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, IN ENGLAND, Nov. 18.—We were writing the other day about “anxiety neurosis” among bomber crews. It exists in all branches of the flying services, The enemy has it, It occurs wherever there are human beings.

It affects no large percentage, -of course. The average man has the will to go ahead into danger, regardless of his personal fears. The cases are few—maybe one in a whole station of hundreds of

men—but even that is enough to:

set the flight surgeons to work on the problem. ~ The reason I'm bringing this up again is that the flight surgeons have one theory which to me is extremely interesting. They ; say it would be better all around— for morale, for efficiency, for results—if our airmen HATED the German airmen personally and individually,» 5 Actually, they hate the German system but look upon the opposing fliers sort of as professional com-

petitors. You seldom hear a flier in the R. A. F. or

the army air forces call a German a bad name. In fact, it has been our home policy in this war not to resort to the hate-provoking tactics of 1917-18.

gabond

- rosis is higher among married men. That is be-

By Ernie Pyle

The flight surgeons feel that this hate-training should be started at home. They know it will come to our men sooner or later anyhow. As soon as our airmen have been in combat long enough to have

many of their friends killed, then hate will come.

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SMASHING THE AXIS

The Inside Story of American Industry at War

Morried Men More Jittery

THE FLIGHT surgeons also say that anxiety neu-

cause they have already built their life-house; their home pattern is set and they long to return to it. The single man’s life-of-stability is all in the future: it’s a gamble anyhow, so he dwells less upon. it inside himself. . Flight surgeons say the worst thing that can happen to a flying fighter is to sit around for days and days without action. Then he gets to fretting, thinks too much, has time to ponder his fate, loses! his racehorse tenseness. ! Winter weather, with long dull periods on the ground, isn’t good for the spirits of flying men. The flight surgeons dread the coming winter.

Some of Em Have It

THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, of course, to any generalized statement. There are already men in our

pass their ladl hace. TY

Ford Experiments Save rs Men, Time and Machines

With Casting Processes | (This ls one of a series) | |

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

Far below the towering River Rouge ‘smokestacks

Molten steel pours out,

white hot .at 2950 degrees,

that mark the industrial principality of Henry Ford, two strapping steel workers in the world’s largest ‘ foundry e close against the mouth of a roaring fur-

aif ~The big chief:

* Henry Ford in one of his laboratories; below, River Rouge workman pouring white-hot

‘molten steel intc

a centrifugal casting for aircraft engine cylinders in a process saving ~~ time and’ materials.

air forces who hate the Germans personally. There are also men who love to go on raids just out of pure enthusiasm for the adventure. They tell of one air gunner who went to London on leave. His second morning there he woke up early, saw it was a perfect day, realized there would probably be a mission. He wasn’t on duty, but he didn’t want to miss the raid. He checked and found he couldn’t get to his home station by train, so he hired a taxi and drove several scores of miles to his home airdrome.’ The bombers had already left when he got there, and he was broken-hearted. :

and the giants move. back from the furnace to tilt their ladle and tumble & fiery cataract of metal into a cylindrical mold spinning like a boy's top. Jeff Waterworth, a molding foreman with decades of the foundry behind him, stands at a nearby control board and slowly turns the rheostat that sends the mold whirling faster and faster. Then something happens un-

It Should Start at Home

SO FAR we have tried to fight on a sane and unethotional basis. That’s all to our credit, except \ that thére’s nothing sane about war in the first place, and a man fights best when he fights with in--tense emotional hatred. Witness the Russians. ~- The flight surgeons say that a man will fly better, fight better, survive longer, if he is burning with a violent personal hatred for his foe. For then he will 20 beyond himself, he will become a temporary fan-

FEW ln gers ga

atic, and he won’t worry over his own possible death.

der the terrific centrifugal pressure of hot steel forcing itself outward’ and thousands of sparks shower from the mold. The ex-

and finally set up in another fixe

ture for the drilling of holes to

attach the fuselage,

inclosures to the

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum

WELL, SIR, mighty fine showing our U. 8S. navy has been making over there in the Solomons, blitzing all those Jap ships. Pretty good for a navy that was . reported by our Senator Willis last month at Bedford

periment halts—the mold has given away. It must be reinforced and made stronger, and then the work will go on. Yesterday and today, and stretching into a thousand tomor-

Fixtures Combined

. Ford engineers combined the three fixtures on which the ine “closures were made into a single one, making processing transfers

? Butner, N. C., they made him a military policeman. «+. . H. Burch Nunley, who works for OPA and spends most of his time traveling the northern part of the state, was home Monday night for a big occasion— the birth of Miss Mary Ellen Nunley,

to be almost out of commission in the Pacific, Fast ; recovery, eh! Senator Willis didn't say where he got his information. Maybe just campaign. talk. Anyway, it ought to be (but probably won't be) a darned good object

Shoplifting Early

QUITE A FEW people around town seem to have been doing their “Christmas shoplifting early” this year. Several downtown stores report heavy shoplifting losses over the last week-end—unusually heavy

rows, this drama is re-enacted; it is the path Ford and most of big industry has followed for decades.

in making a better product. Test for New Process

unnecessary, and then grouped ‘the 12 parts of the nose inclosure

_underframe to just three stamp=

ings and the 12 parts of the pilot’s inclosure into four. Then there's the saving Ford

lesson to all of us not to go around repeating morale-damaging statements until we're sure we know what we're talking about. Our statesmen will say, “Sure,” but just wait until the next campaign. The faker§! . . . Roger Kahn, treasurer of the National Furniture Co., recently experienced a bit of ingratitude. In some manner a cat became trapped in a sidewalk grating. Kind-hearted Roger

Today it is an airplane landing gear with which these men experiment, perfecting the casting in a single piece of a part which has been a combination of forging and welded tubing. The rate of pour from ladle to mold and the rate at which the mold turns help to determine the quality of the casting, and when the day comes when the experiment shows

for so early in the season. As g result, the stores have begun taking extraordinary precautions to prevent further losses. Detective in one store nabbed two pilferers in action Monday. . . . Earl Richert, political writer for The Times, dialed the phone and when someone answered, asked for Claude Billings, who happens to be secretary of the G. O. P. state committee. “What number you calling?” the man asked. “Republican headquarters,” explained Earl. “Well,” chuckled the man, “you've got the wrong number,

"has introduced in producing aluminum cylinder head castings for aircraft engines. This has ale ways been a tough casting job 1200 wires are used in making the core, and these must be inserted by hand to hold the thin fins in place. Even with good casting per= formance there is a high percente age of rejection because of dee

removed the grating and attempted to rescue the

-feline. It bit and scratched his hands severely and ‘then fled. A physician insisted that, to be on the

safe side, Roger take anti-rabies shots. He’s hag five now—has nine more to go,

It Wasn't a Toy

ORVILLE FLY, 2241 Brookside, reports he and quite a few other spectators window shopping in front of Ayres’ toy display Monday night were startled

" to discover that a mouse in the window wasn't a toy.

Several women spectators squealed and departed. . . . Moke Davis, Ayres’ advertising manager, has a new pet peeve. It's the garbage collectors. He says they've ruined two garbage cans for him recently by “banging them across the sidewalk.” All of which he describes as a heck of a way to carry out the nation’s “conservation program.” . . . In civilian life, Pvt. Hugh O’Donnell was an artist at the News. So down at Camp

Washington

‘Vichy men, like Admiral Darlan, to run North

Africa: for us. : : The Free French, or Fighting French as they are now called, are hurt at being ignored. They feel that they have been risking their necks while Vichy was eating out of Hitler's hand. The Free French, behind Gen. De Gaulle, are saying in London that they can’t accept any Vichy regime we set up in North Africa. They say we are pulling French appeasers into our show there. That is an issue that may fan up to cause : . y . @& good deal of bickering within our side,’ and the main facts ought to be set out ‘how before too much heat devélops, . Mr. Roosevelt has made it clear this is one of those decisions‘made out of expediency. It is like our policy of playing along with Vichy ‘although we recognized it ‘was a puppet of Hitler's. In war you take help wherever you can get it. _ That isthe whole basis of our deal with Admiral Darlan and the Vichy people in North Africa.

“No Protest From Washington

WE CANNOT be under any illusions about Darlan. When he was vice premier of the Vichy government, Secretary Hull took occasion to deplore, publicly, Admiral Darlan’s Germany, On June 13, 1941, six months before we went into the war, Secretary Hull’ issued .a statement declaring that Laval and Darlan were engaged in a schéme to deliver France to. Hitler, politically, economically, socially and militarily. * Darlan was singled out by name along with Laval He had been dealing with Hitler and only a short time before had gone to Berchtesgaden to get his orders.

(This Is the last of the My Day series from Great Britain. Mrs. Roosevelt is now back in the United Sates, 6. LONDON, England, Tuesday.—On Sunday morning, church bells all over Great Britain pealed to celebrate the victory in Africa and also to remind all God

fearing people of their duty to give thanks to him ‘whose power is greater than that of mere human beings.

I want to thank again the many people whose thought and plan- - ning made it possible for me to see so much in such a short time.

Our own people in the embassy,

‘army; navy and the air force have given me every possible co-opera-tion. Without their thoughtfulness and careful arranging of the many trips, it would have been

impossible to accomplish the things:

I did... o I was particularly glad to re-

ceive a letter from young Col. Raff

been written just

‘the town hall you're looking for. We haven't any

‘forces in North Africa. Gen. Giraud is under Admiral

policies of collaboration with

but I'm in sympathy with you.”

No Jobs at Town Hall

A WOMAN WALKED up to the Town Hall booth in the Columbia club Monday evening and, addressing Mrs. Josephine Vetter, who was in charge, said: “I'm. looking for a job.” “Are you?” politely inquired Mrs. Vetter. “Yes,” replied the woman, “the Republicans won the election and there's going to be a big turnover of jobs—all the Democrats are going to be put out—and I, thought I'd get a job.” “Evidently youre a Republican,” Mrs. Vetter commented. “You bet I am—but I' didn’t get to vote as I wasn’t here election day.” The woman was silent a moment, then | added: “My, hasn’t Indianapolis changed?” Another| ¢ moment of silence, then: “Say, isn’t this the ‘town hall?” “Yes,” responded Mrs, Vetter, “but .it’s net| o

jobs around here.”

Flustered, the woman walked away hurriedly. .

By Raymond Clapper

Now we have Gen. Eisenhower's announcement that he has approved Admiral Darlan as head of the civil and military administration of French| S

Darlan. Former Premier Flandin, one of the leading French appeasers, is reported to have gone to North Africa, with some others of the same stripe, to assist, Mr. Roosevelt last night declared that the Darlan situation was purely temporary and he indicated his t complete confidence in Gen. Eisenhower's judgment.

Using Diplomatic Measures

INDEED, HE COULD scarcely have taken any other course under the circumstances. Darlan was in North Africa when our forces arrived and he was immediately taken in hand. Our job was. to get the situation under control as rapidly as possible. Darlan carries great weight\jn North Africa. It was his order that elded the resistance at Casablanca and saved further expenditure of American lives, Dakar has been one of his especial interests and . undoubtedly Darlan will be able to turn the situation at that vital spot in our direction. ~ Petain, under German influence at Vichy, “has disavowed Darlan, but the old Marshal's. name still carries such symbolic force in North Africa that Darlan continues to invoke it in appeals to the population. We could have gone in with enough men and weapons to hammer the. whole population into a pulp—only we didn’t have the force to spare. We could have tried to rule by force alone. Instead we went in with enough force to esdeal with the military opposition and used diplomatic measures to do the rest of the job: It helps to have brutally occupied Europe see that in North Africa we work with the local population and with leaders it knows. Ideologically it doesn’t make much sense, because at heart these Frenchmen are pretty close to being fascists under French dressing. As a means of getting the job done as quickly and as economically as Possible, it makes a lot of sense,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Admiral Stark, Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Hartle and their fellow officers must have sometimes wished that the lady with the code name did not need so much attention, but no one from top to bottom ever gave me this feeling. Kindness, consideration and goodwill seemed to be present everywhere. I must try to thank my British friends also, who gave so much. time and thought. to what I should see and where I should go. I am grateful to everyone, from the quéen to the prime minister to Mrs. Elsa Dunbar, whom Lady Reading assigned from the WVS to help us out with information whenever we needed it. Every organization, every factory head, every military group, not only allowed me to see, but took infinite pains so that I might see everything that was of in-

success a new process of manufacture is the result.

It is the constantly repeated

story of industry seeking ways to have materials and man hours to deliver to the battle. line better weapons made in fewer days.

Ford is applying to war produc-

tion this art of centrifugal casting which came out of ‘the most painstaking research in" automobile ‘production in recent years.

Time was,” B. H. McCarroll, hief metallurgist for Ford, points

out, that when anyone thought

f cast iron or. other cast metals

it -was to envision a weak, brittle material—stove plate iron, for example, which would break into many pieces if dropped on the floor.

But cast steel today is some-

thing else again—in parts where it has been used, according to Mr. McCarroll, it has nearly always given better results in actual

ervice than the forged parts re-

placed.

Shrinkage Offset

In static casting, as distinct

from centrifugal casting where

he mold revolves as molten steel

pours in, there is a shrinkage during solidifications which is offset by feeding metal to the" mold by gravity. Ford found it an expensive and cumbersome operation,

HORN EDISON USED JOINS SCRAP PILE]

and not productive of

WEST ORANGE, N. J, Nov, 18

(U. P.).—A big, two-ton brass horn, designed: 18 years ago by Thomas A. Edison as the best method of recording sound, will be dismantled and contributed to the scrap drive, it was announced today.

The horn is 5 feet 5 inches in

diameter at the bell and only three inches in. diameter at the smaller end. It is 128 feet long with the bell in one building and the smaller end in another.

Performers played and sang into

the large bell in a soundproofed studio and the recordings were made at the small end in the other building. The horn has not been used

nce 1931 when electrical methods

of recording replaced it.

LIFE UNDERWRITERS

TO HEAR MATHEWS

Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, officer

in charge of navy recruiting in Indiana, - will address a luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters tomorrow at the Claypool hotel. His subject is “Life Insurance Men in Our Armed Services.” :

Col. Walter S. Drysdale, com-

mandant of Ft. Harrison, and Capt. Ralph E. Boulton, director of marine recruiting, will be at the speaker’s table. A color guard from Ft. Harrison will take part in a ceremony honoring association members and other Indianapolis life insur-

v ance men now in service.

terest or which might be useful to us in our war effort. They realize, as I do, that there are many things which will have to be done differently, or which may not be done’at all in the United States. On the other hand there are many things which we shall need to do, which have not been necessary in Great Britain. I have seen much which I hope may be of value now and which I feel sure will give us some inspiration for the future. : If it were only the. spirit of the people of this

couns

SHELLS FOUND IN SCRAP NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (U. P).~

Police and army. officers conferred today on means of safely removing seven big naval shells and a 250pound bomb found under a pile of scrap iron. . Two shells were loaded. ‘Two. were

believed to. be of British

a sufficiently fine metal for high- - ly stressed parts. Because of this, in the past, forgings of solid: steel have been used: for these highly stressed pieces. But forgings, too, were expen‘sive, and ‘so, under Engineers McCarroll and E. C.. Jeter, Ford decided to try to produce a piece of cast steel from imperfections by feeding the mold evenly during solidification. = Centrifugal force as a means of feeding had been used earlier, and. it was tried first

on gears, which were found equal .

in strength to forgings. When the Ford company went into war production, it found, as did many other companies which had been used to efficient mass production, that many munitions parts were made with a waste of materials—as airplane motor cylinder barrel,: for example, Here was a. part made originally from a forging, and machining began on a piece ‘of steel weighing 72 pounds. But the centrifu-gally-cast barrel: uses much less steel—a real economy where every pound of steel is needed today for war weapons. © sf nnd

Tremehdous: Savings It isn’t possible. to disclose what this represents’ in. total’ saving,

when related to the output of the vast new aircraft engine plant

' Ford is operating.

Even beyond the important. saving in materials it means that several hours of machining time is saved on each engine, and thus machines which would otherwise be tied up on this production are

"released for other wark work:

Moreover, the ° investment in “equipment for producing the cen-trifugally-cast barrel is much less than. that needed to make the forged cylinder barrel. What Ford has done with centrifugal casting on the cylinder barrel he has extended to other munitions pieces. Experiments now in progress, but still to be finally approved, promise phenomenal savings on some big parts.

One Piece, Not Nine

Ford is centrifugally casting tank sprockets—four to a tank— and this eliminates all but a small amount of machinery necessary for boring the. inside diameter ‘and ‘drilling bolt holes. - Prior “to this the sprocket was cut from flat, rolled’ steel plate with a considerable waste of’ materials. Casting a tank motor flywheel, weighing 250. pounds; has reduced

al ordinarily discarded in processing this large piece. Aircraft landing gear parts and fittings now are being cast to save time and money formerly expended. in exacting: welding operations. One fitting formerly made by fabricating nine separate pieces of steel and 80 inches of weld is made today by centrifugal casting in single piece. The story can’t be spelled out yet, but Ford engineers are looking to a day when some of the largest aluminum parts, such as an. airplane engine crankcase, may be made similarly of cast steel. + : At Ford’s, too, you hear the story of how mass production magic changed the making of the framework for the plexiglas inclosures on bombers for the pilot and bombardier. Fabrication and assembly = had involved most painstaking work, with the need for sealing all crevices. and making exposed parts resistant to salt air and water corrosion. Ford found the long, narrow members of the underframes being made by drop-hanimers—13 - separate parts for the ‘nose inclosure and 14 for. the pilot's po- : sition. They were ‘fitted and joined on wood forms, removed for spot welding, then placed on a

fects. .

Nearly always the rejects had been scrapped and remelted, but in ‘July Ford engineers decided to try some experimental welding, with the goal to prove that when

properly welded the head is equal’

to a per_ect casting. It needed

some doing, but with cylinders . : head castings wanted in greater °

quantities than present capacity °;

can produce Fordgfound a way to weld successfully many of the former rejects. And that’s after the most precise X-ray examination of the weld. So, too, with the cast magnes sium housing — one-third lighter than aluminum—over the aire plane’s nose - gear, Any little foundry defect in casting meant rejection. But Ford engineers found a way to overcome these defects. ! These advances are, to be sure, somewhat on the technical side, Go out and look at 18 roaring cyl= inders of a giant bomber motor and you can’t see this superb fuse ing of all the experience that ine dustry is able to throw into the war effort today because of the

know-how it has acquired in the

last 40 years. But it's there. Because it is American fighting men are get ting fighting equipment - today weeks and months earlier than

otherwise would be possible. The y

effect will be more telling in days to come than it is today.

but it is a tremendous: economy

Cincinnati Schools Sanction

by four-fifths:-the amount of met-

Spankings for Misbehaved

CINCINNATI, Nov. 18 (U.:P.).— Johnny put away his bean shooter and stopped: dipping Mary's: curls into “the ink today while it was “yes ma'am” and “no ma'am” very politely. from all the little girls in Cinginnati’s. schools, ; Christmas" is coming, but' that’s not the entire reason. Cincinnati's board: of education’s committee on education has sanctioned corporal punishment—better known to ‘the youngsters as “spanking” — as: a “corrective” -medsure. rs Now, the little legal minds among the ' pupils’ are ferreting out the loopholes in. the “law” ‘which has numerous: “iis”' and’ “ors.” © The spanking edict is’ inciuded in

the new manual of personnel policy

approved by the - committee and

prepared by Dr. Claude V. Courter, superintendent, and his staff... The pupils look .hopefully at the section which reads that “except in most unusual circumstances, corporal punishment shall be: used only as a last iesort.” The bean shooter, some will admit, might be termed and “unusual” device in the school room. ; ‘ But comforting also is a provision that only the principal thay make

the decision to administer corporal |’

punishment after consultation with the teacher and other niembers familiar with the case. : The spanking, the manual decrees, shall be administered “by

| striking the pupil across the but-

tocks with ‘the p of the hand or a broad paddle and in no’ other manner.” Cis

Captured Dieppe lero Writes Wife

BELLEVILLE, Ontario, Nov. 18. (U. P.).—The first complete letter received from" Canada’s. hero of the Dieppe raid; Lieut. Col. C.. C. I Merritt, was made public yesterday by his wife a her home here.’ 2 : It was written from a German _ prison’ camp on Aug, 24, just five days after the raid. : “I did a little operation on the Frepch coast; and I for one didn’t get, back tothe boats again, I

got a slight wound in the shoulder, |=

which: did. no_great harm,” Merritt=said, =. : : vo - He. was. awarded ' the Victoria

{held from 5 to 6 p, m. :

GRAND MATRON OF 0. E. S. TO VISIT CITY Mrs. Ruth L. Morris, worthy grand matron of the Indiana grand

chapter, O. E. S, will visit: Monu-

ment chapter. 549, O. E. S., Monday evening. a : A reception honoring Otto W. Cox, associate grand ‘patron, will be I . Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. Mrs. Mamie Passmore ‘has charge of the music and soloist will be Miss Esther Lefkowitz. © Mrs. Mary Ann Leas will diréct the entertainment. : Mrs. “L.: Myrtle’ Morris is worthy atron and Edgar Williams, worthy PaOR: «isn 3 . SPONSOR: CARD PARTY The St. Philip Neri Altar society will sponsor a card party at 8 o'clock f auditorium,

: the, De 1

fixture for installation of plexigas,

|SOVIET RECOGNIZES

ALLIED REPORTERS

. MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (U. P.).—Soviet authorities yesterday formally recognized the Anglo-American’ As-'

sociation of Correspondents in the U. S. 8. R., the only foreign professional organization functioning in the Soviet ‘union. ° - All American and British staff correspondents are members of the association. The president is Henry Shapiro’ of the United Press and Paul Holt of the London Daily Express is secretary. > * Admiral William H. Standley and Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, American -and British ambassadors respectively to Moscow, hhve accepted honorary presidencies. ;

WOMEN OF MOOSE TO HOLD PROGRAM

~ ‘The College of Regents of Indi-

‘anapolis chapter 11, Women of the

Moose, will’ give a chapter night program tomorrow ‘evening in the Moose temple, 135 N. Delaware st. Mrs. Bertha Willner is chairman. Guests will: be Mark R. ‘Gray, junior governor supreme of the Loyal Order of Moose, and Herman

Schuesler, governor of the ‘ local|

Mrs. Beulsh Anderson will give a history of the College of Regents,

an henorary degree of the order,| .

and a class of 20 candidates will be

initiated in honor of Mrs. Kathryn|.

Hansford. Mrs. Edna Mershojt and Mrs." Bea’ Brown will present a group: of songs, and ‘a campaign to sell war bonds will begin:

; MacFALL MEMORIAL SET

| +A memorial meeting honoring the| late Russell T. MacFall will bel held at 11:30 tomorrow at the| the! },,..

court house, by members of 3 : 4 5 Bar ¥ ih

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EAGLES’ PRESIDENT

WILL SPEAK HERE Lester H. Loble, national presie dent of the Fraternal Order of

Eagles, will speak at an invocation of new members in the Aerie teme ple, 43 W. Vermont st., at 8 p, m, Monday. . L. B. Thiel, secretary of Indian

would discuss - the ' organizations part in social welfare legislation. - Mr. Loble is city attorney and president of the Chamber of Come merce in Helena, Mont. He intros duced and secured passage of an

‘old-age pension bill in Montana in

1923 as a member of the state legis= lature.’ He helped raised $165,000

apolis; Aerie + 211, said Mr. Loble

through the Eagles to build and

equip a new dormitory at Fathep

Flanagan's Boys Town.

Mr. Thiel stated that the frae

ternal order had purchased more than $8,000,000 in war bonds.