Evening star., 1945-01-14
Birthday Ball
Ticket Sales
Open Tomorrow
Mile O. Dimes Stands
Launch Campaign
For Polio Funds
Pictures on Page Az

The Districts annual drive TO
funds to fight infantile paralysis vii
go into high gear tomorrow whel
tickets go on sale for the traditiona
dances and celebrations on the eve
ming Of the Presidents birthday
January 30-and for the midnigh
shows the night before. Meanwhile
the first phase of the program, tn,
Mile O. Dimes campaign, is in full
swing after opening yesterday.
Both the dances and the midnigh
shows will be featured by the ap
pearance of group of Hollywood
stars, who will be in Washington
throughout the celebration. TIL,
first of the stars coming here will
be announced this week.
Birthday ball tickets may b.
purchased for 50 each, including tax
at the Mayf1ower, Shoreham, Wash
ington, Wardman Park, Willard ant
Statler hotels, where the dances will
be held. Tickets for the ball at tn,
. Lincoln Colonnade will be sold fol
$3.50 each at the office of tn,
Lichtman Theaters, 1912 v stree
NV. Tickets also will be distributed
to Government departments ant
Offices. e.
Theater Tickets on Sale.
Those wishing to attend midnight
shows at the Capitol and Earle
Theaters may purchase tickets at any
Warner Bros. or Loew's Theater in
Washington. Price of admission te
either theater is $3.50 for orchestra
seats and $3.50 for the balcony, in
cluding tax.
There will be a third midnight
show at the Howard Theater. with
tickets priced at S1.80 each for Or
chestra seats and $110 for the bal.
cony. They will be placed on sale al
the Lichtman Theaters office.
officials of both Warner Bros
and Loew's Theaters here have
scheduled special shows for the
week of the celebration. The Earle
show, in addition to the Roxyettes
and 10 Lombardi and his orchestra
will offer Nip Nelson, Jean, Jack
and Judy and Sondra Barrett.
The Capitol's show will include
Cardini, the magician; Cliff Navarro
the De Castro Sisters and the Peggy
Taylor trio, as well as Sam Jacl
kaufman and his orchestra.
Joe Louis Aids Drive.
Mrs. Roosevelt, two young polio
victims and Sergt. Joe Louis. the
world heavyweight boxing cham
pion, shared the spotlight at the
opening of the two Mile O. Dimes
stands yesterday.
Despite the rain, several hundred
persons assembled around the Cap
itol Theater stand at 1890 pm, anc
in front of the Lincoln Theater, 1215
U street NV. half an hour later
to see Mrs. Roosevelt contribute the
first dime to each of the stands.
She spoke briefly at each cere-
,mony, urging contributions, small
or large, from every person in the
District. Because the District was
so hard hit by the infantile paralysis
epidemic last summer, she said, she
knew that this years campaign to
eliminate the disease would be
greater than any other.
Child Victim Speaks.
After she had spoken before the
Capitol stand, 8-year-old Janice
Miles, of Coral Hill, Md, who will
return to school Monday after being
stricken with polio November
also spoke to the crowd, and to the
radio audience. She asked that each
person contribute what he could "sc
that other little girls won't have tt
d be as sick as I was" and so thai
when they are there will be enough
money to pay the doctors and nurse.
to make them well"
Then Janice showed them he
big glass bank. There were 10 dime.
in it that she had been saving-"fol
a long time" she said-and which
she gave to the campaign. BY thu
time Janice was ready to 60, tn,
persons who heard her speak hae
pressed forward to drop several more
dollars in dimes into her bank.
At the Lincoln Theater stand
Sergt, Louis, now stationed al
Camp Shanks, N. Y, and in town fol
the week end, told the crowd as.
sembled there that everybody
should give to this drive, and SET
to 1t that our kids are safe" Their
Dennis Surratt, 10, of 423 Temple
court S.W., who left the hospital Oc.
tober S after his siege with the dis
ease, told them he was glad to be
well' and hoped the drive would be
"a real good one"
Pays $40 for Dimes.
Commissioner John Russell Youns
received Mrs. Roosevelt's contribu-
tions and also spoke briefly. H
Graham Barber of the Lichtmar
Theaters, bought the dime Mrs
Roosevelt gave to the Lincoln stand
for $40, which then went into one
of the milk bottles on the stand in
place of the dime.
Don Fisher was master of cere-
monies of the program, which was
arranged by Bryson Rash, chair
man of the Mile O. Dimes Committee
of the Washington radio programs
sponsoring the campaign. The
broadcast was carried over all Wash
zangton stations.
Tuesday, two more Mile o. Dimes
stands will be opened at the Ma
tional Airport and at Union Station
Other events which will feature
the drive include the theater March
of Dimes, when collections will be
taken in all Washington motion pic
ture theaters: the command per-
formance of Dear Ruth" as the
National Theater January %, and
a dinner to be given for the visiting
Hollywood stars at the Mayflowei
Hotel January 20.
Half of Funds for District.
Proceeds from all events 90 to the
fund for fighting infantile paralysis
half remaining in Washington fol
use by the District chapter of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis for work here, and half te
the National Foundation, for re.
search and educational work.
Basil O'Connor, president of the
National Foundation for Infantil,