Fayetteville Democrat page 1a

MISS ELLEN BLACK
              AWARDED LEADING
                                 ROLE IN PAGEANT
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   Miss Ellen Black, petite black
haired Fayetteville girl, last night
was named to fill the role of "The
Spirit of History," the guiding spirit
of the Centennial pageant.
   Miss Black won the right to take
this leading role in the pageant by
selling 95 Centennial Booster but-
tons, not only the largest number
sold in her group, but in the entire
contest. She also sold the majority
of the buttons sold in her group.
   Sale of buttons will continue
through July 4, the committee has
announced, but the winner had to be
named last night in order that the
gowns be prepared in time for the
Spirit of History.
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To Raise Tracks
              In Flood Zone:
                           Cost $642,000
By Associated Press
MEMPHIS, July 3-The Rock Is-
land railroad announced today that it
planned to spend a total of $642,000
this year on a systematic plan for
flood control along its lines in nine
of the 14 states it serves.
In the Mississippi river flooded area
in Arkansas the road will spend
approximately $146,000 in raising
tracks for a distance of several miles.
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Business to Close
           All Day Wednesday
                  for Centennial Events
Business in Fayetteville will practically
suspend tomorrow. Postoffice and banks as well as the court house and city offices will close for the day as well as most of the business houses. The parade in the morning, the muse- um attractions all day, the pageant in the afternoon, the museum again in the late afternoon and at night until 10 o'clock make up the formal Centennial events, while a day's programs with two band concerts and a fireworks exhibition at 9 p.m. at City Park, matinees at all three motion picture houses and pictures again in the even- ing offer diversion for those who want their daily movies.
   Thursday will be Family Reunion,
Museum and Marker Unveiling Day,
with other feature programs at the
park and with matinees and evening
programs again in the evening at the
usual hours.
Pathe News men were on the grounds today taking important and historic sites.
   The day's program in full appears
elsewhere in this paper.
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MEN'S WATER EVENTS
          HELD AT CITY PARK
            TUESDAY AFTERNOON
   Contests in men's and boys' swim-
ming and diving contests were run off
this afternoon at the City Park.
A total of 10 prizes was won by the
fancy water artists. The program
tonight includes a concert by Barr's
band.
   Winners and prizes follow: Winning relay team, boys under 12-Jack Stiles, Lee Kays, Roy Bayless and Jack Holt, pocket knives given by Red Cross Drug Store, Washington County Hardware, N. F. Drake and City Park; best diving, boys under 15, Jimmy Walker, Bradley swimming
suit, Lewis Brothers; free-for-all
100-yard dash, Jimmy Walker, cap,
Price Clothing Co; long-distance un-
der-water swim-Jimmy Walker,
propelling pencil, Patterson-Blair;
fancy diving, Leffel Gentry, necktie,
Yarrington and Smith; relay, Jimmy
Walker and Frank Davis, $6 ticket
book, City Park.
   Girls' contests will be held at 2 p.m.
Thursday.

THIRD GANG WAR
VICTIM IN N. Y.
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 3-The body of an unidentified Italian thought to be victim of gang murder, was found in a vacant lot in Brooklyn this morning. The killing is the third of a series which began Sunday with the slaying of Frankie Uale, former racketeer and accomplice of "Scarface" Al Capone of Chicago.
An automobile with a Tennessee license plate which police think was the car used by the gunmen who shot Uale, was found abandoned last night near a cemetery in Brooklyn and a revolver was in the machine.

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       Giant Parade, History Pageant
                       Mark Wednesday As
       As Present Generation Relives
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By CECIL SHUFORD

Climaxing the brilliant three-day
celebration which opened here Tues-
day in a score of family reunions and the formal unbarring of the doors of the historical museum, and following Centennial Sunday observed in Union services at First Presbyterian church, the re-telling of this 100 years of the life story of the city in parade and pageant Wednesday will mark the high point of the Fayetteville Centennial celebration July 3-5.

      Parade to Start at 11 A.M.
                Wednesday
   Composed of 15 major floats, a
battalion of national guardsmen with
their truck convoy of mounted machine
guns and gunners, a band, and drum
corps, the centennial parade, headed
by motor and mounted police moves off promptly at 11 a.m. Wednesday through residence and business sect- ions of the town.

   Pageant at 4 P.M.; Fireworks at
                        Night
   The some afternoon at 4 o'clock a
cast of 500 relives the life-history of
the city in the historical pageant to be given at the Trent amphitheater at the city park, where thousands will gather to see the story of Fayetteville's rise from pioneer days to modern civiliza- tion as reenacted by descendants of pioneers. The Fourth will close Wed-nesday night in a blaze of color of the fireworks display at the city part at 9 o'clock, immediately following a band concert at 8.

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* The Democrat will not issue to-*
* morrow, the Fourth of July, in- *
* order that all employes may en-*
* joy the holiday and centennial   *
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       HANGARS AND SIX
                  AIRPLANES BURN
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By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 3-Fire today
destroyed hangars and six airplanes
at Hoover Field, Virginia, across the
Potomac River from Washington.
The plant was operated by Henry
Berliner, who placed the loss at $60,
000.
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   Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Griffith and
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Womack, all of
Rogers, will spend the Fourth here
with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Findley.
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With 500 Characters
Peak Day for City Centennial
Lives of Pioneers
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    Series of "Marker Programs"
                  Thursday
   Descendants of men and women
whose pioneer lives touched the spots marked will be featured in the unveiling the six historic site markers Thursday. Programs will be held in the morning as follows:
   9 a.m.-grave of James Leeper,
revolutionary soldier, Francis Marion
chapter, D.A.R.
   10 a.m.- Site of the Fayetteville
Female Seminary, Mountain street,
Parent Teachers' association.
   11 a.m. - The Quesenbury-Hill
home, Duncan street.
     The afternoon schedule includes:
   2 p.m. - home of Archibald Yell,
South College avenue, United Spanish
War Veterans.
   3 p.m. - Site if Arkansas College
First Christian church.
   4 p.m. - Battle of Fayetteville.

History in Decades Told in Parade
The centennial parade to be given
Wednesday morning features three
sides of the life of the city in its three divisions, the military, patriotic and historic. The military, which follows the police and Barr's band, is under Cap-tain Jerome F. Thompson, who will act as commander of Batteries "A" and "E," 206th Arkansas National Guard, coast artillery. These two batteries will include a motor division, composed of six trucks with mounted machine guns,
under the direction of Sgt. John W.
Diggs, Battery A.
Ten major floats are included in the
historical division under George
Berson. Each float is to tell the story of 10 years in the life of Fayetteville. The patriotic division under James Ptak will include five floats each prepared by one of the local patriotic organizations.

                Line of March
    Line of march for the parade,
which moves off on College avenue
is South on College to Center, west
on Center to East, south on East to
Mountain, west on Mountain to Block,
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         VIKING FLYERS
                  BEGIN SEARCH
                            FOR AMUNDSEN
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   OSLO, Norway, July 3 - The base
ship "Braganza" with the Norwegian
Flyers, Captain Riiser Larsen and Lieut. Luetzow Holm, arrived at
King's Bay from northern Spitzbergen
today and the airmen will begin imme-
diately to search for Roald Amundsen and his five missing companions.
   It was reported erroneously from
here yesterday that Amundsen's body
had been found off the Norway coast.
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        Sen. Robinson
                To be 'Notified'
                       At Hot Springs
By Associated Press
   LITTLE ROCK, July 3 - Senator
Joe T. Robinson officially will be notifi-
ed of his nomination for vice-president
on the Democratic ticket at ceremonies
to be held at Hot Springs at a date to be set by the Democratic national committee at its meeting in New York, July 11, it was announced today.
   Senator Robinson received a tele-
gram today from Governor Smith ask-
ing him to be present at the committee
meeting and he will leave here July 9.
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          Formal Opening
                 Crowds Museum:
                          Program Given
   Today was museum day. Nearly
150 people crowded through the
doors of the old Episcopal rectory to
see the hundreds of relics displayed
there, and an even larger crowd was
present in the afternoon.
   Pioneering was subject of the
speakers in the afternoon program
which opened at 4:30 on the north
porch outside. An added feature to
the announced program was a piano
solo played by Mrs. Leland Bryan
from music written by her great
grandmother.
   Blankets, quilts, coverlets, red,
blue, and white, a mass of old fashion- ed loveliness, hang across the lower hall from other reminders of the past when these were made.
Here is given the 1840 Fayetteville
census, showing a population of 425
for the city and 2,182 for Prairie town-
ship. In one hall hangs a picture of the Fayetteville Female seminary, drawn by William Quesenbury.
   A collection of World War relics,
owned by W. G. Ownbey, is unique
among the war relics in the room on
the right, in charge of Miss SueWalker,
S. M. A. German rifles, the steel gray armor plate of an Argonne forest sniper a crucifix from a German dugout.
   American, French and German rel-
mets, high explosive shells, bayonets,
and trench knives contrast strangely
with the older relics on the other walls; muzzle loading rifles, cap and ball pistols, cavalry sabers, and the crude shells of Civil war cannon.
   Perhaps the oldest and most historic weapon in the group is the French sword belonging to Miss Sue Walker, which was presented to an ancestor of hers during the War of 1812, and which is thought to have a record reaching far back into Continental struggles of an earlier date.
   A brace of pistols carried through
the Civil war, a French bayonet,
used by the Spaniards at the battle
of San Juan hill, and other weapons
from the collection of Dudley Stone
are outstanding in the war collection,
which includes old muzzle loaders,
relics from the Prairie Grove Battle
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