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Show State Ciacks Down on Pelt Smuggleis First arrest in a state-wide crackdown on predatory animal pelt smugglers was announced Monday by J. H. Crofts, state agricultural commission chair-man. chair-man. At the same time, Mr. Crofts announced that bounty payments during 1949 on predatory animals totaled $26,970.00, less than half the amount paid bounty hunters in 1948. The agricultural commission chief said the decrease was due to a decrease in the number of predatory animals in the state. He pointed out that since 1946 when bounty payments totaled $121,000.00, the number of predatory preda-tory animals turned In for payment pay-ment has decreased steadily. |