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Show HEY NEEDED TO PflOVHBS SECRETARY OF NAVY DENDY PRO POSES APPROPRIATION FOR PURPOSE OF BUILDING Thirty Millions Needed To Provide Carrier On Atlantic and Pacific Coast; Ships May Be Used As Carriers Washington Recommendation that approximately thirty million dollars he appropriated for construction of nn air-plane air-plane cnrrlcr will ho mnde to congress, Secretary Denby announced Monday. A measure embodying such a proposal Is pending before the house naval committee com-mittee und It Is understood that tho naval secretary will urge its speedy enactment. en-actment. Coincident with this announcement, Senator King (Dciu.), Utah, Introduced Introduc-ed a bill which would provide for con. version of the battle cruisers Into ulr-plane ulr-plane carriers and for stoppage of construction con-struction work on tho battleships South Dakota, Indiana, Montann, North Carolina, Iowa and Mtiscachu-setts, Mtiscachu-setts, and on the battle cruisers Hunger, Hun-ger, Constitution nml United States. Secretary Dcnby ttltl he hud docld-ed docld-ed on his recommendation even before the bombing tests but that the results of the tests had convinced him that the navy needed more nlrshlp enrriers. Senator King, addressing tht, flenute, said that the bombing tests una demonstrated dem-onstrated thai "too much Importance" had been attached to capital ships and too little attention devoted to aircraft air-craft und submarines. Secretary Dcnby Indicated that In his opinion It would be wise to construct con-struct two new nirplnnc carriers, ono for the Atlnntlc fleet und Ihe other for the Pacific. Construction of battleships of the "turtlebuck" type, as means of fending fend-ing off nerlal bombs should be studied, stud-ied, Senator King said. "If Secretary Dcnby would ger rid of some of the old fogies In the construction con-struction bureau," he added, "he would do a great servlco for our country." |