Big Navyites Busy in U.S.A.

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6748, 5 January 1932, Page 7

Big Navyites Busy in U.S.A.

Huge Programme Advocated TO COST OVER 600,000,000 DOLLARS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Representative Vinson, the new Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Committee, is to introduce a bill calling for a ten-year shipbuilding programme which will bo virtually like the recently-proposed programme to which. President Hoover expressed opposition. Vinson’s bill requests the building of 120 ships, including four airplano carriers, nine cruisers, 85 destroyers and 22 submarines at a total cost of about 61(5,000,000 dollars. American Opposition to International Spirit HEARST BROADCASTS PROVOCATIVE SPEECH San Francisco Press Broadcast. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. William Randolph Hearst gave voice to the reawakening spirit of Americans and to tho rising wrath against internationalism in Congress which only a fearless few have had tho courage to proclaim publicly. This was the. almost universal reaction of members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, to the address of Mr. Hearst last night over the national network of the National. Broadcasting Company from Los Angeles. His purely political observations aroused intense interest, as they gave prominence to the candidature of Speaker John N. Garner, of Texas, for the Democratic Presidential nomination.