Evening star., 1940-01-02
Women Will Map
Paralysis Campaign
With Mrs. Roosevelt
Meet Saturday at
White House to Determine
Their Part in Drive

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
meet with women leaders from
States and the District of Co.
lumbia Saturday at the White
House to formulate plans for the
part women will play in the an
nual infantile paralysis campaign,
which will be climaXed on January
80, when benefit birthday balls are
staged throughout the country.
The Presidents wife will be hostess
at a tea for the group that will in
clude Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Charles
Evans Hughes, Dorothy Thompson
and Mary Pickford.
Following discussions at the
Executive Mansion. a dinner will be
held at the Carlton Hotel with Mrs.
Roosevelt as guest of honor. Com
missioners Melvin G. Hazen and
George E. Allen will welcome the
guests.
Broadcast Tonight.
Commissioner Hazen, who is gen.
eral chairman of the Washington
celebration Of the Presidents BIRTH
day; Engineer Commissioner David
McCoach, jr., chairman of the Dis
trict Chapter of the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis, and
Andrew Kelley, Entertainment
Committee chairman for the BIRTH
day balls, will explain the purposes
of the celebration during half
hour broadcast on Station WMAL
at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Mr.. Kelley will reveal to the radio
audience the names of the celebri-
ties who will come to Washington
to attend the birthday balls at the
various hotels.
Tonight's broadcast also will fea-
ture Martha Raye, who is appearing
at the Earle Theater, and June
Preisser, Susan Hayward, Airline
Whelan, Jane Wyman, Ronald Rea-
gan and Joy Hodges, all now ap-
pearing at the Capitol Theater. The
screen celebrities will be intro
duced by Louella Parsons, Holly
wood columnist.
Keith Morgan to Preside.
Keith Morgan, who is national
chairman of the Committee for the
Celebration of the Presidents BIRTH
day anniversary, will preside at the
dinner meeting Saturday. Speakers
listed are Basil O'Connor, president
of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis; DR.. S. D. Kramer
executive secretary of the founda-
ton; DR.. George Eli Bennett, as
sociate professor of orthepedic
surgery at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, and Mrs. Roosevelt.
The invited guests include Miss
Wiki Baum, Miss Mary Anderson
Miss Katherine Lenroot, Miss Fannie
Hurst, Mrs. Estelle Sternberger
Senator Hattie Caraway, Repre-
sentative Mary Norton, Representa-
tive Edith Nourse Rogers, Repre-
sentative Caroline O'Day, Mrs
Eleanor Patterson, Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mrs. James A. Farley, Mrs
Henry Morgenthau, Mrs. Harry H
Woodring, Mrs. Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Stanley
F. Reed and Mrs. Charles A. Edison
State Representatives.
Women who will represent theil
States are:
Lorna E. Lockwood, Arizona; Mrs
Curtis Stout, Arkansas; Mrs. Jane!
K. Lytle, California; Mrs. Amos A
Fries, District of Columbia; Mrs
Robin Wood, Georgia; Georgia w
Foreman, Idaho; Mrs. Meredith
Nicholson, jr., Indiana; Mrs. Edith
D. Patterson, Iowa; Miss Abbie Bell
port, Kansas; Mrs. Paul A. Blanch'
ard, louisiana Mrs. Simon Hamilin
Maine; Mrs. Elizabeth Mcnamara
Massachusetts,; Mrs. Herrick B
Warren, Minnesota; Mrs. j. T. Cal
noun, Mississippi; Mrs. M. G. Du
vail, Missouri; Mrs. Mabel Gillespie
Nebraska; Mrs. Harriet Spann
Nevada; Mrs. William F. Casey, New
Jersey; Mrs. Hartman Simmons
New Jersey, and Mrs. H. P. Pickrell
New Mexico.
Mrs. Norman Mack, Mrs. Thoma!
B. lockwood, Mrs Clifford Marsh
jr., and Mrs. Frank w. Tindle, New
York; Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, NORTH
Carolina; Mrs. Kathryn E. Ridley
North Dakota; Mrs John Knigh
and Miss Bell Greve, Ohio; Mis-.
Tia Huff and Mrs. John F. Butler
Oklahoma; Mrs. Nan Wood Honey.
mon, Oregon; Miss Rita Wilson
Pennsylvania; Mrs. Percival De st
Aubin, Rhode Island; Mrs. Johr
Morrall and Miss Margaret Arey
South Carolina; Mrs. Leone Crow.
lie, South Dakota; Mrs. Abbey c
Milton, Tennessee; Mrs. George H
Pittman, Texas; Mrs. Jess Wilkins
Washington Mrs. Arthur M Hill
West Virginia, and Mrs. Louis,
Given, Wisconsin.