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Show FIRE WAS NEEDLESS. Plnchot Declares Fearful Tragedy Was Due to Unpreparedness to Deal With Fire Situation. Washington. GIfford Pluchot of tho National Conservation association and former head of tho government forest for-est service, in a statement issued Friday Fri-day morning, holds that tho loss of property and lifo In tho rocent and present forest fires wns unnecessary. Tho disastrous results, ho says, aro traceable to tho unpreparcdness to deal with the firo situation. Ho scores members of congress who havo opposed appropriations for the propor equipment of forest rangers and in that connection names Senator Hey-burn Hey-burn or Idaho, whoso homo town, Wallaco, suffered serious loss; Senator Sen-ator Carter of Montana and Representative Repre-sentative Mondell ot Wyoming. |