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Here There and Everywhere BERLIN Germany Nov 1 Gen Ludwig Beck chief of the army general staff has resigned and retired to private life because he could not see eyetoeye with Adolf Hitler A brief official announcement said the Fuehrer had accepted the resignation of General Beck along with that of ColGen Gerd von Rundstedt commander of army group No 1 0 Ninetynine persons were killed by auto ¬ mobiles in Cook County during October The same number were killed in September The total for the year this far is 707 compared with 888 for the first ten months of 1937 0 0WASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C Nov 1 Approxi ¬ mately 228000 persons quit WPA rolls dur ¬ ing September with three out of four leav ¬ ing voluntarily as the nations business revival quickened its tempo it was an ¬ nounced last night 0 FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Germany Nov 1 With eighty aboard including the crew Germanys latest dirigible the LZ130 started yesterday on her final trial flight She is expected to stay in the air about twentyfour hours hoursLA LA PORTE Ind Nov 1 Halloween pranksters were blamed for the death of Al ¬ bert Kotoske 74 of La Porte Kotoske went to his door and began calling down young ¬ sters who had rung his bell He fell dead of a heart attack 0 0Tony Tony Zale Gary middleweight knocked out Jimmy Clark Jamestown N Y Negro in 53 seconds of the second round of their scheduled windup bout at Marigold Gardens Monday night Zale bounced Clark off the canvas thirteen times including the knock ¬ out 0 0A A new family rate plan was announced yesterday by the Plan for Hospital Care after twentyone months of the plans opera ¬ tion Heretofore an employed members hospital bills and half his familys hospital bills have been paid A new plan on sale now provides for payment of all the bills for the family 0 The second most sunny October in Chicago weather bureau history ended Monday night October here was 79 per cent sunny records show Sixteen days were clear ten partly clear and five cloudy With a mean tem ¬ perature of 589 degrees the month was the fifth warmest October in history Precipita ¬ tion was 77 inches City and traction company attorneys were commanded Monday to be ready for a final showdown on November 14 in the traction unification controversy in a pronouncement by Federal Judge James H Wilkerson WilkersonSALT SALT LAKE CITY Utah Nov 1 John W Deering convicted murderer faced a fir ¬ ing squad willingly and without apparent emotion at the state prison Monday yet he figuratively was scared to death according to the revelations of an electrocardiograph film which disclosed Deering hid an ex ¬ tremely excited heart behind a bold front O OThe The American Iron and Steel Institute re ¬ ported yesterday a total of 431000 employes were on the payrolls of the steel industry in September compared with 427000 in the preceding month September payrolls of the industry totaled 52365000 against 52712 000 in August and with that exception were the largest for any month since November last year yearNEW NEW YORK N Y Nov 1 Directors of Standard Oil Company New Jersey have de ¬ clared a 2000000 extra dividend payable to all domestic employes most of whom are participants in the thrift plan planHenry Henry Mendelsohn who celebrated his 101st birthday amonth ago died Monday in St Therese Hospital Waukegan of pneu ¬ monia Mr Mendelsohn a retired uphol ¬ sterer lived at the home of his daughter Mrs Rudolph L Slepyan 1106 Grove Ave ¬ nue nueNEW NEW YORK N Y Nov 1 Officials of St Marys Hospital announced that the con ¬ dition of Beattie Feathers halfback on the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team was fair Feathers sustained a fracture of the frontal sinus when tackled in the first quarter of Sundays game with the Wash ¬ ington Redskins National League cham ¬ pions
