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...jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down by a strike for better working conditions by employe-members of C. I. O.'s United Rubber Workers. Still idle in Detroit at week's end were 5,000 parts-making employes of Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., 600 of Aluminum Co. of America...
Favorite cigar store of baseball-minded Detroiters in 1907 was Mel Soper's. Two of Mel's good customers were Walter Owen Briggs and John Kelsey, coming figures in the coming automobile industry. When Walter Briggs was unable to get World Series pasteboards because the ball club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter...
Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...
When Wheelmaker Kelsey died, Mr. Briggs took over his stock and a year ago, with the death of Mr. Navin, he became the Tigers' sole owner...
Lieutenant Kelsey has been associated for many years with the scientific development of airplane instruments. In 1929 he was connected with the Guggenheim Blind Flying Laboratories, and at present he is stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio...