Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
|S377,0S,O)O NAVAL
FUND IS APPROVED
s57,3s5, 600 of Appropriation
Proposed for Modernization
and Building of Warships.
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ton of the battleships Pennsylvania and
Arizona. Under the shipbuilding item,
the navy yard at New York was given
Sl94,000, the Mare Island, Calf, yard
$257,317 and the Philadelphia yard
$ll2,8S3 for Improvements necessary for
the construction Of cruisers to be con-
structed in them.
Provide for OH Reserves.
One provision in the measure would
grant authority to President Hoover to
expend $10,000,000 from any unused
naval funds to protect the Elk Hills
naval petroleum reserve in California
from being drained by private COM
panieS producing oil on adjacent lands.
Secretary Adams was allowed $l75,00
Tor the care Of naval oil reserves in
wyoming, California and Alaska.
The Bureau Of Aeronautics was all
lotted $32 1920 900, an increase of $685.
600 over the current appropriation, with
the authority to contract for airplanes
to cost $10,000,000 to complete the g.
year naval expansion program. The
allotment included $1,800,000 for con-
struction work on the two giant dirigi-
bles being constructed for the Navy at
Akron, Ohio.
An allotment of s25, sos, 900 was made
for the Marine Corps, an increase of
$523, 900 over the current year. OF the
total, more than $16,000,000 is for pay.
This provides for an enlisted personnel
Of $4,000 and about 1900 officers.
The Bureau of Supply and Accounts
was allowed SLIT ,486, 900, an increase of
$2,541 900 over the fiscal year 1881. OF
the total. $156, 484, 900 is for pay, sub
sistence and transportation of personnel,
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The office of Secretary Adams was
allotted $3.384, 900, of which 1927, 900 Is
for temporary government In the Virgin
and other West Indian Islands, and
$4,000 for the lepers In Guam, while
81 ,525, 900 Is for pay
The sum of $s,213,000 was set aside
for the Bureau of Navigation. OF this,
81, 100000 was allotted for Naval Re-
serve, $235, 900 for the training station
the Great Lakes Training Station, $240,-
900 for the Newport, r. l., station, and
$4,000 for the training station at San
Diego, Calf.
$20,592,000 for Engineering.
The Bureau of Engineering was al
lowed $40, 592 900, the Bureau of Con-
struction and Repair $500, 900, the,
Bureau of Ordnance $13, 900, the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery So
241 900, the Bureau Of Yards and Docks
$8,437 900 for maintenance and $7,432,.
600 for public works.
The Naval Academy at Annapolis was
given $2,005,000, and the committee
took the view that it would not change
the basis of appointing candidates be-
cause it said it felt that Congress
should determine a new policy toward
the disposition Of graduates, particular
ly with regard to making them aviators.
At prese t each member of Congress
| may appoint four candidates.
The measure also set aside $50 600 for
the naval library. $134,000 for the Of
flee of the Judge Advocate General.
S72, 900 for the Office of Chief of OPP
erations, $21 900 for the Board of In
spection and Survey, $133, 900 for Naval
Communications and SAL 900 for Naval
Intelligence.
The bill also carried $4,000 to re-
| imburse California for establishing o
marine school in that State. v -
The navy yard at Mare Island, Calf,
was awarded $667,000, of which $7S.-
COO is to be expended for the Vallejo
Mare Island causeway.
Fund for Dry Dock Extension.
The navy yard at Puget Sound,
| Washington, was allowed $290,000 for
| the extension OF dry dock NO. 70 per-
NIT docking of the Saratoga and Lex
| ington.
The bill authorized the reappropria-
ton of $4,000, 600 for providing arnrnu-
milton storage facilities at Hawthorne,
New, and $4,000 for the ammunition
depot at Mare Island and $4,000 for the
depot at Puget Sound. The torpedo
station at Keyport. Wash, was allowed
| S., 900 and the naval air station at sand
Point, WASH, SIS, 900.
The San Diego Naval Fuel Depot was
given $4,000 and its naval station
$325, 900. The receiving station at San
Francisco received $50, for water
front improvement.
Other allotments included $4,000
for the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Naval
Station and $500, 900 for the air station
to provide hangers and q seaplane
beach. The naval station at Cavite,
P. l., was given $4,000.