Representatives Pass Measure by 367 to 15
Majority; Guam Fortification Approved Washington, Feb. 15, NDER the Administration's admonitions that the current international situation is "volcanic", the House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved and sent to the Senate President Roosevelt's $367,000,000 emergency defence bill.
Republicans. New Dealers and conservative Democrats abandoned party lines and stood together solid support of Government plans for the construction of the most powerful air and naval force in the world.
Passed by the overwhelming vote of 367 to 15, the emergency' ad fence bill provided 1. Immediate addition of 5,500 new planes to the Army air fore.
2. Expansion of the size of the standing Army and National Guard to ive the nation a force of 200,000 trained men in case of national emergency.
3. Immediate training of 20,000 civilian pilots colleges, universities and technical schools.
4. Substantial funds f strengthening the Panama Canal defences.
5, Appropriations for "experimental and educational orders" to American manufacturers from the War Department to aid industry in preparing for the production of wartime supplies.
The emergency defence bill way passed by the House after a Repu Hoon amendment ty spread. the duction of 3,000 of the new Army planes over three years was defeater a vole of 183 to 136. Republi Congressmen expressed the fear that speed with which fighting planes become obsolete would make the immediate production of 5500 planes wasteful, "Rejection of the epubican amendment gave the Army' the power to built the 5500 planes, fast as_ it. desires. "Republican Congressinen announced their approval of the defence bill in all particulars except the speed of plane production.
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