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Show Report Shows United America Joins Campaign NEW YORK From Main to California and across the Pacific to the Philippines, millions of Americans Am-ericans prepared this week to launch ' the all-out offensive of the 1941 "Fight Infantile Paralysis" Paralys-is" campaign. Keith Morgan, National Chairman Chair-man of the Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birthday', declared that the first half of the campaign had brought forth a national response unequal-ed unequal-ed in any previous drives against the crippling invader The Sports Events Council, headed head-ed by Grantland Rice, and the Sports Events Committee, with Former Postmaster General James A. Farley as chairman, informed Mr. Morgan that 180 benefit contests con-tests and exhibition matches will have taken place before the campaign cam-paign closes on January 3Cf, President Pre-sident Roosevelt's 59th., birthday. |