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Given the aspect that Arnold
and Smith had to be reached for questioning they decided to have
lunch at the hotel where they were joined by Dahl.
During the lunch, Dahl said something to the effect that “You two
have nothing to worry about.” This reminded Smith of what Brown
had said the night previously, and seemed to him to link Dahl to the
bugging of Room 502 and the anonymous calls . – Room 502 It is likely lunch took a somber tone with thoughts of what would
happen to them. Arnold and the others
could imagine everything
from loss of their jobs, prison sentences involved with this event,
conspiracy to
commit
fraud, sabotage, and loss
of
Government
Property, charges or implication in murder…
At one point, Smith excused himself from the table and attempted to
make a call to an acquaintance, FBI agent Bobbitt of the Portland Field
office. Bobbitt was unavailable and it appears Smith did not attempt to
again contact the FBI office.
3:30 pm Tacoma Times reporter Paul Lantz called Arnold to gain
some information but Arnold declined.
    The Note under the door – All four were back in the hotel room 502
when an envelope was pushed silently under the door. Both Crisman
and Dahl turned white until Arnold picked it up and read the letter. It
was a notice from the management that there was an imminent strike
of the “Cooks, Waitresses and Bartender’s Union, Local 61, AF of L”
at the hotel. No meals or room services would be provided and the
switchboard would only be open for emergency calls. The strike was
scheduled for that day Friday at midnight but staff would work until
the end of shift Sat. 7am. Only essential service would be provided by
management. For safety reasons, the elevators would not be in service.
Arnold became annoyed and phoned the desk and asked to speak with
the manager. “We’re expecting important calls here, it may relate to
national
security.”
Arnold eventually
came to
some kind of
arrangement with the hotel desk.
The clerk assured Arnold that
military call would go through.
The tone of the room was strained so Dahl and Crisman left and
decided to put the boat trip off until the military had contacted them.
    5:30pm – The third of five calls by anonymous informant placed to
United Press Wireman (Ted Morello). Caller stated the
B-25 that
crashed was carrying disc fragments and that McChord Field and
officers were Capt. Davidson and Lt. Brown, A-2 Intelligence officers.
(before names were officially released).
Caller stated that the Army would verify his information was accurate,
as the Army had not released the names. Caller said fragments were
top-secret material. - FBI Report 8/19/47.
    6:45 pm - Fourth of five calls by anonymous informant to UP Ted
Morello. Informant again would state B-25 was definitely shot down
and that if asked, the Army Intelligence Officers would not deny it.
Morello thought the informant said to contact Colonel Guys but it was
discovered
it
was Colonel
Gregg
who
was in
charge of
Army
Intelligence A-2. Civilians and the sheriff had been kept away from the
wreckage with the army guarding it.
    Arnold and Smith had dinner inside the hotel. Upon returning to their
room, they checked the desk where they had a phone call from Ted
Morello. Smith called Morello back at the room and they contacted
him at KMO, a Tacoma radio station that Morello was associated with.
Morello refused to talk with Smith until he had left the room and called
from a pay phone.
Smith did this but thought Morello was being
overly theatrical.
    “You’ll change your tune when you hear this,” said Morello. “I had
another one of those anonymous calls. He said he had proof that the
B-25 had been followed shortly after takeoff from McChord, and was
downed by a 20mm cannon. It also said that both you and that private
flier, Arnold, had similar attacks, but both missed somehow. Also that
the January 26 crash, remember, Grace Moore and some Crown Prince
(Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, second in line to