Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1933 — Page 11

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DECK CLEARED FOR BATTLE ON 30-HOUR WEEK Black Bill to Be Reshaped by House Committee; Senate Opens Study. BY RUTH FINNEY, Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 18. The task of reshaping the Blick bill into a workable measure for reducing hours of employment and establishing a minimum wage begins Wednesday in the house labor committee. The senate bill, freed at last from the parliamentary tangle that held it up eleven days, will be referred to the committee today. Chairman Connery (Dem., Mass.), probably will appoint a subcommittee to study the amendments proposed by the administration and incorporate them in anew bill. A second set of amendments, supplementing those first sent down, has been received from Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins by the committee. The debate in committee will center around four proposals. May Regulate Wages First, to raise the limit of the working week from thirty hours to thirty-six hours and the working day from six to eight hours, with longer hours possible at certain seasons of the year. To regulate wages as well as working hours. To do this through establishment of individual boards for each industry, with power to make regulations on working hours and minimum wages, and to punish violators through publicity or otherwise. To extend the provisions of the bill to all foreign goods made in workshops not having similar regulations. The first three propositions have the backing of the administration. The fourth does not. Embargo Advocates Lose Advocates of the foreign embargo received a severe setback Monday when the senate refused to reconsider its earlier action on the bill. Reconsideration yas urged solely to give an opportunity for anew vote on the foreign embargo. The first time the senate voted on this it defeated it, 41 to 39. Monday, with the foreign embargo the sole issue, the vote against reconsideration was 52 to 32. Twelve Democrats, most of them opposed to passage of the bill in any form, voted for reconsideration, along with twenty Republicans. Meanwhile, widespread interest in short work week and minimum wage legislation in the different states is indicated in information collected by the United States women’s bureau. One branch of the California legislature has passed a bill establishing the five-day week for state employes wherever the Governor finds it practical. Cut Working Time Three measures reducing the working hours of women have been passed by the Connecticut senate. Illinois legislative committees have been holding hearings on a five-day week bill applicable to all persons. Massachusetts has memorialized congress to enact a 30-hour work week and minimum wage bill. Michigan's attorney-general is preparing 30-hour week bill to apply to all workers, with the passible exception of domestic labor and farm help. Minnesota’s house of representatives has received a favorable report on a bill applying the 30-hour week to all public works. Minimum Pay Laws Passed New York and Utah have enacted minimum wage laws applying to women and a number of measures reducing women’s working hours are pending in New York. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. and Wyoming are all considering reduction of women’s hours of labor. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island have been considering women's minimum wage legislation, and Connecticut has been considering a similar bill for minors. NINE STATIONS ISSUE DRIVERS' LICENSES Controllers’ Office Orders Delinquent Motorists to “Pay Up.” Nine sub-stations authorized to issue drivers' licenses are being maintained in various sections of the city, the city controller’s office pointed out today in an appeal to delinquent motorists to "pay up.” Ten cents of each 50-cent fee goes to the soup kitchen fund administered by city hall employes. An average of 97,000 meals a month are paid for from the fund. The substations are: Jones & Maley, 2421 East Washington street: Smith & Moore. 528 South Meridian street; Ernest Marker, 801 Virginia avenue; Meridian Service, 2421 North Meridian street; city hall. Room 102; West Side Chevrolet Sales, 2419 West Washington street; Broad Ripple Auto Company, 821 East Sixty-third street ; Rose Tire Company, 930 North Meridian street, and Sears-Roebuck Company, Alabama street and Massachusetts avenue, automobile department. FEDERATION TO MEET Morning Session of Evangelical Women to Be Held in German. The morning session of the twenty-third semi-annual meeting of the Federation of Evangelical Women’s organizations of Indianapolis and vicinity Wednesday will be conducted in the German language. The meeting wtM be held in St. John’s Evangelical church, with the Rev. Ernst A. Tiepenbrok presiding. Officers elected at the morning session will be installed in the afternoon by tlie Rev. Titus Lehmann.

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‘ROLLING ON TO RIO’ BY AIR

Famed Cities of Brazil Visited on Journey by Plane

This is the third of six articles bv C B Allen on around South America flight he made via Pan-American Airwavs. Today he flies from Para to Rio and on toward Buenos Aires. BY C. B. ALLEN Time* Special Writer “Tl/HAT are we going to see W this morning, pilot?” I ask Robert J. Nixon as we clamber aboard the Commodore in the soft, gray dawn at Para, Brazil, on another day of my journey. “A lot of sand,’’ he retorts, “some cliffs, then a lot more sand.” And a trusty prediction this proved to be. Those clean white beaches, those rolling dunes—they seem to slip endlessly beneath our giant wings. We sit up occasionally to watch some fishing canoe with dark blue sails or spot a native Beau Brummel frocked only in a pith helmet strutting the sands. But otherwise the landscape of this strip of the eastern shore is

This the th'rd of jdx articles bv —mmmm ____. mmmm^^ ask Robert J. Nixon as we clamber aboard the Commodore in the // gm beaches, those rolling dunes —they J seem to slip endlessly beneath our giant wings. We sit up occasionhi: v to watch come fishing emoe with dark blue sails or spot a na<‘The >P lthe r ns g 3££*2k"2 * or isl ™7in bay of racoa, Camocyn and Fortaleza, But I’m bound for Rio now—l’m Rio de Janeiro. iRtB < ;&§r IBLa'm Urree-year drought am road to Rio—and I like Right, botanical nnn stop Victoria. Morin comes Yankee ( I,: It scarcely seems possible tha.t mnnri rhnnerpe omh enrm wo ■urafnVi

as monotonous as the steady throb of the lashing propellers. Stops bring us into Sao Luiz, “The Athens of Brazil.” Amarracoa, Camocyn and Fortaleza, which has been suffering from a three-year drought—a drought that killed 10,000 in 1932. But showers are falling when we settle on wings into the city "or a bath and a night’s sleep, and rain is with us intermittently on the course next day to Natal—2.6so miles east of New York, 1,600 from Africa. It scarcely seems possible that so soon we have rounded the "corner" of South America. Yet here we are, under a gold and blue sky, bound for Bahia. We fly over miles of cocoanut groves. Wing like a great hawk past coastal table lands furrowed with painted arroyas reminiscent of Arizona. Glimpse a distant water fall between rolling green hills. Spot the mooring mast in Pernambuco to which the Graf Zeppelin ties up and refuels. Smile at the quaint native villages with their characteristic heartshaped fish traps staked out in a shallow sea fifty to a hundred yards from shore. nan FEW know Bahia's full name, Bahia de Sao Salvador de Todos-Bay of the Holy Savior of All Saints. But they remember it for many feasons. First slave market in the new world; first capital of Brazil; home of the first orange tree transplanted to North America. For some time as we race south from Bahia the weather is mild, the going a pleasant lullaby. So I read the Portuguese newspapers. Then I toss the paper aside and, looking through a window, spot a Junkers single-motor ship. We both put in at Caravellas, a labyrinth of channels and delta land. But we soon lose sight of her as we pass out over water for nearly an hour. This plane is a symbol of the intense international air competition that is going on down here among German, French, and American planes. It began soon after the World war when European nations, whose trade was wasted by the four years, tried to get in on the United States annual two-billion-dollar export plum. England sent her prince of Wales to restore her waning influence. But the others, with no royal equestrien, mapped our air lines. Now' the French governmentendowed “Aeropostale” carriers mail from Paris to Dakar, Senegalese Africa, and by vessel to South America. Jean Mermoz’ pioneering flight across the south Atlantic also points to regular trans-Atlantic air service. The German "Condor” line, working with steamers and the Graf Zeppelin, carries mail, express and passengers down the coast from Natal to Rio and Rio Grande do Sul, near the southern border of Brazil. She's also preparing to try a flying boat service from Africa with mid-ocean landings to take fuel from a “mother ship.” a a a TANARUS) AN -AMERICAN takes the same route as the Germans, connecting at Buenos Aires with its affiliated company, Pan-Amer-ican Grace Airways, which flies the Pacific side. And you can take it from the United States business man down here this service is essential. He is naturally somewhat bitter toward the European flying services, and this is particularly true toward the French. "Damn them anyway!” said one chap, savagely. “They're down here every day taking away business from us on a fat government subsidy that we are footing the bill for.” Well. I don't pretend to be an authority on the economics of the situation, but I did examine the French “Aeropostale” equipment

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and found the planes of war vintage, makeshift for the job in hand and not the sort I would care to fly in, either as a passenger or pilot. But I’m bound for Rio now' —I’m on the air road to Rio—and I like flying this mighty ship between the gaunt, brown peaks that rise from the coast after our brief stop at Victoria. A storm comes over the hill and drenches and tosses us. Lightning flashes just out of our reach. The sky is black as an asphalt stew', but, typically Latin, the mood changes and soon we watch in a golden sea giant rays swimming with the flight of slow-mov-ing birds. We touch the shore again. Now look at the salt vats, the razoredged peak ahead, the veritable pyramid of slid stone with the sea beating at its scrawny feet. We turn a rocky headland and before us lies one of the world's most magnificent views—the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. tt tt n COUGAR LOAF mountain guards the southern side of the landlocked bay’s narrow entrance. Its crest rears 1,100 feet. A fortress crowns it, and a sight-seeing car crawds laboriously upward. Behind on a higher peak, a statue of Christ, said to be the largest in the world, blesses the bay. Far off on the horizon stand the Organ mountains, their five “Fingers of God ’’extending toward heaven as a final touch to the sublime scene. Our commodore’s hull hisses as we touch the harbor currents—that’s the only harsh note in the magic harmony. Rio, "Paris of the Western Hemisphere,” Rio, city of tw'o million, with its sidew'alk cases, its languorous beauty and its buoyant gayety—place to spend a week, a month, a year. I have only a night. But I shall not waste it on sleep. In the half dawn, almost before we are aw'are of it, Bert Sours and his co-pilot, Bob Davis, are lifting us out of the city. Lights twinkle up at us like a million fireflies through the spotty fog. Mountain peaks are islands in the sea of clouds. a a a WE stop this morning at Santos, coffee town and port for Sao Paulo, center of revolutions. We see the fort guarding the approach to Sao Paulo where the rebels once held a federal gunboat at bay for weeks. And at Paranagua we also pause for Henry Shea to take command of the ship as Bert Sours prepares to return on the northbound plane. A weather-beaten giant with a ruddy face is Pilot Shea. And a smart captain, too, as I am soon to discover. Id noticed before our takeoff he had folded all newspapers Into compact wads such as newsboys heave fiendishly from the sidewalk in the general direction of your porch. We are now sweeping low over Patos Lagoon's western shore bound for Buenos Aires on the tenth day of my trip. n n n NOT far ahead lazily rests a tiny village. As we approach every boy and dog in the place as if bv- signal comes dashing and barking up the beach to meet us. Out of the corner of my eye, as we flash over them, I see two small objects go hurtling from the plane. They are the folded newspapers tossed from the aft hatch by the steward. I had witnessed Shea's Special Rural Free Delivery, an institution in this part of the world. “It s worth a couple of dimes a week for papers to know that if I ever do have to sit down in this country I’ll get a warm welcome and all the volunteer ground crew I need,” he says with a practical smile. And a curious minor racket in these villages has grown out of Shea's R. F. D. The boys W'ho retrieve the papers are hired by some leading citizen of the town. But the employer of the fleetest lad not only gets the first crack at v

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933

Pan-American airport on island in bay of Rio de Janeiro. Right, botanical gardens in Rio. Above, Yankee Clipper of the Air taking off from tropic waters.

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WORK ON 0. S. BUILDING WING HEREJDELAYED Money Available for Job May Be Switched to Forestry Project. Erection of a north wing to the Federal building, for which $1,250,000 has been appropriated, will be delayed indefinitely by the treasury department, according to information received today from Washington. Nearly $966,000,000. made available by congress for public buildings, is being earmarked by the administrations for the Roosevelt reforestation program. This information and the statement, “construction of all Federal buildings yet to be contracted for will be held up by the treasury department,” is contained in this month’s issue of The Customs Service News, the publication is the authorized treasury department magazine. George M. Foland, customs collector, believes the local project may be among those delayed, since the contract has not been let. However, Foland has not received official notice from treasury department officials to halt plans. Money for the north wing of the federal building was appropriated by congress more than a year ago. Maguire and Shook, Indianapolis architects, are continuing work on plans for structure, according to Foland. Federal authorities here had expected that construction, which.was to supply work for unemployed, would begin this summer. POLICE TO ARREST SIDEWALK-DRIVERS Street Commissioner Ask Chief to Launch War on Motorists. Handicapped by a small appropriation for sidewalk repair. Street Commissioner Wilbur Winship today asked Chief Mike Morrissey to launch a drive against motorists who drive across sidewalks and cause them to crack. Winship said many drivers of trucks and heavy passenger cars are flagrant in their violation of the city ordinance against driving across sidewalks and asked the public’s co-operation in watching and reporting license numbers of offending motorists. Police patrols will ordered to increase their vigilance and city judges will be asked to assess maximum fines in an effort to curb the practice.

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Entered is Second-Class Matter •t FostolTiee, Indianapolis

•JUNGLE KING’S’ BRIDE m HV Honeymooning in Hollywood are Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimming champion, and his bride, the former Adah Virginia Held, above. Crabbe, now a movie player, and Miss Held eloped to Arizona. STRESSES Tow” REPfIIR_PRICES Borinstein Urges Property Owners to Join in Job Aid Drive. Urging property owners to enlist in the city-wide modernization campaign which opens Saturday, Louis J. Borinstein, campaign chairman, today aserted material and labor prices are lowest they have been in fifteen years. “Now is the time to make needed repairs on property,” Borinstein said. ‘‘Business leaders throughout the nation predict that prices soon will increase.” He explained the campaign will provide jobs for several thousand unemployed workers and stimulate business. Leaders o: the movement, which will continue through May 5, will meet with volunteer campaign workers from District I at 7:30 tonight at the Columbia Club. L. G. Ferguson and Russell Etter, district colonels, will disclose plans for enlisting citizens in the modernization program.

INFLATION HIT DOUBLE BLOW BY CONGRESS Legislation Is Blocked by House Rule: Senate Drops Debate. Rji l nited /’rrmt WASHINGTON. April IS—Sponsors of currency inflation legislation received a double setback in congress today. The senate abandoned the current outbreak of currency inflation debate and the house rules committee reported favorably a change in rules which, if accepted by the house, will serve to block inflation legislation there. The rules change is being opposed by fifty insurgent Democrats. They met in rump caucus earlier in the day and pledged firm opposition to the proposed change as ending all hope of currency expansion at the present, special session. Roosevelt Studies Flan The rules committee, firmly controlled by party stalwarts, reported a resolution which would raise to 218 the number of signatures required on a petition for consideration of a measure. The present number of signatures required to force a measure to a vote is 145. The house inflationists had planned to file a petition to bring inflation to a vote, but the necessity of obtaining a majority of the house as signatories was regarded as an effective check on such procedure. President Roosevelt and his advisors are studying various proposals for currency inflation, Speaker Henry T. Rainey said. The Speaker predicted that congress would pass some type of expansion legislation during the present special session. However, he added, “it would be a Democratic plan, sponsored by the administration.” Joined by Republicans Twenty-five Democrats defiantly bolted President Roosevelt's leadership Monday to support a 16-to-l silver amendment to the administration farm bill Seven Republicans and Senator Shipstead (Farmer-Labor. Minn.), joined the twenty-five Democrats in favoring free coinage of silver as a means of putting more money in circulation, cheapening its value, raising prices and stimulating business. Supporting the President were twenty-three Democrats and twenty Republicans. Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.) offered the 16-to-l amendment against warnings by colleagues sympathetic with silver rehabilitation that he merely was inviting humiliating defeat. The silver bloc, instead, is jubilant at the result.