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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1940
riend ‘Cactus Jack' No . Wetter Harris
HE, Than Other Presidential *
Jameln
laying
Clerk Says Ha Struck
Blow; But Wife Clings
. To Her Own Account
A stockyards night clerk.
George Patton, today confessed
— that it was he, and not the vic-
tim's wife, who crashed a pick
handle upon the head of Corbett
Bitner, city waterworks employe,
dealing the blow which caused Bit-
ner’s death. 14
Mrs. Bitner, who had asserted
that she had struck the blow at
the height of a quarrel with her
husband on March 9, still insisted
that she swung the heavy handle.
Patton, 40, a roomer at the Bit-
net home, 2902 Hanra, said he
"picked up the first thing I could
find" and swung on Bitner when
he saw him beating, Mrs. Bitner.
Detectives Hear Story
He made his oral confession to
City Detectives Theoron Brooks
and John Dunwoody and District
Attorney's Investigator Johnny
Monaghan after 12-year-old Cor-
bett Bitner Jr., son of the slain
man, sobbed out a story of Pat-
ton’s participation in the family
quarrel.
But Mrs. Bitner, confronted with
Patton's statement, steadfastly
maintained that she crashed the
pick handle over her husband's
head in self defense as he struck
at her.
The other Bitner boy, 17-year-
old 8. E. Bitner, refused to give
his eye-witness version of the fight
to reporters, but the detectives
said his story corroborated that
of Patton and Corbett Jr.
Trouble Over Dance
Patton said the trouble started
when Mrs. Bitner prepared to go
with him and another couple to a
dance spot off Jacksboro High-
way.
"It wasn't anything unusual for
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Three Killed As
Tank Explodes
Three Others Injured
On Highway Bridge
Job Near Liberty
By United Press.
LIBERTY, March 25___Three
bridge workers were killed and
three others were injured today
when an air-pressure tank explod-
ed half a mile west of Liberty.
The dead are:
Zollia Carl Gage. 23. Longview,
A. L. Alvey. 26, Coleman.
Owen W. Kerfees, 25, Caddo
Mills
Those injured were C. W. Bram-
lett. Dallas: M. D. Avant, Kauf-
man, and John Webb, Greenville.
They were not hurt seriously.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE THREE CENTS
Bets, Says WCTU Leader
Mrs. Smith Blames Vice President's Publicity;
Advises Voter to Study Character, Platform of
Candidates; Brands Drinking Mother Worst Evil
By MARY CRUTCHER
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the Women’s Chris-
tian Temperance Union, doesn't raise disapproving eyebrows at Texas
"whisky-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man," John Nance Garner.
She thinks maybe he's just been publicised more for his drinking
than some other national figures. --------------------------------
Asked what she, as a temper-
ance leader, thought about "Cac-
tus Jack," as a reputed tippler,
in regard to his nomination for
the presidency, she retorted:
"Well, what about some of the
other prospects for nomination ?"
Mrs. Smith, who is here from
her home in Evanston, III., for
- a tw o-day regional conference
of the W.C.T. U., which opened
at First Methodist C hurch early
this afternoon, was quick to any
that the W.C.T.U. la “a non-
political” organization.
"We take no stand in politics
unless there is a definite wet-dry
issue, as there was in 1928, when
we supported Hoover," she ex-
plained. "Then we made it clear
that we were supporting the man
for his principles and not the
Republican party.”
Mrs. Smith’s advice to voters
Sees Strong Army
As Peace Factor
VFW Leader Says
Hope Exists Only
In Great Strength
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
posts of the nation are committed
to a policy of strict neutrality, but
also to a standing army, navy and
air corps strong enough to "assure
an endless era of absolute peace."
Otis N. Brown, national command-
er-In-chief. told members of three
local posts at breakfast today In
Blackstone Hotel.
Commander Brown, whose home
is in Greensboro, N. C., is making
a midwest tour and is visiting
Texas for the first time After
the breakfast and a radio address,
he went to Cleburne for a visit
with members there.
Later in the day he will go to
Waco, then continue to San An-
tonio and Galveston He is being
accompanied on the Texas tour by
State Commander D. A. Dunlavey
Were Making Pressure
All were employes of the Aus-
tin Bridge Co. of Dallas.
The firm has started work
widening a bridge across the
Trinity River a mile west of Lib-
erty A supply yard waa estab-
lished half a mile from town. A
pressure tank, 16 x 13 feet, was
mounted on a truck, and the
workers were building up air pres-
sure in it preparatory to operate
Ing air hammers at the bridge.
Bramlett, superintendent of the
crew, said that at the time of the
explosion the three men killed
were gathered close to the tank.
The injured were standing about
50 feet away.
Three Killed Instantly
“There was a ripping blast that
killed Gage, Alvey and Kerfees
instantly,” he said. "It knocked
us down 50 feet away, and steel
splinters from the tank peppered
us like buckshot”
Alvey was reported to have had
a wife and two small children.
Gage was single.
"Alvey looked at the pressure
gauge and said: 'We've got 110
pounds of pressure on the tank.
I’d better shut it ofr,” Foreman
Webb reported.
Alvey reached for a valve to
shut off the tank and the explos-
lon occurred. Webb said that the
tank waa supposed to hold 130
pounds pressure.
THE WEATHER
FORT WORTH AND VICINITY -
Cloudy, slightly warmer tonight with
minimum temperature near 40 degrees.
Cloudy and warmer with rain Tues-
day afternoon. Maximum Tuesday near
50 degrees.
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th merid-
lan) — Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, oc-
easional rains near lower coast and in
southwest portion Slightly warmer
Tuesday and in north portion tonight.
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th merid-
ian*.—Fair tonight and Tuesday pre-
ceded by clearing in southeast portion
tonight. Somewhat warmer la north
and central portions tonight and la
north and east portions Tuesday.
Barometric Pressure
...29.56
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
Time— YearAge Yes’day Today
65
N
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Trade Act As
‘World Guide'
New Deel Confident
Reciprocal Program
Will Pass Senate
BRITISH, FRENCH NAVIES
ARE OCT TO CHOKE NAZIS
Photos Show 'Some Local Activity On Western Front’
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, March 25. —
Chairman Pat Harrison of the
- -— - . Senate Finance Committee today
acter and his political promises advocated extension of the recip-
and let your conscience be your rocal trade agreements program
guide." . as a "beacon light” to guide war-
Sho doesn't necessarily condemn ring European nations back to
the man who “drinks wet and channels of peace and trade. I
votes dry. .. “Perhaps he does Opening the Senate fight over
like liquor,” she reasoned today, a three-year extension of the pro- |
"but its logical for him to vote gram, Harrison described the
dry to remove the temptation. agreements as the "greatest influ-
Nor does she condemn the man ence" to promotion of "rational" ,
of moderate drinking who votes international trade and the main-I
dry because the majority of his tenance of peace.
friends are dry, or his party is Confident or Passage
Administration leaders were
la to “study the candidate’s char-
dry.
She thinks the world’s greatest
social evil is the drinking mother vote by a small but safe margin
She srohilittioAT netun mind 10 extend th- ,r*d' agreement law
See omtixe. wareuwnee in the form Secretary of State
Hull wants it. The closest vote
that prohibition will reign in the
United States again. Just how
soon, she refuses to estimate.
"But it's a certainty,” she says.
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Bunny Leaves His
Chilly Winds Here
40 Degrees Forecast
Tonight With Rain
Expected Tomorrow
The cold weather egg, which
Easter's bunny laid for Fort
Worth, was served up again to-
day, hard-boiled with cloudy skies
and temperatures only five de-
grees shy of freezing.
A slight warmup will come to-
night and the mercury's low will
be near 40 degrees, the Weather
Bureau's forecast said.
Minimum this morning was 37.
Rain is due tomorrow after-
noon, marking ths end of Fort
Worth's coldest Easter season in
years.’
Clouds and a nipping north
vind saved the city from more se-
of Port Arthur.
"Our organization is for strict
neutrality, but not because we are
afraid to fight." said Mr. Brown.
"We remember how sick we be-
came on the last trip across the
Atlantic, and we are familiar with
the tremendous losses caused by
war. We believe the lives of our
people are far more important to
our welfare than the expansion of
our commercial ambitions.”
One of the aims of the V.F.W.,
he pointed out, is to advocate leg-
islation that will make war profi-
teering impossible.
In private life the national com-
mander is chief clerk to the vice
president of the Atlantic A Yad-
kin Railway.
Local veterans presented him
with a ‘10-gallon’ hat at the break-
fast today.
BrideGroom
Deputy Was
Nervous, Too
Bridegrooms usually are ner-
vous when they show up at the
County Clerk's marriage license
bureau.
E. H. Raines, chief deputy, un-
derstands. He helps them fill out
the blanks correctly, taking pains
to see that they don't overlook
a line.
But Mr. Raines made a mistake
last week.
He signed an affidavit that the
husband-to-be was more than 21
years,of age. He failed to file a
similar statement for the bride.
Deputy Seth Mayfield, a bache-
lor, discovered and corrected his
superior’s mistake today,
The reason for It was plain-
another fidgity bridegroom
Mr. Raines, 3400 Childress, and
Mrs. Nora Custer, 104 Virginia
Pl., were married Thursday.
confident that the Senate, would
Law Disregarded
As Subs Launch
Drastic Campaign
By UNITED Passs
British naval forces were re-
ported by Scandinavian sources
today to be clamping a tight
blockade across Germany’s ship-
pin# lanes from ths North Sea
Into the Baltic Sea.
Both the Skagerrak entrance
between Denmark and Norway
and the Kattegat between Den-
mark and Sweden were being
blockaded despite the fact that
these waters wers heavily mined
by the Germans.
Nazi Freighter Grounded
A number of British warships
were reported participating in the
blockade, in addition to subma-
rines which already have sunk
two German freighters and forced
others to turn back to Germany.
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will be on an amendment to re-
quire Senate ratification of the
agreements. An Administration
poll indicated this would be de-
feated by five votes.
Harrison denounced as “spur-
ious," arguments that belligerent
nations will flood the United
States with cheaply made goods
st the close of the present war
and thus bring about a necessity
for higher American tariff rates.
Would Be ‘Sane’ Policy
Instead, he declared, the in-
creased production that will re-
sult should be met with a "sane"
trade policy.
"In those circumstances,” he as-
serted, "with foreign fields and
factories vying with each other
and with us in the sale of their
surplus products, without a defi-
nite program to pursue or a con-
structive policy to follow, if a
trade war should ensue, our coun-
try might suffer from an economic
collapse.”
Anticipating Republican argu-
ments against the reciprocal trade
program, Harrison said that the
. policy "is not of Democratic ori-
gin."
He recalled his first experience
as a member of the House in
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vere temperatures, said Chief
Forecaster J. H. Ferguson.
"Most of the cold is gone," he
assured residents who yesterday
hid frilly spring frocks under fur
coats.
Rains were falling this morning
at San Antonio. Del Rio had 1.66
Inches and Laredo 1.42.
A light mist fell here yesterday
morning and temperatures during
the day climbed no higher than
50. Bitter cold reigned through
the nation's north section. Fargo,
N. D. had 17 below zero this
morning. Chicago 11 and Minne-
apolis 6 below.
'TWAS COLD DAY
FOR EGG-ROLLERS
WASHINGTON, March 25 —
Children dressed in leggings,
heavy coats and parkas today
braved a wintry north wind and
temperatures reminiscent of
Christmas to indulge in the an-
nual egg-rolling marathon on the
broad south lawn of the White
House.
There were only about 100 chil-
dren and their parents at the big
iron gates when the grounds were
opened at 9 a. m. The tempera-
ture then was 21.
Although the sensible and domi-
nant costume for this blue-ribbon
event in Washington juvenile so-
ciety had an arctic motif, some
children came in Easter bonnets.
They did not stay long.
O’Daniel’s Band
Is Cut Off Air
AUSTIN, March 25 — In the
midst of Governor O’Daniel’s Eas-
Hemphill Project
Pressed by City
Seeks State Action
To Repave Street
South of Magnolia
Prospects for re-paving Hemp-
hill from Magnolia to Biddison
were brighter todsy as city au-
thorities began preparation*of a
brief on the project for submis-
sion to the State Highway Depart-
ment
City Manager Bothwell, back
from a conference with state high-
way officials, said "a general un-
derstanding" had been reached on
both the Hemphill and W. Lan-
caster proposals.
State Admits Obligation
The state, he said, admits a
limited obligation on the Hemp-
hill improvement, in view of
previous verbal agreements. Fort
Worth officials sre urging ths
state to sponsor a WPA project,
an an approximate cost of $50,000
to the state if the street is re-
Dam Heads Seek
Permanent Order
Want to Prohibit
Interference From
Oklahoma’s Governor
One German freighter, the
1 Ostpreussen, 3030 tons, was
grounded off the Danish coast to-
day because water was flooding
its holds
Water was 10 fest dssp in the
holds as result of a leak sprung
during sn earlier grounding near
Rubjaerg Knude t-ighthouse.
The first grounding occurred
while the captain was steering a
criss-cross course in what was
reported to have been an attempt
to evade British men o’war.
At last reports 30 members of
the crew remained aboard the Ost-
preussen, manning the pumps ir
an effort to refloat the vessel
By United Press. _____________
VINITA, Okla., March 25. — The ship wasladen with
Federal Attorneys today seek a
permanent injunction that would
forever deny Gov. Leon Phillips
the use of the Oklahoma National
Guard and state courts in his earn-
These pictures strikingly illustrate the meaning of war com-
muniques’ often-used phrase: "All quiet: some local activity.” The
"activity” starts when scouting parties steal out late no-man's land
to obtain information and prisoners. In the upper photo, members
of the British Norfolk Regiment, recently decorated for their patrol
work, start out. The activity begins in earnest if they run into a
Nazi machine gun nest. One is shown hidden in the woods in the
lower picture which recently came late British hands by means
which the British censor did not divulge.
paved at its present 40-foot width.
At a conference with Highway
Commissioner R. L. Robbitt, Mr.
Bothwell and City Projects Direr,
tor Hurley reminded the commis-
sioner of a previous agreement
under which the city widened and crued
repaved the north end of Hemp-
hill between Vickery and Mag-
nolia. under the condition that
the state would assume responsi-
bility foi the Magnolia to Biddison
section.
City Wil Order
25 Antes Seized
Owners, Who Owe
Delinquent Texes
Are Given Notice
The city this week will Issue
25 warrants for seizure of autos
and other personal property upon
which delinquent taxes are ac-
Assessor-Collector Curlee
said today.
T&P Income Drops
32 Per Cent In 1939
Net Income of the Texas A Pa-
cific Railway Co. in 1939 dropped
32 per cent below earnings for the
preceding year, according to the
railroad's annual report released
in Fort Worth today by Frank
Wilson, general agent.
A small increase in operating
revenues for the year failed to
keep pace with a $617,260 In-
crease in expenses and resulted in
a $544,868 decrease in net reve-
nues. the report by J. L. Lancas-
ter. Dallas president, showed.
Freight revenues of $21,950,290
showed in 1939 an increase of
$268,743 over the previous year,
but passenger revenues, $2,246,642
for 1939, dropped nearly eight per
cent below 1938‘s. figure.
Operating expenses of $18,972,-
437 consumed 72 per cent of reve-
nues last year, compared with 70
per cent in 1938
ter morning broadcast from the
Mansion, with 100 Easter eggs
and many flowers around the
"front ■ room.” he announced:
“While the Easter spirit is no-’
ticeable, let's have "The Easter
Parade."
Manfully the Hillbilly Boys
started the melody, but radio lis-
tener* heard only a few notes.
Station announcement inter-
rupted with the explanation that
"The Easter Parade" is a re-
stricted composition which radio
circuits may not reproduce with-
out permission.
The Governor's Easter message
was a call to try religion for the
world’s woes.
Will Push Hemphill
Mr. Bothwell said he hoped to
have the statement of facta on
Hemphill in the hands of state
highway officials before the sched-
uled May 30 letting.
Its participation in the cost may
depend upon availability of federal
aid for cities. Fort Worth's posi-
tion is that the state is obligated
to do the job regardless of this
contingency.
The city's brief on W. Lancas-
ter. from Main St to the new
Trinity Bridge, will aet out the
city's proposal from both the en-
gineering and financial standpoint.
Mr. Bothwell said the city could
not possibly do more than provide
right-of-way.
Owners will be given an oppor-
tunity to forestall seizure by pay-
ing up or making satisfactory ar-
rangements, Mr. Curlee added.
The new “batch" of warrante
will be served on residents who
have had previous warning. They
will be taken in the order in
which they were notified, the
tax chief explained.
Earlier this-month, 15 warrants
were issued and all but three of
the car owners made settlements.
The remaining three were given
more Ume.
“Generally, we have met no ob-
jections to our drive to collect de-
linquent taxes from persons who
are convinced that everybody must
pay,” Mr. Curlee said.
paign to collect $850,000 damages
from ths Publie Works Adminis-
tration and the Grand River Dam
Authority.
John Carmody, public works ad-
ministrator. arrived from Wash-
ington under subpena as a federal
witness
Phillips Has Defense
Phillips had hired a squad of
attorneys who were expected to
argue before three U. I. district
court judges that a federal dis-
trict court had no right to deny
a governor the use of the national
guard to protect what he believed
the state's interests.
The governor, red hatred, 303-
pound foe of the New Deal, had
not announced what his next move
would be. He said he had a “lot
of things to do" and would not
attend the hearing unless his at-
torneys requested it.
Dam Nears Completion
Meanwhile, engineers prepared
to pour cement in five of the six
gates of, the $22,500,000 Grand
River dam and hydro-electric proj-
ect at Disney. Protected from the
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Hiccoughs
Nine Days—
Still at It
Victim of hiccoughs for nine
days, Mrs. Margaret Peavy, 22, of
237 Oakland, was to be released
from a local hospital today -only
slightly improved after treatment
for a week.
Doctors confessed they were at
a loss to find an immediate cure
for Mrs. Peavy’s case. They bad
tried all the usual remedies.
The patient was admitted to
the hospital last Tuesday, three
days after the hiccoughs began.
Four years ago Mrs. Peavy had
a similar attack, which stopped
after several days— whether from
treatments or from natural cure
her family never knew.
Food Stamp Plan Will
Be Extended to Austin
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, March 25.
Sec. of Agriculture Henry
Wallace announced today that the
stamp plan for distributing sur-
plus foods will be extended to
Austin and the rest of Travis
County in about a month. He
estimated 16,500 persons would be
eligible to particpiate in the plan.
Sun Relents—And Earth’s Affairs Become Normal
By Lulled Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.—The
sun's bombardment of the earth
diminished in its fury today and
the affairs of puny man returned
to normal. i
The sun used, not explosives, but
electrical impulses and was fling-
ing through 92,830,000 miles of
space at Its satellite, the earth.
As a result the communications
of the earth were disrupted, con-
tinents had but the feeblest con-
tact at the height of the bombard-
ment. cities lost contact. The news
of Europe's war to the Americas
was slowed and the man in New
York City couldn’t wish his mother
in Omaha. Neb, a happy Easter.
The bombardment was most
furious between 10 a. m. and 1
p. m. yesterday when there was
practically a total blanketing out
of domestic telephone, telegraph
and radio communications and of
inter-continent wireless communi-
cation. The cables, too, were dis-
rupted. Early today, the ocean
wireless sun stuttered with heavy
static which ma<ie its messages ai-
moat impossible to read.
Engineers of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co., opera-
tors of the largest system of land
wires, could recall nothing that
had disrupted the system so much.
Telegraph companies were unable
to send thousands of Easter mes-
tone of coke.
The 2189-ton Edmund Hugo
Stinnes IV, carrying coal to Cop
enhagen, and the 4974-ton Hed-
dernheim, carrying iron ore from
Norway for Germany, have bees
sunk by British torpedoes. Paris
reported two German steamships
carrying iron ore (one of them
possibly the Heddernheim) had
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Easter Purchases
Boost March Trade
Month Already Tops
Last Year, With Week
Left For Business
Fort Worth Easter shopping has
driven this month’s business far
ahead of the total for all of March
last year, a survey of business
houses showed today.
Buyers crowded the downtown
stores all day Saturday to roll
up the best week since Christmas,
and to exceed the business of
State-wide Oil
Shutdown Ordered
All Fields Will Be
Shutdown on April I p
Now Allowables Set
By United Premn.
AUSTIN. March 3S A one day
shutdown for all Texas oU fields
April 1 was ordered today by the
Texas Railroad Commi ssion.
Total allowable state produc-
tion for the month of April under
the order will be 1,443,773 barrels
a day. The East Texas field la
given 14.000 increased allowable
production and its shutdown
period reduced from 13 days a
month to 12 days.
The order was signed by Com-
mission Chairman Lon A. Smith
and Commissioner Jerry Sadler
and submitted to the third mem-
ber, Col. Ernest O. Thompson, for
his consideration, bsfors issuance.
Should Thompson decline to sign,
it would still become effective.
The shutdown days for ths East
Texas field will be April 1, 6. D,
10, 13, IS. 17, 20, 23, 24. 27 and
30
feet by the appearance of "spots”
on the sun's surface. Electrical
impulses were sent hurtling
through space. They never reached
the earth, but were deflected by
the earth's atmosphere some 30
miles away, to the North and
South poles.
Aurora borealis— northern lights
—flashed across the northern hori-
son and aurora polaris—southern
lights—lit up south polar regions
as ths result of the impulses
reaching the magnetic fields of
sages for hours.
The minute place of earth in
the cosmic scheme was set forth
by scientists There, was a dis
mes of the * for *:mm the Nofun and Soilth poles.
Easter In April last year, Seere-
tory-Manager E. G. Graves of the
Retail Merchants' Assn., said.
While heavy purchases were
made in the regular lines of
ready-to-wear, merchants reported
increased shopping in higher pric-
ed merchandise, with new em-
phasis in children's clothing.
Practically all stores reported
demands for gayer colors, with
sales in sports wear greatest in
history. Gains in this department
• an 10 to 25 per cent over last
Easter.
Department stores said gifts
for Easter were in bigger demand
this year, especially in accessory
lines for ladies, and that their
shoe and dress departments had
the biggest week since Christ-
mas.
Men's departments had sharp
gains in the sale of sports wear,
extra slacks going with suits.
Jewelry stores shared in the
pre- Easter shopping, reporting
gains over last year’s business.
Increased sales of corsages, cut
flowers and potted plants were re-
ported by forlsts.__
Wanted A. Worther
To Conduct Funeral
The body of Mrs. Charity Eliza-
bath Green, 00, was brought here
from Ran Antonio today in coder
that Rev. Joe Scheumack might
officiate, as she had requested, at
her funeral. Mrs. Green, who died
in San Antonio Saturday, was as
ardent follower st Rev. Scheu-
me and remone, Punal was
Ths state-wide shutdown on
April 1 is not to apply to any
well that will bs physically dam.
aged by closing, but if a well is
operated it must bs so reduced
during ths month that its total
production will bs only twenty
nine thirtieths of ths monthly al-
lowable. The shutdown will not
aplly to wells to bs “marginal’
Under current production sched-
ules.
Commissioner Sadler who an-
nounced the terms of tbs order
said that Texas now is actually
producing 1,492,000 barrels of oil
daily under ths March allowable
of 1,566,000 barrels. He said it is
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 150, Ed. 1 Monday, March 25, 1940, newspaper, March 25, 1940; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685463/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.