Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1943 — Page 9

Blows Aart After Release ; - From Plane, Dispatching Messenger Bird. y- - WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—An ine genious ‘bomb which blows apart in| mid-air and releases a pigeon is America’s: newest war weapon. Tests have been so successful that} soon every fighting plane will carry them. And hundreds of thousands] of pigeons will be needed by the Pigeons are used when strategy cally Jor absolute radio silence. Commandos and parachutists carry|

the war birds with them on forays behind the enemy lines, but unt

{pigeons in their planes to release if they were forced down. One of ‘the ' a I / birds recently flew 350 miles'to Scot-|' a

-land with a message from a bomber} .crew floating on s rubber raft in| the North sea. : U. 8. pilots began to ask for pij eons to carry back distress signals when their radios were disabled or ei {the planes forced down, and the isignal corps began investigating the { Ii feasibility of releasing pigeons from “a _plane in flight. } ; Alter 587 tests it was found that

: the best method of launching a piEf ‘geon at altitudes under 10,000 feet { ‘was to put the birds in a slit paper

TRAWLER SAVES 17 goo roam th sonia fou te AFLOAT IN ARCTIC

falling a few hundred feet, the bag| LONDON, Jan. 14 (U. PB) ~The ‘blows. off and the bird is free to|admiralty revealed today that the : Soar away. ; British naval trawler Cape Palliser Use Timing Device had rescued 1 survivors of a torAbove 10,000 _ feet, however, the| pedoed American ‘meréhantman

geon in flight, so the signal corps| Arctic waters.

invented the “bomb.” This is a can- been -vas-covered wire tube held together ie MaWiers tompass had with a timing device, affected by “crazy magnetic dis"By computing the known rate of} turbances,” and the navigator “had speed of a falling body, the timing|not been able to get his bearings device can be set to open the pro-{by the sun or stars because the Jectile at any desired altitude. frrid Yas pa Consequently . When'the bomb falls apart the] the W. almost ramm e pigeon spreads its wings and heads lifeboat in. which - the survivors "home, were tossing ‘on high waves. -and film enable pigeons to say 3 : 1000-word message. Capt. Otfo Meyer, chief of the pigeon service, said fanciers have , donated thousands of valuable birds blowing, but the Swede i to help the army build up its feath- help, although he was barely ab ; {ered corps. These birds are used : : : : : to totter. ‘ for breeding.

§ week eggs and before they are four|she reached post. : weeks old they are flying home from | = : as far as 60 miles away.

eat FOR ‘WARDENS |] { IN 31ST DISTRICT|] . More air wardens are needed in|% I district 31 and residents in that|§

PR / ' area wishing to volunteer are asked | WE dh by G. Joseph Putts, district warden, il

‘to attend a meeting to be held at] = EXTRA

3 p. m. tomorrow in the Gathoo| HEE LUA BINDS

. Community center, 1004 N. Penn- 3 isylvania st. SE Pictures depicting air raids will "be shown. : The district is bounded on the north by 13th st. on the south by|$ St. Clair st., on the east by College ave. and on the west by Capljol aE ‘ave,

“Poor Richard” said--“To spare and have is better than to spend and crave.”

1100 RESUME WORK i PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14 (U. P.).— : Approximately 1100 laborers at the - Koppers Uni ‘ ber plant ‘ Monaca were scheduled to return ‘ta- work today after a one-day * walkout, eumpany' officials announged.

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‘Governor Schricker receives one of the 1943 Boy Scout calendars from James Buck, left, and James Markey, Boy Scouts:of Troop 36. “A. Scout is friendly” is: the theme of: this year’s official dars being distributed by 200 Scouts to merchants and professional lead= ers in the city. The calendars are drawn each year by Norman Rockwell, and this year’s theme is the fourth of the 12 Scout laws.

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Releh eatitied the “Toa! War” and | broadcast by the Berlin radio, Goeb|bels sald that Germany, in the fourth year of war, faces incomparably more aiifloqts problems Yn

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