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Show MONEY NEEDED 10 : PROVIDE CARRIERS SECRETARY OF NAVY DENBY PRO-. PRO-. POSES APPROPRIATION FOR ' PURPOSE OF BUILDING Thirty Millions Needed To Provide . Carriers On Atlantic and Pacific ' i Coast; Ships May Be Used j As Carriers i AVashington Recommendation that approximately thirty million dollars be. Appropriated for construction of an airplane air-plane currier will be made to congress, Secretary Denhy announced Monday. A measure embodying .such a proposal Ik pending before the house naval com-mitten com-mitten and it is understood that the naval secretary will urge its speedy en? nelment. Coincident with this' announcement, Senator King (Pern.), Utah, introduced introduc-ed a bill which would provide for conversion con-version of the battle cruisers into air. piano carriers and for stoppage of construction con-struction work on the 'battleship.- South Dakota, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, Iowa and Mflssachw setts, and on the battle cruisers Ran-, ger. Constitution and United States. Secretary Pen by said he had decided decid-ed on his recommendation even before the 'bombing tests but that the results of the tests had convinced him that the nary needed more airship carriers. Nena.tor King, addressing th, enate, said that the bombing teste nail demonstrated dem-onstrated thai "too muri Importance" .had been attached to capita! ships and too lifitle aittention devoted to aircraft air-craft and submarines. Secretary . Denby indicated that in 'his opinion it would be wise to construct con-struct two new airplane carriers, one ;for the Atlantic fleet and the other for the Pacific. Construction of battleships of the "turtleback" type, as means of fending fend-ing off aerial bombs should be stud-led, stud-led, Senator King said. "If Secretary Denby would get rid, of some of the old fogies in the construction con-struction bureau." he added, "he would do a great service for our country." . |