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Show A MILLION DOLLAR LOAN FOR FOREST FIRE FIGHTING A loan of $1,000,000 has been made at the Forest Scrvlco from the President's special defense fund to meet the unprecednted danger of fires In the National forests or the I Northwestern and Pacific Coast states. I Forestry officials regard tho present pres-ent fire season In tho northwest as being In some ways tho most sorlous with which the government ever has had to deal. Early drought, high winds, electrical storms, labor short-ago short-ago and depletion of the regular protoctlvo forco because of tho war have comblcd to Intensify tho tiro danger. Timber necessary for war, industries Is In hazard. v Resort to tho President's special r defense fund was necessary becauso . tho 1918-19 appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture has not ye been passed by Congress. |