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August 19, 1947
/inthrop Hotel. S:'ITH stated that the purpose of this meeting was to try to
find out something more about the anonymous phone calls which LNTZ had told
him about . He and ARNOID still refused to give out any further information
regarding the Thursday evening conference to Lil:TZ and were infonned by LANTZ
that the Tacoma Times was afraid of being scooped on the story and was going
to print something on that day . ~·tTH and AR~TOJ.D then returned to the Hotel
and shortly thereafter received a phone call from CRIS!fAN but the call was
cut off by the switchboard operator since it was not an ekergency call. SJITH
and ARNOID t hen returned to the Hotel lobby where they found a telegram from
DAHL asking them to call him at either Broadway or Proctor 7733, g!ITH is not
s ure of the exchange . ~TH called t~is number, but DAHL was not there . si,rrTH
states that he went then to the •·:estern Union Telegraph Office and dispatched
a collect telegram to '1-.URICE RODDY at the Chicago Times -which contained a
brief resume of the incidents which had occurred and which requested RODDY to
wire s:rrTH a telephone number where RODDY could be reached after 6:00 P. !!.
Si.ITTH states that he has never received an answer to that wire. Following
this, ~:ITH states that he and ARNOID that he and ARNOLD were sitting in the
lobby of the Olympic Hotel when IJ.!ITZ entered and gave them each a copy of the
latest edition of the Tacoma Ti~es which contained a story hinting at sabotage
in the crash of the Anny B- 25 which killed Captain DAVIDSON and Ll.eutenant BRQ;;N.
S:"ITH stated that he and APJ-10LD continued to occupy seats in the Hotel lobby
most of the afternoon inasmuch as they were unable to receive calls in the Hotel
room due to the Hotel employees• stri~e . He relates that he received a call
in the late afternoon from L..NTZ advising him to call LU:TZ that evening at
8 : 30 as L.4.!,ITZ ha.d further information regarding the anonymous calls . s.:ITH also
received a telegram requesting that he call Boise 6000 which he did and found
that it was JOHNSON. of the Boise Statesman. He refused to eive JOHNSON any
further information at this time. However, shor tly thereafter, JOHNSON called
from Boise and advised S:JITR that the Anny had released a story through Brigadier
General SHRAM revealing the confidential assignment \'rhich BRO lJ and DAVIDSON
had been engaged on. In view of this release, JOHNSON requested S:!ITH to answer
one question for him which was, 11 .1ere they carrying any alleged disc fragments
on the plane? 11 and S? ITH answered, "Yes, they were . " Following this S'~TH
caJ led Li.UITZ as per his earlier request and was infonned that MORR.ELLO of the
Unit ed Press had received another anonymous phone call at ,1hich time 11the voice11
said that the Army B- 25 carrying Captain D.tiVIDSON and Lieutenant BRO:~ had
been shot down with 20 m.m. shells and that the . ~arine plane found on '!t .
Ra'.inier had also been shot down with 20 m.m. shells . ·The voice went on to state
that S!.rITH would be called back to T ,right Field on Tuesday. :hen !~vRRELLO
asked why he was giving out this information the caller replied that it was
not for the benei'it of the newspapers , but that he was interested in seeing
that the information got back to New Jersey. The voice also infonned PORREU.O
at this time that one of the two persons who had been talking to ARNOLD and
S'illTH had now left for Alaska. As a result of t'.is latter bit of information
S~ITH decided to find out if CRI SMAN or D.nHL had left town . He located DAHL
at the Sunset Theatre and D1\HL came to the Hotel and met £.8:TH and ARNOLD.
They v1ere unable to locate CRISMAN by phone and DAHL left saying that he would
try to find out where CFIS!.1AN was and that he would call them tomorrow (Sunday)
and that they vwuld go out to Maury Island at that time. After DAHL left,
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