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Rice Growers Protest Against 
- Coming of Game Warden 
Tell Food Administrator More 
Than $500,000 Worth of. 
Damage Will Be Done 
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tn1t«d State* T>ep»ty Game Warden, 
to 'WillOWli «nthartae4 to nrre*t any 
person ohootla* «»<*■ In tfcelr ?ice 
• «Are we td allow tkese 4«cki to de- 
stroy the crop, or wfU you take »ome 
action In the matter? The situation 
la .very critical^* . 
T© Have Tteenty-flve Signer*. 
DQnohoe announces the following 
already have signed the telegram and 
that a total v Of twenty-five signers 
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will be obtained this afternoon: 
<The Bee’* Speeial Service.) q l Donohoe, W. D. Egilbert, S. D 
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WILLOWS (Glenn Co.). September 
20. — Aroused by the announcement by 
the State Fish and Game Commission, 
that the biological Survey of the 
department of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C., is sendinga Federal 
Game Warden to Willows to arrest 
and - prosecute any person who vio- 
lates the Federal game law by kill- 
ing ducks before the season ppens, 
rice growers of the Willows section 
to-day drafted a telegram to be 
rushed to California Food Adminis- 
trator Ralph Merritt asking his in- 
tercession to save rice from damage 
by ducks.' _ , . 
C. L. Donohoe, attorney and rice 
grower, announces the following is 
the telegram drafted for wiring to 
Merritt: 
‘'The Government is urging farm- 
ers to produce foodstuff. The 'rfce 
growers of Glenn nnd Colnua Coun- 
ties have produced about IMW ncdei 
£ rice this season. The crop j« about 
ready to harvest. ; \ . 
“Last season % the ducks destroyed, 
conservatively, *500,000 worth of rfee 
crops. " "They are Just coming to at- 
tack the crops now. We expect the 
same trouble as last year, possibly 
worse. It is still the > closed season 
for ducks. ' ww . , 
“We are Informed that, the Federal 
Turman. Charles Jurgus, George Ellis, 
William Durbrow, T. W. Harlan, H. J. 
Barcelaux, A. H. -Quatman, L. H. Tweed 
and J. W. Pierson. - 
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