Gunnison Valley News | 1932-11-03 | Page 7 | Sacred Pigeons go Hungry

Sacred Pigeons Go Hungry Thousands of sacred pigeons of Stamboul, Turkey, are joining the beggars in seeking contributions so that they may survive. It has been the custom that every good Moslem, on his way to pray, scatter a haud-ful haud-ful of grain to the sarred birds. As prayers are said five times a day the pigeons waxed fat. The Turks re-' re-' cently started an economy program however, and among their reductions has been the amount spent for grain for the birds. Weak from lack of food, the pigeons are migrating from the courtyards of the m sques where they have lived since the first two were taken there by Sultan BayaziJ in the Fifteenth century.