70 Pigeons Dead! Hawks Is Culprit

Once every two years James Bab-cock, sub-foreman in the Maintenance Department, climbs the 267 winding steps to the top of the Memorial Hall tower on a routine inspection tour.

Yesterday his investigations revealed the bone-picked carcasses of over 70 pigeons, slain by a huge chicken hawk.

Babcock has made this tour for 19 years and never seen the likes of this slaughter. The guilty hawk, he says, shuttles regularly between the Mom Hall and Memorial Church towers at feeding time, looking for his meal.

"Last year's owl ate like a bird compared to this hawk," Babcock said.

Exact figures on the owl's total consumption last winter were not available yesterday.