The Judges
None of the men who served on the two boards were officers with current vital wartime jobs; that was one reason they were chosen. The three on the Navy Court were all graduates of the Naval Academy, all of them well liked in Navy circles:
P: Admiral Orin G. Murfin, 69, onetime Judge Advocate General, commander of the Asiatic Fleet, predecessor of Rear Admiral Bloch as commandant of the 14th Naval District, is now retired.
P: Admiral Edward Clifford Kalbfus. 68, veteran of the Spanish-American War, onetime president of the Naval War College, is now on the Navy's venerable General Board.
P: Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, 66, onetime naval aide to three Presidents and Prince Axel of Denmark, socialite skipper of the presidential yacht Mayflower, commander of the Scouting Force, U.S. Fleet, was more recently commandant of the Third Naval District, New York.
Of the three on the Army Board, only one was a graduate of the Military Academy:
P:Lieut. General George Grunert, 64, who enlisted in 1898, served in the Far East, won the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I; onetime commanding general of the Philippine Department, was most recently commanding general of the Eastern Defense Command.
P: Major General Henry D. Russell, 55, who began his Army career as a captain in the Georgia National Guard, commanded a regiment, then a brigade in World War I. One of the many National Guard division commanders swept out of their jobs when the country was mobilized for World War II, Russell nevertheless stayed with the Army as a member of the Manpower Board.