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...have extinguished the wild duck population if they had eaten duck for a fortnight. But ducks had already begun to decrease and it was in that year the Bureau of Biological Survey was created to study U. S. wild life. As the Bureau grew bigger, the U. S. game bird population grew smaller...
Until last week the Bureau's 7,500,000-acre program was largely a hope in the heart of Mr. Gabrielson and fellow duck shooters. One sure source of income was from the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of 1934. In its first two years that brought about $1,000,000. Then, after much dallying. Congress unanimously passed the Pittman-Robertson Federal-Aid-to-Wildlife Bill to appropriate to the various States the 10% excise tax on sporting arms and ammunitions. It assured the program an annual $3,000,000 as a friendly President signed it at Hyde Park...
...were caught unawares, blown to bits. The attacking airmen, obviously ordered to destroy the station, showed marksmanship almost as bad as that of the Chinese who bombed Shanghai the week before. Most of the bombs fell several blocks away on citizens jampacked in the section of Nantao containing the Bird Market, Willow Pattern Teahouse, other tourist haunts. At least 400 people, including 15 children under two years, were killed...
...rest of the postal union. *Besides the standard, pre-Revolution red-barred yellow flag of Spain and the flags of sympathetic Germany, Italy and Portugal, hotel? and public squares in Rightist Spain punctiliously display, to the astonishment of most patrons, the blue and white banner with the parrotlike bird of Guatemala...
Died. Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, 69, head of the English branch* of the potent European Jewish banking family; at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England. Baron Rothschild eschewed banking, but became one of the world's greatest naturalists. In 1932, financially embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge...