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en . 2 2B an at TY 2m “AND MAY HEAD : . ~MARITIME BOARD _ Would Succeed Kennedy, New Envoy to Britain. | | t WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (A. P.).— 7 \ Friesda of Regr Admiral Emory: 7 \ 8.ALand revived talk today of his’ 2 } 1 asible appointment to the chalr-, ! ; manship ef the Maritime Commis-! sion to succecd Joseph P-Kon- nea neay, | ' President Roosevelt nominated | Mr. Kennedy yesterday to be Am- bassador to the Court of St. James's, leaving open the $12,000 a year post which Mr. Kennedy once | referred to as the “toughest job" | / he had ever filled. { Admiral Land, retired chirf of | f the Navy's Burcau of Construction ! and Repair, has been a member of | the Maritime Commission since last | April. In 1917 he was in close as- | é sociation with President Roosevelt, ; then Assistant Secretary of the | Navy, and they have been friends, for years, He is 58 years old. | Should Admiral Land become; chairman, Representative Bland, —s Democrat, of Virginia, ia expected | to urge the appointment of Allan D, |! Jones of Newport News, Va., to his | place on the commission. ©Mr. Johes now is assistant director of fe 4 the Commerce Department's Bu- | reau of Navigation and Marine in- | spection. } Along with Mr. Kennedy’ ® name, | Mr. Roosevelt sent these other diplomatic nominations to the Sen- ate: Hugh R. Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State, to be Ambassa- | dar to Germany; Joseph E. Davics, Arbbassador to Soviet Russia, to We | Atsbassador to Belgium, and Nof-) mdn Armour, Minister to Canad, | tojhe Ambassador to Chile. ' Clipping, from INDE = Nie YORK SUN DATE: __ WFOE SIA FORWARDEL BY NEW YORK DIVISION eeeteen