Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-05

NEW YORK. May 5-During the war,
at Chaumont, the American G. h. Q. In
France, / heard that an American had
invented a submarine detector used wit b
success by the French and the British.
Later at Rollincourt, the press head
quarters IN France Of the correspondents
attached to the British army, l was told
that an American had invented the con-
densers and wireless sets used on the
British airplanes used for artillery OBJ
servation. The English officer referred
to the inventor only as the little
Edison"
While the Paris peace conference was
in progress an officer of the British in
telligence office asked: do you know an
, American chap named william Du-
bilier?," and when l gave a negative
reply remarked. what a pityI Make a
note Of the name it sounds French, but
he is one Of your people,
Today In the Recess Club, q downtown
luncheon affair on the seventeenth floor
Of the Columbia Trust Company build
ing, l was introduced to a young man,
small Of frame with a large head, who
carried in his person that modest and
careless Indifference which is the hall
mark of greatness. As We shook hands
there was a spark Of electricity caused
by the velvet carpet, and when he shyly
remarked that we both were good con-
densers, ] knew he was the wizard I
had long wished to meet-Dubilier, born
on the lower East Side, genius OF radio
and famous In Paris, London, Berlin,
Petrograd, in fact known all over the
world
Opportunity came in the course Of a
general conversation to Put questions that
developed answers Of great interest. for
not only did Dubilier invent the sub
marine detector, and the lightweight CON
densers and wireless sets for airplanes
but IN 1910, long before the war, he in
stalled the secret wireless apparatus in
tho cars palace at Petrograd which he
fears was the one used during the war
by the czsrina to secretly communicate
with the Germans, possibly sending
thereby the knowledge OF the date set for
the sailing of Lord Kitchener upon his
Inflated journey to Russia. 1t proved to
be the unfolding Of a series OF facts
which out-hction the best Of fiction.
Dubilier was born in July. 1888, of
humble parents on Cannon street, nea
Grand street. New York. sold newspa pers
after attending the public school and Sc
curing day job with a telephone com
pany, continued his education at night at
the Cooper Institute. I really am 81
years DID," he said "as l got two for one
out OF every year FOR ten years. working
eight hours and studying eight hours.I
4 lecturer on radio sent by the New
York Board Of Education. let Dubiller
carry his grip home from Cooper insti-
tute. This man worked for the Mar
conf company. He took a fancy to the
lad, who wanted to know yerYthing
about wireless communion ton. Thus II
came Dubilier was offered the chance to
go to Seattle. Wash, to help set Ut dem
onstration plant at the Alaska Yukon
Exposition. While there he saw the pos
sibiity Of q wireless exchange with
Alaska, for the existing cable limo was
asking 81 q word and be participated In
the forming Of a small wireless tele-
graph and telephone company, actually
installing one station near cattle that
cost 81 600.
Then came the circumstance that
changed my whole life" said Dubluier
a man approached NE with proposal
that 60 10 Russia, and he finally gave
me $4,000, more money than I had ever
seen, and I accepted This was 1909
On the steamship Victoria Louisa. be-