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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. July 15, 1937
Is That So?
By EUGENE BURNS
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to his "love" cote at a mile a
minute.
(Copyright. 19S7.
by Eugene Burnt)
(Released by
McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
Free: By special arrangement
with the editors of the Encyclo
pedia Americana, my panel of
Although homing pigeons were
used by the hundreds of thou
sand in World War II, in prac
tically all theaters in the jun
gles of Guadalcanal, from ar-1
mored tanks in Africa, from
downed bombers, from torpedoed
cargo ships yet, admittedly,
they had their shortcomings.
The pigeon has its natural cne-mies-hawks
for examDlp.
Next, our avian mailman takes 'judgcs wiu award each week to
time to get used to his beat ; ,ne reader who sends me the
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Cute Honey; Chile Drippin' With Drawl Of 01' South Guns For Chassis Title
MARTHA LEHMAN
Cream of the Far North
Seattle, Wash. V How any
gal from so law no'th as Fair
I bank, Alaska, could come "out
I side" sportin' a Southern drawl,
j honey chile, is more than we-all
can understand.
But Miss Alaska, also known
I as Martha Lehmann, age 18, bust
34, waist 24, hips 36, sho'nuff
speaks like cone pone.
What's mo' she's aheadin south
messages. In fast - paced war
now-dayiO mobile lofts can be
pulled by jeeus and be left far
behind within two weeks, which
is not good.
And finally, this aerial courier
makes only a one-way delivery.
It is transported to the front and
from there flies back to its loft
with a message with no return
message to the sender possible.
But the Pigeon Post has by na
ture circumvented one and man
is helping solve the other most
of the man-made advances hav
ing been made since World War
II. Some are in the works, right
now.
As for its natural enemies.
True, a swift hawk can spot a
pigeon three miles away and for
their 120 miles-an-hour flight,
the pigeon's lumbering gait of 65
miles an hour is easy to over
haul. But against this handicap
the pigeon through the centuries
has developed its own natural
answer: its feathers are loosely
attaeheft on back and hence
when hawk swoops down upon
the fleeing pigeon, it sometimes
picks off only a cloud of fea
thers while in the ensuing con
fusion the twisting pigeon some
times makes good its escape by
hitting for the brush.
Trained to Fly at Night
For another, to overcome the
hawk and other daytime hazards,
birds are now being trained to
fly by night up to 50 miles in
pitch darkness.
To make a night flyer out of
a day bird took doing. First
trainers mated birds which natu
rally flew earlier in the morning
and later in the evening than the
a v iQ g e. From these, the
"squeakers" were released from
their day-darkened lofts only at
night to return to their blacked
out homes from gradually in
creasing distances. Although
night-flying is still in the experi
mental stage, by the third year
when pigeons fly at their peak
performance, these youngsters
should be stretching the 50-mile
limit considerably.
As for getting "oriented" to
a new location, the time has
been reduced to three days a
truly remarkable feat in which
breeding fast-learning birds play
ed an impoctant role.
Round-Trippers
But the most important de
velopment a husn-hush secret
In many training circles: the for
mer one-way fliers are now be
coming round-trippers. The un
derlying principle is simplicity
itself. Pigeons, like most crea
tures, prize two things: food and
sex. Now separate them. And so,
by dangling food and water at
one loft and sex at the other, it
didn't take long for a bright bird
to catch on and soon, it was
flying frantically from cote to
cote, with distances gradually
lengthening.
The round-trip experiment be
gan with Mr. Corngan, the great-great-grandson
of Always Faith
ful whose pigeon ancestry goes
back 525 years. Within two
months, Mr. Corrigan was high
tailing 12 miles to trip a "bob
wire" to announce his arrival
at the "food" station with a mes
sage attached and then after a
hasty reward he was in the air
again within five minutes with
another message and arrowing
First-Desk Men
Barred by Orchestra
Boston HP First-desk men
are barred from playing with
the Boston Pops Orchestra even
if they want to.
The Pops concerts were be
gun, not for public enjoyment,
but for the benefit of Boston
Symphony personnel who would
otherwise be unemployed from
May until October.
When the orchestra was or
ganized, first-desk men, the prin
cipal performers in each chair
of the orchestra were banned
from participation because they
received extra salary anyway.
The ban has continued and first-
desk men may appear only as
guest soloists.
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but not back to Dixie. Miss
Lehmann is going to California
to contest her face, figure and
talent against some of the most
luscious in the world. She's
entered in the Miss Universe
chassis championships to take
place in Long Beach this week.
Accent Natural
But this gal from the Arctic
country comes by her Southern
accent most naturally. She lived
many a day hard by the bayous
down south in Louisiana.
Her pappy's in the Air Force.
He used to be a major but after
the war he took up the more
economical .occupation of master
sergeant. Now he operates the
non-commissioned officers club
at Eielson Air Force Base near
Fairbanks.
The blonde, blue-eyed Miss
Alaska is five feet, seven inches
tall in her mukluks and weighs
122 pounds. She models clothing
sometimes, and dressed in her
ski-pants and parka trimmed in
wolf fur she would make poet
Robert Service's better known
Alaska beauties envious.
Honor Student
Miss Lehmann is an honor stu
dent at the University of Alaska,
where the boys outnumber the
girls by better odds than you
could get on a squirrel fight at
the Northern Saloon.
"It's very convenient that
way," she said.
Miss Lehmann wants to be an
instructress in horsemanship.
Horses? In Alaska? Alaska is
for the dogs!
"Maybe so, but down south in
Louisiana I have two horses,"
she cooed. "Thunder and Tubac
Sue." What about Hollywood?
Any aspirations in that direction?
"I was born in Hollywood,"
she smiled. And she was too.
REVIEWING OFFICER
San Diego, Calif. (ID The
reviewing officer of a parade of
2,000 personnel at San Diego
Naval Training center Saturday
was Rear Adm. Yoshimori of
the Japanese maritime self-defense
force. The admiral, who
leaves Tuesday for San Francis
co, is observing anti-submarine
programs on the West Coast.
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