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When 33 U. S. sportsmen banded last year to help Government and private conservation agencies protect and restore the nation's wild life, they chose Walter P. Chrysler as first chairman of their American Wild Life Institute. Motorman Chrysler, whose favorite fun is shooting wildfowl on his Great Choptank River estate in eastern Maryland, showed himself a good friend of conservation by serving as an Institute director until last spring, contributing substantial sums to its treasury...
...BISHOP'S BIRDS -Richard E. Bishop J. B. Lippincott ($15). Everyone who shoots wildfowl legally this year will carry in his gunning coat an etching by Artist Bishop-the three wild geese on the Federal "duck stamp," without which no State hunting license is complete. A tiny fraction of this public will drink their after-shooting toddies out of glasses expensively decorated by Bishop's enamel bird silhouets. In this book are found reproductions of 73 of Artist Bishop's best etchings...
Bought by the U. S. Biological Survey for a wildfowl refuge were 40,000 acres at the Mississippi's mouth, onetime hunting preserve of the late Joseph Leiter. There the Chicago wheat speculator's yacht Emmie sank, there his remaining eye was injured in a duckblind, there his Son Joseph Jr. was killed in a hunting accident and there he caught the cold which went into pneumonia and ended his life...
...light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan relics...
Depression. Last year's kill was estimated at one-third of normal. Naturalist Van Campen Heilner figured the cost of the shortened season at $60,000,000. Wildfowl shooting normally is a $100,000,000-a-year industry, the money going for guides, guns, shells, food, clothing, transportation, grain, etc., etc.?about $50 from each of two million shooters. Furthermore, millions of dollars are spent on preserves: near Sandusky, Ohio $3,000,000 was spent for dikes alone; at Currituck Sound, N. C., Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph Palmer Knapp (American Lithographic...