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Show Wbol lis" held1 fires PENO OREILLE DISTRICT NOW SCENE OF NEW HAZARD; ENLIST EN-LIST MORE FIGHTERS I Fire Jumped Control Lines Despitt The Efforts Of Thirty Fighters With a New Fire Reported On Kootenai Forest Missoula, Mont. With the advance of the flames in the Blackfoot and Kanisksu forests checked behind con trol lines, the battle front against for est fires was shifted Thursday to the Pend Oreille reserve in northern Idaho, Ida-ho, where reports said a cloud of smoke hanging over the area made it impossible to trace the course o) two large fires which are spreading rapidly. Twenty-five more men were sent to supplement the seventy-five already battling flames in one pari of the region, while forty-five additional addi-tional fighters were rushed to reinforce rein-force 125 attempting to control the blazing wall in another section. The Pen Oreille fighting forces now num her 400 men. An additional 100 fighters were recruited re-cruited at Missoula and Butte to aid the crews holding the Blackfoot fires, addtional men also will be sent to the Olney district, where flames are reported re-ported to be spreading over 6000 acres. On the Kootenai forest the Ruby-creek Ruby-creek fire jumped control lines and scattered flpsnifn thp pffnrts nf thirt-o x ... fighters. A new lightning fire also was reported, on the Kootenai Thursday. |