Carrier Pigeon Rescue
Atlantic City, N.J., April 6—A blue carrier pigeon was
instrumental in saving the life of Ensign Finch, a navy airman adrift in a
flying boat without fuel in a rough sea Saturday night, while Judge Joseph
Buffington of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for Pennsylvania, and his cousin,
Lieut. Matthew Taylor, late commander of land forces afloat in the naval
district from Cape Hatteras, were supporting actors in one of the most
remarkable rescues ever made off the South Jersey coast.
William Lydall of Toronto was seated in his beach front room
at a hotel late Saturday night when an exhausted carrier pigeon fluttered in
through an open window. Judge Buffington and Lieutenant Taylor, found a small
cylinder of aluminum about an inch in length clamped to its leg. Upon a piece
of paper not much bigger than a special delivery stamp in the tiny receptacle
was this message of appeal from the sea:
“Down 10 miles west of submarine chaser at 4:15 p.m. no gas.
Ensign Finch.”
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