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WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The decision of Pierre Boisson, goyarnor-general, and Gen. Joseph Barreau, commander- n-chief, of Dakar and French West Africa, to join Admiral Darlan and the allies is one of the mos. important victories yet for the united , nations. And—thanks to Darlan —it was bloodless. Dakar is only 1620 miles from the Brazilian jungle. © Hitler is known to have had plans for in-

vading South America from that |

base. The removal of the menace will have a tremendous effect on Latin ‘American opinion, but the manner of its removal will have greater effect still. In September, 1940, the Free ’ French and British under Gen. Charles De Gaulle tried to take Dakar. The were defeated. The French feared the loss of Dak::' would lead to “the complete domination of the Frenc), empire” by Germany.

+The faci that Dakar and all of West Africa

have now goie over to the allies means that the milimen thre no longer fear Germany but, on the contrary, bel eve the time has come for France to stand up arc, fight again for her freedom.

Everybody Will Reconsider

THE EFI ECT of this about-face will be felt . Around the world. - Argentina is Brazil's next-door neighbor. ie has been the chief holdout in the western world line-up against the axis. ‘Since the Americans 1: 1ded in North Africa, however, she has shown signs of wavering. Dakar will influence her : 8till further, and Chile, the only other American

_ Yepublic mais taining relations with the axis, will like-

‘wise begin tn reconsider. But nown re will the effect be more marked or , More benefit] than among the 75,000,000 Arabs and

, Dakar’s Meaning By Wim. Philip Simms

other Moslems of Africa and the. Middle East. For several months axis agents have been doing their utmost to duplicate Thomas Edward Lawrence's exploit and start a “revolt in the desert,” this time by getting the Arabs to rise against the allies.

A few weeks ago they were reported to be making js

headway. That was when Rommel had the British on thé run in Egypt, the Nazis were pushing the Russians back in the Caucasus, and an invasion of the Middle East seemed imminent.

The President Understands

TODAY THE PICTURE is different. The whole allied outlook is more favorable, from the Solomans to Stalingrad and North Africa. Now that West Africa has thrown in its lot with the allies, AngloAmerican prestige in the Moslem world will soar from Dakar to Calcutta. That President Rooosevelt understands the intricacies of this global game far better than some of his distinguished critics was shown in his message first made known in Rabat. He went out of his-way to be cordial to the Sultan of Morocco and thank the Sultan warmly for his co-operation. - “Today,” he said, “the axis powers are the enemies of both our countries. They would like to set up in North Africa a whole system of military and political domination. . . . Victory over the Germans and Italians will be the starting point of a new era of peace and prosperity for all Moroccans and Frenchmen in North Africa.” °* The president’s vision, no less than events themselves, will not ‘be lost on the sensitive Arabs. Already Moslem leaders are cabling him words of appreciation. But we are not yet out of the woods. Axis fifth-| columnists will now work harder than ever to undermine the allied positions and all talk now of our “‘using” African officials—French or native—will be a big help to Hitler.

Ernie Pyle

has left England for North Africa.

His column will be resumed shortly

“ONE OF I1.IFE’'S major tragedies recently selected Ed Demlow, © sistant sales manager of the gas com- ¢ pany, as its jictim. Ed drives one of those sporty Bulicks with fio spare tires in side mounts. Altogether, he had sei’en tires, none of them very good and apparently no one of them any better or worse than the others. Therefore, when it came time to get rid of the two, extras for gas rationing, Ed just picked the two handiest ones and contributed them to the scrap drive. And then, just two days later, one of the five remaining had a blowout. Poor Ed. He hasn't gotten over it yet. . . . Irvin Talesnick, formerly with the Hoosier Paper & Specialty Co., was graduated from the ] * armored force officer candidate school at Ft. Knox, Ky. Saturday. His home is at 6425 N. Pennsylvania st. . . . First Lieut. Edward A. Block, secreta.v of the Wm. H. Block Co., who has been home on leave since his graduation from the army exchance school, graduate college, Princeton, N. J., left Sunday night under sealed orders for his assignment—c cstination unknown,

A Hunter's Paradise

IF THE MEW 35-MILE speed limit remains in effect a couple of years, as seems likely at the moment, and gas rationing reduces the amount of travel, Indiana may become a hunter's dream of paradise. recent years, {lie auto has been a powerful enemy of Hoosier wild Lp. bits fell victim (o autos than to hunters’ guns. Audley Dunham, the locksmith, who lives on the other side of Brownsburg and drives back and forth each day, reports that alicady he sees fewer dead rabbits and other animals lieside the road. Where he used to see as high as sever: or eight dead rabbits in one day, he has seen only three dead rabbits—also one opossum and one dog—haside the road in the last 10 days. With Jower car speed, the rabbits have a better chance of

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov, 25.—The appointment of °

Governor Herhort Lehman to direct relief and rehabilitation of liberated territory suggests we have learned one important thing from the failure of the League of Natinns. The league was an ambitious experiment, sprung out of the Paris peace conference the easy way instead of being built the hard way. So it never had reality behind it. The leaghe was a beautiful ideal, like the crackpet dream that America could let the rest of the world go to hell and not be dragged down with it. Either would have been acceptable if it had worked. This time we are making a less pretentious start, but a mare realistic one. We are going at it ‘like a builder, beginning with some solid foundation it is hoped, a durable and livable structure can be bult in time. We are going at it the longer, harder way, but that usually is the super way in the end, We begin, in a modest way, by trying to meet an immediate, practical, need, the need of feeding and supplying the populations where we have taken over in North Africz.' They have been bled by the axis, and left worse off than they were before. We hope ‘to leave them bei fer off,

No Soup-Kitichen Project

WE WILL NOT only feed them, but we will send them seed, fertilizer and other things needed so they can increase the r production. We will obtain from them cork, olive oil and other products we need and thus assist them gradually to become self-supporting localities. We ill emphasize not only relief hut the things that will inake them better producers—and in the end larger consumers of goods from all manufacturing nations. This is not a soup-kitchen project.

SAYBROOK, (lonn., Tuesday.—Yesterday I had the pleasure of miceting ‘all the ladies of the cabinet

at luncheon. We discussed some of the activities, or }rather the curtaient of activities, in the social life

of this extremely husy city. That took a rather small amount of time and so we found ourselves able to talk about many of the happenings of the day in the world at large. How avid we all are for .war news, and how anxious we women are to feel that good news today means the war will not last long. . In the afternoon, Dean Graysen N, Kefauver of Stanford university: came to see me about a B proposal for the establishment of "a joink. commission of education.

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making the other side of the road. P. S.—The makings of a long friendship between Mr. Dunham and Gen. Tyndall, our new mayor, got quite a setback the other day when Audley received a stenographertyped letter from the general addressed to ‘Miss Audrey Dunham” and with the salutation: “Dear Miss Audrey.” -

Grease for Defense

DON'T SAVE GREASE—just put it in your garbage can and the city reduction plant will process it and turn it into national defense channels. This advice is offered because many housewives, confused by the “save grease” campaign being conducted nationally in magazines and on the radio, call this news-

paper to inquire what to do with the grease they have

saved. ‘Indianapolis, is one of the few cities in the country having garbage reduction plants. One man who phoned the paper said he didn’t put his grease in the garbage can because he was afraid someone weuld steal it. . . . One of our agents reports that penny matching is ‘on the increase nowadays as the result of the increasing number of odd-penny prices on various articles. Most men dislike to have pennies mixed in with their other money, and matching is one way to get rid of it, or double the nuisance.

When in Rome—

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER {is pretty quick at catching on. .The governor was present at the recent boy scout annual meeting and was asked to present several awards to scout leaders. The first leader to be given an award gave the governor the boy scout salute. He looked confused, undecided whether he should return it. Finally, he made a stagger at it. The next time it was a little better, and after the third presentation, his salute was downright snappy. . « « One of the uniformed guards who carry shotguns and patrol the outside of the Bell Telephone building was passing a couple of soldiers the other day when one of thé soldiers remarked: “What's he doing—hunting rabbits?”

By Raymond Clapper

For the moment, this will be largely. an American show. But before long it is probable that thé work of Governor Lehman will become part of a united nations organization, the first practical, going piece of united nations machinery to grow out of the war. This is a field in which there is little difficulty in the united nations getting together. More than a year ago, before we went into the war, the British and the exiled governments in London created an dnter-allied committee on post-war requirements.

The Surest- Road for All of Us

GOVERNOR LEHMAN probably will expand his North African activities by heading up the actual work of this united nations group. It would deal notr only with interim work, such as aiding people in recovered territory, but would prepare to go into the transition work of restoration that will follow the end of the fighting in Europe. This is the pattern preferred here now, working from the smaller, immediate, urgent thing and growing into the bigger tasks that will comé with the progress of the war and the end of it. Badly needed is an executive committee of the united nations to steer such activity—a group that would include the United States, Great Britain, Russia and China as the principal fighting allies. An executive committee would be the temporary governing body, under which an inter-allied relief organization would function when Governor Lehman's activity was incorporated in it. Creation of such a united nations executive committee is strongly desired by the principal allies. Chinese government officials have publicly urged it. In all capitals is felt the need of having a going concern in action as soon as possible so that the organizations and activities to grow out of the war can begin to take shape under it. This kind of gradual evolution, rather than overly ambitious and indigestible plans, is the way that practical-minded officials here see as the surest road.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The president of Ecuador and his son spent the ‘night with us. They arrived by air in time for tea. The president gave an official stag dinner in the evening and I attended a concert at Bolling field, I took the night train to New York City aad the

9 a. m. train to Saybrook to see my friends Miss Lape and Miss Read before fulfilling a long-postponed engagement at Connecticut college.

On Saturday last, the first U. S. O. center in the|

United States for service women of the united nations was formally opened in Detroit. The WAACs have a U. 8. O. center in Des Moines, Towa, but the one in Detroit is international because of the Canadian service women often spend ‘their 45-hour week-end in Detroit.

Electric Plants”

Research Speeds U.S. to Victory

(This Is a Series)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

WHEN THE army’s best fliers were stabbing the skies for new altitude records at McCook field in Dayton 20 years ago, the fistful of men watching below would make up a four-bit pool on how far the highclimbing would go, and generally the optimist of the lot was a kindly Van Dyke bearded gentleman of mischievous eye and knowing

smile. Sitting around on the grass, they'd watch a pin-point disappear in the sky, and then they'd wait. One day, Maj. R. W. Schroeder took his plane up 33,000 feet, went unconscious, and fell five miles before regaining consciousness to save his life. Another day, Lieut. John MacCready took the same plgne up to 40,800 feet. Again, Capts. St. Clair Street and Albert {W. Stevens made nearly 38,000 feet. Men had never flown that high before. They were doing it because their planes were equipped with a new turbosupercharger that had come out of the war and the war's proof that the flying man who can get on top in air battle has the best chance to

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In Steinmetz Tradition

AND THE optimistic gentleman who made his half-dollar guesses high was its inventor— Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, one of the group of distinguished General Electric scientists who have carried on in the traditions of the great Steinmetz, Mr. Moss knew what he had, and so did.a few spirited army men who were making a fight for him and in furtherance of the principles he laid down—men like Adolph: Berger, E..T. Jones, Opie Chenoweth and other -engineers and flying officers, in addition to the record-setters. But only these few realized its importance until along in July, 1941, when the first flying fortresses in Europe battered Brest from what the dispatches of the day called “fantastic heights.” It’s an almost daily story now, and few remember the drudgery and discouragement this man faced in the long years when he worked on his idea in a little shanty at one of the big G. E. plants. A turbosupercharger? What if it was good—who wanted to buy one? You have to make a market for what you make in in-

dustry. But Dr. Moss kept on. .

And today it is acknowledged that few men have made as great a contribution to this nation at

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A Sort of Windmill

THIS MACHINE on which he labored so long—a cross between a cookstove and a blacksmith’s forge, sald some scornful flying men who kidded the idea—is essentially a combination of an air

compressor and a gas turbine, a sort of small windmill with cupped blades driven by the roaring exhaust tornado that

DROP DE GAULLE RADIO PROGRAM

News Bulletins Substitute For~ Daily Speech by French Spokesman.

LONDON, Nov. 25 (U. P.).—The nbw hitter dispute over allied “temporary” recognition of Admiral Jean Francois Darlan as French leader in

Africa was advanced another step today when the British Broadcasting Corp. admitted that a daily radio speech by a fighting French spokesman—often Gen. Charles de

‘Gaulle himself—had been sus-

pended. A BBC spokesman said in reply to questions that the five-minute period in which a spokesman had addressed Frenchmen each day had been “given over entirely to a French news bulletin in the last few days.” The spokesman said that 'he knew no particular reason for the change,| and but said that it was “expected” that the talks by a Fighting French spokesman would be resumed “shortly.” Other - informants reported that the Fighting French spokesman at BBC had himself suggested the suspension until the Darlan situation had been clarified. . The Fighting French national council, corresponding to a cabinet, | met - yesterday under de Gaulle.

| Gen. Georges Catroux, Just. arrived)

Man among gears—it’s a high speed gear blank destined for a ship and it will go from a hobbing machine in a General Electric plarit

to serve the nation.

comes from an airplane’s motor. Dr. Moss harnessed this tornado to force air into a compressor, which in turn feeds it to the engine. As an engine, like a human being, goes higher and higher in the air, the weight of oxygen drawn into the cylinders decreases because of the thinness of the air. Each piston stroke draws in less weight, and so less fuel is burned and available power decreases. The supercharger, Which not only makes high altitude possible but increases power and range as well, is the offset to this. Geared superchargers, operated by direct drive from the engine rather than by utilizing its waste gases, became almost standard equipment on many planes, and were effective at much lower altitudes. But when Dr. Moss went into retirement in 1938 his turbosupercharger had been little used and he was a disappointed man, questioning the value of some of the chief work of his life. But war changed that quickly. It lifted him from retirement back to the plants of General Electric, where today he’ helps turn out his turbosuperchargers in astronomically increased quan-

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Contribute to Victory

THE WORK of the finest minds in GE's. famed research laboratories and the sweat and painstaking exactness of tens of thousands of GE craftsmen is built into hundreds of millions of dol-

lars’ worth of U. S. fighting machinery all over the world today.

Yanks and R. A. F. Fliers Learn Each Other s Words and Now Talk in the Same Language

LONDON, Nov. 25 (U. P.—The flier was stooging because he was browned off and would rather take a ride in a blood wagon than get

a piece of cake. That sentence sounds haywire,

‘and to ‘the civilian it is, but to

British and American fliers it’s everyday “slanguage.” Any R. A. F or American air force aviator could tell you in a minute that it means: The flier was cruising around because he was bored and ‘would rather get hurt and ride in an ambulance than have an easy job. One of the favorite R. A. F. expressions which - American - airmen have adopted is: The station master took a dim view and tore him off for shooting a line. :

“Abbeville Kids,” referring to Germany’s new Focke-Wulf 190 fighter planes. No one knows how it started but it is. common now and even

has been used in an official United |

is communidue.

States army air’ American pilots have.

Many times the story of Dr. Moss’ supercharger is repeated in ways less spectacular but contributing just as surely to victory. GE went into its treasury for $46,000,000 to build war production facilities in 1940-1941, took over and ran $108,000,000 worth of facilities financed by the government. It's on the way to producing a billion dollars’ worth of war material this year, of such variety as is said not to be duplicated anywhere else in industry. It made more in the first four months of - this year than in all 1941, and months ago had built more war equipment than in the whole four years of world war I. All the turbosuperchargers made in 1939 were made in a single room and were worth under $100,000. Now their construction requires whole” buildings and the output is valued at hundreds of times that amount. The corporation has a backlog of not far from a half-billion dollars in orders for ship-propulsion machinery. GE isn’t merely turning out more machines, it’s giving the navy better ones—marine turbines which enable ships to operate with 25 to 40 per cent less consumption per horsepower than in the first world war. What that means in range is obvious.

Other Equipment

GE IS turning out the most intricate fire control mechanism for naval and aircraft guns, radio for virtually every kind of ‘naval air and surface operations, aircraft

detection equipment so spectacu- * lar that it can’t be talked about,

has adopted “bellyflop” for d crashing landing. The Americans also brought over the term “brown job” to denote an army task and a “blue job” for a navy chore.

The : slanguage of the British

services contains many bewildering

expressions. Who except, a soldier would know that “got (a rocket” meant he hed been admonished for a misdeed or that “going around in the frost” meant you were worrying about something?

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Paris for airplane tubosuperchargers in one of General Eleotric’s

expanded war plants,

army and navy searchlights, howitzers, X-ray equipment, electrically heated suits for fliers and hundreds of other items. But it isn’t just through ma-. terial directly for the armed services that GE’s workshop wizardry is helping the U. 8. to slug out this war. It is producing in huge quantity for other industries that they may in turn build war equipment—giant turbines to give them power, welding equipment, electric furnaces and locomotives, en-gine-testing devices, meters and instruments. GE is building industrial X-ray equipment that will take a picture through eight inches of steel to reveal defects which may be chipped out and repaired. It is of tremendous value in speeding heavy war. goods output. Years in laboratory research yesterday means almost lightningfast production today. Af 6 p. m. one Thursday tne navy threw at an eastern GE factory an order for equipment a United States warship needed near Australia. All night and all day men worked to assemble it. It was rushed to an airport, flown across country to San Francisco and across the Pacific to the waiting vessel six days after the order landed at the

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At Westinghouse, Too

AS WITH GE, so does magic flow from the laburatories and giant plants of Westinghouse, turned now almost completely to war. The normal 10 years needed to bring a new device from test tube to production line has been telescoped into a few months by the men who wing military victory on electrons, rays and radio waves. There's the spectacular contribution Westinghouse has made in developing a radio wave, broadcast from a 10-foot length of coiléd copper, to fuse tin on tin plate in one-tenth the time required formerly, when this operation was done in ponderous furnaces or huge vats of hot oil It isn't just time that is saved by this electrolytic tinning process. At a time when we're desperately short of tin, it is making the supplies we have go three times as far as under the old methods. And this is tremendously important now, when food must be funneled out all over the world to ‘armies on far-away fronts.

.No ore in the army or air force ever takes his knife fork and spoon to a meal; it is always his irons. A “roman candle landing” is a bad one and'an “umbrella man” is a parachutist. These are R. A, F. exnressions which developed during the days when the British fliers were smashing the heavy German raids on Britain two years ago, The conservative British navy is a breeding place for much slanguage and any sailor can fell you that a pair of “carbs” means a new pair of shoes. A “tizzy snatcher” is the navy pay-master and “Jimmy the ane”

is a lieutenant. When a sailor sleeps he takes a “stretch of the land” and the ship’s

corporal is a “crusher.

BORINSTEIN ‘HOME

FETE SET THURSDAY

A special Thanksgiving service for the Joseph and Anna Borinstein

sponsored by the United Hebrew congrégation at 2 p. m. tomorrow. The service ,in the chapel of the home, 3516 Central ave., will be conducted by Rabbi Samuel J. Fox and Cantor Albert Cooper. The topic of the rabbi’s sermon will be “Grati-

The story of what Gaylord Penney, a Westinghouse research en= gineer, did when his wife com= plained about soot on her cure tains there in the western Pennsylvania valley, where this great concern has its headquarters, is typical of how Westinghouse has harnessed its genius to fighting a war.

Launders the Art

ENGINEER PENNEY rigged up a home-made gadget which consisted of a lot of tiny wires in a frame, placed between radio tubes, in an insulated box. He applied voltage to the wires and shot the air from his furnace through this device. It was am air-laundering machine in which, in effect, each tiny particle of dirt was electrocuted, and out of it came what Westinghouse calls a precipitron. The precipitron, perfected by Westinghouse laboratories, is be=ing used today in plants making the airplane bombsight, army binoculars and similar equipment which must be clean to be per= fect. In 16 naval air stations, from Florida to the Pacific, itis electrocuting the dirt in rooms where bombsights are overhauled. Fifteen hundred precipitron cells are being used to clean 600,000 cubic feet of air a minute in a single naval ordnance plant making the bombsights. Under Westinghouse war production air cooling units, once a civilian luxury, have become & war necessity, Not long after Pearl Harbor this concern found that men on its air-cooling pro= duction lines seemed to be slowing down—the result, apparently, of a belief by the-men that while others made war equipment, they

' still were in luxury goods.

That was before they knew that, even with shipping spacs at terrific premium,. Uncle Sam was reserving space for air-cooling equipment for a vital repair center in the Red sea Where broiling temperatures otherwise would make it virtually impossible for men to do needed precision work. There are dozens of such vital developments, born of slow and often costly research in Westing-

. house laboratories in the last 20

years, rolling off the concern’s lengthening production lines.” So highly secret are many of them that they can’t be discussed. But all over the world they're helping America’s fignting men to wage a tougher, smarter war.

PHOTOS CAN BE MADE WITH TNT

Not Expected to Replace’) Silver Salts, But It Will Work.

By Science Service v SANDUSKY, O. Nov. 25 —TNT can be used to shoot photographs 1 as well as in blow-ups with high ex=

plosive bombs. The odd fact that TNT can be used as a light-sensitive coating for paper is reported by Dr. Walter O. + Snelling, ‘director of research for 4 Trojan Powder Co. in the PBOW News, a publication issued at the Plum Brook ordnance works, i Dr. Snelling made the first photo graph produced with TNT instead of the usual silver salts—a beautiful sepia-appearing portrait of Maj. ‘Lewis K. Kallmyer, commanding officer of the works.

That TNT could be used as & light-sensitive substance was diss covered by Dr. Snelling eens as he was ihe, <i light in darkening a he ae

Mrs. Louis Sakowits, chairman of