Show GE u. u Sf Si FORESTS SITUATION BAD W Weather ther Conditions s sCon Contribute Con Contribute tribute to Danger of Flames I m in r Timber nib tr 1 t CALIFORNIA CALIFORNI S SUFFERS F ERS Montana Re Reports Disastrous as- as trous Blaze Blaz WASHINGTON j July 27 Press Press Telegram arriving t to today day at atthe the United States forest foreIt ser service ervice er- er vice told tord of the worst forest fire situation of the year rear From California from the northwest northwest north north- west from rom Minnesota came reports of or low humidity hot winds high temperatures fire fire y weather athel Other Oher reports to agriculture and anc weather ather bure bureau u officials officials' have bavo Indicated un unusUal unusual unusual un- un usual dlo drought conditions and hot hoi weather in portions o Europe England En En- gland southern China A Australia Ua Argentina western C Canada nada and also in iti part lUt of th the Northwestern 1 Central and New cw England England st states tes FIGHT FIGHT CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA FIRE FIREr five Twenty miles from r Cal me men were reported fighting fight fight- lug ing a a. fire which started Ju July y 23 in tho Modoc forest Already It ha has had er of oC 1 and nd acres acres' ot of destroy destroying raying ray ray- ing approximately b ml feet of of lumber h All except the main min p pf JI the e r Or com company om- om pany burned The Tho San S n B national forest l in southern California also ba has suffered ve ely Fires that started July Jul 18 and which h sUl flU fitfully in c canyon pockets burned burn d tw h uge areas DESTROY WATER SHEDS Cei Centering in hi S Santa nta Ana Ami canyon canon one fire burned over acres of brush land Jand destroying important nt water Th Tho second fire in Cherry canyon canon burned acres of ot brush and destroyed the barn barp and tool house pt of o th the Barker Bench ran ranger er station District W E. Tinker cr 0 of Milwaukee o is In ia personal com command of the tho firefighting fighting campaign In S Superior Su Su- perlor national forest n near ar Brute Brule Lake not the Ule Brule where re former ormel President rit C Calvin dilvin Coolidge fished d.A. d. d A A. bl sun cloudless skies and breath furnace winds winds' aided the A wc weather th r report hot and an cloudless d little Sunday respite 20 FIRES REPORTED Twenty in Washington Id idah o and Montana r and Sped V onward rd by high winds they cr crossed tire fire lines Ines deol de- de ol on 1 page e 4 FIRES RAVAGE AGE U. U S. S F FORESTS FOREST J T j 1 S SITUATION BAD S T S SS I S Continued jj from page 1 I I timber Umber and brush on large Jart Most ost widespread damage In this section Vas aa S near Hartford I rash Wash where acres were rere b burned i S S For Forest st fire statistics show ho that approximately 90 0 J per tf c cent nf of ot the tho fires arb are and that carelessness I Is the chief fire firo factor fa b tor Onci started V however ver th the damage damage damase dam dam- age ase bears a a. direct relationship to Wind temperature humidity in inflammability flammability of of- forest lorest materials amount of moisture In the duff 01 or litter on the he forest rl floor or Montana I t vf- vf Hard rd IlitS Hit lit S MISSoULA Mont Jul July 27 i UP High winds flames flame amell through western heavy forests lorest necessitated nece a I call caU for additional addi vol volunteer fighters today as the roaring fires threatened to break breal sway away f from the control contra of ot Hundreds Hundreds' of or men battling their ad va vance ce S Crew endeavored to establish of oC t a fire mg ing In- Inon ingon on Dry reek crock west of Superior This fire tire which started nearly a week ago 80 has hns devoured more mor than tOO acres of ot timber and l last st night broke from the control of ot fighting crews rewa i S Fires on the Blanchard creek creek- Watershed watershed wa threatened to converge Intone into one one ne large mass nalIs but crews In that section n were reported to tobe be meeting with success Two new blazes blares at t Seeley Lake Lak and near Blanchard and Elk E creeks caused a rush ruth of men to that die dis |