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Show PACIFIC Nil ! BASESJHOSENj Alameda Kicked as Location j of General Fleet on West Coast i WASHINGTON, Jan. 2D. An agree- ment definitely recommending Ala-1 nn-da. Ch I . BB a -iie for new Pacific i base and lor location of other subsidiary sub-sidiary west toast naval ba.ies. was reached lal today by a suhionunii tee of the jolnl congressional com r 1 1 it i 1 considering I'ltcifii ha sc-Plums sc-Plums Handed Out Controversy over locating the gen- j ' al fleel at Alameda was settled and the subcommittee completed its report re-port lor pieseritai ion in the full com-: ui 1 1 1 t-e- nevi Monday. Tbe sub-committee also Confirmed I previous recommendations lor loca-, fions of an aviation base at Sand Point. Wash . a submarine base at San Pedro- Calif., and a destroyer , and aviation base al San Imouo, Calif. An at tempi to up.3el the com mlttee'a decision to recommend Ala tneda lor the fleet base was defeated i a Moi the subcommittee had heard several admirals. The full committee, which previously prev-iously had voted to locate t lie gen eral base at Alameda, is expected to adopt the BUb-cQfJuuHiee's report Monday Fate of Mare Island. One point in controversy before Hie SUb-Commltt6e was said to bo the future fu-ture of the Mare Island inn yard. I The navy general board, II WSJ said, in favoring Alameda said that lora tlon would Involve eventual abandon menl of Hie Mare Island navy yard Tbe committee's report, it was said would not recommend abandonment ol Mate Island, but would propose Its retention as a repair station for V6B sols of light anil moderately heavy draft. Representative Pfedgett, Lemocrat. I Tennessee was said to have raised objections io (he proposed aviation base at Sand Rolnt, Washington on the ground that airplanes could not enter it from every side Senator I Poindexter, Republican, Washington. was said 10 have succeeded in hold ng In the committee's findings the choice of Sand Point. |