Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1931 — Page 19

FEB 6, 1931

VAST BUILDING , PROGRAM UNDER WAY IN ITALY Public Works Projects Are Most Extensive Since Roman Empire. Thl l the fourth •rtlcle* of Webb Hiller's series on Fascism and Itale, BY WEBB MILLER United Preaa Staff Correspondent ROME, F(*. 6. The Fascist government Is carrying out the most gigantic system of public works ever executed by any country in a short space of time under the direct impulsion of Mussolini. Italy has not witnessed public building on such a grandoise scale since the days of the Roman empire. At every turn the traveler sees evidences of this veritable regeneration of the nation's equipment and physical resources. Vast Projects Included They comprise vast projects of land reclamation, drainage, modern roads, electrification of railways, 'schools, great hydro-electric plants, power lines, modernization and extension of ports, cheap houses for workers, stadiums, post and telegraph offices, widening of streets, and boulevard construction, railway stations, monumental government buildings, new railways and many other forms of construction. The Forum Mussolini, an immense athletic installation in Rome, designed as a memorial to Mussolini, perhaps is the most spectacular of the construction work Italy hopes to hold the 1936 Olympic games here. When completed the Forum Mussolini will be the finest athletic field In the world. 93,000 Men Employed It will Include two stadiums—one built entirely of marble designed as * the most magnificent since the time of the Roman emperors and another built into the side of a hill to hold 130,000 persons—said to be the world’s largest stadium. An unusual feature will be the erection of the largest marble monolith ever quarried eight feet square and sixty feet high and weighing 280 tons—as an enduring monument to Mussolini. Probably the most important works of the regime are the land reclamation and drainage schemes throughout Italy upon which 93,000 men are working and which will add millions of acres of tillable area to Italy’s restricted agricultural land. Power Being Developed Some of the finest automobile roads in Europe now are found in Italy. The five-year program which comprised 3,700 miles of new construction, reconstruction and repair is about half finished. Since the beginning of the Fascist regime about two and one-half billion has been spent on railway construction. Nowhere in Europe has the use of hydro-electric power developed so much as in Italy. In Naples the Podesta, duke of Bovlno, took me to see some of the works which physically have transformed Naples. A tunnel under the hill now connects the east and west sides of the city. The impressive waterfront boulevard is being extended. New Schools Built Instead of slums the Santa Lucia quarter is a credit to Naples. Fifteen new schools have been built. Milan is working on a monumen-

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DEMANDSUNION MAN Labor Not Represented on Education Board, Charge. Governor Harry G. Leslie would be instructed by the general assembly to appoint a member of a bona fide labor union to the state board of education under requirements of the concurrent resolution introduced Thursday by Representative E. Curtis White (Dem., Mapion). His resolution called attention to the 1913 act, providing that one representative of employers and one of labor be named to the education board. “Labor is represented by a teacher and not a member of any labor organization.” White declared. “This is palpably unfair and should be remedied by the Governor.” Theresolution was referred to the education committee. BANDITS HOLD UP STORE Gunmen Take SIOO From Register and Make Getaway. Two gunmen held up R. A. Sayre, 6011 Broadway, manager of a Haag pharmacy at 6301 Belief ontame street, early today, escaping with SIOO from the cash register. Sayre said he believed two bandits stood guard outside while the pair entered the store. tal railway station which will be the largest and most beautiful in Europe. So numerous are the buildings and works that it Is difficult to give more than a general idea of the frenzy of building that is modernizing, beautifying and regenerating Italy. Next: Italy’s attitude toward post-war treaties.

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SENATE SLAPS ‘REPEATERS 1 ON 1). S.PAY ROLL Rules Federal Employes Ineligible to Receive War Compensation. By United Prett WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—A sharp blow at “repeaters” on the federal pay roll has been struck by the senate, which voted late Thursday to forbid government employes whose salaries are more than $2,000 a year from receiving compensation as disabled war-time officers. The vote was on an amendment to the independent officers’ appropriation bill, sponsored by Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), who called attention to “a very shocking and scandalous condition” in the veterans’ bureau. Reed read, from a partial list of employes of the bureau, names of numerous emergency war officers who were retired by the bureau on three-fourth pay, and then were liired as civilian employes at sizeable salaries. Similar Cases Cited He pointed out that the manifest object of the retirement provision was to provide for such war-time officers as were disabled and unable to work at all. Instead, he said, these officers in many cases are receiving both retirement pay and attractive salaries from the government as well. He named specifically William ■Wolf Smith, general counsel of the veterans bureau, who he said receives a salary of $9,000 a year, at the same time drawing $187.50 a month compensation for disability incurred in war time. Reed brought out that Smith served two months in the quartermaster corps in Washington, and thereafter was rated 30 per cent disabled. Reed read from the records a number of similar cases, in which the officers named saw no overseas duty, but were drawing disability play plus their veterans bureau salaries. Asks Compensation Cut Among them was Dr. Wilfred Ernest Chambers of Missouri, drawing $6,500 a year as a veterans’ bureau employe, and at the same time receiving $206.25 a month retirement pay. Reed pointed out that his amendment would not apply when and if such retired officers ceased to hold government positions, but only while they did so. Simultaneously General Frank T. Hines, veterans’ bureau director, was before the senate finance committee urging a 50 per cent reduction in disability allowance for vetDon’t Endure Slipping FALSE TEETH Do your false teeth drop or slip when you talk, eat, laujrh or sneese? Don’t he annoyed and embarrassed a minute longer. Fasteeth, anew powder to sprinkle on your plates, holds teeth firm. Gives fine feeling of security and comfort. No gummy gooey pasty taste or feeling. Get Fasteeth today at or an r other drug store.—Advertisement.

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erans during the time they are receiving hospital treatment. Hines Indicated thi.it there was a tendency on the pa t of veterans to remain in hospita-s longer than necessary, and that this reduction would provide an incentive to get well. Business Man Dies By Timet Special FRANKLIN, Ind.. Feb. 6 —William A. Carpenter, 71, business man, is dead. He had been a tailor here fifty years, having retired only a short time ago.

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MARRIAGE OF FRENCH PRESIDENT IS HINTED Doumergue to Wed at End of Term in Jane, Paris Hears. By United Prett PARIS, Feb. 6.—There is a very pjrsistent story around Paris that iTesident Gaston Doumergue. France's 68-year-old bachelor chief executive, is awaiting only the end of his seven-year term next June to take to himself a wife, prominent in French society. So far M. Doumergue has not denied the marriage rumors, nor has

he denied that he will be a candidate again for re-election to the

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believe that he may be elected in spite of his indifference.