In Jefferson City, Mo., Harry Bartow Hawes, U. S. Senator from Missouri, told the Democratic state convention this week that he was going to retire from politics to become president of the More Game Birds for America Commission, a new foundation sponsored by Joseph Palmer Knapp, chairman of the finance committee of Crowell Publishing Co. and Thomas William Lamont, banker. Joseph Knapp, although he was once arrested for shooting too many ducks on his island in North Carolina, has long regretted the fact that U. S. birds are disappearing. Last spring, Mr. Knapp...
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