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ITISH HALT FIERCE NAZI BLOWS
eds Cut Off German Air Flight
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MARINES SEIZE SEVEN MORE Argentina In
ISLES, BATTLE DESPERATE JAPS Break With
Axis Puppets
Battle Below Rome
And Around Cassino
Grows In Intensity
Tommies And
Yanks Fight
Side By Side
poYe«'fighters and onjwajalein and Eb
»-imBr~OCTwtMi rc*cue.....plum's___t*oy l.slandb at tnc southeast---
Et of the Ukrainian sky like era corner of the atoll and
kitting ducks today while ground were expected momentarily-if
(forces hastened the doom of 100,- they have noc already done so
more encircled enemy to swarm ashore on nearby Loi
[troops with a terrific artillery and Gugegwe.
’ AHL HARBOR Peb. 5 'I <•'—U. S. marines have seized Severn more small islands at
JA0rthem e1!^. ,wa^a*e'n ato" hjtjainst light opposition, it was revealed today as
a snips-jotned in a heavy new bombardment designed to crush desperate Japanese re*'
t0 —.....„ := = New Rights.Accorded AH
“ray "tcrans <* A“-u A—hl. Republic* In
l’~,J---*.•, - ~ -----—------ ~ Move Xo Show Friendship
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Algiehi. Feb 5. (UP-) British Confusion Rife As Foe
S.I—'SS ^ u"*bl« T»
below Rome, it was announced today, while the Nazis mov-
„fd rvinforeemehtu into Cassino for u “Stalingrad stand"
against American forces clinging to a toehold in the Otis*
tav line bastion. ‘
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AMO Iliad ing the combined allied press
iThe London Dally Mail report- aboard the joint expeditionary
N from Stockholm that 50,000 force flagship, said murines un-
iof. the original 100,000 encircled tier Maj. Gen. Harrv Schmidt ex-
German troops already have been tended their control of the north-
[annihilated.) eastern portion of the 86-mile-
is. Nikolai F. Vatutin and long atoll bv occupying seven un-
even S Konev- of the 1st and " TcTehllfTed islets after capturing
Bnd Ukrainian armies appeared the main strongholds of Roi and
prtermined to destroy completely Namur.
P trapped German units, if . American battleships and orots-
lonly to avenge the German bias- ers, along with bombers were
gsacre of their countrymen in called in to supplement land ar-
Kiev, Smolensk and other key ttllery in battering down enemy
Joviet cities. defenses on Kwajaleln. Ebeye, Loi
I Unlike the Soviet command at end Gugegwe when it appeared
ptslingrad, the two generals they were the only strong pockets —fl
r.prrm>n«' of resistance remaining in the
huge atoll id the center of Japan's
Marshall Islands. __
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ju s. ACTION IN THE PACIFIC buenos atres, Feb
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WITH ALU ED INVASION
■P FORCES SOUTH OF ROME, M.
In two crucial battles some 65 miles apart, £he, Qermane *. «*.d-*a owwim count.
- J»ob§d for weak spota m the riiiL .of lhtf IflliA B^hnelw v1*4* °y »«*» wie tosM to pi«*»
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The new German blows against the home beachhead followed
quickly the four sharp Nasi tin lists reported a day earlier, all of which
given new jpree today by a gov-
* ernment announcement severing
,, X8laUont-with Axis ~litaiRc"wt«-*
*—lions aml extending noh-beiliger-
— tent rights to Canada ,-tnd all-
American republics now ut war
with Germany and Japan.
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—• --The announcement added (bat
new spy ring revelations next
week "would convince certain
people influenced by rumors that
■AtgmUjlH,g-'--^ngnii"niavc' not
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The tempo of the fighting southapf Rome was-repot
tddy, it stjtl wusln the-pretiminary stages, however
irted-nfmmttng
the basts
Foe Hrinforeing Cassino
, United' Press Correspondent James Roper reported from a Flffh
urttty comma,id post outside Cassino that German reinforcements were
believed moving Into Cassino today, in apparent preparation’ for an* of
the most virions house-Iii-Iioukc battles of the Italian campaign.
American assault fmve* who hud been In ami out of Cusalnb re-
reatedly as the see-saw pottle swayed violently through the outskirts
clung, stubbornly
town." -----
German Tanks It lasted
In this one sector, the Oeeafggg.
lost . five tanks or Tnort.?! por-
sonally saw two blasted by Ameri-
i in l.mk dtiCuiyiir Unito 4b#4-------
rumbled up to help out some hard-
pressed British infantrymen.
This small but intense engage-
mem marked the first Ume that
British and American units have
fought side by aide In this area. ’
The fighting during the dreary
gwHidhe kfr the nojihctn rim of thc. ihaLUrcd : night boara was eo sonfneed that •;
group of Tomnilee yi»» ^
Roper said new Genpan moves were getting underway, indication*
that n decisive struggle was shauiug-up. ---- —
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Hand To HandJ^bllnft
fiwk).
ing aerial supetiority, Soviet
Hlghtcrs and Stormovik fighter-
T)ombcr’s attacked the lumbering
German transport planes as fast
ts they appeared in the laden
.. Army troops under Mai.- Gen,
Charles H. Corlett already have
burned and blasted the Japanese
from half of both Kwajalein and
Ebeye islands With the aid of
kies and sent them crashing to flame-throwers, grenades, rifles,
|arth iojlames in a 'reenactment bayonets, niachineguns and even
HOW THE AMERICAN ami British flags ere being planted neear-
er and nearer to Tokyo by offensive action in the Pacific ocean
is shown in this map.
beentiie result of foreign pre.
r,V Uontalcz, secretary To the horWSii. tiie German’s appeared to tie bundling lit the ai-
to the presidency, who umiounc- lu-d lines all along the invasion front In hope of finding a weaiespot.
, Argentine moves, re- The heaviest JbJciv,s were struck north of Carroectsk on the Rome-
veaiea tnat the countrys recent Anzin roqd some five miles south of Campoleone,To the outsktrik'af
swing from the Axis bail caused which the allir»4b.ut pushed earlier.
some anger and misunderstand- ___Ikcrs.uuta.jiaTifticmi mdieatWm-. however, that .the British spear-
ing, buc denied that there Ttita head had been forced back from Campolcone toward Carroceto,
been or would be any cabinet British ■’Tommies" told Reynolds Packard, United Press war corres-
pondent, at the front, that ’’hundreds'' of Germans probably were .. .. * , n, i ^
killed in irliHMiy band to lianu comiuit that led to the repulse of a single je*!*. * met, scores or ali'cu Troops
nationalists had been arrested German -tank-led counter-attack Thursday evening. - - ----— who hitd been capturml aM ttMn
for actively opposing the rupture. l-HSMierma.is (apltired ' ' tcleased. Thay w»ft Mnytog Uwtf
New Rights Accorded Additional hundreds of the enemy wore captured, booating' tbc of. wounded with them, and I turned
Argentina granted non-bolliger- firial bag of prisoners seized in I lie two week* since the allies stormed m-v l1"*? around to hurry
crisis'. He said four provincial
prisoner thtee SWeamte times only
and bring in some of it* trstwhilo
captors.
A blood-spnttered Tommie nam- 8
ed Peter O’Shea who had won hit ......J
way back to his lines, said, "It I
was- a real mhtup. I dmi't - ’
which way pyr hat waa Wt*? \ M
Parade of Prisoners
On my way to this sector in my
two bad-
kf the Nazi disasters of Stalin-
grad and Tunisia.
Twenty-six of the three-engin-
I transports were shpt down in
days alone and red aiT force
lorabers added to the foil by de-
|ttroying 60 on the ground. The
were attempting to fly
banes
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and return with high officers and
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1 Front diapatches TUsclusad Urat~~
Fatutin's forces, driving soitth-
Jast from Kanev, and Konev's
my, pushing northwest from
lerkasi, had cleared the dep-
Xrately-resisting Germans from
tost the entire south bank of
I5?,.9!'li1t££r and. were within .a
w miles of a junction in the
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i Around the southern perimeter
The trapped German army, the
Nazi Flight, Page 2)
ROUND town
III) The Tri-CiUes-Will John E.
pt'cr USN, contact us for his
lawbook lost with his dog tags,
■ Ted Lyman is now a
'■>, Ureeker tcause Charley
on has been discharged-from
army and had to have his
. he. back ... It's a long walk
rwn, ^or Ervin? Flower* now
t be lives out near Lamar
J™1 • • ■ Gene Collins s»vs it
*1 be Jo«K now ,. Fred Train-
* working for Badger on a
."down at Corpus . . . Note to
t "• Ruckman—we have those
™r you-. . . John Mercer
wapsa and seeing that things
"»! along okay . . . Manx Trl-
" ,') P'-°p!e helped Galveston’s
,t0 n *ala re-opening the
, r mght ... A. C. Kraft ex-
|,.A,, ow things have changed
Ely* athletic day* . Mary
.-•ret of Tanner Manor dash-
i * doctor’s office . , , Mrs.
•* Thdmasson does a lot of
.. ng around town -and no
r- about her new eight-
«rand»on ... The most
Z Woman ln th* Trlri^tie*
we past week has been Mrs.
milh' who h«* been dl*h-
corsages like nobody’s
• • • Jap 8mith telling
811 that five acres the Ce-
dynamite.
Two small islets between Kwa.-.
jalein and Kbeye. also have been
occupied following the smashing
"moderate resistance," Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz, commander of
the Pacific Fleet, disclosed in a
communique late yesterday.
t’A Japanese communique
l—naru-st in Fnwlish bv the Do-?
(See Marines Capfmp^ jPage JJ______
La Porte Plans
Huge Bond Rally
Sgt. Westmoreland, Pacific
Air Hero, To Be Speaker
A bond rally will he staged in
the La Porte High school gymnas-
ium next Friday night with
Staff Sgt. Bennie Westmoreland,
veteran of 2*7 combat hours in
the Southwest Pacific, as princi-
pal speaker.
Entertainment will be furnish-
ed by Kit Reid's orchestra from
Ellington field and by talented
-boys and girls from La Porte.
The program has been arranged -
“by Rufus Honeycutt and Mrs.
Frahk Anderson.
Another feature will be an auc-
tion- sale of valuable prizes. The
sale will be conducted by Honey-
cutt, and all bids will be in
stamps and bonds. The high
bidders will gbi the merchandise.
A quartet from St, Mary’s sem-
inary will* be presented, and a
La Porte quartet of Gladys Ho-
vey, Tiny Hill, Maccy May Wim-
berly and Pat Connally, also will
sing. Mrs. Anderson also will
sing a solo.
Piano solos will be given by
Gladys Hovcy, Judy Shireman
and Rose Marie Brown. An en-
semble will present Helen Bnt-
ler, Macey Wimberly, Pat Con-
nally, Nancy Simmons, Gladys
Hovey and Doris Squibb.
A display - of army equipment
(See Ui Porte PUrns, P»ge 2)
Mustering Out Pay Is Set
First Payments Due By Feb. 15
WASHINGTON, Frb. 5. (I’.P)—
Discharged war veterans will
probably commence ,r e c oiving
their mustering out pay by the
middle of February, it was learn-
ed today as the war and navy
can be - processed.. Enterprising
veterans’ who get their applica-
tions mailed this weekend may
in somg, instances receive pay-
ment by the end of next week,
ent rights to Bolivia, Coasa Rica,
.Cuba,- El Salvador; Gtiaiemal,
Hiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicara-
gua, Pnama and San Domingo,
relesing them from The restric-
tions which neutral nations im-
posWWm dSuntrio* at war. Nofi-
belligerent rights previously had
been extended to the United
States and Brazil when they went
to war.
The decree breaking relations
with Axis satellites affected Ru-
(Sec Argentine Break, Page 2)
ashore to 1,500 nnd rile number taken since the start of the Italian
campaign.to more Ilian 10,000 —---- --------. ~%-~
The direction of the latest German counter-attacks was not speci-
fied. but the enemy wns believed to have driven westward from the’
Cisterna-Cajnpoleone ruilroad toward British vanguards above Carro-
ceto.
On the southern front 50f miles below the beachhead, American
shock- troops were locked In onr of tbe fiercest hafHes of- the BoUttn
campaign for Cassino, main hinge of the enemy defenses, and on of-
ficial commentator admitted the
odds were “on the defenders."
Fight To Ltot Man -
The Germans had converted ev-
denartplept* prepnrad to ......it w-fl« heliewrf---------------------------
to effect the law signed yester- Late applicants pray face de-
day by the president.
Payment will be made in the
VFW TO AIU \ETS
Robert R. Tuck Post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, within a few
days will open an office in the
VFW hall in Pelly where dls-
cliargeil veterans of World War
No. 3 will be assisted in applying
lor mustering’ out pay, G. K,
Edge, service officer, said today.
Edge said he bad written Wash-
ington for necessary blanks and
that the Office will be opened
when they arrive.
As liaison officer of the state
department, lie has written all
posts in Texas urging then) to do
the same thing, he said. He will
spend Sunday ill .Huntsville assist-
ing veterans there.
order in which applications are
received and as rapidly as they
lays, since approximately 1,300,
00<L veterans discharged since
December 6, 1941, must be)
handled.
Veterans to be eligible must
have been honorably discharged
or released on or after Decem-
ber 7, 1941, from the various ser-
vices, including the (our women's
reserves.
Those with less than 60 days’
service will receive $100; those
with longer active service but
no foreign duty will receive $200
in two monthly installments; and
veterans with more than 60 days
service as well as some foreign
duty will receive $300 in three
monthly installments.
Those already mustered out
must apply for the payments.
Thosif discharged hereafter will
receive their mustering OUt pay
automatically. ' I™’—
Applicants must submit a ccr-
(.See Mustering Out, Page 2>
hud to be attacked individually,
often under cross fire from ncigll- ’• . . . , .
boring dwellings. The Germans 80 Planes Wrecked Ift.—
apparently were under orders to Heavy Raid Oh Wewak
tight to thc4a*t man, -* ' ADVANCED ALLIED
Other Fifth army forces, out-
flanking Cassino from the north,
repulsed a counter-attack against
Mt. Manna and advanced south-
ward in an attempt to cut off the
garrison from the rear.
Prisoners also were taken on the
southern front, the daily allied
headquarters communique report-
' ed.
Eighth Patrols Out
On the Adriatic front, Eighth
Bishop Hay Dies In Houston
Has Served Methodists 50 Years
HOUSTON, Feb. 5. (l'.R)-Funer-
al services were to be arranged
today for Bishop Samuel Ross
Hay, internationally, - prominent
Methodist church leader and for-
mer divinity head of China, who
died yesterday ill hi* apartment
at a downtown, hotel.
thodist church In 1922-23, Hay
took Methodism to Mexico in
1930.
Ordained in 188*. he first was
pastor at Paris, Tex. He sub-
sequently held pastorates at Oak
Cliff (Dallas), Abilene, Bed ton,
Vernon, Mexla and Corsicana. In
of his years in the pulpit,
fore retiring In 1938.
In addition to his work in
China, where he Headed the Me-
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Hay was )8. He had spent 50 1#«>, he became pastor of a
Houston church, remaining until
1906 and beconfhtg senior eider of
the district. ,,
After a brief tenure at Centen-
ary church In St. Louis, Hay re-
turned to Tekas in 1907 as pas-
tor of a Beaumont church, and
the following year was appointed
preeiding elder of thq Fort
Worth dletrlct. In 1910, he came
once more to Houston, as head
of St. Paul’s church.
At the start of World War I,
he was paator of the First Metho-
dist church of Kallas, succeeding
to the position of presiding ci-
der there in 1917. In 1919, he
French, German
Targets Pounded
Relentless Air Drive
Off To New Start Today
LONDON, Fob. 5. T.l’i — Stroqg
forces of American heavy bomb-
ers attacked German air fields
- in Central France today in* the
eighth major United States air
attack on Nazi targets within
nine. days.
,Thc four-moored bombers were
escorted by United States fighter
planes and supported by Canad-
ian'apitfircs in the" daylight as-
sault oif 'riot immediately identi-
fied objectives deep in France.
The weight of the-attacks was
indicated by the reports of
coastal observer* that hundreds
of bombers roared high over the
channel.toward Europe.
The daylight raids followed the
fourth straight night of British
nuisance raids on Germany.
A 45rminute - procession of
bombers with’ fighter escort flew
over one section of the English
southeast coast at extreme alti-
tude, Their targets were not
identified immediately, but may
have lay along the French invas-
ion const.
Earlier, small groups of Spit-
fires and other fighters were act-
ive over the French coast
British Mosquito bombers At-
tacked Western Germany with- , the siren, none the worse for
out loss last night. Other night wear. It had reappeared as my«-
(See French, German, Page {) ^.. teriously a* it had disappeared. ’
Jap Forces Split
On Bougainville
army patrols were reported "ac-
(.See British 11 of (Hug Page ■> .—
Highlands Siren
Mystery Unveiled
The biblical admonition that “all.
Ihings come to he who waits," was
proved aliew today. .......... ;’?,.
And tnat even includes the High-
lands Volunteer Fire department.
The other night a culprit made
off with the department;* siren.
The siren cost 50. bucks, but a
replacement could not be obtain-
ed high nor low after the theft
yens discovered.
When Edith Young .started in
the door qf. the water office to
start, heroday of work the"other
morning there by the door was
HEAD-
QUARTERS, NEW GUINEA,
Feb. 5 it’.lb American ground 1>a-
trols on Bougainville, in a swift
flanking movement, crossed the
island and reached the eastern
coast to cut the island and the
defending Japunesc forces still
there in two, it was announced
today.
A communique disclosing’the
thrust across the ’ 32-mlle-widc
island in the Solomon* also re-
vealed that American plane* de-
stroyed 80 Japanese, plane* at
Wewak, in the heaviest blow at
enemy southwest Pacific alrpow-
er In nprthcrn New Guinea since
November and advances by Aus-
ly-blv<dlng boy* to the rear for
treatment.
i Daniel DeLuce, In a dispatch I
written for the combined U. 8.
press, reported a "seemingly end-
lean” parade of captured German* C
to the rear. He «pld a Nail junior „ ; J
officer asked him far a match. ■
and lie noted th# OffMAr WOf* t)i#
iron cross ribbon, nnd decorations
for the Afrli an und Sudeten ram-
paigns. ... fSi
N. u Nazi Weapon M
(DeLuce ’said some of the. Per-
min-, were equipped with a new"
giis-npcruted'.automatic rifle, fir- ■
ipg two clips of five cartridge* fS§H
each, and that a British officer H
after shooting it at n tin can pro- n
pounced it a “very fair Infantry
weaposi")........-;i—’ .....■
The Tommie* said German cn*-
unities .were enormous after the sSH
fank-dc*troj)er unit* went into ac-
tion. and that "hundred*" must
have been killed in this one con- Ml
ccntrnted action. ’ '
< Homer Bigart in another com* mMM
bi.ned U. S. presa (Htpatch. deaerlb. ■
ed the scene of the engagement as
gentle, roiling farmland “the sort
of terrain on which Worldl War
T* great battles were fought."
(There wen no natural defen*’
alve positions In the area. Bigart
(aid, arid if the Germans intend to
hold their line they must commit
masse* of Infantry to the task. He
said that if this was the objective
of the allied landtag it ha* «uc- "?
reeded for many enemy
tralian forces in the Ramu vulley have been sucked into this area.)
and the Htton peninsula of that ■ » *
18 Persons Die
island.
(The Domci news agency in a
wireless dispatch heard by
United Press in New York, said
that Japanese ground batteries
at Wewak shot down two heavy
bombers of tt force -of 86 Allied
planes, Including Liberator bomb-
ers nnd escorting fighters, which
raided She base Thursday. Five
grounded Japanese planes were
damaged, the dispatch said.
(The Tokyo radio, quoting a
Dome! dispatch, said that 20 Alt
lied plane*, including 19 medium
bombers and one fighter, were
shot down by intercepting Japa-
nese fighters when *110 Allied
(Nee Jap Force* Split, Page *)
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moved again to Amarillo.
Elected a bishop In 1922, Hay
soon waa. en route to China,
remaining until 1924, when he
returned to "the Unltjd State*
and became, within a period of
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It Cotton .......... v. Up 2 child's mother was at onureh.
Staff-Sgt. J. W. Scott, tail
gunner on a Flying Fortress,
missed the Christmas dinner
served to men In hi* outfit sta-
tioned In Italy, but he figures he
got "about, the best Christmas
present In the whole world."
cant tell you tho casualle*. In
fact, I don’t know whether the
censors will pons this much. But
jay one thln*. 1 “m 8 verV
lucky' man to be alive. Very,
very lueky.
“I'm* OK now here in the ho**
pital. My feet and hands are
swollen and, I have purple bumps
all over, caused from hunger and
thirst and being In salt water (0 .
rlatlc *ea at 2 p.m. on Christmas long, but time will, take, cata-ot- —
day after floating around more that.
picked up a 3
He tsna hli iliteK. Mrs. Roy
Brook*. Goose Creek, about that
Christmas present in a recent
letter.
He was fished out of the Ad*
HOUSTON. Feb. 5. UlR) Hodston'e
fire death toll for 1044 stood at six
today when a flve-year-old negro
girl. Louella Parker, perished in
a fire which destroyed her fam-
ily’s home last midnight. The
than a week without food or wa-
ter.
■ "Brllrvr me, I had begun ta
wonder If I ever wan going to
see anybody again," he wrote.
"We were shot down by enenyr
fighter*, but f guess a guy
couldn't expect anything elec
when hi* ship was attacked by
70 to 100 fighter*. It looked like
a blue billion to me. They were
coining from every direction at
one time, ■ ’*
"We shot them down by th#
doaena, but they kept cumlng. I
"I was picked up a 8 pan.
Christmas day and w hen I got to
the hospital everyone was open-
ing peeaent* from home They
offered me some candy, hut I
hpdja settle for fruit.Juice—doe*
tor’s order*.
' "I figure I got about the best
Christina* present In the whole
world. •
“My hand* are tired and sore,
so I must sign off."
Sgt. Scott received hi* wings
in July, 1943 at Tyndall Field,
Fla.
In Dump Blast
LONDON, rib. b <U»‘-An am-,
munition dump blew up at a rail-
road sAtion in Northern England
yesterday, it was revealed today,
killing at least 18 persona. .. >
Some victim* Were reported to
haV* been blown ta bits. Tt># ex- _
plosion showered dabria over a ra» •
dlus of mllea and shook a consid-
erable area. Traffic over the rail-
way line was diverted.
Eighteen persons were injured.
Soldiers were reported to have
been loading or unloading ammu-
nition at a freight ear lust before
the explosion.
Firemen were railed In from
neighboring town* to help army
troops In fighting the resultant
flrea.
A number of Italian prisoner*
were working nearby, but it waa
not dUctosed whether they were
among the casualties.
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Mrs. Bishop's Brother
Is KHIed In Italy
Pvt. Jtm W, Stanley, 1», U.
army, was killed in the fighting
In Italy Jan. 6, his slater, Mrs.
M. L Bishop of Highlands, has
been notified.
Pvt. Stanley had been in the
army 11 month* and had served
in Africa, before being *
Italy, where he had been i
short time before hts de
Pvt. Stanley Is th* son <
adnMrs.JH.Staniey^
Mrs, Bis
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Pendergraft, W. L. The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 206, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1944, newspaper, February 5, 1944; Goose Creek, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1029305/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.