The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1947, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o= VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,483 ~JUN WILL PROBE COM KIDNAPED |Newswrifers af GIRL, 17,1S { "HOMESAFE Blonde in e Hor ra:o"ndls 4 . CAPTAIN OF SHIP ramento Mofel, Calls | fo Motel, IS FOUND SLAIN; Rel Ph ' elaives on PON® 3 SUSPECTS HELD By RICHARD CUSHING PORTLAND, Or: Jan A LODI, Calif., Jan. 22—Kidnaped Alice Dean Devine, popular and pretty 17-year-old Lodi high schcol break in the slaying of a ship cap- student, was back home and un- tain here may come late toda harmed today after the most har-|Detective Chief James Purcell re- rowing 26 hours of her life. Po-|ported as he assigned men to inves- lice authorities hunted over the|tigate a clue whose nature he did entire West Coast for a man who not divulge. tried to collect $10,000 in ransom| The body of Frank B. Tatum, and gave up in fright 153, Billerica, Mass., master of the The 165-pound girl athlete broke S. S Edwin Atbey, was found at out of her bonds in a highway mo- the foot of a cliff in the fashion- tel near Sacramento yesterday af- able West Hills district yesterday ternoon while the kidnaper was after he had Leen missing for a away and telephoned her location’week to relatives in Sacramento. Police took into custody Patrick State Police broadcast an all- Raymond, 40, alias Pat O'Day. own- points alarm for the arrest of aler of the Cecil Club where Tatum man they said had used the names|was reported to have been, and two of Everett Wescott Stiles of Port- others, Harold E. Sehorn, 25, and land, Ore., and William (Bill) Giles, John Snyder, 20. identifying himself as an agent for. No formal charges had Leen fil- an eastern publishing house. ed today but Deputy District Attor- Alice Dean was held under police ney C. C. Comisky went before the guard until last night when she!Grand Jury at 10 a. m. after and her father were stationed vestigating the case. A notation across the street from a Sacramen- “suspicion of murd: to kar in a futile effort to capture the men’s booking her abductor. The kidnaper was Leld without recourse or bail. expected but failed to appear at - - -~ the bar to collect the ransom. ‘The father, John Edward Devine, p. ]. BRIGGS wlll wealthy Lodi grape grower and vine‘ president of the American Fruit "M £€~m_ Growers Assoclatiofi; had been tofd' in a note the night before to be at the bar at 8 p. m. last night with plANS IOMORRow $10,000 in $20 and $10 bills if he Phillip J. Briges of the Briggs wished to see his daughter again. After waiting nearly an hour be- yond the ransom deadline, police Steamship Company is scheduled to and FBI agents decided the kid-!address memters of the Chamber naper had been frightened away of Commerce tomorrow. Briggs will by newspaper stories and the girl reveal plans of his concern for the and her father were returned home ! Territory in relation to shipping op- in a State Highway Patrol auto- portunities. mobile. ! The Chamber will also The girl was whisked into lh?‘!he resolution on the conservation back door of the Devine home just of salmen fisheries in Alaska. The as her mother, Mrs. Margaret De- resolution was drawn up as a re- vine, told a group of newspaper- sult of a study initiated by re- men she had heard nothing of her|quest of the United State Trollers daughter’'s whereabouts. of Alaska. Alice Dean’s brother. > : “Oh, mom, ch mom, The waShingiOn i oy o o WASHINGTOiv—Some of the na- 22, PORTA MAY BE CHARGED UP TO YEAR'S TAX, 12.—The uation inside the Justice Depart- on-the-make war contractors are now getting aw: with income-tax evasion, thanks to a snarled-up sit- WASHINGTON, Jan. ohit Treasury ruled W today that em- £ : ployers who have to pay back Around 300 criminal wage claims under porml-to-ponal‘“ses are now awaiting prosecution, suits may charge the payments off | With little chance of rapid action. against taxes for the year involved,| Behind them is another 1200 in- Since corporate takes were consid- Come-tax fraud cases in the Trea-| erably higher through 1945 be-!sury, soon ready for transmittal to cause the excess profits tax \\'nslllle e then in effect, the ruling means!ment. Meanwhile, the black-mar- much higher refunds than would|Kketeers and certain war contractors be the case if the deductions were have been getting away with mur- taken from current tax rates. | der. The excess profits tax imposed a Here is the inside:story of what net levy of 852 percent on cor- happened. porate earnings above the 1936-1939, During the last year of the war, average. | Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- The regular income tax for cor- thau asked Congress for extra porations through 1945 was 40|funds to probe income-tax evasion. percent. Effective with 1046 earn- He learned of tremendous amounts ings, corporations pay a regular of cash being used by black-mar- rate of 38 percent and no excess keteers to cover up their tracks; profits tax. so asked Congress for extra agents The Treasury ruling was an-|m ferret out the fraud, nounced by Secretary Snyder as a! Morgenthau get the money, hired Senate judiciary subcommittee con-|the agents, and set more than a tinued hearings on legislation to, thousand of them to work. Secre- avoid or limit back pay portal suits.tary of the Treasury Fred Vinson, Undersecretary of ~ Commerce| who succeeded him, pushed this William Chapman Foster testified prope equally hard. And it began to that portal pay suits may force strike pay dirt. Millions of dollars many firms out of business even|fraydulently concealed from the if the full amount claimed is nochvernment, while American boys allowed. were dying for their country, was War Department officials * said;une“thyed_g i that Army cost-plus cOontracts Now that these cases have been might entail a loss up to $500,000,- pyenared by the Treasury, however, ' {rom 35 mills, was 59,056,000 board | 000 if back pay claims prove sUC- gng gone over to the Justice De- cessful. !partment, they have struck a e T | bottleneck. BACK TO PELICAN | p i Unlike Hennie Johnson, who has been Generale Toxog:::ch::s n:tn::::i at the Gastineau Hotel while on a | : .. | Congress for extra money to handle VIS Yo i o Pelican, Y€| tne flood of cases. Instead, his tax turned home today. | division is bogged down with over- —— - 3 = & | work, and only three men are de- Donald J. ouse, zrom Wrangell,| o010 in charge of these particu- arrived in Juneau aboard the Aleu- i X 3 A : {lar criminal tax cases. tian and is registered at the Bar- anof Hotel. (Continued on Page Four) in-| ' was made on| and they were| i discuss | tion’s biggest black-marketeers and ! income-tax | bottlenecked Justice Depart-: Fairbanks, All Furred Up, Greeled by Summer Affire By CLARKE BEACH FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. | (Delayed)—It was 49 degrees below | zero this afternoon when we land- [ed here to watch th Army's ta I’tuxm‘ Frigid wrestle with the prob- lems of Arctic warfare. The fourteen newswriters, radio correspondents and photographer: | pulled their Army-issued around their fast as their big white snow boots would Ty them to the side of the runway where an ice glazed bus was waiting. Smiling warmly among the greet- ers was a disconcerting dressy was Mrs, works at Air Forces stockings, a and no hat Cherovich ®ield, the Army where we landed A lot of the women dress like that here,” said an officer. “I think they're crazy they think we are He and all the other bundled up like us After we had been billeted and fed, in warm frame buildings where {ice is half an inch thick inside the light She who base men were | windowpanes, some of the staff of- | ticers explained the purpose of op- | erations Frigid. “The tests ol weupons and equip- iment we are conducting here will prove a challenge to | industry,” said Maj. Milton Price | of Cakland, Calif., avho is the op- erations, plans and training officer. the standard Army equipment is heing observed when in use in Arc- tic weather. | “The equipment is beginning (o fail us. Much of it cannot be used in the Arctic. But if industry can supply the kind of equipment we {need, we can supply the kind of |men who can use it. The men here | are not failing.” Major Price said that every ma Jor industry is sending observers | here to see what they can do to de- | velop the kind of material needed {in this climate. eral are here | now. Among those who have just | left was Sir Hubert Wilkins, Arctic | explorer, a consultant to the War | Department’s Quartermaster Gen- :‘oral. He is advising on clothing Our party was delayed last night |2t Edmonten, Canada, on account | ture at Fairbanks was at 58 below | earlier today—and it has been as low as 67 this winter The field was closed yesterday because of ice fog—an impenetrable i vapor which forms when the tem- perature is very low and the mois- ture is a little high. Flyers don't worry about their planes icing here in flight, they say il the tempera- ture is more than 10 degrees below zero it is too cold to ice. And snow storms don’t bother them. Just ice fog, which forms a stationa over the field in the utterly frigid air. Our plane, a C-5¢4 which we boarded in Washington, was warm and comfortable. We had hot meals as we flew over the frozen muskeg jand mountains. The Army Air | Forces and their guests live well in the wild blue yonde: — e { ‘Spruce Cuffing in \ Alaska During 45 3 Reporgg by Dept. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22— !Bumber mills in Washington, Ore- igon, California and Nevada pro- duced 10,522,344,000 board feet of |lumber in 1945, the regional office iof the Department of Commerce reported today. Oregon ranked first in production, Washington second and California third. The 1945 production in Alaska, | feet, mostly spruce. - 'PHYSICAL IDENTIFICATION | PORTLAND, Ore. — Joseph H. | McCusker bit the leg of a man at- tempting to hold’ him up. | Today police held David A. Craw- ford, 21, on a charge of assault and robbery, asserting Crawford's | leg had the unmistakeable marks of teeth when they stopped him. 21— parkas ears and mushed as And I suppose' convenient American "He “wasexplaining tha&f much of | of a cold spell here. The u'mx)ern—i MARSHALL '~ GETS BUSY AT DUTIES | | | I ' | Buckles Down fo Work in Washington By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Secre- tary of State George C. Marshall {has been invited to give the Senate Foreign Relations Committee & comprehensive outline of his views o Americaa icreign policy. But Chairman Vandenberg (R~ Mich) extended the invitation in | Marshall was asked to appear at |his own convenience and some : Committec members said it would ;be all right if he 'did not find it testify until after Foreign Ministers’ The general Marshall will meeting even question open to |the Big Four | meeting at Moscow. i pssumption that {attend the Moscow | though he left the i temporarily | He buckled down to his first full Itla)'s work at his big mahogany {desk in the State Department with praise still being heard from both Republican and Democratic mem- bers of Congress for his expressed i determination to run the nation’s foreign affairs a “non-political” + basis. ‘The statement shortly before he took the oath in : Pre: Truman's office yester- lday was widely interpreted as not {only removing the General from Ilhc list of 1948 Presidential possi- | bilities but taking foreign policy {even lurther away from partisan 1 politics. i Senator Bridges { Marshall's dec iime statement,” and added: | “It should make his work easier. ! 1t certainly should assure the co- ]r\pemlmn of all parties and factions {in our country in the conduct of jour foreign affairs.” is called trong { Rep. Halleck of Indiana, House ! Republican floor leader, said “Mar- shall's announcement is calculated {to strengthen his hand in the great {task before him.” { Senator Connaly (D-Tex), form- er chairman of the Foreign Rela- { tions. Committee, declared the Ge |eral's statement “will strengthen {his position as Secretary of State ;and give added prestige to his won- fderru] character and reputation.” - RAATIKAINEN 1S BOOSTING NORTH | | 1 ! i i | ! SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—Alaska is a land of opportunity today more than ever before, says Kalle Raati- kainen, founder of Pelican City and ! past 32 years. Raatikainen came to Seattle yes- iterday to provide a most remark- Iable opportunity for a 21-year-old nephew,. Arve Hamalinen of Fin- land. Hamalinen was expected to arrive by plane from New York fual heir to his childless uncle’s gex(ensive properties. : But, United Airlines reported the jwestbound planes from New York |City were held up by bad weather. so Raatikainen settled down with two Alaska friends. Mrs. Paul Salo |and Arne Vesoja, to talk about | Alaska Raatikainen is vice president of the Pelican Cold Storage Company, which has six million pounds cap- \acity. He also is a fish buyer, a iformer city councilman and dairy- farms and fishing boats. -e UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM TWIN FALLS, Idaho.—Twin Falls | County's new sheriff, Broda R | Rayborn, closed dozens of beer halls iand card rooms in'a campaign to clean up” the city. Now the bar tenders and card dealers have filed claims for un- employment compensation. | ! AU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, New Secrefé’ry of State Marstull - issued™ ON SEATTLE TRIP resident of the Territory for the| City, on his way to become event- | 1947 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRE "~ PRICE TEN CENTS NISTS, HOLLYWOOD SPREADING | OUTTODAY Various Sections Get Swat, from Old Man Frigid ~Coast Is Normal (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A cold wave that has kept the| | Mldwest shivering for the last two |days chilled East and parts of | {the South tods ( { The mess of frigid air which mz: {the Midwest Monday sending tem-; iperatures Lo low as 24 below 2ero 'in Minnesota, covered the} sight— |such a way, it was learned today, Eastern half of the nation and| a blonde young woman in nylon;as to emphasize the Committee’s;touched into the Southeast all the|crnment investigation started earl- overcoat | desire to cooperate fully with the Way to the gulf Jeane ; new Cabinet oificer in the conduct Ladd {of his work While the mercury in Northeast- | jern Minne 24 below again’ 'today, Federal forecasters prowised | la moderation in temperatures in; the North centfal region today and| tomorrow ! In the East and parts of the} South where springlike weather pre-| vailed Monday, temperatures drop-! ped to below freezing, a fall of! nearly 40 degrees in some cities.! The mercury slid to 21 at Atlar and to 18 at Nashville, tenn, and; in Jacksonville, Fla., it as only a few degrees above freezing. | Early morning readings in New York and Washington were 14 above, while in Philadelphia the 13! above contrasted to Monday's 69.! Pittsburgh’s two above, one of mc-; coldest spots in the Eastern sec- tion, was matehed in Cleveland. Cipeinnati and Harrisburg, Pa., re-' porwed nine above. The mercuryi dropped to below zero in ern Maine, but in other parts of | New England the readings were be-| low freezing Boston's 17 compar- ed to yesterday's high of 48 Temperatwes in the Mountain ! and Pacific Coast states were re-!to Puget Sound terminal rates. The| ported mnear normal, with rain in, Western Washington and Northern | Oregon. .o CANADAIS TAKING ORDERS FROM U.S. ASSERTS SOVIET | | 22.—The new, | paper Pravda asserts that Canada was politically and r(-unnnucnl]y-; dependent on the United States andi Great Britain and followed “in-| structions” from those powers in ! determining her foreign policy The article said that alignment was “graphically demonstrated a the Paris conference and at th United Nations General Assembly where Canada’s fulfillment of the; will of these powers was not guid-; ed by its own national interests.” “Although no danger threatens Canada from the north, neverthe- less under the mask of defense against some imaginary aggressor, 1 government is build- ary installations in the northern regions and carrying on' military maneuver: the articlei said. “American war vi appear ! off the northern shores of Canada from time to time.” EERVSRRS e 8 'SCARFACE CAPONE IS CRITICALLY ILL 1 MIAMI BZACH, Fla, Jan. 22.——| Scarface Al Capone, fabulous king| 'of crime during the pmmbluon‘ era, who is critically ill, here,) “ralliad out of his coma early to-} day,” his physician reports. i Dr. Kenneth Piillips, Capone's| | personal doctor, came from the! |former underworld czar's island rc-‘ treat about 8:30 a. m. (EST) and| sald Capone “is having a naturall sleep. ®ourishment when he wakes up, Phillips said. The physician indicated, however, | 1 e i MOSCOW, Jan { i Capone could be considered out of danger. Phillips, who spent most of with his wife, Mae Capone, and their small son, Alphonse, Jr., left for his office and said he would | i cept for routine calls unless therel was an emergency. Thus, it appeared that the man/on the Atlantic’s northern fringe tel, well known as a resort in this | who survived the Chicago gangland wars that killed 500, despite | $50,000 price on his head, has once jagain cheated death. [COLD WAVE | Adress, Baseball Manager, EXTENSIVE Are Married Bui They Can't INQUIRY IS Live quelher, Says Judge TO BE MADE LIGHTERAGE RATE HEARING IS HELD; DEFENSE TESTIFIES SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—Officials of Lomen Commercial Company testi- fied yesterday in defense of their Alaska lighterage rates as the Unit- ed States Maritime Commission concluded its second day of inquiry in Seattle. The hearings continued a Gov- ier on petition of the Alaska De- velopment Board and various groups in the Territory. The petition charged rates for ship-to-shore freight transport in Bering Sea ports are too high and “hinder development” of those ports. Testifying before F. Maritime Commission Supt. J. I Anderson of Lomen Commercial Company said the rates are “not unreasonable.” Citing “severe operating condi- tions” in the North, he declared rate increases would be needed had it not been for the volume of Gov- ernment tonnage available during and after the war. Anderson was cross-examined by David Scroll, counsel for the Al- aska Development Board. During the opening session Mon- day, Ralph Lomen, Vice-President present J. Horan, Examiner, North-|of the ccmpany, was called on to! back-| testify concerning business ground and general operations of his firm, Today the Maritime Commission scheduled to turn its attention 1 is inquiry has been called to deter mine whether recent increases are Justified in this area - Spitzbergen Base Sought By Russians U.S. Also Wants Section for Military Purpose-An- alyst Gives Views By J. M. ROBERTS, Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Spitzbergen, main island of the Svalbard group toward which Mos- cow is making passes, had been op- erating as an organized community for only 17 years when the Rus- slans tirst besuiu it That was during the First World War, when the last Czar wanted to buy out the private Norwegian coal owners, who had gone in along with British and American developer: after 1900. The only objective then, w0 covet i for a Russia which was only shgm-‘lmeral.fl to replace oktsolete facilities, ly interested in the northern ship- jPing routes, was the nine to ten|vance $3,500 billion tons of coal which are esti- mated to lie beneath the frozen surface, Now Spitzbergen, which became a legal entity for the first time in 1921 by a treaty under which the world powers cepted Norwegian sovereignty, reflects the impact of world affairs from several facets. First Move Made Soviet Russia first asked Nor- way to cede parts of Spitzbergen in 1944 for bases which could have ", Capone will be able to take | Peen important then. Norway's ex-! iled government in London declin- ed to act on such a matter until it was back home. Since then, im- man in Sitka, and has operated furjthat it would be several days before portant political angles have en- tered the picture. Spitzbergen lies northeast of Ice- the night at Capone's bedside|land, about half way between Mur-| North Pole, and route above Nor- It lies along the mansk and guards the way's North Cape the sea not re-enter thie walled estate ex-|much-discussed rocket-route across|5aid the five-story Bashline-Shrum ia and island the Arctic. It is between Russl Greenland, that enormous which was penetrated by the Ger- almang so recently, and whose stag-(Causg of its mineral springs (Continued on Page Five) HOLLYWOOD, Jan The Du rochersLippy Leo nd tovely 1a-| Subversive Influences o raine—were back today from border A potnts, where ste obtained o Mexi- B@ Investigated on Wide Scale can divorce and they joined in a Texas marriage—but they had a date with an irate California judge| 4 who warned they'd better not Uy| (wiGHINGTON. Jan. 22. — The living together for the time being | House Committee on Un-American Their romance reached something | Activities, meeting for the - first of a climax at Municipal Airport|time under Republican manage- last night when the Brooklyn base-|ment, voted today to investigate | manager and his bride, better, Communist or subversive influences known as actress Laraine Day, dis-| in Hollywood, labor unions, national embarked from a transport plane defense, and the educational sys- and at least equalled the local|tem. honeymoon sprint record in a 20-| Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R- yard dash to a waiting station| NJ) told reporters: wagon | “I intend to make it the most Their destination was undisclesed, | active year in the committee’s his- but a few hours earlier Durocher| tory.” had promised Superior Judge, Where the Investigations George A. Dockweiler, who Mon-)start is still under discussion day Miss Day a divore Thomas said in a statement that from airport cutive Ray Hend-|the inquiries “will be both inten- ricks, that he and would | sive and fair” and that “exposure” not live together until will be the committee’s chief wea- straightens out the marital pon Miss Day divorced Hendricks on “Let the chips fall where they charges of cruelty. In California. may,” he said. “It doesn't make any a divorce is mnot final for 12 difference to me whether they fall months, But she and Leo flew tojon the Columbians, on the Ku Klux El Paso yesterday, and she Elan, or the Communists.” ed the border to Juarez This is the program Thomas said for a jig-time Mexican the committee approved: @ Then, north of the border a . 1.—To expose and ferret out they visited an El Paso Justice| Communists and their activities in of the Peace, Charles Windberg, Jr..| the Federal government. and were married in a brief eere-, 2..To spotlight Communist dom- mony early yesterday afterncon. |ination of some vital labor unions. Judge Dockweiler was n;g“\'g,y‘nnq_\ 3-—To begin a counter education- somewhat put auf, "al program against subversive pro- withh me;l:nzsndn, vsing official reports at |regular intervals. - eee 'CONTINUATION OF EXCISE TAXES IS SUPPORTED BY COM. 7] will ex | | S “If she is dissatistisd divorce she obtained here, we: will {et it aside,” he told newsmen | This would place Miss Day's new marriage under a shadow in Cali- |fornia—and leave Durocher as man- ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers | Judge Dockweiler said Leo had (called him from EI Paso and ask- jed him to withhold any action un- til he and Miss Day could pay him a visit | “I made him no promise” the |Judge commented drily. “I told him I would take no action im- ately, and would be willing to confer with them soon.” | The jurist said he told him that as along as they don't live together Ithere, will be no bigamy charges Durocher is divorced from the ormer Grace L. Dozier, prosperous ress designer of St. Louis. i - eew Ketchikan fo Get ~ Federal Works Aid For Improvemenls WASHINGTON, Jan The Tederal Works Administration has approved advances totaling $5,500 to finance preparation of plans for tewer system improvements at Ketchikan, Alaska Two projects are involved—a new sanitary diversion sewer, including |mains and laterals, estimated cost 1$111,000, Federal advance 2,000, and new sanitary and storm water |sewer system including mains and WASHINGTON, Jan 22.—The | House Rules committee today sup- |perted continuation of wartime ex- cise taxes after getting testimony that the tax load soon will be {lightened in other respects. Upon recommendations Ways and | Rule: the the ac- con- cos= oth- of Means committee s group voted for Hou: tion next week on a bill to tinue war excises on liquor, |meties, jewelry, furs and some er items Witheut taxes will next July man’s dec the legislation, the war drop to pre-war levels 1 under President Tru- ation ending hostiliies. D g MARINE CONVICTED, CHINA RAPE CASE PEIPING, Ja.. 22—Marine Cpl. William G. Plerson was convicted by U. 8. Naval court today of |raping a 19-year-old Chinese coed 'but will not learn the penalty for some time, After announcing its verdict the |seven man court adjourned to de- liberate on the sentence. It wili nrot be announced until passed upon by Maj. Samuel L. Howard, com- {mandant of U. 8. Marines in North |China. Life imprisonment is the maximum Pierson, 23, who had sat stoically through four days of testimony and argument, but did not testify tlanched at the verdict. Then his face turned a bright red | 29 stimated cost $160,500, Federal ad- ! | i | CARRY BABY FROM BURNING CLINIC IN . PASTEBOARD BOX A pa- The Federal funds for planning are to be repaid, without interest, when construction is begun. R When Lt. Col. Thomas B. Hughes, |who .headed the court, instructed | military police to remove the pris- oner, Pierson dashed headlong from the room, mumbling to himself, guards followed him out. Shen Chung, Peiping National University student who testified Pierson raped her twice on Christ- mas Eve, was not in court Both the conviction and sentence are subject to review > e o NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-—-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5', American Can 947, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss-Wright 5 International Harvester 72'z, Kennecott 45%, New York Central 19, Northern Pacifi 18%, U: 8. Steel 71 Pound $4.03 Sales today were 660,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 173.77, rails 48.51. utilities 36.32. TITUSVILLE, new-born baby, among seven | tients rescued when fire destro |an osteopathic clinic near here to- ,day, was placed in a cardboard box ond carrfed to safety in near-zero temperatures and a biting wind | Other patients were taken out in hhx-n- beds—the handiest way of | keeping them warm. Insurance men Pa, Jan. 22 ! Clinic was valued at about $80,000. It was formerly the Fieldmore Ho- | northwestern Pennsylvania area be- dry in flames well the PFiremen drained futile etfort a to halt