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«
IS
WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINrTY
Cloudy and showers
today and Friday
rVBUSHED DAfrLY, EKOEPT
SUNDAY
YOUR HOMEOWNER
IMILY NEWSPAPER
85c PER MONTH
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS
THURS., SEPT, 6th, 1940
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAJLY 1934
VOL. 7—NO. 63
Carol Expected To Abdicate Rumanian Throne
MORE DESTROYERS
RUSHED FOR SAILING
Yl AiSHlN'GTO'N, Sept. 5—Ten the first of fifty world war de-
more over-age destroyers were be-, stroyers to be sent Britain in the
injf prepared for sailing, probably! recent agreement that gave in re-
to 'Halifax, after three had sailed! turn for the ships a United States
last night from Boston and an-! right to build bases on British port-
other was all set to leave today,'sessions in the western hemisphere.
The ships were
EVERDAY
DENISON
■m
manned by
skeleton crews of 60 men and of-
ficers and will be delivered at an
undisclosed destination where the
vessels wil be turned over to Can-
adian authorities who wilt sail
them to Britain for active use,
probably as convoys.
Roll Call
Vote On
Measure
Nazi Raiders Are
Again Oier Britain
i
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
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Sitting Bull and Geronimo
would have ostracised Chief Thun-
dercloud, film actor, had he lived
jsa their time. The Oklahoma trib-
w leader is suffering, believe it or
not, from sunstroke . . . Orville
Lee drops into the Press office j
Wednesday afternoon and person-j
ally gives Denisonians an invita-1 company drilling and production
tion to the Paris rodeo and round- crews rushed preparations today 11
up this weekend. On the side,1 Put the company's No. 1 Park-
Preparations
Are Rushed On
Pure Oil Well
.01) R \iNT, Sept. 5—Pure Oil
First House Vote Ou Burke-
Wadsworth Conscription
Bill May Be Held Friday,
• Leaders Believe, Reported
Fight Breaks
Out On Floor
: points. Several, of the Naafpfanes t|on from Precinct officials to na
Rayburn Believes Measure \ were said to have been shot down. tiona^ committee members are <*■
Calling Men To Training I During the night the Nazis at-
To Pass By 2-1 Margin, j tacked more than fifty British fViOderstB ! OSS
cities, and today were said to have
DEMOCRATS WILL
BEGIN CAMPAIGN
1/INjDON, Sept. 5—Nazi raid-
ers returned to the attack today
after Britain underwent one of
the worst nights of the air war,
some of the planes breaking'
through the London defenses,
dropping explosive and incendiary
bombs.
British authorities said very
, little damage was done by tha . " "
bombs, but that water mains and AUSTIN, Sept. o The entire^ ing mobilized today for a 60-day|
I gas lines had been broken at some st8te Democratic party organiza- drive for campaign funds and|
votes.
Director Myron Blalock, Texas
national committeeman, said the
organization was being moved rap-!
idly into gear for the drive. He
announced completion of the com-
mittees supervising the campaign
in each of the state's 21 congress-
\VASHINGTCYN. Sept. 5—A roll struck at the industrial midland*,
call vote on the Burke-Wadsworth Berlin officially said that Brit-
conscription bill was sen today by ajn had suffered terrific losses
House leaders, probably Friday, from the bombings last night and
while antis and pros both claimed today, and admitted that British
advances in power. | planes had flown over Berlin early
Backers of the conscription today, dropping a few bombs on
measure that would call up 000,- the outskirts of the city before
1000 American men, ranging in
In Storage Of
U.S. Petroleum
ANTONESCU GIVEN
WIDE LATITUDE
I l'« 1 -
BUCHA'RRST, Rumania, Sept. quit the throne.
—King Carol, high sources said Madame Lupescu is said to be
today, may abdicate his throne ini- waiting for King Carol on a pri-
mediately because of pressure and| vate yacht at Istanbul, Turkey.
will join his red-headed feminine!
companion, Madame Lupescu. It BUDPEST, Hungary, Sept. 5
will be the second time Carol has1. Hungarian troops today were mov-
ing into the rich section of Trans-
Katy 1 rain Is
Delayed After
Kiefer Washout
yhania recently acquired from
Rumania under German pressure
nt Vienna.
ranging in German planes and antiaircraft
Lee is the Paris News' leading, College 200 in Bryan county on
age from 21 to 31, loudly asserted f;t.e drove them away.
they would win a victory
in the
com nig House vote, while antis
said they "were gaining ground."
Two democratic house members,
ii. M. Vincent of Kentucky an.'
writer and one of the best known production test following inter pre
in this section of the nation . . .j t tion of a Schlunlberger elec-
One film is referred to as "The' trical survey that indicated a five
sex-plosion of the season" . . j foot sand in the Bromide horizon
Billy PiS<i. the little man with is favorable for commercial pro-
the big ideas, is said to be con-l duction.
templating another show that will /Clews were setting five 3-4 inch
make his mammoth productions of casing in the well after the hole
the past, seem like little theatre j as plugged back to the 5,177 foot
plays. Besides being the best level. Casing will be perforated
showman in the world, with the j at 5,110-15 feet where produc-
possible exception of Hitler, Rose^ tion will be sought. ! ^
is also known for his marriage to! Other crews were extending thai trying to involve the U. S. in
Eleanor Holms and a few hit j gathering system to the Park Col-1 ].;Uropean war and had resum
An army storehouse in Berlin
wa,, said to have been struck by
the RAF bombs and a number of
persons killed.
Berlin claimed that German
songs he has knocked out.
] lege location to connect it with
the company's pipelines which now jjy
M. L. Sweeney of Ohio came to speedboats had sunk five enemy
blows on the floor Wednesday, merchant ships, totaling 35,000
night that ended in Sweeney apol-i tons, last night, but London made
ogizing to the House | no comment. The Germans said
Sweeney, 55, had just com- that six Britis'i destroyers Ir d
pleted an address opopsing the . sunk recently by torpedoes.
bill, accusing President Roosevelt Britain admitted that thirty de-
stroyers had been lost since the
war started, but were not wor-
N'EW \OKK, Sept. 5—Petrol-
eum refiners in the United States j
moved their operating rate higher1
last week to bring another in-•
crease in the total gasoline out-j
put and hold the storage decline
in that fuel to a moderate figure,j
the American Petroleum lnstitifte
reported today.
Gasoline stocks, finished and ]
unfinished, were off only 377,000|
barrels, down nearly half from'
the 674,000 barrels lost to market \
the week before. Both finished
and unfinished stocks had moved'
up 3,000 barrels the week previ- Lonimittee are Mrs. Clara Dri^coll,
ous. j national democratic committee
This left total gasoline stocks
ional districts and that county ex-;
ecutive committee chairmen, their
committeemen and all precinct of-
ficials would function in the cam-
paign. '
"Each factor in the Texas De-
mocratic organization will be util-
ized," Blalock said, "and eveiy
man and woman in the party wilt|
be asked to contribute to the cam-
paign in line with individual abil-
ity to do so. We want this cant-'
paign to be a full expression of
Texas democracy in aiding the el-
ection of President Roosevelt and
Henry Wallace."
With Blalock on the central
LONDON, Sept. 5—Possibility
was remote, authoritative sources
said today, that Russia would take
active part in the European war
because of the German movement
to send army units to the Ruman-
ian-Soviet border in an effort to
Due to a track washout near
Kiefer, lOkla., Frisco passenger
tiain No. 507 due at the union sta-
tion here at 2:45 a. m., was de-
toured from Tulsa to Muskogee hillt furlher USSR land acquisition
on the Katy line to Denison, rsuv jn southeastern Europe.
ing a four-hour delay this morn-
inK j BUCHAREST, Rumania, Sept.
rrisco telegraph lines were a so e—Gen. Ion Antonescu, apparent-
down, according to W. R. Minter,! ,y Kiven a free hand by King Car_
telegrapher-agent for the railroad ()| to pul, Rumania out of a cri8is
here. Other Frisco trains are com- threatening war, Thursday lifted
parably late and some wiU not "*jthe censorship of the press and
run at all today, it was indicates canct,|e(j extraordinary police
It was believed the trains would meaiUre(J whk.h hgve been in ef_
not resume their normal schedule.
before Friday.
Katy telegr: .
Okla., have been repaired
j l'ect three years,
The military leader, known to
Katy telegraph wires at Ha ien s()ldjerg as The Red Dog, was sum-
,, . '"'i moiled to succeed resigned Prem-
were in service today. Mainte i- - - --
seat when the fists began ried, knowing the fleet was soon
„ Sweeney later said the to be augmented by another fifty
east interesting news of the, are sending oil from the complet- fig|,t started because Vincent cull-[ 0f the smaller craft from the Unit-
week: that Hedy Lamarr and ed wells to the refinery. j ed him a traitor. | ed States.
I ed his
ing.
woman and E. B. Germany, ehair-
sharply above the 72,335,000 bar j "^"ee.
rels in storage the same week lastj pour yearg a?o Texas Demo.
crats contributed $300,000 to_the
I national c
on hand at 85,393,000 barrels, still ; 0f the :t.ate executive com-
ly above the 72,335,000 bar ; mjtte
ii storage the same week lastj pQ
year.
After ' opping their work paee^ national campaign fund and Bla-j
Carol Landis are filing divorce' -lust when the well will be set! "Representative Sam Rayburn of j i{<>purts continued to arrive that the weel " *'fore by 6 Pe£ cent' iock predicted complete success in
suits, and that John Barrymore for the production test was not TeXttSi House majority leader, es- u German troop ship had been refil,ers swun* buck .t0 8~ Pef'the campaign objective this year. |
has once more walked out on known but it was believed at the timated two days will be consum-' sunk off the Kattegatt Monday cent of capacity, a £al11 °\ 2 3 | "The tide is running stronger
field that it might be started tht! <,,( in consideration of the bill for niKht by a British submarine and cent This brought a rise in crude j day {or RooSevelt and Tex-|
last of the week. i amendment, and that the final j only about 100 0f its 4 000 oc(.u, runs to stills, the daily figure tor, ^ wi)| Rive the President and the
A gas showing was found in one [vote can be taken Friday. Passage | panls had been saved. t,le inluf^r_y ,as a , l'arty the same overwhelming sup-
.oday. ain e 1 , ^ jon QijrUrtu after failure of a
ance of way crews were patching i sengationa| attempt hv the Fascist
the track in that area today ana!l(.0I1 Guard to overthrow King
omplete their work t>y "'".Carol II.
The king was heavily guarded by
UK' fPd a ring of soldiers thrown around
ht 6 " e' . the palace as Gen. Antonescu con-
on
Elaine Barrie. They have more
spats than a cosmopolite . . . Also
of extreme disinterest to south-
westerners is the Linda Darnell
(Continued ou page fouri
DEATH ROLL
of the seven fields now drilling in J by a vote of about 2 to 1 is ndmit-
the field. j ted even by its opponents, who are
The gas show was in Crissman taking full advantage of general
104 in nee, section 2!l-5s7e, far-1 debate to get their views in the
thest west outpost in the field atj record. ,
present. The gas was so strong] Ewing Thomason of El Paso.
the drilling mud had to be recon-: ranking democratic member of the
ditioned. house military affairs committee,
The company's No. 2 Little 100 ] was one of the members speaking were said to I
fishing job where a in support of the bill Wednesday.! torpedoing.
drill pipe and two, He followed a fiery speech by j
The troop ship was said to have
been enroute to Norway when the
sub torpedo hit it amidships, run
sending it and its cargo to the
bottom quickly. The vessel was year
identified as the Marion of Ham-
burg.
Danish anc
ed at 3,757 barrels. This compar-,
ed with 3,485,000 barrels daily i
the week before and 3,472,- j
port it did in 1932
For the second week gasoline
and 1936,'
Blalock predicted. "With but 60 j
days in which to put on the drive,1,
we will need the active support
of all democrats in the state." |
day. In the meantime due to re-,
routing, Katy trains through Hal-
liet are < t
time. ferred with political leaders and
A special freight train of for >-( )s jn hig efforts to set up a
eight carloads of bananas were, * ,
shipped via the Katy Wednesdayi
night from Fort Worth through)
Denison for Kansas City. ^
An extra sleeper on the M.-K 1.
Texas Special from Dallas today,
contains 37 army recruits enroute,
to San Antonio.
mve witnessed the
V
ORVEL C. STRACENER [
Orvel C. Stracener, 40, resident.
of Route 3, Whitesboro for the' anu )lad u
past year, died of pneumonia atj section of
Whitesboio at 8 a. m. today . j reamers are stuck. The well isi Dewey Short (R.-Miss.) who de- j File Expense Accounts
Funeral services will be held at| bottomed at 3,771 feet. (dared conscription was not need- According to expense accounts
3 p. in. Friday from the South-, ^() j Metz 106 topped Wood-jcd, that the draft of man power, filed in the office of County Clerk
mayde Methodist church, Rev. C.; fon} at 3^05 feot and was drill-; would be followed by the draft of C. H. Barrett at Sherman, a total
, J. Graves officiating. Intermentj today at 3,120 feet. | wealth, of industry and of labor, I of $115.20 was spent by Ralph
Jj will be at Friendship cemetery,. j Thomas 202 was drilling and is the first step toward the | Elliott during the second demo-
Uenison Funeral Home directing.! at 2,900 feet and No. Little 2011 creation of a totalitarian state and cratic runoff lu.ld August 24 for
Deceased was born January 28,j was drilling ahead at 2,550 feet, on absolute dictatorship. | tin- office of district attorney.
1900 at Cooke county as son ofj company's Bryan county j Thomason recalled that twenty | Roy Baker was renorted as spend-
Mr. and Mrs. M. L, Stracener and wo|| .5 Little 100 was drillitift'i years ago, Senator James VV.( ing $85.50 in his campaign for
received his education in Denton at |,000 feet and the company's Wadsworth, Jr., (R.-N.Y.) now a J the same office. Grady Thomp-
county. He was married to Miss; No_ LUt)e 10] was drilling at 2,-1 member of the house and the au
Carrie Cavender at Southmayde in | 7?0 fcet thor of the bi), prepared the bill
1934 where they resided twenty. (Construction work is continuing he introduced in the senate after
years. I in Pure Citv, the company camp thorough investigation with tlu-
Surviving are his parents, now lQWn near t",,p fie|d 0lle large army and navy chiefs.
residing on Sherman Route 3; a eombination warehouse and office!
<0|>n, Edwin; two brothers, Floyd h {o be .gtal.te,, immediately. I p^ric
of Sherman and Virgil of Dallas, pure continuea to transfer key. T arlS DOOSICrS
two half brothers, Clyde Brown; me11 from other operations to th-sj
of Waxahachie and Howe Lester Cumberland field, indicating the
Of Dallas; and two sisters, Mrs. G.| COnfldence of the company in the;
production increased, climbing UP| rv . f ||_
Swedish fishermen to 11.697,000 barrels for the week j L/UTant I &1KS
Police Radio
Installation
DURANT. Sept. 5—Though no
son was
$73.95 in
clerk.
reported as spending but
lis race for icounty
Visit Denison
Birthi Lead Doath
Five births and three deaths
were recorded for precinct No. 2
during August, according to vital
statistics compiled by Judge
M. Scholl.
M.
a gain of 17,000 barrels. In the |
week before, gasoline production j
had increased 356,000 barrels. j
Reserves continued to be added
to the storage of burning oils as I
gas oil and distillate fuel gained
835,000 barrels, but the gain held | official action could be taken the'
under the 1,062,00 barrels the Durant city council discussed atj
week before. Residual fuel stocks j length a proposition concerning
gained 753,000 barrels last week, installing a shortwave two-way I
up sharply from the 86,000 barrels ' !adio as a!1 a'd to police work. |
added the week before. j Such a system as recommended I
. | today t'y Police Chief B. W. John-1
Shermanite Aligned i | aon fln,J Fir,i Chief L' L Moore j
Roy A. Trail, Rt. 2 Sherman,iaPsured L'lly officials his depart-(
who has been working temporar- mel,t would co-operate with the
ily as draftsman in the U. S. en-' Police the operation of the cen-
pfineer offices Here has been as • J tra| station.
signed regularly to the position,' T. Friedman, representative
it was announced today. i Commercial Sound Equip-
Miss Margaret Forll, stenogra- "lent company, of Oklahoma City,
liher in the engineering office, described the police radio system
has resigned to accept private em- hls company manufactures and in-
stalls and submitted a price for
Jackets In Fine
Shape Principal
On Return
ployment at Baton Rouge, La.
F. Wade of Dallas and Mrs. C. J., f|eW a„d its intentions of carry-j Residents of Denison were treat
Roeder of Whitesboro.
MRS. J. W. l«ANKF01RP
Funeral services for !Mrs. J. W.
Lankford, 74, resident of Denison
59 years who died Wednesday
morning at a local hospital follow-
ing an illness since last Saturday,
will be held Friday afternoon at1
2 o'clock from Short-Murray chap-
el with Rev Hargrove Grounds of-
ficiating.
production campaign in the area.1
ing on a complete drilling and <*d « a sa, P'e of at_mof
8 1 1 phere when boosters of the Paris
North Star Rodeo and Roundup
, | ' visited here Wednesday.
mndovers in j Representatives of
National Guardsmen Cannot Join
Other Branches Of U.S. Defenses
Justice Courts Ju, i01
the Paris. DALIES, Texas, Sept. 5—For
Chamber of .Commerce, National Guardsmen now it is just
sopnsors of the show Friday, Sat- too bad if they feel they would
urday and Sunday promised Paris! prefer service in the regular army,
In an examining trial Wednes-. will have all the appearances of a navy or marine corps, to their
day afternoon before Justice E. western cow town on rodeo day year's active duty, recruiting of-
A. Wright, Thama Bob Smith was, when the first show is staged Fri-. fiiciaIs said today after receipt of
bound over to the grand jury un- (iay night, In addition to cclori,, letter from the secretary of war
Interment will be at Lankford 1 der u $500 on a charge of bur- supplied by the brilliant costumes! requesting them not to accept ap-
cemetery, four miles east of Den-j ]ari/.ing the building formerly o"-| „f the Paris "cowboys" and "cow- ] plications from guqrdsment. The
ison, Short-Mruray directing. cupied by the Patterson Manuf-( jiirls," the show will offer some army was ordered to refuse them
Pallbearers will be J. C. FosutJ ucturing company. The bond was „f the top hands of the rodeo
Buster Pound, A. Schodl Horace
Foster, Dan Bailey, lL L. Shof-
fer, M. T Stanford and Dan 8am-
mon.
Largest Part
Of Convicts
Recaptured
made. . | world and some of the best spec-
Charged with driving a motor, ialty acts ever seen in a rodeo
vehicle under the influence of in-j arena.
toxicating liquor, P. W. Heron! The |ast named will incl.ude Co-
was bound over to the grand jury ,.j| Cornish and his famous per-
this morning under $500 bond in: forming horses and Brahma steer,
a preliminary hearing before Jus-(Ti1e steer, in addition to perform-
tice M. M. Scholl. The bond was jnjj, many other feats, will leap
made.
Article* Stolen
Br, F. Williams, Rt. 2, report-
W CITMMIN8, Ark., Sept. B— ed to city police the theft of a
Twenty-two of the thirty-one con- tire and wheel from his car at
victs who killed a guard and es-11031 W. Main street last Monday
caped, have either been recaptured, night while D. V. Gray, 1011 W.
or killed, prison officials said to- Gondy street, snid a wood stove
day. had been stolen from his property.
over an automobile at each per-
formance.
First show will start at 7:30
Vviday night following a giant orders.
and the marine corps and navy
were requested to refuse them and
complied with the request.
Heretofore National guard
members who have wanted to
transfer to another branch of
service have filed application at
their nearest recruiting office and
recruiting officers havei arranged
for their honorable discharge from
guard units. Henceforth no dis-
charge will be Issued until further
Enlistments continued to swell
the monthly totals of army, navy
and marine recruiting offices in
parade in the business district of
Paris at 2:30 Friday afternoon.
A second night performance will
be held at 7:30 Saturday night (Dallas. Twenty enlistments in
with the finals being staged at the army brought that office's
2:30 Sunday afternoon. ^ two-day total to sixty-four men,
not including those enlisted at Ty-
ler and Fort Worth, which are 1
part of this district.
The twenty enlisted here were
sent to Fort Sam Houston, San
Antonio. Fourteen were assigned
to the medical department, three
to the signal corps, one to the
infantry and two to the field ar-
tillery.
The marine corps enlisted six
men Tuesday and twelve men on
Wednesday, putting its total for
the month considerably ahead of
the corresponding total for Au-
gust. All were sent to the San
IDiego, Calif., training station.
Twenty-six navy recruits were
the complete station with two-way
sets 011 the police cars and on one
of the city's fire trucks.
Police Chief Johnson said most
of the business men of Durant
have realized the need of a police
radio system, which now are oper-
ated by nearly all cities the size
of Durant and suggested that
business men will be glad to sub-
scribe the funds to install the sys-
tem here.
Hull Warns Japs
To Keep Hands
Off Indo-China
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—Sec-
retary of State Cordell Hull today
has given Japan new notice to
keep "hands-off" French Indo-
new national Cabinet.
While the cabinet consultations
-till were under way, Antonescu,
with characteristic speed, made
bis first move.
He ordered the abandonment of
the rijrid press censorship and cau-
i celled the extraordinary police
measures which had been in ef-
fect since the assassination in
1937 of Premier Ion Duca by the
1 Iron Guardists.
j Antonescu is a strong support-
—. n 1. ''r *ron ^uar<i an^ was a
Says On Keturn Close friend of the guardists'
| slain leader, Corneliu Zelea Cod-
E E Rogers high school prin-j reanu' although he was not a m«m-
i-ipal returning today from A 'a ber of the organization.
where he visited Coach Pat Patti-1 The police in Bucharest were re-
,on and the high school Yellow stored to the normal P"W*r
Jacket squad, reported the boys «rength and police
were in good shape, with several ments were ordered off the streets.
-bowing outstanding promises of t^y police and soldiers
heTloZ tr the youths that frustrated a fascist I-
were in high spirits over the av Guard attempt Tuesday night to
pects of the game Sept. 13 with destroy communication, and stage
he Sulphur Springs Wildcats and on uprising 1.1 Bucharest, Con
ll^t alter a few we,k spots are stanza, Brasov Sina.a, Arad,
worked out in the Jacket plays, <-Uij and Oiadea -Iare-
iDenison should have a strong team: Political quarterssa.dthe^
this year The youths are quart- 's so threatening that all patriots
V , . , f fi,„ v, -t are rallying around Antonescu.
r . "Jl Befoie tor the «•«<•
T ™ J«ketV daily routi,* I- "il" 11 w" '"""J
... „j . that Antonescu spent a greater
along this order. t of the afternoon at general
Workouts from 5:30 to < .oO a.. ""1 ~ «:♦ ,
breakfast at 8; skull practice staff headquarters working^ with
at 9; lunch at 12; practice from the generals commanding th«army
1 p. m. to 5:30; dinner at 6 and,corps and divisons in Transyl-
kull practice 7 to 9 p. m. vania. It was beloved be-
j fore forming a new cabinet, tn®
JRed Dog is eager to establish a
I military program and rally the
! army to his cause.
Ernest Urdareanu, lord rham-
I berlain of King Carol's royal
Tenantless household, quit « ''res"'t <rf *h*
I events of the night of Sept. 3, a
f , , , | palace communique revealed Wed-
Wanted: Twenty-one far-sighted nee(jav „ight.
business people with an eye to (Cal,ol accepted the resignation
the future to locate in the busi- of Urdareanu, directly related to
ness district of Denison. Bbortive Iron Guard coup.
21 Business
Houses Here
■••I
Temperatures
Hit Low Mark
entrained Wednesday evening for China after the Nipponese were
San Diego, bringing the two-day
total to seventy-four. No more
men will be sent from this re-
cruiting station until Sept. 10 be-
cause of shortage of barrack fa-
cilities at San Diego. Applications
for enlistment will be taken as
usual, however, and placed on a
waiting list until the next shipping
date arrives.
reportedly preparing to enter the
Asiatic area in an effort to gain
access to a backdoor entrance to
China.
Hull warned the Japanese that
should they enter the French pos-
session the effect on the U. S.j
public would "be unfortunate."
He said that the freedom of Indo-
China was important to this coun-
tfy- , ^ ...
A survey conducted today by a
Press representative discloses
there is a total of twenty-one bus-
iness houses in the principal dis-
trict of Tlenison on Main street-
and avenues that are vacant or
have only temporary tenants. j Denisonians felt cooler weather
'The vacant buildings stand out here today after Wednesday had
as a sore spot to the city's bu.-i- brought a scorching heat wave
ness district and belief has bern that hiked te thermometer to 97
expressed by authoritative sources "degrees, then brought a light rain-
permanent tenants having a busi- fan that might continue in scat-
ness that will appeal to the gen- terei thundershowers today and
eral public could, with reasonable prjday.
prices of the products they have Temperatures here early today
for sale, find Denison one of the feij to 77 degrees and weather
best cities in north Texas in which forecasters said the mercury
to locate. The city's populet'on would again climb to a high mark
Is continually growing and several this afternoon.
new homes are being built weekly a light drizzling rain fell late
as permanent dwelling places. j Wednesday night.
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Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 63, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1940, newspaper, September 5, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth328025/m1/1/: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.