Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1939 — Page 13
Second Section
FIVE-CENT PAY INCREASE DUE FOR 650,000
Wage Law Will Enter Into Second Year Oct. 24; Hours Base Cut.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U. P.) — Wage-hour administration officials estimated today that 650,000 workers will receive pay increases and that 1,750,000 workers will gain reduced working hours when the Fair Labor Standards Act enters its second year.
Bhe statutory national minimum wage for approximately 12,000,000 employees in interstate commerce industries will increase Oct. 24 from 25 to 30 cents an hour. The regular -work week will drop from 44 to 42 hours a week with overtime payment in cash required for work above that limit. Simultaneously, a special wage order by Administrator Elmer F. Andrews will increase the minimum wage for the 600,000 workers in the textile industry from 25 to 32% cents an hour. Southern textile manufacturers fought that order vigorously and appealed’ “unsuccessfully to President Roosevelt.
Svbject to Changes
Officials emphasized that the 650,000 employee figure for wage increases was preliminary and might be subject to change after a study now being made. They estimated that 475,000 workers outside the textile industry would benefit by the jump from 25|to 30 cents an hour, and that 175,000| textile employees would receive pay increases when that industry’s national minimum goes up to 32% cents. One other special wage order —affecting the hoosiery industry— became effective Sept. 18 with national minima of 32% cents for the seamless branch of the industry and 40 cents for the full-fashioned branch. That, it was estimated, raised the wages of 16,000 of the industry’s 46,000 employees. Additional pay raises for 277,500 workers have been recommended by five other special industry committees, but have not been approved yet by Andrews.
Other Industries Listed
Those recommendations are: Apparel—From 25 cents per hour to four different rates: 32, 35, 37% and 40 cents for various branches of the industry (with a special 30-cent rate for Puerto Rico), would raise the pay of approximately 200,000 of the industry’s 650,000 workers. Wool — From 25 to 30 cents an hour, an increase for 11,000 of the indsutry’s 140,000 employees. Millinery—From 25 to 40 cents per hour, an increase for approximately 3500 of the industry’s 23,000 workers. Men’s Hats—From 25 to 35 cents an hour for straw hats, from 25 to 40 cents an hour for felt hats, an increase for 2000 of the industry’s 21,000 employees. Shoes — From 25 to 35 cents an hour, an increase for 60,000 of the industry’s 250,000 employees.
Other Changes Ahead
The wage increase and hours reduction becoming effective Oct. 24 represent the second stage of the 40 cents per hour minimum wage and 40-hour week goal. The regular work week limitation will decrease to 40 hours on Oct. 24, 1940, but the national 40-cent hourly wage minimum does not become effective universally until Oct. 24, 1945, although special industry committees appointed by the administrator may recommend that goal sooner. Whether Mr. Andrews still will be administrator”when the law’s second year begins within a fortnight could not be learned. It has been reported in usually reliable circles, and not denied by the White House, that Mr. Roosevelt has decided to shift Mr. Andrews to another Federal post and replace him with Col. Philip Fleming, U. S. Army engineer and New Deal “trouble shooter.”
ANNOUNGE SPEAKERS FOR FOREMEN'S MEET
Speakers for the Indiana Council of Foremen’s Clubs annual convention at the Claypool Hotel tomorrow under the sponsorship of the Indianapolis branch of the organization were announced today. They include A. C. Horrocks, Akron, O.; Frank Hockna, Lafayette, Ind.; PF. J. Stahr, Hagerstown, Ind.; H. E. Hudson, Anderson, Ind., and L. E. Swartzenbrover, Elkhart, Ind. The Council is composed of foremen and supervisors from the various industries in the State. The Indianapolis local has at least one representative from each of the city’s industries, according to Arthur Williams, executive secretary of the council.
CHINESE RELEASE AMERICAN MARINE
TIENTSIN, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Col. William G. Hawthorne, commander of the United States Marine detachment here, said today that Private Marcell Szymanski, from Lorain, O., had been released by Jap-anese-controlled Chinese policemen, who detained him after a shooting incident yesterday. Szymanski and Corporal John Armonia, Philadelphia, were accompanying goods in transit here from Peiping, where they are stationed, and had an argument witha railway guard of undetermined nationality. Armonia shot the guard in the thigh and went to the Marine barracks. » Szymanski stayed and guarded the goods until policemen came.
REPORTS LOSS OF PURSE
Mrs. Doris Sweatt, 114 S. Webster Ave., reported a purse containing $11, a $39 wrist watch and a $19
diamond ring was grabbed from her
while she was shopping in a down-
Really Enjoying His Wordsworth |5 PORTERS HURT
Oscar L. Watkins . . . after 56
e Indianapolis
? — Times Photo. years, he still finds ‘Wordsworth
worthwhile.
Retired T. vacher Works: At 73—and Hunts Poetry
By JAMES THRASHER
In the middle. of a bookshelf at the Oscar L. Watkins home, 2415 N. Pennsylvania St., there stands a volume of Wordsworth’s poems. It is not a beautiful book, nor a rare or expensive one. But it is, perhaps, the most valuable volume in the world’s finest private Wordsworthian library. Mr. Watkins bought the book 56 years ago, when he was 17. In it he found inspiration and stimulation which expanded the one book to a thousand. Because of his enthusiasm for the poet's work and life and place in the world of letters, he has made seven trips fo England, He came to know many of the great authors and bibliographers of Britain and America, and spent thousands in trying to acquire an example of everything that Wordsworth wrote for publication or that has been written about him.
Not a 1-Hobby Man
Wordsworth is only one of Mr. Watkins’ hobbies. Another is his stamp collection—the same collection, incidentally, that had both .its owner and the police worried the other day until Mrs. Watkins found it in an unaccustomed spot in the house. Yet another hobby is flowers. And if the rains hadn’t arrived at about the same time as the reporter, this story of the Watkins Wordsworth collection might not have been written. For until the showers drove him to cover, Mr. Watkins was busy digging up bulbs against the coming of winter. : At one time, he said, he had a garden of perennials representing every continent except Australia. He had made arrangements to “swap” an American bloom for a plant raised by one of his New Zealand friends. But the World War intervened, and he never did get it. In addition to hobbies, Mr.. Watkins goes in for manual labor on an extensive scale. -This summer, at the age of 73, he painted his house. He did it by himself, too, climbing ladders to slap paint on a third-story cornice like a youngster. It’s good exercise, and besides, says
Mr. Watkins, “I can save enough by| ©
doing it myself to buy a rare edition of Wordsworth, you see.” Even Wife Marveled
Not so many years ago, Mr. Watkins did the rather unliterary job of putting a new roof on his house.
Even Mrs. Watkins, who by this time is used to being the wife of a versatile virtuoso, marveled at the feat. “How do you know when {it’s
right?” she very reasonably inquired. “I have studied Latin and Greek,” her husband replied ismply. “I have a trained mind.”
Mr. Watkins got his Latin and Greek at Harvard, where he interspersed his higher educaiton with an occasional year or two of teaching to finance himself. Later he taught college mathematics until he became Indiana representative of a book firm, a position he held for 45 years until his recent retirement. He still subscribes to a mathematical journal. and works calculus problems to “exercise his mind,” Mrs. Watkins says How Mr. Watkins could pursue all these intellectual bypaths in addi-
tion to earning a living and rearing a family probably will remain a mystery to everyone except Mr. Watkins, who sees nothing remarkable in it. He can discourse with authority on a variety of subjects, but Wordsworth remains his pirme enthusiasm, after half a century.
Sell? No Sir!
He will concede that Cérnell University possesses the best Words-
worth collection, but says that his own tops the private libraries. And with two or three more items, he insists that his collection would be second to none. The collecting of it is a constant occupation, with new critical works coming out or a rare item turning up here and there. The Watkins library has been a source of envy to many collectors for many years. The Library -of Congress and Yale and Harvard Universities have sent representatives here in an attempt to persuade Mr. Watkins to sell it. Indiana University’s efforts along the same line are of long duration. Mr. Watkins always told the would-be ‘buyers that “if I live enough years, I am going to retire some day. Then I will really have a chance to enjoy my library.” Which is just what he is doing.
KILLED IN EXPLOSION
AURORA, Ind. Oct. 13 (U. PJ). —John Sullivan, 41, of Aurora, was burned fatally yesterday when cooker exploded at a Lawrenceburg distillery where he was employed. He was burned with live steam.
Scarecrow Beginning to Flop Despite Past Performances
There Are Not So Many Birds in the Hand and Few in the Bush These Days.
USUALLY RELIABLE sources of incidental information agreed today that the ordinary scarecrow is on the way out, at least in
Marion County.
It is being made unnecessary, they said, by a growing scarcity of the crows, birds which some farmer with two suits wanted to frighten
some years ago. : This farmer, ‘whose name is lost to history, stuck a pole in the ground and nailed a “T” pole on it. Over this he draped his second suit. On top he put an old hat. And the result was supposed to resemble a8 man.
Crows stayed clear of the place, it is reported, and did not feed on newly-painted seed and did not steal baby chicks. However, after some time, crows got used to this “curious “man” who didn’t ever do what he promised to do in such a threatening manner. They got bolder and bolder and sometimes would sit on his arms and laugh, ” s ”
FARMERS NOTICED this trend °
to anarchy, and there evolved a scarecrow that was intended to flap in the wind. The more the flop of these lat-
ter-day scarecrows, the less of a
flop they were, so to speak. These could be seen in large quantities, sometimes three and four to the farm, until a few. years ago when they, too, began to die out. Farmers say that baby chicks are ‘better protected these days
from the crows, and that it doesn’t
appear to be worth while to keep
scarecrows for grain fields. Their sphere of influence, even when they're “right,” is relatively small in a large field and a man can’t keep putting up scarecrow after scarecrow until several large fields are covered. . = 8
SO THE breed died out a good deal. Agricultural men say there still are many in the southern: part of the state, where the farm equipment is not so uptodate, possibly, as it is in the better farmland sections. Then there is the factor, per= haps the biggest, of the annual crow hunts staged by the conservation clubs of the state. Literally thousands of crows are killed an= ‘nually, according to crow vital statistics kept faithfully in the files ot the Conservation Department.
be 100 years old each, but they are finding this feat increasingly difficult under modern conditions. So—fewer crows, fewer scarecrows. This is a significant development.
wo
Crows ordinarily might live to
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939
IN DERAILMENT
Crack Pennsy Train Leaves Tracks Near Zoo in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13 (U. PJ). —Five Pullman porters were hurt, none seriously, today when four passenger cars of: the! crack Pennsylvania Railroad Golden Arrow route from Chicago to New York were derailed near the Philadélphia
Zoo. Railroad officials said the derailment was caused by a freight train sideswiping the express. Although passengers were shaken severely, none was hurt, according to ‘the railroad. The accident occurred at the same spot where there have been several previous derailments. Every ‘time President Roosevelt’s special passes through here en route from Hyde Park to Washington, special precautions are taken.
FORD REHIRES MEN
ceding the Butler-George Washington foutban game,
- | members of the - U. ‘A. W.-C. I 0. “who, according to findings of the,
‘Imes
Miss Carol MM. Fields, a. representative ol the Butler University ‘sents Lieut. Comm. F. F. Knachel ‘of the U. S. Naval Reserve with an “National Defense Day” program at the Butler Bowl tomorrow, Activities
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“ Second-Olass Matter
Entered at : Pos Indianapolis Ind.
Butler Will Observe ‘Defense Day’
promotion department, preto participate in the start at 1:30 p. m., pre
.
ACCUSED OF REFUSAL [otine and damaging equipment of a
‘gasoline station here.
AFTER ‘UNION RIFT’ {National ‘Labor Relations Board,. TO PAY FOR GASOLINE | rubert, police said, was named in
were fired. in 1937 for union activi DETROIT, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Rich-|ties.” ard T. Leonard, regional director of
the ‘United Automobile Workers Fector, said “mast of a ad
a warrant filed by Delbert Hartman, | RICHMOND, Ind. Oct. 13 (U. P.).|local gas station operator. He was Harry Bennett, Ford: personnel. di-|_james Rubert of Dayton, O., was |caught, State Police and Connersreturned: today from Connersville ville authorities said, in a chase
(C. 1. 0.), announced today that the|hjred merely in the course of re-|Where he was arrested yesterday on through, Connersville after - he . ig-
Ford Motor Co. has re-employed the employment for 1940 production. -
a charge of refusing to pay for gas-
v-police siren.
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[FRITZ HEAD OF U.S. DRUGGISTS
3 Elected at st. Paul Conven-
. tion; Ban Voted on Salacious Magazines.
Albert C. Fritz, Indianapolis drug-
‘| gist, today was president of the Na
tional Association of Retail Druggists. He was elected unanimously
. lat the organization’s annual conven-
tion yesterday in St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Fritz lives at. 413 N. Grant Ave. and. operates several pharma-‘cies~-on the East Side. He is secretary of the Indianapolis Association of Retail Druggists and once was member of the executive com= mittee of the national association. Resolutions adopted at the last session - promised removal of salacious magazines from drug store racks and asked the Government to stay out of the drug business. Other officers elected were Clem Czwerinski, Milwaukee, Wis, first vice president; Edgar Bellis, Bronx- | ville, N. Y., second vice president; Verner Peterson, Houston, Tex. third vice president; John W. Dargavel, Chicago, secretary, and John B. Tripeny, Casper, Wyo., treasurer,
BREAKS WRIST IN FALL
Mrs Stella Persinger, 38, of 234 BE, Ninth St., broke her left wrist when she fell over a step in the new Coliseum at, the State Fair Grounds last night, she reported to police. Seay sent to St. Vincent's Hospita
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