AIRPLANES TO
LOOK OUT FOR
FOREST FIRES
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (by As
sociated Press).—United States army
aviators will put their practice work
to practical and valuable use by co
operating ■ with the United States for
estry service in the protection of na
tional forest areas from fire. There is
scarcely a phrase of army aeronautics
that cannot be utilized in the preven
tion or fighting of forest fires. Air
planes can circle the forests as pa
trols. sausage balloons may be located
as lookouts and accurate maps and
photographs of hertofore inaccessible
places can be made which will be
invaluable to the forest service.
In the matter of fighting fires, large
airplanes will be able quickly to
get fighters to remote points which
heretofore have taken hours to reach
so that the battle may be waged be
fore the fires have gained heavy head
way. Bombs containing gases which
will put out fires can be dropped by
the fliers while the observers can
keep the fire fighters informed as to
the trend and the direction of the
flames and advise them as to the best
disposition of their forces.
Details have been perfected for the
regular patrolling of the Angeles na
tional forest in Southern California
beginning June 1. Officers of the
army balloon school at Arcadia and
March field near Riverside have map
ped out the scheme which is believed
to be the first time in the history of
aeronautics that the plan has been
tried. Methods of patrolling, observa
tion, giving fire warnings and other
particulars are set forth in the order
which follows:
“An observation balloon will be sta
tioned at an elevation of about 3,000
feet at the balloon school field near
Arcadia. This observer will be on
duty from 7 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. each
day. He will be furnished with a map
of the front of the Angeles national
forest from La Canada to San Dimas
canyon and can probably give ade
quate lookout service as far north as
the crest of the San Gabriel water
shed. The student detachment learn
ing observation now stationed at Mt.
Wilson will also render lookout serv
ice. Reports of fires from both the
balloon observer and the Mt. Wilson
detachment will come in by phone and
the balloon school at Arcadia and will
Los Angeles who will call upon the
be transmitted to the forest service at
appropriate unit of the suppressing
forces, in addition to lookout serv
ice will be vailable at all times, a
one and a half ton truck at Arcadia
equipped with a fifty gallon tank of
water, shovels, canteens, axes and
fire extinguishers. This truck, to
gether with ten enlisted men will be
come a unit of the suppression force
subject to the call of the forest
service.
“Two routes of airplane patrol have
been laid out starting and ending at
March Field, twelve miles southeast
of Riverside. Route No. 1 covers a
circle touching on its west, the east
edge of the area covered by the ob
servation balloon and zigzaging east,
in and out of the mountains to the
mouth of Mill creek, thence back to
the base. Route No. 2 starts from
March field and circles east over
Beaumont and Banning covering the
south slope of the Angeles front near
the head of Mill creek, then returning
south along the southwest slope of
the San Jacinto mountains covering
the headwaters of the San Jacinto
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thence back to the base at March
field. In each route, two planes will
operate. One starting at ten a. m.
and the other at one p. m., thence
covering the route twice a day. Each
of these patrol routes are about one
hundred miles in length.
“These planes are not equipped
with wireless telephone apparatus of
such a nature that the messages can
be communcated to the ground at any
point except at high expensive ground
installations therefore reporting of
fires discovered will be:
“1. By parachute message dropped
over a town, the finder to phone them
in to the forest service.
“2. By special landings made to re
port, for which we propose to install
one or two additional phone box re
porting stations, and
"3. By returning to the base and
reporting from March field direct to
the supervisor.
“Fires will be located and reported
by squares drawn on duplicate maps,
one to be in the possession of each
airplane observer and the other in the
forest supervisor’s office.”
It is expected that similar service
will be Installed lm>ther sections of
the state as soon as arrangements can
be pertected.
BUNNELL CONFIRMED
IN TOLOVANA CASES
The San Francisco circuit court of
appeals has confirmed the decisions
made by Judge Bunnell in the cases
entitled O’Connor vs. Cascaden and
Bell vs. Cascaden, involving some
mining deals.
In the first case, it was decided that
Cascaden must pay Pat O’Connor the
sum of $9,524.15, with interest at 8
per cent per annum as from April 17,
1918. Cascaden was also required to
deed to O’Connor a half interest in
the Gold Dollar association claim on
Livengood.
In the second case, Albert Bell was
awarded $4,000, with interest at 8
per cent per annum as from October
6, 1916.
FAIRBANKSAN M*UST SERVE
TIME FOR PERJURY
The San Francisco circuit court of
appeals has affirmed the finding and
sentence of Judge Bunnell in the case
of G. A. Vedin of Fairbanks.
Vedin was charged with filing false
affidavits of assessment work. He was
tried on three separate counts and
was found guilty on all three, sentence
of one year and one day being impos
ed on each count; the full term of
three years and three days to be serv
ed at McNeils island.
Fairbanks advices state that Vedin
will not be sent to the penitentiary
for some little time to come.
CARLISLE CO. W*ILL
OPERATE AT ANDREAFSKY
It was definitely announced yester
day that the Carlisle Packing Com
pany would continue operations at
Andreafsky this year, the statement
being made by Nels Hawkinson, the
representative of the company who
will have charge of the plant this
year. Mr. I. N. Stensland the former
manager is ill and will remain on the
Outside.
Mr. Hawkinson stated yesterday
that- the company operated at a loss
last year owing to the late start which
the plant secured and the late run of
fish caused by the backward spring
season.
The operating force will number in
the neighborhood of 200 employes,
110 of which are now on the way from
Seattle. The company looks forward
to a successful year and will probably
give some more of the interiorites em
ployment.—Fairbanks Citize.
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How the Selective Draft Proved an Impos
sible Task Easily Possible
By GEN. E. H. CROWDER. Provo* Martha) General, U. S. A.
We are now too close to the events of the war to
assess them accurately. How great a part the Ameri
can selective service played in the drama of the world
war history alone can tell.
That a new and untried scheme of selection could
succeed at all was to many doubtful; that it should
attain results beyond the fondest dreams of its most
ardent supporters was unbelievable. To enroll for serv
ice 24,000,000 men, to mobilize a selected army of more
than 2,800,000, a million of them in ninety days; to
have presently available for military duty 2,000,000
additional men; to classify this vast man power in the order of its mili
tary and industrial importance so as to preserve the domestic and indus
trial life of the nation, to speed up war-time activities, to maintain them
in a state of maximum efficient production, and to pave the way to a
speedy return to normal peace-time pursuits while recruiting the full fight
ing strength of the nation—these are results that would be instantly
rejected as impossible did not the actual facts stand.
Truly were we the melting pot of the world; and the cosmopolitan
composition of our population was never more strikingly disclosed than
by the recent events of the world war. Then the melting pot stood in the
fierce fires of the national emergency, and its contents, heated in the
flames, either fused into the compact mass or floated off as dross.
The great and inspiring revelation here has been that men of foreign
and of native origin alike responded to the call to arms with a patriotic
devotion that confounded the cynical plans of our archenemy and sur
passed our own highest expectations. No man can peruse the muster roll
of one of our camp3, or the casualty list from a battlefield in France,
without realizing that America has fulfilled one of its highest missions
in breeding a spirit of common loyalty among all those who have shared
the blessings of life on its free soil.
I am certain that no great national undertaking was ever begun
which depended so utterly upon faith in a people for its execution, and
undoubtedly no faith has ever been more completely justified and no con
fidence more abundantly rewarded.
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