Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1938 — Page 14
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‘starting Thursday. : - £ Approximately 17,000 high school “Journalism students from all parts
‘SPEAKERS FOR PRESS PARLEY
Scholastic Association to Open Convention Here Next Thursday.
Thevdore Dreiser, American novelist, wil head the list of distinguished speakers for the National Scholastic Press Association convention at the Lincoln and Claypool Hotels
of the nation are expected to attend the conference which includes a three-day round of lectures, tours and meetings under the direction of leaders in scholastic journalism. Indianapolis high schools are to be: represented by 89 students and 12" faculty members from Shortridge, Tech, George Washington, Broad Ripple and Manual High Schools. : Local Speakers Named
Five speakers from local newspapers will poin the list of educators, writers and out-of-state newsmen in conducting classes for convention delegates. They are Herbert Hill, assistant managing editor of the News; Tom Ochiltree, State House reporter for The Indianapolis Times; George Williams, The Times retail advertising manager; Robert Stranahan, columnist for the Star and Joseph Cravens, Star staff photographer. Others conducting sessions will be Miss Joanna Zahders, Chicago, who will lead a short course in publication of a school newspaper; Carroll G. Geddes, financial advisor on student activities, University of Minnesota, who will lead a series of meetings for business managers of high school papers and Prof. Kenneth E. Olson, dean of the Medill School of Journalism. Speakers who will address sessions of the convention include C. Walter McCarty, managing editor of the News; Barton Rees Pogue, Hoosier poet and lecturer, and Thurman “Dusty” Miller, Wilmington, O., -columnist and editor.
Luncheon for Hoosiers
Students will register on the m=zzanine floor of the Claypool Hotel all: day Thursday. A luncheon will be held for Hoosier delegates at the Hotel Severin. . The opening convocation will he held in the Riley Room of the Claypool at 7:30 p. m. Friday morning sessions will be devoted to talks on advertising. Pro-
to the Mothers’ nection with the
YOUTH, 13, ACCUSED OF MURDERING GIRL
LONDON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—George Edgincton, 13, after arraignment in Islington Juvenile Court, was committed for trial at Old Bailey on a charge of murdering. Beryl Obern, 4-year-old girl neighbor.
The boy pleaded not guilty. The prosecution alleged that he told his mother at the police station:
“I done it, mum. I don't know what made me do it.” The girl was found in a shed, strangled and bound with string.
paper clinic to criticize 12 state high school papers. Sectional meetings will be held at 9 and 10:30 a. m. Sectional meetings will occupy most of the afternoon program with an advisers’ meeting scheduled for 4 p. m. in the Travertine Room of the Lincoln. Saturday morning will be devoted chiefly to discussion meetings. Mr. Dreiser will address the final convo-
fessor Olson will conduct a news-
cation in the Riley Room at 11 a. m.
Douglas Johnson and Dorothy Snyder prepare copies of invitations Tga at Manual Training High School Thursday in conschool’s American Education Week program.
TAPPAREL FELD
ASKS EXCEPTION
From Paying ‘Learners’ 25 Cents an Hour.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Numerous manufacturers, especially in the apparel field, are exhorting Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews to issue a blanket exemp-
{tion permitting “learners” to work
for less than 25 cents an hour.
Mr. Andrews has issued such exemptions covering handicapped
{workers and apprentices, but in do{ing so he said:
“The administrator cannot make
. any temporary exemption as ap-
““ |plied to learners. ‘Learner’ as dis-
“|tinguished from ‘apprentice’ term of no generally accepted con-
Mary Alice Sauter (standing) ahd Dorothy Speicher, Manual pupils, place the finishing touches on one of the posters they have made announcing American Education Week and its pupils.
Auto Digs Up Front Lawn;
Ex-Boxer Slain as He Protests
CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—Donald Warden, 27, one-time boxer, was listening to the radio in his living room last night when a motorist
swung up to the curb and parked into the front lawn,
Mr. Warden noticed it and be-®
came angry. He had engaged in several quarrels with motorists who had left their automobiles in front
of his home while they went to nearby theaters -and stores, Many times he had been unable to find a parking space for his own machine. Damage to the lawn, however slight, was particularly exasperating to him, He told his wife, Annette, to call police and ran outside. “You can’t park he shouted. Four youths, described by witnesses as “only young fellows, climbed out of the automobile. They shouted taunting remarks. Mr. Warden battled three of them. Sud-
there,”
his automobile, one wheel digging
denly the fourth stepped up, drew a pistol and fired. Mr. Warden slumped to the ground, a bullet through his heart. The youths climbed int othe automoabile and fled.
BITTERN STOUT FIGHTER
TULARE, Cal, Nov. 4 (U.P). — A streamlined bird, possessing the fighting qualities of a hawk and the solemnity of an owl, which was hold= ing down the center of a highway near here and refused to yield even to an approaching truck, was finally
” subdued and captured after a hard
fight. It was identified by ‘experts as a bittern which had gotten out of its native habitat of marshes.
BURGLAR OFFERS BRIBE, GETS SHOT
Cafe Owner Turns Down $100, Kills Robber.
OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— V. C. Andrews heard someone trying to jimmy the door of his cafe early today, so he dressed, got his revolver and slipped down a back stairway and around to the front.
_ |The burglar was walking away when |
Mr. Andrews ordered him to put up his hands. “Give me a chance,” the man said. “I'll give you $100 if you let me go.” “Not me,” said Mr. Andrews. “You fellows have robbed me before and I wouldn't give any of you a break.” - The burglar threw a screw driver at Mr. Andrews. and ran. The lat-
ter fired four times and killed the
is a
notation. It will be a question in respect to each of the hundreds of
: Sy whether there should
e established a category of learners to be paid at rates less than the normal statutory minimum.” Exemption Permitted The Wage-Hour Act empowers the administrator to permit lower-than-standard wages for learners “to "the extent necessary in order to - prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment.” But, says Mr. Andrews: “The factual basis is now lacking
{for making such a finding, in re-
spect .to the multitude of occupations. No blanket exemption for learners is now possible.” Hearings, out of which learner exemptions may grow, are being scheduled for the textile HP the needle trades, and the knitting
industry. Manufacturers have told Mr.
FROM WAGE ACT
Blanket Exemption Sought
Andrews that the necessity of paying 25 cents an hour to learners
be discharged, since experienced workers at the same wage produce more goods with less waste,
Urges Application of Law To Pecan Industry
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Chairman Everett L. Looney of the Texas Industrial Commission today urged Wage-Hour Administrator Andrews to apply the Wage-Hour Law to the pecan shelling industry, part of which shut down when the law became effective. Mr. Looney came to Washington as personal representative of Governor Allred to dispute claims of
man, who has not been identified.
Julius Seligman, San Antonio, Tex. | Wilkinson.
has caused many such employees to|
Frank Ernest Hill, field representative of the American Associa= tion of Adult Education, is to address Indianapolis members of the Council of Administrative Women in Education at 3:45 Monday at. Shortridge High School. : Dr. Hill, aviator, poet and pro= fessor, will discuss “Making. An. American Culture.” - Miss Ida Helphinstine, principal of School 172, is chairman of the program committee,
sheller and president of the Na-~ tional Pecan Shellers of America. He said that the average San Antonio pecan sheller received $2.50 a week or 5 cents an hour. “This act was uncoubtedly meant to remedy these deplorable conditions of squalor, disease, and starvation,” he said. Mr. Seligman previously had told Mr. Andrews that the average wage was 10 to 15 cents an hour.
Exemption Section Head Is Appointed = |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Wage-Hour Administrator Andrews today appointed Merle Vincent, Denver, Colo., as chief of the WageHour Division's hearings and exemptions section. Mr. Vincent formerly was president of the Colorado Bar "Association and from 1927 to 1933 was vice president and general manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. He was divisional administrator for the NRA's textile division and} later was co-ordinator of the industrial studies of NRA activities ordered by President Roosevelt.
RAIL CO. HEARING SET
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U, P.).— The Interstate Commerce Commission today set Nov. 29 as the date for a hearing on reorganization of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. The hearing will be before Examiner Harvey H.
catetul ativing: attr Dec. 1 a. ‘erit plan. for establishing inj and’ damage. insurance rates goles into effect. © FE « Under; the plan approved by H. Pink, Superintendent of in
records will receive a 10 and 15 fx
{cent differential in their automo
insurance rates, . ©. Drivers will ‘be classified into Band; C groups. ‘Those in the fir iid group will include those who have had. elie; ‘no accidents or one Té< sulting’ in property flamage o They will | pey the lowest rates. + Class ‘drivers are those
{have Sa one: accident which |
sulted in injury only or in both Hi jury and property’ damage. will pay ‘10 per cent higher than Class A drivers,” Class C drivers, who have had or more accidents resulting in 3% jury or property damage, will 15 per cent more than Class A. Drivers will be elassified according to their records in.a 21-month Pew. riod beginning two years before ag ending three months prior to the:: effective gate. of - the. pyes.
{1 Q. Wins Title -
For Truckian
Psa, Now, it w. P) —Ed A. Smith, 32-year-eld Detroiter # has been a truckman for 11 yes 4
he knew that “five and four is, and “five and four are 11”
.{both incorrect,
Mr. Smith won the title in ‘truck “rodeo” sponsored by
21-foot tractor-trailer type try around a city parking lot and thas gave satisfactory answers Sesignid & to test his intelligence. it
way "Express, Atlanta, . second; Davis Campbell, Decatur Cartage Co., Chicago, third; Wi J. Frederfck, Louisville, Ky., defendé
van
ing champion, fourth.
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