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Island and he would contact
him the next day to see what he thought and if it was of interest, they
would return immediately.
This request might have explained why
Davidson and Brown were not very interested in returning to Hamilton
Base with slag fragments.
    “Just as the army command car pulled up in front of the hotel, Fred
Crisman arrived.
He started taking a large Kellogg cornflakes box out
of the trunk of his car. We assumed it was the fragments. Arnold
helped Crisman unload this box from the trunk of the command car
and put it in.
Arnold could see the top of the box flapping open.
Inside the box were a great number of large chunks of material that
looked similar to the fragments we had in our room.
Somehow,
though they looked more rocky and less metallic. All of the pieces I
could see were much thicker than any of the pieces we saw in our
room .” -COS p.56
    After Midnight - After Capt. Davidson and Brown left, Crisman,
Arnold, and Smith went out for coffee and donuts. Crisman left for
home.
Arnold noted that
Crisman
said he wasn’t married, but
according to public records Crisman had married Filo Veristain in 1942
and they were living together in 1947.
    Ted Morello called after they had returned to the hotel room and
insisted Arnold and Smith deny or confirm information that had taken
place in the room. Arnold handed the phone to Smith who hung up.
Arnold would relate that they had previously agreed to not discuss
information with the media and perhaps now felt more comfortable
that this investigation was turned over to the military.
Arnold related in his book that Capt. Smith in the tub or upon retiring
sang a leaky faucet song that was nationally popular at the time. (The
song was likely “Bloop Bleep,” sung by Danny Kaye about a man
tossing and turning to a leaky
faucet, a surprise hit from Frank
Loesser.)
    Bloop, bleep, bloop, bleep, bloop, bleep
The faucet keeps a-drippin’ and I can’t sleep
Bleep, bloop, bleep, bloop, bloop, bloop, bleep
I guess I never should’ve ordered clam soup…
    Notes: Why was the B-25 Bomber flight plan changed from Long
Beach to Hamilton field?
Could the metal pieces been from the wreckage of a plane that was
secretly dumping slag from
Hanford Nuclear Plant
in
Central
Washington?
    In the book “What Happened in Room 502?”, it’s stated that
Crisman had given Arnold the idea of making a short film of the entire
trip and cash in on his name to make a lecture tour with it.
Crisman
had informed Arnold about a Hollywood production company who
had come into Tacoma last December, filmed for ten days, and made a
full travelogue of the city and surroundings. Arnold would later claim
his film was stolen. It is believed though that due to a later interview
Arnold had made an agreement with Palmer at one time that Palmer
would have the rights to the book and Arnold would retain movie
rights.

August 1, 1947 Friday
    12:00- 2:00 am - Capt. Davidson and 1 st Lt. Brown left the Winthrop
Hotel to return to Hamilton Air Force Base in California. Passengers
Technical Sgt. Woodrow D. Mathews and T4 Elmer L. Taff joined
them. – FBI Report, SAC Wilcox, 1947
    2:12 am -Takeoff “Approximately 25 minutes later the left engine caught fire,
the left wing came off and the aircraft crashed into a wooded area”.- John A.
Walring, Police Patrolman, Longview Police Station
2:35 am Kelso Patrolman John A.Walring saw the B-25 bomber on
fire and witnessed the crash.
    “I was on duty the morning of August 1, 1947 and was cruising in
my police car at about 2:35 in Longview, Washington when I looked
up and saw airplane lights flying at approximately 21,000 feet.
I
noticed then it caught on fire again engulfing the whole airplane. It
appeared then the pilot pulled the airplane up and seemed to go into a
spin and lost altitude. The airplane came out of the spin, and started to
corkscrew down and crashed straight into the ground.
When the
airplane pulled out of the first spin, he seemed to