Show T NOVEMBER 27 1938 SUNDAY MORNING THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ICIII S3500 ifhe :" ' ::''' ' ':: " - A55111:17- ": ': ' ' ' ' ': ' :::::: 1 "::: i )- : -' 4- W04 01 e''''' v e'' '' ' ' - at - ' I : :::: I ':: ' ' ' - )4 r:'''' - "If ' '''"" : 4 ' vr :::':: :': " ' '' '''' ": - ' :''' ' - i 9 ' 9Nt " It ' ' J i :"'' ' —- - —- -- The Newspaper's Pigeons Are Carried in Crates to Meet the Incoming Ocean Liners After a Capsule Containing Photos Is Strapped to a Leg a Bird Is Tossed Into the Air By EDWIN MISURELL Ittr- - 'It'P'--- - these !Ards fails to pass the rigid breaking-i- n test" he says "it is looked over closely for possible ailments An experienced pigeon handler can detect almost any illness and usually correct it" Expert care and balanced feeding of dried vegetated matter keep the cari iers in condition to meet many emer When 5evers1 hundred pigeons recently staged an Armistice day mass flight from Washington D C to New York there was more of a purpose behind it than just to provide a feature of the holiday observance race it is reported are For the winners of the with a number of U S army signal corps to be cross-bre- d pigeons from Fort Monmouth N J with the idea of hatching some of the fastest and most reliable homing pigeons ever bred in this country It is the constant 'aim of the army to improve its feathery messenger stock it g its finds searches unremittingly for the best with stock of proven quality in order to develop the finest birds for one of the mest important jobs that the army has to offer Pigeons have been used for carrying messages in warfare from the earliest of historic times Even the advent of 'the telegraph the telephone and the radio failed to diminish the importance of the pigeon in warfare for mechanical devices have a way of failing at critical times But even wounded pigeons rarely fail —under shellfire to make their way to the home coop with the message are to be taken as If past records of examples the present experiments should be extremely successful Four years ago a New York newspaper the Journal obtained a number of 'homers" from the army coops at birds Fort Monmouth and crossed them with to obtain offspring that could be used to carry tiny picture negatives from ship to shore Today these birds are an integral part of the newspaper's staff They are responsible for many photographic scoops From 100 to 125 pigeons are now used regularly by the newspaper on assignments murder cases calamities and ordinary news stories The system of operation is amazingly simple crates to the The birds are carried in canvas-covere- d scene of the story by members of the picture staff After the photographer snaps his picture he writes a caption for it on onionskin paper He then puts his camera in a black light-probag which has openings for his hands removes the tiny film rolls it up with the caption and Inserts it in a small metal capsule This sealed- he removes the capsule from the bag fastens it with adhesive tape to a leg of one of the pigeons and tosses the bird into the air It immediately heads for one of the coops on the Journal roof The homing instinct is so strong and so well developed that the birds will try to reach the building even when seriously injured Harry Myers and his assistants Salvatore Mistretta and Angelo Barrera still tell of the outstanding courage of "Blue Hen" when she was forced down in the Bronx on a flight from Hawthorne N Y At that time the capsule was strapped to the pigeon's back by harness instead of being taped to a leg The contrivance on "Blue Hen" was somewhat unwieldy and her After flying for quite a while wing became entangled under the tremendous handicap she fell to the ground She was picked up some hours later walking south in the direction of the newspaper office the pads- of her feet were worn through! Ninety per cent of the assignments of the "homers" are radiu's of their coops Occasionally within a 30 or however they are required to fly much longer distances The maiden voyage of the giant liner "Queen Mary" called for the longest flight ever made by the birds A couple of cratefuls were sent to Enoland on the "Georgic" and placed aboard the new vessel when she embarked for the United States One hundred and sixty-on- e miles offshore some of the pigeons were released They reached home three hours later and gave the newspaper a three-hou- r scoop over rival publications "It takes a lot of patience to break the birds in right" says Myers "but once that is accomplished they will fly home in all kinds Of weather except heavy snowstorms and downpours of cloudburst proportions "We begin their training almost as soon as they can fly We send them aloft with some of the older pigeons and allow them to get used to their surroundings Then e we take them about a away and release them Eachday we increase this distance until they are sent up about '60 miles away from their coops "Their training is just half completed at this time We attath capsules to their legs and begin the flights all over mark a again By the time it bird reaches the second time he is a good 'homer'" Carrier pigeons are in their prime at about two years of age say experts They are retired from carrying when they pass their eighth year and are then used for breeding To keep a flock at its highest point of efficiency new blood should be introduced into it about every four years Myers breeds about 40 pigeons a year "If one of 200-mi- ''' ''4:'' ' ' CEN1 t$1 '4 :' 1 0 $ f f A' ' 0' 0 000 V" - - 11t L -- es:4 I f :'' - 'T i $ iit' 04 tP ' '''' P :' '" v C 1$14 ' - $ Ilk - ' $ ' 'An ' ''' s'ill:' w've46 Ilit 1 st ái - ‘ ''' "''1tC'''::' ': Ar-43': 1 '10 :"k'-- '4 :' 7 rr'1:!''''I'''r'''':'''''qN"'" ::: ::::''H::::::::: ' ::::: :: H:" :::' ::::- - " :::: i' oinooni Vith - - " -- mmilmNik Of Course the Fatherd Carriers Don't Speknd All Their Time Working) lleie's a Courtship Scene the war and carefully cared for until its death Today mounted by a taxidermist it stands in the office of the chief signal officer in Washington Copyright 1938 for The Tribune oad Boos In and 3 Ili Gen Ind - q -- the Oar to epres deparl - thingtor ' S the ba: A N2 I (-- would A qt 0 at the were i 'Lir bout ' nuke nc ey had sating sr Was -- e' - it To SERVE 'TO It0 I TO BUY t 1 - race-winni- go ENJOY! night: NM Mc utile pi Spring led at t - 401tsN -- to ship-arriv- al fld sevi dnst C well ' kre-m- el shapil Imatio le d residen ussador ook th The ease of preparation makes it the choice of millions of busy women "Little before to sa: ters tt takes only five minutes It i ambi for n in 2 I to prepare Its 4 delicious flavors give first place in public favor " AND is rich in KRE-ME- L Kre-m- was ti rotary el velt's v Sun acludei an of nd Aub admit' :e Dextrose w' it the energy sugar Doctors call Dextrose the "fuel" of the body for f ow' ' - - ' - ""I e 't!fs ' material for energy re- lieves fatigue and sustains energy 1 it provides ”' ' : ' 0 - 4 ' itude - 15 r I:C events 0 - carce13 :ould civilize r i‘ rt '6"------ RICH IN '' t kJ" -- to P: ate as Isere is indii for thi ide wh tin wi ently could In vie swish rani can cit took rr 1 take found :':' i::::::::4::: :::)4-1:::::::::1:::::::7::-::::::- SUGAR ::::::1::: 0 !:::: : '' ::::: ::::4 ' ::?' :t'e- - :' 'i' tray ::- ' f:" - I T -' V :::: 1 'led co 4' 0 ::cl: ::: 3:: ::::1 J": :::: respe FOOD-ENERG- Y i':!:!:::: ': I " - ! :' i t THE A t ) A403 ' waits the - 1 DEXTROSE :::':'::' 1 :ele:14: ( knion : 1:: ' I hingtot er''- -' 1 0 t confer hrnor ri cl Ak half-mil- ) 13 to hat ey whi gives it a leading 'position on the housewife's marketing list The economy of - le o) ti4 cross-breedi- at tded — cross-breedin- el T :T t t '$:::i ' '4! l' $0 :p ' " ' "'" s It"4- '71 ''‘r '''I 'Vh:? 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