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THE WEATHER ST03Y LAS "BAY AREA Fair and 1 warmer today, tonight and tomorrow, Highs 80 to 88; lows 56 to '64. Winds from north to northeast 8 to 16 m.p.h., locally, to 35 m.p.h. in the Eastbay hills. EDITION 1 ISTAtliSMf UIIUAIY II. Iff UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED I ESS WIIEPHOTO CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FOREIGN SERVICE VOL CLXXIII 10 DAILY ccccc OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA; SUNDAY, OCTOBER 161960 20 SUNDAY NO.

103 6ale wo More Yanks Meet Pea allies Complete Fire Report Pages 2, 48 Ravage Bay Area Hills efore Firing Squad In Cuba dF til 5 rtyxfiff Big Oakland Fire Rages7 -Burns Homes Military Court Hands Down Sentence After Swift Trial:" Clemency Appeal Is Denied Compiled from AP and UPI HAVANA, Oct. 16 Premier Fidel Castro's revolu ionary regime early today executed by firing squad two part in an invasion of Cuba. Americans accused of taking Robert Otis Fuller, 25, Thompson, 36, of Queen City, and Mooringsport, La, were executed by rifle fire shortly before dawn on a rifle range outside Santiago, the capital of Oriente. 1 3 Dramatic photo of MiamL and, Allen Dale ALLAN THOMPSON Executed in Cuba ROBERT O. FULLER Firing Squad Death Dad Pleaded let People Judge Son7 MIAMI, Oct 15 CPD A father urged the mayor of Cuba, today to "let the people of Holguin judge uijr sun, une ul iwo-imerit cans tried sentenced and shot nn a ii a r-rpvmiifinnarw I I i-f 'jj 1 vj 5 3 jj I ill i v- 'mmrj' W.m.

I from Tribune Tower shows how close dry came to More High Winds, By BILL LIVINGSTON A firestorm raged out of control through the Napa Valley early today in the wake of blaze that swept the East Oakland biSs yester day and threatened to become a major disaster. The fires, striking in chain reaction, wre fanned by freak gale winds and en WUUiMKCU UCOl'tUV humidity. State forestry officials temed the fire situation to Northern California "desperate." Another blaze was reported still out of control this morn ing on ML Hamilton, less than four miles from the Univer sity of California's famous Lick Observatory. The observatory was not in danger, however, as winds sent the flames away from the costly installation, -CAUSES WIDE HAVOC The Napa blaze swept along the historic Silverado Trail at 5 p.m. yesterday, lumped the Napa River in several spots, destroyed at least 10 structures, and' was threaten ing about 100 farm homes.

No one a reported injured In the conflagration which sent flames 200 feet in the sky as wind gusts to 70 miles an hour fanned the blaze. battling the fire assisted by hundreds- of volunteers and several convict crews. At last report the fire was raging along the east side of the val ley and approaching St. Hel ena on a three-mile front. The East Oakland hills blaze threatened to burn through residential areas and charred more than 1.200 acres is four hours before it was controlled.

The Oakland fire depart' ment kept six trucks and 30 men on the lulls through the night in case the fire broke out agaun. During the course of the fire yesterday two homes were destroyed, three persons were injured and a fourth was sent to the hos pital suffering from shock, The blaze threatened hun dreds of homes and for at least two hours was in danger of spreading throughout the entire hill area. As it was, the fire burned a swath Vk miles long parallel to and just above Mountain Blvd. More than 200 firemen from Oakland and San Leandro tuuutcu wiui uever say uie UL efforts by thousands of resi dents, held damage mainly to brush and oak In scores of cases, flames raged to within feet of homes and rained- sparks on the roofs. CAUSE UNKNOWN Cause of the fire was not known.

It ranged over an estimated 1,200 acres after its start near Mountain Blvd. and Burckhalter Ave. Its course was along Mountain Blvd. Continued Page 2, Heat Are Strong sirocco-like winds, The announcement of the i execution was made by the Cuban government radio. The men were the sec ond and third Americans to be executed by a Cuban firing squad in the past week.

On ThursdayAnthony Zarba, 28, SomerviBe, became the first American to be executed by the Castro regime since its accession to power in 1959. SENTENCE APPROVED The execution came only a few hours after an appeals court quickly approved a trial court death sentence for Thompson and Fuller. Premier Fidel Castro state prosecutor had charged that the two men were part of the same 27-man invasion force that included Zarba. JliecouiSJoundalL three Americans gumy ot armed revolt against the state. It took the superior tribu nal, the court of last resort under Cuba's revolutionary law, only 13 minuterto hear and reject the appeals of Ful ler and Thompson.

The trial lasted only three hours and 45 minutes. Even as the appeal was being turned down, Prime Min ister Castro in a TV address charged the invaders came with a large load of U.S. arms and asserted that was evi dence of American help. ASSAILS VS. He declared the U.S.

Gov ernment "no longer even finds necessary to deny these allegations." He predicted all counter-revolutionaries soon would be wiped out in Cuba. Thompson and Fuller were picked up only yesterday in the hills of. eastern Cuba, birthplace of Castro's own revolution, army sources reported. Two Cuban members of the expedition captured with Ful ler and Thompson were given 30-year terms. They are Juan Gonzalez and Angel Rivero Sanchez.

During the trial Fuller ad mitted having come with the expedition asserting that land his father had acquired and owned "honorably" in eastern Cuba had been taken from him. His father. William O. Fuller, lives, in Miami. He formerly operated a large farm in eastern Oriente Prov ince.

Thompson refused to tes tify. U.S. CONSUL AT TRIAL 1 Harvey summ, u.S. consu in Santiago, attended the trial. Meanwhile, another mili tary tribunal at Havana's La Cabana military fortress com pleted bearings in a case in volving another American Leslie Bradley of Minneapo lis.

Bradley and 12 others are accused of collaborating Continued Page 8, Col. 5 a major disaster from East World Flier Leaves Hawaii For Oakland Capt. Charles Banfe, a pilot for Pan American Airways' huge jet airliners, took off from Honolulu in a light twin-engine Super Bonanza plane on an eight-day flight around the world. whose chief aim Is to "extend the, hand, of Ha waiian friendship around the world," left? Honolulu International Airport at 10: 14 p.m., PST, for Oakland, his first stop on his globe-girdling trip. He expects to touch down at Oakland Airport today at 11 a.m., PST, flying at about 200 miles i an hour ground speed" and an altitude of 6,000 feet.

Banfe, who- lives with his wife and their live children at Palo Alto, was given a festive sendoff at an airport Hawai ian luau party hosted by the Hawaiian Visitors' Bureau, sponsors of the flight. in purple white and 7eIlow colored floral leis, Banfe said his flight is to dramatize. Hawaii's first "Aloha Week" since it became a state. Mrs. Nancy Quinn, the wife ot Hawaii's governor, chns tened the white and orange- colored plane "Aloha Hawaii" by tossing champagne over its fuselage.

During briei stopovers at-airports, Banfe wul drop packages of Hawai ian kona coffee and poi Hawaiian food made from taro root, strings of floral leis ana gooawiiu DIVIDEND and near-record heat to California yesterday, are expected to continue in the Bay Area today until about noon, then diminish. I r. 4. 7 A- BOTH BEARS AND INDIANS GET SETBACKS California's Golden Bears and the Stanford Indians both suffered defeats yesterday. The Bears were whipped by the USC Trojans, 27-10, in Los Angeles, while Stanford suffered a 34-20 loss at the hands of underdog San Jose State at Palo Alto.

Washington moved a step closer to a return appearance in the Rose Bowl by. edging UCLA, 10-8, at Seattle." State OKs Alameda Co. Junior College The, State Department of Education has given the "go ahead" for a junior college district in the Hayward-San Leandro area, subject to. approval of voters of the two areas; The board said at its meet ing at Pomona that the dis trict would embrace the San Leandro Unified District and Hayward Union High. Approved also by the board, subject to election, was the proposal to unify La Vista and Mt.

Eden Elementary Dis tricts. Bock LaFleche, Alameda County superintendent of schools, said the San Leandro a a district election probably would be held either Jan. 10 or 17 La Vista super intendent Frank Greenwood said the district attorney has been asked an opinion on the Continued Page 8, Col. 4 fl I WIN UP TO The hot, dry northeasterly winds were responsible aft el "A Oakland fire. POWER CUT Nixon Pulled From Under Live Wire SPRINGFIELD, Oct 15 (CPD A Secret Service agent pulled Vice President Richard M.

Nixon from under an overhanging, smoking, broken electric circuit tonight while the Republican Presidential candidate addressed a crowd of more than 20,000. at the Illinois State Fairgrounds here. Lines holding a string of 10 neavy tioodiignts over tne Vice President's head were swaying slowly in an evening Picture on Page 13 breeze when the electrical circuit connecting the big stage flood lights began to smoke and then broke into a sputtering live wire. Jack Sherwood, head of the U.S. Secret Service detail as signed to the protection of the Vice President, moved quick ly to the center of the stage as the huge lights began to sink slowly toward the Vice President head.

-Nixon ducked momentarily as Sherwood led him out of the possible path of the live wire and electricians quickly cut the power feeding the complex of floodlights over head. Nixon-resumed his speech, about two minutes later, as suring the crowd he was safe and jokingly expressing con fidence that "this was not done by any of the Kennedy Deonle. A-steel cable holding the string of lights was slipping sliehtly. but workmen were able to stabilize this and Nixon continued his speech on a stage illuminated only by spothgbts; located some dis tance away. Fairground electricians attributed the mishap to heavy rain early in the day which 5 soaked the asbestos covering of.

connections leading to the overhead lights and thus set up conditions tavor able to burning out the cir cuit. TOMO it Forecast which brought both tragedy for the deaths of two camp- ers at Yosemite. In the Bay Area where gusts hit 35 m.p.lu and may reach the same velocity today, the winds fanned fires in the East Oakland hills, on ML Hamil ton in Contra Costa County. The U.S. Weatner Bureau said low humidity and high temperatures are in store again 'in the rea.

Oakland, which had a high of 83 de grees, should get a top of 88 today. STRONG GUSTS Strong gusts blew tree limbs onto power lines, causing power failures of 37 minutes in one section of Piedmont and 45 minutes in parts of San Lorenzo. But Northern ared better than the rest of the state. A 100-foot tree was toppled by the wind at Yose mite. smashing several tent- cabins." killing Margaret Ga nal, 41, of Roselle Park, N.J., and miured a woman com panion.

In the same park, another tree top fell on the tent of Kenneth C. Miner. 19, of Fresno, crushing him to death. Camo rounds were evacu ated by rangers, who said manv" other big trees were being blown down. 65 MILES PER HOUR "in Southern California winds hit 65 miles an hour at Lan caster, smashing windows, hampering traffic, and spreading brush fires.

Scores of power failures were reportea. In desert areas, stinging sand storms endangered motorists. Temperatures throughout most ot tne area were in iue high 70s and 80s. They may rise to 90 today. Small craft warnings, put up all along the- California coast yesterday, are sull Hy ing today Picture Page 2 1 MANY charges.

William OUs Fuller, 56, longtime resident of Holguin, made the plea on behalf of, Robert Otis Fuller, 25, member of an expeditionary band of four Americans and 23 Cubans who set out from Florida on Sept. 25 before the Eight of the group, including American Anthony Zarba, 27, of Boston, were captured earlier and were executed by a firing squad near Santiago, Cuba, on Thursday. "I don't think they '11 do that to my son," said the elder Fuller. "He's no criminal. He was born in Cuba, like the rest ofLmy cbUdren Fuller, has three sons and Continued Page 8, CoL 3 rT" I Texas Has In.

Rain In 55 Minutes LUBBOCK, Ter. Oct A cloudburst dumped 10 inches of rain on the small community of Rowena in west Texas tonight climaxing a day in which tornadoes, flurries and hail battered rural areas causing heavy crop damage. Henry Tephcek, who, lives just outside Rowena, said his ram gauge caught 10 inches of rain in 55 minutesi "I've lived here almost 62 years and haven't seen any thing like it," said Teplicek, who described himself as the unofficial mayor of the town "We've had a lot of hard rains of 5 or 6 inches but I never saw a storm like this in 55 minutes." He said hail up to the size Of tennis balls fell for. 20 min utes during the rain storm. Earlier in the day tornadoes nppea tnrougn rural areas and heavy rains and large- sized hail caused considerable crop damage.

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