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...Youngstown, Ohio, Charles Westlake sat in a cinema theatre, wriggled, suddenly was shot in the back by his own gun which slipped from his pocket...
...Spievak lost both legs at 17 as a brakeman on the Erie Railroad, is so agile at 50 he can kick a football. Light-haired, bespectacled, he is president of Youngstown (Pa.) Artificial Limb Co., which turns out 150 limbs a year. To succeed him the delegates last week chose 50-year-old Clyde Aunger, who at 16 lost a leg in a trolley car accident. In business for himself in San Francisco since 1911, he was taken to Australia during the War to teach his trade. President Aunger's pride is a music box in the calf...
...Republic, as the official release from the Girdler office understated it, "because of its determined efforts to carry on operations." Earnings in the June quarter were only $487,000, as against $5,500,000 in the preceding quarter and $2,600,000 in the June quarter, 1936. Embattled Youngstown Sheet & Tube managed to clear $2,000,000, off 20% from the June quarter the year before and considerably less than half what it made in the March quarter this year. Bethlehem Steel, with only one plant affected, the Cambria works in Johnstown, Pa., made a relatively good showing...
...Republic strike losses may not be over. Suits for $220,000 damages were filed last week against the company and three of its employes by two men wounded and the estate of one man killed in the Massillon massacre and by the estate of another killed in Youngstown...
Typical of the little company in search of fresh capital is Youngstown Steel Car Corp., which offered 55,000 shares of common stock last week through a banking group headed by Cleveland's L. J. Schultz & Co. The company's business used to consist largely of repairing and rebuilding freight cars, but since Depression has branched into trailers, truck frames, refrigerator car hatches, parts for hydraulic lifts, and a neat little sideline in old rail joint angle bars, which the company retreats and reforges until they are as good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff...