Show KNOX WAITING CHIEFS CHIEF ORDERS Publisher Terms Self as First Mate CHICAGO CHICAGO- June 13 UP Frank UP-Frank Frank Knox elatedly accepted congratulations of his his friends to today y on his Republican vice presidential nomination nomination nomi nomi- nation and termed himself merely the first mate eager cager to carry out tho the orders of Captain Alf All M. M Landon Landon Lan Lan- don presidential nominee for the coming campaign Knox who fought beside Landon London In Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull BuU Moose campaign said he was profoundly profoundly profoundly pro stirred at being chosen the Kansas governors governor's running mate for forthe the 1936 campaign I I feel teela a deep sense of reverence reference for the compliment paid me mo in inthe tho the unanimous vote toto of tho the convention con con- he said Accepts Bid Quickly Knox accepted Landon's invitation for a a. conference in Topeka Topeka Topeka To To- peka Monday He sent Landon a telegram saying We Vo are at t Armageddon again and I prize highly the opportunity under your leadership to battle to toa toa a 8 victorious conclusion in a far graver crisis than that of 1912 Both political and economic conditions call caU for a display of Ufo the same great qualities which endeared us both to Theodore Roosevelt I know that you have them and I gladly place myself under your orders and will undertake to discharge every assignment assignment as as- you give me with all the vigor and ability I possess We Ve go forward to victory Knox learned of his nomination when ho he stopped off at Michigan City Ind md while driving to his Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago office from Cleveland Hot and weary when hen he ho reached Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago ho went directly home for a abath abath abath bath and a a. shave Later at his office In the Chicago Daily News of which he is publisher pub pub- Usher lisher he talked of the convention Governor Landon and nod the Republican can platform Many Congratulation Congratulations The office was decked with flow flow- flowers flowers flowers ers from his His desk was piled with congratulatory telegrams telegrams tele tele- grams rams including ones from Senator from Senator Arthur former Vice President Charles G G. Dawes former Frank Lowden of Illinois Bertrand H H. Snell his friend James M. M Cox one time Democratic candi candi- date for president and a rough roughrider roughrider rider pal of Spanish-American Spanish war lays days Dont forg forget t that the tho big news of tho the convention is the nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion of G Landon for president president d dent nt Knox cautioned reporters who Mho crowded d d into his office lies Hes tho the captain and Im I'm just tho the first mate |