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- ↑ "Magicians Guild Reorganizing". The Napa Valley Register. March 18, 1980. p. 19.
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- ↑ Braue, Fred (December 27, 1959). "Hocus Pocus is His Hobby". Oakland Tribune . p. 20M.
...and the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians, of which he was first president in 1933.
- ↑ "Bay Magicians Get Lessons". Oakland Tribune. May 12, 1954. p. 20E.
- ↑ "Lloyd E. Jones Heads Society Of Magicians". Oakland Tribune. June 16, 1955. p. 28.
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