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...spring, but they needed more information about its nesting place, its migratory paths. In October, Jack Miner received word of his first banded goose. It had been shot by an Indian in unsurveyed territory in Hudson's Bay Co.'s district. Several years later Rev. W. G. Walton, Anglican missionary to northern Indians and Eskimos, returned to civilization for the first time in 30 years, went to Kingsville with a pocketful of jack Miner's goose tags gathered from Moose Factory, James Bay, to Baffin Land. From all tags returned the nesting place of the eastern Canadian...
Investments of life insurance companies will be $18,900,000,000 at the end of the year, said Walton Lee Crocker, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. This will be a gain of $1,418,000,000 over last year, a 100% gain over 1923. Real estate mortgage investments amount to 40.3% of the total; stocks & bonds to 37.6%, foreign and U. S. government and municipal bonds to 7%.-Railroad securities will constitute 17% of holdings, against 35% in 1906. Public utility holdings will be up 16.2% for this year, against a gain of 9.4% last...
...Luton '32 will make up the nucleus of this year's first string. The University squad which will be divided into four teams also includes six of last year's Freshmen: C.N. Bliss '33, John Drum Jr. '33, R.S. Nicholas '33, St. John Smith Jr. '33, and Walton Wetten '33. The Freshman squad of 15 men, which will be split up into five teams, has a scheduled game with Yale at New Haven on March 14 and will play other games with local teams at the Commonwealth Armory...
...Last week appeared President Hoover's first book since entering the White House. Its title: A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes. Shrewdly the Huntington Press of Manhattan had obtained the publishing rights to two of the President's old addresses-one to the Izaak Walton League of America, the other to the citizens of Virginia at Madison courthouse (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929)- and brought them out in a limited edition (990 copies) with a foreword by Hoover Administrative Assistant James French Strother. Price: $7. Theme of each speech: less time between bites...
Last week, while his lawyers scurried about in vain to get a stay of execution pending appeal, Jermyn got into his automobile, drove blithely off to Walton, N. Y. where he had racehorses running, returned in time to begin his sentence...