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PRESS NEWS OF
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forty-third year.—no. 7.
HEART or DttOE'ffftS?
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUA RY 17, 1921.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Double Probe Of Negro Burning Begun At Athen
^ONEWHITCLAD,
28 NEGROES DIE:
► PROPERTY LOSS
AUGUSTA, Feb. II. — A mother
and her child, negroes, were killed
and several small houses destroyed
by a tornado that struck near the
small town of Kdie, (Ja., 18 miles
from here, yesterday.
OCONEE, Feb. 11. _ The people
of this little village toda) began an
other search lor dead and injured
and the making of an inventory of
property loss, following yesterday’s
tornado. It was definitely estab
lished that one white person and 28
negroes were killed and a total of
forty-four persons injured
The white person was Bennie F.
Hall, aged 17 years, ^
The property loss will total at least
$1500,000. Seventy - fiv/? houses oc-!
GEORGIA WOMAN
WHOM HARDING
CALLED TO FLA.
HARDING’S O.K.
m NEW TARIFF
BOLL IS SOUGHT
Fordney Goes To St.
Augustine With New
Proposal
WASHINGTON, Fob. 17.—Cliair-
man Fordney, of the hou.se ways and
means cominiWIco, left today for St.
Augustine, Fla., to seek the approval
of President Harding to the plan to
put through at the extra session of
. tho new congress emergency tariff
| fict to provide protection for all pro
ducts of American industry.
I The measure Fordney has in mind
i would be designed as a stop-gap un-
j til n scientific tarifT law could bo
| framed in the light of after-war con-
_ ! ditiona in various countries.
W. II. Felton, of Caytersville. j
women's political \ DAUGHERTY CONFERS
Railway Motor Car
Costs Aged Man Leg
CORDELE, Fob. 17.—Joseph Ran
kin, 65 years of of Keystone,
Pa., had his left leg severely crush
ed near the ankle when a railway mo-
tor car driven by Ws son, J. W. Ran
kin, plant maintainor for the West
ern Union Tfclcgraph company, Cor-
dole division, left the tracks on tho
Seaboard railway pear Coney Tues
day. . .
M.r Rankin went out to do some
repair work between Coney and
Daphne and permitted his father to
go with him on (he; motor car at the
old gentleman’s suggestion,
ted President-elect Hard
itatiop in St. August
amp the views of Gi
gin. She's 80 years otd and is
widow of Dr. W. H. Felton, once
members of congress.
ing by
cupiod by negroes were demolished.! a lVudr*r in G
Mnny of the dead and scores of j nffnir.-. visitoi
injured, mostly negroes, arc in hoa- ’
pitals at Tennille and Sandcrville.
Relief has been sent from Atlanta
and nearby towns.
The region visited was a stretcli
of five miles and a half mile wide
from Gardner almost to Toomsboro.
Tho chief property damage was to
the plant of the Clevcland-Oconec
Lumber Co. %
A school building located on the
outskirts of this city was demolish
ed.* There were seventy-five chil
dren and three teachers in the build-
ing at the time. Only two, according A To Til-n
to reports, were seriously hurt. i ™ Ked * ° 1 ^IvC Ukia-
The majority of the houses in | noma Liank Keceiver-
Gardner faces tho Central of Gcor-! Ship
gia, Savannah division, railroad 1
tracks. In'the rear of the houses i.i A merited and appreciated honor Mr. and Mrs. Fred It. Arthur and
an open field covering many acres of | has come to N. M. Dudley, of Am-! Miss Anna McLaughlin, of Amcri-
DUDLEY IS WIRED
U. S. BANK OFFER
WITH HARDING. *
ST. AUGUSTINE, Flu., Feb. 17—
Problems of various kinds that must
bn solved before inauguration day
wore talked over today by President-
Elect Harding with Harry M. Dough-
j erty, who managed his campaign for
j the nomination and who is expected
j to nit in his cabinet .ns attqrney
! general.
j Daugherty laid before his chief aj
1 budget of information gathered dur-
I ing two weeks’ trip to New York,}
Washington and other eastern citic3. j
JACKS©
BAND!
JACKSONVILLj
Two men licligveq
be the same Who a]
the parlor of a fad
police station lad*
to death George I
contractor, and \\|
tired business mail
were arrested earj|
ing house.
, Fla., Feb. 17.—
’by the police to
pea red masked in
ily hotel near the
night, and shot
iooijrich, Atlanta
Iter Burden, a re-
>f Patchogue, 111.,
today in a room-
SENATE YATES
COltdn PROBE
CARUSO STILL
INUNFAVORABLE
CRITICAL STATE
Has Fair Chance If He
Passes Crises During
Today
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Tho con-
dition of Enrico Caruso,* famous
tenor, remains ‘‘unsatisfactory and
critical,” according to a statemeiit
issued at U:30 o’clock today by Dr.
Francis Murray, one of tho singer’s
physicians.
Caruso held his own during the
night, his physicians announced early
today. They indicated that if he
passed the crisis today he lhad a fair
chance for recovery.
Telephone calls received at Caru
so’s hotel inquiring about his condi
tion arc being received at the rate of
10 every minute. Two extra tele
phone operators hav,c been put on to
handle them.
SETH TANNER
A NEW ARRIVAL, WHO WILL
APPEAR DAILY AND SOON BE.
COME GOOD FRIENDS WITH
YOU.)
Attend Funeral Of
Relative At Albany
»und. Nineteen bodies of negro i .. * , ,
iicn, women and children wore pick-1" ’ form of a tel< * r » m
Id up in the field, practically two from T ' p * Kanc * assistant comptroll-
liundre dand fifty yards from their e * of the currency, at Washington,
demolished homes. One negro worn- asking him tf he would accept the
arm,nH 0d ( h/.h, Wr “ P r '""'I’ 1 ' 11 ' 1 * pb.ee ri receiver for the richer Na-
around tho stump of a blown down .. - Tl . . ,
tree, whiio n body of a email negro | i'Uj! '’j? 11 .’, ?£,.* "J cr ’ a
boy whs found entangled in Iho limbs .,!/ 01 Mr - Hartley hns
of a largo oak tree, fully onc-hnlfl »«thorncccptc,l nor declined* but
miles from his homo. • v. f*Pnctc.l .o make a decision during
One white youth was huried Z.' ay * .
through the air for a distance of fifty Mr ’ Uut, cy ’
feet, landing on his feet, and forced
to run for about one-quarter of
mile before he whs able to check hi
self. Ho was uninjured.
Eye witnesses, standing outside of
the storm’s path, say that bodi
could easily be seen hurtling through
the air. T-hc big lumber plant's com
missary was crushed to the ground,
crumpled up and was carried off in
sections. Bonnie F. Hall’s head was
revered from Ids body. Four white
men and four negroes in the store
were injured.
The commissary 'was one of the*
first buildings to go down. The negro
houses in the rear of this building
were the next'to go, one by one.
First the roofs can:a off, then the |
porches, the sides and Inst the floor', j
One house was lifted bodily off its
foundation and hurled through the
nir ns if it was a toy, tearing to
pieces ns it sailed along.
Ten minutes after the tornado J
wiped out the settlement a Central |
of Georgia local freight train,,run* j
ning from Savannah to Macon, arriv
— V|M ..... is liquidating
agent of the Commercial City ban,
received the offc ra day or two ago,
and immediately advised T. Jt. Ben-
ncitj the state superintendent of
banks, of tho offer, asking whether
ho could secure his release from tho
Americas institution in case he wish
ed to accent the Oklahoma offer. Mr.
Bennett advised him that the offer
war. wertthy of serious consideration,
and informed him it would he per
missible for him to accept if he so
chose.
If Mr. Dudley accepts he will be;
required to go to the Oklahoma term;
almost immediately.
cus attended tho funeral in Albany
Wednesday of S. A. Saxon, who died
there Tuesday following a stroke of
paralysis last September. Mrs. Saxon
is a sister of Mrs. Arthur, and Misses
Annie and Claude McLaugMin, of
Americu*. Mrs. Arthur remained
her eister, whiio-Mr. Ar
thur returned here last Evening.
Mr. Saxon was 45 years of age.
He was n great sufferer being almost
constantly in pain from the timo
oT his stroke, and requiring constant
attention.
li’e is survived by his wife and one
son, Albert, 12 years old; his father
ami stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Saxon, of Richland, and by two sis
ters, Mrs. Edward Cook, of Richland,
and Mrs. Edward Finkston, of Par
rott
WASHINGTON; Feb. 17.—The
Senate today adovied the resolution
of Senator Smith, W South Carolina,
providing for instigation . by the
Senate agricultural committee of the
amounts of cotton und wheat now on
hand in this countxy.
Senator Smith contended in offer
ing the resolution that conflicting
and uncertain market reports had
been made.
6,000 BALES
I BUR
ENNIS, Texas, Feb. 17—Six then-
sand bales of cotton in three ware'
houses were destroyed hy fire today
wit|i an estimated loss of $400,000;
Incendiarism ir, suspected.
Two Lard Can Stills
Found By Sheriff
Sheriff Harvey and Deputy Sum-
j ntern Wednesday visited the farm of
! Wc3 Clark, colored, in the 28th di>
_ trict, found a lard can still out in a
INcW Bar AC a Clans ! patch of woed*, a bottle of moon-
Alflft Fellnwaliira ! nhine lif iucr, and MO gallons of beer.
/*iq» renowsnip, Thpy pourcd out thc bccrf Bmm j, od
Tilings are humming in the new tho HtiI1 aa(I brought Wes and the
Bnrara clara at thc First Methodist! !i,,uor [o 1,10 city » Pitting thc liquor
church. Fifty-five members were! storage as evidence for use later,
present .it the meeting last Sunday,! placing Wes in jail* Later he
several new members having been n, ndo bind of $500, nsaersed hy Jus-
mlded to thc roll. Thc officers nndj griffin,
members are working to increasef ™ ngo thc same
Moultrie City Plant
To Cut Power Rate
MOULTRIE, Fdb. 17.—There is
to be a downward revision in the
commercial power rates from the
city plant to users in Moultrie. An
orJinanco authorizing the reduction
wan put on its first reading at the
meeting of city council Tuesday
night. It is felt certain that it will
go through without n hitch.
Thc new rate will bo a sliding one.
It will be 6 cents for thc first 500
kilowatts, 5 cents for the next 500
and 4 cents for all power in excess
of that.
Several industries that are large |
urrrs of current that have heretofore
College Committee Not
Of ‘Disciples Of Christ
President John A. "Wood, of South
eastern College, Auburn, Ca., spent
the day in Americas In* tho interest
of his school, which is a small insti
tution belonging to tho Christian
church.
While hero President Wood took
occasion to explain that there is no
connection .between tho Christian
church, or Discpiles of Christ, known
Here, and tho Chintisn church
committee from which is expected to
visit Amcricus shortly to oxnmlne
an offered site for the erection of ■
college of that denomination here.
According to President Wood, tho
committee referred to is connected
with n denomination originated by
a former Methodist minister of North
Carolina named O'Kcllcy, who re
belled at thc bishop plan of govom-
iup|j In the Methodist church
od His own,' malnUklfflHg
doctrinal features of Mothodlsm, and
using only the name of Christians.
Its ‘membership is said to be confin
ed largely to North Carolina and
Virginia.
Plain* B. Y. P. U Get*
Ready For Convention
PLAINS, Feb. 17. — On Tuesday,
February 22 thc B. Y. P. U. conven
tion of Friendship association will
be organized at Plain* Baptist
church. Plains church has p live B.
Y. P. U. and the young pcoplo are
doing all they can to mako the day
worth while to the visitors. There
will be an interesting program ren
dered by experts in this line of work,
as well as special music for tho oc
casion.
All young people and thoso inter
ested in B. Y. P. U. work are in
vited to attend this meeting
Dinner will be served at tho church.
Wo havo t* pay for ev'rything
wo git—on* some things wo don't
git. Speakln* uv th* low cost of
sugar and the high price uv candy,
a coat of chocolate covers o lot
o* cheap nuts.
MATHIS TO SEE
INAUGURATION
School Head To Attend
,On Way Home From
Convention
J. E. Mathis, superintendent of
city schools, will bo one of a party
of Southern educators going to At
lantic City next week to attend the
annual meeting of the National Edu
cational Association, and, incidental
liL.nn.his raturji.Jinmr-lin-i«ill stop
about the
oil on the scene,
Wadlcy, conductor in
cd tile bodies scattered
ground. i
The cundurtor ordered his locomo
tive detached from th.; train ami
>vitli his crew hastened to Tennille,
eleven miles away, for aid.
Coaches were commandeered from
the Wrightsvillo and Tennille Rail
road and four .lectors and forty-six
persons were obtained in tho relief
party. Thc train returned to Ocon
ns speedily as possible.
been denied thc privilege of thc com- 1 CC D n .J T-»v Fiver)
morcjnl rates, will be permitted to:"- ® ,
officers! participate in thc reduction. | . OF l_-ltlzcns Ur rloyCl
Kin- of! Ibis and expert to have n larger num-l arrested Jerry Gerson, a colored ten-, .. nil M ROME. Feb. 17.—At its regular
or "view ! her I re ent next Sunday ant 0,1 * MrH - Mary Clay s farm below! Mall KODDeiV may bi-monthly meeting tho county board
At n recent meeting of the class! D- Rol.., confiscating a lard can still I Reach Half Million of roads and revenue fixed the road
, :i resolution was unanimously passed! ncar h i» house and securing a jug; tax for the prosent year at six dol-
that the word ••.Mister” should notj of lif l u «r. He also made bond. ; TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 17.—Sheriff | la re, with the alternative of nix days'
lie n od in addressing a member of ,M - • I posses todny surrounded a number of | work on tho public roads and March
; ho class, thus promoting more inti re ..> D , j i r» | places at Point Place, six miles north j in wna named ns tho date when pay-
mate fellowship. The members arc! t-lIaVlIlB Konibai'aCd loy j of here, in search of five armed ban- moots will he due.
tiled by their given names Or Snlvafion Army Here ‘^ts. wlio early today hold -up three
In Washington to bo present at tho
inauguration of Warren G. Harding
as president of tho United States.
Prof. Mathis will join Supt. Roland
E. Brooks, of thc Albany schools,
and Supt. Roland Daniel ,of tho Co
lumbus schools, forming a small par
ty going to Atlanta to join tho larg
er Georgia party which will travel to
Uio convention city in a special car.
These three had planned to leave
next Wednesday, but they have been
advised that the Atlanta party will
Icavo' next Tuesday, and they an
now rearranging their plans.
Thc convention will bo held from
February 27 to March 3. Leaving on
tho final days of the convention,
Prof. Mathis plans to reach Washing
ton on the afternoon or evening of
that day and pay a visit to his daugh
ter, Miss Mary Mathis, who lx an
examiner in the civil service bureau,
and view thc.inauguration on March
4.
Body Preserved Over
Fifty Year* In Rum
TUSCALOOSA. Ala., Feb. 14. —
The olden days when rum was consid
ered the very perfection, of embalm-
ing fluid W9rc brought forcibly to
mind here recently with thc failin'.)
into decay of thc vault cf m.TUso
lem of Charles K. Pattcrron ant! hi*
• wife;
Patterson, a highly respected ho
proprietor, died in 1817 and his
”uvifc in 1867. Both bodies were en
closed in leaden caskets filled with
runi .md hernietically sealed before
beinpf placed into the vale*, which
was built on the top of the ground
Although the ravages of the ele
ments had obliterated the brick jvalis
of the vault the casket:; were round
to be in a perfect state of preserva
tion. v
Embalmers cay there h no doubt
that the bodies of ffcttensona re
main perfectly preserved.
The bolometer, for measuring va
riations in the radiation of heat,
register* § millionth of • degree.
nicknames. ' I L clerks of thc main postoITice and
All ybuntf men of American as! ELLAVILLE, Feb. 17.—Tho Sal-'escaped with six sacks of registered
ell ns visitors, arq invited to meetj ration Army of Amcricus bombarded mn '* valued at several thousand
ith thc clars on Sunday at 9:30| Ellavillc Tuesday evening and fired, dollars.
. m. j seme hot shit in the court house j Tho police recovered a tlolen auto
' ; Hint hit tho mark and pleased thie * used by thc bandits, but no clue to
! vast audience assembled there. Ca»-il* ,c identity of thc robbers was ob-
. . ‘ i i.: i
Unadiila Girls To
! lain Louclla Knox acted as com-i lained. Postil employees admitted
Plav Here Friflav i manrfer-in-ehlef and delivered one of; th e loss may total nearly half a mil
r ^ ! tho best lectures ever heard here. l* on dollars.
Marcus McDaniel, of Swainsboro,
Tho Amcricus High girls’ basket-1 Tho Salvation Army often visits this!
boll team will play the Unadiila High'^V* ,,n '* tholf official paper, the War! . 4 . . t
Kiris at thc Salvation Army gym here! Cry. Is eagerly .ought after. They who was conv.ctcd last October of
Friday night. Thc 'Amcricus girls I always receive a hearty’ welcome
have one of the fastest girls’ basket-; fr,m citizens who are heartily in
ball teams in South Georgia, having! sympathy with the splendid work they
d of on ted the Albany girls and tho' ure accomplishing. ^
Columbus' High girls here besides! • ^
others. For Friday they promise an
ekccllont game and urge that a largo
U. S. Conciliator Not
Returning To Alabama
Washington! Fot. 17.—e(-
Frances and Elizabeth Sheffield,} forts of the department of labor Co
centers; Julia and Minerva Allison,
guards.
crowd come out.
The line-up will be Misses Mario
Bel! and Georgia Lumpkin, forwards;
unmercifully beating his 14-year-old
daughter and sentenced to one year
in prison and was later released on
parol for good behavior, appeared
before Superior court Wednesday for
breaking h!s parole. It is alleged
that Ik* w^s not supporting his chil
dren and was cntelly treating them.
Philip Crosby, prominent Glynn
county farmer, died at thc Brunswick
Month’s Recess In Waste
Dispute Asked By Men
CHICAGO, Ecb. 17.—U-cers of
one month in the hearing^efore l,he
railroad labor board on the railroad’*
application for abrogation of nation
al wage agreement-!, wax aaked to
day hy B. M. Jewell, prcaident of
the Railway employer.’ department
of the American Federation ef La
bor. Jewell said the unions needed
until March ,14 to preparo rebuttal
evidence.
MONTGOMERY LIVE STOCK
MONTGOMERY, Aia., Feb. 17.—
Hag market: Tops. 7.75; lights,
7.00: pigs. 6.73; light pigs, 0;
roughs 5.75.
Cattle, steady! . ,
Mrs. A. J. Evans, of Fort Valley,
is spending a few days with her lis
ter, Mrs. S. R. Hays, -
ron,. n, me neparrmcn. or tarmr so h jt , Tucsd#y , rom injuries -ra- tary situation there, following
1 2j£a , t h ''“S' ccivcd when he *•“ from 8 movin * “'“break of typhus nt New
automobile Minday. among immigrant.. -
field will he abandoned for tho pres
ent with the withdrawal of Commis
sioner of Conciliation IV. C. Liller,
from Alabama, it waa itated today
by Rugh Keryin, director of concil
iation. Liller will not ha returned to
Alnbama.
Mora than 1,230,000 tona’of pota
toes were grown In Scotland hut
year, the greatest return since 1885,
EMIGRATION SUSPENDED.
TRIEST, Feb. 17.—(By Assoeiat-
cd Press).—Emigration from Cen
tral Europe to the United States has
been suspended and tho eastern
frontiers of Italy havo boon closed
pending tho cleaning up of thc aanl
the
„ York
among immigrants,
Seal Of Pants Clue To
Negro Moonshiners
OXFORD. N. C„ Feb. 17.—Tho
scat of an ordinary pair of Jeans
trousers is Ihc clue on which Gran-
vjlle county authorities arc working
in the hopo of arresting a negro
moonshiner who eluded prohibition
officers near Bethel church, five miles
from here. .
Three officers found three negroes
at 'a still. Surrounding them, one
of tha officers commanded: “Hands'
up 1 .” to which one of the negroes
replied, “We’re g’wine away from
here.’’ And they did.
Deputy Ed Lyon pursued one of
tho negroes. Entering a briar patch,
Lyon stumbled but grajibed thc ne
gro by the seat of his pants. Thc
pants gave way, leaving the, seat in
possesion of Lyon. With, this clue
tho authorities hope to capture the
negro, whoso still was destroyed.
MARKETS.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
.Good Middling 13 l-4c.
NF.W YORK FUTURES
I’c Open 11am 1pm Close
Meh 13.62 13.60 13.67 13.64 13.32
Mcy 14.12 14.15 14.10 14.14 13.R2
July 14.45 14.50 14.51 14.40 14.22
Oct. 14,86 14.90 14.87 14.88 14.58
. , ~ 7 TT , , TI:p ,ori * of 11,0 manor'
And some say Movie Admissions ton pays Iho king of KnifctSa
will increase. , yearly rent of a bowl cf.Mg
HIS INNOCENCE
DESPITE FLA?
State and County Inquiry
Of Mob*3 Action
Opened
ATHENS, Ca., Feb.
and county authorities got undei way
today an investigation into tho
ing last night of John Lee I ; ■ ; t.
a negro suspected of tho murder of
Mrs. Waiter' fc'. Ice, a young white
woman, wlio was killed in Iho yard of
her home yesterday morning.
The negro was takun from tho
Clarke county jail by a mob estimat
ed nt seven thousand,mid burned at
a slake near the «■ cue of tho nllceed
crime in Oconee county, 7 miles
nway.
Thc negro shrieked protestation^ '
of innocence to the last. ,
The method employed by the
in securing the negro front the JailS
which is said to be the most modern
in the state, established a precedent
unheard of in this state and probably
the first in tho history of tl;- . mu
A huge modern blow' torch tvns
ployed by the mob to ::!!o\v its mem
hers to gain entrance 'after Ebcril
Jackson resisted the‘tuoli to the In
It is said that members of the ir
climbed up tho elevator shaft of I
Clarke county courthouse to the 1
floor, -where tho jail is located. Then
they put thc torch In play on it, 1
which secured one of thc rear
trances to tho prison. While o
members of the mob kept the
officials lit front, the torch melted 1
big (jrn.vs, padlock and an entraneo
was effected. ' 3
Sbise Negro
Tlie name men entered the prison,
went to thc negro’s cell and
powered him. They lowered
down the clovator shaft and
their escape into tho u of
tnen KwaiUtig oulside.
With n'migllty shout the
edd“Lynch, him here, lynch him.
here,” but tho ring leaders placed tha ■
negro in nn automobile and started
off in thc direction of tho Oconee
county line. Hundreds of automo
biles fell in lino in tho rear of the
ear containing tho negro. Men by
the score ran along ot the hide of
these machines. _ v s
One hour later thc mob arrived at
tile scene of tho crime. They formed
a circle around the rlnglea;
mobile. They waited •. f minutes
until preliminary arrangements could,
he mniic and then tho negro was tak
en from the machine nnd led to a
spot in a field directly across tha.
road from where Mrs. Leo was shot*
down.
A stake was immediately dri
to tlto ground. Smul! twigs and
wood,were thrown around it i
arhnrdt was placed in the e titer,
was tied to tho stake ami the toi...
applied. Twenty minutes later the
fire died out. Tho negro's charred
body fell into its ashes.
Refutes To Confot-i
Prior to thc torch being applied
the ringleader of the mob roqu .fcd
the negro to make a confession, ite
denied having e.ny connection-
the murder. Tim mob shouted f„i
action. Tile ringlrader threw a
lighted match into the brush.
Above the crgckling of the l,.ti- n -
ing brush, tho negro pleaded that ho
was not polity mid begged to lie
spare, 1 so that ho could furnish an
alibi. His ploa went unheeded. i
Four minutes later, tho firo was
extinguished after tho man had been
half roasted. He was called on again
to make a confession. If; denied it
again. Tile torch wan again applied.
Lbcrhnrdt paid tho penalty for oro '
of the most startling nnd foul mur
ders in the history of this «.-ction.
when nt 8 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing ho is alleged to havo killed .Mrs.
t,!c slayer used'a d h-ir.
rcl FhotRun. both loads entering tho
head and thn back. yj
Resides her husband, she leaves
onn child, „ boy of cightoon non tha
old.
RESEARCH ABANDONED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. -In,me
diate abandonment of tho rose:,rcl
work of the council of National Dc
fence waa announced today.