Evening star., 1933-01-12
.T.C.E[|M|NATED
IN HOUSE REPORT
ON ARMY FUND BILL
Appropriations Committee
Urges S31 ,584, 900 Slash
IN Military Work.
ABOLITION OF CAMPS
WOULD SAVE MILLION
Obstacles to Reduction of Trainees
From 37,5O0 to $4,000 Are Cited
by Chairman Collins.
By the Associated Press.

The continuing drive for economy
brought to the House today from its
Committee bill recon-
mending s31 31,584,ooo less to carry on
the military activities of the War De-
partment next year than was allowed
for this.
The same measure also allowed $7e,-
$4,000 less for non-military work, but
much Of this reduction was due to non
recurring emergency construction au-
thorized last session and not continued
in the new bill.
AS submitted to the House, the bill
would allow $273,079,000 for military
and $72,743,000 for non-military ac-
tivities for the 1884 fiscal year. This
was an apparent reduction of s11o,ooo,-
600 from this year, but 100000
of this was accounted for by non-
recurring emergency construction.
Principal Items In Bill.
Among the principal items in the
bill are $39, $685. for rivers and
harbors maintenance work, without
specific ALLEGATIONS in the bill;
$225, ,4S4 for Muscle Shoals; $19,653,00O
for Mississippi River flood control not
specifically allocated; $768, ,480 for
flood control on the Sacramento River,
Calf; $11,106,000 for the Panama
Canal; s3.354, 600 for the Reserve OFF,
sers' Training Corps; SIS, ,ooo, 900 for the
National Guard; $2,344,000 for West
Point; $2,035, 900 for seacoast defenSeS;
81 1905, 900 for chemical warfare; $23,-
537, 900 for the Army Air Corps; $50,-
525, 900 for the Quartermaster Corps,
and $128, 8,165, 900 for pay Of the Army.
Excluded from the bill was 81 900 900
asked by the Budget Bureau for con-
tinuation of Citizens Military Training
Camps. In statement, chairman Col
Inns OF the Appropriations Subcom-
mittee, which recommended the sus-
pension of c. M. T. C. activities, said:
The budget includes $1,000. 900 for
this component, which would occasion
a reduction in the number Of trainees
from 1880 to $1,000. To effect this
reduction would cause injustice and
much more discrimination than at
present"
Would Cut Oficers' Training.
The measure also would permit the
National Guard to motorize all field
artillery regiments with light COM
mercial vehicles, continue the officer
strength Of the Army at $4,000 instead
OF renewing last years rejected pro-
posal Of reduction to 10000, shorten
the training period for members Of the
Reserve Oficeys' Training Corps from
AZ to 30 days and cut recruiting ex-
penses in half
Likewise, 1t would allow the Air Corps
to make contracts for new planes to the
extent Of $3,000,000 In addition to
giving an outright appropriation Of
s23. .537 900 to that branch.
Although the bill made no specific
allocations OF funds for rivers and har-
bors or food control works, the COM
mittee allowed, without change, the
asked by the Budget Bureau.
$4,000 Youths Drilled.
The years suspension of Citizens
Military Training Camps, which have
drilled $4,000 young Americans in the
arts OF warfare, would cut 100000
from the expenses of the Government in
the next fiscal year. A similar recon-
mendation last session was defeated by
the House after hectic debate. There
are indications of another uproar this
year.
When the War Department drafted
its estimates for the next fiscal year, it
was shown in hearings made public
today, it asked $4,000, 900 for the C. M.
T. c., against $685. 900 this year. But
the Budget Bureau, at the suggestion
of President Hoover, reduced the re-
quest to 81 100000. And the appropria-
tions subcommittee went the Budget
Bureau one better, voting to leave out
all money for the G. M. T. C.
Secretary OF War Hurley reluctantly
supported the $1,000,000 figure, in
stead of S2,000,0 900 because that Is my
chiefs word, and regardless of what
my personal attitude is, I must, and I
do, support the budget"
The 81, ,000, 900, according to Mai. Gen.
Charles H. Bridges, adjutant general,
would have been used to train $4,000
candidates against the 1880 being
trained this year. Bridges department
submitted figures showing that since
the G. M. T. C. was established In
piled for the training and 377,000
trained at the Summer camps.
Advance in Air Shown.
Hearings on the supply bill devel-
oped that an advance in the past year
from fourth to third rank in the worlds
military air strength has been made by
the United States. in the opinion Of F.
Trubee Dawson, Assistant Secretary of
War for Aviation.
Our tactical position is very much
better today than it was at the begin
ming of the 5-year program, in spite of
all the difficulties we have gone through,
particularly in the last three or four
years." Dawson told the committee.
THAT has reflected change in our
relative air strength, as compared with
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