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Show DUELS PUNS FOR I FLIGHT I Naval Secretary .Hopes for j Machine Which Will Fly Across Pacific Ocean WASHINGTON. April 6. Secretary Secre-tary DanTcls . Jold the senate naval I committee today that ho hoped that i "in two years or less we will havo a machine that has flown across the Pacific.'' I The secretary was discussing a pro-I pro-I vision in the annual navy bill for tno preservation ol iiic irans-.iia.n-tic seaplane NC-1 in the national ' nuiscaum. He did not go Into any! details as to the p.roposed trans-Pacl-I flc flight. s I Mr. Daniels appeared before the I committee to further explain the ap-l proprlatlon measure and particular-1 ly the provisions for enlarging naval j facilities on the Pacific coast. 11c j was heard In executive session after j a brief openfcmcollug during which he; urged ah increase of .$200,000 In the appropriation for the training and development ot the naval reserve force. The bill as drawn carries 550.000,000 which Mr. Daniels said would barely allow the department to "stand still." The reserve force, ho added, was the navy's greatest personnel per-sonnel asset in time of war and should bo fostered In years of peace. |