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Show I FOREST FIRLS GAIN I . COIUMIE mm - Arkansas Counties. North and North- ; east of .Little Rock Are Swept by H' Flames I Little Rock, Ark, Nov. 21. Forest .fires, which are reported burning in JL many counties of the state and pars'- tlcularly north and northeast of Little Hock, today are said to bo increasing in-creasing In headway. Several calls for assistance have been made to the fedoral forest rangers at Hot Springs and calls may be mado for further help In tho work, It was said by federal officials hero today. Smoko palls h following tho Arkan, sas river today crept over Llttlo Hock bringing nn almost night llko darkness. Street lights wore visible for but a fow feet from their posts. The last general rain in Arkansas I occurred moro than a mvmth ago. I rrcvlous to that, precipitation rain had not fallen for fifty days. |
