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Show Would Cut Navy Work Washington Drastic changes in the naval building programs are provided in a bill introduced in the senate Monday Mon-day by Senator King of Utah, one of the chief opponents of the. $400,000,000 .naval appropriation bill. Work upon the battleship South Dakota. Indiana.' Montana, North Carolina, Iowa ami Massachusetts would be discontinued, as well as on the battle cruisers Rangers, Ran-gers, Constitution and The United States, under the bill. The Mil directs 'that the battle cruisers Saratoga, Lex-'inglon Lex-'inglon and Constellation be converted Into airplanes carriers, and make the money appropriated for the battleships, the construction of which wourtl be stopped, available for that purpose. .The measure also directs the secretary of the navy to provide Immediate contracts con-tracts for the eontstruction of four fleet submarines, the construction of which have been authorized. |