Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1933 — Page 12

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COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL REACHES 88 AS TWO DIE Child, 5, and Motorcyclist Succumb to Injuries at City Hospital. Total of traffic accident fatalities In Marion county since Jan. 1 stood at eighty-eight today with two persons succumbing to injuries at city hospital. Paul Wilbur Walker, 5, of 19 North Belmont avenue, injured Tuesday when struck by an auto- — mobile while riding on Ia scooter, and Jesse I iJU Britton, 2022 ChurchI nan avenue, hurt MonI day when his motor - " cycle struck a bridge, died Wednesday night. The Walker boy was with his father, Paul Wesley Walker, when he was injured at Belmont avenue and Washington street. Charges of speeding and reckless driving are on file against Oscar Marsh, 30 Negro, 1207 North Belmont avenue, driver of the car. The child incurred a skull fracture and broken right leg. Britton succumbed to a skull fracture. He had not been conscious at any time since his motorcycle struck a bridge on Bethel avenue near Beech Grove. Five Hurt in Crashes In traffic accidents Tuesday, five persons were injured, one seriously. Jack Peters, 8. of 1908 Carrollton avenue, is in a serious condition at city hospital with a brain concussion incurred when he walked against the side of a moving truck in the 1700 block. College avenue. Norman McGinnis. 24, of 134 West Twenty-first street, truck driver, was not held. Cuts and bruises were incurred by Marjorie Mahurin. 9. of 334 Spring street, as a result of being struck by an automobile driven by Lycurgus Carroll. 45. R R. 11. Box 29-L, at State avenue and "Washington street. When he ran against an automobile at Thirti°th street and Highland place. George Ware. 16. of 940 West Thirty-first street, suffered a severe head injury'. John A. Cook, 60, of 3606 East Washington street, was the driver. Arm Is Injured Injury of an arm was suffered by Joseph Colbert. 32. of 2422 Prospect street, when the automobile he was driving in the 1000 block Prospect street sideswiped a truck driven by Walter Neal. 1819 Massachusetts avenue. A two-inch cut on the head was incurred by Rex Peacher. 19. of 3321 Central avenue, when an automobile in which he was a passenger. driven by John Dawson, 34. of 3525 North Illinois street, collided at Raymond street and Sherman drive with a car driven by Joseph Fuller. 23. R. R. 1, Box 409 Kiwanians Hear NRA Address “The NRA Program” was discussed by A. L. Taylor, executive secretary' of the Chamber of Commerce, in an address before members of the Kiwanis Club at the weekly luncheon Wednesday in the Columbia Club

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Far from the veldts of daikest Africa, a girl on an American country club beach is examining with interest some specimens of thorns with which motorists in Africa have to contend. Sent to America by Wynant Davis Hubbard, Harvard scientist now in northern Rhodesia, they show why he regards it as remarkable that he has not yet had any tire trouble with tires on his laboratory truck. Betty Donmoyer is holding a branch of thorns as sharp and almost as strong as steel needles. On the car, in the background, is a tire whose casing has been slashed to expose the tube in four places, to demonstrate that, with fourteen pounds of air pressure, a tire can not blow out.

The ABC of the NRA Below are given answers to questions sent to The Times by readers seeking information on problems arising from the National Recovery Act. Answers to other queries will be printed from day to day. If you have problems to which you wish answers, write to The Times, or call Riley 5551, ask for the ABC department, and dictate your question. In giving your query, please state definitely the industry, business, nr occupation on which your question is based. It will be answered as soon as possible.

Q Could you enlighten us through your columns when the building owners’ code will uo into effect? We are very much interested, as we work seventy hours a week. We hate been unable to get any satisfactory answer from our firm. S. AND E. A— If your employer displays the Blue Eagle, he has agreed to the wage and hour provisions of PRA and should apply these provisions until his own code is established. This code has not been submitted.

Q- Would likr- to know what the NRA ; provision provides for substitute mail ! carriers and substitute clerks in the postoffice Thev never have had a regular i salary or guaranty of anything. Do NRA regulations provide that they l at least have a living? They have not been making enough to exist. R E. K. A—Federal employes are exempt from provisions of PRA. SOO Q— I am a cook for a large chain of restaurants and would like to know just how the NRA should affect mv wages. The wages for cooks in the last two vears have been cut from $23 to sl4 and bus bovs and dishwashers from sl2 to $7. Since NRA the dishwashers and bus boys have been raised to $14.50. the same as the cooks, but there is a $3 deduction for meals which never was taken from our pav before NRA What I wish to know, isn't there a difference in rates of pav in the restaurant code 0 Shouldn't a cook. who. bv the way. needs quite a while to learn the job. be paid more for what he does than a dishwasher or bus boy. a job that any one can do? E. B. A—The minimum wage for male restaurant employes, under the temporary code approved for that industry, is 27 cents an hour, with a deduction of 25 cents a meal furnished. not to exceed S3 a week. These figures are for Indianapolis.

In signing PRA, yoyr employer agrees to adjust the wages so as to maintain the same differential that existed before signing the agreei ment, provided it does not work an | inequitable hardship upon himself. ! This is subject to review by local recovery boards. 000 Q —l am manager of a chain grocery store, doing all the work myself, working seventy-one hours a week. Is this in accord with the grocery code?—C. R B. A—The maximum hours provision of the grocery code does not apply to managers receiving more than $35 a week. 000 Q —ln regarti to working conditions In the plant where I am employed, thev have put their men on a twelve-hour dav. seven days a week, and cut the wages $24 on the month. Do firemen come under skilled labor? The fireman's nay is only about 26 cents an hour.—J. M. C. A —Report violations of PRA to the local or state Recovery Board or to the local Chamber of Commerce. If you refer to city firemen, they are not affected by provisions of PRA. 000 Q—Can the owner of a barber shop w-ork hours to suit himself? Can he work his help on commission and how many hours? Can the owner of a hat cleaning and shoe shine shop work hours to suit himself? How must he work his help? Must you be ordered from some organization other than the NRA? J. L. G. A—Owners of barber shops, actively barbering, are restricted to the maximum hour provisions of the barbers’ code. We believe the journeyman's so-called “commission” would be interpreted as piecework. On that basis, journeymen would be entitled to a minimum guaranty of $14.50 a week ih Indianapolis for the 48-hour week. Under PRA, owners of businesses are not restricted as to hours they | work. Their employes would be entitled to the $14.50 a week minimum for 40-hour maximum week. No authority except NRA has any jurisdiction over provisions or enforcement of NRA codes. Local and state recovery boards are the direct enforcement units. 000 Q —Apartment owner asks if janitors, living in apartment quarters, will be subject to having rent removed from their wages, under the code. G. J. T. A—No code for apartment houses has been adopted. Under the NRA, the minimum wage for janitors should be $14.50 a week. By an agreement between employer and | employe, in our opinion, a fair de- I duction could be made for rent of quarters furnished. 0 0 0 Q —A clerk in a department store works forty hours a week on wages and commission. What should his wage be? T. M. A—His minimum wage should be $13.50 a week, under the temporary j agreement modifying the NRA for i retail department stores. 000 Q—l am an orderly :n”a hospital and I work fifty-six hours a week, seven days a week. ’ Do hospitals come under the : NRA? A—Hospitals not engaged in carrying on a. business do not come within the purview of the National Industrial Recovery Act. They may, if they wish, sign NRA and comply with its provisions.

HUMAN FOOT DRAGGED HOME BY BULLDOG Find Made in Vicinity Where Hana Was Discovered. In the same vicinity where a dog found a human hand July 28. another day Wednesday dragged a huI man foot to the home of its master. The foot was found by Bowser, a bulldog, which dragged it into the ! yard at the home of Harry Werkhoff, 2302 North Meridian street. His son. Glen Werkhoff, owns the dog, and the son's wife, Mrs. Dorothy Werkhoff. noticed the animal j with its grewsome find. After compelling the dog to drop the foot, police were called and took it to city hospital. The foot, with two small toes missing. Is that of a j white man believed to be much larger than average. Patsy, a bull pup owned by Mrs. Leona Ray, 2304 Pierson street, found the hand, which was noticed by Miss Ileana Fitch. 2302 Pierson street. The hand is believed to have been found in some bushes at the ■ Werkhoff home. It also was taken to city hospital.

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