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Sirs: . . . Let me say that the statements concerning five million Bibles distributed in China referred to in two letters on p. 4 of your issue of July 21, 1930, contain two errors unnoticed by the the correspondents...
...whale boats interested Los Angeles last week, but tuna-fishing boats worth $250,000 were prepared for trial runs, and contracts calling for another $250,000 worth were signed. Plans were likewise drawn up for a super-tuna boat, to cost approximately $200,000. It will contain freezing compartments capable of holding 600 tons of frozen tuna; the boat will be able to cruise tropical waters for two months at a stretch...
South American jungles contain no professional animal catchers. Zoomen have to send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
...Like brigade commanders to their superior, the administrators of the twelve Prohibition districts, which correspond roughly to the Federal Court circuits, must report daily to Chief Woodcock. What they report will have been gathered by numerous assistant administrators under them-the regimental commanders of this army. Their reports will contain the doings of their regiments of Dry agents each...
...long agreed that theatres or saloons should never be allowed on their properties. Electric signs were equally taboo. They established a record in Puritanism when they held up a $1,000,000 lease until they obtained guarantees that certain first-aid kits in the projected building would not contain more than one pint of whiskey. The main tradition handed on by Brother John had been long in the family: "Buy, but never sell."' Ella Wendel is now 80. Some day there will be no Wendels either to buy or to sell...