New York, Oct. 24..
Mrs. James Roosevelt, the mother of President Roosevelt, accepted the honorary chairmanship' of the China Aid Council yesterday, Mrs. Roose-Yelt said she did not plan to do Jactive work In the organization and explained that her association with tials group was at the invitation of Dr. Henry L. Hibby, a leader in the organization.
The Chairman of the Council, De. Claude Forkner, said, "Mrs, Reosevelt's decision emphasizes the tremen= ous needs of a country with which America has always had strong bonds of. friendship.
"Nowhere in the world is there [suffering on so vast a scale as in China."—United Press,
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