A NATION’S LOYALTY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 108, 31 January 1934, Page 9

A NATION’S LOYALTY

Remarkable Tributes to Roosevelt BIRTHDAY HONOURED Congratulations Flood to White House GREAT HOSPITAL APPEAL By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright (Received January 30, 7,15 p.m.) New York, January 29. In oue of the most unique manifestations of loyalty ever given any President, America will observe President Roosevelt’s fifty-second birthday tomorrow with 0000 subscription balls, the proceeds of which will go to the Warm Springs Foundation, where President Roosevelt regained his health in a long fight with infantile paralysis. He later endowed it as an institution for paralysis sufferers, mainly children. After an intimate White House dinner party, President Roosevelt will broadcast over a nation-wide radio hook-up his thanks on ‘'behalf of the nation’s crippled children." More than 50,000 birthday greeting cards have already been received at ■White House. From Alabama a telegram of congratulations bearing uO.OOO signatures was forwarded to M bite House. ... From the top of Mount M ashington. New Hampshire, giant skyrockets will be fired off, while from Little America Rear-Admiral Byrd will wireless the President greetings. In many cities schools will observe a half-holiday, and schools everywhere will perform exercises appropriate to the occasion. Hotels throughout the nation have arranged to add 50 cents to the dinner cheques of those wishing to contribute for the benefit of Warm Springs. _______