Show flAMES SWEEP SEEP ACRES IN NORTHWEST 1500 Men Battle Forest Fires Pires CAMP GAMP DESTROYED I Dense Smoke Slows Ocean Ships REVEl SToCKE B. B C. C Aug 11 AP Four AP-Four Four forest fire fighters were reported missing today in the Big Bend district where fires have been threatening the lumber settle settle- ments mets A search for them is under way S SSAN SAN FRANCISCO Aug 11 AP Scores of ot forest fires lires In the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Northwest which have ha burned over ever more than acres of timber timber timber tim tim- ber and stump land continued burning today despite the efforts of ot more than 1500 men to bring them under control 7 A fire near Scappoose Ore pad had ad burned over a total in excess of 15 acres f logged off oft land and It was vas estimated early today but the fires fire's progress was then at t a a standstill This fire also destroyed much muchal valuable vat val logging Jogging equipment including a railroad trestle and an entire loggin logging logging log log- ging gin camp I Seven hundred acres were burned I Iov ov over r by a fire on Green mountain in Oregon Orgon The plant of ot a p paper per company in the district was saved f only after atter a strenuous strenuous strenuous fight tight SAWMILL DESTROYED i A sawmIll sawmill was burned burn at Trails Ore but the fire which destro destroyed ed it was reported under control to today tay Eight other fires ires in the same region were also reported under control Two serious fires lires resulted from lightning lone one at Butte Fails Ore and one a at Moon prairie Commercial Commer Commer- cial timber Umber in the Crater Lake National National National Na Na- forest w was s threatened by them Twenty-one Twenty fires were reported In or near Crater Lake National forest forest forest for for- est sixteen of ot them b being ing on government government government gov- gov gov gov- land and five tive on state land Planes Plane's tt t patrol the forest Continued on page 4 FLAMES SWEEP ACRES IN NORTHWEST Continued from tram page 1 fire tire area were forced to land be be- beI I cause of ot Inability to get above the i smoke In the Kooten Kootenai I forest in Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana the seventeen-mile seventeen fire lire is the largest blaze of the season Fifteen FIt PU- teen thousand acres have been burned over and the fighters have made no appreciable headway in the attempts to combat the flames HAMPERS NAVIGATION Smoke from hundreds of fires near Seattle made navigation difficult dif dif- di- di the maximum visibility on Puget sound being yards Men were dispatched to combat the fire in the Olympic national forest which destroyed the Quilcene watershed watershed watershed wat wat- thirty miles from Seattle The weather bureau saw no relief from the present dangerous tire lire weather for at least two Forest land In itt Idaho Is I threatened by a fire which is sweeping south from Canada The tire fire is near the border and momentarily to sweep across the line Uno into northern northern north north- em ern Idaho The extent of ot this fire tire is not known WALLACE Idaho Aug 11 AP Y Residents o ot the upper Pine creek district of Idaho last night had their belongings packed in readiness to flee rom forest fires which which- for forthe forthe forthe the last ten days have been raging along the divide several miles mUes their homes SITUATION SERIOUS Reports received from the fire zone stated that the flames had been brisk all day Forest officials re regarded regarded re- re the situation there thereas as se se- se rious A new fire in the North Fork district dis dis- dis- dis n near atar ar the head of Big creek was reported ported late yesterday and a acan call can was sent here for tor more men The blaze is threatening valuable timber Umber |