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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 11 
Obituary 
JOHN W. BRADLEY 
Lieutenant John W. Bradley of the Aviation Branch of the United 
States Army, met with an accident July 2nd at Wilbur Wright Field, 
Dayton, Ohio, which resulted in his death two days later. Lieutenant 
Bradley was a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 
and had been employed several years as a Scientific Assistant in the 
Bureau of Entomology, and worked at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, 
Melrose Highlands, Mass. He enlisted as a Cadet in November, 1917, 
received ground training at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬ 
nology and Princeton University, after which he was ordered to Wilbur 
Wright Field for instruction in flying. He completed this course and' 
received his commission as Lieutenant about a month ago, and after a 
few days furlough was appointed instructor. The accident happened 
while Lieutenant Bradley was flying with a Cadet. The machine fell 
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about 150 feet. The injuries which he sustained were so serious that 
he died two days later. 
A. F. B. 
VERNON KING 
With deep regret attention is called to the death of Lieutenant Ver¬ 
non King, formerly Scientific Assistant in the branch of Cereal and 
Forage Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, United States 
Department of Agriculture. Lieutenant King was at one time at¬ 
tached to the staff of the Wellington, Kans., field laboratory and was 
afterward placed in charge of the station at Charleston, Mo. He 
resigned from the service November 5, 1914, for the purpose of enter¬ 
ing the British Army, and proceeded to Canada with this idea in view. 
For some reason he was not admitted to the Canadian troops and went 
to England where he gained an appointment in the service for sea duty. 
For some time he was stationed at the Dardanelles but more recently 
had become a member of the flying corps and the last direct news 
received from him stated that he was flying in the vicinity of Verdun. 
The press account of his death, which is in the form of a letter from 
his Commanding Officer, Maj. C. F. A. Portal, addressed to Lieuten¬ 
ant King’s father, states that while serving as a flying observer on 
April 11, 5.20 p. m., his plane was attacked by three enemy scouts 
and shot down. Lieutenant King lived for about one-half an hour but 
did not regain consciousness. During Mr. King’s term of service in 
the Bureau of Entomology he made many friends by reason of his 
genial personality and vivacious disposition. The chief investigations 
