nn nas to get ft at the bottom land ci cC circumstances surrounding surrounding- the ed disaster oft off Honda Calif September 8 5 by testify ing before beCore the court of or In Inquiry ulry which has named them then defendants In Its Investigation of the wreck reck that cost 21 Ih lives es and seven even ships threw throw 13 nasal na officers suddenly Into the limelight at today s a session of the court The announcement ment caused Such Auch i 1 transformation In the sit situation sit sit- situation confronting that body that proceedIngs were ere terminated ab abruptly Ab- Ab Abruptly abruptly and adjournment ent taken un until un- un until til Iii Monday Rear nur Admiral Pratt Fratt presiding member of the court of ot inquiry the defendants otter offer to tell all 11 they knew under r oath oatha a as worthy of oC o the best traditions rf of f the navy nav Commander Leslie Bratton who whose duty It Is 4 55 08 judge to present pr sent th the esi- esi vl which may ma Involve ol these of- of In martial court proceedings declared their attitude altitude worthy orthy othe of the highest piais pI alse The defendants offer to testify came during a n lull In the tho proceed proceed- proceedIng proceedings Ing ings Just after alter Charles Hoope a surveyor and civil engineer haa finished that bt he had ob- ob observed ob served serious disturbances on the magnetic odle n-odle n odlO during the period from September 6 to 11 and bf bp- bp believed this phenomenon might have had hod some gome effect on the com compass corn corn- pass pa of oC th the Delphy just before boror she 15 ltd Id her hr sister ships on the rocks While pens at t the press pres pr s table 1 5 ere polled poled to catch If po possible the gist of the next technical discus discus- dl cur Ion Capt T T Craven counsel I fot Capt Ed Edward Edard ard Watson chief of n d squadron f n nn a state state- statement ment for his client n G JG B from penciled notes ho he hen n clard In substance toa the tho fart fact thet quail fit nil all of the tho most highly fled d witnesses were made It particularly difficult to toI I ring before Ih the court the s very ers ef tea tea- tes testimony limon which the court was most moat d to bear har h ar Such a situation not only war the tho Inquiry he hI out but as was the rights ot of several eral officers office In that thai It barred thom them from ross examining their ellow defendants Captain ln Watson he continued ha has from Cram the t 15 beginning of or this fn in- in n been ben anxious to take the tho stand to explain motives which prompted certain on the evening of September g 6 The Tho c viewed with ant nn he said alel the Introduction ot of testimony obscuring th erv S pry Issues he ha desired to make clear He lie H 1 I is desirous of or taking fulland full end complete responsibility for Cor bi his Captain Craven Cra en concluded and lInd wishes In every ever way av to pre prevent pre pre- present vent sent such Auch responsibility being heinli where here It does doe ant belong Therefore Th Captain Watson atson d do- do sires to ta take the th stand as a It wit wit- witness wit ness nus OTHERS K PI K H UP Er Immediate counsel for ot other r and nd In some cases case the were wert on their tl feet aking that Captain Wat Wat- Wat rn srn's request be regarded as a theirs Also Captain Watson probably will II goon go gb goon on th the stand tand early Monday Monda It was u announced with Command Command- Commander er Pr T Donald T Hunter captain of the next and Leut Lau Lau- Lau ren fence e lodgett J officer i of the ship third Lieutenant Blodgett already hU haS h been on the stand but his hi loony wa a was Interrupted when tho court declared him a II defendant |