Show AMERICA MERI TO BUilD GI GIANT NT flEETS or OF DESTROYERS Construction of Submarine Chasers Upon Enormous Scale Is Planned Under the Newly Revised Program J 0 FUNDS TS ASKED OF CONGRESS Corps Will rill Be Built f fU Up U to Nearly Double Its Present Strength of Men Is F Further rth r Purpose t 4 BY STANLEY M. M REYNOLDS International News Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON ASHINGTON A SUING TON Feb eb 18 IB-Amer- IB Americas America's Amer- Amer ica's ica building 8 destroyer pro- pro program program gram ram already destined to give her more lore vessels of this kind than any power ower in the world is to be greatly enlarged The marine corps of the thena na navy avy is also to be increased from to men The sol sailor diers aiels have won their spurs in iu France and nd increased use of them in the front line trenches is forecast This in part Is the tho explanation orthe of or the lie additional appropriations lug Ing- ng asked of or Congress by Secretary of tho the Navy av Daniels Other expenditures to be bo made under the he bill cover large additions to tho the fleet Icet of or new type submarine chasers chaser which which Henr Henry Ford the automobile manufacturer will begin shortly to turn urn out out additions to several eral shore stations new batteries for battleships reserve resene ammunition and hastening construction construction con- con of or the railway between Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and tho the naval proving grounds at t Indian Head Me Md MCI for tOI U. nou Of or the die the total amount will constitute a fund from which the Pr st- st dent ent may direct tho the secretary to payout po pay out ut bonuses to the shipyards which turn urn out the tho destroyers and submarine chasers In quickest time larger participation by the United States In tho the war on submarines Is scheduled This explains It Il Is stated staled tho rho lio Great increase in the tho destroyer and chaser program As Aa In other matters connected with tho the military and naval Continued on Page 2 a MONSTER NAVAL PROGRAM IS PLAN I Continued from Page 1 I I prosecution of ot the war var the President desires that no effort or 01 expense be spared that thai will Insure quick victor victory I The Time hopes hOlIes of time the United States and the time allies are pinned It ii mu may be state stated staled on victory in 1918 The Thit present dt destroyer program more ambitious than limn nn any nation has ever cr before before be be- fore foro undertaken Is said ald at tho the nn navy y department nt to be well eil under n way Several Sev Se eral of the time yards indu including the time gov go O t yard arll at Mare Ial Island Ca Cal ha c I developed such unexpected speed in imm I turning out the vess vessels l that It has lias 1 been beau j found round possible to expand the time program I without o overtaxing the facilities hieta e of ur f Allotment J t I ts I rims Th naval I training station Ita lion ami embarkation em era- I em-I camp at Pelham Park Palle N N. y V. V. V Is to bes he doubled In III capacity so n a as to accommodate men Instead of ur Its plesent number Detailed Items of or le legislation j z J- J c- c quested by br Mr l Daniels follow Naval proving grounds Indian Head I I II I Md Id new rie batteries for tor ships I ammunition for 01 oi vessels r ser reserve ordnance supplies Norfolk dry dock 2000 OO 2000 1 Auxiliary water supply Pearl learl Harbor liar Har Hal I bor Hawaii wall naval station ta 3 n. n i Pui lIe chase of land for ordnance station sLit sta ta-I ta tion at al Newport Fort FOlt and Lake Denmark I Pay Par of na navy provisions pro 1 maintenance nance bureau of 1 supplies a arid and till accounts clothing lothIng and small storo stores Increase of oC marine corps proposed proponed from Crom to lo pay marine marina corps maintenance Naval nl emergency funds fund 3 This sum I Js to enable the President to hi secure the more economical and ex expeditions ex- ex dell delivery vcr of oC materials equip equip- ment and anti munitions and secure tho more expeditious construction of ot ships authorized and for the purchase of such Ruch additional torpedo boat destroyers destroy ers erSt submarine chasers and uch othet othel naval small craft etc elc as time the dent may direct |