Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1937 — Page 24

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A brush fire—menace to forests . . @®

TOTAL DAMAGE RUNS $304,918

‘Hottest Fire Ever Seen in Indiana’ Burned 200 Acres a Minute.

By JOE COLLIER Smokers and campers last year started 125 forest fires in Indiana that burned 5264 acres causing loss of $73,186, the State Conservation Department reported today.

All those fires Were the result of !

carelessness, the department said. A cigaret or cigar carelessly flipped from a car speeding through a wooded section, a slight rim of glowing coals around a camp fire—they ignited the costly fires. Total forest fire damage in Indiana last year amounted to $304,918, the department said. It explained that those are minimum figures. Many weren't reported. The score last year: Cause No. Fires Acres Burned Damage

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350 306 4.361 76.795 24,205 '$304.918 The report said that 12,845 acres of productive forest was burned and 11,360 nonproductive acres.

Trees Shipped Here

This year a record number of trees were shipped from state nurseries for planting—10,000,000. Chief Forester E. P. Wilson said that it required 1000 to 1200 saplings to plant an: acre of land. Innatural state there are from 6000 to 20,000 trees on an acre, he said. Thus last year more than twice as many acres were burned than the tree shipment this year could plant. “And so it goes,” Mr. Wilson said, “It's just like raising fish in the winter and planting them in the streams in the spring for the stream pollution to kill. “Not really as hopeless as that,

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but it is alarming to know that so {much of it could be stopped if people who use and enjoy the woods

were careful not to burn them down. |-

200-Acre-a-Minute Fire

{ “One fire last year, near mac, burned 2600 acres. It was perhaps the hottest forest fire ever seen in Indiana. It went up at the rate of 200 acres a minute, and was one of the most heavily game-stocked

in the state. | “You would see pheasants come {running out of the thickets with | their tail- feathers afire, and, coni fused by the smoke, turn and run |right back into the blaze. | “After a forest is burned, even i slightly, all the litter is gone. It | takes years and years to get that litter to bed the seed that falls from the living trees. “Even if the live trees aren’t killed, their seed drops on barren soil and doesn’t germinate, except a few species.” Even with the almost continuous rains of the last few weeks, more | than 60 acres have been kurned off, with an economic loss of hundreds of dollars. There have been eight recent fires. Six:have been started from burning brush, one by a smoker, and one by unknown cause.

Law Protects Land

An Indiana law requires that a permit be secured from the custo-

03 {dian of any State-owned land be-

fore any brush, grass, or debris is burned within a half mile of it. Violators are subject to a fine, to which may be added a jail sentence, the Conservation Department pointed out. Approximately one-third the area of the United States is classed technically as “forest” acreage. Maps of the United States Forestry Service show some 300,000,000 acres in this category, of which about two-thirds lie in national forest preserves. All American forests have been abused by fire, and all are perpetually subject to fire, excepting a very few sections of permanently swampy land. When swamps dry up, they become among the worst of fire hazards. As of March 31, there had been 1068 forest fires in 1937 east of the Great Plains region. The fire season in this area begins in late winter and lasts until the country ‘greens up,” as the forest men put it. In

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Youth Borrows Lands in Jail

A joy-ride in a borrowed car led today.

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They were accused of siphoning gasoline from an automobile

parked in the 1800 block of Orleans St. The frantic mother of one of the youths, who had loaned her son

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headquarters at daybreak. She said®

she had paced the floor for 11 hours awaiting his return. “He doesn't have to steal to get what he wants. I didn't raise him that way,” she tearfully told police. The boys were charged with vagrancy and placed under $500 bond after officers arrested them in the 700 block, Pleasant Run Pkwy., West Drive. They were identified by a milk truck driver, who said he saw them stealing gasoline, according to police. Four boys, two of them 15 and the others 11, were in Juvenile Detention Home today after police said they confessed to stealing 30 automobiles. They were found in a stolen car by a motorcycle policeman last night. Two young gunmen last night

GILLETTE RITES TOMORROW (Editorial, Page 22) By United Press HARTFORD, Conn,

April 30.—

Private burial services will be held | tomorrow for Wil- | liam Gillette, actor-author, who died |

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OPERA SINGER DEAD By United Press BERLIN, April 30.—Gustav Schuetzendorf, baritone of the Metropoli-

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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937

Smokers and Campers Blamed for $73,186 Forest Fire Loss in 1936)

Which reduces the area to smoking embers.

FOURTH PRISONER IN BREAK NEAR DEATH

Curses Guards Who Balked Attempt to Escape.

By United Press MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. April 30.—Roy Altizer, 26, only survivor of four convicts who attempted to escape from West Virginia Penitentiary, lay near death in the prison hospital today, muttering curses at the men who frustrated his dash for freedom. In the morgue lay three fellow

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