Show 1 1 U. U S. S Rearmament No Navy 3 Navy 3 Navy Leads the Way in Race to Rear Rea Last of three articles analyzing progress of the American defense defense de tie- de- de tense efforts in the three months since President Roosevelt's call to arms arms By MILTON BRONNER RO ER WASHINGTON When WASHINGTON When Uncle Sam got ready for the tM big rearmament rearmament rearmament re re- re- re armament program asked by President Roosevelt In May the navy stepped Into action away ahead of the army Its It's the navys navy's way It seems to be characteristic character character- characteristic of nav navies es The British navy did the same thing when rearmament rearmament rearmament rearm rearm- ament was the order of the day in Britain Heres Here's one big proof of how the American navy d de department e pa a r t m men e n t thad jumped Into action The defense commission commission until July y 27 had cleared contracts totaling 1722 and of this amount 1 1 was for the navy The big items were Battleships Destroyers Submarines Light Ligh t cruisers Heavy cruisers Aircraft carriers One submarine tender tend tend- er Two seaplane tenders One mine sweeper Machinery for minor craft Machinery for submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines Scrutiny of other figures re reveals reveals reveals re- re many things of which little has been said For instance contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts have been let for 16 worth of net tenders The navy plans to have towing vessels In all major American ports to lay and tend submarine nets in case of a war emergency The nets are made of oC intertwined cables and ar are designed to catch enemy submarines SPENDING ON BASES The navy Is fully alive to its responsibilities in both oceans and is making vast preparations to extend its airplane activities Quonset Point in Rhode Island will be one of the jumping off places for watching the North Atlantic Aviation facilities there are being improved at a cost of Threats to the Monroe doctrine and our possible responsibilities in South America have been factors factors factors fac fac- tors in the naval expenditures for improved aeronautical facilities in the south as follows Corpus Christi Texas Miami Fla Pensacola Fla Jacksonville Fla Norfolk Va a. a Guantanamo Cuba Canal Zone Better to watch the Pacific 1 following amounts are b be spent on the west coast for na ria aviation facilities 1 Alameda Ca Cal Puget Sound Wash f San Diego Ca Cal Hawaii Midway Wake I j jand and Johnson Islands 2927 VESSELS J IN SIGHT j War vessels are the most most Item in naval tures The accompanying plc chart shows the the present line line- of United St States tes naval tonne tonna None of the combat vessels now In the course of cc cc is being built because the announced Intention of Cc C gress to make a 70 per cent cent- crease in the navy The navy department can cant proceed with the two ocean na plan until congress actually the money oney Th The per cent increase will me mc building about more c co cobat co cobat bat ships In tonnage j Battleships t tr tc Aircraft carriers tr tc Cruisers t tc Destroyers It I Submarines t I When completed about 1 1 or 1947 the two-ocean two na navy ti have ships and tonnages as i f flows lows 3 35 battleships 20 aircraft carriers car- car ill ners Lt 88 cruisers t destroyers t submarines t PLANES BY 1942 The navy has 1813 us use planes Last year w we were dered and some of these are n a being delivered This yea 3 will be ordered for 1941 and 1 19 and if H a second goes through more will ordered for the same per perl This schedule contemPlate contemplates S 8 Sto to planes in 1942 A total of has been for lor the navy Theft Th The l t gest trouble here is to get get tr trai r pilots for these planes The Then Them and the marines have pi pu now next year they should I h he sailors with ith wings 1 BATTLESHIPS I IG 15 Built 10 and Fo Fol CRUISERS itam i tam 37 Built 21 and For Foi ForY rr 1 33 Y nY Built 60 dg a and d For Foi ForE E w a jio j AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 6 G Built 5 and For |