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Show NATION'S CHIEF ASKS SEA FUND OFS3U00.000 Wants Appropriation to Keep Up Naval Building WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (INS) President Roosevelt today asked congress for $31,000,000 emergency appropriation ap-propriation to keep the naval building program from bogging bog-ging down. A budget letter that accompanied accom-panied the request said that naval hip construction fund will be ex-hausted ex-hausted early In February. The funds used between then and the start of the new fiscal year In June will be deducted from the regular appropriations for next year. Hints Operations In South Atlantic WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 W Admiral Harold R. Stark today aid the navy needed submarines bigger than those of som foreign powers because undersea operations opera-tions might be required In the south Atlantic. Germany and Russia have built large numbers of smalt, undersea craft, .designed for us against their near-by, potential enemies, said Stark, chief of naval operations. opera-tions. He told the house naval committee: "The United States builds submarines sub-marines for operations against potential po-tential aggressive enemy action more distant from our shores. For example, it might be necessary to project them into th South Atlantic." At-lantic." At the same time, Stark said that, In addition to her small sub-merslbles, sub-merslbles, Germany had constructed construct-ed larger types of longer radius and greater sea-going characteristics. character-istics. ' "It hss been the uniform policy of Japan to build large submarines capable of operating In distant areas," he added. To criticism that the proposed $1,300,000,000 expansion of the fleet was "top-heavy" in favor of destroyers. de-stroyers. Stark asserted it should be remembered that Great Britain has a total of 359 destroyers and other specially constructed escort vessels built or building. With the new program, the United Ststes would have only 242 destroyers, Including over- age ships. |