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Evening star., 1941-11-09

Don't get excited and fail away
with lot of wild epithets.
Just look your antagonist up and
down coolly until he starts running
down.
Then come in with the quick
"crusher" that will knock him right
out Of the contest.
The crusher doesn't have to be an
elaborate bon mot A simple pulled
punch understatement, right to the
point, does the trick.
Once a minor comic, trying to
grab one of Fay's classic monologues
on the stage, cut in with, "Oh, Mr.
Fay-how do you think of all those
funny things to say?"
Set Palace Record.
The audience started tittering-
until Fay paused, looked at his heck
Ter with feigned astonishment. then
smilingly patted him on the shoul-
der and drawled:
why >. bless your little
heart. -"
In 80 years as a comedian and
actor, Fay, tall, red-headed San
Francisco Irishmen, has developed
a wit that makes rapier look like
a blunt instrument.
In vaudeville days, Fay could keep
an audience in the aisles for 20
minutes just lecturing on the rami-
fications of saving string. He set
record Of Is straight weeks as head
liner at the halloWed Palace Thea
ter. One ambitious soul tried to
take him once in a sidewalk session,
announcing loudly, This is going to
be battle of wits. :"
"All right" Fay replied, blandly,
"but you :. you've come unarmed"
thereby ending the contest right
there.
A hush fell over Broadway's more
active testers when it became known
that Fay was in from Hollywood,
to go back on the radio after a
hiatus of five years, They thought
of the Ted Lewis episode.
Stage Struck?
Fay was eating in Lindy's one
day when the ebullient Lewis blew
in and began giving out with that
is-everybody- happy personality. Fay
turned around finally and remarked:
Tied, aren't you afraid that one
of these days the audience is going
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Assigned Script

Paramount has assigned Charles
Bracket and Billy Wilder, the writ
ing team that wrote "Ninotcha."
Arise My Love" and Hold Back
the Dawn" to do script for The
Polonaise," from an original screen
play by Brian Marlowe and Thomas
Monroe. Arthur Hornblow, jr, will
produce the picture. The story deals
with an American football player
of Polish descent who returns TO
Europe to fight for that country S
liberation in the present war.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
SATURDAY

Men OF the Timber
land" The Return
OF Da mel Boone"
Ronald Reagan in
International
Squadron. "
Ann Sheridan and
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Deanna at Last Must
Guard Home From
Souvenir Hunters
BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Troubled by souvenir hunters.
Deanna Durbin and her husband,
Vaughn Paul, finally-and with
great reluctance, they say-have
posted a guard at the house they
are building.
Deanna says she's glad people are
interested enough to come around
and look at the house, which is in
the plastering stage. Recently, how
ever, the number of visitors has
been increasing, and after the work.
men leave people have been enter
ing it, hunting souvenirs.
The other day she found a small
girl in the living room. pounding a
nail into the wall. Innocently, the
young one explained:
II wanted to be able to tell Mama
I helped build Deanna Durbins
house."
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Graham

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
MONDAY

jungle Cayalcade"
and Doctors Don't
Tell"
Henry Fonda and
Barbara Stanwyck in
You Belong to Me"
Married Pachelor'
and
Thumbs Up Texas"
Williem Holden sld
Claire Trevor In
.Tavoc -
Evening star., 1941-11-09

1905 and 1910, shall forget my
habitual reticence and scream out
loud.
1t would take too long to describe
the plot OF High Kickers," and my
vocabulary does not possess that type
of adjective. But the high spots Of
the show are comic strip-tease by
Miss Tucker and a speech delivered
by George as a broken-down lee
turer. 1t was so well done, that 1t
was only by looking at the program
that I recognized Mr.. Jessel under
the comedy wig and mustache.
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1941-11-09
TUESDAY

Tom Dick and
Harry" and Murder
by Invitation"
Henry Fonda and
Barbara Stanwvck in
You Belong to Me"
jeanette Macdonald
and Brian Aherne In
"Smilin' Through. ="
Evening star., 1941-11-09
So Because of War,
Prop Men Make
Candy Windows
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Add war comes to Hollywood
notes:
Prop men are going back to the
old days of making those bottles
and windows the heavies shatter in
fight scenes out of wax or candy.
AS Columbia's Frank Foster ex-
plains it, the prop men thought
they'd done away with all that five
years or so ago. They developed a
product from powdered lucite that
not only was clearer for windows
Evening star., 1941-11-09
WEDNESDAY

Tom. DICK and
Harry" and Murder
by Invitation"
Henry Fonda and
Evening star., 1941-11-09
lust Bide Your Time
That's the Frank Fay Formula for
Winning World Battles
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

other
10 De big tough to 6emofsh keep
and
Frank Fay the comedian who is
the Joe Louis
Evening star., 1941-11-09

but was much more stable in the
glare of hot stage lights.
But now, Mr.. Foster says, lucite
is going into defense. There will be
no more when stocks are exhausted.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Sonia Henie and John
Payne in Sun Valley
"Serenade.
IN the Navy" and
The Bride Came
c. o. D
Fredric March and
Martha Scott in "One
Foot in Heaven. "
Ida Lupino and Louis
Hayward IN Ladies
in Retirement"
Red Shelton and Ann
Rutherford in .'Whis-
ting in the Dark. .
"Ringside Maisie'
and
"Mr. Celebrity"
Fredric March and
Martha Scott in "One
Foot in Heaven
Jeanette Macdonald
and Gene Raymond
in Smiling Through.
Adventure in Wash
ton and The Man
Who Lost Himself, -
jeanette Macdonald
and Gene Raymond
in "Smilin' Thru :
"Tillie the Toiler"
Highway West"
Ann Sothern and
Robert Young in
Lady Be Good"
Sonia Henie and John
Payne in Sun Valley
Serenade
Fredric March ano
Martha Scott in "One
Foot in Heaven "
Dorothy Lamour and
Jon Hall in "Aloms
of the South Seas.
Sonia Henie and John
Payne in Sun Valley
Serenade "
Hedy Lamar and
Charles Boyer in
"Algiers.
Ruth Hussey and
Robert Young In
Married Bachelor. "
Melvyn Douglas and
Ruth Hussey in
Our Wife"
Evening star., 1941-11-09
WEEK OF NOV. 2

4sth St. and Mass. Ave
Apollo
624 H st NE.
Arlington
Arlington. Va.
Ashton
Arlington. Va.
Atlas
1891 H st. NE.
Avalon
5612 Connecticut Ave
Avenue Grand
645 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Bethesda
Bethesda. Nd.
Beverly
18th and z Sts. NE.
Buckingham
Arlington Va.
Calvert
1924 Wisconsin Ave.
Cameo
Mount Rainier. Md.
Carolina
105 11th st. s.E.
Central
425 9th St. NV.
Circle
2105 Pa. Ave. NV.
Colony
Ga. Ave. and Farrasut
Congress Nichols sE.t snt
Portland st. Sc.
Dumborton
1349 Wis. Ave. NV.
FoirIown
Anacostia. D. c.
GreenbeIt
Greenbelt. Md.
HiehIond
1888 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Hippodrome
K near 9th
The Hiser
Bethesda. Md.
Home
18th and c SITS. NE
Hyottsville
Hyattsville, Nd.
Jesse
18th nr. r. I. Ave. NE
Kennedy
Kennedy nr. 4th NV
Lee
Falls Church. Va.
Lido
1927 NJ st. NV.
Little
sos 9th st, NV.
Marlboro
Marlboro, Md.
Milo
Rockville, Nd.
Newton
12th&Newton Sts.NE
Open-Air
Route /. south OF Alex
Penn
$50 Pa. Ave. Sc.
Princess
18th and H Sts. NE.
Reed
Alexandria. Va.
Richmond
Alexandria, Va.
Savoy
5000 14th st. NV.
Seco
Silver Spring, Nd.
| Sheridan
6217 Ga. Ave. NV.
| Silver
Silver Spring. Nd.
| Stanton
9th and c Sts. NE.
! Stote
Falls Church. Va.
| Sylvan
1O4 r. I. Ave. NV.
Tokonno
Takoma Park, D. o.
Tivoli
l4th and Park Rd.
Uptown
Conn. Ave. & Newarl
Vernon
Alexandria Va.
The Village
1907 r. I. Ave. NE.
Waldorf
Waldorf, Nd.
Wilson
Arlington. Va.
York
Ga. Ave. a. Quebec Pl
Evening star., 1941-11-09
FRIDAY

II Wanted Wings
and Hurry. Charlie,
Hurry. "
Ronald Reagan in
International
Squadron"
Ann Sheridan and
Jack Oakie in
Navy Blues"
Joan Crawford and
Robert Taylor in
when Ladies Meet" "
Dorothy Lamour and
Jon Hall in "Alom a
OF the South 4as.'
George Montgomery
and Lynn Roberts In
Last Of the Duanes. y
Sailors on Leave"
and Private Nurse"
Also amateur night.
To be announced.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
SUNDAY

Jungle Cavalcade"
and Doctors Don't
Toll
Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Christmas Seal
Sale Formally
Opened In Del.
Last Monday
Thousands Of Appeals
Will Be Delivered By
Delaware Mailmen In
Thirty Fifth Annual
Drive.

Formally opening the thirty-fifth
annual Christmas Seal Sale of the
Delaware Anti-Tuberculosi Socie-
ty, mailmen last Monday began to
deliver thousands Of direct mail
appeals containing the 1041 Christ
mas Seals to residents throughout
the state. The theme of this years
Christmas Seal is a lighthouse
flashing out a broad beam of light
as warning and guidance in the
unceasing crusade against tuber-
culosis
The sale as in the past will be
conducted by mail and will be un-
der the direction of Miss Emily P.
Bissell, the originator of the first
Christmas Seal Sale in the United
States in 1907, and OF G.. Taggart
Evans, executive secretary of the
Anti-Tuberculosis Society. The en-
tire board membership Of the So
ciety will act as an assisting COM
mittee.
During the campaign, according
to officials Of the society, many bus
mess houses, stores, public SER
vice companies, theatres, newspa-
~pers, radio stations, and organiza-
tons will help publicize the. sale
by displaying posters. distributing
informative material, special win
dow displays, health broadcasts.
and motion picture trailers.
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Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Xmas Lights WiHBe
Turned On Dec. 6
Mayor Edward C. Evans
Will Throw Master
Switch At Five P. M;
To Have Fairyland.

Milford is preparing for one OF
the greatest and most beautiful
Christmas seasons in its long his
tory. Decorations and lights are
being put into position this week,
and unless something unforeseen oc-
ours, the lights Will De officially
turned on Saturday evening, De-
cember 6. Mayor Edward @. Ev-
ans will throw the master switch
which will illuminate the business
section.
Those in charge of putting up
the Christmas lights are trying to
make their job 100% perfect. Thou
sands of lights, beautiful stars, to-
gether with the huge illuminated
arches placed at the various en-
frances to the business section will
turn the business section into a
veritable fairyland.
AS a special attraction this year
for young and old alike, will be
the creation of Mother Gooseland,
in Plaza Square. This work, be-
ing supervised by Alphonso Humes
and George Draper, will, when
completed, be the most outstand-
ing free attraction in lower Della
ware. Here one can step out of
the present, into fairyland; here
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Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Grants Xmas Party
Next Tuesday Night
Santa Claus VIII Be On Hand To
Greet Both Young And Old

George W. Perry, manager of
the local w. T. Grant Company
store announced today that the an
nual Santa Claus coming out party
and Christmas Carol festival
would be held in the store next
Tuesday evening, December 2,
starting at GAS o'clock sharp.
Everyone is invited-little folk
and big folk, and each small child
will be remembered with gift.
AS special added attraction Mr..
Perry has secured the services Of
the Avenue Methodist Church Jun
ior Vested Church Choir, of over
forty voices. This splendid group
of young men and women is per-
sonally directed by Charles Curtis
Williams, a member of the faculty
of Milford Junior-Senior High
and a well-known musi-
clan. The group will sing all OF
the old favorite Christmas carols,
as we'll as some of the more mod
ern religious numbers.
Mr.. Perry makes one suggestion:
Those attending the party must re-
member that it is strictly a party
and do not ask any of the sales
people. to sell any merchandise.
Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
GOU. Bacon And Staff
Visit Fort Salisbury
Chief Executive, Aides Are
Guests Of Post Officers
At Dinner

Governor Walter W. Bacon, ac-
companied by ranking state mill
tary officers, made an inspection
tour of Fort Salisbury, near Mil
ford on Tuesday enroute to Lewes.
Units of the 261st' Coast Artillery
stationed at the post passed in re-
view before the Governor after
which he and his party were en-
tertained at dinner.
Capt. Gilbert c. Cosden, COM
mander of the post in the absence
of Capt. Thayer Royal, who is at
tending an artillery school at Fort
Monroe, welcomed the guests. In
the party were Lieut.-Col. Charles
H. Cant, Lieut-Col. William ]. Stor-
ey, Lieut.. Col. Ralph Rust, Brig
Gen. Paul R. Rinard, and Lieut-Col.
Henry X. Roscoe, Jr., commander
Of the 261st, also Secretary of State
Earle D. Wiley.
Governor Bacon complimented
the officers and men on their ex-
cellent showing.
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Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
TUO Senator's Sons
Admitted TO Bar
Robert Tunnel, James H.
Hughes, iii, In Group
Approved By Court

Sons of both Of DeIaware's U. s.
Senators were among the 12 per-
sous admitted to the practice
law in Delaware by the State Su-
preme Court the past week.
They are James H. Hughes, III,
Dover, son of Senator James H.
Hughes, and Robert Tunnel, of
Georgetown, son of Senator James
M. Tunnel. The senators person
ally presented their sons to the
court. Thomas Cooch, Newark, son
of former Lieutenant-Governor Ed
ward w. Cooch, was presented by
his father and admitted to practice.
Mrs. Roxana C. Arsht, wife of S.
Samuel Arsht, Wilmington attor-
ney, also became the fourth woman
attorney in the states history. Pre-
ceding her were the late Miss Eva
Barsky, Miss Sybil U. Ward and
Mrs. Marguerite Dugan Bodziak.
others admitted by the court
we're: John P. Sinclair, Newark;
Henry A. Wise, Jr., Hockessin;
Harold A. Jewett, Middletown; H.
Maull, Lewes; Denham A.
Kelsey, John VanBrunt, Jr., Henry
M. Bryan, and Joseph Rhoads, all
of wilmington. The oath was ad-
ministered by Chancellor William
Watson Harrington.
Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Com unity Fair Xmas Savings
At Harrington Clubs Here Pay
Attracts Many Out Sl21,OOO,
Caulk Club Heads List
Disbursing SCI, 100000;
Last Years Figure Is
Topped By $4,000. I

Residents of Milford, who for the
past fifty weeks have been practic.
ing thrift and each week laying
aside a sum for the Christmas Saw
ings Fund conducted by the local
banks and The L. ID. Caulk Com
pany are being rewarded this week
to the tune of s121, 900. This money
is released by the Milford Trust
Company, the First National Bank
and Trust Company and the Saw
ings Fund Club of The L. d. Caulk
Company, all of which have been in
existence for several years. This
is an increase. of $4,000 from the dis
bursements made by these three
clubs last year, and indicates that
the idea is still popular in Milford.
In the state a total of $1,600,000
will be distributed this season.
The first savings clubs on the
Peninsula were started some years
ago at Salisbury, Md. The general
public eagerly accepted the method
to systematically save for the holi-
day season. Shortly thereafter The
L. D. Caulk Company conceived the
idea of conducting a savings fund
for their employees. The plan was
successful, and outsiders were al
lowed to join the club. The Milford
Trust Company later took up the
Idea, and they, too, were successful
and secured many depositors there
from. A few years later the First
National Bank and Trust Company
started its club and each year has
shown a satisfactory increase in the
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Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
DR.. M. Dalema Draper
Century Club Speaker
Milford Doctor Tells Of Recent
Trip To Mexico

DR.. M. Dalema Draper spoke be-
fore the members of the Milford
New Century Club on Monday at
the regular weekly meeting of her
recent trip to Mexico. A seasoned
traveller, DR.. Draper knows how to
crowd into the days of her trip all
the information. and sightseeing
that is possible and her store of
knowledge of places visited is real
ized when she addresses a group.
Making Mexico City the center of
activities, DR.. Draper made trips
out to other places, learning GUS
toms, foods, markets, kinds of wor-
ship, and all phases of living pc
culiar to the Mexican people. She
a number of her pur-
chases to the members. This made
a delightful afternoon for the mem
bers present.
Next week Mrs. Herman Phillips
has charge of the program during
which time a forum of Consumers
Problems in Food Purchasing will
be carried on by Kenneth w. Baker
of the University of Delaware Ex-
tension Service. An exhibit of con-
tainers for foods, and a talk on
and measures in relations
to foods will be carried on. Edu-
cational pamphlets pertaining to
foods and their values and samples
Of foods will be given out. A social
hour will follow with tea and coffee
If particular brands being demon
,trated. Members are urged to be
present for this informative pro- J
gram.
Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Lieut-C Col. w. E. Lank
Joins Vinson Post
Milford Magistrate Veteran OF 3
Campaigns, Signs At Glendale

Lieutenant-C Colonel William E.
Lank of Milford, who first enlisted
in the U. S. Army in 1880, became
member of Clarence Vinson Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the
meeting of the Raymond Reynolds
Post, v. F. W., at Ellendale; last
Wednesday night.
The meeting was the occasion for
an official visit of the Department
of Delaware, v. F. w., to Reynolds
Post.
Arch D. Lank, son of Colonel
Lank and commander of Vinson
Post, guest at the meeting also,
obligated his father in the pres
ence of the v. F. W. department Off
GERS.
In Three Campaigns
Colonel Lank, long prominent in
and veterans circles in
Delaware, a magistrate of Milford,
served in the Spanish-American
War, in Mexico in 1916, and in the
World War as a major, commander
of the First Battalion, 59th Pioneer
Infantry, in France.
He is still on the War Depart
ment's list as a reserve officer.
Colonel Lank Joined the v. F. w.
following a personal
invitation extended him by Richard
P. Altvaver, commander of the De-
Dartment of Delaware, v. F. w.
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Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Kent Firemen
Met In Milford
Last "Wednesday
132nd. Meeting Of Fire
fighters Was Held In
Community Building;
Officers Nominated.

The 132nd meeting of the Kent
county iremen convened in the
community building at Milford last
Wednesday, night with all compan-
les represented but Dover and
South Bowers. G. d. Holzmueller,
treasurer of the Carlisle Fire Com
pany, did a pinch hit act for Mayor
Edward G. Evans, and welcomed
the delegates to Milford. Caleb w.
Johnson, of Magnolia, responded.
Four Of the FIVE directors were abs
sent. Last month a committee was
named to work out a plan whereby
the volunteers could secure know
ledge about the national defense
schools which are about to start
The report of the committee was
the county is to be di-
vided into four school centers. The
upper half Of the county will at
tend schools at Dover and Smyrna,
while the lower end of the county
will attend schools in Milford and
1t is planned to alter
nate the classes, the first lesson
to be held in one town and the Sec
Ond lesson in the other town. The
same conditions to prevail with
lower Kent county. Should fire.
nan fail to attend a class in his
own district, he could get the les
son by driving to the other di-
Vision, since the same lessons
would be taught there. The schools
will open just as soon as a sched-
lie can be completed and the nee
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Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
DeTawareIOOF
Elects Officers
For New Term
w. E. Matthews, Jr., For
mer Smyrna Mayor, Is
Chosen To Succeed w.
T. Kirby. 4

William E. Matthews, Jr., of
Smyrna. was chosen to succeed VIII
liam g. Kirby as Grand Master al
the 10Sth annual session of the
Grand Lodge Of Delaware, l. o. o.
F., in Odd Fellows Hall, Whining
ton, late last Wednesday.
Other officers elected are: Deputy
Grand Master, Frank Maloney, Will
-mington; grand warden, Stanley
McKelvey, Wilmington; grand sec
retary, Herbert e. Downing, Will
mington; assistant grand secretary,
Francis M. Clough,. Wilmington;
gihnd treasurer, Samuel McAllis-
ter, Wilmington, and grand repre-
sentative, Alvin T. Ardis, Whining
ton.
The new grand master appointed
the following officers: Grand mar
shall, Harry C. Johnson, Smyrna;
grand conductor, Harvey J. Lower.
Smyrna; grand guardian, James r.
Fleming, Smyrna; grand herald,
Ernest v. Blendt, Smyrna; grand
chaplain, Frank H. Hynson, Smyr-
ma; grand pianist, George M.
Blendt, Smyrna.
The members turned down a
proposal to change the annual ses-
sion date from November to June,
and approved a plan to organize
boys and girls into junior groups
affiliated with the association.
In refusing to change the annual
session date, members selected Will
mington for the next annual meet
ing on November 18, 1912.
Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
Riddles Toy Matinee
Is Great Success
Hundreds of Toys Received
At Show; VIII Be Re-
paired at High School

: The annual Christmas Toy Show,
sponsored by the Schine Theatre
Circuit, local Schine Manager May
or Edward c, Evans, in coopera-
ton with the Milford school board,
was held on Monday morning of this
week, and according to Mayor Ev-
ans and Superintendent of Milford
Schools Robert e. Shilling the
show was a decided success, with
hundreds of toys being turned in
by the boys and girls at the box
office.
Through the courtesy of The L.
d. Caulk Company, who kindly fur
nished a truck, these toys were de-
livered at Milford Junior-Senior
High School shortly after the COM
pletion of the show. They were re-
.ceived by John T. MCGEE, head of
the Manual Training Department
of the school. These toys will be
repainted and repaired by the stu
dents under the direction of Mr..
McGee and when completed will be
turned over to the various civic
organizations for distribution, in
the same manner as last year.
Milford chronicle., 1941-11-28
RaipPhfsOnlSYanrb
HrdMSasseaCohnty
Blaze Consumed 1000
Acres Of Timber, Many
Fur-Bearing Animals;
Loss Put At 100000.

Fire-blackened tree stumps jut-
ted out of the smouldering turf in
the huge timber swamps of Sussex
county last Sunday night after rain
finally extinguished the surface fire
that destroyed more than 1000 acres
of timber during the three days it
ragged.
Residents of the area placed loss
of the timber and fur-bearing ami
mails trapped in the marshes at
more than 100000. One building, a
small frame house that was un-
occupied, was destroyed by the
sweeping flames although several
others were saved by back firing.
w. S. Taber, state forester, said
that more than 300 exhausted for
est fire wardens, volunteer fire.
men, and farmers stopped battling
the blaze last Saturday night after
every means of halting it had fail
ed.
More Rain Needed
"ThS .,ain was the only possible
thing that could have stopped the
flames but we need much more of
it before we will feel safe from the
fire smouldering deep under the
forest fioor," he said.
When the rain arrived the: flames
had swept more than a mile into
and were only a short |
distance from where another fire
was burning north from that state.
The large swamp area in lower
Delaware formerly was covered
with cedar and cypress trees but
lumber operations and fires de-
stroyed most of this timber, and
later draining Of most of the
swamp made it impossible for
these two types to grow again in
In their place the
Tried swamps were covered with
pine trees that grow rapidly in the
soil.
Trees Burn Far Ahead
Mr.. Taber said that the fire
spread so rapidly in some of these
.rees that it was necessary to get
ar ahead of it to p1ow breaks and
hat frequently the tree tops burn
ID a half-mile ahead of the forest
ioor. M
Large numbers of birds and small
were trapped in the flames
,efore they could get to safety. The |
Irea is considered one Of the best
;ame sections in the state. f
Trappers said that the fire had
.lso burned many muskrat houses
nd that it would be several years
'efore trapping is back to normal.