Show PLANES FIGHT FOREST FIRES Hundreds of Blazes in Timber Tracts Started By Lightning Lightning- PORTLAND Ore Aug 5 ByThe By ByThe The Press With military au authorities au- au authorities lending all possible aid to embattled fire fighters and with gov gov- government government government airplanes pressed Into service for reconnaissance work and army mules laboriously moving supplies through tortuous mountain trails the northwest was fighting hundreds of forest fires today All AU the con con- conflagrations conflagrations were started by lightning Storms rolling over the mountain timber tracts each day this week have shot down bolts of or flame out of the clouds Today a hundred fires swept s through the forest of the Co Co- Columbia Columbia Co- Co Columbia lumbia national forest in Washing WashIng- Washington ton another hundred fires were blaz blaz- blazing blazIng blazing ing uncontrolled In the Rainier na na- national national na- na national forest More than sty had been reported on the Wenatchee tracts all aU all caused by lightning flashes In Oregon strips of fire were ap ap- approaching approaching ap- ap approaching upon the Umber timber holdings east ast west north and south Nine lightning fires flics were reported from the Umatilla national forest Two Tv 0 h men were battling day and night In central Oregon It was ex expected ex- ex expected that In the absence of wind the he flames would eventually be brought Drought under control without great loss boa of timber r. r Several fires were reported burning uncontrolled In the Klamath national forest In northern California Forty- Forty one lightning fire have occurred on the he Klamath range during the past few days |