Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-12-13 | Page 2 | It Can Happen Here, and Does in San Francisco

It CAN Happen Here and Does in San Francisco I 4 S n f I 1 L S. S c na L V 4 International News Photo WAR VA COMES IES TO TilE THE UNITED STATES AND A NATION GETS READY Worl Workmen men pile ram ramparts art of sandbags a bout about Bay Day City City telephone exchange San Francisco Douses All Lights And Pleases Raid Alarm Chief LOS ANGELES Dec 13 IP Los JP-Los Los Angeles radio stations stations stations sta sta- went vent off the air from 1122 a. a m. m P. P S. S T. T until 1127 a. a m. m Saturday on army orders which were unexplained Headquarters of the Fourth interceptor command said aid there was no statement to make male SAN FRANCISCO Dec 13 UP San P-San San Francisco undergoing its s fourth blackout of the war Friday night in in an air air raid alert that hat lasted two hours and 34 minutes proved to the army that it knows how to turn out the out lights n A score of persons were injured one ne man dropped dead there was violence and property damage Strange rumors were noised about But the city was black It was such an improvement that hat Lieutenant General John L L. DeWitt commander of the Fourth army who became bitterly angry over ver San Francisco's first bungling bungling bun- bun gling ling blackout attempt Monday said aid he was extremely pleased Extends to Sacramento Blackness extended miles eastward to Sacramento and was effective more than 50 miles southward southward southward south south- ward past San Jose The only military announcement was one from Fourth army headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters saying that army detectors detectors detectors detec detec- tors had located unidentified d planes flying over the area Accompanying the alert were many unofficial reports of planes heard flying over San Francisco Police who swarmed to investigate investigate investigate gate a report that lights were blazing from windows of a downtown downtown downtown down down- town building found the lights burning burning in in offices used by the Fourth interceptor command Rumors Prove False There w was s a rumor that flar flares s were being tossed down from fron a balloon suspended over the Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land foothills and that flack antiaircraft shell fragments were peppering down around Fleish- Fleish hacker zoo at the ocean beach These and many other reports proved d false Scores of persons escaped injury Injury Injury In in- jury when two street cars col col- col- col Another street car slipped its brakes and ran wild but nobody nobody nobody no no- body was hurtA hurt A score of persons were injured in minor traffic accidents Lieutenant Ray McMillen 50 of the San Francisco fire department died of a heart attack while performing performing performing per per- forming a duty mission in the blackout