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ankees at Cherbourg Waterfront:
Four Red Armies In Gre
•Russians Slay
.45.000 Nazis
Vitebsk Trap
^ By the Associated Frees
LONDON, June, 26.—At-
tacking with shattering force
on a 250-mile front in one of
history’s greatest land offen-
© sives, four powerful Russian
armies drove westward
through the broken German
“fatherland line” in White
Russia today, leaving behind
e an island of 45,000 trapped
W enemy troops. These were be-
ing cut to pieces in the battle-
torn streets of encircled Vi-
tebsk.----------------
Offensive
GOPs Race for Band 5th Captures
Wagon-Tom Deweys udianPort
1 Supply Base
CHICAGO STADIUM, June 26—(P)—The first session of the 23rd
Republican National convention recessed at 12:20 p. m. CWT today until
8:15 p. m. CWT when Gov. Earl Warren of California will deliver the
keynote address.
By PAUL MILLER
CHICAGO, Stadium. June 26.—(AP)—Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey took an apparently insurmountable lead for the Re-
publican presidential nomination today as the party’s 1944
convention opened with the main business of the conclave
thus all but settled in advance. .
As the hour for convening approached and passed with hundreds of
delegates apparently still absent, and the platform itself unfilled, rapid-
fire acton by individual states-raised the New Yorker's total of pledged
and claimed votes to 660, with 528 needed to nominate.
So far had Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio dropped to the pre-conven-
tion determination of state votes that speculation of the delegates switch-
r ed from the presidency to talk of vice presidential prospects headed by
As Russia's vital role in the Al- Gov. Earl Warren of California.
• lied Teheran master plan to crush Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska. It was announced, will place Gov-
Germany this wear unfolded ernor Dewey’s name in nomination Wednesday morning.
Germany this year unfolded front Previously, Griswold had been mentioned for the vice-presidency
by front. German broadcasts noted His designation to nominate said unconfirmed reports on the con-
With alarm that a Fifth Red army vention floor was part of a piece of high strategy that was discussed as
had struck in the Ostrov sector, 165 shaping up like this:
6 miles northwest of doomed Vitebsk. 1 presftiswoida wmid-westerner, nominating Dewey, an. easterner, for
_’ i prcT W iin warren, lar westerner, as the possible vice presidential
That would make a 325-mile front choice. . P0vice presidential
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ROME. June 26 (PP)—American
troops of the Fifth Army seized
the port of Piombino without op-
position yesterday, thereby gain-
ing a valuable advanced. supply
base for continued thrust up Italy's
west coast, while both American’s
and French troops, converged on
the inland town of Siena, Allied
headquarters announced today
Pressing after the enemy,
who was compelled to evacuate
Piombino to avoid encircle-
ment. American infantry and
tanks stabbed within five miles
of Suvereto and within 38 miles
of the important port of Leg-
horn. Piombino is almost di-
rectly opposite the captured
island of Elba.
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in the east, exclusive of the two
Russian armies now battering Fin-
land.
L And at least four other great Sov- |
W let armies, equipped in part with!
American weapons, are poised on the
Polish and Romanian fronts—wait-i
less.
The forces of Gov. John W. Bricker continued their fight none the
Air Medal Giver
ing for the signal for a concerted
push toward Berlin in conjunction
with Allied armies in the west and
a south.
• Rolling over roads strewn with
dead Germans and wrecked equip- ,___, . a x ,
merk. The Russians hide thrown a bombing missions over Europe has
broad belt of men and machines been awarded Lt. Lee 3. Woods Ab-
around the fortress city of Vitebsk, ilene navigator on a B-24 his wife
and were threatening the strong- - - ’
e holds of Orsha. Mogilev and Bob-
ruisk to the south.
Local Navigator
Air medal for
participation in
the former Billie Barron, has been
informed.
A new flurry of speculation
over the possibility of some Republi-
can action toward Senator Harry F
Byrd, Virginia Democrat, was
started by Senator Owen Brewster
of Maine, who declared in a radio
interview that a "responsible lead-
er" of the Republican party had ap-
proached Byrd with the suggestion
that he make himself available for ____
tion COP vee presidential ngmina- 01 Roces Dorchs, a muen from
The subject was raised in Wash-Between these points and the
ington by a group of Republican Tyrrhenian coast the reinforced
congressmen last week—but Byrd enamu ~—--*—■--
said he was net interested.
Farther Inland the Germans
were rolled back upon the ap-
proaches to Siena from three
directions. One Fifth Army
force eracked through the vil-
lages. of Torniella and Scal-
vala and threatened the town
of Monticiano, five miles fur-
ther north and less than 15
miles southwest of Siena.
French troops, meanwhile, ad- _______________-___...........,
Minced on the west side of the 1, 1944, with broken lines denoting the Russian and
or siombrone 20 miles due south development of shuttle bombing,
. piena. the same time other - •
French forces approaching from
the southwest took the town of
Castisliona Dorel, and thee village
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TURKEY
ALLIED PATTERN OF ATTACK IN EUROPE—Arrows show major Allied land offen-
sives in the European theater—offensives creating pressure from three sides on Germany
and Serman-conquered areas. Shaded areas indicate Allied territorial gains since January
c1 Italian fronts on that date. Recent
j - - linking Russian bases into Allied aerial strategy, has add-
d to the range and power of attacks from bases in Britain and Italy. (AP Wirephoto)
One-Third of
City Held by
Liberators
Moscow said more than 16.000
Germans had been killed—8,000 of
them in the area south of Vitebsk
alone. Hundreds of big guns, trucks j
and other equipment also had been |
-D seized._____Machines in full-working 1
order were abandoned by the Ger-
mans, whose flight was called a
"retreat in panic." One entire com-
pany of the 56th Nazi Infantry di-
vision came over to the Red Army
side," said the Soviet bulletin.
% In a three-day advance of more
than 25 miles, the Russians had:
freed 1,650 towns and villages. Their |
ultimate objective appeared to be a
break-through to the Baltic sea and
German East Prussia.
Lieutenant Woods, in a letter to
"It won't be decided until the roll |
call actually starts on the floor
Wednesday,” the Bricker supporters
said.
Gov. Dwight H Green of Illinois
had the job of officially welcoming
delegates to the windy city in a
speech that accused the Roosevelt
administration of "political med-
dling" with the armed forces in run-
ning the war.
Green declared that Republicans
would give the professional fighting
men a free hand.
At 11:16—Despairing of getting
everybody seated — Spangler went
ahead..
enemy was employing considerable
numbers of big Mark VI Tiger
tanks, which were defeated to a
midnight battle in the area of
Massa Maritima. The enemy de-
laying position to that sector was
, by-passed or wiped out.
A Fifth Army force stabbing to-
ward Montieri still was locked in
a bitter tank and infantry battle
with desperate Nazi datindeis
south of Montieri and eight miles
north of Massa The village of
Boccheggiano was taken to this
area._________
Japanese Lose 747 Nazis Bombed at
Home on Coast
Planes, 6 Carriers
a The situation by sectors as given
in a series of Moscow bulletins and
orders of the day by Premier-Mar-
shal Joseph Stalin: *
Vitebsk--Gen. Ivan Bagram-
ian's First Baltic army had
forced the Dvina river west of
re Vitebsk, cut the German escape
highway to Lepel at a point 20
miles southwest of the city. The
northern and southern Russian
wings united, trapping five
German divisions around and
'.I
(
Inside Vitebsk. Red army shock.,
troops then battered their way
into the streets of Vitebsk, where
a flaming street fight ensued.
Three hundred villages were
taken in the sector.
Orsha—Russian troops of Col.'
Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky's
Third White Russian Army
broke through German positions
northeast of Orsha. They cap-
tured 150 villages, including the
rail station of Khlustino, 10
miles from Orsha, which is 48
miles south of Vitebsk,
»
MOGILEV—Col. Gen. Mat-
vet Zakharov’s second White
Russian Army forced the Pro-
nya river, one of the main de-
fenses of Mogilev, and seized
Chansi, a district center. Khal-
khovichi, only 1g miles from
Mogilev, also was among more
than 200 liberated villages.
Mogilev is IM miles south of
Vitebsk.
LT. LEE J. WOODS
his wife, reported he, had taken
I part in D-Day air activities and
come through unharmed.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley
. Woods. 417 Palm, the officer was
graduated from Abilene high school
I and attended McMurry college
three and a half years While to col-
lege he was student assistant In
the athletic department one year.
For two years before enlistment
to the air forces he was an em-
ploye of Consolidated Aircraft cor-
poration in San Diego, Calif.
trained at Kelley field. Ban Anto-
nio, and received his wings at San-
Marcos in February 1843
He was stationed at Biggs field.
El Paso, and then at Alamogordo,
N. M before going to England last
April.
While in high school here he was
in charge of a Reporter-News car-1
rier route.
"I now declare the Republican
convention of 1944 convened.”
. State after state, toppedbyNew
York with 93 votes, announced fol-
lowing caucuses the decision to go
for Dewey when balloting begins on
Wednesday.
Pennsylvania threw in its 70;
Kansas, 19; Massachusetts 30
of its 35. California arranged a
caucus amid predictions by del-
egate leaders of a solid 50 f.r
Dewey, In all, 11 more state del-
egations planned to take a stand
by nightfall. One wa. lowa-
home of Chairman Spangler-
which recessed Sunday un-
agreed.
After mighty Pennsylvania
announced support for Dewey,
reports spread that Governor
Bricker might be approached
with * suggestion that he con-
rider withdrawing in advance.
He let it be known that he
bad no such intention, saying:
“It is a matter of principle
with me. I intend to
on the same basis as
started.” I
Classmates Go to
Bay's Hospital Bed
And Senator Joseph Ball of Min-
nesota, leading the campaign in be-
Across the entire Fifth Army
front Field Marshal Kesselring
was employing the 88 mm. guns
of his Tiger tanks as mobile ar-
tillery. Most of these weapon,
were from the Nazi 564th tank
battalion, which was rushed
Poitiers, France, three
weeks ago.
An Official spokesman said
there was other evidence that
the Germans were attempting
to "bring reinforcements to the
front to relieve bady battered
units." --------------------------
U 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-
defender.QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June 26.
ontendire—Driven into recklessness by Al-
I lied encroachments toward the Ori-
ent, the Japanese Navy has expend-
ed 747 airplanes and six flat-tops—
the main elements of an entire ear-
rier task force—upon a fruitless de-
fense of the Marianas.
As a result of a series of great
air victories, American soldiers and
Marines fought into northern'
Saipan Island today, bolstered by
unprecedented security against ef-
fective enemy attack by air or by
sea. Already the Americans who
waded ashore at Saipan's southwest-
| ern end June 14 hold half the is-'
j land and have backed the 20.000 or
more defenders into the mountains
of the north.
It also was disclosed that Lt.
Gen Mark Clark’s troops had taken
an additional 1,000 prisoners in the
past few days, bringing the total
captured since the start of the
present offensive to 24.000, exclu-
sive of many thousands seized by
the Eighth Army. . ”
An Allied spokesmen said the
German prisoners taken recently
ineluded 17-year-old youths who
nevertheless have been in the
German army long enough to be-
come disillusioned about Nazi doc-
trines."
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz,
compiling a revised list of en-
emy and American losses thus
far in the Marianas campaign
—from June 10 to 23—disclos-
ed for the first time damage
to an enemy carrier and two
cruisers, and conceded that a
tanker previously reported sunk
had been only severely dam-
aged
This brought the total of Jap-
anese aircraft carriers sunk or
damaged west of the Marinas
during the past week to six.
The Nimitz list also disclosed
that 402 enemy airplanes were
destroyed when Japanese car-
rier planes attacked American
fleet units west of Guam June
18. This was an all-time record
for any war theater for num-
era of planes downed In one ac-
tion.
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
LONDON, June 26.—P — Versa-
j tile RAF Mosquitos flying from |
| Britain maintained steady Allied air |
pressure on the enemy both to Nor- j
By WES GALLAGHER
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, June 26.
— (AP) — American troops
have reached Cherbourg’s vi-
tal docks, and hold one-third
of the city completely, Su-
preme Headquarters announc-
ed tonight, but the Germans
are shelling the city from
their final refuge on the cape
to the northwest.
While doughboys mopped up the
last bitter, fanatical Nazi resistance
in street fighting. British forces on
the eastern flank to Normandy
slashed more than four miles south-
east of Tilly-Sur-Seulies in a sharp
offensive engulfing at least three
towns.
American tanks and troops alike
—representing all the U. S. divi-
sions that cracked Cherbourg’s siege
lines—pushed to the waterfront of
France's third largest port, and
headquarters announced that more
than 20.000 prisoners have been
taken since D-Day, 3.400 at Cher-*
bourg in 24 hours ending at 6 a.
m. today.
German remnants were fall-
ing back on Cap De La Hague
to the northwest, and Nazi ar-
tillery there fired on Cherbourg
to delay Allied use of the great
"X. uh _^.....
flank sagged under the weight
of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont-
gomery’s offensive— supported -
by artillery and warship fire-
that seized Brettevillette, four
miles southeast of Tilly-Sur-
Seulles, Tesselabretville, 2 1-2
miles southeast of Tilly, and
Fontenay Lepresnel, two miles
east of that fallen stronghold.
Tilly is 12 miles west of the
main Nazi eastern bastion of
Caen.
mandy and the German homeland!
overnight while medium and havy Doughboys battled —
bombers from Italy hit Budapest, the st Nazibe titled to clean out
Hungary a capital.
Continuing the Allied air op-
erations that on Sunday kept
five air armadas—four from
Britain and one from Italy.—
drumming German installations
in France virtually all day, the
Mosquitos last night attacked
German troop concentrations,
railroads and supply dumps
near the French battlefront and
still fighting in
| houses in the main sections of Cher-
bourg, and other troops closed in
oh several pockets and villages be-
hind the lines by-passed in the
powerful advance The Germane
still held Manpertus airfield east
of Cherbourg
continue Some Private Hiring
I Possible Under WMC
hole , . -------puts ■" ve- Under the War Manpower Com-
hair Lt. Cmdr. Harold K Stas- mission’s priority referral program
*" * " been no effective June 30, it will be possible
City Firms Take
War Bond Goals
Nimitz announced that carrier-
borne fighter planes swept Two is-
land In the Kazan group, 727 miles
north of Saipan, June 23, sinking
five enemy ships, shooting down
116 planes and probably destroy-
ing 11 more Five Allied fighters
were lost.
industrial objectives in the Ger-
man city of Homberg, northwest
of Duisherg.
Unfavorable weather this
morning threatened to limit to-
day’s operations over the beach-
head sectors.
Powerful aid from the sea helped
the land crash into Cherbourg with
. three American battleships support-
ed by 11 Allied cruisers and des-
(trovers shelling Nazi positions after
silencing German shore batteries in
fierce duels The sea barrage last-
ed three hours yesterday with some
ships coming as close as 8.000 yards
from shore. _____
A dispatch from Associated
BOBRUISK — Gen. K. K.
€ Rokossovsky’s First White Rus-
sian Army again was on the
move to this sector, just above
the Pripyat marshes. The
troops under this Stalingrad
hero hammered out % 50-mile
breach in German defenses an
G both sides of Bobruisk, 70 miles
southwest of Mogilev. The
German stronghold of Zhlobin,
35 miles southeast of Bobruisk,
appeared to be on the verge of
encirclement.
(% Rokossovsky’s men forced the
‘Drut river above Rogachev, which
is 33 miles due east of Bobruisk,
widened a hole in German Unes
to 18 miles, and swept forward
seven miles. Rrtka 20 miles north-
east of Bobruisk was among 100
(illages captured.
w Another Soviet column striking
up from the area southwest of
Bobruisk cut the Bobruisk -Luni-
nets railway-one possible German
escape channel—and seized points
only 10 miles from Bobruisk.
49 The German account of a new
See RUSSIANS Pg. 12, Col. s
NEW YORK. June 26. (P—Four-
teen-year-old Tommy Sullivan was
too ill to attend his parochial
school graduation exercises, so the
graduation came to him.
The entire class, attired in com-
mencement finery, visited Bellevue
hospital, where he has been con-
fined since last March, to watch
Beyond the Normandy front lines,
the Mosquitos left German supply
dumps hidden :n the forest of Bre-
tonne on the Seine a mass of flames.
Crewmen said the fires stretched!
two miles and were advancing in a
series of semi-circles when they!
left._____—
The Mosquitos bombed German ' from a few snipers, and small knots
troops in the village or EVCEr l0f resistance, Whitehead reported,
southwest of Car RAT The cleanun of the prize port
of Laiele and „ came as the British on the eas-
among other targ Areentan were tern Normandy front smashed
2008 other largess into Nazi defenses between Caen
Press correspondent Don White-
head in Cherbourg said “at
11:30 s m. today we cannot say
Cherbourg is entirely ours," al-
though the backbone of enemy
opposition had been broken.
"Patrols pushing Into the central
part of the city met small arms fire
On Salpan's west coast, the
Yanks have reached the out-
skirts of Garapan, peace-time
. Marianas capital of 10,000 t or-
respondents report the heavily-
bombarded town quiet, possibly
evacuated.
Seven Abilene business firms’
turned in employes' bond quotas for:
additional Series E war bonds to
George Barron, co-chairman of the |
steering committee, Monday bring-
ing the total number of firms to 1
endorse the plan to 24
The seven firms are:
Sun Electric, $900.
*Fred Hughes Motor Co. 1100
David S Castle Co . $100
Terrell’s Labratory, $525
St John Motor Co. $525
County tax collector’s office, $950
Security Abstract and Title Co.,
$131.25
sen. declared “there's been no errective June 30, it will be possible
change in our plans," that Stassen's in some cases to make arrangements
name will be placed before the con- allowing certain employers union,
vention, regardless. private employment agencies, civil
In 1MO Dewey also went in to the service, railroad retirement boards
convention with th* most delegates and schools to hire under establish-
polled his highest —360on the — edprocedures, 0. R Rodden di- t ,-----—----^
first ballot. Therafter he dropped rector of the United States Employ. War Loan drive ended with
to 338 on the second 315 on the “—• “—----' sales of $2 A1E 022— - 4*
third, 250 on the fourth and 57 on
private employment agencies, civil
service, railroad retirement boards
The second week of the Fifth
On the east coast, American*
have taken Laulau village at
the northern end of Magicienne
bay.and have advanced 500 to
800 yards along the shore
against strong opposition. A
large enemy force has taken
refuge in the caves and ravine*
of steep, thiekly-wooded Mt.
On biak island, off Dutch New
Guinea, allied troops killed 345
| more Japanes June 22 and 23 to
j bring the total enemy dead since
the Island's Invasion May 27 to 2-
3330
July Paper Pickup
In Abilene Sunday
the Rev Terrence A. McNally pre- ’ J
sent a diploma to Tommy. ■
See GOP Pg. 2, Cal. 7
—, . ___ . total 1
ment Service, said today in correr. sales of $3,615,033.75 on a $3,805,000
------quotas, but with $768,138 of Series
E bonds still to go.
The Weather
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Partly
cloudy today, tonight and Tuesday
em"m temperature during the past
Minimum temperature during the past
11 hours, 73.
TEMPERATURES
— *n Sun-Sat
Hour PM
- 1-93 94
:3 96 06
: 4 97 98
(6—97 98
695 96
7—/94 93
890 91
9 87 88
1- 85 87
Sunrise this morning
Sunset tonight ......
tion of a statement previously made
In the Reporter-News
However, the program will make
it impossible generally for any em-
i ployer in the county to hire a male
worker except through the USES,
except for special arrangements by
certain employers likely to be made
for approval by the Area Manage-
1 ment-Labor committee At present,
however, no such arrangements
have been made in Taylor county.
Big Spring Man Home
a From Trip to Boston
! BIG SPRING, June 26- A M
Ripps, Texas and Pacific engineer,
just back froma visit to his son
James, USN, at Boston, Mass., re-
ports that area underwent a 44-day
grouth. Cotton mills operated by
j waterpower had to shut down. As
Ripps was preparing to leave a big
_________________said one could see more
autos on Big Spring streets than in
.......8:0 in Chicago at I P. m. (CWT) today. Boston, 31
KEYNOTEN- Gov. Eart Warren
" California will deliver the key- rips was J
M note address at opening session of rain fell He
* the Republican National Convention autos
A special effort to hike the E
bond sales will be made Thursday
from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m when movie
actors Peggy O'Neill and Big Boy
Williams will be honored with a
Band speaker* today
7:45 p. m-Ted E Edwards.
Tuesday speakers:
7:45 a. m.—Harvey L. Hays.
8:30 p m— Dallas Scarbor-
•ugh.
luncheon at the Abilene Air Base
A ticket to attend the luncheon will
be given 1,000 bond buyers who
make their purchase between today
and Thursday. :
The purchase of an E bond can be
the owner of a maximum of 5,000
series E bonds to any one calendar
year but he caw be the co-owner
without limit This means that after
a man has, bought $5,000 for each
member of his family, or friends, as
far as he chooses to go, with him-
self as co-owner.
Liberators destroyed a number of
enemy planes on the ground at
Sorong, on the northwestern tip of
New Guinea. Other bombers put the
Japanese airfield at Manokwari,
126 thiles west of Biak, out of com-
mission.
Second monthly salvage paper
I pickup will be Sunday, July 2, Jack
1 Simmons, chamber of commerce
manager, has announced.
As In the initial major drive and
to the monthly pickup May 7 the
work will be directed by Capt. Nor-
man Turnbull. Camp Barkeley sal-
vage officer, and carried out by
Barkeley soldiers manning Army
trucks
and Tilly-Sur-Seulies.
to Faria, perhaps—or Berlin.
I Artillery, one unit to every eight
yards, supported this sweeping as-
sault by Gen Sir Bernard L. Mont-
Evening Subscribers to
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Call circulation, 7271 or
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particulars.
Trucks will make the rounds of
the city beginning early Sunday
morning and residents are asked to
have papers bundled and ready on
curbs or sidewalks.
The one-day drive to May netted
more than ,90,000 pounds of paper-
two car loads. Simmons said
Abilene P-47 Pilot
'Chutes to Safety
gomery’s tanks and troops.
Supreme headquarters in thia
morning’s communique said “fight-
ing everywhere" in the port of Cher-
bourg was extremely severe," but
that the full liberation "cannot ba
long delayed " The doughboys were
rooting out suicide squads of Ger-
mans as they neared the end of a
fierce, five-day battle to free the
great supply port.
The Americans had been lighting
in the smoking city since yester-
day afternoon, when they entered it
with a crushing, three-way assault.
The Allies had all but captur-
ed their greatest prize of the
Normandy Invasion, the third
most important port of Franco
and a transatlantic base to feed
ma lor drives into the continent.
to Paris, perhaps—or Berlin.
(The -German radio gave conflict-
ing reports on the battle for Cher-
Flight Officer B D perce , bourg. A French language,broad-
met === =-===
parachuted to safety just before his “after resistance of unheard of vio-
plane crashed, about noon four lence." Shortly thereafter, however,
miles south of Trent Announce- a German DNB news namew hrnnA.”
ment came from the officer of Col.
Harry Weddington, base comman-
der
The pilot had not been picked up
at, 1:30 p. m. but he was not
thought to be injured.
A board of qualified Army offi-
cers has been appointed to inves-
a German DNB news agency broad-
cast informed the people of Ger-
many that fighting still was going
on in the city.)
ft was said here that last night’s
German premature reports that the
port had fallen indicated the Ger-
man high command was out of
touch with the hard-pressed gar-
, tigate the cause of the accident, it-rison and it was probable its aw
was said.
I Percy’s home is Springfield, Mass.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 10, Ed. 2 Monday, June 26, 1944, newspaper, June 26, 1944; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636137/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.