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ACRES OF FUN AT THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR ! NEW YORK.? Airplane view of the upper half of the Amusement Area at the New York Worlds Fair. Left foreground is the New York phitheatre housing Billy Rose s Aquacade with the Music Hall just beyond it and tne Children's World at the upper left. To the right of the Amphitheatre is Merrie Fn* land and Old New York, while in the inset above the rides at the right is thi Para chute Jump, which is located sit the south end of the area Earless Fiend Sought In Wreck Of Train; Death Toll Set at 19 Reno, Nev. ? The wrecking of a $2,000,000 streamlined train, in which 19 and possibly 20 persons perished, sent state, federal and railroad police across Nevada's lonely sagebush wastes Monday in search of a wrecker suspect wit'h both ears missing. Center of the investigation was a narrow, rock-bound canyon In which the Southern Pacific's "City of San Fiancisco" was scattered in a mass of wreckage. May Kind Another Dead Company officials listed the known dead in the Saturday night' tragedy at 19, and the injured at 114. They said reports from -the be in the uncleared wreckage. ) Of the 19 known dead. 10 were employes on the train. Seven of these were Negroes. Southern Pacific ofticiafs declar ed tihere was no question the train ? pride of the company's overland line? was deliberately wrecked, in ^Itacanypn. Dan O'Connell, head of the Sou thern Pacific polic? 4t Satft Fran cisco. hurried to the scene with other company officials. In his ab sence. none would comment oil the Nevada police search for a man with both ears missing. Five investigators were dispat ched from Washington by the In- j terstate Commerce Commission. [ Southern Pacific officials at San j Francisco said it now appeared | two crowbars found near the j tracks and previously considered clues In th? i:s were brought there by tha wrecking crew. Train Deliberately \V reeked The officials insisted, however, | that other evidence showed beyond ( doubt the rails had been tampered i with and the train deliberately | wrecked. Police were checking dis- j gruntled former employes. A coroner's jury summoned to the scene yesterday found t'he dis aster was caused by "a misplaced rail, misplaced by a person or per sons unknown." Forty-four spikes had been re moved from the outside rail of a curve near the approach to a 60 foot bridge over the shallow Hum boldt River, where all but four of the 17 cars in the yellow-tan flier hurtled off t'he tracks, angle plates connecting rail lengths had been removed. An entire 30-foot length of rail had been moved four Inch es inward and >the rail tie plates had been respiked to the ties in the new position, said T. J. Foley of Ogden. Utah, assistant* Southern Pacific division superintendent. As this evidence of what Foley termed "clearly a pase of sabotage with murderous intent" was un covered, Nevada state police asked officers throughout the state to be on the lookout for a man whose ears had been cut off. Acting Suspiciously Chief of Police Andy M. Welll ver of Reno said he was informed this man had been "acting suspic iously" at Fernley. and had in quired Sunday morning at a Fern ley garage "has anything KSp 1 TO SELL tgr 'EM, TELL EM With An 'Ad p?ned?" The streamliner, speeding west ward at 50 to 60 miles an hour, piled .up at> 10:33 p. m. (MST) about 250 miles east of Reno, as it was crossing a 60-foot bridge >ver the Humboldt River. The Diesel-power cars on the ^rack limited, which was on its t-gularly scheduled 39 H-hour . un from Chicago to San Francis o, carried across the steel bridge >y their own momentum, but the ierailed baggage car lurched out of control and dragged most of "he other cars in a wild topple irom tlip tracks. Reno, N'ev.? ^Harry Fletcher, Reno captain of detectives said Monday a crippled man with part of his right ear missing had been arrested for questioning in t-he wreck of the Southern Pacific streamlined train. }The suspct was arrested in the failjoad yards at Sparks, Nev. He gave "his name as Roi> La Ducher, 28V Lewistown, Mont. His pockets were filled with '1 (ft t j ~ FagA, ? a pair of socks, an oi'y glove and a broken seal taken rfom a freight car. , ? Officers said he had denied any knowledge of the train wreck but Fletcher said he was to be ques tioned thoroughly. BI-WEEKLY TOBACCO NEWS LETTER The tobacco crop throughout this territory is with no exception^ in better shape than at' the same time over a period of years. While it is impossible to barn all the to bacco, and approximately 12 to 15% will be lijst in the field, that which is being barned is good quality tobacco and t'he color, body, quality and weight of to bacco already cured is excellent smoking tobacco. A trip through Virginia tobacco growing counties this past week shows about the same conditions as exlsMn this immediate .territory. Considerable is being lost in fields, curings are showing up nicely, and can be best compared with farms in this section ten days ago. Prices on Southern markets al ready open continue firm and far mers in those sections appear pleased with prices being paid. The Border Belt, taken as a whole, seems to be paying slightly over an 18c average. This is t>he last weekly report which will be sent out from this office. Other reports will be sent at varying intervals before and af ter the Henderson market opens September 7, Thursday. ? Fred M. Allen, Jr., Sales Supervisor, Hen derson Tobacco Market. Tobacco Farms For Sale We have several fine tobacco farms for sale In Hoke and Moore Coun ties, near Aberdeen and Raeford. Ooml allotments, Kasy terms. Write for appointment to see them North Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank D. J. Smith, Representative Aberdeen Hotel Building Aberdeen, N. Carolina 8-18-4t ? Greensboro Girl So Lucky She Comes Near To Tears New York. ? This is the story of a Southern girl so 'lucky she nearly cried. Mary Jane Goodwin. 29. of 2S09 Sherwood Street. Greensboro. N. C., a bookkeeper at the Jefferson Life Insurance Company, and Lu cille Groome. a friend, of 909 Spring Garden Street. Greensboro, came to New York last week for a vacation. They saw the World's Fair and a lot of other sights and decided Monday to go to Rockefeller C"n ter. As they approached the j ticket seller, a tabulator stood by checking the number of admis sions. her heels, reached the man. "Stand aside." he said politely and smiled. Then someone came forward and thrust a portable radio and piionograph set into Mary Jane's hands. She looked bewildered. "You are 3.000,000th person to take a giuded tojir," she was told. "Nflf 1 isten . " J4 * - Mary Jap^' listened. .< As .t'he 3.600.000th visitor, she wait'told. she was to be guest at a dinner Monday night with a chance to speak or sing on a na tiona! broadcast. She was to get another trip to the World's Fair and a free tour of Rockefeller Center. And to top it all a free trip by clipper to Bermuda and return. Mary Jane couldn't believe her ears. Her friend was a little dazed, too. But she was No. 3,000,001 among the visitors. NEGRO BOVS Tt> ATTKXI) l-H SHOUT COURSK A group of Negro boys frQin Franklin County will attend the fourteenth annual 4-H Short Course to be held afc A. & T. Col lege in Greensboro August 21st through 26th. The purpose of the Short Course Is to give boys and girls throughout the state training in clubwork and various farm and borne activities. Due to the short time the Agent has been in the county no clubs have been organized as yet. These boys are being taken so they may get a slant on club activities which will help in their future work.? y J. E. Tuck, Negro County Agent. BARGAINS USED CARS 1, 1938 Chevrolet Coach. 1, 1938 Ford Coach. 1, 1931 Forfl Sedan? clean. 1, 1934 Chevrolet Coupe, mo tor reconditioned, good tires, right price. 1, 1938 Chevrolet four-door Sedan, good as new. See SAM Before You Buy. R. S. WEATHERS l'hone 28.VA Frankllnton, N. C. Representing MILLER MOTOR CO. Plione 2U-I Wake Forest, N. C, SALES and SERVICE PRESIDENT GRAHAM FEATURED SPEAKER AT VIRGINIA DARE DAY Manteo. N. C. ? Dr. Frank P. Graham, President of Greater Un iversity of North Carolina, was to day named the featured speaker at Virginia Dare Day exercises hew in connection with the 332nd anniversary of th? birth of this first chHd of English parentage in America, Friday. August 18. Since the natives of Roanoke Island and their friendly neigh | ber" Aug i is"' T? "ha^been"#^ a'si'de las Virginia Dare Day commemora ! ting the birth of this child as symbolising the first permanent English settlement in the New World, years before Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. These anniversary celebrations ^lirt^r developed into a series of short* pageants and finally, at the 350th anniversary celebration two years ago," a full-length drama "The Lost -Colony" was written by the famous North Carolina dram atist Paul Green and presented to a summer-long audience from all America. Dr. Graham will deliver a short commemorative address shortly before t'he drama starts at the | Waterside Theatre. At three o'clock in the afternoon, a series of skits and other numbers will be given by members of the cast. The entire Lost Colony Chorus will participate in "this entertain ment program. As Honorary Chairman of the Roanoke Island Historical Associ ation, which sponsors "The Lost Colony" as a non-commercial ven ture. Dr. Graham has done a great i deal to Insure the annual summer long presentation of this drama. Dr. Graham will be presented to j the audience by D. B. Fearing, president of the association. "Nothing on God's green earth," Mrs. Roosevelt says, will induce 1 her to run for president, which is quite different from the famous "I do nob choose to run" of Cool idge, which was construed to mean almost anything. ADS For SALE IN OUR NEXT ISSUE FALL tfrm ? Jw WILL BE ORGANIZED ON Monday, Sept. 4th The most successful work is al ways accomplished by those stu dents who begin promptly and; work regularly and systematically throughout* the Term. Make your i plans to register now for the ; , Complete Secretarial ami Business Course ? more than 1*0 per cent of our calls for help are for students who have had this well-balanced i training. * Write or call at oncc for an Application Blank and Make Your Innervation Now Miss Hardbarger's SECRETARIAL AND BUSINESS SCHOOL HunllMU-gor itlrig. 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