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perafure 10 to 20 degrees; con-
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cold in Panhandle
NOTORIOUS BANDIT
$240,000 IN BLAZE
Ba rometer
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Notice of appeal of the Henson
BELOW ZERO WEATHER FORE-
contest
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a humber of sections
history
weather
the banks, but the Fort Worth dis
trouble in making them up for de-
morning.
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far several days and many had come
temperature at Brownsville was
up in his cash box and that 400
at the Dallas
urda afternoon.
nmemlmmif
f the First Guar-
oil leasing cases.
rates
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Tofthe nitrate project.
Storm Grips Middle West
Farmer Slays Son
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Jury Commission
Monilay
during that
t emperatu re recorded
WM. GREEN TO
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morning.
Rain of Benefit
storm and cold wave that
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the uncom pletd term.
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Brownlee
left there 1) til Friday morning.
Cleff- Weisman Grocery
of
of the square moved
threatened
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buildings
bank building.
disedvefed in the
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the ditch on the
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Plague Outbreak
Over Whole World
In 1925 Forecast
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yieriod was 2 degrees above zero in
-anuary. 1018. The lowest December
DECEMBER RECORD COLDEST WEATHER OF HENSON WILL CASE
IS SET BY THURSDAY WINTER EXPERIENCED IS TO BE APPEALED
contestants of the will,' Elmer Lee .
Henson et n!., sons of the testator
German Murderer
And Accomplice
Dr Francis Carter Wood director of
the Institute for Cancer Reseat ch.
and
store
FoRSne
ORTne
10. years than In —u +-yeu-- —+44
yeurs, yet there is little hope of ever
tors and other silver change, but for
rome unknown reason the supply of
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Announcement is received of the
approaching marriage of Miss Marie
M. Mack, missionary ftom Guatema
la, who was
week, to G t .
geles, Calif , '
t he
and-
i first
the
climbing upward slowly and at noon
had reached 12 degrees; .
The Weather Bureau is nothing if
not persistent. The cold wave, fore-
Special
late.
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Denton
late all
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rupted
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voices
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A considerable amount of damage
iS done in the way of frozen and
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Precipitation
1 56 inches
damages; judgment granted for de—.
fendant. .3-7
Bank Safes Blown
The sate blowers broke into the 1
Studies’ ancer TEMPERATURE OF ] DEGREES IS
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btst+** -heuses were
of conditions—-reacted in just .415 of
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SECRETARY POSITION
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MI uth portion tonight with tem-
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tions
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set still
some of their
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delayed. A number of deaths
uted to the cold weather were
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finding a cure, he svs.
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buikding.....an.
of the insti-
appealing . . ‘1
Motions in other cases tried dur- n
ing the present term remain to be - —
heard to fore the court adjourns Sat- •
urday afternoon for the term and .a
among the cases is that of B. C.
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SOUGHT AS LEADER i
AND LOOT OF BANKS IN BANK ROBBERY
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degrees above zero here today, with
■■ “norther” whipping southward in.
let their small change accumulate in
their cash boxes because of the
n the former trial and Judge C. R. „ ,
i’carman then granted an instructed
verdict for the proponents in view
of the previous holding of the high-- ;
er court. It is from this instructed
xerdict Lhatshecontestantaare.kow.
forecast for late to
ported in West and North Texas.
The coldest December day in the
charged with bribery. Indictment of id
the former warden followe his ar- J
re t on simTTr charges on Federal 3
wacrantsgrowingout of an invex" 8
tigatiinof conditions at the peniz iJ
tentiery by Eederal agents. Bond of .1
$:,0n0 wn promptly made. 1
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TRAFFIC MISHAP' 1
vern*It control
to the Court of Civil
the second time was
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in lower Rio Grande Valley;
continued cold Saturday.
which have been , unusually
cold in south
the C T Nichols Garage.
No estimate of the damage
the separate firms could be secured.
Other merehantson the south side
n period of
jured in Chicago
slippery streets.
OIL CONSERVATION
BOARD APPOINTED
grain w hich has been needing ruin , u snow
There are lots of nickels and quar l ternoon stated that the loss in the
robbery and file probably would
reach $240,000.
in North Texas, near zero in
east and west and 24 to 30 de-
<i in east and south portions to
night with cold wave in south
portion; temperature 6 to 10 du-- I
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About ; p. m. Thursday a
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his yearN,
4rann,was condemned for incit
ing to murder in oie case
ed in connection with 15 southwes-
EIRE AT EARLY HOUR FRI- tern bank robberies, was sought to-
southeast and 21 to 30 degrees n
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—The gov-
ernment submitted its answer to-
plus power rolu--1I by any
the Dakatas dpwn
anty State bank, which was located
in the same building, of about $10,-
HOU, are supposed do have set fire
to the structure which spread to
other nearby buildings.
former marriage. The case in-
i an Iitate of arsun I $75,000
defeat III the Senat
much during the week about
of the Amarillo
Sherman Highway just north
oral sections, reports here, indicated
with trains runining hours late.
mercury to the freezing point.
nil
W Alsh amneneltini nt to tin- bill was
Traffic Aecidents
AUSTIN, Dec. 19. A temperature
drop of 45 degrees within two hours
। early last night and subsequent
shrinkage of the mercury during the
। night gave Central Texas i taste of
LAUNCHED SATURDAY Government Answers Rlea
■i ...........nee........... 1 ot Abatement noil Case
weather it has been decided TO
LOWEST HERE IN PAST 6 YEARS
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< lear Creek bridge and had
of minor
the entire Middle West.
car, about -four miles south of Den-
ton, started walking into Denton but
were picked tip by, the car before
they arrived here.
Street and interurban busses were
also operated under handicaps.
Plumbers here were badly rushed
ld which has held other sections 1 given Thursday afternoop by the
hereto reported.
since. 1
'of th First National Bank vault
was blown open and the safe of this
bank and also that of the First
.'Guaranty Bank, which was located
in the back of the bank were opened
An estimated loss of $210,000 was
caused at Valley View, about four
miles over the line in Cooke Coun-
ty, early Friday morning when ban-
dits looted both banks in the town
and are supposed to have started a
fire which destroyed virtually the
entire business section. Earlier in
the day the loss had been estimated
in dispatches at $150,000, but a dis-
i patch from Fort Worth Friday af
(ther record tonight, with the weath-
er bureau forecasting from zero to
communications Were inter
reristration at the farm was.8 de- a “norther"
recs in 1916. The etetie* rezteedomiesan hour gales. Wire
it minimun of 7 degrees kriday munication was demoralized in
on the slippery pavements and "
minr aecidents were due to y
, 2 p. m., Friday, cause ■ n - M-
* ' az
after the flrl> was first
Reading
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Humidity
92 per cent
Thte long heralde cold wave
only arrived, but it came in in
VALLEY VIEW, Dec. 19. -Otto
will help supply the local shortage."
5-,2_____ !_.LEirat.National_Bank
The minimum regiskration was after rifling the safe
41, a full of 35 degrees from tbe 76 tution and that cf tl
Interesting experiments to deter-
mine the rapidity of reaction inau-
tomobile drivers were concluded re-
cently by Dr. E. A.Moss in Wash-
ington. Moss determined, after the
I experiments, that college women
think faster than college men, and
that taxicab drivers think fnster
than either. The tests were to calcu-
late how quickly the driver's brain
got nto motion to stop his car af
'tor a pistol attached to the car'
had been fired. The College men av-
eraged .590 of a second, college wo-
men .559 while the taxi driver—ac-
To-cent pteces has been very short;
locally, and busines houses have,stroyed by the f
been clamoring at the banks for, three sman structures
more of them. “Such change short- ’ the south side of the square
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Docket Orders
Orders entered on the dockets are.
Otto Carlton et al vs. W. O. Carl- l
ton et al, partition; report of Ma- --
rion Bralley ns receiver heard and J
approved. I roceeds of sale and at I
other money ordered partitioned and-—
distributed as formerly set out in |
judgment of the court. -
Phillip Brown et al vs. Acme
Prick Co., to try title as well as for
quiry into the status of the Amer-
ican navy was postponed indefinite-
ly today by the Senate naval com-
mittee.
After more than two hours' de-
author of the I.Ill The annelmnt will ' freeze by cutting off water and eith-
have the affect of giving the Federal.! erdrining radiators or putting in
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
The jury commission was named —
)y Judge Pearman- Thursday after- a
noon and was at work Friday morn- .
ing. The members of the commission I
are A. M. Buckner of Denton, Ben j
Savage of Lewisville and Isom Seale__1
of Sanger. c
....— . - the foracaut indieated—
Senator
Thursday’s forecast, with "cold wave I
tonight or Friday with temperatures ;
from 10 to 22 degrees.” The cold
wave already has struck in North
west Texas,
The precipitation Thursday and . ......... .... ... _________ .
Thursday night totaled 1.nt inches firing, demoralized wire and rail
hero, nerording to John W . Crain. ■ communication and subzero wenth-
This'fill bo of much benefit toer today followed on the heels of
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strength of weather forecasts ! falling there this
the last few days struck Northern !
Texas late yesterday and soon sent '
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.
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upon the resolution
___V ASH I NG TON, Dec, 19 A .
world-wide outbreak of pneu-
monic and bubonic plagues in
1325 was forecast by J D. Long,
chief of the quarantine works
of the public health service, in
testimony before .he House Ap
propriations committee made
public today..
".....W? I. Doty and JERrns,com......to......the bunding
panion traveling men with bead- ' "
quarters here, are at home for
< hristmas, returning Wednesday
right from a trip over the Plains
postpone the launching of the
big dredge, scheduled for Sat-
merchandise from the
g• '
2•° ' I skidded into the ditch on the ho
5 Worth Highway south of Denton.
years ago.
C. Lowe & Son
the Valley View
Tailor Shop, the
( afe and Meat i
A Terrell man, whose name was H
net learned by local garage men ex- 28
cept that he sald he was the Hudson; 3
Esex dealer at that place, smashed -#
into the rear end of a truck on the < ]
Sublett Hill on the Dallas pika ,. J
Thursday night, when the ice on hi 12
windshield obscured his vision His kk
front wheels wore, thrown, «» otO|
line and he had to be hauled in oh
a pair of pony trucks under the 1
front end. He was not hurt’ j
,. Doaensof colliaions, nona c“
serous, were eaused by m
windshields that were cover
ice "nd froten -bt Wheel*
\
pvominent. -local oU man, was killed
| near TArockmorton by his nutomebile
overturming-late Thursday,
Zero Weathe r Tonight
Colder temperatures are due to-
night and tomorrow when the
freeze will reach the coast, accord-
ing to Dr. J. L. Cline, in charge
of the local weather bureau
T h e forrec a s t for tonigh t and, to.,
morrow is for zero to 6 below
19. Intense suf
urday afternoon, at the Dallas day to the pleas in abatement in ascit.,
—fnm -itehe*rfere*i—seeerdinE— ttte • asesagatmst -E.- E:.....Dohrney, —TT.. 1n
to word received from J. C. E. L. Doheney Jr., Albert Fall and
Greely Friday morning. Greedy . Harry Sinclair growing out of navy
declared that all was in readi- leasing caseg.
won Misole Shoals fore i"
Legisature Deposes City
Government ot Vera Cruz
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. 19 —
The city government of Vera Cruz
has been deposed by order of the
local legislature and a so-called
counsel of municipal administration
installed.
Policemen appeared yesterday and
oi dered city officials to leave. No re-
sistance was offered but the officials
refused to recognize the new coun-
cil and telegraphed a protest to
the president.
The actibn of the legislature fol-
lowed charges of violation of the
laws and misuse of public funds.
AcCinimTs
FORr WORTH » Sehimmet, in,
CHICAGO, Dec
Waluh, Montan:, I emorrat, wontet
phl<O the h'HXH of the irerje, I lllldi'l .
Che I ...........mil mjtIvwitlinibursted pies ami automobile vadit
t*e jurt-eHt-tt nf-++ --+-+-f-# wntepi tors, deapite the fact that the peo
werag. ....... wa-’npj ple had hern well forewarned and
ml by Senator Inerwo. Imoratmost of them had prepared for the
King, Democrat, Utah, for an in-
NIGHTS COLD WAVE OVER MOST OF STATE- FOR SECOND TIME
today
The robbers apparently broke n-
i.....- '' between 3 and 4
o'clock Friday morning The oor
West Texas tonight and Sat- .
urday mostly fair, colder 1 the —
force, and bids fair to
— DALLAS, Dec. 19. The most se
Ni uT.ere cold weather of the winter wa ■ will
• * ' 1 ' being experienced in nearly every |
" section of the State today. The | ApPeal5 for
patch stated that about $60,000 in '
. securities was lost in addition to j
posit, fine customer this morring, the money and that the total loss I
learning, of the shortage of dimes, was stim ated at $210,000.
brought in $i0 worth that had piled
Banks' Loss Heavy
FORT WORTH, Dec. '19 The loss
o.l the two banks at Valley View
which were rotbed early this morn-
VIRTUALLY ENTIREBUSINESS!
SECTION IS WIPED OUT IN Starr, notorious Texas outlaw want-
was so'much colder than was ex- zero
pected, however, that in many in- the
1 stances • 'preparations for * piotec | glees
lion were* pot sufficient. I
I i
The registration of 7 is 10 degrees
elder than the coldest recorded
during last winter, and probably the
minimum record for several winters
bureau, established 33
Temperature
I Maximum yesterday#
Mtaimum today
here on leave last
. Anderson of Los An .
w inch will take plac •
There is a scarcity of dimes in
Denton, according to local bankers.
2-2
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notes and securities, it is said.
The' total from fire and bandits
\ hew low figure for tile pist
Columbia University, says more has N tears and for all time fm De
been learm d about rant er in the last ' • enber a. far as rdords lure dlis , t , . i,
closewas gHh ihecold aVe, afthe state Snw ana sett wore
a hursduy hight which hrotfrh . H 1 '
minimnum temperature of 7 derrecs,
registere! fit 8 o'clock Frid:y morn
ingr.
changed. ’ i
• Interurban service was interrupt-
ed in North Texas on account of
broken., trolleys.________________________
badly, according to farmers. There ' invaded
was some apprehenion Friday that* From
the severe freeze might damage lahoma and as far east as A
some of the . grain because of th’’ New York, the storm ragec
fact that it has not become well ities are comparatively small,
rooted due to tle otremely drycordinersto meager reports. "
f:rl1 but it cun not vet he told wheth- persons were killed and cores
er anv dhmage will he dnnr. it w as jured in Chicago from falls
sin t ed.
Meaders, convicted of attempted 3
crimin:* assault and given a len-
ience of 10 years, It was to be heard
Fiiday afternoon.
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WEATHER
‛V. . . ...
Es Texas tonight and Satur- ,
day probably fair except rain
or snow in west portion; cold- *)
morning. Local Weather
banks off in a truck but after the j
fire was got under control the safes
were found under the debris.
This method- of gaining access to
the safes vleads authorities here to
believe that the robbery was plan- 1
ned anil executed by a band probably
working out of one • fthe nearby
i ities.
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as far south as the coast. .
( hronicle from Valiev View Friday ,, . ... . . ,
afternoon saju that the best estimate will »a.h ».GO WO it ,» estimated,
obtainable in the town after noon'— — FA p aIA- -A nr
was a loss of $100,000 on the build TRF NOT TT । t
ings and about $10,000 in loot from. UILUUL IU I IU DL
j VOL. XXIV
J. S. Darnall is nt home from a [ -
business trip to Electra. The cold I
wave had struck Wichita County be- i
on Sloan's car. Earlier in the morn-
ing a car driven by J. T. Watson
de-ingbeforetheburningof the
tire lgvingonlvitown’s business district was placed
'■ -indn, nithis afternoon at #12.500 in cash."
8 - One bank lost about $00,000 in
£'Sims’si MANY APPLICATIONS
The fire was not discovered un-
1 1i about 0 o’clock Friday mofning
Eddie Met (ilium, a drug store clerk,
was on his way to open the V alley-
View Ding Storo, which was burn-
ed and discovered the fire in the
bank building He turned in an
alarm but the fire spread rapidly
and calls wire sent to nearby towns
for assistance. A fire truck company
from Gainesvi!le answered the call.
Aid Asked of Denton
Fire Chief Clarence Smith was
called over the telephone about 7
o'clock Friday morning from Valley
I V iew and the fire reported to him
but it was useless for the Denton
Eire Department to try to make
the run. The fire was under good
headway at the time and without a
water supply at Valley View that
the Denton trucks could use no
assistance could have been rendered
and because of the sleet on the
highway it would have taken a
long time to make the run.
Only three small frame buildings
were feft on the south side of the
KANSAS eIT) , lie 19. Tim south
wekt was gripped in the worst culd
spell of the sea~en fewiny
Below zero tempernturen nver ‘vo e
tensive areu delael trains nud demor-
alize cominunication.
Temperatures Ntond at 4 below bere
rtf 6 a. in f’tear skles and slow it rising
HEADA.F.L ,
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NEW YORK, Dec. 19— William
Green, treasurer of the United Mine
Workers of America, was elected.b9
■ the executive council of the Athaf- .
iron Federation of Labor to succeed J
"n Samuel Gompers as president for I
a supply of alcohol. The weather
J. I . Both, supervisor of State
, and Federal highways in Wise Coun
ty, has een instructed lo have ar-
tested any person using a tractor or
machine of any description having
lags qn the wheels on the highways.
'1 he Department, announces that be-
cause of the injury such machines
do to the roads, “further violations
of the law will not be tolerated.”
Roundabout prekumes the same law
applies to Denton County.
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1924 ASSOCIATED, SEEVICE 8 PAGES i kreenin norh, ii 8 degreen -ti
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Valley View Banks Robbed; Stores Burned
(AST FOR FRIDAY
H. S. Masters born in Denton and
a graduate of Denton High, is dis-
trict manager for the Larabee Flour
V. Mills Corporation and has been plac-
‘ ed in charge of the company's new-
ly established distributing center at
Dallas District heitiquartrs have
been leased in the new Santa Fe
-terminal building at Diallas with
Masters in charge. The Larbee com-
pany is a $6,500,000 concern with
headquarters in Kansas City and
operates five mills and 52 elevators
in Kansas and Missouri with an out
put of 13,500 barrels a day. Masters
is a son of G. C. Masters, former
Denton citizen.
including several hundred acres of i
Luckland i: .the, eastern part of--
Denton County. Mrs. Lucy Bell Ad-
kins 1 nee Henson at the time of his —J
death in 1919) and her present hus- 1
band and, children of hers are pro- • -
ponents of the wil which left the - —
estate to them. The sons were serv- -
ing in the army at the time of the I
denth of their father. .a
The case lias been tried three
times in the courts here, originat-——
ing in the County Court and then -
being appealed to the District Court.
On the first trial in the District ' 1
Court the contestants wen and th* ,
+coponentsof the will appealed Thn ; ..J
t ur of Civil Appeals reversed the M
epse, holding the evidence was not ’ 1
sufficient to warrant the judgment. H
tin the-trial oi-the- case at this-tera——4
of the District Court virtually the
same testimony was introduced as -^1
ACTIONONMOVETO. ........... ...................—-
PKIIRE IINI Fn \ T ATEK The rain which fell Turing the day West today was added to the do-
ENUDL UIVI LU JIAiL> Thursday turned to sleet late in the /main of the storm and cold that
AIAIIV ne nnernnrn afternoon, and sufficient sleet fell to Mor five days have h -d the North-
NAVY l\ I PIINFii' aT106 ver the ground durmg the west and the Rocky Mountain reg-
IVR ■ I I• VW I I H1LU carly hours of the night. The tem-iin in icy grip.
----- perzture reached the freezing poihti; Snow, and sleet was generally
WASHINGTON, Dec: 19. -Action early Thursday afternoon and be fogcasteforpthe GoatLakes rezion
fore night wns down to 26 degrees. ' nd the ppir Mississippi valley
At 7 o’clock Friday morning theland, portions of the Southwest,
mercury stood at s degrees ami at while temperatures already near the
8 o’clock stood M 7. It then started er iark were expected to sink
still lower.
Wire communication in many sec-
customed to, making headway in all
sorts of trnme and under all sorts
was more than an hour
plies power for the line, broke and
that after this was repaired the
cars were put in operation again.
Several , passengeri on the stalled
DALLAS, Dec. 19. North Central
and Eastern Texas was in the grip
of a severe cold wave today fol
lowing the first snow and sleet of
the winter.
A biting wind had drixen.Leimp-
eratures to 14 above at 7 o'clock
this morning, a drop of 59 degrees
since Thursday, morning.
Train and interurban service was
slowed and communication with Ok-
lahoma disrupted.
“Wolf” had been, cried
( ongrenamaw Kahn Deud
SAN IRAM'ISt'o lulin- sali.
C’ongrensmnan from. , (‘aliforni .)1
chairman of the militars afrairs i
mittee, died at Ids home here.
the general storm which has grip
ped the middle portion of the Unit-
ed States during the last few days.
The mercury roosted around 29
day as the leader of a bun lit gang |
which looted the First National and
the First State Banks in the town
of Valley View this morning and
started fires which destroyed nine
| buildings at a loss of $150,000.
Police were convinced, they said,
that Starr engineered the raid and
subsequent firing of the town. Starr,
police said, is known to head one
of the most daring gangs of bank
robbers since the days of Tom
Slaughter. . -
interurhan cut’s between
and Dallas were running
I morning but about noon
Seta Record
The lowest temperature
fore registered in Denton
Kneyelopodta Klien Mekinney Srhowt
MeKINNEY Mis Mary F 1s 1 hs
ptenrhf loti- Hieh S,*eT will, s
late eneyrloplia. lb r gifts to dm
srhonl have amunted to mer limn
$5,0.
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was interrupted and trains
Posses At Work
Three posses were working out.of
here in an effort to locate the PBbu‛
bers but it is doubtful if the men
who robbed the banks will be found
t- they have several hours start.
Three strange men wer seeti here
Thursday morning about 3 a. m. and
the same car, it is said, was sight-
ed here about the same hour Friday
by a service car driver. It is thought
that these men wire the ones for
whom the officers are searching.
that extended as far west as Laie-
sa. "Conditiens are very good thru-
out that part of .the State,” said
Barta Thursday, "and there till is
a lot of cotton in the fields remain-
ing to be puked.” •
9 “You can tell the world that the
presgagenting of this blizzard was
not overdone but to the contrary.'’
laid the Denton citizen who the
other day poked fun at John Crain
and Roundabout for their petsistent
predictions of colder weather, said
predictions being based, in fact, on
the Weather Bureau dope. "A lot of
us who "razzed" the Bureau and
those who printed it* predictions
were made to buffer for our rash-
ness." The’wainimim of 7 degrees,
v hich came at around 8 o'clock Fri
day —mering:,-wTs we of the coldest
registrations for December ever re-
vorted in Denton. The mercury at
both the Experiment Farm and at
John Crain’s home showed 8 at 7
o'clock and dropt another degree ।
before it started its slow ascent. I
square and for a time Eriday
morning it looked as tho the entire I
residence Vection south of the bust- •
(ness district would be burned.
The business houses destroyed
were occupied by:
The First National Bank, The
First Guarantry State Bank, the
Valley View Drug Company, the F.
If.AN(VI. cierinnns, IhM', 12
F'rltx linarnun, tle "‘wholesale
in urderer." wbose trial for the
alasing of "tersons las Mtirred
nil tjermnnv, was seltencei to
death today.
Ilie extreine prnnIty uhs also nr
lered in the casi of bis accomplice.
Until irans.
Ilaarann was foune guilty of
1ireering 21 young men. the
ages occur at intervals," »aid E. D.
Curtis bf the Exchange National
Bank Thursday, “with first one
sutsiary coin and then another
showing the shortage. Much of it is
due to the fact that business houses
for "disord~rly conuet" nn emu
phdnt of his moii who' reported to
officers that his father had beaten
him for refusine to drink.
'The killink' was not reveale un
'Lil. today when a neighbor reported
the boy missing aud the body was
found near the home? t ficers said
Goff shot and killed the hoy Mon
day after he reportei to officers
and before the arrest.
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 19
rosiltcn fron the storm, pur.temperature, dropped to 28
irgthe late afternoon and evening grecs here from 7", in n , ,,
Thursdav 11m rain and sleet freeze hours when the norther s ruck. I he
on the windshields of nr nml this ,0o1d wave arlived shortly before
was (be cou, of everal of th- "idnisht
areidents The sl reels and roads vnen. ti i,0 m it . ...
alsi...... Ime miked With 1 « . "O’ STM Den 19 A" Houzton
ami (Invue wal very difficult ishivered this morning ns rhe mer-
Yellow iury slipped l< degrees lo • above
between 4 o’clock and 7 o'clock
degree maximum for Wednesday.
P'reeipitatie-A here was 07 of an -inch,
according to John W Crain’s mens
urements, and 12 of an inch at the
Experiment Farm. -
of Senator
the cars were operating almost on . . .....
schedule. A enr from Dallas Thurs- nil morning trying to open pipe*
day afternoon was delayed foriwhich had frozen. In all parts. of
several hours because of power Denton during- the night. No re-
y trouble. It was atated that one of ports of burst water mains had been
- the high power wires, which sup- received, however, at 8 P " Friday.
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Argteht was set- in ■ supreme
court of the District of Columbia
for Jan. 9.
The defense contention that
members of the grand jury which
ieturned the indictments might have
been influenced by listening to a
radio talk by Senator Walsh, Dem-
ocrat,, Montana, the Senate*s oil
prosecutor, was held by thegovern.
nent not sufficient to cause the.
C'urt to grant the pleas. Other argu-
ments set forth by the defense also
met this statement from the gov-
ernment counsel.
was recorded there. The temperature
stood 11 degrees below zero.
The temperature in North Texas
was around 16 degrees while at
Waco the mercury registered 16 de-
grees. ,
Freezing weather was reported at
Houston and San Antonio. Corpus
t hristi reported the temperature
in Dallas Monday. Both will go to
the mission fields in Guatemala
Miss Murt hsbern serving i the
same mi si school as Miss Ethel
Baker of Denton, and while here
was a guest of Miss Baker’s parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J T. Baker. Miss Mack
spoke at the 'Centrut Presbyterian
Church during her stay here, and
ieceived many hospitalities from
members of that congregation.
Iater in the evening a car driven
by S. B. Henson of Walnut Springs
collided with a car on West (Ink
-free near Denton but as both cars
wore rrveting at i low rate of
p ed little damage was done. .
Fridav morning a car driven by
hollie Sloan collided with a Yellow
Cab driven by Carl Vaughan at the
orner of Avenue A and West. Mul-
lieriy Stiret, ending the fender of
the cab and breaking a, rear wheel
u. today
Amuteur Sieuth (ietn 25 Years
DALLAS Despite the plea of oTTi
rials Umi WilI Barnes of tjeorgetawn.
Ark., hud been a-ni-tine lie M‛"
through giving them information while
working with bamlits a jury 1oum
him guilty of highway retlory mid
gave him 25 years.
GLDson, N C., Dee. 1U
John Goff. Green County farmer,
killed Ills HI year old sun. Herbert,
1- Hie boy revised to' take a
fore he left Wednesday, he said |
Thursday, with freezing tempera-
tures and sleet and snow covering
tie ground.
cast since Monday, is now predicted/rnim-Fn a AA. ..
for Friday. Rain or snow tonight, I FK I IM A TF | I HvO fir
Friday unsettled, much Colder, is ' L• I IITIM I LU LU Ul
bate in executive session, however,
Chairman Hale was instructed to
obtain, comprehensive data from the
navy department bearing on the
charges made by the Utah Senator.
Senator Hale said it was im-
possible to estima’p how long it
would take to collect this data. Ask-
ed whether the resolution had been
indefinitely put aside, he replied:
“The committee thought it best
to wait until they had the facts. ’
blizzard that a lot of folks didn’t
pay much attention to it when the
cold did come. They made a mistake
and the plumbing was frozen up in
many homes and a good many auto-
mobile radiators were ready to burst
Friday morning as soon as they be
ran to thaw out. The minimum reg
istration was very mur h colder than
(he Weather Bureau finally had pre-
dicted, the local forecast Thursday
leing for a range of from 18 to 21
degrees for the northwest portion
• of East Texas, which means usually
29 d?g rees or higher in Denton.
to secure a secretary well fitted for
tie place.
George Rucker.....Friday expressed
his appreciatiom of the " action of
the directors of the Chamber of
Commerce in miming him as man-
ager and stated that he would put
forth his best efforts to make a
success of the work. He invited the
co-operation of and suggestions,
from all Denton citizens in the
work of the organization for the
new year.
w KlHNrtTDN. Dee. 19 An oil con- em
servittn houril con~isting of the se- J
ereturir* •f w #. nvv, interler andi.....
(•Hill inert e wi c"oter hrtljl by F’resi- 3
(but (‘oolidge. The new board wil
st ml i t 1 yovernment’s responsibilit
in <iil < enservat len an will seek the ig !
full co operaton of the oil industry to 07
thnt cl. . .............
s--a . M . 4 "m*e
SARTAIN IS INDICTED
ON BRIBERY CHARGE
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ATLANTA. Gm. Dec. 19-A. B. 1
Sartain, dopo~n warden of the At-
lanta penitentiary, was indicted by.
a Federal u rand jury this afternoon,-........J
A staff special to the Record-
There also was w large number
of dark that had to be pulled into
garages here to be thawed out be-
fore they could be operated.
Trains Delayed
All of (he. trains thru Denton
were reported from one to eight
hours behind schedule. The south-
bound train due here at 7:45 a. in.
did not arrive until after 3 o'clock
in the afternoon and the Texas
sr— -fef ■ the in urn king but
that as a large number of per-
sons wished to witness the cere....
money the construction com-
pany would not put the boat
in the’’water untt warmer
weather prevailed. He did not
give a definite date for the
launching . but stated that if
possible the dredge yould be
launched Tuesday, a
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of the country in icy grip for
UNDERWOOD MUSCLE
SHOALS FORCES LOSE,, ,,
mmgamnpug na nmgeAamcp f degrees below zero in North lex-
MEASURE IS AMENDED i s
time has been looked fbr on
John AV, Crain, volunteer weather
observer, began keeping the rec-
ords six years ago was 12 degrees
on Dec 10, 1919. Th State Experi-
| merit Station, four miles northwest
of Denton, has .been keeping the rec-
ords since 1913, and the lowest
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—— R, A. Long and* Jess Carroi
L Melissa and Jack Sportsman of
KirmeyrimerwhewmThcod
’ icontinue 00 Fg ,
am.kam
I
Cali and I car driven by John Me- 1,;
tram Ji. collided at the cornerilnii •
. f wolt oak and penton Streets, I eau . officials predicted a drop
resultin, in bent fenders on bothjfreezinK durinK, the duy, , ( .
marhin At about the same hour , The sudden drop was ushered in
ar driven bv E M Wood skidded hy A heavy rain which early this
I.n of the dump on the Denton mor n ing had al1 bu ‛ ’ U rned t" sleet■
When the City, Commission meats
Tuesttas night i monthty session t
is expected there will' be a number
of applications on file for the posi-
tion of city secretary to be vacated
January 1 when. George Rucker re-
xighs to enter his duties as manager
of the Chamber - of Commerce.
Whether an appointment is made
at that time depends on whether the
opptications include that of some-
< ne the commis-jon and mayor de-
sire for the place, it was stated.
It was intimated by members of
the commission Friday that though
it wiH be necessary to secure a
man at once time would be taken
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lii'ii i rench this, section, but when it did
arrive it was much more severe than
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Edwards, W. C. & McDonald, L. A. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 109, Ed. 1 Friday, December 19, 1924, newspaper, December 19, 1924; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1474902/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.