Pleasant Grove Review | 1934-01-26 | Page 8 | 5,000 Birthday Balls to Honor President January 30 and to Help Finance Fight on Infantile Paralysis

5,000 Birthday Balls to Honor President January 30 And to Help Finance Fisht on Infantile Paralysis j j - ! TuuURFREblOLiM iff x j 'uiw ' I Mil GETTING READY FOR THE BIGGEST BIRTHDAY PARTY IN AMERICAN HISTORY Every community in the nation will honor President Roosevelt when he becomes 52 years old on Tuesday. Tues-day. Jan. 30, by giving a local ball to help endow an extension of the nation-wide work of the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis In which the President is so deeply interested. Upper left, the President and his mother, Mrs. James A. Roosevelt, who bought the first box sold for the New York ball in the Waldorf-Astoria, upper center. Colonel Henry L. Doherty, chairman of the committee of leaders arranging the observance of the President's anniversary; upper right, the official poster contributed to the movement by the famous artist, Howard Qhandler Christy; lower picture, child patients at Warm Springs sharpening up knives and appetites for the largest observance of the President's birthday ever held at that health center.-The center.-The cake, weighing 344 pounds and salrf to be the largest birthday cake ever made, was presented to ths children for their party by Chairman Doherty. ' '