Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1937 — Page 4

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EMPLOYMENT IN CITY INCREASES FOR SEPTEMBER

Weekly Payrolls Also Gain, 536 Firms Report; State Rolls Up.

Employment in Indianapolis gained 2.3 per cent in September

. over August, and weekly payrolls

gained 2.6 per cent, Martin F. Carpenter, Indiana State Employment Service director, announced today. A total of 536 firms reported 25,349 employees received $609,674 weekly. Throughout the state, the average employment increase of 1.7 per cent, and pay roll increases of 1.6 per cent were less than seasonally expected, he said. The report was based on preliminary reports received by the State Service in co-operation with the U. S. Labor Department. A total of 2028 Indiana manufacturing and nonmanufacturing establishments reported 170,45¢ persons employed.

2200 Get Raises

Twenty-four state firms indicated general wage rate increases affecting 2200 employees during September. This was the eleventh consecutive month in which gains were recorded. In manufacturing industries, employment increased 1.5 per cent, payrolls 1.5 per cent and man hours worked 2.7 per cent. The six-year average increase for employment from August to September in this class was 4.1 per cent. The canning industry, with an increase of 152.1 per cent in employment and 247.4 in payrolls, lead the expansion, Non - manufacturing establishments showed gains of 2.6 per cent in employment and 2.1 in payrolls for the month, Connersville showed a 26.7 per cent decrease in employment and 31.9 drop in weekly payroll. Lafayette lead the increase, with a 16.2 per cent gain in employment and 17.1 in payrolls.

ROTARIANS ELECT 7 NEW DIRECTORS

Seven new Rotary Club directors today were arranging an organization meeting with holdover board members. Directors elected at the annual dinner last night are: w Park Akin, Columbia Club ¥nager; Everett E. Allison, Steinhart Grain Co. president and treasurer; Paul O. Ferrel, Real Silk Hosiery Mills vice president and sales manager; Audley S. Dunham, Dunham Lock & Key Co. head; Marion Moore, Indiana Condensed Milk Co. secretary; Howard T. Griffith, Udell Works president, andAlbert S. Pierson, Pierson-Lewis Hardware Co. president.

RAILWAYS WORKER WINS NATIONAL PRIZE

Eugene A. Prather, 411 N. Colorado St., Indianapolis Railways shop foreman, has been awarded first prize in/a national contest sponsored by trghsit companies of the United States, local railways officials announced today. The contest was based upon inventions designed to improve maintenance of rolling: equipment. Mr, Prather’s entry was a machine for testing controllers on electrically driven transit vehicles. He received $50 and a certificate of merit.

IRVINGTON’S LEGION DISCUSSES CARNIVAL

Irvington Post 38, American Legion, is arranging dates for its annual fall carnival. Committees appointed by Frank E. Livengood,

commander, include: General Arrangements—Floyd H. Smith, William Keller, O. R. Olsen, Charles Warfel, Merrill ws Woods, Albert Muerer and Joseph E. ood. Entertainment—Philip Lamson, Camille Bernard, W. H. Boyd, L. Glen Brock and Ralph Renfrew. Decorations—Harry Harvey, George Randall, C. A. Bumpus and Carl Yeager. Publicity—Howard Chown, Verne Sholty, Herman Bobbs and Herman Bowers. Tickets—George Jordan, Dr. Harry N. Nagle, Charles Daniel Glubka, Charles Broadhead, Abraham Fishman and Mr. Lamson.

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Construction of the new $300,000 general shops buildings of Indianapolis Railways at 1100 W. Washington St. (above) is nearly completed. Work on

the new bus garage, which will be located adjacent to the new structure, has already started, it has been \ announced by Railways officials.

Riley’s Birthplace to Become Shrine on 88th Anniversary

James Whitcomb Riley will live again tomorrow in the minds of old friends and readers as the Hoosier poet’s 88th birthday anniversary is

commemorated in pageantry and memorials are dedicated to his memory. |

A highlight of this year’s annual Riley Day observance is to be the dedication of his birthplace in Greenfield as a Riley shrine,

The Greenfield landmark has been changed little since the poet's boyhood and the interior has been restored to much the same as when he lived in it. The principal speaker at exercises there is to be Acting President Herman B. Wells, of Indiana Univer=sity. : “ In Indianapolis, school children will be seen in pageants depicting stories told in: Mr. Riley's poems.

Bust fo Be Unveiled

A feature. of the day’s program is to be the unveiling at 12:30 p. m. of the Riley bust at the Riley Memorial Hospital. The program is sponsored by the Riley Memorial Association and is to be in charge of the Indianapolis Junior League. Mrs. Fred Hoke, Junior League president, is to present the bust, given to the hospital by Mrs. William H. Coleman in memory of her grandson, William Coleman Atkins, who recently was hurt fatally in an automobile accident. Dr. Wells is to accept it in behalf of Indiana University. Dr. Gatch to Preside

Hugh McK. Landon, Memorial Association president, is to express the thanks of that organization. Dr. Willis D. Gatch Indiana University Medical School dean, is to preside. The Rev. Jean S. Milner, Second Presbyterian Church pastor is to give the invocation. The Junior League committee includes Mrs. Hoke, Mrs. Eugene Miller, Mrs. Sylvester ‘Johnson, Mrs. Benjamin Hitz,’ Mrs. Charles Bradley, Mrs. Elias Atkins, Mrs. Perry Lesh, Miss Eunice Dissette and Mrs. Shirley Murphy, the latter of Muncie.

Greenfield Business To Close Three Hours

Times Special GREENFIELD, Oct. 6.—Greenfield business establishments are to be closéd between 1:30 and 4:30 p. m. tomorrow during the observance of James Whitcomb Riley’s birthday anniversary. ; : The program is to be started at

a new shelter house in Brandywine Park near the original “Ole Swimmin’ Hole” and is to be followed by a procession to the Riley statue in front of the Court House, thence to the Riley homestead. The final event on the day Is scheduled for 7:30 p. m. in the homestead, the program to be carried over the NBC blue network.

NEIGHBORS INVITED TO COUNTY PICNIC

Former Spencer County residents living in Indianapolis have been invited by Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, Warrick County Club of Indianapolis president, to attend the club’s third annual picnic in Garfield Park Sunday. A program of music and talks is to follow a basket dinner at noon. Reminiscenses of Warrick County will be given by William Fortune. Philip Lutz Jr. is to discuss “Warrick County People Who Have Made Good,” and Judge Bradshaw is to speak on Abraham Lincoln,

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17 FACE GAMBLING CHARGE AFTER RAIDS

Seventeen men were to face gaming charges in Municipal Court today following police raids on two pool rooms last night. Clifford Roth, 30, of 1922 Haines St., proprietor of an establishment in the 800 block of Ft. Wayne Ave, and Homer Petero, 35, of 2017 W. Michigan St. alleged operator at 2228 W. Michigan St., were charged with keeping gaming ho . The others were charged with gaming and visiting a gaming house.

GRID PLAYER BREAKS LEG

Walter Glover, 28, of 1126 S. Meridian St., was in City Hospital today with a broken right leg received in a football game at Spruce and Orange Sts. He told police he stepped into a hole while running.

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Indiana employers subject to the Unemployment Compensation Act must file, not later than Oct. 31,

complete reports showing what they paid each employee during the quarter ending Sept. 30.

day by Clarence A. Jackson, State Unemployment Compensation Division director. . ~ Mr. Jackson said the Division's requirements for quarterly reports of employees’ earnings were in no way affected by a recent ruling of the Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue deferring the time for filing earnings reports under old-age beneHs provisions of the Social Security ct. Employers of eight or more persons are subject to the Indiana law and are making monthly contribu-

tions of 1.8 per cent of their pay-

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rolls to the State unemploymen trust fund, from which benefits are to be payable after April 1, 1938. Mr. Jackson said the unemployment fund now contains more than $18,000,000, and more than 600,000 gmplavees are establishing benefit

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4055 EMPLOYED ON HIGHWAYS IN MONTH

The State Highway Commission employed 4055 workmen on construction projects ‘during September, Earl Crawford, chairman, announced today. : Peak employment this year was reached in July when 5302 men were hired, Commission records showed. There were approximately 700 fewer men employed in September than in August, Mr. Crawford said. Favorable weather during spring and summer months resulted in earlier completion of projects than usual. Highway engineers now are aking surveys for the 1938 proam,

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