Springville Herald | 1937-09-23 | Page 3 | Birthday Balls Raise a Million

Birthday Balls Raise A Million NEW YORK, Sept. 21 A total of $1,090,779.23 was raised by the 1937 National Birthday Balls for the president, Colonel Henry L. Doherty, national chairman of the movement since its inception, announced an-nounced today in making public the report of the treasurer, Keith Morgan. Under the plan of distribution local committees were permitted to retain 70 per cent of the amount raised for their work in the fight against infantile paralysis, paraly-sis, while 30 per cent was sent to the national committee for presentation pre-sentation to President Roosevelt for the Warm Springs, Ga., foundation. foun-dation. In making public the complete figures on the 1937 birthday celebrations, cele-brations, Colonel Doherty announced an-nounced that the check for the Warm Springs, Ga.,. foundation will be presented to President Roosevelt shortly. Pie also expressed ex-pressed the national committee's gratitude to the local chairmen, national leaders, radio, motion picture pic-ture and theatrical stars and leaders lead-ers in the worlds of finance, labor, 1 science, society, art and music who devoted their time and efforts" ef-forts" toward making the 1937 celebrations so over-whelmingly successful.