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Show 15 DIE AS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SWELTERS UNDER BLAZING HEAT LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (UP) Fifteen person! wert dead, hundreds prostrate, thousand! slept in the open all night, and steaming rain, lightning and forest and brush fire! swept southern south-ern California today in the sixth day of its record-breaking . heat wave. Dawn cam to Los Angeles with a temperature approaching 85 de-. de-. grees. At 7:30 a. m. It was 90. ' At a. m. th official weather ! bureau recording was 94 degrees. ' At 8:30 a. m. it had reached 96 ' and was mounting rapidly. At 9 a. m. th mercury shot up to 98 and at 9:25 a. m. crossed th 100 mark. Street tempera-' tempera-' tures averaged from 108 to 115 . degree. Yesterday, with a maximum of 104.2 degrees, climaxed th worst September heat wave in 56 years. The normal average for September Is 80.4. L. H. baingerfield. government gov-ernment forecaster, said th 104 degree maximum "only told what waa happening on top of a six-story six-story building in th shade." He said street temperatures probably were five to six degrees higher than th official record-in?. Rain and lightning which struck the Los Angeles area, late yesterday yester-day gav momentary relief, but added to th humidity and suffering. suf-fering. Thousands or persons In th suburban su-burban areas of Lo Angeles slept on lawns of their homes all night and arose at dawn to turn on th sprayers not on th lawns, but on th roof of their home so that they would be habitable. Northern California also sweltered swel-tered In th heat wave, with San Francisco's thermometers soaring to 88 yesterday and reaching 86 early today. Th weather bu- r reau said th temperature in San Francisco would reach a maximum of between 95 and 100, with 101 the all-tlm record of th city. Th bureau explained high pressure area had aettled on the state, blocking out th sea breezes which normally keep th coastal area of California comparatively cooL Ther appeared no prospect of relief befor tomorrow night, th bureau said. ' Its forecast for today was for 4 unsettled and cloudy conditions and higher temperatures through- h ut th state, with afternoon thunderstorms In th mountains and th foothills and with unset-. unset-. tied conditions prevailing tomorrow. |