Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-04 | Page 10 | Fair Attendance to Set New Mark

FAIR ATTENDANCE L I TO SET NEW MARK j CHICAGO Sept Sept 4 One P P One record record- I breaking day was wa expected to be followed fol- fol ol lowed by another today at the te worlds world's fair as a officials made preparations to handle a crowd of upwards upward of a half hail hal million Billion I t f All Al attendance records record fell fel yesterday yester- yester when day by a wide margin I persons passed ped through though the te turnstiles A and jammed jame the midway and other parts of the grounds ground The Te figure fell fel part just jut B R few thousand tousand short of exceeding exceeding exceed exceed- ing the previous high attendance 1 mark by set on August Augut 25 when visited the exposition And today there was wa the double attraction of the Labor day holiday and the scheduled address addre b by General General General Gen Gen- eral Hugh S S. S Johnson Johnon national recovery re rc rc- rc covery administrator to o attract the multitude to a Century of Progress General Johnson Johnon arrived in the city I late tt last night from Washington aboard an army RImy plane and was wasI I wh whisked ked away to a hotel before interI intervIewers interviewers inter inter- I viewers could force their way through federal agents agent who surrounded surround surround- ed him the te moment he stepped from the ship At the te hotel he sUpped slipped in tn a aside side entrance and again nain avoided p crowd crowds that awaited him