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GOVERNOR TO NAME DE-
TENSE COUNCIL TODAY
To Rename Survey observation-disclosures
A. Furst, Judge Crner And >. A.
Williams 10 be idded--Other 1--WE
Not Yet known.

Within the next day or tWo,prob-
ably this afternoon, Governor Har-
rington will make public the names
of the 80 men who will constitute
the Maryland Council of Defense
under the act passed during cle spe-
cial session Of the Legislature.
1t can be stated positively that ne
will name as members thereon the
As men who constituted the Prepar-
edness and Survey Commission. To
that list he will add the names OF
Frank A. Furst, Judge Hammond
Urner. of Frederick, and Stevenson
4. Williams. of Hartford county. L
is somewhat uncertain who The other
two men will be- State Senator Vii
liam |. Norris may be one of then.
The addition to the membership Of
the Preparedness and Survey Com
mission of the names of MeSSrS
t'urst and Williams and Judge tr-
ner. payes the way for the appoint-
ment of an executive committee CON
sisting of the five men, who We're
spCken of at the time the anu Ad-
n,inistrationists at Annapolis stopped
their fight on the War Loan bill.
However, as the chairman OF the
council will name the executive COM
mittee, there is no guarantee = 10
whom it will include.
The legislators who were opposing
the Governor. asked the appointment
Of Cen Carl R. Gray, chairman of
the Council of Defense; Mr.. furst,
Judge Urner, Mr.. Williams ana Jas.
c Legg, who also was a member Of
the Preparedness and Surve- COM
mission, and who will be member
of the Council of Defense.
This committee, whether OF not i;
consists of the five men mentioned,
together with State Treasurer 0cn-
mis- and State Comptroller Nc Mutl1n,
VIII have control OF the expenditures
out of the $1.000,000 war loan. CCv-
ernor Harrington will have the right
to veto any of their appro priations
Twenty-Five members of the Pre-
raredness and Survey Commission
are Baltimoreans Twenty-three 9th
ers are chairmen of the respective
county committees. The county
members were added to the general
commission when it was decided to
make that organization Statewide.
1t was this commission that in
dorsed the various measures that
Richie for enactment by the Legisla-
ture during the special session. Some
of the measures were drafted at its
direction. Most of the bills went
through Among those that failed
were the constitutional amendment
relating to absent voting, the bill TO
permit State institutions TO acquire
additional land for farm purposes
and the Soldiers and Sailors Vote
bill. which was stabbed in the back
by the Baltimore city machine DEM
ocrats and the Republicans when
-theY attached to it the amendment
refused TIFF o VIII 10 BALL lot law and
Senate either awallowed the amend
ment or passed a separate repeater
bill.
The Council of Defense Will carry
on the work that was begun. and sc
Systematically carried out by the
Preparedness and Survey Commits
sion. This included various meth
DDS of improving farm labor condi-
tionS. a survey of the States man
power, or a census of the male in
habitants over l 6 years of age. and
numerous other activities.
General Gray has devoted a great
the Commission, and it was his ex-
sageplanation of the need for the
passage of the various measures on
the Commissions legislative pro-
gram, made before a joint meeting
of the Senate and House, that ended
great deal of the opposition to
some of them.