The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-12
By ALBERT y. LENAS

By ALBERT y. LfhtN
Major General Esker's published
eredo that the United States and
British planes can destroy Ger
many from the air is based on
more than hopes. Although details
Of recent stfafing are secret. those
who have access 10 the reports
affirm that clearly the reich Is
suffering from the steady punish
ment i has taken.
SO many factories have been de-
stroyed in the Ruhr and Rhine
zones that maehinists are working
at mobile FORCES and lathes set up
in the open air under improvised
sheet metal roofs. II is estimated
that more than a million persons
in Hitlers realm have been made
I homeless. After monster hiitz-
kriegs. storekeepers are compelled
to vseate their shops on short no.
tice TO provide shelter for victims,
At first the government built
temporary barracks in Cologne and
other industrial cities. But these
became easy targets for incendi-
aries. A new system fills parks
with piles Of timber cut into stand
ard shapes. The parts are rushed
to structures that have been par
tally wrecked and are fitted to the
standing beams and charred floors.
More often entirely new buildings
must be erected from the reserve
supply, and these houses lack fur
niture. water connections and heat
ing arrangements.
Nationals of Denmark in Amer
lea celebrated the 72nd birthday
OF King Christian Sept. IS. Some
months before the occupation Hit
Ter met the elderly sovereign and
expostulated. Your people and
mine are so close racially that one
rule should be enough for both"
Maybe replied the monarch,
but ! am not so young as formerly
and the prospect of governing
eighty million does not therefore
appeal to me- Reports that reach
Danish quarters in New York indi-
cate that he is still standing up to
the dictator. Open rebellion in
so small land would be hopeless,
hence the patriots use subtle meth
DDS to express their hostility.
The United Nations is a pr
sick patient right now. FRD
a farm bloc political revolt or
hands. Churchill is juggling
dian dynamite. Stain makes
bones about telling the world &.
the Russians believe they have
been bamboozled by Anglo-Ameri-
can promises concerning a second
front. Wilkes pep talks have
failed to dispel the distrust. Green
painted japanese advance parties
squirm through the jungles and
slowly drive back the Australians.
And the monsoon rains have ceased
pattering on the Chinese Burmese
frontier.
/ Washington desperately needs a
success story. The November cleo
tons hang in the balance. But
what is Of far more consequences is
that the faith of the world in allied
leadership will probably weaken
unless few new laurels are won.
Because Of the preearious situa-
ton, the informed intimate that
Mr.. Roosevelt is about to break
something dramatic. Since the
experience of Dieppe bars sensa-
uonal military action. it is Judged
mat the president will contrve a
diplomatic victory.
A rumor circulated in Wall
Street is that he will pry Finland
loose from the war. eliminating
danger TO our soldiers and sailors
IN Murmansk and so permit Mos
COW to move its Arctic divisions TO
The Caucasian theater The ~indis-
Greet peace hints by Minister
tfoeope IN Washington and Hell
sinki' 5 public disayowal are offered
as proof that the squeeze Is on.