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Show PRESIDENT ASKS FUNDS IFOR NAVY WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UP) Preaident Rooaevelt today recommended recom-mended to congress that It appropriate ap-propriate 4M.aoo.000 In the first deficiency bill for replacements of naval vessels, and for armor, armament arma-ment and ammunition. Jn a group of deficiency estimates esti-mates which totaled IM.MO.Pve, he recommended an appropriation of 1191,000 for the war department, for repairs at Forts Michie and Terry, Mew York, which were damaged dam-aged by last fall's hurricane. Speedy Approval Seen For Navy Air Bates WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (fi Speedy approval of a vast navy program for construction of air bases and other shore facilities was forecsst today by house member a awaiting complete details of President Presi-dent Roosevelt's armamants plans. The preaident Intenda to sand congress a separate message early next week outlining his ideas for bolstering national defenses. It is expected to contain disclosure about the arma and potential munitions mu-nitions capacity of European countries. coun-tries. In the meantime, the navy recommended recom-mended yesterday establishment or expansion of two-score bases for naval aircraft, destroyers, aubma-rinao aubma-rinao and ammunition storage as "tha Indispensable ne resettles of peacetime operation" of the expanding expand-ing fleet. See Little Opposition Influential mambera of ths house naval committee predicted the program pro-gram would encounter little opposition. opposi-tion. Hearings may be started next week. Another part of the defense program pro-gram received attention yesterday when Representative McCormack D Mass.) Introduced a bill providing provid-ing for an army air force totaling 10.000 airplanes and 100,000 reserve pilots. He presented It at the request re-quest of the Army and Navy union, an organisation of former service men. The navy report gave no estimate esti-mate of the probable cost of the projects, but a much smaller program pro-gram which failed of enactment last year railed for an outlay of about 428.000000. The recommendation that Guam and other Pacific islands be made air and submarine basea appeared likely to contribute little to Japanese-American cordiality. too Milea From Tokyo Guam, virtually demilitarised since the sighing of the lapsed 1922 Washington naval treaty, is only about 2000 miles from Tokyo. Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands, favored as another advanced base in the report, is little farther. The report, so frank that it appearance ap-pearance without editing annoyed some naval officials, shed new light on the navy's strategy. The Pacific island base were recommended rec-ommended as defenses against "any first class power based In the western west-ern Pacific." New basea were proposed pro-posed for the Atlantic seaboard and in Puerto Rico to reinforce the defenses de-fenses of eastern citiea, the Panama Pan-ama canal and South America against any attack from Europe. |