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STANDS PATIN “TUNNEL FIGHT
Underpass Properly Drained And Safe, Council and Civic Group Told.
A committee of South Side Civic
“leaders and City Councilmen who
“appeared before the Works Board : today with a plea for better light‘ing and drainage in the Bates ~ Street tunnel met unswerving offi- : cial resistance. Works Board members told the
delegation which represented the
Federation of Community Civic
* Clubs that the tunnel is adequately * lighted, well drained and needs no . improvement.
Board members said they had
: “done everything that can be done” to make the tunnel safe and pass-
able. The civic group, accompanied
by Republican Councilmen Harmon
- Campbell and Dr. Walter E. Hem-
“~phill charged that children from * Public School 7 must wade through ~~ water in the tunnel after heavy
rains, and that the tunnel is -so inadequately lighted it is unsafe for children. A spirited discussion on the con-
* dition of the tunnel developed during the interview, in which Martin
H. Walpole, Works Board executive secretary, asserted that he had made
' a personal test of the lights in the
tunnel and found them adequate. Mr. Walpole also said that in 30 years residence in that vicinity he had never been molested by anyone and declared, “this neighborhood is just as good and safe as any other neighborhood.” “Maybe you weren't molested,” Dr.
: Hemphill said, “but you're a pretty
big man.” At the close of the session, John PF. White, School Board member and chairman of the delegation, told the Board that ‘t‘his situation can and should be remedied.” He said the tunnel controversy was really a result. of the lack of
strack elevation in the community.
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LEBANON, O., Dec. 23 (U. P.).— In 50 years as a steeplejack, George Hopkins, 71, never suffered an injury until he came home the other day, stumbled over a brick and fractured three ribs.
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‘ By MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer PEORIA, Ill, Dec. 23.—Taking God into full partnership in one’s business and giving Him the greater part of the profits—that is the way to real, lasting success, according to the firm belief of R. G. LeTourneau, head of three plants of the machine manufacturing Le-
Tourneau Co. of Georgia, Illinois, and California. There is nothing phony about this. It is all in deadly earnest so far as LeTourneau is concerned. He himself gives religious talks to his workmen. Tis big bass voice leads in the singing of hymns. But anybody could do this without cost to himself. Money talks and LeTourneau makes his money talk religion. (Mr. LeTourneau is the brother of J. W. LeTourneau, president of the Ace Motors Hudson Agency of. Indianapolis.) To God he has given 67.5 per cent of the 450,000 shares of stock in his companies. This has taken the form of a gift of that amount of stock to the LeTourneau Foundation, with offices in Rockefeller Center, New York City. Valued at more than $13,000,000, the Foundation has a yearly revenue of about $450,000. This money is employed in spreading the Gospel and supporting missions. That's the LeTourneau way of showing his relationship with the Supreme Be-1 ing. Heard Evangelist
As he so seriously mixes religion with his business, LeTourneau’s success story differs greatly from most. Born about 52 years ago and reared in California, he never got beyond the eighth grade in school. Forced by poverty to seek work early, he got a job in a foundry. Eventually he opened a small welding shop and garage when he enlisted in the U. S. Army during the World War. His business went to pot and he found himself in debt. Paying off his creditors out of wages earned as a mechanic, he bought an old caterpillar tractor, repaired it and got jobs in irrigation work. He invented an earth scraper and started a small factory in Stockten, Cal. The 1929 crash hit him and he found himself $200,000 in debt. One night during that troubled |" period, LeTourneau was sitting at his drawing board, trying to sketch a new machine which he hoped would retrieve his broken fortunes. He heard there was an evangelist in town, pushed aside his work and went to hear him. It was not a
always been an ardent Christian. Worked All Night
In telling of that night, LeTourneau says he truly believes he was inspired by God, because he came back to his drawing board with renewed faith, worked all night and got up from his task in the morning with the completed sketches of the scraper. He patented these and they brought riches within his grasp. The machine digs up earth, loads it, carries it, and spreads it where it is wanted. From that fateful night, LeTourneau has never looked back. His’ company now owns big plants at Stockton, Cal, Peoria, Ill. and Toccoa, Ga. LeTourneau not only addresses religious meetings in his factories, attended by his employes, but fiies around the country in his own plane to conduct religious services. In a recent address to his men, he said:
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“The idea of service to God in business - is not a bargain with the Lord. It pays to serve the
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‘R. G. LeTourneau tells his workers: in business is not a bargain with the Lord ...
case of conversion. LeTourneau had |
“The idea of service to God.
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Money Talks Religion’ for Brother of Local Auto Man
Lord, but not to serve the Lord because it pays.” Recently he got a Goyernment contract for making $6,000,000 worth of shells. Some people have asked how he could thus take an active part in the rearmament program. To this LeTourneau replies: “When Christ found the racke-
teers despoiling His Father’s house,
He made a whip and drove them out. The aggressor nations of our day have left no doubt that they are the enemies of God and the Bible. That these nations intend to include the whole world in their ruthless conquest is no longer denied. . . . The Apostle Paul exhorts us to be subject to the powers that be, not only in the technicalities of the law, but in real loyalty. When the Government representatives came to me and explained that our Georgia plant was the only one in South equipped to fill this large shell order and that they especially desired our co-operation because we are located both comparatively safe from attack and near the Birmingham steel mills, I felt it was right and proper to comply with their request, although I should much rather build our regular peacetime machinery.”
M'CARRAN ASSAILS IMPORT LICENSING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U.P.).— Reports that the Administration is considering a plan to license imports today brought from Senator Pat McCarran (D., Nev.) the charge that such restrictions would lead to war with Japan. No concrete proposal has emerged from informed discussion of a rigid import license control system and it was understood that the matter has not yet been taken up formally with President Roosevelt. Authorities consider the existing export licensing system an economic defense weapon and point out that control of imports would strengthen defense mechanism and create an offensive weapon as well.
er LIQUOR DEALER, BURGLAR SLAIN OVER WEEK-END
Bandit Kills Merchant Who Resolved Never to Give In To Holdup Man.’
Search for the murderer of John Ilieff, 57, proprietor of a liquor store at 1001 Indiana Ave. was renewed
today as police reached the conclusion a man held on a vagrancy
charge is not connected with the 5
crime. Mr. Ilieff was killed Saturday night by a holdup man who made his escape by jumping through the plate glass window of the store after apparently failing to solve a trick door lock. Apparently, police said, he got no loot. . Although police have found ‘no witness to the shooting, the victim's son, Nick Ilieff, heard the shot and the crashing glass from his apart-|& ment above and looked out the window in time to see someone get into a car and leave.
* Car Owner Surrenders
He obtained the license number of the car and a few hours later the owner. surrendered to police, saying that he understood they were look=ing for him. Meantime, police are making a scientific study of the slivers of glass found in the automobile. The suspect told police that he
" |had stopped his car near the store
when he thought a metal tire carrier on it had fallen. Detectives be-
lieve that he was the man Nick Ilieff |;
saw get into a car shortly after the shooting. They. believe, too, that the glass found in his car could have been tracked into it after the suspect had got out of the car onto the sidewalk and then back into the car. Mr. Ilieff, who for many years had operated restaurants and taverns in Indianapolis, was shot twice through the heart with a 38-caliber bullet and was dead when a police emergency squad arrived at his shop.
Held Up Before
The son, Nick, said that his father had said he never would give up money to a holdup man. Five years ago at a tavern at 560 W. Washington St., he refused to surrender money to a holdup man. The robber fired a shot into the floor and left. Surviving Mr. Ilieff are his wife, Mary; the son, Nick; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Drenick of Gary, Ind, and a brother, Pete, of Indianapolis. Services are to be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Stevens & Sons Funeral Home and burial is to be at the Glen Haven Cemetery. In another shooting Saturday night, Robert Ryle, 30, of 819 California St., was killed when attempting to burglarize the home of Walter Stoiber, 1252 Hartford St.
Seen by Neighbors
A neighbor, Mrs. Anna Leffle, 54, of 1306 Hartford, saw Ryle entering the house and called police. Police squads surrounded the Stoiber home in a few minutes. After a back porch battle in which he suffered a severe scalp contusion, Radio Patrolman James Graham, a veteran policeman, fired three shots at the burglar. Two of them struck Ryle and he died immediately.
PLANE SCATTERS GEESE MONTPELIER, Vt, Dec. 23 (U. P.) —Frightened by a transport plane, a flock of several hundred wild geese became separated from
the leader. They flew aimlessly for fw
hours until many fell to the ground. Two crashed into a church steeple.
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STATE DEATHS
ADVANCE—C G Ross, 51. S8ur- ors: Wife, Ma Chalmer: piothesi; Mr. D end Mr A iiiam Ross; brothers, gen, (Joseph aryl Ao Robert: sister, Mrs. Lena Paul and Fronk; sisters; Mrs. Mabel Ryan Tro Hp ION—Mrs. Mary Stevens, 67.
and Miss Eunice Ross. B, erty Shookman, 99 Survivors: . Daughters. Mrs. Cary Myer 1s, ANDERSON—Mrs. Mrs. Lyle and Mrs, Harold B. 86. Survivor: Daughter, Thomas; sons, James, H. D. and E. Edward Stevens; : mother. Mrs. Bn Gossett;
Shaffer. RUSHVIL: E—Mrs. Lydia Zike, 35. Sur- sisters, Mrs. H. Nall and Mrs. George 38. Survivors: Moth-
{ivors: Daughters, Mrs. Bert Miller and HarTe ewis R. Holloway, Mrs. Clarence Meyer; brothers, Leora and er, Mrs, Emma Ho OWay: Iota Grant; sister, M, Thomas Howard.
Alonzo Phares; sister. Mrs. Frances Davis lars CO RSE—D. F. Walker, 42. Surviv-{" Mrs E. Massey, 56. Survivors: Husors: Wife, Zelma: daughter, Louise: son, bang: ‘cl A: daughters, Mrs. Ethel Purtee, Jack; brothers, Albert and Harry; sisters, ia red Stanley and Miss Montana Mrs. Alma Winchell and Mrs. Rosa Deta-| Turner; sons, Wilbur and Francis Turner; more. mother, Mrs. Amanda Barkdull; brothers, s IVING "Bat 5 Mrs, Martha, Kell 8¢ 86.| William and Pearl Barkdull. urvivors: Daughters de| MEDORA — Mrs. Jannie Hamilton, 50. and Mrs. ER oberts; step ughters, Survivors: Husband, Kirby; dau hters, Mrs. W. LE Roberts and Miss Alice Pat-|Mrs. Margaret Harrison, irs. Milde Bo pon Ed nT, fr a, McElfresh and Miss Tat Hamilton. T_-— Josep ompson, MIDDLETOWN—Frederick K. BenzenSurvivors: Wife, Mar, Osme and George 8: Sisto iy: Mrs, BS: erih bower, To Survivor: Wife, Carrie. brother, cor ge.
Ryan; o MUNCIE—Mrs. Lucy Ellen Warnell, So ELWOOD~—Levi Norris, 88. Survivors: FvIyOrs, ns. aren an Wife, Mary: sons, Er nest Charles and
RD daug hiers, M Mrs. “Virginia Vinson an iss Opa arn Vir i Sau hers, Mrs. E. M. Thomas ahd LE—J Ms : 1 King Bry A Wits: James, 0. Sign Russell Ais a Mis. Elizabeth L. Crist, | witt, Mrs. - Ratlieff Seo Miss Virginia 8. Survivors: Stepsons, Clarence and Stel hens: H. Stephens; stepson, Raymond Crist. Earl Gibson: Be uo, Mrs. 2
Rachel Cherringtan, Mrs. Charles
Stephens, 67.
FAIRNO UNT—Mrs. i ep opiach- brother. John. 4 EuS0s arles; | QGDEN—Mrs. Mollie Brooks, 60. Sure d Ernest: daughters, | yivors: Husband, Robert; dau hters, Mrs.
Mrs. Mary Curless s. Edna Farrell: sister, Mrs. Jennie DS OLE and Me. ressie Fleming;
Connor; brother, J. F. Collins J ! SHERIDAN—Charles L. Marlow, 55. SurGALVESTON — Mrs. wary Ann Wilson, . 87. Survivors: daug Mrs. Emma : i M eCDAIleS 8nd Gray; son, Charles; ar. G. W. Wininger; sisters. Mrs. Ruth Sehring, Mrs. inderella Mills, Mrs. Savilla Finney and |prother. rs. Della Zehring. Lanham, M KNIGHTSTOWN—MTrs. Leslie Pugh, 65.| Ruby Doane. Survivors: Husband, Leslie; Coffin; sisters, Mrs. I Charles. Estell and M
Ts. and Miss Mildred Mzrlow; : sisters, Mrs. Maude Nellie Pursell and | Mrs.
VAN BUREN~—Mrs. Cora Alice Miller, 70. | Survivors: Husband, William; daughters, Mrs. Tlah King and Mrs. Echo Sowers: brother, John mans; sister, Mrs, Vessie
. M." Johnson; |
KOKOMO—Harry O. Hillis, 61. Surviv-|Holloway.
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