Evening star., 1933-08-13
Every House to Be Visited,
With 200 to 800 Picked
Leaders Working.
5000 D. C. EMPLOYERS
STILL TO BE ENLISTED
Blue Eagle Must Fly 100 Per Cent,
Says Littlepage, and Careful
Record Is Made.

A house-to-house canvass designed 10
mobilize consumers in cooperation with
the National Recovery Administration
will begin here tomorrow. it was an
nounced last night by Thomas P. Little
page, head Of the District drive toward
economic recovery
A picked group of between 200 and
300 citizens. drawn from the ranks of
business, civic and club circles. will
press the campaign to bring employers
into line by Labor day. Littlepage ex-
poets the Blue Eagle to f1utter over the
doorWays OF every business house in
the Capital.
Already all but about 5000 Washing
Ton employers have come under the in
dustrial code. according to George L.
TAFT, superintendent of the BENJAMIN
Franklin Branch. City Post Offce. In
all, 6,3l2 emblenls representing the
Blue Eagle Of recovery have been dis
tributed.
Careful Record Being Kept.
careful record of who are comply
ing is being kept by the Norfolk dis
trlct oftlce Of the Department of Com
merce. The record is on display here
! nthe lobby Of the City Post Office at
North Capitol street and Massachusetts
avenue and the local campaign group
Will refer to this list to check on cues
tlonable displays of the insignia.
We are planning to make a house
toulouse canvass of the entire city"
Littlepage said, "and presently the same
mopplng up process will be under way
IN every part of the United States. 1t
means Tremendous organization effort
TO carry out such an undertaking but
the objective is well worth the effort"
The feminine wing Of the campaign.
considered vitally important, since it has
been estimated that so per cent of the
city's buying is done by women. is be-
ing led by Miss Eta L. Taggart. who
announced yesterday the addition of two
more women to her committee, Mrs
Harvey w. Wiley and Mrs. James E.
Collihower
At the same time, it was announced
that mass meeting of women v-crkers.
| under Mrs. Charles Bair, division ma
jor. will take place in the Arlington
Hotel at II am. tomorrow.
Representatives of the campaign or
ganization were on hard at Boiling
Field yesterday to receive bundles Of
N. r. A. insignia brought from New
York by plane.
Drive Headquarters.
! Headquarters OF the drive are in the
Board of Trade Office. where an infor-
! nation bureau is to be set up under
! the Educational Committee, headed by
| James E. Collifower. Publicity is in
charge of Claude Owen. While James
G. Yaden heads the team workers unit.
i The number Of NJ R. A. code signers
| for the Norfolk district. which en-
braces Washington was 4l678. ac-
cording to j. J. Skorup jr., district
administrator, up to IL am. yesterday.
More than $4,000 employees are af-
fected in the firms signed, he said.
Uniform retail store hours were
agreed upon last week by the Colum-
bia Heights Business Mems Associa-
ton. in compliance with provisions Of
| the recovery act affording shorter
hours for store help without reduction
! in pay.
Maximum Hours Favored.
The maximum hours recommended
at the last monthly meeting Tuesday,
| and since agreed upon by a ma jority
| of the retailers in uptown Washington,
| are: Weekdays, except Saturday. am.
| to pm; Saturdays, 8 am. to 10 pm..;
| Sundays and legal holidays, no open
hours whatever.
E. j. Boothby of this city was named
! industrial adviser representing the
| laundry and dry cleaners machinery
manufacturing industry to aid in the
recovery campaign, according to an
announcement at N. r. A. headquar-
tiers in the Commerce Department.