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*-*vv fc' \l V r, &- if V *i«z, ISP i- ft- s- 'A- +r% I & 1-t S* I"4 r- I it, THE PRESS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ORGANIZED LABOR THE NONPAREIL PRINTING CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS Subscription Price $1.00 per Year Payable in Advance We do not hold ourselves responsible for anj views or opinions expressed in the articles or communications of correspondents. Communications solicited from secretaries of all societies and organizations, and should be addressed to The Butler County Press, 32f Market Street, Hamilton, Ohio. The publishers reserve the right to reject any advertisements at any time. Advertising rates made known on appli cation. Whatever Is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers ehanuinu their address will please notify this office, giving old and new address to insure regular delivery of paper, Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter Issued Weekly at 32C Market Street Telephone 1296 Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown Trades and Labor Council of Middletown, O. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938. LABOR TO HELP SAVE NAZI VICTIMS The American people have been stirred to deep indignation by the per secution of the Jews and others in Germany. They have voiced indignation at the outrages and sympathy with the vic tims in unmistakable manner, as wit ness expressions by the press and radio and action taken by many kinds of organizations all over the nation. Soon they will have an opportunity to show their sympathy in a practical way. With Matthew Woll and other labor executives taking a prominent part, plans are under way to form a great national organization of Americans in all walks of life to aid victims of Eu ropean tyranny. Labor's past record in the field of humanitarian help gives assurance it will be in the lead in the movement. GEO. KAPPEL Practical all-around tailor, would like to be favored with your patronage, for Repairing, Altering, Cleaning, Press ing, Removing Wearshine and Re lining. 162 N. Street. 1787-W. Will call for. Give estimates and deliver. Ambulance Service Phone 35 '\'Y. .'^ 5 "'t "J, Always a defender of liberty and de mocracy and hater of tyranny and ab# solutism, labor can be depended upon to give aid in any just cause. And labor's aid, with the aid of every other element of the population, will be needed. The task of saving the victims of Nazism and Fascism will be a tremendous one, demanding the earnest co-operation of not only the United States but of all democracies. :o: THE CASE IN TWO NUTSHELLS "The captains of industry created mass production, but they could not build up a mass market able to absorb the production of high-powered in dustry. Therefore, our plant has never been used to capacity, and we have the spectacle of millions on starvation in comes in the midst of a possible plenty." Those two sentences from the Monthly Survey of Business of the A. F. of L. are about as perfect an in dictment of our present situation as one can expect to achieve. It is proper to add that none of the machines which have transformed industry were in vented by the captains of industry themselves. And three other sentences from the same document simply must be quoted: "We need to think of ourselves as consumers. The consumer is the key man of the power age. His buying power is the gold mine out of which resources for industrial growth must come. Eight out of every ten consum ers derive their buying power from wages or small salaries. Therefore the trade union has a responsibility as spokesman for more than three-quar ters of all consumers." A sobering as well as an inspiring statement. Let it spread. :o: SOME THOUGHTS ON WAR War does not, and can never, prove which side is right, but only which side is the stronger. No nation is wholly or chiefly composed of villainous indi viduals. All warfare is atrocious, but most "atrocity stories" are untrue. James Hilton. WHAT NEXT? An English company is developing artificial horsehair from viscose rayon staple fiber, for use in packing, up holstery and mattress filling. It is called fibro and is said to be more sanitary than the natural product. -:o:- WISDOM Edgar K. Wagner FUNERAL DIRECTOR Robert G.Taylor Mortuary Formerly THE C. W. GATH CO. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.—George Elliot. :o:——— Don't boast about having given somebody a piece of your mind it may be only a piece of your bad temper. Funeral Directors The PADDOCK Cafe BINGO—Every Chairs and Tables Rented 17 So. Street 110 N. Second St. Opp. Y. M. C. A. NOON LUNCHES 20c Sandwiches Soups Pie Bar- B- Cue Pie 18-OZ. BEER 10c Thermex Coffee Soft Drinks JIMMIE BLOUNT, Proprietor Friday MOOSE HOME 329 S. Second Street Hamilton, Ohio AT 8:45 P.M. 1* Nite THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS TRADES_COUNCIL Co-operative Trades and Labor Council met Tuesday night. President Charles Perrine presided and 42 dele gates were present. Many visitors also attended the meeting. A communication was read from Retail Clerks International Protective Association, C. C. Coulter, secretary treasurer. He states that the Mont gomery-Ward and Company has re cently taken a very antagonistic atti tude towards the labor movement. Re ceived. A communication was read from In ternational Molders' Union of Cincin nati, Ohio. Harry Stevenson, presi dent pro tem enclosed a copy which was sent to all locals of the United Association of Plumbers. The desire is to the effect that a committee be appointed tb urge them to co-operate in seeing that all soil pipe used on new buildings is made in union shops, who have agreements with molders' union. Enclosed was a list of union and non union soil pipe manufacturers. Re ceived and turned over to plumbers' union. The dan^ committee reported they have collected considerable on the ad vertising. An invitation was extended to all. An elaborate program has been arranged. Mr. DeWitt Hufman, who was in vited to address the council delegates on the unemployment compensation law, spoke and the delegates were very much interested through his entire ex planation of the Ohio law. Robert Minnick, of the National So cial Security Board, was also a visitor and was called on for a talk. This was not his first appearance before the couficil delegates. He invited good or bad criticism from any workingman. Christmas Seal Drive Starts November 25 The Butler County Tuberculosis and Health Association Christmas Seal Sale Committee will launch its drive Friday, November 25. Thousands of letters have been mailed from headquarters in the Rent schler Building and enclosed in each will be Christmas seals at one cent a seal. The committee is trying to show every person in Butler County how to prevent tuberculosis, but they cannot do so without your help. If you re ceive some of these seals by mail, the committee hopes you will buy and use all of them. Funds raised during the drive will be used in Butler County. Sidney Whitaker is chairman and W. K. Curfman, executive secretary, room 200, Rentschler Building, Phone 397. START WATER LINES Work may be started soon after January 1 on the installation of water lines in West View Subdivision, lying immediately west of Hamilton, for the benefit of about 150 families. Engineers on the project said a bond issue, in anticipation of special assess ments, will be offered without delay. These bonds will provide $9,849.79 of the cost of materials, and the Works Progress Administration is expected to provide $1,553 additional for ma terials. McGRAWS GET CONTRACT Lieutenant C. G. Calloway, construc tion quartermaster, Fort Thomas, Ky., army post, was notified by the War Dopa^fcment that the F. H. McGraw Company, Middletown, had received a contract to ere®t a triple unit barracks at the post. The new building, which will cost approximately $328,000, will house three companies of soldiers. The foundation has been completed, having been built as a Works Progress Administration project. Construction is to be begun in a few days. TAX PENALTY REDUCED Butler County taxpayers who are delinquent on their taxes due Novem ber 10 will find that the usual 10 per cent penalty during the first 30 days, ending December 10, has been reduced, John Wendel, Butler County treas urer, said. Under a state law enacted a year ago, Wendel said, only 2% per cent of the regular 10 per cent penalty will be assessed during the first 30 days, 5 per cent will be assessed during the next 30 days and 7% per cent will be assessed the next 30 days. The full 10 per cent penalty will be assessed after the 90-day period. LABORERS' UNION GROWS Santa Barbara, Cal. (AFLWNS).— Fifteen new members were added in one week to the rapidly growing roster of Santa Barbara General Laborers' Union Local No. 591, affiliated with the International Hod Carriers, Build ing and Common Laborers' Union of America. STATE OFFICES WILL CLOSE OVER WEEK-END Columbus, O.—Gov. Martin Davey announced today that state offices would close Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, until November 28 in order that all state employes could spend the holiday week-end at their homes. REMOVE 42 RELIEF CASBS Forty-two cases were removed from the Hamilton relief list last week, ac cording to the report by Miss Isabel Beardsley, commissioner of the Ham ilton Department of Public Assistance. The Hamilton total dropped to 295 families. Th£ Middletown total decreased by 10 cases to 282 but the townships added five for a total of 349. The decrease for Butler County amounted to 47 cases as the grand total fell to 926 from 973 for the previous week. Advertise in The Press. ORDINANCE NO. 3738 Providing: for the issue of bonds of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, in the sum of $62,000.00 in order to provide a fund lor the purpose of purchasing' the nec essary materials and supplies, and to purchase or rent equijiment. and to employ labor required to be furnished by the City of Hamilton, Ohio, being: for the City's part of the cost and ex pense in connection with the work re lief program under the Federal Works Progress Administration, wherein the Works Progress Administration will furnish part of the cost for construct ing storm drainage, installing catcli basins, manholes and appurtenances thereto, including the necessary work Incidental thereto, on sundry streets and alleys in the City of Hamilton, Ohio, hereinafter listed, and also for the purpose of providing a fund to pay the interest accruing on said bonds previous to the receipt of taxes from which such interest is to be ultimately paid, and also determining to proceed with the issuing of said bonds in one lot and without issuing notes in antici pation thereof. WHEREAS ihe Federal Works Prog ress Administration have approved the project providing for the improvement of streets and alleys hereinafter named in this ordinance by constructing storm draining, installing catch basins, man holes and appurtenances thereto: AND WHEREAS, this Council has re quested the Director of Finance to issue his certificate as to the estimated life of the property, assets or improvement pro posed to be constructed from proceeds of the bonds hereinafter refered to. and the Director of Finance has certified to this Council such estimated life as ex ceeding five years and has further cer tified the maximum maturity of such bonds as 25 years. THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Hamilton, Ohio: SECTION I: That it Is deemed neces sary by the Council of the City of Hamil ton. State of Ohio, to issue and sell bonds of said City in the sum of $62,000.00 in order to provide a fund for the purpose of purchasing the necessary materials and supplies, and to purchase or rent equipment and to employ the labor re quired to be furnished by the City of Hamilton, Ohio, being the City's part of the cost and expense in connection with the work relief program under the Fed eral Works Progress Administration, wherein the Works Progress Administra tion will furnish part of the cost for constructing storm drainage on the fol lowing streets and alleys in the City of Hamilton, Ohio, to-wit: Park Avenue, from Eaton Avenue to Dick Avenue, Park Avenue, from Progress Avenue to Eaton Avenue, Sherman Avenue, from Park Avenue north approximately 35 feet, Progress Avenue, from Park Avenue north approximately 50 feet, McKinley Avenue, from Hunt Avenue to Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Hunt Avenue Alley B, from McKinley Avenue to McKinley Avenue Alley, Cleveland Avenue extended from Two Mile Creek to Haldimand Avenue, Cleveland Avenue, from Haldimand Avenue to Webster Avenue, Haldimand Avenue, from Eaton Ave nue to Prytania Avenue Alley, Ridgelawn Avenue, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, E Street, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, Street, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, Progress Avenue, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, Cereal Avenue, from Street to Sher man Avenue, Webster Avenue, from Two Mile Creek to Street, Hunter Avenue, from Cereal Avenue to Warwick Avenue, Cereal Avenue, from Hunter Avenue to Street, Summer Street, from Webster Avenue to Gordon Avenue, Gordon Avenue, from Summer Street to I) Street, Warwick Avenue, from Street to Street, I) Street, from Gordon Avenue to Rhea Avenue, Rhea Avenue, from Street to E Street, Prytania Avenue, from Gray Avenue to Elvin Avenue, Cleveland Avenue, from Gray Avenue to Elvin Avenue, Gray Avenue, from Cleveland Avenue to E Street, Street Alley, from Gordon Avenue to Warwick Avenue, Woodlawn Avenue, from Crawford's Run Storm Sewer to Pleasant Avenue, Pleasant Avenue, from Woodlawn Ave nue west to Woodlawn Avenue east, Woodlawn Avenue, from Pleasant Ave nue to Madison Avenue, And various other streets and alleys, and installing catch basins, manholes arid appurtenances thereto, including the necessary work incidental thereto, and als-j for the purpose of providing a fund to pay the interest accruing on said bonds previous to the receipt of taxes from which such interest is to be ulti mately paid. SECTION II: That it is hereby deter mined to proceed with the issue of said bonds in one lot and without issuing notes in anticipation of the issuance of said bonds. SECTION III: That bonds of said City of Hamilton shall be issued in the sum of $62,000.00, which amount includes the sum of $1,500.00 for interest matur ing on said bonds previous to the receipt of taxes from which such interest is to be ultimately paid, for the purpose aforesaid. Each of said bonds shall be in the denomination determined by the Director of Finance. Said bonds shall be dated December 1, 1938, and shall be due and payable $8,000.00 on the 1st day of October, 1940, and $6,000.00 .on the 1st day of October in each of the years 1941 to 1949, both inclusive, which maturities are hereby determined to be In substan tially equal annual installments, and shall draw interest at the rate of three per cent per annum, payable April 1st and October 1st in each year upon pre sentation and surrender of interest cou pons to be attached to said bonds bear ing the facsimile signature of the Di rector of Finance. Said bonds shall be issued, executed and disposed of In accordance with the jr/r T- 5—-, ?•*».*''rovyg*? w«'s Columbus Briefs The hunting season was only several days old, but the State Conservation Division's supply of 653,000 hunting permits was exhausted Monday. The division, reporting last year's total li cense sales at 507,000, ordered an extra supply of 26,000. The State Tax Commission ruled Monday that no sales tax would be as sessed against repossessed automo biles if the original purchaser and fi nance company agree on refinancing within three days. "Approved" employers need file wage reports only when a worker be comes unemployed, instead of quar terly, under a new regulation adopted today by the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission. The com mission said this regulation would simplify reports and speed unemployed benefit payments. Legal Advertisements general laws of the State of Ohio, par ticularly the Uniform Bond Act of the General Code of Ohio. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable at the office of the Citv Treasurer of the City of Ham ilton, Ohio. Said bonds shall bear such consecutive numbers as the Director of Finance or the proper officer of the City shall determine, and said bonds shall express upon their face the purpose for which they are issued, that they are is sued in pursuance of this ordinance, and shall be signed by the City Manager and the Director of Finance and sealed with the corporate seal of said City. SECTION TV: The proceeds from the sale of said bonds, except the sum in cluded in the amount of the issue to the extent necessary to provide a fund for the payment of interest accruing on said bonds previous to the receipt of taxes, from which said interest is to he ulti mately paid, and the premium and ac crued interest thereon shall be credited to a fund for the purpose of paying the City's part of the cost and expense^ of the improvements as set forth in Sec tion I of this ordinance, and shall be dis bursed upon proper vouchers for the purposes specified herein, for which pur pose said money is hereby appropriated, and said City Manager is hereby au thorized to execute any and all contracts necessary or incidental thereto. SECTION V: That the faith, revenue and credit of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, are hereby pledged for the prompt pay ment of both principal and interest of the bonds hereinbefore described, in ac cordance with the laws and Constitution of the State of Ohio. SECTION VI: For the purposes of providing the necessary funds to pay the interest on the foregoing issue of bonds promptly when and as the same shall fall due, and also to provide a fund sufficient to discharge said bonds at ma turitv, there shall be and is hereby levied on all the taxable property in the City of Hamilton, in addition to all other taxes, a direct tax annually during the period of time said bonds are to run in an amount sufficient to provide funds to pay the interest upon said bonds as and when the same falls due, and also to pro vide a fund for the discharge of the prin cipal of said serial bonds at maturity, which taxes shall not be less than the interest and Sinking Fund tax required in Section 11, Article 12, of the Consti tution of the State of Ohio. Said tax shall be and is hereby or dered computed, certified, levied and ex tended upon the tax duplicate and col lected by the same officials in the same manner and at the same time that taxes for general purposes of each of said years are certified, extended and col lected. Said tax shall be placed before and in preference to all other items and for the full amount thereof. The funds derived from said tax levies hereby re quired shall be placed in a separate and distinct fund, which, together with the interest collected on the same, shall be irrevocably pledged for the payment of principal and interest on said bonds when and as the same fall due. SECTION VII: These bonds shall be subject to call or redemption prior to maturity at not more than par and ac crued interest. SECTION VIII: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the earliest period al lowed by the charter of the City of Ham ilton, Ohio. Passed: November 21, 1938. R. H. BURKE, Mayor. Attest: ADELE EDMONDS, Clerk of Council. Nov. 25—It ORDINANCE NO. 3739 Determining to proceed with the con struction of storm drainage on Park Avenue, from Eaton Avenue to Dick Avenue, and various other streets in the City of Hamilton, Ohio, and in stalling catch basins, manholes and appurtenances thereto, Including the necessary work Incidental thereto WHEREAS, the Federal Works Prog ress Administration have approved project providing for the construction of storm drainage on streets named in Sec tion I of this ordinance, and installing catch basins, manholes and appurte nances thereto, including the necessary work incidental thereto. THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Hamilton, Ohio: SECTION I: That it is hereby deter mined to proceed with the construction of storm drainage on Park Avenue, from Eaton Avenue to Dick Avenue, Park Avenue, from Progress Avenue to Eaton Avenue, Sherman Avenue, from Park Avenue north approximately 35 feet. Progress Avenue, from Park Avenue north approximately 50 feet, McKinley Avenue, from Hunt Avenue to Baltimore & Ohio R. R,, Hunt Avenue Alley ,from McKinley Avenue to McKinley Avenue Alley, Cleveland Avenue extended from Two Mile Creek to Haldimand Avenue, Cleveland Avenue, from Haldimand Avenue to Webster Avenue, Haldimand Avenue, from Eaton Ave nue to Prytania Avenue Alley, Ridgelawn Avenue, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, E Street, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, Street, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, Progress Avenue, from Haldimand Avenue to Cereal Avenue, Cereal Avenue, from Street to Sher man Avenue, Webster Avenue, from Two Mile Creek to Street, Hunter Avenue, from Cereal Avenue to Warwick Avenue, Cereal Avenue, from Hunter Avenue to Street, Summer Street, from Webster Avenue to Gordon Avenue, Gordon Avenue, from Summer Street to I) Street, Warwick Avenue, from Street to Street, Street, from Gordon Avenue to Rhea Avenue, Rhea Avenue, from Street to E Street, Prytania Avenue, from Gray Avenue to Elvin Avenue, Cleveland Avenue, to Elvin Avenue, from Gray Avenue w i*r ^r v^ Work To Begin On Municipal Light Plant Middletown, O.—Ground for Mid dletown's $2,500,000 municipal light and power plant will be broken by De cember 20. This statement was made by F. H. Froelich of Froelich and Emery, To ledo, engineers, who made the prelim inary survey and drew the plans for the project. Froelich said the way was paved for advertising bids and awarding the first contract by that date. The work must be begun before January 1 if the city is to share in Public Works Administration funds. RED CROSS GOAL The annual roll call of the American Red Cross ended on Thanksgiving Day. The roll call of the Hamilton chapter has been enthusiastically conducted this year, with the result that the membership goal of 6,000 will prob ably be reached. Gray Avenue, from Cleveland Avenue to E Street, Street Alley, from Gordon Avenue to Warwick Avenue, Woodlawn Avenue, from Crawford's Run Storm Sewer to Pleasant Avenue, Pleasant Avenue, from Woodlawn Ave nue west to Woodlawn Avenue east, Woodlawn Avenue, from Pleasant Ave nue to Madison Avenue, And various other streets and alleys, and installing catch basins, manholes and appurtenances thereto, in accordance with the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles now on file in the office of the Director of Public Works, and which are hereby approved and adopted said improvements to be made in connection with the work relief program under the Federal Works Progress Administration. SECTION II: That the cost and ex pense thereof, less the cost borne by the Federal Works Progress Administration, shall be borne by the City of Hamilton, Ohio. SECTION III: That the City Manager be and he is hereby authorized and di rected to purchase in the manner pro vided by ordinance and the charter of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, the City's portion of the materials and supplies, and to purchase or rent equipment nec essary therefor, and to employ labor re quired to be furnished by the City of Hamilton. Ohio, as its portion of the costs and expense in v ORDINANCE NO. 3741 To borrow money by issuing note or notes in anticipation of the Issuance of bonds to be issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments to pay the cost and expense of the con struction of sanitary sewers, honss connections, manholes, etc., where nec essary on Bessie Avenue, from Street to Street, in the First Ward of the City of Hamilton, Ohio. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Hamilton, Ohio: SECTION I: That it is deemed neces sary to borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of bonds to be issued in an ticipation of the collection of special as sessments to pay the cost and expense of the construction of sanitary sewers, house connections, manholes, etc., where necessary on Bessie Avenue, from Street to Street, in the First Ward of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, as provided in Section 2293-24 of the General Code, in the sum of $1,124.00, the estimated amount of said assessment. SECTION IT: That the City Manager and the Director of Finance of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, shall issue note or notes for the above amount. Said note or notes shall bear interest at the rate not to exceed six per cent per annum, and shall be dated as of date of the is suance, and said note or notes shall be due and payable on or before two years from the date thereof. Said note or notes shall express upon their face the purpose for which they were issued, that they were issued in pursuance to this ordi nance and in accordance with Section 2293-24 of the General Code of Ohio, and shall be signed by the City Manager and the Director of Finance of Hamilton, Ohio, and sealed with the corporate seal of said city. SECTION III: That the faith, revenue and credit of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, are pledged to the prompt payment of said notes hereinabove described in ac cordance with the laws and Constitution of the State of Ohio in the event that assessments are not levied or bonds are not issued to provide a fund for the pay ment of such notes at maturity, that there shall be and is hereby levied upon all of the taxable property in the City of Hamilton, Ohio, in addition to all other taxes, a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest and to create a sinking? fund to redeem at maturity the above provided for notes, which tax shall not be less than the Interest and sinking fund tax required by Section 11 of Article ]2 of the Constitution. Provided, however, that in each year that the assessments anticipated by said notes are payable and are applicable to the payment of such interest and principal and are appropri ated for such purpose, the amount of such tax shall be reduced by the amount of the assessment so appropriated, The amount of said tax to be computed by the taxing authorities and to be certified to the proper officers, und the same shall be levied and collected as other taxes are levied and collected. Said tax shall he placed before and in preference to all other items for the full amount thereof, and all funds derived from said levies hereby required, shall be placed in a sep arate and distinct fund, which, together with all interest collected on the same shall be irrevocably pledged for the pay. ment of the interest and principal of said notes when and as the same fall due. SECTION IV: That the proceeds aj'is» ing from the sale of said notes shall be placed to the credit of the fund for the payment of said improvement and all un* expended balances remaining in sa|J fund after the cost and expense of the improvement have been paid and the proceeds of all bonds sold in anticipation of the collection of deferred installments of assessments and all cash payments of assessments shall be applied to the pay ment of said note or notes and interest thereon until both are fully provided for, SECTION V: That the Director of Fi nance be and he is hereby authorized to issue his warrant to the Treasurer Jn payment for the cost of paid improve* ment. SECTION VI: This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from an4 after the earliest period allowed by tha charter of the City of Hamilton, Ohio. Passed: November 21, 1938. R. H. BURKE, Mayor. Attest: ADELE EDMONDS, Clerk of Council, 1 Nov, 26—It •4 connection with said improvement. SECTION IV: That the money neces sary for such purpose be and the same is hereby appropriated from the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued or to be is sued for such purpose. SECTION V: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the earliest period allowed by the charter of the City of Hamilton, Ohio. Passed: November 21, 1938. R. H. BURKE, Mayor. Attest: ADELE EDMONDS, Clerk of Council. Nov. 25—-It i