Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1927 — Page 2

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FOREST BLAZE LOSSES LIGHT THISSUMMER Fewer Fires Reported by National Service Than in Other Years. By Timet Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Barring unexpected disasters in the next few weeks, American forests this year will escape with smaller fire losses than for many a year. “In the national forests this year’s losses have been lower than any time since 1923 or possibly even since 1916, and if present conditions continue the losses are likely to be the lowest since the service was organized in 1905,” Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the United States Forest Service, said today. Col. Greeley says similar conditions have prevailed in forest areas outside the Government reserves. He attributes the low losses to a combination of late spring weather; more than the usual amount of summer rainfall; increased forces of federal and State fire rangers, and greater caution by campers and tourists. Lightning Not Halted Most of the damage this year has been caused by mid-summer lightning. In California, where some of the largest fire losses occurred last year, few fires broke out this year before the middle of July, but on July 29 more than 100 fires were set by lightning in the Klamath, Shasta, Trinity and Lassen forests. Most of them were soon extinguished. “In California we have required every party obtaining permits to visit national forests to take fire fighting tools with them. This has had a good psychological effect, we think, in causing campers to exercise more caution,” Greeley said. Reduction Is Great In Montana and Idaho, where the fire losses usually are greater than in any other Government reserve, the acreage burned up to August 20 this year was less than one per cent of the area destroyed last year. The largest losses in the West have occurred in the Columbia Forests in Southern Washington. In the South a bad spring drouth caused several fires in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina and one of the largest fires took place in Nebraska where 23,000 acres were destroyed. In 1926 the total acreage of national forests destroyed by fire was 722,000. This year’s losses will not exceed one-third this amount, Greeley believes.

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Dismissal of Murder Charge at Evansville Supports Woman’s Words. By Timet Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 13. “Leander’s murderer will never confess and so far as the Spirit informs me now, his death will remain a mystery.” Thus spoke Mrs. William Booth, a plump, plain little farm woman, nearly a year and a half ago as she studied the facts of |i pack of playing cards in the dining room of her little home north of Winslow, Ind. The date was April 33, 1926. Peace and contentment reigned there but wild excitement prevailed in the village of Winslow, two miles to the south, townspeople gathered in excited knots on every corner, business was at a standstill and a growing throng flocked to a little undertaking establishment where an autopsy was going forward over the body of Leander Roe, 9, retrieved only that day from the muddy Pa toko CRiver. Missing a Week Little Leander had vanished on Saturday, April 24, just a week before. Thomas Roe, father of the youngster, his neighbors and friends searched all that night in vain and the next day, weary and worn, sought out Mrs. Booth, whose

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