Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-11-19 | Page 7 | Gov't Cancels Big Ordnance Contracts

GOV'T CANCELS BIG ORDNANCE COIITRACTS Proposed Work, Amounting to $421,359,000 It Eliminated. y Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. It. Naval ordnance contracts, amounting to S421.1&.000. have been canceled since hostilities erased. Rear Admiral Karle, chief of the naval ordnance bureau, 1 told the house naval committee today when the committee began framing tha lt2t naval appropriation hill. "These cancelationa," Admiral Karle said, "amount to about one-half of the total approprtattone that oongresa has given tha ordnance bureau since the war began. Itema eliminated from the ordnance estimates Included .$1 ls.OOO.ooO for new ship batteries and 9?7,oO.OOO for reserve re-serve supplies; It. 000.000 for torpedoes and 11,600.000 for powder. "The navy baa got started, and now ( It rmiat get atop&ed." sid Admiral j Karle, referring to expenditures.