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¶ The President received Ambassador Luther of Germany to discuss German-U. S. trade relations. Later Mr. Roosevelt let it be known that he did not like the way Germany had discriminated against payments of interest to U. S. bondholders in favor of the Dutch and Swiss.
¶In Elizabeth, N. J., police suspecting the nature of a post office parcel addressed in a scrawl to "Mr. President, Washington, D. C." dunked it in a pail of water, thereby spoiling an electric clock, made of 27 different kinds of wood, which the President was receiving from its maker, young Master M. A. Williams of Chatham, N. J.
¶ South Carolina made the President's 52nd birthday a legal holiday. Oscar of Manhattan's Waldorf planned to serve 5,000 dancers in seven Waldorf ballrooms. Howard Chandler Christy painted a special poster. George M. Cohan made up a special song (see p. 29). The President's mother announced: "All my son will receive from me for his birthday this year is my love." At Palm Beach the Everglades Club fixed up its east ballroom as a dance hall of the '90s, and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst invited Grand Duke Dimitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lady Allington, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lord Adare to celebrate. Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, mother of Draft-dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, exiled in Germany, asked the President to pardon him so he could come home. Said she: "It is in the tradition of great rulers that they pardon even the worst offenders on their birthdays." Earl Carroll announced that Mickey Braatz, 17-year-old spotted tinsika champion of the world, would do 52 pinwheels or tinsikas on the stage of Murder at the Vanities, one for each of the President's years. Purpose of all these activities: to raise cash for the President's Warm Springs (Ga.) Foundation.
*Last week Congressman Edward A. Kenney of New Jersey introduced in Congress a bill proposing a billion dollar lottery, the proceeds to be used for paying a soldiers' bonus.