Show CANARIES HELP CHEER PRISON Five Hundred Birds In Iowa Penitentiary Warble Freely FORT MADISON Iowa June 2 22 Dy By By The Associated Press Press- Press Five hundred canaries add a mea meas measure ure ot of cheer with their merry chirping to the drab lives of the th Inmates Inmate ol ot Iowa state prison here In the death chamber and in sections occupied b by prisoners ners who still ha have bare vo a portion ot of life liCe and perhaps happiness before them the music of ot the tho feathered song Bong sone can be heard Many who when freer free gave eave little heed to the solace ot of music or the beauties ot of bird life lICe and nature lavish their attention upon theIr fellow prisoners Prison officials say the inmates become especially fond of at o pets and that canaries seem to be bo fa- fa favorites fa favorites perhaps because they best exemplify care carefree Cree happiness even evenin evenin evenIn in captivity and are ar able through their song to Impart hope bope to their owners FIRST BROUGHT BY PRISONER PRISONER The canaries first were vere installed by an inmate named Ryan TIran An expert In their care Ryan Ran now owns most ot of the songsters al- al although although al though about other prisoners own their Individual birds and tend them In their cells One large cage cafe In a corridor contains Uty or sixty birds and their songs fill 1111 the cell block There have hao been numerous in- in instances In Instances stances of or seeming reciprocation on the part of ot the birds of the kindnesses shown them by the prisoners One ot of the tho most striking striking ing was the case ot of Dilly n II songster belonging to Gabe Gabo Si- Si Simons Si Simons mons who was hanged last win win- winter winter ter l Billy Dilly outdid himself In song sont when his cage caco followed Simons to the death chamber and contin contino continued continued his merry chirping through the trying days until his maser maSSer started the death march Then after Simons had been hanged Dilly Billy was shipped with the th bodY to Tipton and warbled cheerfully as his cage cc reposed upon the rough box during the journey tourney Prison officials arc are encouraging the culture of the tho birds for tor the wholesome Influence they exert upon the tho Inmates |