AMERICAN NAVY

Evening Star, Issue 21007, 22 January 1932, Page 9

AMERICAN NAVY

BUILDING PROGRAMME OPPOSED PRESIDENT VETOES BILL. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. January 21. (Received January 22. at 12.5 p.m.) The United Press’s Washington correspondent learns authoritatively that Mr Hoover declined to endorse the Vinson Bill. The President feels that no large scale naval building should be authorised under present economic conditions The House Naval Affairs Committee will consider the Bill in closed session, and should reach a vote on Monday. Several committee members, under the leadership of Senator Britten, are expected to favour only a one-year building programme. [A previous message statedßepresentative Vinson, the new Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Committee, is to introduce a Bill calling for a temyear shipbuilding programme, which is virtually the same as the recently - proposed programme to which President Hoover expressed opposition. Kepiesentative Vinson’s Bill requests the building of 120 ships, including four aeroplane carriers, nine cruisers, eightyfive destroyers, and twenty-two submarines at a total cost of about 010,00U,000dol.]