Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1940 — Page 11

| SAFETY AWARDS DEFENSE ‘HOBBY Pigeons Fly Straight Home:

ARE PRESENTED SA | ARMY' IS URGED Nobody Knows Just Why T0 800 DRIVERS && Lik RRR willholland Asks Hopkins Indianapolis Qutstanding ih E 3

8 To ‘Enlist’ Metal-Working Quality of Racers; Cash Prizes, ‘No ‘Accident’ | Shops in Homes. - Club Has 1000.

Certificates Won in ’39-40 0 ; #3 § | A plan that would mobilize hobby Homing pigsens Pave | beer in wid ys metal-working shop owners in their |¢ince the time of the First Crusade. | Inter-Fleet Contest. own homes during leisure hours as and in the Orient before that, and Cash prizes and “No Accident” 8 la part of the national defense|l:¢ One knows why they come home

; to roost. certificates were awarded to more ; [uovement was proposed today by i oli than 800 drivers and many local Toe : Ray Millholland, | Indianapolis| Indianapolis is outstanding in the §

» 3 ; quality of its birds, although the & firms at a meeting of the 1939-40 4 author and machine tool engineer. |nronumental Racing Pigeon Club

Inter-fleet Safety Contest group last se smn : Mr. Millholland’s suggestion was here represents only a little more night at the Indiana War Memorial. made by telegram to Secretary of |than a thousand birds.

ty 3 Commerce Harry Hopkins and sug-| If left alone, pigeons are monoSponsored by the Lions Club of % gested that all that would be need- gamous. They stick to one wife Indianapolis, the contest was in- ed to bring “thousands of capable and one family. Many fanciers think agurated in 1938 by the Indianapolis and skilled hobbyists into service” [it is this love of home and fireside Police Department. was an official Government liaison [that makes a pigeon head for his The prand awards were won by organization.” nome loft. Thomas Meyer, club sec- ; Times Photo. the Kuhner Packing Co. the Gen- “If such an organization were set |1etary, along with other fanciers,| ' Pigeon No. 302 has traveled eral Baking Co, and the Ajax! up,” he said, “then machine shops |thinks something in a pigeon's head| more than 5000 miles in races and Brewing Corp. Awards were pre-| engaged in producing defense goc:s|chts through magnetic lines of force| has completed a 600-mile flight sented by Edward Kepner of the could farm out, through it, the blue|set up by the North and South| from sunrise to sunset. He is Lions Club. - - . : prints ‘for smaller precision parts,|Foles and this helps him find his| raced by Thomas Meyer, local Edward Zink, Indianapolis Cham- including small metal patterns and |way home: racing club secretary. ber of Commerce vice president!

dies, and the white-collar hobbyists| mpanciers have hooded the birds ; praised the companies and drivers lcould make them in leisure hours. ir aim, generally theyll come home with tell-tale IRY MONTH who participated in the campaign. and found that their aim, g y pA

) 6“ : : : i i n = ) “The contest.” he said, “offers a fine| Mrs. Lavonne Miles . . . “the bridge railing is falling away and | “Indianapolis and presumably speaking, is unerring. {Svidence of a night spent on strange a mein example of good will and co-opera-| the storm sewer is a menace to sanitation.” every other city and town has a| The local club was founded inj ey . July 1st tion between the employer and em- large army of white collar workers, 1930, It takes part in races almost| The birds fly best between the| g,oq oar welt wi-buck oxford.Leath- Ventilated wi-buck. Rubber heel, leath3 plovee in the inte P Fpl | . . who have taken up metal working! each week-end during the summer ages of 2 and 4 years. They aren’t| SO0CWRC Uo Taio in brown and er sole. B and D widths. Alse in tam D oe n ® Interssi-of (he general We st nd 1ang ol 1S Lea ue as a hobby and who own and Oper- | months. ; much good after seven years old.| Lio and two-tone tan. ~and brown and white, Dubie safely. P g : ate small lathes at their own home| The most popular race is at 500 Their training starts when they are ! * = Certificates, Cash, Bilifolds ; ° machine shops. to 600 miles. They have found that about three months old. They are| . ‘ ni " : “Some of them are amazingly}; es an excellently bred bird|taken first a mile away, then five, Companies which received “No Wants E xtension of Levee ..; on these lathes and turn outs sane it in one day. that is. be- (10, 15 and 25 miles. First they are| MERIT SHOE MARKETS Accident” certificates were the Ajax ~ | fine precision Fok a great tween sunrise and sunset. There loosed in flocks to give tiem cont 118 E. Washington St. 332-334 W, Washington St. Brewing Corp. Swift & Co. and ; , ’ Barrett deal of the small machine work | zre onlv about six in the Indianap- rdence, then singly to give them a| ar : John Heidenreich, florist. oi i ig SS ee Rh ay St. pe ®t coud be turned over to them on a ois on who can do this. A good feeling of independence. : Two Neighborhood Stores : in t h idents. w esides | pi is. ould bey; i 40 | i | 930 S. Meridian St 1108 Shelby St. Clayton Marsh of the Kuhner dens and damaged homes in the The residents, want, besides the Piece basis, a heavy load big! tbird will fly between 35 and 40| The whole trick is in breeding.| 9: . Meridian St. 3 Packing Co., and Floyd Knoy of the area represented by the West Indi- levee, which will give them future taken off Se, or 2 oy | miles an hour and lose about a Generally fanciers will breed their . fou Ly Kroger Grocery and Baking Co., re- | anapolis Civic League is being taken protection, graded and oiled streets. | 21 Er. er 34 [af sins i ay | Quarter of its weight on such a fastest birds. Mr. Meyer is a great ceived cash awards for showing the bY the League's officers. |" The League, which has a steady 8 UP procuc T' flight. | believer in in-breeding.

; . ip at f almost 50 : : “That doesn’t. mean theyll do it| proct fanciers don't make any, greatest interest. Russell Stanford! Easement papers necessary for membership attendance of alr | Mr. Millholland has for more! : eae rs sald. st fanciers > any. of the General Baking Co. and Mil- the construction of a levee along bersons, r epresents approximately.) ", “vear studied the machine every time, eittigr.’ Mr. Meyer Sai" money out of racing. They think cd

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ton Roe of the Indianapolis Rail- Big Eagle Creek are being circu- 1000 homes, according to Mrs. |, 0" ou otion in the United States | MY blue aii Jk Zou 27 it as a sport and hobby. ways also received cash prizes. These lated among the apptoximately 20 Brand. ‘and is the author of a recent article |. + s ar After a Toit I POR hit awards were contributed by William [land owners affected. | Other officers of the League are ;, th, saturday Evening Post on ie i os ac miles away H. Trimble, : Mrs. Edward A. Brand, 2220 Herman Bickers, vice president: ipa jqustry. 3 : oy e, ao, Captains who attended very Thornberry St. president of the|Mrs. Cleste Bickers, secretary, and | oosed him, ana he

, N 2h ’ i - | TTT t of time to get home.” = SNA TIE safety meeting were presented bill-|League, said that levee for the Edward Brand, treasurer. The group, amount : J! 1k » folds. They include Merle E. Greene | entire area was proposed five years meets once each month. PROTESTS PASSING OF fl Mer be . Boe us Bout : {i} and Logan Austin of Indianapolis/ago and that one had been built up| a ) vB gk y bp

Railways; R. T. Twigg and George to Morris St. The continuation of qj N ENDMENTS [mud or oil on the bands put on VonStaden of the Citizens’ Gas and (his levee to at least the City Limits SURVEY GUARD’S LRB AM each bird before a flight. Often

Coke Utility; Clarence Pobst, In-| is necessary, she said. | | John Bartee, secretary-treasurer Co Ty Sin aa TRAINING GROUND =oos rescuen AFTER | REMEMBER DAD | Sn 2 yer 2 ns : fo oo | Paving Action Promised of the Indiana State Industrial . ; S | ? {>

Mr. Knoy, Kroger's; Clayton March,| The Works Board today promised Four high ranking officers of the Council, today urged all affiliates 7 DAYS IN CISTERN Kuhner Packing Co.: Robert Dean. a delegation from the League that|38th Division, Indiana National to write their Congressmen in

Ms. Staniotg snd Wiligm Pugh Sy immediste action” would be taken Guard, this week-end will make a | Washington protesting the passing DR Sadi 1" 4 g So. lon the condition of the unpaved|personal reconnaisance of the 500 of the Smith amendments to the y iG, June if, -— : , Accident reduction certificates | in t icinit |P Se i i i re presented to the Indianapolis also will a square-mile maneuver area in Wis- NLRB. Brasil > po ™ i ailways, Swift & Co., Kroger’s, the the Minnesota St. bridge over Big | consin where Hoosier guardsmen! Mr. Bartee said that the amend- Margaret Ann Mulz, has been re:

izens' Gas and Coke Utility, the Eagle Creek (will train in August. : ‘ments would subject “all industrial turned home safe and sound after Geheral Baking Co. and the Con-| The cement railings of the bridge | The officers, who will leave to- unions to immediate raids by craft| spending seven days in an abaninental Baking Co. |have been crumbling for several MOITow, are Adjutant General El- unions in the face of existing indus- doned cistern.

. . . , mt Lens 2% mer F. Straub. Lieut. Col. Robert J. trial union contracts and further| Thin from lack of food and water, Leads in Drivers’ List Jemez Bd ony A opal tant | Axtell, Lieut. Col. John Friday and subject company-wide or region- the dog was rescued when a neigh- } Leading the list of companies with '[eague aig said. ’ Maj. Norman L. Thompson. wide collective bargaining agree- bor heard its faint cries coming \

the greatest number of drivers who < | The Indianapolis officers will join ments to destruction, in that the | from the cistern near the Mutz had no accidents was the Indianap- | storm ne, st £54 HE 1itis Didar 2 Guard officers of seven Midwestern employees of the smallest possible | home. Rescuers lassoed the hind olis Railways with 442. Others were pggo)e ry pans pouring out of states in the Second Army area on unit would be entitled to separate feet of the half-dead animal and the Indianapolis Power and Light ip, pipe for years has created a the reconnaisance. | elections. hoisted it to safety. Co. 176; Citizens’ Gas and Coke psle approximately 10 feet wide! Utility, 70: Continental Baking Co.,! which does not drain. |

39: General Baking Co. 17; Ajax . A , 2 th Brewing Corp., 11; Swift & Co, Six | Insect Breeding Ground : be § . , Kuhner Packing Co., five; Universal; “That hole, which is never empty! Wola y V2 e 1 Cartage, four; Heidenreich, one, and «f stagnant water, is a breeding if li : { | an undesignated amount for the ground for insects and is a threat 4 LN Kroger Grocery and Baking Co. {to the sanitation of the neighbor- | J 2 ' . During 1938 there were 10,311,000 hood,” Mrs. Lavonne Miles, League § Kay's help you by offering

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in the contest. In these miles 368 ac-| This situation and that of the $s _ 3 . ' cidents were reported as compared to bridge hazard have been brought to Ti ! : i : gi ftseesKa y's a Iso : he | Pp b y 216 accidents for the 11,291,050 miles the attention of the City govern- {7 | | offering easy credit terms driven in 1939-40. {ment time after time, Mrs. Brand EE x cloul : J - The contest ran from Nov. 1 to said. Fan ’ Youn 4 ‘4

April 30 and will be held again next{ The constant threat of a flood is, TN % year. however, the biggest problem facing - Sef pa i LY 0 - the five-year-old League. Sot 0 $5 , Ls » IPs ’ Many of the homes in the area al i First Father [Good's weit ine ume oy YOU CAN ALWAYS Eagle Creek to the City 1 , To Get Ci gar S truck = Nr of pA , DEPEND ON KAYS

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