Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume 8, Number 45, 20 March 1920 — MILLIONS VOTED nAvY ON COAST [ARTICLE]

MILLIONS VOTED nAvY ON COAST

San Diego Gets $750,000 Naval Base, $1,000,000 Naval Training Station. $400,000 Depot. Washington. March 15.—The naval appropriation bill for 1921 completed toil ay by the sub-committee of the House Naval Affairs Committee carries amounts aggregating $3,290,000 for developments and improvements of naval stations on the Pacific Coast and at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Of this sum $750,000 is provided for the development of a naval base for vessels of light draft at San Diego, on the site of Board shipyard transferred to the Navy. Provision is made for removal pf the marine railway from the opposite side of the harbor to the new base. The bill also parries a provision for acceptance by the government of a block of land on the bay at the foot of Broadway, San Diego, donated by the city, and appropriated $400,000 toward the construction of a $600,000 storehouse This building will be six stories high, of thorpughly fireproof reinforced steel and concrete construction, aAd will cover the entire block. One million dollars is catried for a naval training station on the property adjoining the maripe camp at Sah Diego. The new station will have a capacity for 5000 recruits, the station at Goat Island to be abandoned as soon as that at San Diego is completed. Acceptance of a site donated by the city of Astoria. Ore , and an appropriation of $250,000 for development of a submarine base and destroyer base there is mendedFor further development of the naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $890,000 is provided. No prevision is made for either Lps Angeles, Port Angeles. Wash-, San Francisco or the Island of Guam. Secretary Daniels had recommended immediate development of submarine and destroyer basesat the former two points and urged ‘ Guam should be made the “American Heligoland of the Pacific.” He recommended a $40,000,000 supply and repair base at San Francisco —L. A. Examiner.