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Show Admiral Reveals Plan For Guam Naval Work Operation Chief's Testimony Before House Group Raises Question of Authorization ments to Guam which had originally orig-inally been proposed in the naval base bill, dredging seaplane runways run-ways and erecting a breakwater to protect Guam's harbor. . Stark, discussing the super-dreadnaught super-dreadnaught question with the committee, said the navy next year (Continued on hn Twol ( Column Three I WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UP) Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, told the house naval affairs committee today that the navy proposed to spend $4,000,-000 $4,000,-000 In the next fiscal year improving improv-ing facilities at Guam. Stark's statement Immediately raised the Guam controversy which flared In congress last session. ses-sion. Members of the committee sought to determine whether the proposed Improvements were authorized. au-thorized. Congress last session removed Guam from a group of naval bases authorized at a cost of $65,000,000. Guam opponents charged fortification fortifi-cation of the Pacific island, 1500 miles from Japan, would constitute consti-tute an unfriendly act. Stark revealed that the navy proposed to spend the $4,000,000 for almost the identical improvt- S Raises Guam Controversy 1 i V " saaasaeaaaaaejseBaaeaaaaMeeaoaa' mm-., ft afceaaa-aeaeaBBa I APPEARS BEFORE HOUSE NAVAL COMMITTEE Admiral Harold H, Stark, chief of naval operation! Admiral Reveals Plan For Guam Naval Work (Coenauoe from Pafe Ono) might launch plans for 52,0O0-ton dreadnaughts, larger than anything any-thing now afloat or known to be building. The question Is not yet decided. Stark told the committee that the proposed 52.000-ton fighting ships if actually undertaken probably would be built to outgun even the giant 45.000-ton dread-naughts dread-naughts now being built for the United States fleet. Speed of the suggested 52,000-ton ships probably would be slightly less than that of the 45.000-tonners. He denied that the 11,300.000,000 naval expansion bill proposed by Chairman Carl Vinson of the naval affairs committee would "unbalance" "unbal-ance" the fleet In that it provided no battleships. He said that whether or not the number of battleships was increased, in-creased, "we need more airplane carriers" and more "cruisers and destroyers to go with them." The naval affairs committee had In Its pigeonhole today a proposal by Secretary of Navy Charles Edison Edi-son that President Roosevelt be given peacetime powers to commandeer com-mandeer factories, materials and ships. |