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Your Duty And Your Privilege A Vote In Tuesday's Election! AKRON BEACON JOURNAL final 'Mary Worth" Page 35 Today Begin Thi Great Comic EDITION Ohio Most Complete Newspaper Monday, November 7, 1940 no. 110th Year 36 Pages Four Cents LEWIS, CHING CALL MEETINGS THROWN FROM AUTO, THEN HIT Rex Mays Hurtles To Death In Race Steel trike Cramblin TERRORIZE WOMEN Robbers RaidHome -Get $3,000 Five Men Slajje Abel Si. Holdup 1 Coal Hinted ove 'i Parents Sob 4 If FAIR WEATHER FOR TUESDAY Get Out The Vote, Both Parties' Aim Booths Open At 6:30 A. 3L; Expect At Least 65,000 Ballots In Akron By If. H.

1IARKIMAN SUMMIT COUNTY political party leaders are putting the final touches on their "get out the vote" machinery with the encouraging report from the weather bureau that tomorrow's election day will be mild and without rain until nightfall. Both Republican and Democratic party leaders were hopeful of a large vote and campaign managers issued optimistic predictions of victory for their slates of candidates. Death struck Rex Mays, one of the great automobile speed kings, in a flash of roaring steel at. Del CalM Sunday. Phil Bath of the Los Angeles Times made these sequence pictures.

Here Mays' car skids after tearing out railing along the track. The car passing him is driven by Johnny sOlfCillTilll 1 This picture shows Mays' car overturning. Twenty-two thousand horrified spectators saw the accident. The Del Mar track is the race horse oval. OQ11 ACT 3 Paths Open To Truman St United lrei The steel strike was on -the road to complete settlement today and government official were expected to decide1 by Wednesday whether President Truman should take action to end the coal walkout.

Republic Steel Corp, and Jonrt Laughltn Steel third and fourth largcNt In the industry, were reported almost ready tn settle on the basis of the CIO Steel Workers contract With Kethlehem Steel. A number of smaller firms joined the settlement parade. Federal Mediator Cyrus Cning met in Washington with President Joseph E. Moody of the Southern Coal Producers association. Ching was expected to meet tomorrow with northern and western pro ducers and officials of mines operated by the steel firms.

Meanwhile, President John I Lewis of the striking United Mine Workers met in Chicago with his 200-man policy committee but it appeared that he had failed in his attempt to drive a wedge between Illinois-Indiana mine owners and the rest of the industry. However, it was reported that Lewis was putting new pressure on the Illinois-Indiana operators to make a separate peace with him. WASHINGTON observers believed that Ching would meet with Lewis Wednosday a.id then decide by nightfall of that day whether to ask Presldenl Truman to take action to end the soft coal strike. Mr. Truman has said he would Invoke the Taft-Hartley law tn end the walkout If a national crisis developed.

With cold weather settling over Hie nation and fuel stocks dwindling rapidly, many state and local officials believed the emergency had already enveloped the country. Two other courses also were open to the president. He could make a personal appeal to the UMW to suspend the strike, or he could appoint a fact-finding board similar to that which investigated the steel strike. THE KEPI UUC and Jones A Laughlin settlements would send 83,000 strikers back to work. Smaller steel firms which settled over the week end were Lukens Steel with 3,000 workers, Northwestern Steel and Wire with 1,700, and Pittsburgh Bridge A Iron with 150 workers.

Each plant reopened today. Pittsburgh Steel, employing 8,000, scheduled a meeting with the CIO Steel Workers early thi week and Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. officials were scheduled to meet with representatives of 20,000 workers tomorrow. With these settlements gradually cutting the ground from beneath It-, position, the huge C. S.

Steel Corp. was reported as ready to rcMime tiinks with the union, possibly today or tomorrow. "Big steel's line was flanked when the union drove a bargain with Bethlehem for a pension program more extensive than that recommended by the fact-finding board. MKANWIIII.K, two other unions opened pension talks today with General Motors Corp. The CIO United Auto Workers, already negotiating with Chrysler was ready to demand that: General Motors grant pensions similar to the $100-monthly benefits won from the Ford Motors.

The United Electric Equipment Workers, ousted last week from the CIO, were expected to demand that General Motors grant them similar pension and maintain bargaining procedure with the UK rather than with a union created to supplant it in the CIO. Derailed STEELE. Mo. 0 A Fiiscr. freight train was derailed several miles southwest of here today.

(There were no casualties. A bioken i rail was blamed. yffiV- were heading into this 111 lie town here, and they got out right alongside a road." "I fought with the Airplane, trying to keep it away from the town, and then I bailed out, too. It was beyond all hope, in a 25-degree dive, when I got out at about 800 feet." WENGER SAID the only fatal Five masked men terrorized a household at 164 Abel st. early Sunday in a search for money and finally did escape with about $3,000 in cash.

The cash was taken ffnm John Moore, 88, of the Abel st. address, who came home Wjiile the holdup was in progress. Before Moore arrived, two of the masked men had abused his wife, Mrs. Bessie Moore, 23, in an attempt to make her reveal the hiding place of any money. Mrs.

Moore was In bed with a broken leg. The men pulled her out by her Injured leg and then propped her up in a chair. A woman friend who was visiting Mrs. Moore screamed and was ilenced by blows from a hair brush. She was Mrs.

Dora Shep-pard, of 163 Gertrude st. Both women were treated later at Peoples hospital. WHILE THE women were being mauled, two more of the gang were lining up and robbing five men downstairs in the living room of the house. The five had called to visit Mrs. Moore and were getting into their car to leave when the masked men appeared.

They were herded back into the house at gunpoint. MOORE WAS described by police as the owner of the Elite pool room at 20 N. Howard st. In a recent case in common pleas court, a parole violator, Ramon Jones, charged that there is gambling at the pool room mentioned. Moore was arrested in 1942 and charged with operating a numbers game but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.

ONE OF THE hold-up victims said a gun used by a masked man was a fancy weapon with a long barrel, pearl-handled and nickel plated. Police theorized the weapon might have been one of 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns stolen some-timw' Wne week end from Le' tongtime iIZT Vtwere Btolen fronl Lee's rtment at 715 W. Mkquick jr He said the loot in-cludetf-rr pistols, all in holsters and loaded; five shotguns and three rifles, not loaded. Lee said he was a "gun collector." In the arsenal were two matched pearl-handled pistols of the type used in the hold-up, once toportedly owned by a police officer now on pension. THE FIVE men lined up in the Moore residence identified themselves as Johnny Milan, 1174 Sweitzer Carl Jones, 1178 Sweitzer a Theodore Bridges, 1230 Sweitzer Willie Finney, See ROBBERS, Page 2 Airliners Set Two Records LONDON UP) Trans-'ntic airliners set two records yesterday for New York-United Kingdom crossing.

The Pan-American stratocruis-er Westward Ho landed at London nine hours and 12 minutes out of New York. It broke the mark set the day before by a Pan-American plane flying the dis-ance in nine hours and 21 minutes. Prestwick, Scotland, had two elaimers for records, both DC-6's from Scandinavian Airlines. One airliner made the trip from New York in nine hours and 18 minutes. Not long after another Scandinavian DC-6 came in claiming eight hours, 58 minutes.

I Fair Enough AKRON AND VICINITY Mostly sunny and fair today with a high of 60. Partly eloudy and mild tonight with a low of 49. Tuesday partly cloudy, followed by scattered showers Tuesday night. High Tuesday about 60. Wednesday cloudy and cooler.

Highest temperature Sunday, 46; lowest, 32. Record high for today, 76 in 1938; record low, 22 in 1930. Sunset today, 5:15 p. sunrise Tuesday, 7:06 a. m.

Relative humidity at 7:30 a. m. today, 89; at 7:30 p. m. Sunday, 54.

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Ilnrriman, Beacon Journal political expert, will head a staff of reporters who will assemble and interpret returns. Broad' casts will be direct from the Board of Elections at the courthouse. First WAKR broadcast Tuesday night will be al 6:35. After that, election returns will get right of way over all other programs. The WAKR-Beacon Jour-nal election night roundup also will include results of importance from elections throughout the nation.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Komorek of Clayville, N. Bob. at an inquest in which the coroner ruled that the death of their 6-week-oId son Stephen was accidental.

AP Wirephoto. 'Kidnaped' Boy Killed In Fall, Mother Admits Woman Says Fear Of Her Husband's Reactions Prompted Abduction Hoax UTICA, N. Y. UP) A remorse-stricken mother has confessed that her 6-week-old son was killed in a fall from her arms and that her story of kidnaping was "made up" out of fear of what her husband would say. "I dropped my baby," Mrs.

Stella Komorek blurted out at a coroner's inquest. The sobbing admission from the plump, 29-year-old mill worker's wife came 11 hours after the body of her son, Stephen, was found in a millpond, 500 yards from the modest Komorek home in nearby Clayville. Coroner Preston It. Clark gave a verdict of accidental death. Authorities said no charge would be placed against Mrs.

Komorek. During hours of steady questioning by slate police yesterday, she had clung to her story that the infant was snatched from its bassinet in the kitchen late Friday night by a strange man. BUT UNDER OATH at the coroner's inquest, she broke almost at once. "Now, Stella, tell us what happened," Dr. Clatke said to her.

"I dropped my baby," Mrs. Komorek blurted out. "lie wiggled right out of my arms. I was feeding him. He fell on See 'KIDNAPING' Page 1 I 1 If s-f I Throughout the county, in villages and townships, 388 voting places will open at 6:30 a.

m. Tuesday and close 12 hours later at 6:30 p. m. There was a wide difference of opinion among election observers about the size of the vote. Esti mates ranged from" 65,000 to in the city of Akron where 122,000 men and women are eligible to vote.

WHU.fi INTEREST in party ranks has been high, the public generally has appeared unexcited by a campaign which has been described as being in the "pillow fight" class. Akron will elect a mayor, 13 councilmen, two judges and four school board members. Barberton and Cuyahoga Falls as well as all Summit county villages will elect slates of municipal officials. The ity in the crash was a cat which they were bringing from Col. Robert I Scott, commander of the fighter school st Chandler, to Scott's father at Warner Robins.

"The rat was in ft box in the pilot's compartment," Wenger said. "None of us had time to save him. I guess he's still in the airplane." this evening between seven and nine. I wonder if I can get my blouse washed out before it's gone." Things we take for granted, like clean linen on tables and electric lights at all times these mean more than they ever did before, since I left Palestine where electricity has to be carefully con-See HELEN, Page 2 townships will elect trustees, marshals and justices of peace, and school board elections are general in all school districts. It was predicted that the turnout of women voters will be ex ceptionally large if the weather remains favorable.

Special issues and board of education races are expected to bring them out. There are dozens of tax and bond levy proposals in the county's many political subdivisions, five township zoning ordinance proposals and the colored oleo statewide issue to attract voter interest. OTHER STATE issues are the Massachusetts ballot and probate judge amendment to the constitution. Special Akron issues are the University of Akron, Metropolitan See GET OCT, Page 2 In No Hurry On Pensions, Says Timkcn CANTON, O. (JP The strikebound Timken Roller Bearing Co, will not be influenced by any pension agreement reached by an? other steel company, W.

E. Um-stattd, president of the firm, said today. At the same time, he said, the company's offer still stands to continue the negotiation period on pensions to Dec. 81, to suspend the no-strike agreement until Jan. 10 and to pay eax'h employe six cents an hour for every day beyond Dec.

31 that no agreement Is reached. That was the last offer made by Timken to avert the strike Friday night. The union stood by its demand for immediate acceptance of the basic terms of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. settlement, with details to be worked out later. I.

W. ABEL, Canton district director of the CIO United Steel Workers, said, "We haven't changed our position since last Friday. Our terms of settlement are immediate acceptance of the pension plan that we submitted last Thursday. "We plan to continue the strike until the company accepts. Without question, that plan will he granted by all other steel companies throughout the country." According to Umstattd, the com-pany has not changed its position either.

"We are going to study the plan presented by the union. After the study is completed, we'll get in touch with union representatives and tell them what our position is, he said, and added: "In the meantime, if the union chooses to let the men come back to work, the men can work while the study is being completed," Insane Slashes I Children STKRLING, III. (CD Mrs. Moughan, 35, was committed to a state mental hospital today five hours after she admitted that "voices in my head" drove her to slash the throats of her four young children. The children were expected to recover.

Judge Walter J. Stevens listened to replies of Mrs. Moughan to questions by three physicians, then adjudged her insane. Doughlon 86 WASHINGTON TP- Rep. Robert L.

Doughton, North Carolina, chairman of the tax-framing house ways and means committee, celebrated his 86th birthday today st his home in North Carolina. Today's Chuckle A gold tooth is not the sign of riches. It's Just a flash in the pan. Cnka Voice. Here Maya is seen as his car whirled th rough the air and the famed driver was thrown out onto the track.

Mays was reported struck by one of five cars which were almost abreast as they rounded the turn and officials said that his fatal injuries were caused by this, not by his own accident. AP Wirephotos. Story and Mays' photo on Tage 24. Pilot Avoids Crashing In Town Rides Disabled Bomber Down To 800 Feet Before Jumping Beacon JournaLWAKR For Election Results! Helen Back, Finds U. S.

Is Very Like Heaven By HELEN WATEKIIOLSE THE UNITED STATES and Heaven are almost synonymous in the mind of one weary traveler today. The roar of plane motors are still in my ears and my eyes are tired of scanning the skies to look for breaks in the overcast. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. Six servicemen parachuted safely from a disabled B-25 bomber near here last night, and the plucky pilot who fought the plummeting plane away from this populous area was credited with preventing possible tragedy. Capt.

David W. Wenger of Denver, ordered the others to jump when one of the plane's engines failed and a magneto fire burst out In the other. Then he rode the plane down to 800 feet altitude, steering it away from the town, before he finally Jumped. The plane crashed In a wooded section about miles northwest of Milledgeville. If Wenger had not ridden It into open country, It might have crashed into the town.

Besides the pilot, co-pilot and one other crewman, there were three "hitchikers" aboard. Wenger said that so far as he knew the hitchhikers had never before jumped or even worn parachutes, but they bailed out promptly when he gave the order to abandon ship. The plane was en route from its home field, Williams, air force to Warner Robins air force base near Macon, Ga. WENGER SAID he ordered the hitchhikers to. jump first, then his two crewmen.

"When they got nut, It about 2,500 feel," be said. "We Far latest spot election returns, tune to WAKR on your radio Tuesday night. Then for the complete vote count, read the Beacon Journal Wednesday. The Beacon Journal ami WAKR are combining tn bring the best possible story of the elections in Akron, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Kent, Ravenna, Wadsworth, Medina, Woos-ier and all surrounding towns. The major part of the WAKR news staff Ed Mc-Donald, Peter Hackes, Allan Freed, Bob Rogers and Howard Absalon will On The Inside Afiti oloi; 22 Portraits 22 Uriitee.

22 Radio 14 Clubs "i Recipes IS Comics Society Crossword Sports 23 to 2. Puzzle 22 Stokes Editorials 6 Theaters 1 Inquiring Town Crier 21 Reporter 22 Wlnchell 22 Ida J. Kaia 22 Well 23 But there was the' first pitcher' of cream I've seen aince I left home at my plate today, and the first wheat cakes, and the first glass of real milk. No longer do I have to wash with 'cbld water and preserve a bit of soap as if it' were a precious jewel. NO LONGER do I have to think, "Today is Monday." The hot water will be turned on for two 'hours 43 34 3.1 37 .14 Ti4 .1 4 41 40 54 70 fO 48 in so in R7 15 47 US Atlantic City Blsmarclt 4 Boston Chicago Cleveland Denver Detroit Port Worth Loi Angeles Miami New York aeattla Turnon WashlnatOf.