Show PlANS PANES AND MEN M CHECK CHCK FOREST FIRES ON N COAST SA SAN FRANCISCO Sept 24 4 AP With a fleet of airplanes and thousands of men combating California's Call Call- fornias fornia's forest fires offIcials believed believed be- be tOday that the most of the conflagrations which have swept nearly acres In the pa pact t few days have been checked A fez fez-co ot of 2500 men Including marines and sailors was employed om- om In southern Airplanes Airplanes Air Air- planes scouted the forests for strategic points to establish fire lines Blazes s In the Palomar and I districts of San DIego county were checked somewhat last night although they were still burning fIercely The Palomar fire was the worst having swept up Agu Aguanga mountain toward the he northwest and Invaded in the tho slopes of Palomar mountaIn proper Ia wInds however howe enabled the fire fre fighters to halt the flames before before be- be fore they crossed the tho peak penk Into heavily wooded dIstrIcts b WIND HALTS BLAZE Another fIre was burnIng near Boulder creek creck west of the Cuya- Cuya macal ranch The Tho flames swept withIn tour four miles of the ranch but Were halted there by a change In Inthe Inthe the wInd Reports last nIght said the fire was burning southward FIres In the Witch creek Santa Ysabel and Ramona dIstrIcts were reported under control last night San DIego county's fIres were estimated estl- estl mated to have burned over a total of acres In the San Bernardino national forest a fire swept more than acres and still was out of control In Ventura county fire fIghters report re- re portO port d the fIre had been checked on two fronts and men were concentrating concentrating con con- On the other danger points NEW BLAZE REPORTED In northern California a brush and timber fro fire broke out afresh on the upper Tub Tule river near Reports said the fire firo had assumed dangerous proportions although although al- al though detaIls were lacking Yreka reported that the tho Tombstone Tombstone Tomb Tomb- stone mountaIn fire In Shasta national national na- na forest was burning out of control due largely to the Inaccessible inaccessible sible nature of the terrain In Butte Dutte county where the vii vii- 11 lages of Magalla and Chaparral were threatened last week conditions conditions condi- condi were reported better A tire fire near PhIlbrook forty five miles northeast of Chico occupied a force of men and another started five miles from Chico following I Chico creek toward RIchardson Springs a a. summer resort Both as well as the fire which menaced MagalI 1 were belIeved under control con con- trot last night Several fIres were reported burning burnIng burn burn- ing in heavy timber in Mendocino county and there were smaller blazes all belIeved un under er control in Sonoma and San Mateo Matee counties |