"Bimbo" May Become "Adam" of Family in America; Interference Deeply Resented to the country with all their possessions; the bridge and roads have been congested with this pitiful traffic, and business is more or less at a standstill.
To add to the tenseness of feeling. the electric power failed and part of the city and all of Nantai. were with-
New York, May 3.
The question troubling the Bronx Zoo last night was the sex of the seventy-pound giant panda which arrived here from China yesterday after mauling and biting four crew-men aboard a trans-continental airliner over Pittsburgh.
The naughty panda, who apparently would prefer to be back in Szechuen, for 45 minutes resisted all efforts of Bronx Zoo keepers to determine its sex. The zoo keepers finally gave up the task for the day, with the hope that eventually they would discover the panda to be a male. They hope to mate it with the female giant panda on exhibition at the New York World's Fair. Hopeful zoo keepers named the panda "Bimbo" and said they were praying that later investigation would not make it necessary to change its name to "Mary."
The panda showed as little respect for the veteran Bronx Zoo keepers as it did for the three flight officers end the first officer aboard the T.V.A. liner over Pittsburgh yesterday. Angry growls and snapping white teeth met every attempt by the zoo keepers to approach what may prove to be the "Adam" of the panda family in the United States.
The panda mauled the T.V.A. flight officers and bit the first officer's hand as he was landing at Pittsburgh. The first officer made a safe landing while Captain Don Terry and Tommy Tomlinson, pilot, struggled with the panda.
The panda reached New York in the custody of Dr. A. E. Best of West China Union University. On the plane it was on a long chain which permitted it to stroll into the control cabin while Dr. Best was looking in another direction.
Dr. Best was not aware of the accident until the airliner had landed. He then sought a fresh bamboo shoot which pacified the angry panda until it met the inquisitive zoo keepers in New York. The flight from Pittsburgh to Newark, NI. was made with the panda's chain shortened to half length to prevent its return to the control cabin where T.V.A. officers were rubbing their cuts and bruises—United Press, out light all that night.—It. was obvious that, for the first time, the people of Foochow realized that their country was at war, and a deep feeling of uneasiness prevailed.
The local Government have given orders that all schools are to be moved to the country as soon as possible; only the kindergartens. are to remain here. Roads are to be cut, and city residents are warned to vacate their premises if possible. Rumour has it that the city is to be fired, if Japanese occupation threatens, but this is not authentic, though seemingly possible, as it has been done elsewhere.
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