TL;DR: We cover how The General Tire and Rubber Company underwent something like a “mafia bust-out” by the Salem Witches, not for cash but for control.

We have covered three of the four major tire manufacturers founded in Akron, Ohio: Goodyear, Firestone, and BFGoodrich. The fourth is General Tire, and—spoiler alert!—it is also a Salem Witch operation. Unlike the others, it didn’t start that way and there is much to be learned from that. Our tale begins far from Akron, over 700 miles as the crow flies:

William Francis O'Neil owned a Firestone Tire and Rubber Company franchise in Kansas City, Missouri. He started a small manufacturing facility for tire repair products….

William became dissatisfied with Firestone entirely and decided to go big time, choosing to base his new enterprise in… Akron. Very suspicious, right? Not really. As I try to emphasize, the truth is often revealed through study of the details.

You see, the other tire manufacturers had been founded in 1898, 1900, and way back in 1870 (respective to the list above), but General Tire was founded in 1915. By that time, the industry had reached puberty, so to say, and could produce independent offspring. Supply chains ended and distribution chains began in Akron. Talent could be poached all over town.

More crucially, Akron was where the money was. Dad’s money, to be specific. Akron was where he had founded O'Neil's, a chain of department stores. He loaned William $200k (what, $20 million in today money?). I, too, would want to keep an eye on it. Here’s the list of founders:

William Francis O'Neil, Winfred E. Fouse, Charles J. Jahant, Robert Iredell, and H.B. Pushee

IMHO, that’s what a list of ordinary people looks like: you’ve never heard of them, you couldn’t imagine who they might be related to, and no one with those names has been involved in any high-profile witch trials. The O’Neils would be most suspect, but (no shade) they came from nowhere and by the end of this we’ll see they go nowhere. The lesson here is that an “indie” operation can sustain some level of success:

Despite the difficult business climate of World War I, in 1917, O'Neil established a dealership network and began an advertising campaign. By 1930, the company had 14 retail stores and about 1.8% of the tire market.

At least indie for a while. Over the course of decades follows a series of incidents that put me in mind of guys wearing fedoras and pinstripe suits coming into your small but successful enterprise. They tell you they greatly admire your business model and are certain it will prosper, so much so that they would like to invest. Then they hand over a satchel stuffed with cash and ask to be shown to their new offices.

During the depression, as competitors failed, The General Tire & Rubber Company bought out Yale Tire and Rubber Company, and India Tire and Rubber Company. By 1933, it had increased market share to 2.7%.

Told you they would prosper. But why is this suspect? Good luck finding out anything about the companies mentioned, but what do you think of when you hear the name “Yale”? Locks, right? Of course not. It’s Yale University (1701).

We talked a bit about the origin of Yale as a Salem Witch proprietary back when we discussed the Opium Wars. What I did not mention then was who it was named after: Elihu Yale (1649-1721).

I won’t bother boldfacing his name because you’re well-familiar with it, and by definition that means he’s far out on the periphery. Elihu went to work for the mighty East India Company (1600-1874), eventually rising to the "Presidency of Fort St. George".

That means Elihu Yale ruled the eastern and southern half of India. I told you he was on the periphery. In any case, that’s my evidence that the “Yale” and “India” Tire and Rubber Companies tie back to this Very Small Club of Salem Witches. Later, there’s another knock on the door:

In 1943, it diversified the core business strategy, purchasing the Yankee Network and the radio stations it owned from Boston's Shepard Stores, Inc. Thomas F. O'Neil, son of the founder William F. O'Neil, served as New York Yankees chairman with Shepard's John Shepard III serving as president.

That would be merchant and later radio executive, John Shepard III (1886-1950). Good luck finding any genealogy on this guy, but I can tell you that he was out of Boston (Biggest Nest of Salem Witches Ever) and that his mother was born Flora Martin.

(An aside, but please take a look at his 1936 publicity photo. The guy has got Resting Evil Psychopath Face. WTH does he look like when he’s not posing for publicity photos? Anyway….)

Does his name remind you of anything? I find these coincidences very strange sometimes. Here we are closing in on the end of a long arc on the automotive industry, but way back at the beginning, the very first substantive link I offered—the starting gun of what I claimed was a project to wholly transform transportation—was to Nichols and Shepard. Weird, right? Anyway, if you can convince yourself that JS3 was just some guy that liked radio, there’s literally no more I can say. Except this:

In March 1942, Shepard opened six new, state-of-the-art studios next door to the Buckminster Hotel; among the features of the new studios were facilities designed to be used exclusively for FM broadcasts.

That, and to highlight this anomaly:

But then, in mid-December 1942, Shepard suddenly announced he had sold the Yankee Network to the General Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; the move was surprising to most members of the broadcasting community. Under the agreement he negotiated, Shepard stayed on as president and general manager of the Yankee Network and its twenty-one affiliated stations for five years.

Thanks for helping out, Johnny! Then there is yet another knock on the door from a man it would be unsurprising to see carrying around satchels stuffed with cash:

The company's final move into entertainment was the acquisition of RKO Radio Pictures from Howard Hughes in 1955 for $25 million.

Oh my, am I claiming that Howard Hughes (1905-1976), “one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime”, was also a Salem Witch? Well, Howard married a Rice and… the rest will have wait. But as I say so often now, wouldn’t it be more surprising if he were not?

To bring the story to a close, the department store/money guy Michael’s grandson, Thomas F. O'Neil (1915-1998), ended up running the show. He and his wife had a lot of children, nine all told. That’s the end of the story.

None of them is JD Vance’s birth parent or secretly Jeff Bezos or married a Rothschild, so far as I know. None of those things happens with ordinary people. That is what makes all the connections between the Salem Witches scream so loudly that they are other than ordinary people and this is all happenstance.

We double-back now because there was another knock along the way which says as much about who was on one side of the door as who was on the other:

In the late 1930s, the United States Army became interested in rockets. A group of California Institute of Technology engineers won a contract to produce rocket engines to speed airplane liftoff, and formed a company named Aerojet.

Wikipedia is going to make us guess who that was, huh? Alright, frens, was Aerojet (founded 1942) enough of a clue? That company is nearly synonymous with its founder, Jack Parsons (1914-1952). However, Jack did not run it for long:

In the spring of 1944 the officers instructed Haley to seek out new sources of assistance. General Tire & Rubber Company was one of his clients and that company showed an interest in Aerojet and began negotiations. In January 1945, General Tire acquired half the stock for $75,000. Parsons and Forman also sold their shares, so that, by October, General Tire had control of the majority of Aerojet.

A simple matter of buying and selling—how boring. Conspiracy theorists add a bit of flavor, such as:

Something True Episode 8: BABYLON (5/16/2017)

But as the war ended, so did the demand for missiles, and Aerojet needed money. The General Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, agreed to buy a 51 per cent stake in Aerojet, on one condition: lose Jack Parsons….

So, in 1945, what was the problem with Jack Parsons? Well, for one thing, he wasn’t a good fit for a corporate environment…. He had unusual and uncouth sexual habits, a steady intake of hard drugs and was a draft-dodging socialist in a time of war and fevered patriotism. Jack Parsons was no angel—but, in his personal time, he was trying to summon one. That was the problem.

Both before and after you’ll find plenty of the usual material: monkey-spanking in the desert, Aleister Crowley, OTO, Scarlet Woman, cuckold, Scientology, NASA, etc. We’ve all heard it a hundred times. To get at substantive truth rather than titillation, we return to the mainstream:

Haley's knowledge of the business and legal training made him the man for the job. But he was in uniform at Military Affairs Division of Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Air Force. Von Kármán worked his way up the chain of command to General Arnold who dismissed Haley for civilian duty at Aerojet.

Haley became Areojet's second president on August 26, 1942.  The company expanded quickly, but needed capital, so Haley contacted William F. O'Niel, president of General Tire and his vice-president Dan A. Kimball. A line of credit was offered and in January 1945 General Tire bought half the stock of Aerojet.

That is from the Wikipedia page for Andrew Gallagher Haley (1904-1966), a man beneath recognition to any conspiracy expert on Jack Parsons. (Note: I’m assuming here that Haley is a variant of Hale from the SWTs.) We don’t have space to break those few lines down fully, but they contain the proof to the puzzling equation: General Tire + Aerojet = Salem Witches?

Haley was born in Tacoma, Washington. That’s right, the old SeaTac Stronghold. He was a lawyer involved in broadcasting and rocketry. General Tire was a tire manufacturer involved in broadcasting and rocketry. How coincidental.

Haley began his career in DC with Clarence Dill (1884-1978), US Senator from Washington. Guess where he was born, though? Fredericktown, Ohio, just 66mi southwest of Akron. Whaddaya know? In 1940, Haley and FCC Assistant General Counsel George B. Porter left the Commission to form a private law partnership.

More damning is Clarence’s wife, Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883-1978). She was central in women’s suffrage, one of the big Salem Witches projects of the time, and so militant that she was known as “General Jones”. She was born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, which was the center of gravity for Their other big project of the time, eugenics. Interesting, eh?

The mainstream essentially hands you on a silver platter 5-star General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1886-1950) as a Salem Witch, admitting right up front he’s a member of the Arnold family. His ancestor William was one of the original settlers of Rhode Island after Roger Williams got fake kicked out of Salem. Also recall that it was Kenneth Arnold at the center of the “Puget Sound UFO Flap” that I wrote up a year ago. Enough said?

Finally, do we even need to research Dan A. Kimball (1896-1970) to determine if he was a Salem Witch? For almost 30 years, he either ran Aerojet or was Secretary of the Navy. Take a look at the nearly vacant Wikitree page for Dan Able Kimball. Maybe a space pod with Baby Dan inside just crashed into St. Louis.

Taken in total, what does this mean regarding Jack Parsons? Choose to believe whatever you like since there is not much to prove anything one way or the other. As I see it, though, Jack was just a clown They rolled out from backstage to do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a little dance. When his act is finished, off he goes.

I think somewhere along the line, an insightful conspiracy theorist or two may have realized there was more to this clown than meets the eye, so in reaction They… rolled out the clown again and said that he had danced bigger dances than you had been told before. The crowd loved it!

Bonus: I wrote about her before, but Katie Porter is still campaigning to become Fuhrer von Kalifornia. She got her degree from Yale, and was later a law clerk for Judge Richard Sheppard Arnold. These are all names we have seen just in this post about one tire manufacturer. I’m not even going to count that she was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, but it would have been funny if that fort had been commanded by General Tire.

Thanks for reading!