April 5, 1941

Mire Te Re Hensley
First National Bank Bldg.
Dodge City, Kansas :

Dear lire Hensley:

| Your son Lerry came in yosterday afternoon to talk with me
concerning the perticulers of a letter that I wrote to him some tine
backe :

Larry hed written me a very fine letter thanking me for the
courtesies that I had extended to himy and he was rather shocked at the
tone of my reply. So he came in yesterday to go over the matter with
m@, After Lerry had explained his honest intent and purpose in going to
Wichita with the basketball team, I could see how he felt in regard to
my letter to hime :

There are so many boys that take short-cuts on such proposiq-
tions similer to this thet I wented to frankly explain to him how I felt
in similar cireumstances, I heve been the victim many times of such
strategye In this case, however, I em very sure that I missed Lerry's

Howard FPngleman came to me and asked me if it would be pos-
sible to take Larry along to Vichitae I seid yese After matters
turned out as they did, I naturally viewed Larry's trip there as one
designed to primarily aid him end I frankly told him so. On cireune
stantial evidence it could easily have looked that way.

| I believe Larry loft hore feeling thet I was perfectly hon-
est when I wa, with him yesterday es I endeavored to be in my letter
which I wrote to hime I fee] it is better to tell a boy exactly whet
you think and, he being honest, if there sre misunderstandings they sre
soon clarified.

I explained to Lerry that previous to thie time I had had
many pleasant contacts with him, but no intimete connectionse He had
never been on a team of min@ée Although I hed watched him pley on base=
ball teams as a spectator, I had not had an opportunity to get under
his skin as I do with most boys on my teams. I have always had 0
very high opinion of Lerry and this eceasion of yesterdey has caused
me to raise my estimete considerably. He is fine, clean, straight-
forward young man, and if at any time there is an opportunity thet I