Show I MANY TOWNS ARE A BOLEY BADLEY AA DAMAGED I ONE VILLAGE IS ALMOST COM COM- COMPLETELY COM COMPLETELY LEVELED AS FLAMES SPREAD Forest Blazes Gain Headway Thre Three Maryland Counties Also Suffer Historic Army Grounds Are Threatened Lakewood N The J-The J The village of at Pleasant Plains near here hero was threat threat- threatened threatened ened with destruction when a forest tire fire got Aol out of control and destroyed twenty of the towns town's seventy five seventy homes All of the available a tire fire ap- ap ap apparatus from nearby towns was rush rush- rushed cd ed to the scene New York York Thirty homes and sev several eral oral barns in six Suffolk county vil- vil villages vil villages lages have been leveled to the ground I Iby by forest tires fires In n the Lon Long Island vine pine pinebelt pinebelt belt which raged all night and was I still burning Thursday over an area of more than titan square miles Fight Fighters ers ems were aided in ht checking the fire by a light rainfall Wednesday night and further showers were expected to bring It under control Residents of Medford Bohemia HoltsvIlle Solden Selden and amid Centereach stayed up most of ot the night with baggage packed ready to flee fleo it If the fire should spread in their dIrection Baltimore Forest bid Md Forest fires tires were burning in three counties of Maryland The most serious blazo blaze in Anne Arun- Arun Arundel Arundel del Arun-del del county is threatening Saunders range former Cormer national guard summer camp now used as a target range One range building has been destroyed and twenty others are In inthe inthe the path of flames cracking through I scrub pine and underbrush The Fifth regiment Mar Maryland land National Guard has lIas been asked for aid i |