TRAINING PIGEONS AS WAR COURIERS Pigeon training has become a fea ture of the new Army of the United States. Pigeon lofts are maintained at many of the Army camps and aviation fields throughout the coun try. Jhe birds are taken over by the government before they are even old enough for raw recruits: are fed and conditioned, and then have a course of training just as has the recruit in the regular establishment. When training completed the pigeons go overseas. They play their part on the bhttle line, are killed and wounded, and some are taken prisoners. The Committee on Public Information has prepared this ac count of their training: Two of the flying centers where pigeons are specially trained are Kelly and CarruthersFields in Texas. No fewer than seventy-live pigeons are sent overseas from Kelly Fiehl every six weeks. They come to the Kelly lofts when about three months old, and are trained by experts over a period of six to eight weeks before they are considered fit for duty. Early morning and late evening are the best exercise periods during the hot summer months, tho rlan being to send the birds up for a sixty-min ute flight in the morning and a forty, minute flight in tho evening. This time in minutes in the air represents for training purposes tho distance In miles the pigeons are expected to cover. When the young birds begin to show the proper physical condi tion they are taken out in a trailer behind a motorcycle and liberated at distances varying from two to twen ty miles from their loft. The first period of their advanced training comes with flock tossing. IgTERM^ 1 '209 Walnut ST. Comparison is better than argument. See our styles, compare our prices. We leave the rest to your own good judgment. If you're going to buy shoes for any member of your family Saturday, you'll want these BIG BARGAINS. * Women's "W Black fvj; 'jf b ° o,s §it I English |Lj Vl' style. new raj*. ■,!{• -41 mllltnry , I*"* <* heel. < \ $4.95 ■ Men's Black English Shoes _ $Tk.V> \ allien. Same style in Mack and brown for boys, sizes 2 to 5 'j Women's *< BOOTS /jjj^ $4.95j8L Ihitton or lace, Cuban or l.ouin heel*. $3.95 SCHOOL SHOES Yon nave the FRIDAY EVENING, the pigeons being liberated in this manner in groups so as to prevent their being confused and lost. Each pigeon has a number, and by bell devices at the entrance of the coop their arrivals and the time of their flights are kept on record. Thus the progress of each is closely watched, and as soon as a bird shows unfail ing ability to get home quickly he is ready for service overseas. A w|ite flag is the signal most commonly used for training these messenger birds. They soon learn that when this white flag is raised ' over their lofts they are to stay away ! for exercise, and that when the white ; flag comes down they may return for their food. On some fields, when ! birds stray a considerable distance j from their loft, they are called back by the rattling of a tin pan. Speed is a feature in the training jof pigeons at Carruthers Fieid , though in many cases they are de- I layed and sometimes wounded. Re cently one bird was shot and so ser iously wounded that it could not fly. It returned to the loft two days aft erward. having fluttered along the ground, or walked, the entire dis tance. So far, the greatest speed attained by any bird there is a little less than sixty miles an hour. Carruthers Field also has a pigeon hospital, where sick and injured birds receive treatment, hut at pres ent there are only two patients, one j being treated for gunshot wounds and tho other, too fleshy for flight, is being dieted in an effort to reduce its weight and increase its speed. The longest flight nade by any , pigeon at Kelly Field is eighty miles. | One flew this distance in two and one-half hours. MOONSHINE WAS ON TAP IN N. Y. Rnid on Plant in Henry Street Leads to Willett Street House Now York.—Three queer looking boilers nestled snugly on top of the ; triple burners of a gas stove in 'he basement apartment of the big tene- i nient at 312 Henry street when tnei door to the apartment was crashed] in' by a squad of detectives from Police Headquarters. The place w-'s empty of occupants, but the bubbling' contents of the boilers were adzed and internal revenue agents who ex amined the stun later said the police j had stumbled upon the biggest illicit t still the revenue agents ever had t seen in .his part of the country. j As the detectives got into the place I a rear window slammed, so several! ;of them hurried to the yard. Half! way up the fire escape they saw a man. who refused to heed their summons to halt. Two of the detec-; tives drew revolvers and fired. The! shots brought the man to a stop' quickly and he was placed under arrest, charged with operating the still. At Police Headquarters later' he said he was Louis Knell, a labor er. and gave his address as 85 Wal nut street. Without waiting to take their; prisoner back to headquarters the \ detectives led him around to the. Willett street address. There they : reported finding dozens of bottles; •ot alleged illicitly distilled whisky i kimmel and other liquors which the j police said were the product of the, Henry street distillery. In the Wil- . let street address they put Knell to i a long period of questioning and ob tained from him. they said, infor-. ■nation that led them to go to the' dingy three story building in the rear of 130 Ridge street. The windows of the Ridge street; place were covered with boards and j burlap when the detectives got there. I and the doors were fitted with locks j on both the outside and inside. One of the floors, the detectives; charged, was fitted out elaborately; as a bottling works, while the rest! of the building apparently was used ! as a supply house, except for the' upper floor, where the detectives'said ' they found another complete still j set up. but not in operation. 'Between the Henry street apart ment ar.d the Ridge street building, the police confiscated 600 pounds of sugar, 500 bags of corn meal ami TOO cans of molasses. Thirteen bar-i rels of mash were carted out of the tenement apartment and twelve more i barrels were found in the Ilidge street still. Hundreds of bottles.. , some of them'full and some appar- i ently ready to be filled were found; in both places. Discovery of the Henry street still j was purely accidental. Detectives! Oliver, Finn, Hoffman and Cooper; went to the house hoping to find: there 'race of a man for whom they j were looking in connection with an! entirely different matter. When' they entered the basement hallway 1 they heard several persons walking! about in the apartment and knocked j on the door. Immediately the place became j quiet. The detectives waited a few j moments and when their rapping was not answered knocked again on I the door. Still no answer came and the door was crashed in. The bar rtls of fermenting mash stood all I about and the flame in the gas let 1 beneath the boilers apparently na<! j jest been extinguished, for the: liquid in the boilers still was steam-i ir.g hot. Iaiell denied at first that he ever hid beqn in the basement apart-] n.ent, but the janitor of the place] tedd the police he had been a tenant there for several months. Persons: ir. the neighborhood said they thought the men who occupied tjie apartment, as well as those who fre quented the Ridge street building, ware peddlers of nuts, because push carts were seen by the neighbors be ing trundled away from the both plices late at night. But the neigh bors also told the police that they htd seen boxes and bottles that bore nc labels also placed on the push ; carts before the nuts were thrown In While the police were on their way out of the Willett street place \.-th Louis Knell he set up the cry ■ of "Thief:" and caused a big crowd Ito collect. In the mixup that fol- I rowed several of the bottles filled with liquid which the police allege contained old of kimmel were brok en and their contents spilled. As thj police reached the street with th;ir prisoner one of the men in the 1 crtwd is alleged to have Interfered i wth the detectives and he was plac (ed under arrest. He proved to be ! Btnjamln Knell, brother of Louis, ani'at first the police made a charge agilnst htm of operating the alleged Illicit still. When the Federal uu i t>rltles were summoned, however, th*y suld Benjamin would be charged |j purely with Interfering with the de ll lettlves. 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