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Show PIGEON MESSAGE FOUND IN OGDEN OUT THREE YEARS Some weeks ngo. a metal container, con-tainer, capsule shaped, and made ot aluminum, was found In Ogden on Twenty-fifth street. The capsule cap-sule carried a bit of paper on Whli h w i writti o an undecipherable undecipher-able message, while the reverse side of the paper carried 'he address ad-dress of an aviation field at lxng i sland. The capsule was sent to Captain Jonathan Jones through the mail. Xo name was signed by the finder of the capsule. Captain Jones forwarded for-warded the bit of metal and the paper to Selfrldge Field. Jong Island iimm Mi It REPORTS From Washington, D. C, comes n report Of the commanding officer offi-cer of Selfrldge field. regarding the metal container, which presumably pre-sumably was lost from the leg of a carrier pigeon sent out from the station in 1918. "It Is a far cry from the 101R wartime activities Of this field and j the City of Ogden, Utah, but the two were linked up hi a strange manner recently by means of a carrier pigeon. During 1918 carrier car-rier pigeons were trained at the station for the purpose of carrying carry-ing message from airplanes, and It occasionally happened that a bird failed to return to his loft af- The other day the chief of police at Ugden forwarded to this station a metal message contained, with the original training message Inside, In-side, .stating that the container had been picked up In the business busi-ness section of that tow n 1'1. I (iN V . I The only plausible explanation that can he offered Is that a plg-I plg-I ( eon. upon being released from a plane la training, decided to go A W. O. and set put for parts unknown, finally losing the message mes-sage container while over the distant dis-tant western city. The vicissitudes and Incidents of this modern Odyssey arc a sealed book, but though the. feathered messenger failed to come home to roost, its message did, oven if three years' lime and a journey of several thousand miles were required for the final deliverance." , (JO |