Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1932, Page 28

B—12 GENEVA PROBES FORTY-HOUR WEEK Italian Plan Being Examined by Internationai Labor Bureau. By Cable to The Star. ROME, September 23.—Italy’s 40- hour week plan is now being examined by the Council of the International La- bor Bureau at Geneva. Backers and sponsors of this movement have ap- parently succeeded in convincing the Labor Bureau Council of the extreme urgency involved in this special occa- sion, for it is the first time a special meeting has been summoned by the bureau since its inception. Ever since last April, when the idea for a shorter week was first born, the conviction steadily spread throughout European and American working cir- cles that reduction of hovrs might help to curtail to no small extent the major effects of Autumn and Winter unem- ployment. As minister of corporations, Premier Benito Mussolini announced September 7 that an inquiry had been started to determine the feasibility of introducing the 40-hour week in all branches of Italian industry. Frequent Topic of Talk. ‘This represented the first definite step taken here, though reduction of working hours had been a frequent topic of discussion in labor circles prior to Il Duce’s taking charge of the min- istry of corporations recently. . Reports submitted by the various in- dustrial confederations, from which the ministry in turn hastened to prepare a survey planned to be submitted to the bureau in Geneva, are said to favor the plan, save for a few exceptions, includ- ing those industries finding the 40-hour week impractical because not divisible into six days. Normal rotation of shifts is thus made awkward when operation is continuous. Agriculture, owing to its seasonal nature, is united against adoption of such a plan, as it is un- adaptable to fixed hours. During the interval since the gov- ernmental inquiry into the project there has been much ado in the local press over whether a corresponding reduction in wages was contemplated in the event of application of the shorter week as set forth in the Italian scheme. Oppose Pay Cut. Labor newspapers are decidedly against any cut in remuneration. Their defense is based on the assertion that unchanged remuneration, coupled with shorter working hours, would increase the buying power of the masses, thus | creating a greater consuming public. Industrialists, however, argue that no cut in wages would mean a general charge on industry, for additional work- ers would have to be taken on as a re- sult of shorter hours. Also, they say, another possible consequence might be & rise in the price of industrial products. Though public opinion by a majority favors no reduction of wages, it is learned that the government survey favors 40-hour wages with the cur- tailed week. It is also the government's belfef that the scheme would assist the forthcoming International Economic Conference. Finding this experiment antirely suited to its own demands in many lines of industry, Italy already is operating on a five-day week. These amenable industries are the southern cotton mills of Naples, several textile companies in Northern Ttaly, as well as silk concerns and steel plants. Railways and road building activities fit easier with the plan here, being un- der state control, than the merchant mearine and the building industry, which | only to your mother, be sure that you works intermittently, according to the clemency of the weather. (Copyright, 1932.) MOTHER KEEPS BABIES DESPITE MANY OFFERS Vandergrift, Pa., Woman Changes Mind About Giving Four Away ‘When Husband Objects. By the Associated Press. VANDERGRIFT, Pa., September 23.— Persons wanting to adopt children need not look to Mrs. Florence Serena, who offered to give four of her offspring to any one willing to provide them a good home. Mrs. Serena, whose offer brought a deluge of letters from all parts of the United States, changed her mind after her husband, Segi, a truck driver, de- | cided against pariing with the children, three of them 21-month-old triplets and a month-old baby. “If he is opposed to it, I guess I'll drop the matter,” the mother sald. 1 e JURY FAVORS LIFE TERM FOR SLAYER OF EDITOR Frank J. Nevills Found Guilty in Death of A. J. Hedrix of Bweet Grass, Mont. By the Associated Press. SHELBY, Mont, September 23— Frank J. Nevills, aged former town treasurer of Sweet Grass, Mont., was convicted last night by a jury of the murder of A. J. Hedrix, Sweet Grass newspaper editor, last May 19. The Jjury recommended life imprisonment. Pleading self-defense, Nevills testified | the editor threatened him with a bar | from his typesetting machine. He said he had gone to the newspaper plant to tell Hedrix, who succeeded him as| town treasurer, about a leaking hydrant he wanted the City Council to fix. Nevills said Hedrix ordered him out and started toward him. “I don't know what happened then,” he said, “but I must ha\': shot him.” There Is COLOR MAGIC In Every Can of Fotrpan—» Velvet Gloss Wall Finish The ideal finish for kitchen and bath room walls. Its hard, velvet Snish is easi cleaned—its waterproof s face resists the steam—and its price fits the ‘‘depression” pocketbook. We will gladly mail you color card on re- quest. Your Dollar today buys More Paint than in Twenty Years—take Advantage of these Low Prices! BUTLER-FLYNN INTS AND GLASS !“ C §T..N.W. MWiTeOvOLIMN QUSI OIS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932. From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Back Street” lady on the phone— and as he expires he has tolc, her once and for all that she nieans more to him than all of his family tied in a lump. Ladies will find that this is an extremely restful philosophy. While Miss Dunne’s life is an extraordi- narily colorless and empty one on the surface, she is actually being the salt of the earth and writing her near-husband’s speeches while he rests after the labors of his day. If she were not so beautiful this would be hard to swallow. But while Mr. Boles goes along acting like a cad, Miss Dunne becomes hand- somer and handsomer and hand- somer—and even when she is trans- gressing right and left. you can't help but think that she is a “mighty fine woman.” ‘These may be the wrong kind of thoughts to have. But after you see the radiant Ray Schmidt per- haps you. will agree. E. de 8. MEUC!ER Irene Dunne Stars In “Back Street,” at Rialto. ISS IRENE DUNNE, seen here at the National not so long ago in the Norma M Terris role in “Show Boat,” a heretofore so-so heroine of the smile-and-trip-and-dance va- riety, blossoms into one of Holly- wood's foremost ladies in Fannie Hurst's “Back Street,” the season’s reju- venator at the Rialto. By a bewildering as- sault of looks, a manner free from Malibu artificiality, and a convincing way of wearing her nearly broken heart on her sleeve, she becomes sud- Richard Dix st Keith's Presents “Hell's Highway.” RISINQ above the commonplace figure of courage, Richard Dix, in "H!ll'l Highway” at R-K-O Keith’s, fits into a niche that seems to have been waiting for a person possess- lng his recog- nized traits as a film actor. In a story of chain- gang cruelty by contractors, such as has aroused the in- dignation of the Nation in recent times, he is fit- ted to meet the crushing condi- tions with a nod and a challenge that go to the heart of \he thing. In a pro- duction that is a succession of skir- mishes between rough power and vigorous rebellion, he is the moving force. Richard Dix can be superficial with a screen polish, and he can trace the course of an ordinary story of action without any excessive amount of intellectual exertion, but in “Hell's Highway” he accomplishes Bichard Dix. denly one of the most’ adroit, handsome, be- lievable, wistful and genuine stars that the screen has produced. If you do not think that she 1s a° roaring, raving beauty as she walks up the gangplank of that ocean liner, bent on her rather tactless journey, then you must be weary of all cinema charms and anxious only for the more brusque stimulus such as may be found in “Congorillas” and “White Zombies.” By the zeal of Miss Dunne’s di- rect and potent art, the ultimate tear founts which are aroused in its climax, the sight of pre-Volstead beer mugs and gasoline buggies, “Back Street” is something that de- mands a hearing. England banned this film. Bond Street shuddered at the idea of pre- senting an unwedded wife as a heroine. But neither the mother isle nor this native land will deny that, while Ray Schmidt’s (Irene Dunne) love for Walter Saxel is an unlicensed affair, it is also one of the most moral loves that the screen has achieved. The upshot of this all being—if you make a date at a band concert to introduce your one-and- have the one-and-only on a leash 50 that she eventually gets there. The fact that Ray Schmidt miss- ed her appointment with tall, dark, handsome John Boles at such a flesta, is_the reason for a 25-year love-on-the-side business which is the cause for all the woe. Because of that broken engagement Mr. Boles lurched into matrimony, pro- duces two sons, and is on way to solving the Geneva co{\!er}!‘?r: when a sudden stroke carries him up to 5 S o “away from the angels. 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A large cast joins in a motion picture which reaches the heart. The Keith program also includes a Slim Summerville comedy, & clever chapter of Aesop’s Fables, and the latest “Strange as It Seems” by Hix. The chant that runs through the film was composed by Clarence Muse, one of the actors in this pic- ture, who also wrote “Sleepy Time Down South” and other songs. D.C.C. 8 result which makes the play one that holds the attention. Emotional periods come with rapidity, and Wwithout loss of the vigor with which name has been assoclated, he depicts a real character. In asso- ciation with Tom Brown, another fine member of the cast, he is brought into one of those incidents of brotherly affection which are among the best in fact or in fiction. ‘The family attachment that involves self-sacrifice comes home to the auditor with the force of unques- tioned reality. And in this play, esérs. Dix and Brown form a part- nership which will be remembered. 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