Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-31 | Page 7 | Daniels Asks for Increase of Navy of 25,000 Men

DasaleSs Asks for j Increase of Navy of 25,000 Men i - . I WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 Secretary ! , Daniels asked the house naval com- ; mittee today to provide for a temporary tempor-ary increase in the naval personnel of j 25.000 men for the year begining next July, leaving the question of a permanent perm-anent peace-time personnel to be determined de-termined later. He also sought authority au-thority to transfer 1,000 officers among the reserve lorce to the permanent naval establishment. Mr. Daniels also asked the committee commit-tee to write into the new appropriation appropria-tion bill a provision making permanent perma-nent the war-time pay increases for enlisted men. This would give in-1 , creases of $6 to $15 a month over the ' pro-var scale, making the pay range from $36 to $51 a month. I oo 1