That the price offered appears to represent a fair price and, in view of all the attendant circumstances, it is considered that advertisement and public sale are not necessary.

The Alien Property Custodian is hereby authorized to sell at private sale without public or other advertisement five hundred (500) shares of the preferred capital stock of the United States Metals Refining Co.

My reasons for the foregoing determination and order are:

The Department of Labor reports this morning that for the first time since the stock exchange crash the tide of employment is changed in the right direction--shows a very distinct increase in employment all over the country during the past…

I assure Your Excellency that the reception which he received here may be taken as indicating the feeling of friendship which the Government and people of this country bear toward their sister Republic of Mexico.

Both Mrs. Hoover and myself were very happy to have the President elect of Mexico and Senora de Ortiz Rubio as our guests.

I HAVE received Your Excellency's message of January eighteenth.

I send you my cordial congratulations upon your birthday and I do pray that you may long continue in health and happiness to be the wise counselor and valued friend of the youth of the land.

I am sorry to say that I haven't got a single particle of news of any sort or kind at the present time.

I wish you every success in the efforts you and your associates are putting forth along these lines.

I am much interested in the work of the Pan American Society in its promotion of friendly relations and mutual understanding between the United States and its sister republics of Latin America.

The proposed legislation has my approval and I recommend its immediate enactment.