AMERICAN NAVY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 9

AMERICAN NAVY

CRITICISED BY REAR-ADMIRAL MAGRUDER TENSE SCENE IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ANGRY RETORT TO QUESTION AS TO PAYMENT ST TELEGBAPII. — PRESS ASSOCIATION. Copyright. Montreal, January 6. A tense and emotional scene occurred over a dispute before the American House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee regarding the amount which Rear-Admiral Magruder received for a recent magazine article criticising the navy. Representative Miller hotly assailed Rear-Admiral Magruder, and declared that the navy had nurtured him and given him his bread and butter. He stated that if every naval officer wrote similar articles. “God knows what will happen to discipline.” He asked the. Admiral how much he received for the article.

Rear-Admiral Magruder replied: “It’s none of your business.” Mr. Miller shouted: “I make it my business!” Representative Britten interrupted, and stated that the Admiral received 750 dollars, and had a .contract for 3000 dollars for three articles.

Rear-Admitial Magruder said: “There has never been any agreement. I send articles; thev send me cheques.” He added that the magazine for which he wrote would not accept articles from more than six men in the navy, which provoked mirth, causing Mr. Britten to explain: “We were laughing at the Admiral’s conceit.”

Rear-Admiral Magruder jumped up and remarked, angrily: “I object to that.”

SUBMARINES DECLARED UNSAFE

LETTER BY A VICTIM OF S 4 DISASTER

Boston, January 6.

A letter written by Lieutenant Donald Weller, one of the victims of the St disaster, published here, said, in part: “Something terrible will have to happen to an S boat before the Navy Department .will believe us when we sav the S boats are unsafe and of no military value. The boat is in. a worse condition than before going into dry dock. We were given twenty-four hours’ notice to get under .way for Provincetown, allowing no time for satisfactory tests of the condition of the motor.”