1946 Newspaper Abstracts

The Los Angeles Examiner, Sun, May 19, 1946:
S1, p. , c.  -

PICTURE:  Roscoe Turner with face to cage with Gilmore the Lion-
          Caption:  "AULD ACQUAINTANCE'-- Colonel Roscoe Turner and his
          once pet lion greet each other.  After a separation of eight
          years, the lion accepts a bone from the colonel's mouth.
                                        --Los Angeles Examiner photo.
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LION'S MEMORY
 8 YEARS LONG

        "That lion'll know me!" said Colonel Roscoe Turner confidently as
he strode to the cage of his once-pet lion, Gilmore, whom he hadn't seen
in eight years.
        And the lion did!
        As his keepers watched in fear and trepidation at the Ventura
boulevard wild animal farm where the lion has been kept, the now
full-grown beast leaned out and licked his former master's hand docilely!
        W.J. Richards, keeper of the jungle compound, shook his head
worriedly.
        "I didn't believe it possible," he confided frankly.  "I've heard
   of lions remembering their masters a year, or even two years, but eight
   years --- !"
        Turner, former transcontinental air racer and now an aircraft
executive and personal pilot for the national commander of the American
Legion, John Stelle, once flew the lion more than 25,000 miles, often at
record-breaking speeds in transcontinental races and international
flights.
        But that was eight years ago.
        "And they say it's only an elephant that never forgets,"
exclaimed Turner proudly yesterday when the lion whimpered as he left.




Abstracts (c) Copyright 1994 Stephanie L. Sandy

    Data transcription by: Milton Sandy, Jr. Corinth, MS - September 17,
                                                                1994