DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Concord Digging From j Heaviest Snow In City In Quarter Os Century Average Depth of Snow . Here Morse Than 14 Inch* ' es.—Traffic Halted Dur ing the Morning. SNOW FELL FAST DURINGTHE NIGHT Did Not Begin in Earnest Until Late Tuesday Af ternoon.—School Work Partially Halted. Concord today is digging out from under the heaviest snowfall in more than a quarter of a century. The average depth of the snow in 15 inchen with a maxumum of 22 inches in places where drifts arc piled up. Practically all of the snow which now covers the face of the earth fell late Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday night and early this morning. The snow which fell Monday night anti Tues day morning bad melted for the most part when the precipitation started about 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. At that time there was no snow on the streets and sidewalks and only a light blanket was left on housetops, yards and other places where there had' been no traffic. Huge flakes began falling about 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and experi enced weather prophets feared them little. Usually when the snow comes I in large flages the precipitation is of short duration. This storm proved as an exception. ”W~ By 6 o’clock there was a light blan- A ket covering the surface' everywhere ' and this gradually increased as the snow increased. The large flakes gave way to smaller ones and these fell with such consistency and such rapidity that by 7 t\’clock the snow measured two inches. 4 Quietly and persistently the flakes fell during the night and when the city awoke this morning the snow had reached a depth of 14 inches. The flakes continued to fall during the. morning with the result that a depth of 15 inches was reached. Auto traffic wag practically halt ed during the’early morning hours. A few,,taxig di,rU*L>ck„ald (01^ vale da ft were iu evid tucc unra around 10 o'clock. By tnat time this streets iu the towntown section had been partially cleared of the snow. A huge truck stalled at the square and stayed there until n. service ony could move It. Every effort by th# driver of the truck proved of no avail, and his huge machine pitched forward and backward for Only »n inch or so despite all the pre.uure he could ex ert with his motor. A pic vat e car also stalled at the square about 7 o'clock this morning but was later Vjoved when friends pushed as the driver manipulated fb; gears. Along all of the streets, of the city ir care were snowbound. Same had been ■f left out all night; others were desert ed when the going became too difficult this morning. Those cars which had been out during the night were com pletely covered and several bad to be dug out before a wheel would turn. No serious accidents were reported to the pol'ce. Most of the cars which were used during the morning weie | of necesity equipped with chnins i which prevented their skidding. It was reported that several persons drove off the State Highway between Concord and Charlotte and Concord and Salisbury, losing the road under the heavy blanket of snow. So far ;is could be learned the drivers of these marooned cars were not injured. It was reported that the underpass on the Concord-Kannapolis highway was impassable. The snow had drift ed under the tracks of the Southern, it was said, and bad piled up to such a depth that passage through it waa impossible. Traffic used the old road from the Peck Service Station to Cooks Crossing, using the grade cross ing there. Busses of the Southern Coach Com pany were maintaining a disrupted schedule. The first northbound truck reached Concord after 8 o’clock, the driver reporting that it had taken him j J r an hour and 40 minutes to make the 22 miles from Charlotte. He said he ' passed but few cars on the rokd, with a number of these in ditches along the highway. Trains of the Southern Railway also were delayed by the snow, which ap pears to cover th« entire State, judg ed ing from reports reaching Concord 1 this morning. Train No. 186 was 60 J nrnutes late and all southbound trains were several hours late. As a result of the delay in the arrival of the J trans, newspapers and other morning mail were late in being handled nt the V ' Meal poatoffice. ‘ ' .1. With the exception of the high V school, work in the public schools of the city waa practically halted by the storm. The schools were opened as usual but so few pupils were on hand that the sehedala for/the day waa cur tailed. At the high School It waa stat ed that 77 students ware present for chapel and the total later In the morn ing reached 85. .. Grammar and primary grade stu dents could not get out in large num bers and some teachers found no stu dents on hand when they reported for work. Later in the morning the few students who had braved the 15 inches of snow were excused for the day. i \ Even Superior Court w6rk was halt ed by the storm. When Judgs Michael m **««* • rrlwd at ** •“S" JBk this morning to resume the Laffer The Concord Daily Tribune BOARD PERSONNEL PRODUCES DIVISION Union People Demand New and Smaller Board of Education; Com promise Asked. Monroe. Man'll I.—Chns. W. Hamil ton, until recently Winston attorney, and n hnlf doxen Mnrshville citizens went late Inst night to Raleigh where they have spent today iu an attempt to effect ’« Compromise with Repre sentative T. A. 1.. Helms in appoint ing n board of education for I'uion county. In the 1625 legislature, the Union county board of education waa named by Representative Wakefield five in number with a six year term for each of its members. Mych dissatisfaction arose in the Democratic ranks because of the departure from pervious cus tom, and the matter was the only issue iu the 1026 primary. Mr. Heims carried the county by an overwhelming majority on the platform of repealing the law aud appointing a new board, all the members of which should be progressive Democrats. One or two of the old members are reluctant to give up their posi tion by afipoiutment, aud sent attor neys to a bearing before the Mouse Committee on Education held last Friday to oppose the Representative, dam R. Riveus assisted the 76-year old representative in presenting his case. He won before the committee in his movement to reduce the number jf the board from five to three, and appointed a new personnel according io campaign promises. The Hamilton compromise proposes to reduce the number from five to three, and keep old members on the board. Mr. Helms who sticks scrup ulously to the wishes of his ‘consti tuency, communicated early this morn ng for advice. He has been sent 1 number of telegrams by the Fresi lent of the chamber of commerce and luslness men, advising him to stick to his gnus, and make no compromise. One telegram from J. E. Stack, broth er of Judge . Stack advised that it vas a local matter and had been in -eality settled by a vote of the people, - ind that be felt sure that the Lqrfe* ature would not go hack on the wisHßr it a 1,306 Democratic majority in a Democratic county. Word came from the representative fete this evening that he hud decided of the people In tbt* local matter, he vould have the consolation of knowing that he had done his jiest in the discharge of , his duties. .trial, only six jurors were on hand. The others, it was explained, live in remote sections of the county and had been detained by the snow. Judge Schenck, members of th,e bar and the six jurors remained at the court house however, with the hope that the snow bound jurors eould dig out later in the morning. Officials of the Concord Telephone Co. report no serious damage as a re sult of the storm. The same report was made by local officials of the Western Union Telegraph Co. It was stated by an official of the telephone company that the greatest rush in the-history of the company greeted operators this morning. There Were mote calls than on the morning the artnUtice was signed, it was said. Six experienced operators were una ble for more than an hour to handle without delay the hundreds of calls that were coming in from all sections of the city. By 7 o'clock this morning city of ficials had a large force of men at work clearing the sidewalks and streets in the business section. Scrapers, drags and shovels were used. Concord has a snowstorm like the present one about every 25 years and as A result the city is not equipped with modern snow removing equip ment. However, with the equipment avaitaMe the streets in the business district were partially cleared by 9 o’clock and at noon they bad been cleared to such an extent that autos could pans without driving in the drifts piled on the aide of the street. Sidewalks were cleared by city em ployes and business bouse 7 employes. In the business section ‘the walks were practically cleared of snow by 10 o'clock. Mule drags were used on the side walks in tjie residential sections. The narrow drags made travel on the side walks possible. ESrly risers forced,to be at their places of business by 7 or 8 o’clock ' found it impossible to use the side > walks. For the most part they used * the streets, walking in ruts made by 1 autos. There was no city mall delivery > early tikis morning. Postmaster Har : rls aw'd the elty men left at 11 o’clock ! for their first delivery. The ru ral carriers also were held at the post -1 office this morning, although one or E two of them, it was said, expected to ! start on their route during the after | noon. 1 Kiddies have reveled in the snow, - but tor the most part they have found ' it unfit for sled riding or coasting. In p the first place the snow is too dry and - in the second place it is too deep. The old Archibald’s pasture wss visited by * a number of persons Tuesday night * and morning but coasting was not pos sible. The runners buried in the snow 1 and it waa impcas'ble to guide tfee sleds even when an incline steef "> enough to make them go could be s found. Special massage and rouge for th< 1 eara is the latest phase of feminine « beauty culture to he adopted by r fashionable Englishwomen. 4 LITTLE CHANCE FOR STATE ASSEMBLY TO ADJOURN THISWEEK So Many Bills Are Pend* j ing There Seems Slight Chance for Adjournment Before Monday. SNOW DELAYED SOME SOLONS Bill Dealing With Coun-t r ty Government Passed in House.—Others Are Given Endorsement. Raleigh, March 2.— OP) —Less than Half the members of the house fought their way through Cue heaviest snow the capital, has, seen in many years to greet Speaker Fountain’s gave.l early today. Empty seats yawned until n half hour after convening when a few puf fiud legislators shook off heavy snow coatings and settled down to pass ing laws. A quorum was present. Scores of bills rolled in from the committee to clutter the calendar even further, and make adjournment be fore, next Monday night extremely im probable. - The daily senate messenger brought more bills and the few clerks on deck eould not keep up. For the first t.me In weeks galleries*" and lobbies were bare. I'ue know was so deep that the regu larly Invited minister failed to show up, and Representative Oscar Hay wood, of Montgomery, delivered the prayer. ( The senate convened at 10:45, and with Senator Frank Dunlop in the chair because the lieutenant governor could not get to the capitol. Senator McCracken tried td. get j postponement of the county govern ment bill which would set up an op tional form of government for coun ties. He said he thought the senate ought to woit until Senator McLeod letumed. Senator Risers Johnson vc *fi«tfe«tly opposed the postponement. The motion then lost overwhelmingly and the bill was passed on the third reading and ordered sent to the hoUTe by a special messenger. JTJfls gfiSftg have passed the senate. < The \Voltx bill providing for the writing of special charter school dis tricts passed the third reading and j went to she house. I The companion bill also offered by Senator Woltz dealing with bonds of special charter districts likewise pass ed the third reading. The senate passed the bill which allows the secre tary of state to designate the cor poration clerk in bis office as deputy secretary of state. The following public bills were con sidered : Relating to the $2,000,00© loan fund for World War veterans. Passed on the second reading. .Allowing counties to vote ou estab lishment of general hospitals. Passed second reading. Appropriating $60,000 for the es tablishment of au industrial farm col ony for womeu. Discussed and ac tion deferred. Constitutional amendment on in creasing terms of office of sheriffs and coroners. Action deferred. A motion in the House by Judge Winston to reconsider the vote by which the bi.l designed to allow Bun combe county to annex South Mills township iu Henderson county, was ; tabled 65 to 32. Other public bills passed by the House included; Extending mailing , and tranait privileges to peanuts; amending the law on service of legal processes on insurance companies; otn ‘ nibns county education board’s bill; amending law on election of eorpora t tion directors; and amending the law 1 on pifeee of meeting of corporation di , rectors. A bill regulating the sale of securities and one regulating the sale , of land by counties for taxes went ov : ' er for further consideration and the House recessed until 7:30 tonight The bill authorising the state to J issue bonds for buying additional pris , on farm lands brought a spirited de bate,' with Sandy Graham leading the battle for the bill, and Tobe Connor , against it. Mr: Graham contended . that the prison population is increas ing by leaps and bounds, and the farm . and is needed. Mark Squires want t ed to know if since the "hired up . .ifters" took hold, were I not turning back hired convicts. , Mr, Connor said he was tired of the state trading prison farms, that it now r owned 90,000 acres, and did not need . any' more. t The question then got away from . ifae farms to one of what to do with . the prisoners to make them seif sup r porting. Macon, of Franklin, 'sag > gested that they be put to work on . the State highways, and it went un answered. j Daugherty-Miller Jury Still Out. 1 New York, March 2.—(46—After a 1 deadlock of ten and one-half hours e yesterday the jury considering the fate f of former Attorney Genera) Harry M. t Daugherty and former Alien Property i- Custodian Thos. W. Miller on charges v of conspiracy, resumed deliberations e toddy and this afternoon bad not re st ported. e 1 Edward W. Gardner, of Montclair, N. J., is the only five-time winner of « the national amateur 18-2 balklinc t billiard championship. Gardner won v the title in 1002, 1906, 1910, 1914 and I9IC. CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2,1927 There Will Be Na State-Wide Tax Oh Property for School Purposes Tribune Rureati. Sir Walter Hotel. ■ BY J. 0. BAKKEKYILL Un’.eigh. March, 2.—Despite the fact that the house has put Itself on record in favor of a stqte-wide fax on for school purposes, by the nvcrwhe thing vote with which it passed the Graham bill, ("here is not (he slightest possibility that this bill will pass the senate, according to those familiar with the situation. What, then, will be done regard ing the school situation? A compromise agreement for « 3;- 500.00 equalization fund will result. This is the opinion of those Who have been following the prcsesfi.| eruption of opinion with regard to j I the elementary .schools of the state, land who are in a position to know the motives underlying what has happened in the ins: few days. The extended session in which the Graham bill was passed. wa* in reality nothing more than u fire works display staged for the indi vidual benefit amt edification of the senate, in order to convince its mem bers that ’the house was determined tbnti something be done to more el factively equalize the school tax bur den of tiie state, mid to warn it that unless it came part way, the house would kick the roof off. And many of tho members of both houses knew this beforehand, and know it better now. Perhaps they had not. thought of it quite iu so many words, but ihe general idea had “percolated downward” —or as Ra]>resentative Angus D. McLean of Beaufort,' would have it, "percolat ed upward." And that. incidentally is the dominant nlep in the whole issue, aside from the political elements in volved. The "back country”—the poorer, but not if you p’ense, rtie "pauper” counties. have decided that *hV theory that education “percolates downward" is all wrong—thnt edu cation does not descend from the in NORTH CAROLINA NOW HAS A BAD CHECK LAW Fhe Ten-Day Limit Period is Elimi nated From the New Low. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, March 2.—North Carolina now has a "bad check law” witli tusks, according to the friends of the bill by Senator Salmon,,now the law of the state following, its ratification -by the atfinte Tueeday. The ten-day** limit provision, that made the old law ineffectual, is removed front the ■fpreiWitt*feW|- wMch mokes the giriwg of a worthless-check a misdemeanor, There are a number of different fea tures about the law just enacted which it is believed will make it fhr more effective tbau of the previous attempts i at "bad check" legislation. In the first place, it is believed that j the Salmon law is eutirely eoiwtitu-1 tionul. Next, this law places sue giving <>f j a worthless check on the same basis as the passing of bogus or counterfeit money, thus removing the misdemean or from the realm of prosecution from debt —the bugbear of former acts of this nature. It is also stipulated that a check in order to be "bad” must be given with a knowledge of the absence of funds to cover it. By making the violation of this I law' a misdemeanor, prosecution of all I cases coming from its violation is re moved from courts of justices of the peato, into the tiigher courts—either county or superior. ' “The very fact that when the giver; of a worthless cheek realizes tlipt he \ i is likely to get haled into county or j superior coUrt, With a large assess- j ment of costs against him, is going | i to make him much more careful.timu i i hitherto in giving checks carelessly. | if not intentionally," said Senator : Neal Salmon, of Harnett, in discussing ; llie measure. At the beginning of the bill is n I preamble setting forth the fact that - the bill has been made necessary by ; the large losses being sustained hy ■ merchants Over the atate as a result • of the many bad checks that are giv - en, and thnt the bill is designed to coi- Erect the practice. THE COTTON MARKET First Prices 4 to lit Points Higher. May Going to 14.76 and December to 16.01. r - New York, March 2.— OF)— The cotton market showed renewed firm ness at the opening today in response to continued strength of Liverpool and bullish overnight advices from the Southern spot-market. First prices were 4 to 15 points higher, new high ground for tbe movement on all posi tions, May selling up to 14.70 and December to 15.01. The' advance met heavy realising, but the demand con tinued active, and offerings were ab sorbed on reactions of . 5 to 10 points. Private cable advices from Japan reported active demand for Am erican cotton, and cables from Liver pool said there bad been trade calling, covering, London and continental buy ing on the English market. The deniand tapered off after the ekr)y buying orders bad been supplied, and prices sagged to about 14.52 for May and 14.79 for October, making net declines of about 3 to 5 point. At midday, however, the market was 2 to 8 points up from the lowest on most months With tone apparently steady. Cotton ftpires opened steady. March 14.60; May 14.88; July 14.79: O t. 14.88; Dec. 15.00. Among the largest trees in the world is the baobab, or irionkey-bread tree, of Africa. This remarkable tree has a short, branchy trunk, which seldom attains 6 height of over eeventy feci, whll* Its diameter Is often as great ns one hundred feet. si it 111 ions qf higher learning- They conrend that the elementary school fir and should be the eoriter stone of education, and thnt -this corner Atone is now in need of long delayed of ten! iort. lienee it was that nmny voted for j a state-wide school tax destiite the i fci't dipt the state Democratic pint forru is solidly opposed do such a ! principal of taxation, because they ] realized that if the house passed 1 inch a bill by a large majority—the I •site was CM for the tax and 43! pgninst —that the senate and lltr.-e j los* fervent in the demand for bet ler elementary schools, would tie I rompelled to sit up and take notice, p’or there is no denying the fact thnt jthc voice of tbe house is the voice of the iM-ople, especially in thin general assembly. So despite the fact Vhnt some Vneinbens of the senate are rather af fronted at the nerve of the house in proposing u state wide tax for eduen ition. and have advocated the im mediate tabling of the Graham bill when jt. come* up in the .senate, me flittle drama enacted by the house 'for the benefit of the senate has tmd its effect. And when the things have cooled off for a day or two more, the Senate will not hesitate long in ac e-sling to nil amendment to the AVoltz bill, which it lias already passed, increasing the cqua'ization fund from $2,500,000 to $3,500,000. And since this same bill also pro vides for revaluation of the lands of the various counties by a state board of equalization—one of the demands of the house—it will not take the jlmuse long to agree, it is believed. So when the show is over, (here will be no state-wide tnx on land for .school purposes, but the system will be left very much a* rt is at present, with the exception of a lnrgcr equali zation fund, say those who have been following the undercurrent of thought and developments. EXTRACT TEETH FROM BILL PRESENTED BY GRIER , ; i He Doesn’t Want Whole Families on ; Payroll of the State. t Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. . Raleigh. March 2. —The bill by - Grier of Statesville, that , would have prohibited more than ] one member of a famjly from hold- ; ing a state job in Raleigh, badly , mangled aud with swollen gums, is ■Bow limping its way to tire house. to death. Aa a result the army of state em ployes in Ka'cigh, especially those families who make a livelihood by means of state jobs, and tilery are quite a number—are breathing more easily. For tlvc amendments append ed by tbe senate before its pn.-sage on the house, have made it as tusk ' Jft*s as a grandfather dog. In the first pla<-o, if the bill is enacted a.s it now stands, it will not apply to those already in the employ of,the utatae. And in stipulating that not more than 25 per cent of the state em plpyes shall be from any one county, the bill has been altered so that these employes must be "natives" ijf the county ”Bo Wake county has no cause to worry, for the majority of the state employes, though they live and earn in Wake, are from other counties," said Senator Pnt Williunis in dis cussing the bill. Thus those families where more than one is employed by the stale have no cnusc for uneasiness, since : "he bill doea not apply to those now ! employed. Neither is there fear that i he aggregation of state employes in 1 Raleigh will be scattered. It will, however, if enacted, pre e’udc the possibi’ity of present stale employes raising any more boys ahd girls to come employes of th - Aud again the chief hope of the state employes is centered iu the bill that would abolish the snlarv and wage commission. Deserting Marshal Son. , Shanghai. March 2.—4A*>—A large number of troops from the broken army of Marshall Sun tonight were reported going over to the Can tonese army and thousands of others are said to be deserting. Sun’s army now is completely discounted as a factor of importance in the military situation. Airmen Leave for Paraguay. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2. —OP) —The main section of the United States army good will flying expedi tion reduced |to .two planes by Satur day’s fatal crash in which Captain Clinton F. Woolsey and Lieutenaut John W. Benton lost their lives, left at 6:25 o’clock this morning for Asuncion, Paraguay. Twenty-Eight Still Missing. London, March 2.—CP)—Little hope waa entertained today* that men im prisoned by a coliery explosion near Owm, Wales yesterday could be res cued alive. Tbe bodies of 28 were recovered, and 28 men are missing. BASKETBALL TONIGHT Y. M. C. A. 8 O’CLOCK Hawthorne Athletic Club, | of Clover, S. C. 'eu, as operating forc es could not get to work, and few teachers and pupils were able to get to school. Raleigh had the worst snow storm since April 4. 1915, when a hig^i wind and a 15 inch fall of snow and sleet leveled telephone, telegraph and power lines for 20 miles around. This time the enow was 24 inches deep iu tj>b streets at 9 o’clock this morning, and a heavy downfall continuing. The weather bureau, however, reported that every depositor. Fancy mixtures in coats for spodt wear at J. C. Penney Co’s, for wqrfHlt misses and junior misses at Others nt $7.90 to $13.75. When you buy tires from a L'OtiMmP ’ dealer, you have no postage chnrgw' no express charges, no delay. ad. of the Yorke & Wadsworth Ccfr Winter time .goods at summer tftftft prices at the Parks-Bclk .Co. All,. winter goods reduced. Plioues 138 s and 008. Tiie big display sale and tailoring exhibit of the Ed. V. Price Co. 'tjlßf be held at IV. A Overcash's next Frtl day and Saturday. March 4th and sth. Everything to wear at Ehmj riione 119. You will find rite sraarfost gowns in the new spring fabrics at Robin son's. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday the Concord Furniture Co. wSI give t you free with a Sellers Kitchou Cabi net a lot of groceries and chinaware. You pay only SI.OO down and this ; puts the cabinet in your home. See El- < lustrations in a big ad. today. -Spfi Duplin Cock FI gilt to Await Reiter: Occasion. Duplin, March I.—The widely ad vertised three-day cock fight sfeSfel duled to start near here today sRraJ not bold, in spite of the fact tiiit many roosters were in trim for the tournament and n large crowd M&e all sections had gathered. sS Sheriff Priest had deputies at t arena. Offieerw told the Associated | Press they believed promoters cided to wait for more auspicious conditions. iwvy, WEATHER Fair tonight and Vin northeast coast tonight, sYwlv jdM ing temperature Thursday. • s'? t-^rn