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Arlington Campaign Veterans Remember Meetings With King i ' ' ' 1 Bt LYLE C. WILSON Washington 0J.R The paunchy World War II veterans of the Arlington county (Va.) c a m p a l g n should muster in once more for Ernie King's funeral, but probably won't. The Arling ton campaign ers were a slack out fit, short on spit . and polish. Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King's fellow officers will never believe the wartime Navy boss ever could have taken up with their likes. But King did, and it is one of the better unpublished stories of - the late, great, bloody hassle. It was King, you will remember, who was summoned by FDR to . become chief of naval operations . and commander in chief of the U. S. Fleet after Pearl Harbor. The Arlington county cam paign began in October, 1942, shortly after the Navy's prestige rtook another sharp dip with an " nouncement of the loss of five r Allied cruisers in the Solomon ' Islands.. At the round table in the se cluded card room of Washing ton's National Press Club news " paper and radio strategists were meeting daily for lunch and some second guessing of the high ' brass, political and military. An nouncement of the Solomons Is lands catastrophe brought new floods of criticism of what then was the nation's most costly mili- MR. INSURANCE -JtW FRED VIa" If BRENNAN Last summer my Trip - Accident Policy paid all the medical cost of a personal injury during my vacation. This year I also want in surance on my baggage to cover loss or theft while traveling. Do you have a combined policy to cover trip accidents, and loss or damage to baggage? CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 tary arm. All of this was in the presence of Neely Bull, a former newspaperman and husband of the admiral's niece. Bull sensed that the Navy was in for some rough going and took a chance, despite his knowledge that next to Japanese and Ger mans, King most detested news papermen. Nevertheless, Bull visited King and proposed that he meet with a select few Wash ington correspondents. "The hell with 'em," said King, but he finally was persuad ed and within a fortnight a chilly meeting took place in Bull's Arlington county home. King was cold and unbending although he did have a can of beer. He talked a little, ex plained a bit and stiffly an answered a few questions. Perhaps to his surprise, news of the secret meeting on neutral grounds was not all over town within a single day, or ever. Some weeks later Bull arranged a second, adding a couple of new faces and dropping one or two. King was warmer that time and the third meeting came at a shorter interval. Early in 1943, the regular meetings were shifted to the more secluded rural home of Phelps H. Adams, then of the New York Sun and now public relations director for U.S. Steel. At the Adams home they con tinued throughout the war1 ex cept for the last one which took place in a private dining room of the Statler Hotel. Present were of the 25 or so newsmen who at one time or another dur ing the war had listened to King as he gave us off-record back ground of such secret nature as sometimes to be frightening. There had never been the slight est leak. We gave King a scroll that evening and, the war being over, he switched from his can of beer to a few rounds of Scotch. The admiral had long since mel lowed and revealed a sense of humor which would have aston ished officers who knew him The newsmen "got a lot of in formation for use or guidance during the war years and King unquestionably got the Navy's story before the public in its best light Admirals who used to enter King's office on tip toe prob ably will never believe that mere newsmen would have dared greet him with a ribbing "Yi-ya, mister." But they did dare and King seemed to like it. He was a great man and a great sailor. The paunchy veterans of the Arlington county (Va.) campaign will miss him a lot. Funeral Services for Adm. King To Be in Washington Cathedral Kittery, Me. (U.R) The body of Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King today makes the melancholy journey back to his beloved An napolis. King, who led the largest and hardest hitting fleet the world has ever seen, died Monday at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. He was 77. The Navy announced in Wash ington that funeral services will be held in the Washington Na tional Cathedral Friday, with burial at the Naval Academy Cemetery at Annapolis, Md. The body of the former U.S. Fleet commander in chief was scheduled to be flown to the capital today and was to be met by representatives of the mili tary services, the diplomatic corps and members of his family. After a brief ceremony with the U.S. Navy Band participat ing, the casket was to be carried past a Navy honor guard to a hearse and taken to a nearby funeral home at Bethesda, Md. Capitol Funeral Procession The body will be moved to the National Cathedral Wednesday where it will lie in state with a 24-hour honor guard. After the funeral services, King's body will be borne by caisson down historic Constitu tion Ave. to the front of the Cap itol. Then it will be taken to Annapolis, Md., for burial. The admiral was stricken with a heart seizure Sunday. He ral lied briefly a few hours later and then fell into a coma. At his bedside when he died was his son, Lt. Com. Ernest J. King Jr., who flew here from Washington. Farmers Reminded On Tax Withholding Salem (U.R) State Tax Com missioner Ray Smith reminded today that farmers must with hold taxes on all seasonal work ers earning more than $100. Before this year, part-time workers who planted, cultivated or harvested crops were exempt. Now the exemption applies only if the amount paid during a sea son is less than $100, Smith said Farmers have to deduct $2 from the workers' pay to cover the first $99.99 as soon as ' the amount totals $100. Farmers still have to collect the withholding tax on all wages paid part-time workers not en gaged in planting, cultivating and harvesting seasonal crops and on all wages paid regular employees who may spend part of their time on seasonal crops. Use Tribune Want Ads 5i ADM. ERNEST KING Funeral To Be Friday President Eisenhower mourned the death of his "old friend," the tall, tough boss of America's greatest Navy. Mr. Eisenhower said King had carried out his war responsibilities "with cour age, brilliance and continued de votion to duty." An Admitted 'Slugger King, who believed there was no way to win except "by going in there and slugging," began his career as an ensign after graduation from the Naval Acad emy. With his promotion in 1944 to fleet admiral, he joined three other naval greats who held the rank of five-star admiral, Wil liam D. Leahy, Chester W. Nim itz and William F. (Bull) Halsey. He was the first man ever to hold both the posts of com mander in chief of the U.S. fleet and chief of naval operations. King was born in Lorain, Ohio, the son of a railroad me chanic. He was married on Oct. 10, 1905, to the former Martha Rankin Egerton of Baltimore. They had six daughters and one son. Tuesday. June 26, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Eureka Lumber Plant Destroyed by Flames Eureka, Calif. U.R) A spec tacular fire destroyed the down town warehouse and offices of the Eureka Lumber Co. here yesterday as thousands of per sons watched. The fire, which broke out at 12:25 p.m. and took 90 minutes to control, caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to the frame structure. The origin of the fire was not known. Remote Man Declared Innocent of Tax Evasion Portland U.R) John F. Cawrse, 45 -year -old Remote, Ore., sawmill owner, has been found innocent of a federal in dictment which accused him of evading more than $48,000 in federal income taxes for 1948 and 1950. Judge Gus K. Solomon re turned the verdict after hearing the case without a jury. Corvallis Supported For Animal Laboratory Salem (U.R) A four-man delegation will represent Ore gon at a hearing in St. Louis this week on location of a pro posed federal animal disease re search laboratory. The group will plug Corvallis as a site. Dr. K. J. Peterson, state vet erinarian, will leave tomorrow. Other representatives of the western regional animal disease research association will be Dr. L. M. Koger Oregon veterinary medical association chairman; Joe Jobson, Oregon Farm Bu reau Federation, and R. M. Alex ander, Oregon agricultural ex periment station. CHURCHILL TAGGED Brenham, Tex. (U.R) The Texas Highway , Patrol gave Winston Churchill a ticket for being overweight. This Winston Churchill is a truck driver, how- SOCTFA Sets Meeting At Hotel Here Friday The June meeting of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, June 29, in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. A social hour will start at 7:30 p.m. Ruby Kallander, administra tor of the forest protection and conservation committee of the state board of forestry, will dis cuss the severance tax. Reports will be made by the freight traf fic committee and the first com mittee of the association. ever, and it was his truck that was overloaded. Teamsters Hear Senator Morse Vancouver, B.C (U.R) Dele gates to the 20th Western Con ference of Teamsters moved into a round of trade division caucus es here today. The caucuses will continue un til Thursday when more gener al sessions will be held. Monday, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), warned Americans to keep a vigilant watch on the growth of monopoly in the United States. 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