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...when his own plane crashed in Alaska; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Chief of Hawaii's Army air units when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (1941), he saw more than a fourth of his 231 aircraft destroyed, was relieved ten days later (with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Lieut. General Walter C. Short) and sent back to the U.S. Neither blamed nor exonerated in ensuing investigations, he held training commands until his retirement...
...Notable exceptions: Admiral Claude C. Bloch, who at 61, stepped down from his four-star job as chief of the U.S. Fleet to serve as a two-star admiral under his former subordinate, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, at Pearl Harbor; General Frank M. Andrews, who dropped from major general to a colonelcy after a four-year tour of staff duty at Air Force headquarters in 1939, stayed on, and became a lieutenant general in 1941, two years before his death in a plane crash...
...Alan D. Kimmel, deposed editor-in-chief and cause of the paper's suspension, still has not returned to the Chicago campus. When last heard from, on September 18, he was in Warsaw and "heading east," according to a Maroon editor. Dean of Students Robert M. Strozier fired Kimmel for his participation in the Communist World Youth Rally last August, calling him "unfit . . . to edit a free and independent newspaper...
...Kimmel, a graduate student in geography went on a guided tour of Poland and the Soviet Union after the Youth Festival. He is expected to return to the Chicago campus at the end of the week...
Last night Strozier told the CRIMSON that Kimmel had claimed to represent the Maroon and the University of Chicago at the Youth Festival without the consent of either the Dean's Office or the Maroon. Kimmel "did not reflect credit on the university," Strozier continued. He pointed out that Kimmel had failed to re-register in the university this fall...