Puerto Rice's formal petition for admission to the union as a state was sent to the United States yes-i@rday for immediate delivery to President Roosevelt.
The petition was sent to the Resident Commissioner in Washington, Mr. Santiago Iglesias, by the President of the Puerto Rican Senate, Mr. Martinez Nadal.
The petition asks for admission to the United States as soon as possible. In the meanwhile, it is requested that the organic law be liberalized to permit popular election of the Governor of Puerto Rice in 1940,—United Press.
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