The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-20
War And Navy Depts
 Benefit By PWA Plan
$62l 100000 AllOcated Strengthens National De- fense-3z New Vessels Being Built for U. S. Fleet

menting the nations fighting
 forces the PWA funds being spent
 on these vessels are giving wide- spread employment in navy yardt
 and private shipbuilding plants ai
 well as in steel plants and other
 industries which benefit from Q
 naval construction program. The navy also has received from the PWA $7,50O,0OO for aeronau- tics, $25,15O,537 for shore station construction and to repair damage wrought by the severe storm oi last summer, $2,850,00O for ma chine tools. $712,5OO for engineer ing, $330,225 for ordnance, $2O5,- 1 662 for supplies and accounts, and $2,350,00O to complete the naval hospital in Philadelphia, Penna.
 The army has received larger total allotment than the navy, but a large part of the funds turned over to the war department was assigned to the corps of engineers for rivers and harbors and flood control work. In all the war de- Lpartment has been given $344,352,- BPS in PWA funds.
 Among the PWA allocations to the war department for what might be termed military purposes are $7.500,000 for airplanes, ST. 000,000 for seacoast defenses, $6,000,000 for ordnance, $6O,417,- 765 to the quartermaster corps for army housing and other construc- tion, $10,0O0,00O for motorization. $2,238,624 for the national guard and $176,170 to the signal corps.
 The war department estimates that the allotment to the air corps will enable it to put in the air an additional fighting force of GA bombardment airplanes and 30 att tack planes, all properly equipped with radio, armament and other accessories.
 Not only will these planes di- rectly strengthen the air corps but indirectly national defense is bene- fitted by familiarizing manufactur- CTS, aircraft engineers and produc- ton managers with all the details of an air corps combat plane, as well as the work afforded many workmen who will fabricate the parts and assemble them.
 The $7,000,000 being spent on seacoast defenses is strengthening these defenses, particularly in the overseas possession, and has result ed in completion or advancement of approved projects for national defense, including emergency re- pair and modernization of defen- sive structures and otherwise could not have been accomplished from regular appropriations.
 Great progress has been made by the department in pushing the quartermaster corps construction plans. More than 800 contracts have been awarded which, togeth- CT with work under way by force account and work advertised, rep resents more than 90 per cent of the program. Approximately s.. 300,000 man-hours of employment has been provided. The contracts were spread over more than GA army posts and reservations in a of the states.
 The $10,000,000 notorization fund also will provide consider able employment and will place the army in a more' comparable rate of efficiency with other arm- ies. It will make the army more mobile than was possible with the old equipment, about 80 per cent of which are war types purchased in 1917 and 1918.
 The PWA allotment of $6,000,- 900 for ordnance prevented dras- tic curtailment of work in ammu- nition renovation plants and manu- arsenals.
 Funds allotted to the National Guard for construction and recon ditioning of summer training camps and target ranges are being in 45 states, Hawaii and the District of Columbia.