The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-09
STATE PARADE
PLANNED TO
BOOST NRA
Gigantic Celebration Will
Be Staged on Monday,
August Il.
THE TIMES SIGNS CODE
Five-Day Week to Become
Effective for Editorial
Force Saturday.

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Force Saturday.
A statewide celebration and pa
rade to boost the NRA program will
be held in Indianapolis, according
TO plans announced today, on Mon
day, Aug 81.
Tentative plans announced by
Charles M. Bryan, colonel of the
local NRA army. include a radio
address by President Roosevelt and
a personal visit to the city of Gen
eral Hugh S. Johnson, national re-
covery administrator.
AT the meeting today at the
Chamber of Commerce building to
discuss the parade and other
phases of the recovery program
Charles w. Chase, president of the
indianapolis Railways and general
of the Indianapolis forces announced
that he would go to Washington
today.
LINES Signs COde
While in the national capital,
Chase will request General Johnson
to come to Indianapolis for the pro-
posed parade and also will attempt
to get detailed instructions on OPP
Grafton OF the codification of the
unemployed and investigation on
NON rom f1lyfncr
The code submitted by the Amer
lean Newspaper Publishers ASsocia-
ton and other regional associations
has been signed by The In
dianapolis Times.
The editorial staff of this news
paper will work on the five-day-
week plan, this schedule to become
effective on Saturday of this week,
and other departments will adhere
Bryan announced that two new
bureaus. to be commanded by
majors" will be attached to the
local recovery forces. One bureau,
to be known as the Bureau of In
terpreations," will endeavor to an
swer the multitude of questions on
the NRA, puzzling local industrial
lists.
Complaints to BE Handled
The second bureau will handle al
legged complaints of persons who
have been telephoning the Indiana
recovery director since the start of
the drive relative to alleged viola
tons on the part of employers who
display the blue eagle. It will be
called Bureau of Complaints.
Proposed plans for the parade. as
announced today. call for assembly
at p. m. Aug. 10, at the state fair
ground. marching from there down
Meridian street To the Circle.
State and local members of the
NRA will march on foot or ride
on floats to be entered by various
industries. A mass celebration at
Monument Circle will follow the
parade. where it is planned to have
the crowd addressed by Johnson.
Governor Paul V. McNutt and Sem
ator Frederick Van Nuys.
The radio broadcast by the
President is planned for $50 p. m.
from Hyde Park, N. Y.
Plane Tour Planned
Tentative plans call for plane
tour of the state prece ding the pa
rade by Herbert Fisher. aeronautical
diractOy If Tho Hb,,ohor oF 49,.
merce. calling upon mayors in cities
and towns in Indiana TO join the
celebration. Fisher will carry
formal invitation from Mayor Reg
inald H. Sullivan to mayors
throughout the state.
Mrs. Elias c. Atkins, president of
the Junior League of indianapolis.
and Acknowledgment Of the local
NRA. will work through local wom-
ems clubs TO enlist a delegation Of
several thousand women for the
parade.
Manufacturers in the city and
throughout the state will be urged to
enter floats and invitations will ne
extended to the American Legion.
police and firemen's bands. and
other musical organizations to Join
the parade.
1t is planned 10 have a large
squadron of planes fly over the Cir
Gle while the celebration is in
progress.
Riot Is Averted
Francis Wells, state director. an
nourced today that riot was
averted at Bedford, Ind, Tuesday
by the interference of police when
two grocery stores there refused to
close at the hour prescribed in the
agreement reached by local mer-
chants. A crowd of fifty booed and
Kissed the workers in the two stores.
according to the report received by
Wells.
In a survey of 1877 independent
retail grocers in indianapolis, it was
disclosed that 80 additional en-
ployes have been put to work since
Aug. l and a weekly increase of
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