Washington, Jan. 16.
INGRESS today began consideration of President Roosevelt's emergency defence programme under pressure from White House lieutenants coincident with a powerful Congressional movement for a ban against the export of important American raw materials, particularly scrap iron. The most significant development was the announcement that a bill would be introduced in the House of Representatives this week providing for the adoption of the special Navy Board's report which calls for the establishment of 41 new naval bases, most of them in the Pacific and extending far west as Guam in the heart of the Japanese mandated islands.
The bill will be introduced by Mr. Carl Vinson, Democratic Representative of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee and author of the 1938 Navy Appropriations Bill which provided for a 20 per cent. increase in the strength of the United States Navy. Simultaneously the House was expected to receive today a bill which would give the United States Army immediate access to the specific improvements outlined by President Roosevelt in his message to Congress on national defense last week.
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