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ISr SUNDAY Gale and Fires I 1 TurksDefy I A vi Trnnnr Sweep JLL MAIJ Muup taSIDaV -fe On Frontier Tunnel Area Periled by Flames, Scores Of Small Blazes Exhaust Firemen; City's Garbage Disposal Plant Is Destroyed 'f Naxi Invasion of i Dardanelles Hinted iW "3 By Massing of Army 1 ii v.si .4 i STOCKHOLM, Dec. 9. Tur key and Germany have stationed Fire riding on a 75-mile-an-hour wind swept through the Oakland hills above the Low Level early taking everything in its path, and threatened residen-! tial sections in the northern part of the city, Half of the city's firerfiehting equipment was rushed into troops along the opposite sides of the Turkish border facing Bulgaria and Greece, a state of emergency has been declared along the 'entire boundary and all traffic has been the area, only to have another major fire break out 'in East Oakland. Civilian defense police aroused hundredsof fami- Jies in the upper Broadway Terrace, upper Montclair and halted, reports from Bern, Switzerland, and the, Bulgarian capital said Piedmont Pines districts, tell Dispatches said the border meas ing thern to gather their be ures had been ordered as, nervous longings and evacuate. Gale Smashes -V'-, hsning rleet ness over a possible Allied invasion mounted throughout the Balkans.

Assistant Fire Chief Manning Basch announced that the fire was The newspaper Svenska Dagbla- brought under control at 9 a.m det's Bern correspondent said that City Manager Charles Schwanen- the possibility was not being over looked of a German invasion of European Turkey in order to reach Damage at Monterey the vital Dardanelles, especially in berg, who made a morning tour of the fire area, said that it would be Impossible' to estimate the damage, but pointed out that the blaze had been confined to the hills and little, if any, private property was Estimated at view of reports that the Allies have promised increased assistance to Russia by way of the Dardanelles. He quoted reports from Ankara destroyed. Many Boats Lost MONTEREY, Dec. 8. () Dam- and a Sofia dispatch from the Southeastern Europe information, bureau that the' state of emergency' Fire Chief William Xutkey issued statement later in the day the action of civilian defense age estimated by boat owners at had been declared alone the from $500,000 to $750,000 was caused border.

here by a gale which threw 40 'to WmM 50 fishing boats upon the shore Showdown in Balkans Is Believed Near during the night. Among the stranded craft were several large purse seiners. By ROBERT DOWSON LONDON, Dee. 9. (U.PJ The lili Some of the beached boats may Tjirkislt-Bulgarian border has been not be salvageable.

P. G. fir E. Lines Hit All available repairmen of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company were called out early today to repair power facilities in the Bay area. The Oakland office of the P.

G. headquarters for the Contra Costa and. Southern Alameda County area, said the damage is widespread but they did not know just what lines were down or how long the repairs would take. Sfj. There was no report of loss of closed, and Turkey has drdered a military' state of alarm in the fron life.

The gale whipped Monterey Bay tier zone, Swedish reports said today as the United Nations, Turkey and Germany maneuvered for throughout the night. Some win dows were smashed" and some trees downed. Trees and underbrush were a red hot bed oi coeds as the Oakland hill fire swept across one ridge after another. This, fire scene was "shot" Just off Balkans showdown. Stockholm dispatches indicated Snake' Road after the blaze Jumped the highway and moved, downhill toward the homes.

(More pictures on Page 39.) Tribune photo. that the Balkans situation is coming rapidly "to a head in the waka County Towns Hard Smitten by Storm of the Cairo and Teheran confer-. ences, but Ankara and Cairo believn JAvVflB NILES, Dec. 9. At least two policemen who warned hill residents to evacuate their homes.

The fire chief pointed out that liny fire evacuation order should come from his office and said that the inevitable Balkans explosion is months, rather than weeks or days, buildings were collapsed by wind, roofs were blown from a school BRITISH TAKE MT. CROCE RIDGE, ADVANCE ON RIVER away. and a dock Was whipped away and Only a German "preventive at Homes Burned one home was destroyed by fire, Chinese Again Take Changfeh Counter-Attack Drives Japs Frojri Rice Center; tack" on Turkey in an attempt to Japs Blasted In New Britain Sustained Bombing Levels Defenses of Area Open to invasion according to an early survey of throw Allied plans off balance could damage from the wind storm which swept Washington Township early provoke an immediate crisis." most sources here believe, though all none was issued. Lutkey declared that in the future 11 civilian agencies should govern themselves by the orders' of his office in case of fire. GARBAGE PLANT DESTROYED The second fire destroyed the garbage disposal plant and Residential Area Save today.

General Clark's Troops Push Down Western agree that the Balkans probably will be embroiled again in a full- Full details could -not be ob By Wind Direction; Boy tained, as power and telephone lines scale war before Winter snows melt. Slightly Injured Other Victories Scored were down and Newark, Irvington, Niles, Warm Springs, Centerville drew badly-needed equipment from the hill area. No cause was given Slopes of Mountains on Pathway Rome By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Dec, 9. (Jf) VALLEJO, Dec. 9.

A curtain and Mission San Jose were re CHUNGKING, Dec. 9. The SOUTHWEST. PACIFIC ALLIED for either blaze. ported' cut off from outside tele high command announced HEADQUARTERS, Dec.

9. (JP) whipped across the top -of an oil stove by the wind, set fire to one phonic communication. FACTORY COLLAPSES today that Chinese forces had re One of the most sustained air 'A total of 37 alarms were rung in betweei midnight aiiB a.m., and all off-duty firemen and police were MANY RUMORS Among the flood of unconfirmed reports reaching Stockholm by diverse routes were these: Marshal Er win Rommel, German commander in northern Italy and the Balkans, has arrived at the Fuehrer's headquarters for a confer ence with Adolf Hitler. New German reinforcements havt of the homes in the Carquinez captured the strategically important British troops have stormed arrd taken the ridge Croce, two and a half miles southwest of the summit of bombardments of the Southwest In Niles, the entire central sec Heights war- housing area above Pacific war is levelling Japanese tion of the plant collapsed when the roof was torn off and are pressing on toward the Garigliano River, a mile be Morrow Cove early today; and be city of CKSngteh in Hunan Province, which fell to the Japanese December 3 after many days of bloody shore defenses on New Britain yond, Allied headquarters announced today, crashed into the building. The de fore the blaze was extinguished six.

Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's Island, in the very area where it is open to invasion by Gen. Douglas fighting. houses were destroyed.

been rushed to the Bulgarian-Turk stroyed part was 75 by 150 feet and it' was estimated that 25 employees The victorious Chinese stroke pro ordered to stand by. Police and newspaper switchboards were swamped with tele-phoneRalls asmore than half of the city wasWawn from its beds by the two fires. The wind during the night was the strongest in the memory of -OaklaBdtwrtdwitsAiiyire had head start oh the firemen. Thousands of dollars worth of Fifth Army troops, pushing Only the direction of the wind ish borders, Lemnos on the approaches to the Dardanelles, and the would be laid off until repairs are vided another decisive turn in the MacArthur's troops on New Guinea. Today, headquarters announced dowttrtherwestern'- slopes.

of kept the fire from the other 1690 completed. The plant is engaged in fortunes of war in the bitter, battles Bulgarian, and. Greek coasts of the manufacturing building tile under a that 195 tons were dumped' there" in which China's vast and ifiiportant homes in the tract, according to Mt. Maggiore and Mt. where they have breached the R.

London Visit Looms Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas. Uovernment contract. py iterators and Mitchells inthe rice bowl area is a major prize. fire department officials; The wind also blew away a 200- latest raid. That made it more Loss of Changteh last week had Premier Dobri Bojilov of Bul Hampered by the strong wind, mountain walls to the valley leading to Rome, wiped out all by root loading dock.

opened the prospect of an enemy han 900 tons reported for that area garia held two special cabinet meet "late glass windows were blown into stores, business houses At Irvington, the warehouse and rirfvf nn ramtnl nf thi which tossed burning 'debris from one house to another, firefighters communiques this month. passed enemy pockets except on main office of the Occidental Sfb've province. ings, conferred with the regency council and met several high Army officers. He was also reported re were unable to save anything from houses throughout the city. TOO MANY WINDOWS LONDON, Dec.

9. (P) The Lp.i- the northwestern tip of the Mag The recapture of Changteh was Company collapsed -and was completely demolished. The corrugated the houses and loss fqr the build particularly satisfying, to the Chi ceiving the Turkish minister. ings alone was estimated at $15,000. Police at Eastern Station counted giore incline and the small village of Rocca Devandro nestled against nese in that, by official calculation, More than 100 Bulgarians marched iron walls and roof of the building, which covered 16,000 square feet, FAMILIES LOSE ALL only a few more than 300 men, 6f through the streets of Sofia carry Camino, it was stated.

were stripped into small pieces by Clothing, furniture and other be don Daily Herald said today there was "strong feeling" in London that President Roosevelt "might come here before American troops leave these shores" t(S participate in the final planning of the invasion of Since ihe last week of November, more than 130 tons of explosives have ripped at gun positions and supply dumps even as Australians enlarged the potential jumping-off place on New Guinea in hard fighting on the Huon Peninsula. START AT GASMATA The bombardments wpre opened against Gasmata, an air base and plantation area on the south-central the 57th Division survived when the city was abandoned to the Jap ing placards exclaiming, Bulgaria must withdraw from the war!" (C. United Press tne wind and timbers were splin tered. Value of. the building and con anese after a 15-day siege.

longings of the six families who lived in the houses were destroyed by the flames, which spread with 350 reports of broken windows and then quit. Central Station had so many calls the sergeant on the desk couldn't keep a count of them. Northern Station out of which officers were being routed to the hill fire, didn't attempt to count the wind damage. i correspondent, reported that the Fifth Army has cleared the Ger BULGARS MUTINY By holding Changteh, the Japa Several detachments of Bulgarian tents was estimated at $20,000. Part mans from the Camino-Maggiorei Europe from the west such rapidity occupants barely escaped with their lives.

No seri troops mutinied and joined Greek nese controlled the "rice bowl" region and stood astride the Hunan-Szechwan supply line, one of the mountain peaks except for two iso and Yugoslav partisans. ofc the damage will by insurance, according to company officials. They reported that records lated heights, in preparation for a ous injuries were reported, how The newspaper said further that American circles here expect Gen. George C. Marshall, the American The German Gestapo and Bul Fire apparatus sent to the blazes coast which was hit with more thanj Chinese Army's principal sources of ever.

mass descent into the 20-mile Liri Valley along the road to Rome.) garian police arrested hundreds of supply. 4UU tons in six raids at a cost of The fire was confined to the were recovered, but that steel patterns for stove parts were blown chief of staff, to set up headquarters as commander in chief of the Allied southwest section of the lo- CAPTURE HEIGHTS had to fight through streets cluttered with fallen trees, broken power lines and scattered- roclfs. Firemen said that never before had American aircraft, which played strong part, in the defense of the only one raider. It also was shelled by destroyers of.yiee Thomas ISO yards. caJTJ near the Carquinez Bridge, "in the next few Farther to the northeast, Ameri-! ity, were said to havcThad a hand nd because of the wind direction, The German-controlled radio at Fire, caused by the wind, razed the two-story home of A.

P. Silva Bulgarians as oppositionists, but found thousands of others had left their homes before' they arrived. Germany was reported awaiting the outcome of a conference between her ambassador to Ankara, can troops attacked and captured is.m?:aia. Then the bombers switched to in its recapture. During the long flames were blown away from the they seen such debris-filled streets, The hill fire broke out shortly Bratislava, Slovakia, also speculating on the American President's siege while the 57th Chinese Di high ground west of Venafro, de-i spite fierce resistance supported by the Cape Gloucester area on New other homes toward the water.

on Roberts Avenue. FAMILY FLEES FLAMES vision was fighting to the last ditch, Britain western tip. That air base Houses burned were on two rows aftegdnightnear theintersettion Carman artillery fire, and tlie Yankee flieis un seveul ui- Bai'Mffiaiif vun Papen, and Presi- along Jefferson Street, but it was is separaTed by only 80 miles of confer with Portuguese statesmen Boulevard. It had spread within Mr. and Mrs.

-Silva and the lat-ter's brother were awakened by the not learned immediately in which still farther north wiped out lines of Nazi pillboxes West of Fjlignano, in the westward push across the casions dropped food and ammunition and dispersed enemy planes trying to blast the Chinese from crackling of the flames and fled the one the blaze started. before returning to Washington. It did not say where the meeting was expected to take place. Continued Page 6. Col.

1 water from the Huon; Peninsula. In an these raids, the only opposition' mentioned has been antiaircraft fire. But headquarters said residence just before- fire blocked INVALID CARRIED OUT mountain backbone flanking Cas- the smoking and bomb-pocked town. sino. One of the occupants, Mrs.

Sedg the last exit; Poultry and livestock were destroyed. Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwells today even the enemy ground euns wick A.

Matthews, of 44 Jefferson Gen. Sir Bernard Li Montgomery's headquarters announced today that Mitchell bombers with a fighter In. Centerville, the roof of the had been silenced at Cape Glou Russ Bag 16 Nazi dent Ismet Inonu before deciding definitely her future policy toward Turkey. Papen was expected "to press Turkey for a guarantee she will not open, the Dardanelles to the Allies. Swedish newspapers published reports attributed to Sofia that traffic had been halted between Bulgaria and Turkey that the Germans had ordered two divisions, totaling nearly 30,000 men, to the frontier zone.

Stxeet-an invalid; was safely carried Smuts Leaves Cairo For South Africa Dec. 9. Wi Field Mar. Eighth Army fought through down cester. escort on Tuesday bombed Japanese- from, her house and was oefing cared pours to improve its positions in for by neighbors, held installations in Changteh in the Orsogna area, 10 miles inland small' gymnasium and the roof of the art department at the Washington Union High School were blown away and other schools, including the grammar schools at Newark, 4USSIES EXTEND HOLD The bombed sector is on the op support of the Chinese ground A hoy.

Clyde McKinley, 11, re ips, 56 Planes from the Adriatic, where boU sides shal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South troops moving against the city. used tanks in clashes throughout ported the only injury. He received a sprained, wrist and -slight In other activities, American left by Diane for home to the day yesterday. Prisoners were Irvington and Niles, were closed be fighter planes operating on the Sal captured from a new uerman Al cause of the lack of electric power day. He conferred with Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt in the course of their pine unit operating in the moun TURKS MASS TROOPS to heat the ween front attacked railway equipment between Mogaung and Myit-kyina in northe'rn Burma without tain areas.

posite end of the 300-mile long sland from Rabaul, once Japan's Mggest air and shipping fortress hort of Truk in the area, but, beginning last October '12, when it was hit by 350 tons of bombs, Ra-Jaul's role has dwindled sharply. In the Huon Peninsula campaign, the latest reports told of Aussies MOSCOW, Dec. 9. U.R) Russian naval planes" attacked three heavily escorted German convoys trying to reach Finnish Arctic ports, sank nine ships, damaged three and shot down 28 fighters, it was announced today. In other attacks the Russians sank In Niles, tiles were blown from roofs and the main street was lit (An Algiers radio broadcast said talks with Turkish President Ismet Inonu.i 7 Montgomery's men had forced a Turkish troop concentrations have, been observed in Turkish Thrace just across ths border from Bulgaria, Swedish reports said.

With Turkey's future role appar tered with trees and broken glass, A broken water main was reported new crossing of the Moro River in this area and had advanced to burns. 1 The homes were occupied by Mr. and Mrs, Stinson Ellis, their son James, 10, and daughter Jodie, 5, 40 Jefferson Street; Mr. and Mrs. William Means, son Mel.vin, 12, 42 Jefferson Mr.

and Mrs. Matthews; Mr. and Mrs. OUie M. daughter Norma Lee, "12, and Clyde, 46 Jefferson Mr.

and Mrs. Gilbert W. Pharris, son Gilbert 16, and daughter Betty, 15, 48 Jefferson Street, and Mr. and Mrs. Ellis C.

Harder, son, WEATHER TALK Biddle Is Wary oi within eiaht miles of Pescara. Adri ently settled and soon to be placed extending their ol "along the seven mpre ships and shot down 28 fighter planes. I in irvington. WIND HALTS TRAFFIC LIVERMORE, Dec. 9.

Traffic be atie terminal of the trans-Peninsula By Earle Ennis coast nortn of Fmschhafen While in the inland jungles other ground highway to Rome. A Morocco radio Tule Lake Problem broadcast said the Eighth Army had tween Livermore and Santa Rita Stormoyik assault planes, tighter-bombers, dive bombert and torpedo carriers of the northern fleet's air torces appeared on the verge of capturing the trail juncture village reached the suburbs of Ortona, was halted early today by a wind of "Gosh, the Boss musta been mad last nieht." remarked Casey the about eight miles. below Pescara. of Wareo. WASHINGTON, Dec.

9. Atty. in preparation, Britain, Russia and, the United States believed working out the, details of the fate assigned the satellite and occupied Balkan countries at the Cairo and Teheran conferences. The conferees' decisions were believed already being communicated Continued 5, Col. 4 near-hurricane proportions.

The Naval Air Station here re Weather Bureau Cat. arm. pounced on the convoys botmd for Petsamo and Varanger Bay to' Thewes. the reports said, without Gen. Francis Biddle today 'warned WEATHER IMPROVES "How do you make' that out?" ported a maximum velocity of -65 Ernest C.

Harder, son, Ernest 16, 50 'Jefferson Street. Improved weather and subsiding asked Gimmick the Mouse. giving the date of the engagement. knots approximately 73 miles an Several other fires were reported floods, however, favored tne light hour. In the first attack Stormoviks and "From all th big wind that has been blowing around my ears since Sinatra Refected For Army Service Newark," --n.

Dec. s-m ing of the Fifth Army front where in Vallejo during the night; but a Dies sub-committee that permanent transfer of the Japanese Center at Tule Lake, to, the Army would result in retaliation by Japan He expressed belief American citizens interned in the Far East torpedo carriers struck three trans The, wind tore off the roof of the grandstand at the Livermore rodeo it was -disclosed the village oi L.aia none caused serious damage he left the office" last night," re plied Casey. britto on the southern slopes of ports escorted by two torpedo boats, four, trawlers and six Coast Guard vessels. Two transports weresunk grounds. The -Livermore-Santa Rita high Women and girls can continue to "Dumbbell, that isn't the Boss Mt.

Camino-had changed hands sev: eral times in recent days before in would be placed under the Japa Boy, ,13, Bitten by blowing off steam, chuckled uim way is littered With telephone poles swoon happily, for the United States Army today declared Frankie and the third damaged. nese, Army rather than the military ally falling into firm Allied posr and trees snapped by the storm, Later the Stormoviks attacked police, which now supervises them. Deadly Coral Snake mick, "that's the hurricane he was reluctant to predict last week if (the voice) Sinatra 4-F physically, Simultaneously, Biddle suggested Near the Inman School a bigfgum tree toppled onto the highway be unfit for military serviee. you remember." RED BANK, N.J.,.Dec.-9. OT that one way to end present diffi two big tankers and three transports escorted by 22 vessels and 24 fighter planes.

Both tankers and two escort vessels were sunk and 13 so noise and culties with American citizens of Fred Wege, 13. son of an Army captain, was bitten today by one of session. In the Venafro area the' Germans launched several sharp counterattacks, but the Americans prevented them from having conclusive results. American heavy bbmbers attacked wind I just couldn't tell the differ Japanese ancestry who have declared loyalty to Japan would be to ence, grumbled Casey, posting a fighters shot down. two venomous coral snakes which school authorities said he had re tween --two" trucks and sent them into a headon collision.

vehicles were tangled in the tree. HAYWARD SCHOOLS CLOSE HAYWARD, Dec. .9. Hayward sign "strong winds." Stormoviks, dive bombers and deprive them of their Untfed States WHERE TO FIND IT Classified Advertising 33 Comics 32 Crossword Puxzle 30 Editorials and Columns 44 43 Gardens 30 Geraldine 30 Ma-gazine Features Mackenzie 44 Needleart 30 Radio Schedules 32 Rationing Timetables 39 Society and Clubs 31 Sports 40 Theaters, Wood Soanes 42 Uncle Wiggily 30 Vital Statistics 28 ceived from Texas and had brought citizenship, which he believed to the high school to his WINDY, torpedo carriers teamed in the third attack on four transports strongly escorted by warships and fighter Expressing disappointment, the crooner himself announced the but-come of his Selective Service pre-induction examination today at the Newark induction station. "I've got a hole in my left ear drum," said Sinatra.

He asserted he had thought himself in good physical condition until he went through the tests. The crooner commented that he had hoped to enter the Marine would be constitutionally accom. plished. elementary schools were closed to biology class. The nearest suitable solution lo enemy airfields at Elevsis and ra-toi, west and north of Athens, respectively.

A smaller Allied bombing force also ranged far northward to attack day as a result of last night's severe There is no reason why a Japa wind storm. cated by the1- hospital was cobra serum at the Philadelphia Zoo, Two transports ai)d one Coast Guard vessel were sent to the bottom, two transports damaged and 15 fighters shot down. Several plate glass-windows in nese who has declared his loyalty to Japan could not be deprived of citizenship," Biddle said. harbor installations and shipping at roughly 75 miles away, and State store buildings were smashed and many telephone and power- line san titeiano, mnes norinv. est oi police arranged an escort to speed a supply of it here.

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