Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-05-24 | Page 18 | Roosevelts Bag Giant Panda after Extensive Search in Himalayas

Bag Giant Panda After Extensive Search in Himalayas SHANGHAI May 21 AP P AP- Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt the latter of whom has accepted th the governorship Ov of f Porto Rico have e killed ll what they describe as a giant amla rare tare Asiatic animal weighing more than CO pounds and stretching seven feet from nose to tall Its skin and skeleton will be ta taken t n by Kermit i to the Field museum at Chicago when he leaves here shortly for the I Unit United States All Although hough the tho de described described described de- de scribed the animal as us a fL Panda available reference works give I e its n name me as ns a n. J the Panda 1 is a a. a comparatively small carnivorous carnivorous carniv carniv- orous alIi animal mal living In Jn the eastern Himalayas as Kermit said he and his Ills brother discovered red the animal in the Lola Lots country in the tho Asiatic hinterland after niter they had almost given up p pI I f hope o of obtaining a sp specimen One morning orning they discovered ltd Panda tracks in the snow and followed d them rhe They found the animal sleeping both Kermit Jermit and Theodore shooting at it to be sure ure it did nut not escape The Lola runners accompanying the expedition refused to carry the carcass sinco the tha animal is a a. minor deity among them They almost nev never r see a a. Panda and never lIever harm one when the they do The tribal priest conducted rites tp to purify the tribe and drive of off avenging ns spirits The tribe continued friendly how however nr showing no res resentment for the killing killing kill kill- In ing of the sacred t-acred animal Kermit said he heas was ivas suffering ButterIng from flom a peculiar malady which he Judged was the result of eating native Ive f food od In the Loa Lola country He lI said acute stomach paths re recurred re- re Jr almost o t every furl for