The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
THOUSANDS OF
WOMEN WILL
AID NRA DRIVE
Mass Meeting Called For
Friday to Enlist All
Under Blue Eagle.
THR0NGS WILL PARADE
Plans Progress for Giant
Recovery Celebration
Here Aug. Il.

A mighty host of more than
10000 Indianapolis women will be
modified Friday, for active combat
in the recovery army, under the
standard of the rampant blue eagle.
Housewives, Office workers, COL
lege and high school girls, in fact, all
women in the city will be asked to
enlist in the army to patronize only
firms affiliated with the NRA.
One hundred presidents of wom-
ems clubs and declarations in the
city have accepted the invitation of
Mrs. Elias c. Atkins, lieutenant
general of the local recovery army.
to meet Friday at the Chamber of
Commerce building.
Represent Many Thousands
These heads of womens clubs rep
resent more than 10000 city women
according TO Mrs. Atkins. who will
be enlisted, following the meeting.
But officials in charge of local re-
covery made it clear that they want
all women in the city to Join the
movement. Fridays meeting is open
TO the public.
The large parade and celebration
planned in Indianapolis for Friday,
Aug. 81, officially has been desig-
mated Indiana Recovery Day"
A committee in charge of the
parade was named today from dis
trict. state. and local recovery boards
by Webb Sparks. executive director
for recovery day"
Louis j. Borinstein. president of
the Chamber of Commerce is chair
man of the joint committee. which
includes L. F. Shuttleworth and
Lewis Taylor. of the district board:
M. M. Dunbar and Adolph Fritz. of
the state recovery board. and
Charles M. Bryan. Mrs. Elias C.
Atkins. Robert Fox and Henry l..
Dithmer, of the local NRA board.
Many viii Join
The joint committee received hun
dreds OF assurances from local mer-
chants today that they would CO.
operate with the celebration and
parade.
In letter today to all local re-
covery boards in the state William
j. Mooney OF the district board and
Francis Wells, Indiana recovery di-
rector. asked local communities to
join Indianapolis in putting Indiana
Recovery day ''over with a bang"
Each county recovery board was
asked. in the letter. TO send dele
cations to Indianapolis on Aug. 81
and TO enter floats in the parade
which is expected to be five miles
long.
( Local celebra tons on recovery
day were urged in all counties ir
the appeal.
Women 10 March
The thousands of Indianapoli.
women to be recruited Friday are
expected TO form a colorful detach-
ment of the parade. A monster
NRA emblem made of red. white anc
blue flowers was offered the parade
committee by the Allied Florists oil
indianapolis today.
A plan to have city merchants
hold open house on the night oil
the celebration was voted down or
Wednesday. the parade committee
announced today.
George E. Gill. in charge of two
downtown federal unemployment
agencies. announced registration oil
more than 5000 by city unemployed
today. Gill stated that offers fol-
Jobs were beginning TO trickle ir
from city industry About a score
of such offers have reached his Of
flee. he declared.
/ While the tedious process of or
ganizing the officer personnel for
the war against The depression con-
tinued today with advances in the
matters Of appointing bureaus to
interpret codes and hear COM
plants. Charles w. Chase. Indi-
annapolis general" was in Wash
ington to contact General Hugh S.
Johnson, national recovery admin
iStrator.
Will Invite Johnson
Chase will invite General john
son TO attend the monster mass
meeting in the parade Aug. 81. and
also attempt to obtain detailed in
structions for furthering> the re-
covery program in the city.
Chase will take up the matter of
unemployment survey and seek en-
lightenment on the proposed federal
methods to be used against en-
ployers who. while displaying the
blue eagle. continue to violate terms
! OF their covenants with the Presi-
dent
AT meeting of the local recovery
board in the Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday. the city was divided into
thirteen districts and a lieutenant
colonel was appointed to SUPERVISE
recovery work in each.
Directors Are Named