Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1932 — Page 5

SEPT. 30,1932

FORD SLASHES WAGES BELOW $5 MINIMUM Cut Affects Every Member of Organization; 50 Cents an Hour Is Lowest. I By Ihi led I'rrn* DETROIT. Sept. .30 A downward revision of the Ford Motor Company wage scale, carrying the rate of pay below the previous $5 minimum established in 1914, has been announced by company officials. The cut, announced Thursday, affects every member of the Ford organization, A minimum of 50 cents an hour is provided for common labor, with a minimum of 62 1 - cents for semi-skilled. Skilled labor will receive 75 cents an hour, and the actual wages paid will range from the minimum figure upward. Escaped Convict Sentenced By fulled Prctt GREENCASTLE. Ind., Sept. 30. Foster Foshee, 33, who escaped from the Indiana state farm Sept. 24, while serving a term imposed In Miami county, was sentenced to one to five years at the state prison on the escape charge in Circuit court here today.

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MA’S CAMPAIGN GOES TO HIGH COURT IN TEXAS e* Fight Waged to Keep Her Name Off Ballot; She Seeks Mandate. By United Pre AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 30—Mrs. Marian* A. <Ma) Ferguson has taken her battle with Governor Ross S. Sterling over the Texas Democratic gubernatorial nomination to the supreme court. Attorneys for Ma, who defeated Sterling for the post both in the primary and run-off primyy election, sought permission from the court to file a petition for a writ of mandamus to force inclusion of Mrs. Ferguson’s name 'on the general election ballot this November. Earlier Thursday District Judge W. F. Robertson had granted Sterling a temporary injunction restraining the secretary of state from certifying Mrs. Ferguson's name on the ballot. The Governor has contested Mrs. Ferguson’s victory, alleging she received more than 50,000 illegal votes in the run-off. The hearing on Sterling’s contest suit will come up Monday. Powers Hapgood to Speak Powers Hapgood, Socialist candidate for governor, will be the principal speaker tonight at 8 in the community hall at Sunshine Gardens.

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Estelle Taylor, former wife of Jack Dempsey and or.e of the best-dressed women in the movies, is shown here in the magnificent w hite .evening wrap in which she attended a recent opening.

EXTRA SESSION ! i ACTS BECOME | LAWS OF STATE Leslie Proclamation Issued to Declare Bills Effective. Acts of the special session of the Indiana legislature became laws today with the issuance of a proclamation by Governor Harry G. Leslie declaring them effective. The session, called to cut governmental costs, added seventy new laws and four resolutions to the state code. Proclamation of the Governor followed the report to his office from Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. that copies had been delivered and certified to by clerks of all counties of the state. The new acts include the revised state budget bill, which becomes effective with the new fiscal year Saturday. It cuts the appropriations made by the 1931 legislative session $1,785,838. Os this sum, the foliowring reductions were made: State departments, $557,892; schools and hospitals, $665,750, and benevolent and penal institutions, $562,196. Departments get $3,330,282, schools and hospitals $3,784,250 and the institutions $4,895,067. Total for the new state budget is $12,009,599. In addition to reductions in appropriations, the new acts provide 1 a formula for salary reductions

ranging from 4.05 per cent on $1,220 to 26 per cent on the highest salaries.

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