Show MORE MOR TROOPS SENT TO FIGHT FOREST fORST fiRES HS IN MONTANA MONT Ti ANA Old Fires Less Dangerous but but- New Ones BreaK O Out Ot tit t. t w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Aug 19 Forest 19 Forest fires in Montana aro are and ten additional compa companies of 01 troops are are needed need ed eI to meet tho situation a according cordin to a joint telegram tele am received ved today by bY the interior department and forest service from their 1 field old agents Supervisor Logan Lo o of the tho Glacer national national na na- na park and Supervisors Haines and aid Bunker of ot the Flathead and Blackfoot national forests respectively reported that the old fires are are practically under control but that the tho new ones are constantly eon con appearing and more troops are needed to meet the emergency They hey ask that four companies be sent Bent to the Glacier GlaCie park ark and three companies e each ch to the tb la bead aJ and cr k U interior interior de i is iB in the Glacier nation ap park al-park raSs assisting ln in in the thell fighting 1 of f fires fireS' today telegraphed tele raph d Acting Secretary Pierce that he believed the fire sit situation situation situa situa- a. a tion could be met mot and the flames mes kept k pt under control with additional troops t but that the tho con conflagration a could not be entirely arrested until the advent of rain Mr Ticker suggested that some somo of the theares fires ares were of ot incendiary ori origin in General Wood chief of staff of the army today sent orders for the tho dispatch of five companies of the Fourteenth infantry infantry in in- fantry to the Glacier national park and tho the Blackfoot and Flathead Indian reservations res ros- |