Rear-Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of Civil Engineers, said the Guam appropriation was intended mainly for harbour improvements and declined to discuss the appropriation for bombproof shelters in a public session.
However, Admiral Moreell said it was intended to protect the "key personnel" and that he considered the item to be very important.
Mr, Arthur B. Jenks, Republican Representative of New Hampshire, suggested the appropriation was intended to begin fortification of Guam despite the previous opposi" fion of Congress. He said the Pacific was a big ocean and he doubted "whether the United States should extend its defences this far.
"That's all the more reason why we need it" Mr. Melvin J. Maas, Republican Representative of Minnesota, declared.
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