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Ketferirig— Dies; Top ‘| Inventor DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 25 (UPI), —Charles F, Kettering, 82, in- ventor of the automobile self- starter, died at his home at § nearby Ketter- ing today as a result of a stroke suffered Sunday night. - ‘. ‘The condition of Kettering, known affec- tionately as “Boss Ket” dur- his career at General Mo- fe sened steadil; C since the Pri Charles stroke. reese Kettering A 'S 0} son, ugene, was at the bedside of his. father. - A DIRECTOR and former vice president of General Motors and former Seneral manager of the General Motors Research Labora- tories, Kettering was born on a farm near Loudonville, Ohio, on Aug. 29, 1876, Kettering’s innovations: ranged from puntting the ethyl in gaso- line, to building a fever machine that promises relief from many ‘| human ailments. . Doctors listed the cause of death as a cerebral hemorrhage, Kettering never regained con- sciousness after suffering a sec- ond stroke early today and fall- iing into a coma. aa The towering Slcan-Kettering Institute for cancer--Research, founded with his long-time Gen- eral Motors boss Alfred P. Sloan Jt.-in 1945, tands in New York's Memorial Center as a monument to Kettering’s conviction that no problem ean resist the patient, continued- application of man’s ingenuity _a) sleeved tinker- ing. ba * Tolson = Belmont Mohr —___ Nease Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter W.C. Sullivan - Tele, Room Holloman Gandy Wash. Post and —___ ~-—Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star ____ N. Y. Herald —_ Tribune N.-Y, Journal-__ American, N. Y. Mirror _ oe N. Y. Daily New __. N. Y. Times —_____ Daily Worker The Worker New Leader _ ~___ Date A NOV 26 1958