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Show CARRIER PIGEONS IMPORTANT IN COMMUNICATION It is quite probable that most Americans do not know that the army signal corps maintains a pigeon communications division, but, just the same, it has developed develop-ed an important defense against blitzkreig tactics which attempt to paralyze armed forces by destroying destroy-ing all communication systems. Crack signal corps pigeon experts ex-perts have accomplished the successful suc-cessful development of carrier pigeons pi-geons which will streak through the air at a mile-a-minute rate to carry a message, then make an immediate im-mediate return trip to the original sender. Usually carrier pigeons have to be transported from their loft in order that they will take messages back but the newly developed pi-gons pi-gons will fly to a front-line division, di-vision, enter a small cage and when released with a reply, fly back to the original sender. This is considered important because be-cause in the melee of combat, communication is vitally necessary and the enemy may jam all radio dispatches. The new pigeons will fly from the commander's headquarters head-quarters to a particular unit, and return, carrying messages both ways. How London's show girls really dress on nothing a week. Mr. Arthur Ar-thur "Bugs" Baer, witty commentator, commen-tator, bemoans the fact that they only have 60 clothes ration coupons cou-pons a year but cheers perceptibly when he sees alluring photographs of how they manage to cling to glamour by making the most of a few beads, feathers and mosquito netting. See the same photographs yourself and read Mr. Baer's own characteristic way of giving these little girls a hand, in The American Ameri-can Weekly, the magazine distributed distri-buted with next week's LOS ANGELES AN-GELES EXAMINER. Adv. In one year's time, starting virtually vir-tually from "scratch," the American Ameri-can aircraft industry has built nearly 7,000 military planes. Estimates Esti-mates for 1941 show about 18,000 planes will be turned out. |