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VOL. 9—NO. 18
EMPHASIZED
IN MESSAGE
ARE DEFEATED
JOIN ENGLAND
(UP).—
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INDEPENDENCE
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TEACHERS TO
CONVENE HERE
REMNANTS OF
RESISTANCE
FDR, Hull Believe
European Nations
May Lead World
Into Another War
Ousted Monarch
Retreats to Exile
With Family But
Still Has Hopes
Entire Regiment
Of Grenadiers Are
Landed by Italy '
In Plane Maneuver
the meeting whs “very
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Sacred Harp Singing
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campaign.
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East Texas: Fair, warqidi today;
Monday partly cloudy.
West Texas: Fair today; Monday
partly cloudy.
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HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 9. 1939
♦PEACE THREAT Nab Ex-Convict
After Bank Holdup
“PEACE PACT”
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to the peace of the world.
"It would be 'short-sighted not
to take ilfllicc of this further de-
velopment. Any threat to world
peace seriously concerns all na-
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The ousted' monarch, known to
j as “Bird I.,” arrived
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MOLINE. III. (UP)
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Baby Left on Porch
Adopted by Oil Man
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In Clean-Up Campaign
I organizations have been
received by the Chamber of Com-
merce, A.I H. Gardner, manager,
! said yesterday.
Noble Davis, president of the
. Kiwanis Club, said: “It is grati-
fying to see improvements already,
begun on downtown store fronts.
The average visitor’s impression
I of u town is established by What
he sees as he is driving through.
There is room for much more im-
provement in this respect and it
is to be hoped that others* follow
ogg-Briand pact outlawing
as an
icy. The note was
Faik
ter.
4. Certain official 1.7 S. quarters
expressed belief bait'd on ad-
vices from abroad 1'
Europe were rushing toward
climax. 1
failed.
He said the Federal Bureau of
Investigation had cooperated in
uncovering the plot and would
question Dickson’s girl-wife, Es-
telle. about it in Kansas City. She
was captured by FBI agents Sat-'
Il Duce’s Forces TakeOver Tiny Albania In Aerial Invasion
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expressed belief that the United
States would not enter any con-
flict that resulted in Europe.
6. Commerce Department re-
ports revealed inroads in U. S.
trade with Mexico due to success-
ful application of barter methods
by Germany. Italy and Japan.
Hull’s? denunciation of Italian
n tn Albania followed
is lines of the official U.
S. statement of abhorpnee at the
dismemberment of Czechoslova-
kia by Germany. He placed special
emphasis on the threat to Ameri-
can peace; contained in the con-
tinuance and extension of aggres-
sive policy and action by nations
in other parts of the world.
"The forcible and violent invas-
ion of Albania,” said Hull, "is un-
ih.',.
"We'D have a courthouse full
of visitors," Add Gentry, local Sa-
cred Harp singing leader, said
Saturday.
The annual singings began when
the new courthouse was complet-
ed, Gentiy said, and it has been
an institution here ever since.
Henderson Joins War-Scared
World In Celebrating Easter
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i Christians to
Worship Risen
Christ Today
I’renper Beiiito Mussolini
taken over Albania.
The Turkish Government, hi
was said, doubted that Mussolini
had given up his aspirations for
tjouth Anatolia and also regarded
Italian fortification of the Dode-
canese Island as a direct menace
to the security of Greece.
As members of the Balkan en-j
tente Rumania and Turkey were
chiefly concerned by the fall of
Albania and its r*;----------!—
mainly with regard to
SALONIKA, Greece. (UP) —
Achmed Zog, king of the Albani-
ans and “Son of the Eagle,’’ rei
treated into exile before the guns'
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sent word they would ques- vow to fight on for the indepen-
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Weary and stained with the dust
of the battlefield, the 43-year-old
monarch had. crossed the frontier
into Greece this morning to find
his wife and son safe at a Florina
hotel as Italian land, sea and aerial
forces occupied his little Adriatic
kingdom and declared him a fu-
gitive subject to arrest.
“I surrender to nobody,” mem-
bers of his part;- quoted him as
saying at Florina 'where he arriv-
ed with funds brought from Tira-
na and estimated at $77,200.
The king was understood to be
planning an effort to enlist the aid
of fnreign powers against the
Fascist grip on his kingdom and
to direct Albanian guerilla war-
fare against the invaders in .the
hope that a general European
conflict would restore him to the
throne that has been a trouble
xpot since the days of Alexander
The Great.
Even before the exiled monarch
had hurried to the bedside of queen j
Geraldine,-who is. part American, ’
the queen had Issued an appeal to .
City police will begin a drive
against apeeding in the city limits
discus: with Turkish officials and parking ordinance violations
I’rinic Minister Neville Chamber-1 here Monday.
Iain’s new security policy and to I Chief W. H. Powers said Satur-
Judy Balkan relations now that day that his department will en-
“ j1BS forcft the iaWH Tftg COpg win not
be-unreasonable, but will see that
Government,it| the ordinances are not violated.
The present parking situation in’
Henderson has become a problem
that officers believe can be greatly
alleviated by proper policing.
Effective May 1, the office ot
city judge will be abolished and
Mayor M. H. Marwil will handle
,v uie mu «i ‘ cases ln th0 Corporation Court.
repercussions,1 The present city judge is Attorney
* > Bulgaria.I R. M. Allen.
dence of his mountain kingdom.
£>i.wnvv*i **«?* »***-*- Tut: uuai
........... I iff Jim Freeland and Guv Hale, an his people
L Sources believed to reflect officer of the State Liquor Control in Salonika from Florina, where
accurately the opinions of Presi- Board, a few hours after tnc Gra- he had rejoined his stricken queen
The officers who encountered him
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TIRANA, Albania. (UP).—
Italy took pver the little Adriatic
kingdom of Albania in an unpre-
cedented aerial invasion Saturday
and thrust a Fascist military
spearhead at the heart of the war-
worried Balkans.
Landing an entire regiment of
the famous six-foot-tall grena-
U.S. DENOUNCES MUSSOLINI S INVASION OF ALBANIA
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The annual Sacred Harp sing-
ing convention, held every year
at this time, will attract hundreds
of singers and lovers of the old-
fa shiored sing-songs to the Rusk
County -courthouse today.
Sacred harp advocates from
Harrison, Henderson, Cherokee,
Nacogdoches. Shelby, Panola and
other counties in the East Texas
area will travel hundreds of miles
I to participate in- the festivities’
I that begin at 10 o'clock this morn- |
questionably an additional threat
states-
examiiK- all „„
aspect.; of this situat:> t in
k»* 'IffilifW ' Conference (bid, • it A.W
WASHINGTON. (UP) — The
United States last night formally
denounced Italy's invasion of Al-
bania in a statement reflecting
the mounting concern of President
Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Cordell Hull that .European de-
wlopments may lead the world
Into war.
t The American denunciation, read
-—*----to—newspapermen—personally—by*
Hull after long distance telephone
Communication with Mr. Roose-
velt at Warm Springs, emphasiz-
ed the' threat to the peace of the
world contained in the latest out-
break of aggression.
Hull plainly foreshadowed the
addition of Albania to the length-
• cning list of prizes of aggression
whose conquest has not received
diplomatic recognition by the
United States.
Hull's formal statement topped
a series of developments which
mirrored increasing preoccupa-
tion of the Nation’s capitol upon
the swift pattern o’! events abroad.
Developments:
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I started down the road.
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex. (UP)—Leonard C. Stockton,
paroled convict who was shpt and captured a few hours after
he robbed the First National Bank of Gj’aford, was identi-
fied late today as the nervous, threatening gunman who kid-
naped James (Sonny) Ferguson, 21, a filling station attend-
ant, at Marlow, Okla., last night..
Ferguson, who was released near^ . —
Perrin. Tex., after a wild, all- i
night ride with his abductor, iden- /rip if I 111/11 ]
tified Stockton in jail here. /Illi W I I ■■ N
Stockton denied that he was the kVU ■ W 11 W IV
man who killed Jo3 Bali, Oklahoma — -
City mail carrier who was shot and t TIP II I |||Ll LllU
stabbed to death last night near plllll I I I 111 I I 111
Rush Springs, Okla., about 10 I IUIII VII I VII
miles, from Marlow.
"The man win* kidnaped me
didn’t say a thing about any kill-
ing." Ferguson said.______________1
"He was nervous, and said he
’had to get away from there, in a
hurry’ but he didn’t give any hmt
as to why he was trying to get
away.”
Stockton has one artificial leg,
his right leg being made of cork,
It was said in Oklahoma City that
the man who killed -Ball also ap’-
peared to have a crippled leg.
Stockton was taken late today
to the jail in Palo Pinto, in the
county in which the bank robbery
occurred. Several Oklahoma offi- of Fascist Italy tonight with
ccrs s
tion hjm there.
Stockton wa.i captured by Sher-
What effect the (JiiixgfcS will
have on the Democratic party in
Missouri was anyon-’s guess. Gov.
Lloyd C Sv?u vvtiw *’**ft’ •* i
I relentless war on Pendeiga .t fori
two years, Is the (nan who started
th» Insurance investigation. H»- in-
terested the national administra-
tion in the situation and kept the
fire tinder the inquiry until results
were obtained._ Matirice M. Milli-
gan. another Democrat who hqs
W'
High Command prepared for the
arrival of Premier Benito Musso-
lini today or Monday by smash-
ing at scattered but still stubborn-
ly resisting Albania irregulars in
the mountains and pushing on to-
ward the Jugoslav and Greek-
front iers. For all practical pur-
poses, Albanian army resistance
was crushed.
Seeking to crush the remnants
of Albanian resistance in the
rough mountainous country be-
yond Tirana and thus break
through u weak link' in the Euro-
pean anti-aggression front, the
Fascist war machine moved with
lightning-like speed in the occu-
pation of the kingdom. Develop-
ment included:
1. Announcement to the p'ople
over the Tirana- Italian con-
trolled radio that Premier Be-
nito Mussolini would fly here to*
day or tomorrow for a triumphal
Thtry into the new pr^t.<(orate.
2. Arrival of Count Galeazzo
Cianno, the Italian Foreign Min-
ister, by airplane to set up a new
pro-Italian protectorate regime
including enemies of King Zog,
who fled with his Queen, his
three-day-old son and most of his
Cabinet Ministers into exile-: in
Grejce- taking an estimated $77.-
()(•« of royal treasury funds with
him.
3. Announcement that King
Zog had been declared an “out-
law” because of his opposition to
Italy and would he seized if he
returned to Albanian soil, which
.probably will be a part of the
relations Italian empire over which King
Victor Emmanuel will hold title. ’
4. Arrival of an entire regi-
ment of 3,000 of the famous Ital-
ian grenadiers—known as the
tallest and toughest of Fascist
fighters—by airplane in Tirana to
aid in operations already under-
way to clean out snipers and
bands of Albanians still fighting
the Italian invaders in the inter-
ior mountains,
A military parade at Tirana
was arranged for Mussolini's
visit, although ft was uncertain
whether he would arrive today or
Monday. In any event, the Fas-
cist dictator Is scheduled to make
a speech to the Albanian people
here on Monday explaining Italy’s
A half-frozen, undernourished
baby was abandoned on the porch
of a vacant Humble Oil and Re-
fining Company employe home at
Crim’s Hill, near Kilgore, some-
time Friday nifcht.
Saturday the six-month
youngster — a boy — had found
a home. A wealthy independent
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that he would adopt him.
The abandoned child, a
i eyed blond, was left at the house
and was wrapped only in a small .........— ■■
blanket. When found he had been ; influenci was for sale,
exposed to the cold early jnorn- I
ing breeze and an Humble em-
ploye rushed him to a hospital in
Kilgore, where he was soon re-
vived with nourishment and :
warmth. Deputies from the Rusk
County sheriff's department in-
vestigated but found no clues ex-
a car had circled the
group of houses several hours
earlier.
Several people had, asked to i
adopt the child, it was reported
, _______ but it had been definitely
Sheriff Walz said that a week decided that the rich oil family,
who have no children, would rear
the child.
Religious Henderson residents
today join the war-scared world
I in celebrating the holiest of all
Easter.
From early morning until late
at night, devout Christians tin
World over pay homage to the
Christ w?ho arose from the grave
on the third day after he had
been nailed to a cross between
two thieves on Golgatha Hill, just
outside the city of .feriisalein.
Many Rusk County residents
this morning trek to Cherokee
, County where they join in wor-
shiping the risen Lord at' the Love
Lookout Park amphitheatre, near
[ Jacksonville. There special ser-
vices had been arranged? under
the direction of Mrs. C. K. I»e-
, Busk. It was slated for sunrise.
Catholics in the Henderson vi-
cinity will observe high mass at
the St. Jude's Catholic Church in
Crimcrest, beginning at h a.m.
British Offer to
Protect Rumanian
Frontier Believed
To Be Acceptable
nirrn a di- cT—di®rs in a sensational airplane
Bl CH ARES I, kumnna (U >)., I1Hn sport mnneuver. the
•Hlumiuiia was understood today — - v
to .welcome any British offer to
protect her frontiers and it was
reported here that Turkey .was
ready to join the European anti-
aggression front.
Bulgarin, despite its “treaty of
amity” with Jugoslavia, was be-
lieved almost committed com-
pletely to cooperation with Ger.
many and Italy. The latter’s oc-
cupation of Albania was seen
here as a "wedge” for a link
with Bulgaria, once firmly es-
tablished in Albania, it was said,
Italy might <asily seize upon lo-
cal Macedonian trouble in Sou-
thern Jugoslavia as a pretext to
march in, thu.s establishing a di-
rect contact with Bulgaria. The
Balkan entente thus would be
.iplit.
Gafencu and Turkish
men probably will
Geraldine and their three-day-old
son after a "nightmare" flight
liighway northeast of here, from Tirana. •
! The entire entourage, including
' i sisters who visited
Henderson's two civic clubs, the .social
Kiwanians and the Linns, and;------
leading women’s organizations
have joined with the local Cham-
ber of Commerce and city offic-
ials in urging all rexidentiLtb par-
ticipate in the Clean-Up', Paint-
Up and Fix-Up campaign this
week which has been proclaimed
by Mayor M. H. Marwil.
The campaign is in conjunction
with the State-wide elean-up week
Governor W. Lee
added, might agree on issuing a
warning to Bulgaria.
Concerning the problem of gen-
eral European security, it was
said the conference also might
result in making Turkey an in-,
termediary link between Rumania
and Soviet Russia, the same as
Poland links up Rumania with
Britain and Franco.
There were unconfirmed re-
ports in ■ Bucharest that Russia
had inquired through Turkey
about the new Rumanian-Ger-
ipan trade treaty recently nego-
tiated, and there also were re-
ports that Rumania was anxious
Io re-establish normal
with Russia.
In any negotiations, however,
Rumania will be careful to avoid
taking any steps’ which Germany
could Interpret as aimed at her.
King Carol and his advisers were
aid to be desirious of maintain-
ing the best of relations with
Germany, and it, was emphasized
that Rumania would carry out
both the letter nn-d spirit of the
Rumanian-German trade treaty,
Gnfcncu is scheduled to visit
Berlin around the middle of the
month and may participate in the
celebration of Hitler’s 50th birth-
day on April 20.
Indirectly, Rumania alri-ady Is
linked to the British nlan through
her alliaiico with Poland.
Turkey, while threatened by
Germany’s Drang Nach Osten
R?ss than other Balkan States,
watched Italy’s Albanian penetra-
tion of the Balkans with the
greatest apprehension. i
Rumanian Foreign Minister
Groogor Fafencu, it was under-
stood has gone to Instanbul to
with Turkish
Rented the facts to the jury., He
also prosecuted the Pendergast’
the world for aid.
"We qre going to keep on re- j
sisting.” the queen delated. "Tell
the outside world it must do some-
thing for Albania. It’s brave peo- i
pie will resist to the end but such I
a small country cannot hold out !
alone for any length of time?’ .
The queen's appeal was issued
through her grandmother, Count-
ess D'Estrelle D'Ekna, because
the three doctors and nurses in
indicted several of its leaders, was
wqi'ried today, with Pendergast
up'ler federal indictment, accused
"The' Queen pleaded with the I 01 ta,d”? moncy in connection with
i the settlement of nn insurance rate
|case.
T'lrt* District k meeting of the
Texas Teachers Association will
hold its 1940 convention in Hen-
derson, the House of Delegates
decided yesterday before adjourn-
ment of the first annual session
in Longview.
Approximately 2500 school
(■■ ii Ju is fioui all sections of Hast
I i xas will conic here for the
meeting. -.Two thousand register-
ed ijl llu Longview sessions Fri-
day and Saturday,
A eorstitution and by-laws of
the new district was adopted.
Frank L. Singletary, superin-
tend ?:t of the Carlisle schools,
wa. chairman of tho constitution
eomhllttee.
J M.-Hodges of.Tyler, was elect-
ed pr<jident of the association,
with Mis. Bertha Allen', ’Gregg
County superintendent, as vl’ce-
n,-eside?it. R. L. Speight, - Long-
?-w, i. the uiew secretary and
Eloise Watson, principal ot the
\rp schools and a former teacher
sunrise service j in th? Henderson schools, is treas-
ied with Hol- uier. F. L. Moffett w’hs elected
■ruing, the Rev. ■■ lata '*x'1 itiv? committeeman.
Supt. <?. ft. Po’iutd. Af the Hen-
dar-ion i. hi.ols, is the pa^t presi-
dent and reported last night that
success-
ful.” Hundreds of teachers from
Rusk.County wen- present for the
gein-ial sessions and sectional
meetings, •
Two
youthful pilots were killed Satur-
day when their airplane crashed
on a knoll 14 miles cast of the
airport. I proclaimed by
The dead: Arnold Johnson and , (J'Daniel.
Alien Stamp,- both about 25, of ( Endorsements of the campaigi.
I East Molina. | from the heads of local civic and*
Pendergast is ."rcc on $H),Of)O
bond for appearance in court April
24. R. Emmett O'Malleyr?hla close
friend an<l former State insurance
commissio'nei', also is at liberty on
$1(1,000 bond. Pendergast is ac-
cused of getting $315,000 from the
settlement and O'Malley allegedly
received $82,500. ' j
The indictments have shaken the
otganizntion. dominant in State- Father Harold P. Clossey, M. S„
0],l wide politics for years and absolute I
ruler ln Kansas City, as nothing
i over has in its long history. Pen-
oil man of Laird's Hill announced oergast. one of the last of the old-
stvle. iron-handed bosses that once
ruled local politics, has been e.all-
, cd hard names in his time, but r.o
none ever charged before that his
dent Roosevelt warned at Warm •<”?! robbery.
Springs. Ga. that the continuance T'
of military aggression by some na- on „ .....----------------- —
tions is bringing the United Stales -’hot the tires off his car. and then
closer to the moment when eco- 1 engaged in a gun battle with him the king’s ------
nomic policies mus( be readjust- after the car careened into a ditch. America some time ago, »-as in-
ed or world markets abandoned. ! Stockton fired five or six shots, stalled in a big 40-room Mediter-
S. Sen. WiMiam E. Borah. R.. th-* sheriff- sail.-before he was hit ranean palace here.
Jda’. the--- Senate's distinguished in the head by a shot fired by one ’ *’ ........
elder statesman in the field of of the officers. The bullet ereas-
foreign affairs, expressed | belief I ed his scalp but did not critically
that proposed changes in U. S. j wound him.
Neutrality laws to permit repri- Ferguson was kidnaped while at
sals against aggressor nations work at the filling station,
were a subtle devic<j "to get this 1 "The man walked up last night
nation into war.” < i aid said he had to have some gaso-
3. Albania, through its diplo- line for hit automobile, which was
matic mission here, denounced in stalled down the road.” Ferguson
a formal note to the-state depart- said,
ment Italy’s invasion as a viola-; woke up my boss, Bernard
tion of treaties including the Kell- shaden, and got his car, and we
" ' ?'■ * ' '■'•J war I started down the road. But the
instrument of'- national pol- I nlan didn’t have any car. About
dispatched by follr or five blocks from the sta-
Konitza, ’Alabgnian minis- non, he stuck a gun on me and
■ teM-mc to staii.eh'.iving fast.”
At'Perrin, Ferguson stopped the
car and said that either he or the
that events in gunman was going to get out.
... *- -- -] a stoci{ton decided that Ferguson
likely to be reached be- ,vaR the one who would go. and put
tween now and April 15 should - the Oklahoma City youth out on
Germany attempt to occupy Dan- j t)le rrtad.
zig oi- the Polish'Corridor. Stockton then drove to Graford,
5. Sen. George W. Norris. Ind.. ; held up the bank, took $259.95 and
Ncbr.. only member of the Senate drove au/iy in his stolen car.
still sitting in the upper chamber Fciguson, meanwhile, made his
who voted against war in 1917, 1 way to Mineral Wells, where he
of the Missionaries of Our Lady
of La Sallette, announced the spec-
ial services Saturday.
The London Methodist (’IihkIi
I has a special program pTanned,
beginning with a ■
that will be 'f'lsed
j Communion this morning, the Rev.
R. L. Jackson annou-need early
[this week. The evening s>-ivi<?-
Will be a program in charge of
I Mrs. Jackson.
Stark, who has waged;
I senteq at the First Baptist Church
[Under the direction of Jimmy Ri"
- educational director, nt both sei
vices today. The pastor, the Rev.
H. Marshall Smith, will devote
both hours'^. Easter themes. His
morning subject is "Christ the
, Flrstfiuit.” The morning spec jal
hceh an organization nemesis, pic- i nurrftier by the choir will be "The
Hill, the Cross, the ('town.”
"The Risen Christ” will be
PENDERGAST’S
RULE AT END
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) The 1 Holy seasons’
political machine ran by Tom Pen-
dergast. which laughed off such
.................... _ _ ,,, matt< rs as the. vote fraud trials
attendance on her Majesty refused 1 ! l,1< < f)UntV grand jury which
her pleas to be permitted to speak
directly to the United Press cor-
respondent.
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Richetti; Wife Captured
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UP)--<j,urday afternoon two blocks from
Sheriff Carl Walz disclosed last the FBI office in Kansas City,
night that Benny Dickson, Kansas Richetti, who was condemned to
bandit killed by federal agents in , die for his part in the Kansas City
.St, Louis Thursday, perpetrated a Union Station massacre, would
fantastic plot to dynamite the Mis- have .been freed on the eye of his
sourl prison and free the gangster scheduled execution had Dickson’s
A Adam Richetti who was executed daring idea worked, the sheriff
~ October 7 yast year. The plot sai’d.
The plan was to smuggle dyna-
mite. ammunition and guns Into
the prison by concealing it in fur-1
niture. | here,
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Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 9, 1939, newspaper, April 9, 1939; Henderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1331590/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rusk County Library.