Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-09 | Page 11 | Expensive Guns Must be Scrapped

EXPENSIVE GUNS MUST BE SCRAPPED WATKRVLIET. N. Y.. Feb. 9. Officials Of-ficials at the United Statrs arsenal here say that under the program adopted at the Washington conference at least twenty 16-lnch guns now under un-der construction here must be scrapped. scrap-ped. This type is virtually the largest and most expensive used by the war department Each weapon in addition addi-tion to tho thousands of dollars w orth of tho choicest eteel material in its manufacture, neoeasites most of its labor by several hundred expert mechanics me-chanics befure It Is completed. Colonel Woslervell, commandant or tho arsenal, said today, however, that he had received no orders to curtail activities in the manufacture of large cannon. -