Smoke Wave Will Leave Locale Soon

Cambridge's latest brand of "smog," caused by smoke from Canadian forest fires, is expected to remain covering the local area today.

Weathermen predict that the layer, which starts at an altitude of 10,000 feet and is itself 2,500 feet thick, will gradually thin and be forced out to sea by the same Canadian breezes which brought it here in the first place.

Source of the smoke are 100 forest fires burning in the general district of the Alaska highway in Northern British Columbia and Alberta. The pall, covering all New England, extends westward to Iowa and southward to the Carolinas.

Local weather experts denied that the smoke was an after-effect or rain-making experiments conducted by University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36, as some of the Cambridge populace apparently thought.