Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
GERMANY DENIES
i. S. SIGHT OF SHIP
Request to Inspect Pride of
Fleet Is Rejected by
Berlin.

Moves in Congress to head of navy
yard unemployment by expeditinR q
$30,00000 battleship modernization
program were responsible yesterday for
the disclosure that the American Navy
has been denied permission by Germany
to send an officer aboard the new bat
tleship Ersatz PreusSen.
Two bills were introduced in the
House yesterday to provide funds in
the deficiency bill to begin moderniza-
ton work on the New Mexico, Missis-
agreement incident to the London Naval
Conference recognizes the American
right to such work, which involves pri-
marily gun elevation.
Meantime, Tasker L. Oddie, Re-
publican, Of Nevada issued q statement
defending the admirals criticized before
the country by Secretary of State Slim
son for opposing the London treaty. He
pointed out that the admirals were not
permitted to answer for themselves.
Germany'S unwillingneSs to permit an
American naval officer to 60 aboard her
so-called wonder ship" was only an in
cident of the Nays effort to thicken
the armor of It's new treaty cruisers
without sacrificing speed or gun power
or exceeding the 10,000-ton limit.
Clips Tons OF Weight.
Seeking ways thus to overcome these
ships vulnerability to 6-inch-gun fire
lat all ranges" as testified by Admiral
William v. Pratt. commander-in-chief
of the United States fleet, the Navy,
through bonuses to contractors and its
own ingenuity, has already succeeded in
clipping 900 tons Of Superfluous weight
from the original designs of these con-
trOVprSial H-inch-pIIu ShinS
At the close of the London parley,
Capt. A. H. Van Keuren, an advisor to
the American delegation, was directed
by the Navy to proceed to a study Of
warship building on the continent, with
particular instructions to inspect the
new German ship If agreeable to the
German government.
Although it is not unusual for one
government to decline this courtesy to
another government, the Navy Depart
ment thought it worth while asking the
German government for permission to
see Ersatz PreuSSen. Capt. van Keuren,
upon politely" presenting his paper,
from Washington. was politely in
formed that the Germany navy's rule
was against it. So he did not even
see the much discussed ship. The quo
tations are those of an official Of the
Navy Department.
Reported Only Recently.
Capt. van Keuren has only recently
returned to Washington and made a
report of his studies. Naval officers adj
mitted that, while they would have
been pleased 20 have their representa-
tive inspect the warship, they had no
reason to be surprised that he was
barred
Tie incident was revealed when naval
officials denied a report that lessons
learned from the new German ship
partly were responsible for the progress
made in their problem to date.
The Senate controversy over the
treaty was virtually at a standstill yes
terday, except for the Oddie statement.
Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, announced that he
considered it unlikely in view of oppo-
sttion tactics to report out the treaty
tomorrow when the committee meets
again, but that he would try to have
it before the Senate by the end of the
regular session, at latest.
The bills to expedite battleship mod
ernization were introduced by Repre-
sentative Menalcus Landlord of Vir-
GINA and Representative George p.