Arlington Campaign
Veterans Remember
Meetings With King
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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the better unpublished stories of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-
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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.
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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.
He said if economic freedom
was destroyed by Communism,
monopoly or totalitarianism, po
litical freedom would die also.
Morse also told the" teamsters
that "Too frequently you of la
bor talk a good political game
but you do not deliver."
"Too many people of labor
walk out on the responsibilities
of citizenship," he said. "Too
many are too lethargic to vote
but you cannot afford lethargy."
Dave Beck, president of the
International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, warned the confer
ence against adopting any polit
ical party. He said the brother
hood should continue the policy
of supporting its friends and op
posing its enemies in both parties.
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