Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-18 | Page 5 | Four Generations of Roosevelt Wait Gay Yule Festivities at White House

Four Generations of Roosevelts Wait Gay Yule Festivities at White House WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 The external quiet of the Whit House hid busy preparations today to-day for the traditional Christmas Christ-mas celebration to begin when the president and Mrs. Roosevelt return from Hyde Park late this week. Menus have- to be prepared and foodstuffs ordered for the turkey dinners, children's parties par-ties and regular meals Incident to four-generation family re union, led by the president's 86-year-old mother, . Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt. Special rooms are being mad ready for the two youngest members mem-bers of the family nine-month-old John Roosevelt Boetttger of Seattle and 17-month-old Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt III. ' Especially exciting to the servants ser-vants is the expected return of the president's two oldest grandchildren. grand-children. "Sistle" and Bunle" Dall, with their mother, Mrs. John Boettlger and her husband. hus-band. The first event of the holiday holi-day program will be on Friday the annual party for employes at the executive offices. There will be a similar party Saturday for secret service men, chauffeurs, chauf-feurs, household employes and their families. On Sunday th Roosevelt lam--lly will attend church in the morning, and In the afternoon the president will light th com-m com-m unity Christmas tree.