Washington, June 23.
The House of Representatives yesterday unanimously passed the U.S. $4,000,000,000 Navy Bill authorizing the construction of 200 new battleships and increasing the United States navy's strength 70 per cent.
The bill was sent to the Senate, where it will await Congress' return from the Republican Convention, which opens at Philadelphia tomorrow, INA Meanwhile, Congress, approved a joint conference report. on -the U.S.$1,766,917,908 supplemental defence bill carrying US$1479,777,147 in direct appropriations and the balance in contract authorizations.
Political observers said today it seemed clear that none of the three leading candidates for President, Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, Senator Robert E. Taft, of Ohio, or Indiana's Wendell L. Willkie would be able to command a majority of the convention votes in any early ballot.
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