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Buy Her a War 2 Oakland Tribune, Friday, Doc 10, 1943 Yugoslavs Capture Russ Capture Rail Center New Jitters In Bulgaria Fortified FIRE CHIEF ASKS CITY INVESTIGATION OF CIVILIAN POLICE Continued from Page 1 Bismarck Sea GLOUCESTER AC' ftKalasa BRITAIN Sattlbarg-A Town; Inflict Heavy Losses New Thrust by SrHuon 'fi NEW llGUINEA. Partisans in Serbia up partisan forces in eastern Bosnia and northern Croatia. Another Nazi broadcast, this time from the Budapest Harasses Axis LONDON, Dec. 10. (JP) Hard hitting partisans of Marshal Joseip Broz (Drug Tito) have captured the fortified town of Biograd, 16 miles sputheast of the Croatian port of Zara and have clipped the German? and their satellites for heavy losses in another thrust near Kremen in Serbia, a Yugoslav war bulletin announced by radio today.

The twmmunique admitted that the partisans are still on the de-fensivfein Bosnia, but claimed they have 4pKen a heavy toll along the enemyls rail and supply lines in that province, killing more than 200 men xn one action alone. The German version of the fighting, as broadcast by the Interna-tionel Information Bureau, claimed that the Nazis have occupied the town of Vlasencia, 30 miles northeast of Sarajevo, and are mopping ALLIES MAY HAVE (TCHUOSEW OR KING PETER By R. H. SHACKFORD WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.

(U.R) Well-informed diplomats believed today that the United States and Britain may be forced soon to choose between the Yugoslav partisans headed by Gen. Josip (Tito) Brozovich and the Govern-jnent-ln-exile of King Peter II. The partisans already have won a major round in their fight to win the recognition now held by the King's Government by drawing from both the British and Americans the admission that Tito's forces are doing most of the fighting against the Germans in Yugoslavia. That admission, made by British minister of State Richard K. Law and corroborated by Secretary of State Cordell Hull yesterday, appeared certain to intensify the 'intra-Yugoslav squabble for.

power. The situation is complicated by the fact that the United Nations, including the Soviet Union, recognize King Peter's Government in Cairo as the legal Yugoslav au thority, although the Russians and 1 a a Jesset- extent Jiia-BritiKh-Jiave been sending supplies to the partisans rather than to Peter'? minister of war and commander In the field, Gen, Draja Mihailovitch. For months the British and Americana have tried to get the two forces to reconcile their differences. Lasf week, the partisans announced formation of a provisional Government headed by Titp's son, Yesterday they said the new Gov- i. 1J 1- ij a tn Unitea i PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VISITS MALTA; PRESENTS SCROLL TO HEROIC DEFENDERS LONDON," Dec.

10. W-Renewed rumblings of tension and uncer tainty in the Balkans particularly in Bulgaria," where cabinet shake- ups, including th'e'post of foreign minister, appeared imminent have led diplbmats.here to the conclusion that Germany's European satellites wnr seek a way out ofThe war before Germany falls. Bulgarian; Premier Debri Bojilov, reported in dispatches to Stockholm to be reshuffling his cabinet as the result of Parliament's vote of no confidence, was believed ready, to oust Foreign Minister Shishmanov and- take over -the post himself. Previously Bojilov was reported to have recalled his envoys from Moscow and Ankara for conferences on the new complica tions arising from the Teheran 'and Cairo conferences and the fear that Turkey may be ready for a more prominent part in the war. SOFIA DEMONSTRATIONS Peace demonstrations, disturb' ances and arrests in Sofia and other parts of the country have been re ported in dispatches to neutral capi tals.

Bulgaria's predicament is particu larly complicated by the fact that any Allied invasion of the Balkans is likely to involve her in hostilities with Russia, with whom she has managed to. remain at peace, fcl-though she bowed to German domination and entered the war against Britain and the United States. HardenedjUiplomats in London are slow to accept any rumors of peace, but they are becoming convinced that when Germany falls at last she will fall all alone deserted by her partners. Turkey's entry into the Allied camp all the way short of actual fighting, would offer a possible avenue to the Allies for invasion of the jittery Balkans, it is believed. SEPARATE PEACE MOVE The Daily Express diplomatic cor respondent asserted that once Tur key makes her final decision, there "is almost certain to be an intensive effort by the 'Axis satellites in that area to reach a separate peace with the United Nations." London also believes that the Al lies will insist on Unconditional surrender of every country that sues for an armistice.

As for Turkey herself, one Turkish newspaper reflected that country's attitude toward the series of Allied, conferences in these words: Alt that is left to Germany is to capitulate or be beaten by force of arms. She is now faced with a perfect coalition both in the military and political field." Germans to Close Italian Border, Report NEW YORK, Dec, 10. (JP) The Italian-Swiss border will be "completely closed" by the German high command next Monday, according to a broadcast by the Hungarian domestic radio recorded here by United States Government monitors. The broadcast, which quoted a dispatch from Tudosito, semi-official Hungarian news agency, did not make clear how long the border will remain closed. Australian forces captured ft Jap strong point of Waro on New Guinea while Allied planes raided Cape Gloucester on New Britain Island for 10th consecutive day.

1 MARSHALL ISLANDS Pacific MAKIN-S Ocean Tarawa- tt ABEMAMA-A GILBERT ISLANDS 300 MIllS 4TruTI Within four days of the plane-carrier attack which inflicted heavy damage on Jap shore installations and shipping In the Marshall Islands, U.S. task and carrier forces shelled and bombed the Japs at Nauru. British Sink Ship In German Convey LONDON, Dec. 10. (JP) British in light naval forces, making an offen sive sweep off the coast of Holland near Ijmuiden early today, probably sanK one of lour merchant ships in an enemy convoy escorted by Ger man motor torpedo boats and fast gunboats, the Airalty announced.

Torpedo hits were scored from close range, and when last seen the vessel was down by the stern and survivors were being picked up by the escort vessels, the announcement said. The British ships suffered neither damaged nor casualties. NAURU OLdLCS 1UI JCIiVJ J.CCT i3C fliu. nvu comment on such an appeal, Hull; Prime Minister some day we would said this Government's policy wasjonce moj-e control the whole of to give aid to all Yugoslav groups tne; Mediterranean and that then I fighting the Germans, but that the WOuld go to Malta. mechanics of lend-lease had not TRIBUTE LONG PLANNED been worked out yet and that that) nted Continued from Pare 1 enemy bases of Kirovograd ana Krivoi Bog, a Russian communique announced today.

-ATTACK REPELLED Brilliant defensive tactics by Gen, Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army thwarted Mannstein's attempt to crack the Soviet lines west ol Kiev, Moscow said, and the Ger mans recoiled before point-blank Soviet artillery fire which knocked out 75 more enemy tanks for a total of 350 in the past four days. More than 5000 German dead- were re ported, counted in the same period. The successful Soviet stand was disclosed after Vatutln had fallen back for the past two days to new defense lines. The persistent. Ger man attacks apparently have failed to tie up any considerable Russian forces or divert the Red Army high command from launching offen sives elsewhere, according to a Mos cow aispaicn irom nenry t-as- idy, Associated Press war cprre-pondent RESERVES RUSHED Other reports from' the Russian front said the Germans were rushing tank and infantry reserves to the Ukraine from Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and even Italy in a supreme effort to relieve pres sure on the Axis lines in White Russia and the Dnieper bend, Cas sidy assertion that Vatutin was holding his own without calling for reinforcements indicated a Russian belief that the enemy drive would collapse.

Russ Charge Finns With Torturing Prisoners MOSCOW, Dec. 10. V-The So viet press kept up its denunciation of the Finns today following upon widespread accounts of how the Finns and Germans are shelling Leningrad. The newspapers accused the Finns of torturing and badly feeding Russian prisoners. Santa Rosa Church Collapse Threatened SANTA ROSA, Dec.

10. WV-Col lapse of the old Methodist Episcopal Church, with its wooden steeple towering 75 feet above the street, was- threatened momentarily here as this community counted, a grow? ing toll of wind damage. Emergeocy crews of firemen evacuated residents from homes near the church and barricaded streets as the swaying steeple weakened the landmark church building at its foundation. The building had not been used as a church for some years but was used for church exterior scenes in the motion picture "Shadow of a Doubt." King George Recovers LONDON. Dec.

10. P) King George VI met with the privy coun cil today, markin ghis complete recovery from an attack of influenza which he suffered last week. CHECKS ENDORSED BY RanUlflh jviMhql off" of California from Oregon to the Mexican border. Two Liberty ships in San Fraiv Cisco were nurjea against tneir wharves and their plates buckled The Red Stack tug Douty hit a pier and sank and a trawler in the Bay stove in. The Red Cross, which provided hot food and coffee for the fire fighters in the Oakland hills Wednesday night, was called to Val lejo yesterday to bring succor to 150 families made homeless by a hous' ine project fire.

Eleven dwellings in the Carquinez Heights and Chabot Terrace areas were destroyed by a fire, which started when a flapping window curtain brushed against an oiltove. The damage done by tne wma and the various fires reached the million-dollar mark before daylight yesterday, but- California farmers said that it would increase because the strong north-easter wind had dried out the UTILITIES CRIPPLED Street department and utility company employees in nearly every city- in the State were busy throughout yesterday and last night remov- debris and xryir.g to restore power service, in many places, oniy the telephone lines stUJ were up. War workers in Oakland, in many cases, were forced to get up and shave by candle-light. The General Engineering Company had to stop jts shipbuilding operations when a wall of sheet metal fell on power lines and cut off all electricity. Three thousand workers, who were idle yesterday went back to work last night on the swing snut.

The United States Weather Bureau said today it was unable to give advance information on the storm because of war conditions and the fact that ships at sea must keep a radio Silence. GENERAL DESTRUCTION The entire Bay area was lashed and rocked by the storm, and reports from all cities on the shores showed a general picture or ae- struction. The hill fire yesterday was the most spectacular disturbance caused bv the storm, but did little property damage. Firemen, who laid a total of 20.000 feet of hose in the hill area, managed to keep the fire from the residential districts and con fined i-he blaze to brush and grass. At the height of the hill blaze, when 50 per cent of Oakland's fire-fighting equipment was busy with the hill flames, a second fire broke out in the Oakland garbage disposal plant t.t San Leandro and destroyed the buildings there.

Damage was estimated at $500,000. New Deal Promised French Indo-China CHUNGKING, Dec. 10. (U.R) Representatives of the French Committee of Liberation today promised a new and "more liberal" political status for Indo-China after the war and pledged anew France's deter mination to fight with the United Nations against Japan until victory is won. JrLJLJ was not important anyway.

The Hull and Law statements were tantamount to recognition that the partisans are hot only the most aggressive but also the most powerful and effective factor in trying to drive the Germans out of the Balkans. Senators Open Liquor Probe Continued from Pare 1 distillers suffered a loss in gallon-age, despite the fact that the tax rate was no higher on eight-year-old than on four-year-old products. TAX FROM $6 TO $9 The tax on 100 proof bonded whisky is $6 a the pend-. ing tax bill would increase it to $9. Replying to a question by Senator Wherry Berkshire said that while the average withdrawal age now is four years, the amount of whisky being taken oirt-of bonded warehouses for to the public "is imich less-than normal-; Senator Kilgore W.Va.) brought out that the Government had no check on the disposal of Bond, Toot So warm and pretty! GIFT ROBES; 8.99 Rayon satin quilted robes with floral pattern on backgrounds of tearose, blue, or white.

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Tito's communique specifically detailed damage caused to strategic rail lines between Sarajevo and Doboj, from Tuzlanto Zvornik and Kladanj and between Teslic and Ddboi, in eastern Bosnia; A partisan victory was reported from the Bosnian border where Yugoslavs attacked a German col umn moving west from Bihac. Twenty enemy troops were killed and 15 wounded, the bulletin said. German and Bulgarian units continuing their attempts to cross the Lim River near Prijepolje in Bosnia were repulsed by strong partisan forces, the communique asserted. the President's consent to reproduce this citation in bronze and place it in Valletta's palace square where "it "will stand in all weathers as a permanent monument of this great and unique occasion." The whereabouts of the President had not been disclosed since he and the Prime Minister conferred in Cairo December 4-6 with President Ismet Inonu of Turkey. Before that, he and Churchill had vis ited Teheran.

Iran, November 28 December 1, to confer with 'Premier Stalin after talks November 22-26 in Cairo with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Roofs Ripped Off 18 Homes at Napa NAPA, Dec. 10. With the high wind that struck Napa County Wednesday night gradually subsiding today, damage reported through out the valley was expected to reach thousands of dollars. Greatest destruction was caused at Shipyard Acres, defense housing project near Basalt Shipyards, where 18 roofs of pre-fabricated houses were torn off yesterday morning, and ten others damaged.

Residents of the wrecked houses were evacuated to new homes in the recently completed part of the project, and 'an emergency kitchen was set up in the administration build ing, where homeless families were served coffee and food. Water, electricity and gas were cut off yesterday morning, and oil heaters were turned off to avert any possibility of fire. Damage from wind was extensive throughout the county. Farmers reported barn roofs torn off, poultry houses overturned, fruit trees uprooted, fences leveled, and windows broken. Fires which sprang up at numer ous points throughout the county were believed to be under control this morning, wjth the exception of one in the district behind Mt.

George, that burned with unabated fury long a 20-mile front during" the night, New Mexico Swept By Wind; One Deqd ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 10. (JP) One tieath and thousands of dollars of property damage were reported today as the result of a storm which raged across New Mexico yesterday with winds reaching a velocity- of 90 miles an hour. Telegraph and telephone wires in sontheastern New Mexico were reported coated with an inch of ice. Patricio 25, was killed in suburban Albuquerque when he touched a fence at his home across which an electric wire had fallen.

Early reports of damage were confined chiefly to the Albuquerque area where the Army Air Base reported gusts topped 90 miles" an ChickenFooYeong Prawn ChowlYlein Shrimp Fried Rice three of the xotically differ-ent supper dithei now being served with cocktails and muiic in the Cascade Room from 5 to If your mood it nor prosaic there are plenty of delicious American diihei on the lupper card too. ROOM Oakland's moil beautiful Cocktail Loungi Lake Mcrritt Hotel 1800 Madison Street whisky withdrawn from bondel.skieSi MaIta stood aione and un Continued from Page 1 salutfr and the Stars and Strifes broke out on the mast behindthe guard. Addressing himself to Field Mar- shal.Gort, the troops and the people of Malta, President Roosevelt said: "Nearly a year ago the Prime Minister and I were at Casablanca shortly after the landings by British and American troops in North Africa, and at that time I told the i nponle i iP civil and military, who during, throe years have contributed so mucn to democracy, not just here but all over the civilized world. "So at last I have been able to come. At last I haye been able to see something of this historic land and I I could stay, out I have many things to do.

"I may tell you, though, that during these ipast three weeks the Brime Minister and I feel we, too, have struck strong blows for the future of the human race and so in this simple way I am taking the opportunity to do what all the American people would join with ine in doing." After this talk the President read the following from an illuminated scroll in a handsome wooden case whcih he" said was "a citation from the President of the United States speaking on behalf of all the Ameri can people:" "In the name of the people of the United States. of America I salute the island of Malta and its people and its defenders who in the cause of freedom and justice and decency throughout the world have rendered -valorous--service far, above and. beyond the call of duty. 'ALONE AND UNAFRAID' "Under repeated fire from the afraid in the center of the" sea, one tiny bright flame in the darkness, a beacon of hope inthe clearer days which have come. "Malta's bright story of human fortitude and courage will he read by posterity with wonder and gratitude through all the ages.

"What was done in this island maintains all the highest traditions of gallant men and women who from the beginning of time have lived and died to preserve civilization for all mankind. iJ'Sigjifid' Franklin D. Roosevelt "President, December 7, President dated the scroll December 7, the day before his visit, because it was the second anniversary of the United States entry into the war. "The United States will proceed until the war is won," Roosevelt told his listeners. "But morefhan that, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with Uia British ff.mpirp and our other Allies in making it a victory worthwhile." LORD GORT REPLIES Replying, Lord Gort said the peo ple of Malta were "very sensible of the greatness of this occasion" and that it was a day they would never forget.

"No one can be asked to do more in war than fulfill his or her duty, none can. do less." Gort added. "And that you and the citizens of the United. States of America should feel the armed forces and people of this island have not failed the United Nations is in itself a full reward." The island's Governor then asked PLACE TELEGRAPH ORDERS' for CHRISTMAS PLANTS FLOWERS NOWI MLIFOSNM A warehouses by wholesalers except the wholesalers records of their purchases and sales to retailers. Berkshire said It would be necessary to check retailers to determine whether whiskey reported sold to them Jy.

wholesalers actually had been delivered to their doors. If the whisky shortage is real, Senator Van Nuys said, the committee will seek to find out whether it is "being intensified by certain in terests. and business practices for the purpose of raising prices." UNWHOLESOME CONDITIONS "Whatever the causes," he said in formal statement, "it is a matter of common knowledge that many of the unwholesome conditions which prevailed during prohibition are returning racketeering, profiteering, hi-jacking and now the 'black market'." Van -Nuys disclosed receipt of complaints of what he called "a con-" fer ii'fl movement" to monopolize production and ale of whisky, wine and beer, "It doesn't make any difference where the chips fall on distillers, wholesalers, retailers or even Con gress itself," Van Nuys remarked "we are going to have a clean, honest and painstaking inquiry Vith no white-wash He said a Nation-wide survey had been started by eommittee invest! gators. Fantastic Stories Sweeping Naziland STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10-.

(JP) Fan. now circulating in Ger many are contributing to the under rrroiifig of German morale, the Bern correspondent of Svenska Dagbladet reported today. One German 'industrialist told a neutral ha knew the United States is producing 25,000 planes a month, instead of the announced total of less than 8000, the correspondent will pay dividends of timeless wear, draw interest In its oreclse- man-tailoring. All-wool shepherd's check. In black and white, 1 1 JMrS.V"" Elv' 1 1 ii hi i saw with kick-pleat skirt.

Sizes 10 to 18, third floor, 39.95 reported. The industrialist also was saidf to have asserted that America had enough gas and bombs on hand to destroy Germany in two weeks if Germany tried to use liter "secret weapon. Oldest Boatman Crosses the Styx LONDON, Dec. BUY ONLY WHAT YOU NEED NOW BUT FIRST BUY WAR BONDS (Wag) the Kings oldest bpatman, who rowed every member of the royal family after Queen Victoria, died today at the age of 16.. One-time sculling coached many British and foreign raws for the Henley races.

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