Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-24 | Page 5 | Mrs. Roosevelt Gives Poor Children Big Party

Mrs Roosevelt Gives Poor Children Big Party V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 24 AP AP Mrs Franklin D. D Roosevelt sh shone ne only in the reflected glory of Santa Claus and a circus at her first big Christmas party today today for for poor children at a downtown th theater eater And as for the red-coated red Marine band it had to compete with red- red coated whip-cracking whip ringmasters and clowns galore for tor the attention of 1700 boys and girls there to get 1700 Christmas bags filled with warm underwear as well as toys and goodies Probably never did the needy children of ot Washington have such sucha a Christmas part party Two live elephants elephants elephants ele ele- ele- ele and five Sh Shetland ponies munched in the lobby There were raccoons and other small animals In cages The drop back-drop to stacks of ot Christmas packages was wu an enormous enormous enormous enor enor- circus tent