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Phila.-In the wildest balloting
spree of any recent conventions, .
Wendell Willkio, 43-year old head
of the Southern Commonwealth Edison
Co.’, was nominated as president, on
the GOP ticket. Ho wrested the'• tIt 1
away from Thos. E. Dowey, whose fo
rces wore badly shattered,'and Sen.
Robt, Taft who trailed only 52 vote
behind him. He stated "I am very
appreciative. I am very humble and
[very proud. I Intend to give every
thing I havo to bring about Ameri
can prosperity, by building an ade
quate national defense restoring
|national unity”. The nomination oc
curred on the 6th ballot, with the
[voces as folows; Willkio 429, Taft
, 377, Dewoy 57, Vandchburg 42, Janice
j59, Hoover 20. Both Dowey and Van
denburg released their votes to
Willkio,
Wash.- The President reported toda^
tnht he intends to immediately seel
a boost in the defense program thai
wohld more than double the five
billion eighty-two million dollars,
already appropriated. It would bo
! used exclusively for army purposes
| His bill will be ready for submiss*
jion when Congress returns next wool
jalso froze all French and Belgian
funds in this country,'■preventing
their transfer to Germany. ApproVee
a loan of 320,000,000 to Argentina
Called off orders' for., mass produc
tion of airplane engines with Ford
Motor Co., when Mr. Ford refused t(
manufacture them for b elligoronts
Mr • Knud 3cn," hat ’ 1 do f ons c c ommi s s •
! loner stated ''Cooperation must bo
I sought elsewhere”. * -
(Wash.-A courho in army tank maint
jonance and repair was added to the
; CCC program today, and approved
funds.for the” hew airmail route
(between Sc at tlo , and June au.
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YfftAT [BREAKS ,SHAFT
According to word brought here')
today by Inspector Horshoy of tho/
Bur , of Navigation,' Dept, of Comm
erce, who was a passenger on her,',.,
the mo-tprship Pern broke her tail
shaft oh'hxdr ■•"trip, to tfhalaskq,. at
a spot 112 miles from her destina
tion, Wallowing holplossly around
in a heavy, choppy sea, she radiooc
her distress signals, which woro
packed up by the Coast Guard Cuttoi
‘ She*shone” , Eightccn hours later,
oho cutter hove to and took the
iTernM 1 in tow to ‘Unalaska, whero
ttC”: cv/o boats are .no?/, pending
Instructions from the insurance
underwriters,5 It is quite possible
that it will bo necessary to tow
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Troops of tlic Soviet Red. arny
marched into Romania today and
tool: over that part of the country
which .the Tzars lost years ago,
Boss drahia. Ring C ah o1 do sp or at cly
cappcalod to .Hitler and II Ducc but
! no heId was:forthcoming, Hungarian
and Bulgarian governments arc also
making territorial demands on Rou
mania. Russi an *tr o op s hoavily armc d
and supported by tanks, pianos
poured across the border shortly
after dawn,
Berlin- Then questioned regarding
possible peace overtures with Gt.
B ritain, Hitler stated "Lly answer
i3 .. *"vCannen3 arc spcaking'f •
* London- An official communique
reports the sinking of a heavily
1-don German transport, by a Brit
ish submarine, off the south coast
of Norway,
Tokio - Crack Japanese troops ont
: ored French Indo-China nine days
ago, in order to cut the Central
Chinese Government’s supply line
from Burma, Numbers of Jap warships
arc also ancher cd off Haiphong to
-watch for an intercept vessels who
might bo carrying contraband for
: Chinoso army / The Tokio government j
also announcer one ioruo.uj.un ui a
Monroe doctrine to apply to tho Fa?.1
.East countries and. predicted a, very
sharp difference in foreign policy
in tho future,. England being first
on the list of countries to feel
the new pinch*
Ottawa-' Prime funis tor Lie K.-King
'announced'the sinking of tho light
cruisor "Frazier1’ off the coast
of Newfoundland. Cause of the sink!
ng was hot nad.c pub lie ^ a. It ho ugh it
was reported that 45 re labors of the
o re w we re dr ownod .
London- Znthony Eden, • minister of
war do dared "we will take tho fight
.into 0crmany” ris'R*4*F. planes
''carried an intensive bombing at tad
on vcrlous ;kcy-pdiints of Nazi bomb
ing centers/. ' /
Relic- Premier Mussolini -today came
back to'this city after making a
• tour, /,of his troops on the northern
front1;-. Ho- later conferred with Kinji
Emmanual /and Prince/. Unborto.
Moscow - It was officially -stated
that the Soviets had made very
sharp demands on tho Hungarian
government for return of certain
territory taken away from Russia
year3 ago•
Bucharest- King Carol today ordered
the complete mobilisation of the
army, navy and airforco to defend
'his country against possible Invas
ion byEulgarian troops. Ho had jusi
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