Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1936, Page 5

- WYOMING SWEPT BY FOREST FIRES 2,000 Men Battle Three Blazes in Northeast Part of State. By the Associated Press. NEWCASTLE, Wyo., July 9—Two thousand men battled three disastrous fres today ip “gunpowder dry” forests of Northeast Wyoming. Two of the blazes were under con- trol, but the third raged unchecked within one-half mile of the mountain town of Sundance, in the heart of the Bear Lodge Mountains. The fire started near the town, which has a population of 400, and ,only a lucky shift in wind kept the Bames from sweeping toward it. The town, however, was threatened with a serious water shortage. Sup- plying water to more than 50 neigh- boring ranches and approximately 1,000 men fighting the forest fire at| its edge, Sundance found itself today | without sufficient water for domestic needs. Ranch Houses Destroyed. An undetermined number of ranch | houses in the forest near Sundance | were reported to have been destroyed and several families in the path of the flames were forced to flee. Val B. McGhee, W. P. A. field repre- sentative in charge of the fire-fighting crews, said other fires on Plum Creek, in Weston County, and on Stockade Creek, near the Custer National Forest, were under control, but might burn | for weeks. | He estimated 8,000 acres of valuable | timber and grazing land had been burned. “The forests are as dry as gun- powder and fire in them spreads as if they were soaked in gasoline.” Mc- Ghee said. “The situation is critical than at any time for years.” Grazing Land Needed. The condition created by the fires, he said, “was extremely serious, be-| cause the grazing land was needed by live stock suffering from drought on adjacent plains land.” All three fires were started July 4. The one on Plum Creek started from lightning, McGhee said, and ran through the treetops for a distance of . more | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dust Storms and Floods: Earth’s Major Enemies The Story of the Complete Devastation of 50,000,000 Acres of Arable Land, the Damage to 250,000,000 More and What Is Being Done About It. . A duststorm from the air. 30 miles south of Denver. Note: This fs the third in a series of | Six articles describing duststorms an floods and what they mean to America. BY CHARLES NORMAN, Associated Press Stafl Writer. E “dust bowl” is a martyr, the | | sentiments of its people sacri- | ficed temporarily in the in- terests of America's future well-being. | Having their farms and towns| lumped together as part of a “dust 10 miles within six hours. *““The flames | roared through the green trees as though they were paper.’ Some of the fire crews were taken | off the Plum Creek and Stockade | Creek flames today and sent to Sun- dance. A force of 450 men continued to battle a stubborn four-day blaze in the Big Horn Mountains, near the Wyoming-Montana boundary. Ap- proximately 3,000 acres of timber and grass lands have been destroyed by this fire. In Montana all the fires apparently had been stamped out or had been | brought under control. Drought (Continued ] From | erst Page.\ but they promised a day’s respite from Yesterday’s high temperatures. | J. B. Hutson, acting A. A. A ad- ministrator, estimated 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 persons were directely af- fected by the drought. | Damage Estimates Rise. | ‘The havoc already wrought in the | Nation's agricultural sections had been | estimated at $3,000,000,000. But this was regarded by observers as an| underestimate when C. A. Russell,| there and in North Dakota and in | national sovereignty and prestige and secretary of Agriculture for South|Ppart of neighboring Montana in the | was supported by Soviet Russia and Dakota, set crop losses in his State| alone at $140,000,000. The damage to ‘Wyoming dry land crops was placed | at $5,000,000. No new authoritative approximations were forthcoming «from other States visited by greater or lesser devastation, But reports of ruined pastures, bar- | ren flelds, insect infestations and prospects of half a normal harvest or none at all came from the drought districts. “Every day from now on, with tem- peratures of 100, means irreparabl injury for Iowa's great corn crop,” | said Meteorologist C. D. Reed. . Gov. Elmer Holt declared “the pres- ent drought is the worst in Montana’s | history” at a conference on the crisis at Havre. The consensus there was that only a long-time water conserva- tion program could save the agricul- tural eastern part of the State from financial ruin. Pasture Lands Hit. Up in the important dairy State of ‘Wisconsin the Department of Markets measured the waste of pasture land in millions. ‘Tennessee officials pronounced the situation “distressing.” They feared ! corn production might be halved and | +tobacco yield cut one-third. | “Worse daily” was the gist of com- ment by Illinois and Minnesota au- thorities. York -County, S. C., commissioners | said a normal crop was impossible despite any change in weather, B. R. Laskowsi, meteorologist, made this report at Aberdeen, S. Dak.: “The only harvesting of grains in the State will be in the extreme| southeastern border counties. Most of the potato and truck crops are beyond recovery. Range and pasture grasses are burned brown. Stock is . being moved out as fast as possible. * Little or no moisture occurred from the fourth week in succession.” From Hosmer, S. Dak., came news of “hoppers and beetles chopping off corn at the ground.” Many farmers cut grain for hay. Nebraska Asks Aid. Gov. R. L. Cochran of Nebraska appealed for Government assistance » in combatting the inroads of insects and drought. Prayers for an end of the crisis were offered by Catholics of that State. Agricultural agents of five south central counties ex- pressed fear grasshoppers would strip flelds. The worst forest fire in five years raged in the Big Horn Mountain area near the Wyoming-Montana border. A number of ranch homes were re- ported razed. Thousands of men were ANNOUNGING!! New Summer Rates ROOMS s Beginning at. FULL HOTEL SERVICE INSPECTION INVITED New Golonial Holel 15th & M Sts. N.W. |area as a laboratory | ing $9.700,000 as Federal bowl” does not set well with the people | of Southeastern Colorado, Northeast- ern New Mexico, Western Kansas, | Texas. That is easy to understand. | Yet science can and does use this in which the causes of duststorms can be ascer- tained, and in which remedial and preventive measures can be perfected Its farmers, co-operating with the hurled into the fight to head off the | flames in the tinder-dry woodlands there and in South Dakota. Adjt. Gen. Frayne Baker was or- dered to take “such steps as may be necessary” to provide relief for strick- en farm families in North Dakota. Gov. Walter Welford declared: “There shall be no loss of life of live stock or humans.” A new elemental assault yesterday | { and last night proved both bane and ! Windstorm Hits Ohio. A twisting windstorm struck South- | western Ohio. Hail beat crops to the | ground. Buildings were wrecked, trees | uprooted and communication lines toppled. | Torrential downpours — measuring almost two inches at Eflinghlm—: brought temporary relief to scattered | sections of downstate Illinois. Light- ning fired barns and killed live stock. But temperatures dropped sharply | wake of rain. The first precipitation | in six weeks soeked the parched ground. Laughing crowds gathered in the streets at Lusk, Wyo, in an! impromptu celebration. Planning board representatives of the Dakotas and Minnesota urged emergency work relief projects total- officials | ordered “red tape” slashed on the assistance program already undar way | in five Northwest States. Employment of 55000 resourceless farmers was pressed. Counties Added to Rolls. { More than 170 counties were | added to the 97 designated “drought | emergency counties.” Government ald will be concentrated upon them. Counties in Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia were placed on the list along with new ones in the Dakotas, Montana and Wyo- ming. At Green Mountain Falls, Colo., Secretary of Agriculture Wallace ad- vocated a long-time development pro- zram for the Northwest drought States to “meet the eventual needs of the | people and cost the Government less money.” He also suggested a crop insurance plan and disclosed it “may be neces- | sary to purchase as much as $30,000,- 000 of drought cattle.” Live stock prices sank as distressed | animals were shipped to markets by | the trainload. HITT ON VACATION Judge Mattingly Relieving Him’ in Police Court. Judge Robert E. Mattingly of Mu- | nicipal Court today began a 30-day period on the bench in the D. C. branch | of Police Court, relieving Judge Isaac | R. Hitt, who began a 30-day vacation | on his farm in Virginia. Judge Mattingly, who has been the | substitute judge in Police Court for several years, has been off the bench for more than a month, suffering from a broken foot received when he fell on the gangplank of a Potomac River steamer while disembarking from an outing of a veterans organization. | their plight, or he who packs up and The photographer was flying at an altitude of 12,000 feet when he caught this view of a duststorm Government in vast experiments, are modern pioneers. In return, it is be- ing shown how to hold its soil down. The men of the Southwest wear big hats, farm big farms—a thousand acres is an average in the Texas Pan- handle. The love of their land is in their speech. Only Traitors Fear. Traitorous is he who exaggerates slips away, or the “suit-case farmer” who came for a quick crop, quick profit, and couldn't “take it.” But the story of the “dust bowl” is important to every section of America, | Western Oklahoma and Northwestern |because it is the story of wind erosion. | And the “dust bowl” on wind erosion. What happened to the high, green plains of the Southwest that once could swallow an army and show not | a mark on its thick carpet to indicate a host had passed through? has no monopoly | DEADLOCK REACHED OVER DARDANELLES| Turkey Opposes Straits Unit Re- taining Present Au- thority. By tne Associated Press MONTREUX, Switzerland, July 9— | A new deadlock developed today in| the Dardanelles conference over a British proposal to have the Straits Control Commission retain its present authority. Turkey, which has asked that the commission be abolished and that she have the rikht to fortify the straits, insisted the commission was unneces- sary and unjustified. ‘The Turkish delegation said the commission was offensive to Turkey's | Rumania. Japen, no longer a member of the League of Nations, filed reservations against a clause in the proposed con- | vention which would authorize Tur- key to close the straits unless the League Council, by a two-thirds vote, decided such an act unjustified. It was understood, Turkey also in- tended to ask that commercial air- planes be prohibited from flying over military zones along the Dardanelles. | Sollth Cnralma Strike Settled. COLUMBIA, S. C, July 9 (P).— State Labor Commissioner John W. Nates announced yesterday a “strike and lockout” at the Mollohon Mill at | Newberry had beeh settled “satisfac- torily to all concerned.” He said an agreement was reached at a sevem-hour conference of repre- sentatives of the mill management and the local union with him and Henry Baker, jr., conciliator for the United | States Department of Labor. Rid your system of Excess Acid by following the health resort method at | omg o I‘nk Mountain Valley M‘fl!{ll. Water. direct from famous Hot Springs. | R at ro secure natural relie for iri: tated muscles. nerves and joints. Phone for booklet. Valley Mineral Water 105 K St. . We fumigate all furs bflm we place them in our moth-proof storage vault by & modern process. Cost Per Season Fur Coats, $50.00 Value __$1.50 F:: C::h. $100.00 Value $2.00 for valuations over $100.00 add 50¢ for each additional $50.00 valuation. 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There the { buffalo, starting northward in the | Spring, grazed each section in turn, yet left root and seed to the miracle of reproduction, After the Spaniards in the South- west came the settlers on the Eastern | seaboard, the Revolution, the steady Westward march of the pioneers, the influx of homesteaders who staked out their plots on the public domain. Sheep Caused Damage. Cattlemen and sheepmen drove their herds and flocks into the grassy plains of the Southwest. Where cattle grazed, something remained; where sheep cropped, cattle could not follow and live. Into Western Kansas, Nebraska, Eastern Colorado they moved; to the red desert country of Wyoming, up across Montana, the two Dakotas, clear to the Canadian border. Had not Gen. Luther P. 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