The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-04-02
BY ALBERT LEMAN

impeachable sources: Admiral Do
enitz's killers have enlarged their
wolf pack tactics. They now hunt
in echelon-several fleets thrown
into the attack one after the other.
A convoy may dodge the first
group only to run into q second
or third.
We are trying to overcome these
deadly combinations by employing
escort vessels, small aircraft car
riers with planes and helicopters.
and other secret weapons. Land
based Sutherlands. Lockheed Hud-
sons and Fortresses can form a
protective umbrella six hundred
miles off England or Nova Scotia.
but beyond is the graveyard Of
the Atlantic, where the enemy is
now operating with alarming sue
cess.
When a submarines peri
scope rears above the waves
the hull itself is so feet under
water. An aviator can sight
any pigboat submerged less
than 40 feet. When the sea
Is covered with white caps,
the keenest lookout In a crows
nest cannot sight the telltale
observation tube farther than
700 yards. Then il is too late.
One of he most destructive
agents invented by man is the
modern German torpedo. II is
% feet long and is propelled by
a 400 horsepower engine which
drives the device at as miles an
hour for a distance of 1000 yards
A runaway can actually travel
seven miles at 80 knots before it
is spent. Its charge is 500 pounds
of high explosive. The average
U-boat. 221 feet long. carries II
of these weapons and can cruise
for six weeks before returning to
port.
Fast cargo ships have been sug-
gested. Naval authorities answer
that we cannot build enough of this
type for current requirements. We
have a bottleneck in engines. We
can launch eight slow supply
craft in the time it takes to build
two swift ones. All merchants
are now being made on the same
general model with interchange
able parts. When, earlier in the
war, shippers of speedy boats
insisted on going alone they fire.
quently came to grief. although
they sailed at fifteen knots. they
could not escape a surfaced sub
racing at seventeen and one-half
knots.
An i'll wind has blown some
good to Mexico. The new vol
canO in the state of MichO-
acan, west of the capital,
which United states audiences
are now seeing in the news
reels, is attracting so many
awed spectators that the gov
eminent has taken over the
ground and is building a high
way TO accommodate the tour
ist trade.
A peak more than a thousand
feet high with an enormous crater
noisily hurls tons Of fiery debris
over an area of five square miles.
Sometimes melted rocks are blown
six thousand feet Into the air. At
night the phenomenon is even
more magnificent and terrifying.
A 15-foot wall of molten
matter crawls slowly across
the land, pushing hills out of
its path and burning the tiny
wooden crosses which piOus
Indians have set up TO check
the flow. Fine ashes two feet
deep cover everything within
miles, and haze of cinders
fills the atmosphere even "a
distant a. suburbs of Mex
leo City. Who knows. an
other Popoeatepetl, which the
Aztecs called the smoking
mountain may be in the
making.
Scarcities. which will be even
more apparent as this weeks strict
rstioning begins, are compelling
professors 70 turn into hunters
seeking new foods.
The recent excitement about
horse meat is not likely TO last
Dieticians contend that the flesh
Is slightly higher in protein value
than that OF a steer. In contrast
70 beef. the older the animal. the
tenderer the steaks. But most
Americans would rather go hungry
than eat this substitute. Butchers
say that, apart from buyers VINO
are willing 70 try anything once
purchasers are mainly families Of
foreign extraction VINO consumed
Il IN the old country. Federal
laws prohibit the slaughtering Of
horses in any packing house where
other meat is cut.
Roasted malt. rye. barley ami
wheat are now pscksged az coffee
stretohers. Beans picked IN the
same manner as cucumbers are
now on the market When the
brine Is washed off and the vege-
table cooked. il Is said 70 taste Ike
the old standby.