i: Foreshadowed Mr. Vinson Declares Intention to Sponsor $1,300,000,000 Scheme Washington, Nov. 4.
Colossal rearmament and reinforcement of the United States' Navy and Air Force at an estimated cost of $1,300,000,000 will be proposed to Congress at the outset of the ordinary session next January, it was announced today by Representative Carl Vinson, author of the Naval Expansion Bill and Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, He will propose, he stated, that Congress should authorize the construction of 12 new naval vessels displacing 525,000 tons, 2395 of the most modern aeroplanes and 36 dirigibles.
The sum of $1,300,000,000 which he said he estimates to be the expendi-lure necessary is 25 per cent. more than the allocation already authorized by Congress for rearmament next year.
Representative Vinson asserted that 400,000 tons of the total of 525,000 j tons would comprise 95 warships, of which three would be aircraft-carriers, eight cruisers, 52 destroyers and 32 submarines, There would be 31 auxiliaries displacing a total of 125,000 tons.
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