Evening star., 1941-01-30
Mile o. Dimes Closing Put Off
Until After Tomorrow
Organizations Plead for Extra Time
To Finish Making Collections

BY popular request, the N. B. c.
Star Mile O. Dimes, which was to
have closed with the Presidents
birthday, will remain open through
tomorrow.
The request to keep the dimes
flowing onto the track at Fourteenth
street and New York avenue NV.
through tomorrow came from the
many organizations who want ad-
ditional time to collect dimes from
all their members.
Most of the Government depart
ments, which have already sent
hundreds of dollars in dimes to the
Mile o Dimes, have announced their
gifts were incomplete and that
more dimes would be forthcoming
within the next day.
Crowds Gather to See Stars.
Meanwhile, the track was half
hidden by the crowds who came
yesterday and today to leave their
dimes and remain to stare at the
movie stars here for the Presidents s
birthday celebration who have been
making the Mile o Dimes a regular
stop on their itinerary.
The Mile O. Dimes will benefit from
two events tonight At the Uline Ice
Arena, a dime will be dropped in a
hollow block of ice by the manage
ment for every customer attending
the Ice-Capades. The block of ice
will be presented at the Mile o Dimes
stand tomorrow.
The second benefit. from which the
entire proceeds will go to the Mile O
Dimes. is the American University
Penn State basket ball game tonight.
The game will be played at the
American University gymnasium at
7::30.
Today's schedule Of Government
departments at the stand included
the Federal Loan Agency. United
States Employees Compensation Com
mission. Commerce Department and
the United States Maritime Com
mission. Pages of the House and
Senate were expected today, as were
the inspectors and. captains of the
Metropolitan Police.
Maureen OHara, movie star, of
ireland and Hollywood, was cheered
by the crowd at the stand when she
asked to put her dimes in the
Irish bottle" She had noticed the
milk bottles lining the stand for
all the States as we'll as Hawaii and
Puerto Rico. A bottle for Ireland
was promptly installed on the track.
AS she dropped her dime in the
bottle. the red-haired movie star
said she wished I'VE had something
like this for our crippled children
in Ireland"
Ask Kay Aldridge's Autograph.
Kay Aldridge, who revealed that
she had picked tomatoes on Vir-
ginia farm before she became a New
York model and Hollywood actress,
had q fistful of dimes to place on
the track. School children who had
come to lay dimes on the line crowd
ed around Miss Aldridge for auto
graphs.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
bringing $36225 from the Interior
Department, said that the President
must be very happy man because
he is fortunate enough to furnish
the occasion to fight one of the
most crippling diseases with which
children are afflicted"
From Justice Department came
Matthew Mcclure, assistant to the
Attorney General, who presented
$275 and announced that more was
coming later. The Veterans Ad-
ministration was represented with
$357 in dimes, the gift weighing
% pounds.
Other Government departments
sending delegations and dimes we're
the National Labor Relations Board,
s3340; Federal Security Agency,
s569.33 and more to come, and the
Library of Congress, $125, brought
by DR.. Luther H. Evans, chief as
sistant librarian.
Eight members Of the Daughters
Of the Senate each put a dollar
In their State bottles. They were