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Show Forest Fire Fighters In Fast Race Missoula, Mont. With flames licking lick-ing at their heels, a large crew of fire fighters won a three-mile race with death Thursday when a conflagration conflag-ration sweeping through the St. Joe forest, in the North Fork country of the Clearwater river, suddenly burst beyond control and spread over a thousand- acre area. The fire started thirty miles south of Avery. Twenty men are being rushed to aid the thirty already fighting desparately to check the flames in the Lolo forest west of Missolua, which already has done ex-I ex-I tensive damage to standing timber. ' Fifty more men are on their way to Donlan to reinforce a small crew which has thus far held the fire under control, while sixty men are hattling a conflagration near Bull lake between Noxon and Troy, one of the most scenic spots in the state. From the Kaniksu forest came a report to forestry for-estry headquarters here that in spite of the efforts of a score of men the fire was spreading swiftly. The logging log-ging camp of the Rutledge Lumber company, thousands of feet of logs and a large quantity of equipment were destroyed in the Grouse creek fire on the Pend d'Oreille forest in northern Idaho. The fire is reported burning I on a 600-acre front. I |