Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. pointed by President Washington, May President Hoover, to-da nounced! thay Mr. Theos velt, Jr, former assistant Sec of the Navy. would be ai werner of the Territory of Ports expedition along the Chinese border. itis brother Rosserelt, passed through Shanghai this week.
President Hoover also announced that he was appointing Mr. Joseph Bell Cotton, a widely known New York lawyer and a partner in the law firm of which the Secretary of State, Col. Stimson, was formerly. the head, as Under Secretary of State, The appointment wax mae on te recommendation of Colonel Stimson who had been urging the post upon Mr. Cotton ever since he assumed post in the Hoover cabinet The new Under Secretary of State was born in Albion, Indi 1865 and was graduated from State College in 1886, degree from that. until 1916 when he went" to New York to specialize in corporation and Taw.
Ar. Cotton fong haa been connect ed with the iron mining interests of the Take Superior region, the Greene-Cananca Copper Ca. and other copper concerns. Te was a aclegate to the Republican National Convention in 1904 and once serve in the Minnesota House of Re: prescatatives.—United Press,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.