Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-04-05 | Page 3 | Public Works Plan Includes 30 Navy Ships

1 PUBLIC WORKS tf PLAN INCLUDES 30 NAVY SHIPS House Committee Head Gives 9 t Indication Roosevelt B App Approves roves By Ily CLARENCE M. M I. I WRIGHT t Associated Press Staff Writer S Thirty 5 Thirty W WASHINGTON April f new ships ship for lor It the fleet leet say big navy J t men on Capitol hill bill will wll be included 1 in Pr President Roosevelt's huge forthcoming forth l' l coming public w bill bUl to r relieve lieve f unemployment t Indications that Mr R Roosevelt had hadi i approved this plan came from Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- i man Vinson of the house naval com corn even as Secretary Swanson f was was discussing the thc Akron tragedy t. t with newspaper men and saying L I It seems to to me we wc nee need l s surface r. r ships hips more than anything else L Vinson agreed with that after a talk F with the president y yesterday in which t be he presented a program m for the conc construction construction con con- c r- r in three years of 30 new ships Ships' costing That coni construction construction con con- program programs Vinson said is uis isto isto i to be bc included in the public works E- E bill now being drafted ted for the i dent 5 L The new plan Vins Vinson n ass asserted will w f. f still leave us way under Japan Great Britain France and Italy taly In actual combat ships except battleships and far tar under treaty limits limits- f But he added all the shipyards ia the country couldn't possibly build r f our fleet up to permitted limits b by bythe bythe the time the London treaty expires on December 31 31 1936 It will be all they can do to construct the 20 destro destroyers de de- ers four submarines two aircraft aircraft air air- craft carriers and four lour light cruisers we now propose The program he pr presented to the thc president Vinson said contemplates initial work on the d destroyers and submarines within 90 days after enact enactment enactment ment mont of ot the public works bill with the theother theother theother other ships to be laid down in about six months His contention was that the expenditure of on new ships would mean for employment employ employ- ment merit since 85 cents out of each dollar dot dol lar spent on a vessel goes goc to labor Besides giving at least time part employment ment to to men men Vinson said this construction wont won't Interfere with our efforts to bal balance nce the budget since it like all the public works to be bc proposed will be financed b by a term long-term bond issue