Show I I FIXED FINED First arrest in a wide state crackdown on predatory animal pelt smugglers was announced Monday by J. J H H. Crofts Crafts state agricultural agricultural agricultural ag ag- ag- ag commission chairman At the same time Mr Crofts announced that bounty payments durin during 1949 on predatory animals animals animals ani ani- mals totaled less than half the amo amount nt paid bounty bounty bounty boun boun- ty hunters In 1948 The agricultural commission chief said the tho decrease was due to a decrease in the number of or predatory animals in the state He pointed out that since 1946 when bounty payments totaled the number of predatory predatory pred atory animals turned In for payment payment pay pay- ment has decreased ased steadily |