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When Court Adjourned Yes
terday All Evidence Had
Been Submitted and Argu
ments by Counsel Started.
JURY MAY GET
THE CASE TODAY
Means’ Lawyer Has Already
Spoken and Answer Has
Been Made by Todd, Who
Will Speak Again.
(By the Amorlaleil Press)
New York, Jan. 29.—Ttie trial of Gas
tou B. Means and Thos. B. Felder for
conspiracy to bribe government officials
entered the last stages today with ail the
spectators the Federal court chamber
would hold, straining for a glimpse of
the defendants as Frank P. Walsh be
gan exhorting the jury in behalf of Fel
der.
Counsel for Means had Summed his
case.' Special prosecutor Todd, dividing
his summation into two parts, delivered
the first half yesterday, and was to fol
low Walsh with the remainder. The
jury may get the case today.
Walsh's defense of Felder, who as
Means' attorney is alleged to have tried
to bribe Federal officials in the Cragcr
System glass caskgt mail fraud case was
based upon tlnjee '.contentions.
He held that Felder accepted only a
legitimate fee when he received $47,800 as
counsel fee from 95 alleged stock swind
lers in the Crager case; that Means was
not present when the fee wns paid; and
that Felder did not share or even know
about the SIO,OOO that was telegraphed
from the Crager case defendants to El
mer W. Jarnecke, secretary to Means.
ORPHEUM THEATRE IS
PRACTICALLY DESTROYED
Handsome Theatre Building in Greens
boro Damaged by Early Morning
Blaze.
1 ' (By the Associated Press t •
Greensboro, Jan. 20.— The Qrpbeum
theatre building, located in the center of
the business and- amusement-dial jict, was
practically destroyed by fire dwefivcred
shdjttbt before 1 o'clock this morning. The
gave, the fitWn the hardest fight
in years, the* extreme cold haHmcapping
their efforts to some little extent.
The origin of tbe fire, is unknown, but
firemei\ early today declared they believ
ed defective wiring on the second floor
was responsible. The building was ow#
ed by the Greensboro Bank and Trust
Company, and was on the site formerly
occupied by the McAdoo Hotel, which
burned ten or twelve years ago, bring one
of the worst fires in the history of the
city. It was leased l?y the Nationnl
Amusement Co. and operated as the Or
pheum, playing vaudeville attractions.
Tile total damages have not been esti
mated, for in addition to the theatre ami
the company playing there this week,
there arc three or four other concerns in
the budding that were severely damaged,
either'by fire or water or both. The blaze
was discovered by a.messenger boy of a
telegraph company.
Meeting of Trustees of Duke Foundation.
Charlotte, Jan. 28.—The first meeting
of the trustees of the Duke Foundation
have held since the organization meeting
in New York recently was held Tuesday
evening at the home of J. B. Duke, cre
ator of the foundation, in Myers Park.
Those present were James B. Duke,
chairman; K. G. G. Allen and W. R.
Perkins, of New York; Vice-Chairman A.
H. Sands, Jr., of New York; Secretary
\V. C. Parker, New Rochelle, New York;
Treasurer Norman A. Cooke. Charlotte;
Assistant Treasurer A. J. Drexel, Bid
dle, New York; Ben. E. Geer, Greenville,
South Carolinn; W. S. Lee. E. C. ■ Mar
shall, and Charles I. Burkholder, of
Charlotte.
A fox can scent a man a quarter of
n mile away.
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Frieda Hempel
The Jenny Lind of Today
Will Appear in Her
JENNY LIND CONCERT
High School Auditorium
Friday Evening, January 30 at
8:13 O’clock
The Concord Daily Tribune
PRACTIDALLT ENTIRE
STATE ROW COVERED
WITH ICE IHD SLEH
From Mountains to the Seas
Reports of Ice and Sleel
Have Been Heard During
Last Day.
MOUNTAIN REGION
COLDEST IN STATE
There Thermometers Stood at
Around 15 to 20 Degrees
But Warmer Weather Is
Promised Tomorrow.
(By the Associated. Press)
Charlotte, N. C.. Jan. 20.—North Car
olina today, lay under a coating of ice and
sleet thnt extended virtually from the
mountains to the sea. From all points
reporting eame stories of storms that cov
ered the streets, highways ami sidewalks
with a coating of ice, snow and sleet an
inch deep in many places rendering trav
el difficult and resulting in many acci
dents.
' Reports of several falls on the ice were
■frequent. Gastonia reported that a num
ber of persons sustained fractured arms I
1 as a result of slipping on the sidewalks I
and being thrown from skidding automo-|
biles. Busline service generally over the]
hard surfaced roads of the state were j
suspended, cars that ordinarily make a |
trip' between- Charlotte and Gastonia in
one hour taking from 1 1-2 to 2 hours.
The sleet began falling early last night
in many places, and continued throughout
most of the night. High Point today re-
IMK'ted many automobile accidents,,,be.t
none of them serious. At High Point,
Hickory and Greensboro snow and sleet
wns reported still falling today.
In most sections thermometers stood
around 1,5 or 20 degrees but the weather
bureau has promised better weather for
tomorrow. Asheville today reported
moderating weather.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS WILL
NOT ACCEPT CHALLENGE
If -
, Former Governor >lolxlßoo Would De
‘ bate With Him About Deficit of the
State.
(By the Associated Press!
/ Raleigh, Jan. 29.—Josephus Daniels,
editor of the Ralegh News and Ob.sevv
etywffl not meeettvhh*' ettrtiwige
mer Governor Cameron Morrison to joint
ly debate the question of North Caro
lina's financial condition. Mr. Daniels
made his statement last night after a
news dispatch on the matter had been
shown to him. He received the letter
from Mr. Morrison early today but had
nothing to add to last night's statement in
which he asked that Mr. Morrison debate
the subject With Mr. McLean.
The following is Mr. Daniel’s state
ment :
“If Mr. Morrison wants to debate the
question of the deficit which lie left in
the state treasury, I suggest thnt he is
sue his challenge to Governor McLean,
who is compelled to devote most of his
time to finding away to meet this large
deficit.”
Personal Religion Alone Can Save Her
rin. Declares Pastor
Herrin, Ills., Jan. 29. —Declaring that
nothing but personal religion can save
Herrin, the Rev. John Meeker, Presby
terian minister late today said the last
rites over Deputy Sherriff Ora Thomas,
two gun leader of the anti-klan forces
in the county, while the coroners jury
took up the task of unraveling Saturday
night’s shooting which clanmed the lives
Os Thomas, S. Glenn Young and two
others.
All of the eleven witnesses today gave
testimony which tended to support the
version of the shooting related by
Young’s friends.
Those witnesses, who saw the shoot
ing, asserted Thomas fied first and that
it was bis bullet that killed Young. An
other testified that Thomas earlier in
the day “appeared to have been drink
ing.”
Witnesses near the hotel at the time
testified that nt least, three shots came
from the upper windows of the hotel.
All 'bf the witnesses who saw the
shooting agreed that Thomas killed
Young, while several added that Young
killed Thomas after himself receiving a
fatal wound.
Fifteen Presong Hurt in Crash.
(By the Associated Press)
Paris, Jan. 29.—Fifteen persons were
injured in a clash last night between at
tendants at a meeting of General de
Castlennu’s patriot's league and com
munists who endeavored to break up the
gathering.
Killed by Explosive.
(By the Associated Press)
Bristol, Va., Jan. 29.—Fred Bennett,
29 years old, automobile mechanic, was
almost instanly killed, and his wife was
seriously injured here today when Mrs.
Bennett told the police her husband tr ; ed
to kill her and himself with an explo
sive.
CITY TAXES
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You have only a few days left
to pay your City Tax until the
February penalty will be added.
Pay and save.
jCHAS. N. FIELD, \
29-3 t. City Tax Collector.
CONCORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1925
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Deputy Sheriff Thomas, at Herrin. II!.. a great crowd gathered atlhe Morgue where theUiesld' h ? iT*
Rumors of . .other outbreak quieted when nations,
SIX MEMBERS OF ONE
FAMILY KILLED BY GAS
Believed Gas Escaped Into Home After
Main Had Been Broken by an Acci
dent. I
II IBy the Associated Press.)
Scranton. Pa., Jan. 29.—Illuminating
gas fr<(m a main thought to have been
j broken by a surface accident early this
i morning took a toll of six lives from the
I family of Louis Horosini in West Scran
ton.
The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Horosini,
t Stan’.y aged 5, Opola aged 8, Margaret
t aged 8. and another daughter one year
-old. Many other families in the neigh
t borhood were affected by the gas but
. managed to make their escape to the open
t air.
A passerby early today smelled excap-
I ing gas, and unable to arouse those with
in the Horosini residence, called help and
forced the door. At the discovery of the
I family lying in bed in -the gns-filled
rooms, several physicians with mulmo
toers were rushed to West Scranton. Ail
, attempts to revive the victims, however,
1 proved in vain.
TWENTY PERSONS KILLED
IN CHINESE DISORDER
Twenty Others Were Injured When Vic
torious Troops Tried to Disarm the
Enemies.
> - Dbangbirt, 2» -fßf the - Asswffirted
Press).—Twenty persons were killed and
twenty injured today in a thickly settled
section of the Chinese district, when a
small contingent of victorious troops rep
resenting General Lit Yung-Hsiang and
the central Chinese government were re
sisted when they attempted to disarm
about a thousand defeated Kiangsu
troops .of the Chi Hsieh-Yuan deposed
leader.
The spirited exchange of shots wa*
ended by the appearance of reinforce
ments which compelled the Kiangsu
troops to submit to disarmament. The
panic resulted in injury or death of a
number of non-combatants.
PREMIER HERRIOT AGAIN
GETS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
Told Chamber of Deputies He Would Re
sign if He Was Not Supported.
Paris, Jan. 29 (By the Associated
Press). —The chamber of deputies after
a threat of revolt by the socialists and a
counter threat by Premier Herriot that
he would resign if the chamber failed to
vote the printing and posting of his
speech of yesterday on security against
Germany, this afternoon passed the vote
demanded, 541, against 32. implying con
fidence in the government’s policy on all
questions treated in the speech.
At the opening of the public session of
thf chamber this afternon Premier Her
riot in an effort to pacify the socialists
said:
"What I affirmed yesterday was the
desire of the people of France not to re
main indefinitely on the Rhine, but the
people's demand for a guarantee of its
security."
The Premier’s declaration was enthus
iastically applauded by the socialists.
WILSON SARCOPHAGUS
; HAS BEEN SET IN PLACE
Work Completed Today in the Bethlehem
Chapel of Washington Cathedral.
(By tbe Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 29.—The work of
setting in place the sarcophagus erected
for Woodrow Wilson in the Bethlehem
Chapel of Washington Cathedral was
brought to completion today.
Recessed in the south wall of the chap
el in a space eight feet wide and eghteen
feet the sarcophagus reposes under mas
sive arches with a leaded glass interior
window forming the background. A
grill, canopy and flag complete the ar
rangement.
State Prison Has Fine Sanitary Record.
Raleigh, Jan. 29.—An average sani
tary rating of 99 for the past four years
was given the State’s prison by inspec
tors of the State board of health, it be
came known today in a letter to W. C.
Health, chairman of the state prison in
, vestigation commission, from Dr, W. S.
Rankin, state health officer. Major Heath
had requested the information on behalf
of the investigation commission appoint
ed by the special session of the legisla
ture last summer.
Law Student Taken Own Life.
Clarksburg, W. Va., Jan. 29. —Neeson
C. Woods, aged 22, a freshman in the law
school of Yale University, shot and kill
ed himself early today after he had fired
two shots into the body of Mrs. Georgia
• Warder, 23 year old widow, of Bridge
| port, W! Va. The tragedy was believed
to hare been caused by Mrs. Warder’s
refusal to marry the young student.
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18TH AMENDMENT MAY BE
i RESCUED BY PUBLIC OPINION
r One Big Concert ijias Forbidden Its
Employees to Use Intoxicants.
Washington, Jan. 20. —It is the obser
vation of Prohibition Commissionei
t Haynes that public opinion, expressing
1 itself through various channels ranging
< from great Snflustajial Oirporations to
■ the theartre. is making easier the en
■ forcement of the prohibition taw. The
addition of the name of the Colorado
, Fuel & Iron Company to these concerns
which have forbidden Itheir employes the
■ use of intoxicants, half just been record
ed at enforcements headquarters. Scores
of, employers. Mr. Haynes says, have
: posted notices in their establishments
that users- of liquor will be automati
cally dismissed.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
gave to each of its workers tins notice:
“This company is going to get along in
the future without the services of boot
leggnrs and their customers. We class ns
bootleggai-s all those who' manufacture,
seel or distribute intoxicants cither i>(V
konall.v or through agents or members
of their families. Such pesons will be
discharged on evidence to the manage
ment without waiting for ctmviction in
the courts.”
The management held that a miner
under the influence of, liquor was a dan
. gurous _eiymcnt - tOt‘. - many
chances for disaster. underground
through carelessness.
An even more drastic rule was recent
ly laid down by Henry Ford and num
bers of hotels and restaurants have act
ed to banish liquors from their prem
ises. One hotel, Mr. Haynes says, 'forced
its employes to sign a pledge to not sell
liquor and as an added precaution em
ployed detectives to search the waiters
when they appeared for duty.
Some theatres have, banned jokes on
prohibition from their stages, and one
insurance company is asking applicants
whether they drink bootleg liquor. Mr.
Higynes declares. A western city advised
its employes that use of liquor would
result in dismissal, and caused each
worker to give his signature as evi
dence that he had been warned.
Intemperance was never wise, econo
mical or safe, in the opinion of Commis
sioner Haynes, but it is infinitely less
so now than ever. “Amid the powerful
inventions and hurried life of today sound
bodies, steady nerves and sober judg
ment are indispensable to life. This fact
is recognized every where.”
THOUSANDS GATHER
TO YOUNG’S FUNERAL
Funeral Services Held Simultaneously in
Several Churches and Masonic Tem
ple.
Herrin, 111., .Tan. 29 (By the Associated
IVess). —The last ephater in the life
s-tories of S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux
Klan liquor raider was written today.
Thousands assembled to pay a last trbi
ute to the man whose feats during the.
past 13 months frequently forced his
name into front page newspaper stories.
So great was the crowd that arrange
ments were made to hold services simul
taneously iu several churches nud in the
Masonic temple. Young’s body rested in
the. Baptist Church to which it had been
taken after lie was killed Saturday night
in a pistol fight wtili Ora Thomas Deputy
Sheriff, and anfi-Klan leader. The same
fight also cofst the lives of Edward For
bes and Homer Warren, Young’s follow
ers. J
Honesty Is Recognized in Substantial
Manner.
Lexington, Jan. 28.—Chief Deputy
Sheriff I. L. Blalock was in the First
National Bank of Thomasville Saturday
When Cashier R. L, Pope opened a let
ter from an insurance company. The
letter contained a cheek for $250 for C.
C. Pritchard Southern agent at that
place, as a reward for his action in
promptly restoring a package containing
$0,300, which he found beside the rail
road track several weeks ngo. This
package had been lost from a mail sack
after it had been dispatched from the
Bank to the Federal Reserve Bank at
Richmond. All such shipments tire pro
tected by insurance carried by bunks and
had the money been lost the insurance
company would have been faced with the
necessity of making good the loss.
Mr. Pope at once called Mr. Pritch
ard to the bank without informing what
was desired of him. Mr. Pritchard is
said to have been just as much surprised
as he was happy over the receipt.of the
check. He found the package and re
■ turned it as a matter of duty and right
and seemingly had given the incident lit
i tie thought afterwards —but the insurance
company had not forgotten.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
TUNELS ADVANCES
• Moffat Bore to Pierce Great Divide
Nearly One-Third Completed.
Denver, Jan. 20.—The Moffat Tun
nel, piercing the continental divide of
: the Rocky Mountains west of here, and
; one of the world’s greatest railroad
bores, is nearly one-third completed, and
is 10 per cent ahead of the time schedule
set by the builders.
' To date the pioneer, or water, tunnel
has been bored 6,500 feet from the east
portal and 5,400 from the west portal,
or more than one-third of the six-mile
distance. The main heading has pene
trated .Tames Peak 6.316 feet from the
east portal, and 4,700 feet from the
west. The cross-cut tunnels, connecting
the mnin and water bores at intervals of
from 1.300 to 1,500 feet, have reached a
total of 520 feet. Each of these cross
cut tunnels is approximately 75 feet in
length. The full size railway turned has
penetrated 3,004 feet from the east and
531 feet from the western portal-
At present the work of enlarging the
main heading, which is being drilled
seven and one-half by nine veet. to the
full size tunnel, which will be 16 by
24 feet, is proceeding twice as fast as
the work at the front. At this ratio, tun
nel engineers estimate, within a year
this work will be abreast of tlye mnin
■- heading. ,v
The slowneftS of jtrogress on the west
ern end is accounted for by the fact that
builders have encountered soft shade
and dirt rather than solid rock. This
necessitates timbering every foot of the
way a’t a cost of more than if 100 per
linear foot. At the east, portal solid
rock was found after the first few hun
dred feet and enabled the contractors to
speed up the work materially.
That the work -through the witer
months will proceed even more rapidly
than during the summer is the predic
tion by engineers today. Absence of
visitors through the months when the
/■amps are snowbound, and the lesseni’-r
likelihood of workmen drifting from
their jobs, account for this prediction,
it was explained.
The men are comfortably housed in
their jobs, account for this prediction,
stocks of provisions sufficient for three
months are at hand. Each camp has a
medical dispensary nnd hospital with a
doctor and nurse in constant attend
ance. Fatalities, 'however, ave been al
most nil, but one death resulting from
accident during the seventeen months
the work has been in progress.
Terms of the contract call for the
completion of the project not later than
July 1927. The opening of the tunnel to
railroad traffic will start the develop
ment of a vast tract of virgin territory
in Northwestern Colorado, n region
heretofore not reached by railroad lines.
In this territory lie vast coal deposits,
oil shale beds nnd oil fields as yet un
tapped except for one or two isnlated
wells that have come in for flows esti
mated at several thousand barrels a day.
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Go to the Musette and let them show
you how the New Edison is as fine a liv
ing performance as the living Hempel
herself.
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ed, carefully screened and tested on ball
bearing scales. Phone your orders to
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Rogers Stainfloor Finish will make your
old floors look like new. At Yorke &
Wadsworth Co.’s.
Artistie marcelling and hair dyeing at
Efird's Beauty Shoppe,
All the new ; shapes and colors • in
Stetson hats at the Riehmond-Flowe Co.
Bungalow aprons, or apron dresses on
ly 79 cents at J. C. Penney Co.'s. See
illustrations in new ad. today.
Buy your blankets now at Clearance
sale prices at Parkx-Kelk Co’s. Prices
run from 39 cents to $12.50.
Fright Rate Schedules Cancelled.
(By tke Associated Press!
Washington, Jan. 29.—Freight rate
schedules covering ocean and rail ship
ments from the Atlantic seaboard terri
tory to points west of the Mississippi
River, in Lousiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri, which carriers first
proposed to make effective in June, 1924,
were ordered cancelled today by the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
$75,000 Fire at Wilmington.
Wilmington. N. C., Jan. 29.—Damages
estimated at $75,000 were done by fire
here today which destroyed the Futch
Department Store and damaged a paint
establishment at the rear. One fireman
was overcome by smoke and taken to a
hospital, later goiug to his home. Icy
streets hampered the firemen.
SEVEHAL NEW BILLS
ARE PfiESENTED TO
STATE LEGISLATURE
One Bill Would Revise by
Amendment the State Con
stitution to Better Suit the
Modern Needs.
WOULD CHANGE
PAY OF CLERKS
Senator Johnson Wants to
Change Law So as to Make
It Harder to Get An Abso
lute Divorce.
Raleigh, Jan. 29 (By the Associated
Press). —Outstanding among neiv bills in
troduced in the general assembly today
was one that was dropped into the house
hopper providing for a constitutional con
vention for the purpose of revising the
■ state constitution to better suit modern
needs.
, Senator Johnson, of Robeson, sent for
' ward a measure in the upper house de
, signed to make it harder to secure abso
lute divorces in this state. The mea
sure would require the parties concerned |
f in divorce to live under interlocutory de-
I eree for one year, fulfilling the eondi-
I tions specified by the court in granting
I separation before a judgment of absoluate
? divorce could be granted.
The Senate passed on final reading the
I committee substitute for the house bill
t providing for a new salary scale for the
clerks and other employees of the leglis
' lature. The substitute provides for pay
ment of eight dollars per day for the
principal clerks, ranging down to two
dollars per day for pages, practically the
only change over the original house bill
J being an increase of one dollar per day
for the principal clerks. The clause
1 eliminating the old policy of voting bon
uses is retained.
1 Senator Dunlap, of Anson, declared
' when the bill was brought forward for
1 passage that it would save the State ap
proximately $42 a day.
“ The House of Representatives after
an extended debate, tabled the bill spon
sored by the State department of insur
ance to repeal the law requiring niedjeal
examination by insurance companies
prior co issuance of life insurance poli
cies.
The House also tabled another insnr
, smoe department rosowite-- This nan, dm
traduced by Dellinger, of Gaston, would
require licenses for persons doing elec
trical wiring for the general publuic.
Raleigh. Jan. 29.—The Senate ad
journed shortly before noon today after
having received a number of minor bills.
Only one measure of importance intro
duced was a committee substiute for the
measure providing fixed salaries for leg
islative employees. The substitute would
provide a scale of from $2 a day for
pages to $8 per day for the principal
clerks. Senator Dunlap, cf Anson, who
submitted the bill for the committee, de
clared that its passage would mean a
saving of $43 a day for the general as
sembly.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady Today at Advance of 2
to 9 Points in Response to Steady Liv
erpool Cables.
(By the Associated Press)
New York, N. January 29.—The
cotton market opened steady to
day at an advance of 2 to 9 points in
lesponse to steady Liverpool cables and
bullish overnight Southern advices. Fail
ure of the weather map to show any rain
or giye promise of immediate precipita
tion in the southwest also was a factor
which probably led to some buying of new
crop positions.
The advance of 24.05 for May and 24.25
for July met considerable realizing, how
ever. There also seemed to be a little
hedge selling, with the result that prices
soon reacted to about yesterday’s closing
quotations. This carried May off to
23.95 and the market was about net un
changed to 3 points higher at the end of
the first hour.
Say Child Labor Bill Backed By Com
munism.
Washington. Jan. 28.—Communism
backed the child labor amendment with
a view to laying the foundation for “a
class struggle,” Senator Bayard, demo
crat, Delaware, declared today in the
senate.
“It was the start of a movement they
hoped would split this nation into
classes,” he said. “I do not mean to in
fer, however, that senators who support
ed the nmendinent here had that thought
in mini}.”
Senator King, democrat, Utah, sup
ported this statement declaring com
munists and socialists favored eon
talizatiort in the federal power and de
struction of state rights, but Senator
Walsh, democrat, Mass., pointed out
that the proposal had been sponsored in
Congress by conservatives.
Sixty-Two Churches Built In Los An
geles in Single Year.
Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 29.—Sixty
two churches were built in oLs Angeles
during 1924 at a cost of $7,307,000. ac
cording to statistics just compiled by the
, Chamber of Commerce.
As compared with this production and
, increase along religious lines, the tables
■ of figures also sbow that:
The motion picture industry here
turned out pictures during the year that
were valued in the aggregate at $17,-
i poo 0000.
< A total of 230.000,000 barrels of oil
was produced in the Los Angeles basin
for the twelve months,
i Harbor exports totaled- $68,300,000,
doubling those of 1923.
Public Improvements passed the $38,-
000,000 mark.
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NO. 25 i
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ipiii bisp
: is in cues
Depite Fact That Last Night
and Today Are Wanner
Than Yesterday Sleet Cov
ers Entire City Today.
SLEET FELL EARLY
DURING THE NIGHT
i Ground Was In Receptive
Mood and Most of the Ice
•Stuck.—Wanner Weather
Is Promised This Week.
King Winter is in control in Concord
and Cabarrus county today, he having
thrown a mantel of sleet and ioe over
the entire county last night. .j
The sleet followed in the wake of the
cold wave which was swept into the
county Tuesday on the wings of wintry
winds, and although there was a rise in
the mercury last night and today, ther
mometers show that local temperatures
are still hovering around the freezing
• point..
! Yesterday was one of the coldest days
of the present winter, and the intensity
of the cold was more aggravated coming
as it,did on the heels of the warm spell
which sent many people out-of-doors on
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The
mercury stood around 23 above zero
throughout yesterday and early last night
there was a slight rise, the change tak
ing .place about the time the sleet began
falling.
More than an inch and a half of sleet
fell during the night and it found an
ideal resting place on the surface of the
earth which had been frozen by the cold
blasts which swept over the county yes
terday. Practically all of the sleet
stuck to the ground as it fell and as a
result it soon covered all exposed places.
Travel has been made rather difficult
and uncertain by the sleet. Numbers of
persons were seen to fall as they hurried
to their jobs this morniug and in many
parts of the cty there have been reports
of autos halted in their travel by the
slippery streets.
A few horses and . mules have been
taken from their stables during the day
but they have found the going too hard.
The sleet is like a solid sheet of ice and
animals have found it ’hard to severe
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Pedestrians have been aide to keep
going so long as they could retain their
balance. The sleet is hard enough to
hold up the average person-and in some
places hundreds of persons have been un
able to make tracks in the sleet so hard
is it frozen.
Members of the street department of
the city were put to work early this
morning clearing off the sidewalks in the
business section of the city. At first
a path was cut through the sleet and
later all of the frozen ice was removed
from the sidewalks. This made travel
easier for the pedestrian so long as the
mist which fell during, the morning did
not freeze on the walks.
Coal dealers of the rity report de
mands for fuel. Trucks of these com
panies have been busy since early morn
ing but at that all orders have not been
filled. It is not unusual for many per
sons to need fuel when the ground is
covered with sleet or snow, the coal deal
ers report, as it usually happens that
many coal piles become exhausted in the
very worst weather.
Several minor auto accidents have been
reported in the city during the morning.
In most instances the accident occurred
when drivers had to stop their cars sud
denly thus causing the ears to skid.
No one was injured in the accidents so
for as can be learned and one of the
cars were seriously damaged.
Warmer weather is predicted for to
night but it is not specified whether or
not the rise in temperature will be great
enough to melt the present sleet or pre
vent the fall of more.
Radio Seals Fata of Daily Forecast
Card.
Washington, D. C„ Jan. 29.—The
Weather Bureau has sent out its last
daily foeeast and. The oranament of
post offices, general store and other of
fices since 1881 -has succumbed to the
competition of newspapers and the radio
and to stern economy program of the
lludget Bureau. The last issue' was
mailed yesterday.
“The cards just naturally loet their
popularity.” it was said today at the
Weather Bureau. "The bureau has been
obtaining such complete service from
the newspapers an<i radio stations that
the little cards suffered from want’of'
admirers. We felt sorry for them and
decided to end their troubles. Besides'
they have been costing the Government
a bit of money and the budget, experts
agreed that they might find better use
for this sum.”
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