

E-150 MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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‘THERE IS NO QUESTION OF MODERATION, JUSTICE OR RIGHT, WHICH AT PRESENT CAN 
OBTAIN BETWEEN THE ENTENTE AND THE CENTRAL POWERS! 
GERMANY MUST BE BEATEN! 
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‘TATIONS OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND IS ANSWERED ONLY BY THE STUBBORN FACT - 
THAT GERMANY MUST BE BEATEN! 


"CAVE CANEM! 
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‘THERE IS NO OVERT ACT OF DELIBERATE TREASON SO ABOMINABLE, SO REPREHENSIBLE, AS 
THE INSIDIOUS WORK OF UNE WHO WILFULLY SEEKS TO DEPRECIATE THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE 
PATRIOT! 
LIEUTENANT VERNON KING, 
With deep regret the attention of the personnel of the Bureau of Entomelogy 
is called to the death of Lieutenant Vernon King, formerly Scientific Assistant 
in the branch of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations. 
Lieut. King was at one time attached to the staff of the Wellington, Kans., 
field laboratory and was afterwards placed in charge of the station at Charleston, 
Mo. He resigned from the service November 5, 1914, for the purpose of entering the 
British Army, and proceeded to Canada with this idea in view. For some reason he 
was not admitted to tne 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 Command- 
ing Officer, Maj. C, F, A. Portal, addressed to Lieut. 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. Lieutenent King lived for about one-half 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 conducted by him were those on the corn wireworm 
. Horistonotus uhleri which was afterwards completed by Mr. E. H. Gibson under 
the direction of Mr. W. R. Walton, Entomologist in Charge, Cereal and Forage Insect 
Investigations. 
The following is a copy of the letter of Major Portal: 

No. 16 Eqn. R. A. F. 
B. EH, F. 
April 12th. 
Dear Mr, King: 
I am extremely sorry to have to tell you that your son, Lt. V. King, was 
