K. of C. to Hold Ball on Washington Day

K. OF C. TO HOLD BALL ON WASHINGTON DAY Military Pageant to Start Birthday Celebration at Walt Whitman The Knights of Columbus will pay tribute to George Washington by giving a pre-Lenten ball in commemorating his birthday tomorrow night at the Walt Whitman Hotel. The ball will start at 9.30 p. m. with a military pageant. Officers of the New Jersey Officers Reserve Corps and the United States Naval Reserve together with detachments of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Mathew Purnell Post and the Fairview Post of Legionnaires will escort Miss Alice Dolly, of Moorestown, who will lay a bouquet of red, white and blue flowers at the statue of Washington at Broadway and Federal street. Decorations of the ball rooms will be in keeping with the patriotic aspects of the occasion. The center of the east wing of the grand ball room will contain a life-size bust of Washington on a pedestal, surrounded by flags of the United States, palms and flood-light. In both the grand and junior ball rooms the national colors will predominate. Clusters of flags and shields will alternate in the scheme of decorations. Walt Leopold and his orchestra will render patriotic airs preceeding the military parade and following this ceremony the ballet headed by Miss Patricia Kochersperger and a floor show will entertain. Mayor George E. Brunner, of Camden, Mayor John F. Gorman, of Gloucester, Mayor Patrick Courtney, of Barrington, and Mayor Neil Dempsey, of Paulsboro, head the list of public officials of Camden and Gloucester counties.