Show I MUST HAVE TROOPS IMMEDIATELY TO STOP FIRE i I PORTLAND Ore Aug 20 For Forester I ester Cecil declared that if more moro fire firelighters I lighters fighters are arc not n t on wo t IO scene within tho the next few hours It will be Just justas ns os well to let lel the tho Ore fire burn Itself out without SW attempting It ItHe Il itlie He lie says that the forestry service had drafted every ever available man In southern Oregon Into service but bul the tho four hundred and ten tenIs Is absolutely powerless to stay the pro progress progress I gress of tho the fire which now nosy has a frontage of about miles mUes Cecil tonight telegraphed to Wash Washington Washington ington urging that the forestry ser sor service serce vice ce arrange with the war department to have bavo tho the entire Oregon national guard ordered to the fire The difficulty which prevents the rending of ot the federal troops appears appear to bo be that there Is no available ap appropriation appropriation to cover coer the expenses of oC the troops President Tafts blanket order to provide troops to assist the forestry fore service apparently contemplated plated that the troops move moc on foot from froni tho the nearest post Tho The great distances between the theany theany any an possibility of marching From American Lake to for ex cx example example ample It Is about miles or from Crom three to tour four weeks march |