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Show PROTEST I UTTTNG im ;i 1 ( MORI HUD (Bj International News Service.) WASHINGTON. Dee. 26 The American Forestry association today called upon the people of Gibson 'county, 111., to file with the association protests against cutting clown a giant sycamore treo near Mt. Carmel, ill. .The association has been asked both by Richard Lleber of tho department of conservation of Indiana, .and Dr. Roberts, Rldgway, an ornithologist of Olncy, III., to take up the fight of tho citizens of tho two states to save the troe. It Is on the ground surveyed for a levee along the Wabash river, but there Is no need of destroying this tree. the association says. The tree is tho last of twelve giants that wore all With In a half mllo of each other at one time. This tre Is about 150 H feet high and has a circumference of about twenty-five feet- 00 . saaal |