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August 19, 1947 ation and should be in no way, carried as a news story and refused to furnish any information iy year; these reports. He further stated that he advised the Boise Statesman shortly before, or at the time th ETH ARNOLD left Boise CRTCALAN to come to Tacoma to check on the flying disc stories with DAHL and. CRISMAN, that ARNOLD should not ‘come as the enbire story. was a hoax. rmation was ma 1ined from pautanre, 4513 South. 7th, Tacoma, Washing octor 8416, a rpporter for the Tacoma Times: mé I issued a story and- subsequent stories intimating that the B-25 which crashed at ashington on the early morning. of August had avai sabotaged or shot because. of the fact that i arried. flying’ d fragments. -LANTZ stated Thursday, July 31, at approximately 11:30 A. M.-he received an anonymous ne call in which the caller stated that KENNETH ARNOLD and Army Intelligence officers were meeting in room 502 of the Winthrop Hotel to check on the flying dise story from which fragments were obtained on Maury Is comp LANTZ stated turned around to speak to his’ editor and when he picked thes phone again the line was dead. He stated that the caller asked for BURY) MeMURTIE,- a reporter on the Tacoma Times wig was out at the time of the mer de He. stated that BURT McMURTIE called ARNOLD at room 502 in the Winthrop Hotel and was advised by ARNOLD: that he could furnish no information as he was there on a Government mission. LANTZ stated that. on Friday, August 1, betwéen 11:00 A. M. and noon, he received another phone call for BURT MeMURTIEZ in which the anonymous caller stated that he might have some information for him. LANTZ asked the caller if he was not the same party that had called the previous date and he said yes, The caller then related that at that moment there was a big meeting in progress in ARNOLD's room, 502, in the Winthrop Hotels that the B-25 which crashed that morning in Kelso was carrying. flying disc fragments from California and that MeChord Field officials had stated the plane was sabotaged or shot down. The caller then hung up after making some statement to the effect that he was a switchboard operator. . LANTZ stated that. he went to the Winthrop Hotel on Friday about noon and found that there was no male operator on duty. He stated he then went. to. room 502 and ARNOLD answered the door and that Captain EMIL J. SMITH, United Airlines pilot, was on the phone. LANTZ stated that he heard SMITH make a statement to the effect that the information must be very strictly confidential. He stated that there were one or.two others in the room besides SMITH and ARNOLD, but that he could not identify them. He. stated that ARNOLD told him he could ma&e no statement and that he had att eapted to check the story with various people on Maury Island with negative results. He stated that about 3:30 P. M., Friday, he wrote a story regarding the mysterious informant and called ARNOLD at his hotel room, stating that he had written thigystory and that. ARNOLD had better check it. He stated that he talked to TEDAMORRELLO, the United Press Wireman, Tacoma, who advised that the story sounde fantastic. LANTZ stated that about 5:30 P. M., Friday, August 1, an anofiymous caller called TED MORRELLO, the ial as