The Times-Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 19

SCRANTON TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 19 Fire Marshals. Underwriters leads Way to Safety 52-Y ear-Old Heroine Credited To Begin Probe of Big Blaze State Police fire marshals and an investigator lor the Fire McKarm Building with a passageway one and one-half or two feet wide between the structures. -The investigators are considering the possibility that an over- Underwriters Association are With Saving at Least 6 in Fire The dramatic and heroic role played by 52-year-old Mrs. Sophie W. Farnbam, actions were credited with the savins of at least six lives in the fire which swept a standing by in fire-swept Carbon- dale, ready to launch a probe of i heated heating unit was -the the blaze as soon as possible, cause.

Sergeant Murphy-said. 'Mc- block of buildings in Carbondale, were related' today by sgt. William v. Murphy and Karm told investigators that his Trooper Norman P. McFadden, some of those survivors.

Told to The Times Staff Writer: fire marshals from Blakely State building was heated by a bin-fed stoker located in the cellar with its chimney running up the west v. i olice Barracks, and Al Wilson. William T. Cullen in Hotel Ameri-1 1 PaflA I AAfTIf can. where some of the survivors IlC II DulllC LUUIllJ special investigator for the fire underwriters and former fire were taken, witnesses who fled to safety told how Mrs.

Farnham's screams aroused some of them, wall about IS feet from the front of the building, an area-which has been reduced to rubble, Fire Marshal Murphy said that In Laffimore Case marshal at Wyoming State Police Barracks, arrived at the scene of the devastating' fire at this morning. ana now sne lea anouier woman WASHINGTON yP) The gov- "if at all possible we intend to make some kind of an msnection and the latter two children to eminent announced today it will safety across the roof of an ad-appeal the decision by Federal This afternoon. Sergeant Mur joining two-story structure. Judge Luther W. Youngdahl dis- phy said the cause of the blaze was1 still undetermined and the of the ruins this afternoon in an -attempt to pinpoint the cause." Meanwhile, Attorney Joseph P.

Brennan, counsel for and a direc- Mrs. arnham, who resided1 missing a new perjury indictment alone in a third tioor apartment against Owen Lattimore. place of its origin had not definitely been established. He said in the McKarm Building, 53i The decision to take the issue to the U.S. Court of Appeals was that from information investi gators obtained from the first two men to reach the scene.

Driv Savings Bank, and Albert Judge, a bank teller, told newsmen at noon, just after they emerged from an inspection of the bank proper, that the bank records Salem herself related how she was first aroused by what she thought was the smell oi smoke but, not detecting anything wrong, decided to return to'her bed. "It was about 4 o'clock when announced by UJS. District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Lattimore, controversial Far Eastern affairs specialist, was accused in the indictment of lying ers Joseph Brennan of the Columbia Hose Co.

and Hubert Gor man of the Mitchell Hose the fire apparently started in a build when jie denied to a Senate Com mittee that he had ever been ing housing the Banner Shoe follower of the Communist line Store and owned by-Samuel McKarm. Sergeant Murnhv said I was awakened by what I thought was the smell of smoke," Mrs. Farnhara told Reporter Cullen. "But 1 guess 1 must have thought I was just imagining or a promoter oi Kea interests. those drivers told us that thev Judge Youngdahl in a decision and vaults were in "good shape." Attorney Brennan said, "We just inspected the bank and everything is fine.

All the records are completely intact and the vaults are in fine shape. We'll be in business Monday morning. To the bank proper there is little damage outside of some water on the floor and some cracks in the plaster." Jan. 18 described the charges as arrived to find the Banner Shoe things because I looked around, btore aflame." "formless and obscure. He said that to require Lattimore to stand The Nolan Buildinz where the trial on them would "make but didn't see any smoke or fire Everything was quiet and I de cided to go back to It was then, she continued fire was first believed to have started is located just west of the sham" of the Fourth Amendment which requires that a defendant be advised specifically of charges Whil en group of firomsn sends hoso strvam into building shown hero, another can bo soon directing protective cascade (to right in picture) on Woolworth Building, not shown.

At this point, Scranton Talk's interior was burned out despite efforts of firemen who had to battle intense cold and wind. she "happened to look into the area is drug store, 47 Salem art burning and adjacent building is a mass of flame at this moment in Carbondale firt, while Liberty Bank's roof is ablaze and lost in a cloud of acrid smoke. Student Parley Hits against him. i pantry off my bedroom. Rover made the announcemenl Seeing smoke pouring in under! the door, the woman ran to the Fire Edition Sold Speedily of the intention to appeal before Aid to Segregation hallway and "started to Fearless Heroism Displayed The screams aroused Mrs.

Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws of U.S. District Court. i Lattimore had been scheduled to go on trial Feb. 14 but Rover WASHINGTON (U.R) White Marie Tresslar and her 11-year-old daughter, Donna, and six-year-old son, Thomas.

and Negro students from 20 states urged their congressmen Cop, 2 Firemen Save Invalid Husband and Wife suggested that in view of the ap today to vote against federal peal that the trial be continued Realizing that escape was cut money being used to build segre reached the street safely. Mr, to some indefinite date or set far enough ahead to allow the Court gated schools. Mr. and Mrs. Petrous, the Former Unable To Walk, Rescued from Second-Floor Apartment and Mrs.

Petrous, who were not injured or affected by the They also urged the lawmakers off by the roaring flames on the first floor section of the building, Mrs. Farnham quickly led the other three out of a kitchen mri n3 nzr Iftalintf Ka viff of Appeals to rule; to ban segregation on interstate trains and buses. Petrous, unable to walk, Mr. Peiping me students are delegates to The Scranton Times, in providing as complete coverage as humanly possible of the multimillion-dollar conflagration raging in Carbondale, dispatched 500 additional copies of today's extra; edition to the Pioneer City and newsboys report these copies sold "like hot cakes." However, a number of these same newsboys for the time being will have 20 fewerv'doors to knock on for that is the number of regular customers they lost when the homes of these customers pvere destroyed in Ihe blaze. The temporary loss of -the 20 customers caused Frank Cerra, manager ofThe Times.

dale office, tfnd his assistant, Edward Moylan, to make adjustments in the affected paper rw 1UUV JIVBUlUg VWA. V4. the two-story Nolan Building. Wearing only their night clothesnone of the Tresslars had time to don footwear the four made their way across the roof of the Nolan Biulding to an the second annual National Youth Legislative Conference sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Free Trade linked' DENVER JP) Sen. George W.

i il a. i The fearless heroism of a Carbqndale policeman and two firemen was credited today with saving an invalid husband and his wife from flaming death when they we.e tapped in their second-floor apartment as flames ate their way into the stairway, blocking off escape. Figures in, the drama were Mr. and Mrs. Peter W.

Petrous, who lived in an apartment in the McKarm Building, which was eventually leveled by the fire. smoke, were taken to the home of a relative. The three men shrugged off the rescue as1 "all in a day's work." But Patrolman Kane did concede there was risk in their dauntless entry into the burning building. "The whole stairway was in flames when we started down," he said. "For a second or so I was afraid it might collapse under our weight." People.

Unaware the other occupants of the building had fled through a second-floor window, the three men ignored the flames consuming the stairway and raced to the second floor. Discovering Mr. and Mrs. Petrous, one of the men led the woman to safety as the other two carried the invalid down the stairway, by that time a mass of flames and enveloped in dense smoke. All five They button-holed their con and his wife were trapped in their bedroom as flames, which started cn the ground floor, rapidly wofked their way up to the second level.

Summoned by a telephone alarm, Joseph M. Brennan, night driver for the Columbia Hose and Fireman Joseph Clark and Patrolman John Kane arrived at the scene. Kearney ftlalone says mat many adjoining three-story building. gressmen after being told last night by Roy Wilkins, NAACP administrator, that Congress has Reaching that structure, Mrs. been "sitting on the sidelines and interposing obstacles" to desegre mgu government uuiucua iu Washington are committed to the recognition of Red China" and are "dangling free trade as the bait." Malone made the remark at a panel discussion at the Colorado Mining Association convention.

He later told a newsman: "Many substantial people in gation. Farnham succeeded in arousing her brother-in-law, Raymond A. Hosie, Delaware i Hudson trainman, who admitted them and telephoned the first alarm to the Columbia Hose Co. Fifteen minutes later the flames in mis area, ne said, "our TWO TIMES MEN GET federal lawmakers are rooted in FLAMES WRECK (Continued from Page 1) the 19th Century." One News Stand Still in Business Mayor Calls Fire News Phones Cut by Blaze (Continued from Page 1) Washington, including Supreme Wilkins said there are signs that the Negro voter is "now considering whether the time and wards, appeared to stand out A. S.

Lewsley's Men's Store, 59 'Worst' In History had reached the Kearney Building. AH occupants fled to safety.1 The fire was eventually to level the McKarm, Nolan and Kearney buildings as well as other structures in that block. Salem Ave. more starkly etched against the neat white-bordered buildings the opportunity to act are not ap Nancy Lewsley's Dress Shop, Court Justice William 0. Douglas, want recognition of Red China.

They're conditioning industrialists throughout the nation with the idea of more trade proaching. surrounding the devastated area located on the second floor of 59 Vice President Richard M. Salem Ave. Flying directly over the scene, The Nolan Building contained Nixon told the nearly 100 coa Crystal Restaurant, 62 Salem it was easily possible to smell the second! to get them ready for recogni- two apartments on the ferees that, "much remains to be Ave. stench of the smoke.

tion floor, one occupied by Frank done" to achieve the objective of Tolerico's Men's Shop, 63 Salem One building, on a corner of the "equal opportunity for all. Ave. block, looked as if it were hit dead The Senator said the United States and England agreed in 1949 to recognize Red China if The fire which today provided The Carbondale Daily News with one of the biggest stories in its history deprived the borough's daily of telephone service as it prepared to describe the sensational blaze in its edition this afternoon. As the staff, assembled this morning at the paper's plant in the shadow of the Central City area blackened by the big conflagration, there was no power and it. was feared publication would be impossible.

The power was restored at 10:30 A.M. McGinnis Pharmacy, 63 Vi Sa (Cappy) Burnett, athletic instructor at Carbondale High School, his wife and, his mother, Mrs. Margaret A. Burnett, and the other by Mrs. Mary Seeley and her daughter, Patricia.

The first 456 Counts Placed Britain devalued the pound. lem Ave. The Home Life Insurance 27 North Church St. Against Ex-Cop 3 The Holt Building at 29-33 Only one of five Carbondale news dealers in business in the Central City area at the first of the year remained in operation today. Two of the news stands, Benton's Cigar Store, 55 Salem and Zazzera's Sweet Shop, 43 Salem were destroyed in today's blaze and Stenson's Stationery Store, 26 North Church suffered so much water damage it could not continue business.

Cigar Store, 37 North Main was put out of business by a fire last Jan. 5. The lone Central City news dealer handling both local and out of town papers is Shaw's News Stand, 51 South Main located about two and a half blocks from today's fire. New Safety Unit To Meet Sunday Dentist Praises Fluoride Alove Mayor Frank P. Kelly, one of the first Carbondale officials on the scene, described the fire as the "worst catastrophe in the city's history He told a Times reporter: "It is the worst fire in the city's history.

"Carbondale was hit bad enough, with unemployment. We have been trying to rehabilitate ourselves. Now this. "I am too overcome to say much. "Of course I'm glad that there were no deaths or serious injuries.

That entered my mind first. "All man power and every piece of equipment in the up- vallcy has been pressed into duty." Mayor Kelly has been on duty since 5 A.M., personally directing operations. center with a bomb. Its interior gone, only its sides stood, mute evidence of the fury and destructive power of the flames. Picture a Paradox A "silent" picture of tremendous destruction, the scene far below was one of a paradox.

For while it was obviously impossible to hear either the flames North Church St. which con POTTSV1LLE, PA. (INS) Police Lt. Ernest F. Ehlers floor housed, Nolan's clothing store.

The Kearney Building was occu was charged today with 456 counts tained these business places: The Store on the first floor; Knights of Pythias Hall on the pied on the ground floor by Kear PHILADELPHIA (INS)-The addition of fluorine to Philadel ney Drug Store, on the second floor by the barbershop of George jphia's water system was hailed second floor and the Melodyland Dance Hall and Lyric Hall, both by an expert yestesday as a tremendous step forward in health located on the third floor Two Die in Port's First Fatal Crash The Wade Building at 35 North or the shouts of fire officials directing their men, it was equally obvious the fire fighters were waging a vigorous battle to bring protection for youngsters. Dr, Eligio R. Cerino, president Church containing these es of forgery, fraudulent conversion and unlawful cashing of U.S. government savings bonds. Information against the 52-year-old ex-officer was sworn by the president and treasurer of the Pottsville Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police.

They charged Ehlers is involved in a shortage of nearly $50,000 in the lodge-treasury. Ehlers was dismissed from the force last November after he was of the Philadelphia County Den- PITTSBURGH (INS The first'tablishment: Wade's Flower Shop, the flames under control. tal Society, said the fluoride plus fatal crash in the history of Barbershop, McCann in-simple dental health measures is er Pittsburgh Airport has been-surance Agency and three apart- Uncounted lines of hose rib boned the streets fire fighting ap Pascoe nd the beauty salon of Mrs. and the Hosie apartment on the third floor. None cf the occupants of any thfr' thVee buildings Were able to save any of their personal, belongings.

In room in Hotel American, whin Mrs. Farnham and thi Hosies win taken, Mrs. Hosii credited hr tisUr with saving at six livas and, sha said, "probably mora. -T exoected to reduce decay bv bet- recorded. A lieht Diane operated me occupants oi wmcn paratus was visible on all sides were not immediately identified.

by an air taxi service crashed ter than 40 per cent The Crocker Paint and Paper of the stricken block, and hun arrested on three counts of for' gery. li i Store, 37 North Church St. dreds of spectators could be seen, The region's only highway safety organization of its the Safety on Wheels Club, will meet Sunday at 3 P.M. at the office of Bolus Motor Lines, 127 shortly after takeoff from the airport yesterday, killing the pilot and a passenger. The victims were Blair Mc-Elheny.

42, of Brouehton, the Badly damaged by the flames mucn iiKe soldiers standing in He added in a talk to? the society that children of today "will go through their lives with far less dental disease especially dental decay than their because of the fluoridation of neat rows, behind fire lines. were: The Liberty Discount and Sav 10th where Charles Bolus ings Bank at Salem Ave. and pilot, and Edward J. Strybel, 49, Several persons who lied from will be host to the 21 members. the Nolan Building said they were community water-supplies here of Cincinnati.

fircf riiw1 fv hoarintf'a woman anu ei2ewneie uie iuuuii They will see movies titled Safety on the Highway" and Udt VIA MJ V. a. IU5 creaming. It was a paradoxical picture from the air. There was the illusion there was no excitement down below.

Everything, even to the firemen pouring 10 or more lines of water on smoking buildings, appeared to be going about their task in a methodical, unexciting fashion. And from 1,500 feet in the air, -'Safety on the Track." Double trouble "If it weren't for my North-Church St. Bieg Chief Market, 54 North Main St. Intense heat shattered plate glass windows in the Lustig furniture and appliance store, 28 North Church and the Joseph Andrews jewelry shop, 26 North Terrorists Discovered Among Food Handlers' The club, organized a short time ago and which last week lgT Vf----- A 'wUUUu Vy For the Army none of us would be alive," declared Mrs. Hosie.

Then, referring to the Tress-lar's. she said she had no doubt NAIROBI, KENYA (P) A Mau Mau terrorist group has been dis won the endorsement of Director of Public Safety William M. FT. KNOX. KY.

(UN Two covered among food handlers in Church and spray from water Mrs. Farnham's cries saved their the Kenya Parliament building. Lonsdorf for its safety plans, elected these officers this week. Donald Sabatell, president; Pittsburgh recruits hoped today that they wouldn't be assigned to the same barracks here, as they lines got into the interior of both places which are located on the Police said it could have poisoned the entire it was naturally impossible to hear the shouted directions of the fire officials directing their men in the grim battle to bring the terribly destructive fire to an Nea Kapp, vice president: Rich have already caused Army clerks lives. "I'm sura thay would hivt bttn burnid to cUith in thtir beds," the sister told Reporter Cullon, opposite side of the street from the heart of the fire.

Three Kikuyu tribesmen were ard Rozell, treasurer, and John arrested. Officers said they had ONeill, secretary. Members of end. Here It What Uu Get: Pair of Immm mmmmum 9 Carrymfj Cm am4 Wipers Kptok Bifocals tecMtd. jA tS.00 M.r.

If I ff KJ I I Vtry ftw pttoiiHd trrWs tCfkriy I been handling food served mem the board are James Lacertose The jewelry store also was slightly damaged by flames set As for Mrs. Farnham, the gray- bers and staff of the legislature off by sparks and embers erlt Owens and Robert Cook. Wade On one shot, as Pilot Russell Hazlton tipped his craft a full 70 degrees so that Mr. Refice could haired woman was plainly embar Babcock was for weeks. The Mau Mau is a native terror rassed by the -words of praise lean out of the cabin the door heaped upon her by her sister ist movement which seeks to enough confusion.

James James and Joseph Joseph, both of Pittsburgh, both went through Army processing here. At each point, clothing supply mental tests, physical examinations, James would begin the tangle by giving his name. When the harried clerk finally finished James forms, next in line was Joseph Joseph. The Army assigned both men and brother-in-law as well as per drive white settlers out of Africa. carried across the roadway.

Elmer Valo to Speak At Westminster Dinner Paul L. Williams, chairman named publicity chairman. Details on membership n)ay be obtained from club members. Accounting Filed sons' who had heard about her actions. Protesting vainly against the of the plane had been removed to permit full play with the news camera it was possible to look directly down on the scene.

It was an angle that gave only one impression. The writer, felt much as if he was looking down into, the mouth praise, she turned to Reporter Eden, Aldrich Confer On Crisis in Formosa LONDON U.S. Ambassa Anr Winthrnn AHrirh nn. A first and final accounting in and toastmaster for the annual Cullen, managed a smile, and Westminster Presbyterian Churchithe estate of Joseph Kosiowski father and son banquet, an- filed with Orphans Court todav commented to A Company. 2048th Service The only thing we should do f-rr-d with British Forwcn nounced today that the event I lists a balance of $123.69 for dis- All IINSCS CftOUND PEtftCTLY TO TOUt PRESCIWION of some man-made Hell.

wiil be held Thursday. Feb. after earlier distribution is take time out to say a prayer retary Anthony Eden on.the For-of thanks to God. If it wasn mosa crisis SSI LACKAWANNA AVE. Stmt tm BaUl CMC at 6:15 P.M.

in Sawtelle Audi $600 andother disbursements Unit. James, tired of his double name even before the Army said, "my born shall be called something like none. of us would have for Him. tonum. Tremor Hits Again totaling $1,283.25 from the estate.

escaped. Guest speaker will be Elmer The meeting, over luncheon at Eden's home, was the first contact between the two diplomats Valo, Palmerton, a member of the Kansas City Athletics on Formosa since Red China's Seeks to Change Name James Walsh Is Dead; Formerly of Minooka baseball team. Basil Jones also will speak. ALGIERS, ALGERIA VP)-A slight tremor lasting several seconds shook Orleansville early today. No casualties or damage was reported.

Orleansville bore the brunt of last September's disastrous quake. ITU AIDE, 46, DIES FEBRUARY INVENTORY SALE Early Spring Dresses Must Be Out of reiusai yesterday to discuss a cease-fire in the United Bernard Kavaliauskas, 838 INDIANAPOLIS HV-Robert Dinner will be served by the Westminster Women under the A former resident of 409 Kane T. Turner, 46, director of the In North Main petitioned court today for permission to change his surname to Covalesky. Court Injured Truck Driver ternational Typographical Union's direction of Mrs. Clay A.

Stiles Minooka, James Walsh. 102-22 09 Ozone Park, New York City, died Tuesday at home following To Get $30,000 frOlTI PRR of Education, died yes James D. McCutcheon heads set Marcn 18, at 9:30 A.M. as the ney Grabowski represents the pe- the ticket committee. PTTTSRirRflTT mKA1Urh.mvtlc"Jf' uuic xui a ucaiiug Auurney oia-iuuoner.

a heart attack Store This Wepk SALE! SALE! Monday Through Saturday. 9 A. County. Common Pleas Court has SALE! M. to 4 P.

M. Volunteer One of Three Casualties to New York City about 27 years; n1 that the Pennsylvania Rail-ago. A son of the late Michael; mus Pay, 0,000 to a truck and Anna Dougherty Walsh, heidnv wh claimed he was in-was employed at Hotel in a railroad freighthouse. The court returned the verdict Yorker. Farview Guard Helping Fight Fire Is Hospitalized When Water from Hose Strikes Him Square in Face Thursday in favor of Harry of Term Town- 31, Thompson ship.

5.50 Each Or 2 For $10 VALl'IS t'F TO AND WCLt'DIXO tll.tft Fantastic Price for Nationally Labeled Brocade, silk, blend wools, gabardines, faille dresses whose fabric cost more than the One of tne three casualties who denly turned on. ing his arrival on the scene. firemen seemed to have more A brother, Michael, this city, is the only survivor, i The- funeral will be tomorrow morning in New York City. Burial will be in that city. Lettieri Named Captain In Fund Drive of of 5 needed hospital treatment after the disasterous Carbondale fire Red Propaganda Drive Disclosed bv Priest The impact knocked him half- "I remember that on one hose way across ice-covered Salem there were only two firemen and this morning was guard at Far- than they could handle that's why I went in to help them.

"I was working with them He was taken io the hospital by i i went to help them, he said. HONG KONG 6P1-A German view State Hospital for the Crim Carbondale Street Department I seem to remember that they priest said in Hong Kong today 5.50 sale price inal Insane who stopped while truck driver. wanted to change positions and about 20 minutes when I. cot that the Chinese Communists are passing through Carbondale to At the time he was interviewed then somebody slipped on Sol E. Lettieri.

1610 Wyoming-tellin their soldiers in Tientsin' heln the hard nn.csed firemen oy a reporter several nours later ice. ine nose nozzie men supped Can not suaranttt ull stlection of sizes and celsrs, but rush te Ave, twiII be a team captain they will be able to go home after! Frederick Vought, 23. of Bush-at the hospital Mr. Vought's and I got hit square with lhe! I imagine that the peoole-who the Advance Gifts Division forjFormosa is taken.1 IkilL Pa. a admitt-d to wj i i lived in those buildinss were all I TTT.

1 i Allen Rev. Alfonse Gessner, 58, ofscph' Hospital with severe in-his left eye swollen. The injury': was knocked down but not out out of their "Pertinents by Jessen, arrived in Hong Kong lastijuries of the right eye and right'seemed to have dimmed his recol-j "I was there about 20 "The whole block just seemed Mary Inc. Jrayn weeK alter Deing expelled from! side of the face after he was lection of circumstances at the I guess, and it was very bad at like a solid wall of flame with the $1,500,000 University of Scranton Building Fund drive opening in March. Appointment ok Mr.

Lettieri was announced last night by John A. AIcDade, division rhaiwnan, China. He reported the "liberate 104 DELAWARE AVE. WEST. PITTSTON, PA.

struck by a high pressure stream time and he could give only a dis that time. flames shooting out from roofs when a hose line which he was connected description of the "All the buildings in the block and the insides of the buildings helping firemen to carry was aud- events as they happened follow-! were "filled up with flames. The I solid red with flame. Formosa campaign had been "intensified during recent weeks.".