Show NAVY BUREAU FIGHTS MODERNIZING SHIPS Outlay Opposed to Keep Battle Units W WASHINGTON April 4 lP The navy department was placed on record record rec rec- ord Wednesday as opposed to the modernization or of the battleships Call Call- fornia CornIa and Tennessee at a cost of 01 because or of their importance importance tance as fighting units of the fleet at at this time Admiral William WilHam H. H Standley chief of naval operations told the house naval committee at hearin hearings on the Darden bill for modernization of the two vessels the navy did not desire I Ito to have the ships tied up for two or three years in naval yards It was more important the admiral admiral ad- ad miral said to keep them as lI lighting units in the fleet teet |