E-161 ' MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 4 
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LIEUTENANT JOHN W. BRADLEY. 
It is with deep regret that we are called upon to advise the 
employees of the Bureau of Entomology of the death of Lieutenant John 
W, Bradley, instructor in Flying at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. 
Lieutenant Bradley figured in an accident on July 2 and died on July 4. 
He was a graduates of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914, 
and later became attached to the gipsy moth parasite laboratory at Melrose 
Highlands. He continued in this service until November 1917, when he was 
enlisted as a Cadet in the Aviation Section of the United States Army. 
After receiving preliminary training at the Aviation Ground School, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and later at Pringeton 
University, he was then assigned to a flying squad and detailed to the 
Wilbur Wright Field at Dayton, He completed his course and received his 
commission about one month ago, becoming an instructor. 
At the time of the Accident Lisutenant Bradley was flying with a 
Cadet, and descending from a high elevation when about 150 feet altitude the 
machine suddenly crashed to thé ground, Lieutentant Bradley suffered 
grievous injuries but was conscious for about one hour after the accident, 
refusing to take an anaesthetic while the broken bones were being set. 
He failed to rally and dicd late the evening of July 4, being buried from 
the residence of his father at Groton, Mass. July 9. 
A younger brother of Lieutenant Bradley who also has been employed 
for some months on gipsy moth work is now a Cadet Aviator at Kolly. Field, 
San Antonio, Texas. 
DR. HOWARD VISITS PACIFIC COAST STATIONS. 
The Chief of the Bureau has returned from a field trip to the 
Pacific Coast, in the course of which he visited the laboratories at 
Sacramento, San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Catos, Spreckels, Alhambra, 
Riverside, El Centro, Fresno, and Pasadena Uplands. He also visited 
the Bureau of Plant Industry Truck Gardens at Chico and also a large 
silk plantation near Palermo, California. On his return East ho saw 
Mr. Reeves at Ogden and discussed the alfalfa weevil situation. 

