Evening star., 1945-01-19
Electors Dinner
Tonight Opens
Inaugural Fetes
Side Parties Will Not
Hold to Simplicity of
Main Ceremony


The inaugural ceremony tomorrow
may be the simplest in history, but
the dinners and receptions tradi-
tionally connected with the affair
are going to measure up to the
lavish standards set up in peace
time years.
Two big dinners and a reception
are on the agenda for today and to-
morrow.
The average citizen won't see
much of the celebration this year,
unless he feels like pressing his nose
against the south side of the White
House fence tomorrow Word that
the inauguration this year was going
to be closed affair evidently got
around the country, because Union
Station officials reported there was
no appreciable influx of visitors and
the railroads had found it unneces-
sary to add any additional equip
ment
Electoral College Dinner.
The big event tonight will be the
dinner at o'clock at the Mayhower
Hotel for the men and women who
reelected Mr.. Roosevelt to fourth
term-not the 25,500,000 or so who
marked an x before his name on
the ballot, but the 531 members of
the electoral college who actually
put him in Office again. = Not all Of
the electors will attend. About $40
Of them are expected, including
about 20 of the SO who cast their
votes for Gov Dewey.
Guests tonight will total around
l 900. They will hear a message
from Mr.. Roosevelt and speeches by
Vice President Wallace, Vice Presi-
dent-elect Truman, Speaker Ray
burn. Chairman Connally of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee and Donald M Nelson. personal
representative of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Among those on hand for the
inauguration eve party will be Mrs.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Tru-
,man, members of the Supreme Court
and the cabinet and their wives,
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Josephus
Daniels, who was Mr.. Roosevelt's
boss as Secretary of the Navy during
the World War.
Doyle Will Preside.
| Michael Francis Doyle of Phila-
delphia, member of the Interna-
tional Court at the Hague and pres
ident of the Electoral College, will
preside. Robert E. Hannegan, chair
man of the Democratic National
Committee, will be honorary chair
man.
A procession of flags of the States
and Territories, carried by men in
uniform, will precede the dinner. A
reception for the dinner guests is
to be held in the Presidential Room
of the Statler Hotel between and
II pm. A similar affair was held
yesterday afternoon in honor of
lMr. Truman. The Democratic Ma
ttiona1 Committee was host and also
will be host at the electors recep-
ton.
| Marjorie Lawrence and Lansing
Hatfield, Metropolitan Opera singer,
will furnish music for tonight's af-
fair.
One Thousand Club Dinner.
The really big blowout will come
tomorrow night, after the oaths are
taken, when the One Thousand Club
dimes in the Statler Hotel This
dinner will begin at $50 pm. and
will be complete from soup to nuts.
Miss Dorothy Lamour will be an
honor guest. 1t will be the final in
augural affair. and the place is ex-
pected to be crowded with notables,
including most of the high Govern
ment officials who will have at
tended the ceremony at the White
House earlier in the day.
Besides Miss Lamour, the two
hour program of entertainment will
include Frank Sinatra, who tempo
rarlly deserted his profession Of
sWoon- Grooming to say some kind
words for Mr.. Roosevelt during the
last campaign; Orson Welles. who
likewise entered politics on the
Democratic side last year with the
same vigor he always applied to his
acting, playwriting and producing;
Frederic March and Jean Hersholt,
both OF Hollywood. George Jessel,
veteran Broadway comedian, will act
as master of ceremonies.
About 1,100 persons have beer in
vited to this event, including the
3O0-odd persons who qualified for
the One Thousand Club last summer
and fall by contributing $1,000 each
to the campaign for Mr. Roosevelt's
reelection.