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...emergencies President Hoover has had to meet this year, another was added last week. After two years of drought, North American waterfowl were distantly threatened with extermination. The President met this emergency with a proclamation reducing the shooting season on ducks, geese, brant and coot from three months to one (see p. 51). ¶ Another White House proclamation: Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 4-10). ¶ To his Rapidan camp the President took for a week-end outing Publishers Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Warren Fairbanks of the Indianapolis News. There he left them to their own amusement...
...emergency regulation curtailed the open season for gunning duck, geese and brant to 31 days in northern States, 30 days in central and southern States. Nowhere in the U. S. may waterfowl be taken before the end of September or after the beginning of January. State authorities may shorten their seasons further if they want to. The Federal bag limits remain as before: 15 ducks, four geese (including brant) per day; not more than 30 ducks or eight geese in possession at one time. Divided to match the times of migration, the new state seasons...
Approved last week by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde but not at once published was a further revision of the Federal law on waterfowl. Last year the bag limit was reduced from 25 to 15 ducks per day, and four geese (including brant). The new revision shortens the gunning season in the North and West to ten weeks, in the southern Atlantic States to eight weeks: and further reduces the number of live goose decoys allowed to not more than ten. Cause for the change: serious drought in nesting areas, reported to have reduced this year's hatch of wildfowl...
When the U. S. duck & goose gunner takes out his fowling piece next autumn he will, if law-abiding, be going after fewer birds than ever before. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has limited his bag to four geese per day and eight in possession, including brant, of which eight formerly might be taken in addition...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. was made a director of Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. In Hartford is U. A. T.-controlled Pratt & Whitney Aircraft...