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• PAGE TWO HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND CAPTAIN EMIL H.,SMITH OF UNITED AIR LINES , SEATTLE, WASHINGTpN TO ATTEND THE MEETING . DAHL AND CHRISMAN CLAIM THEY TOLD THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS, CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LIEUTEN ANT BROWN , AS WELL AS KENNETH ARNOLD AND EMI~SMITH EXACTLY HOW THEY GOT THE ROCK FORMATIONS AND THAT THEY HAD NO CONNECTION WITH ANY FLYING DISK. DAHL AND CHRISMAN STATE THEY FURNISHED SOME OF THE ROCK FORMATION TO THE INTELLIGENT OFICERS AS SAMPLES. CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LIEUTEANT BROUN LEFT TACOMA, WASHINGTON IN AB TWENTY FIVE TO RETURN TO HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNI A ABOUT TWO THIRTY A. M. AUGUST ONE, LAST, AND WERE KILLED WHEN THEIR PLANE CRASHED AT KELSO , WASHINGTON , AFTER THE LEFT ENGINE BURNED OUT AN EXHAUST STACK WHICH IN TURN CAUGHT THE LEFT WI NG ON FIRE AND IT BROKE OFF. THE CREW CHIEF AND EACH OFFICER PARACHUTED TO SAFETY. ERNif(vOTEL, ASSOC I ATED PRESS WI REMAN , TACOMA, ADVISED THAT TWO OR THREE DAYS AFTER THE FLYING DISK STORIES STARTED , HE CONTACTED DAHL TO CHECK 0 A STORY THE SEATTLE POST I NTELLIGENC~R HAD GOTEM'"F\M THE FIRE CHIEF AT HARBOR, WASHINGTON, TO THE EFFECT THAT DAHL HAD SOME FLYING DISK FRAGMENTS . AT THIS TIME DAHL ADMITTED TO VOGEL THE ENTIRE STORE WAS FALSE . DAHL AND CHRISMAN STATE ARNOLD WAS PAID BY RAY PALMER OF THE FANTASY ~~AGAZ I NE AND POSS IBLY THE BOISE STATEMAN- \.I I p NEWSPA.ER, '\ TO COME TO TACOMA, WASHINGTON AND OBTAIN A STORY FROM ]HEM REGARDING THE FLYING DISK FRAGMENTS . THEY FURTHER STATE THAT ~M I~ H. SMITH HAD A