Evening star., 1936-01-11
DC. BIRTHDAY BALL
WILL Be ENLARGED
Ticket Will Admit Bearer to
Any of Several Larger
Hotels.

benefit of infantile paralysis victims
has been enlarged this year to include
dances at all the larger hotels. with
GUY Lombardo's Orchestra making
tour of the many parties.
Guests likewise will be permitted to
visit one or all of the dances for the
price of one $3.50 ticket under plans
announced late yesterday by Commits
sioner George e. Allen, chairman OF
the Committee on Arrangements.
The multiple dance plan on the
night of January 80 is expected to pro-
duce as much as $4,000, of which 70
per cent will go to Children's Hos
pital and the remainder to the Warm
Springs Foundation.
Lombardo's orchestra, which will
come here from New York, is to make
a complete circuit of all the dances,
supplementing the music already ar
ranged for at the various hotels.
Tickets Offered Monday.
Tickets will be placed on sale Mon
dav at hotels. clubs, theaters and pos
siblv some stores The Hotel Asso-
ciation has agreed to submit list
soon showing which hotels will holo
dances and capacities of each. Guests
will be admitted up to the capacltleS
of the various dance places.
Robert V. Fleming, president OF tne
American Bankers Association, has
been named chairman of the Finance
Committee, while other offclals are
Joseph D. Kaufman, publicity; MIS-
r. H. Brooke, patrons and patron
esses: C. Melvin Sharpe, tickets. ana
Col Edgar Goring Bliss, programs.
ARRANGEMENTS were announced alter
Commissioner Allen conferred late
yesterday with hotel men and puoAc
officials.
Planning Group Chosen.
Appointment of a committee OF
nroninent WashingtonianS, lnciuolng
cabinet members, to make plans for
the celebration was announced by
Commissioner Allen.
Herluf Provensen will be In charge
of radio, Mrs. Leonard B. SchloSS'
sneakers: Harry Lyles, advertising
Robert Dougan, transportation, ana
John Shoemaker. outdoor advertising.
Oscar I. Dodek has been named a
member at large.
T. Carlisle Crump, Mr.. Sharpe
and Frank Getty have been named
as a subcommittee to make arrange
ments for a special publicity feature.
Laurence E Rubel and Arthur De
Titta will have charge of movies ano
photography while news features 1or
the press will be handled by w. w
Wheeler. Harry Hites and Harry M
Van Tine.
Press Advisory Committee.
On the Advisory Committee repre-
seuting the press are Newbold Noyes,
The Evening Star; C. Dorsey Warf1eld
and Franklin G. Sartwell, the Times;
Charles F. Moore, Washington Post,
and Lowell Mellett, the Daily News. A
representative from the Herald is to
be named later.
Representatives of the screen on the
Advisory Committee will be Hardle
Meakin, R-K- O. Keith's Theater;
Carter T. Barron, Washington repre-
sentative Loews Theaters; Harry E.
Iohmeyer, Warner Brothers, and Sid
Q6V IuSl, lUCdl
Radio will be represented by Frank
Russell and Kenneth Berkeley, Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.; Ted Church
and Harry Butcher Columbia Broad
casting System, and Leroy Mark, Sta
ton VOL.
From these groups, Noyes, Mellett,
Butcher, Barron, Meakin, Sharpe, Rus
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pointed to the Committee of 102.
Committee Members.
This committee also includes: Ralph
Polio, Mayfower Hotel; Secretary of
State Hull. Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, Secretary of War Dern,
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. At
torney General Cummings, Postmaster
General Farley, Secretary of Navy
Swanson, Secretary of Interior Ickes,
Secretary of Commerce Roper. James
Collifower, president Merchants and
Manufacturers Association; John B.
Colpoys, United States marshal;
Mr.. Fleming, president Riggs Ma
tional Bank; Frederic A. Delano, Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission; George E. Havenner,
Government Printing Office; D. j..
Kaufman. Russell Conn, Ambassador
Hotel; Gardner Moore, Shoreham
Hotel; Thomas D. Carson, Wardn1an
Park Hotel; Harry Somerville, Will
lard Hotel; Secretary of Labor Perkins.
Arthur Harnett, Powhatan Hotel;
Robert Cottrell, secretary, Washing
ton Board of Trade; District Attorney
Leslie G. Garnett; Corporation Counsel
E. Barrett Prettyman; Mrs. Lloyd w.
Biddle, president, District Federation
of Women's Clubs; Chief Engineer
Schrom, Fire Department; Roger j.
Whiteford, Commissioner Daniel I.
Sultan, Eugene Meyer, publisher of
the Washington Post; Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, publisher of the Washing
ton Herald; DR.. Sterling Rufin, pres
ident, District Medical Society; j.
Thilman Hendrick, Mrs. Cary T. Gray
son, Edwin c. Graham, DR.. Frank L.
William, Supt. of Police Maj. Err
nest w. Brown; Merle Thorpe. edi-
tor, Nations Business; George w.
Offutt, Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board; Col. Edwin A. Halsey, sec
retary of the Senate; John H.
Hanna, president, Capital Transit
Co.; A. F. Jones, National Archives;
Edgar p. Allen, State Department;
w. D. Searles, War Department:
John c. Hill, Department of Justice;
o. A. Keen. Post Ofice Department;
Karl w. Corby, Clarence Phelps Dodge,
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, president,
Board of Education; Arthur HELEN,
Frank r. Jelleff, John S.. Locher, sec
retary. Central Trades and Labor
Union: Arthur G.. Newmeyer, pub
Usher Of the Washington Times; H. l..
Rust, jr.: John Saul, president, Wash
ington Board of Trade; Corcoran
Thom, president, American Security
e. Trust Co.; Chief Justice Wheat Of
District Supreme Court.