Evening star., 1934-01-30
25O,OOO BIRTHDAY
MESSAGES SET MARK
AT WHITE HOUSE

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will start off with a dinner over which
will preside Col. Louis McHenry Howe
the Presidents secretary, who has been
his intimate friend and associate for
a quarter of a century. Col. Howe and
others of the group have arranged their
program Of fun-making which will be
pulled" during the meal and which
will continue afterwards when the din
ner is over and every one has adjourned
to the Presidents study on the second
floor.
Gift Will Be Chair.
There will be huge birthday cake
prepared by directions of the gang,
brought in at the conclusion of the
dinner, which will be personally sliced
by Mr.. Roosevelt At the appropriate
moment the birthday present from this
group will be brought in. The latter
will be large, comfortable chair made
especially for the President and to be
sent to Warm Springs, Ga, to be used
by him when presiding over the meet
ings of the board of trustees of the
Warm Springs Foundation, of which he
is member.
At this interesting White House birth
Gay party will be the original members
of the old gang'-Mrs. Roosevelt, Col
Howe, Marvin H. Mcintyre and Stephen
T. Early, the Presidents assistant sec
retarieS; Miss Marguerite LIE Hand. the
Presidents personal secretary, Charles
Mccarthy of Albany, former secretarial
associate of the President; Thomas
Lynch, a boyhood friend of the Presi-
dent and who has been one of his
political advisers for many years anC
who is at present customs appraiser OF
New York; James Sullivan of Boston
who was one of the Presidents Stenog
rapherS when he was Assistant Secretary
of the Navy. and Stanley Prenosil OF
New York, who "coVered' the Navy De-
partment for the Associated Press while
MIR. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary.
Daughter to Be Initiated.
Others who will be on hand tonight
who have been taken into this "old
gang" group in later years are Kirke
Simpson, special writer for the Asso-
ciated Press; Miss Marion Dickerman
principal OF the Todhunter School OF
New York; Miss Nancy Cook, who is
in charge Of Mrs. Roosevelt's furniture
factory at Hyde Park: Miss Margaret
Durand, secretary to Col. Howe; MIS-
Malvina Thompson Schneider, Mrs
RoOSeVelt'S personal secretary, and Miss
Grace Tully. of the White House sec
retarial staff. One Of the features of
tonight's fun making will be the initia-
tion into this group of Mrs. Anna
Curtis Dali, the only daughter Of the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Besides observing his birthday ami
VerSarV in this happy fashion with his
old friends, the President will toward
the end of the evening deliver radio
address to the people throughout the
land expressing his appreciation of their
tribute and for their participation in
the Nationwide series of celebrations
of his birthday
Those intimately associated with Mr.
Roosevelt and who come in contact with
him every day are unanimous in their
belief that he arrives at his SD birthday
anniversary feeling healthier and
stronger than he did when he entered
upon the presidency. March 4 last. de-
spite the tremendous strain under
which he has been during that time
and the almost endless and unparalleled
tasks with which he has been faced,
principally because of his gigantic un-
dertaking looking toward the economic
recovery Of the country. The Presidents s
friends attribute his good health and
magnificent outlook upon life, even
cheerfulness and good humor and his
daily swims in the White House pool.
Besides a few additional gray hairs
the President appears unchanged from
the day he became President, to his
close friends.