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Show Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1 A Wabash railway train ran berserk, leaped a siding and struck a support of this bridge in St. Charles, Mo., col lapsing it. Two men passengers of an automobile carried away with the bridge were injured, as was a woman when their car tore through the wall of her hotel nearby. 2 John Monroe Johnson, of Marlon, S. C, assumes his duties as assistant secretary of commerce, succeeding Ewing Y. Mitchell who was ousted and wrote the President that "graft and corruption" abounded In the department. 3 Harry L. Hopkins (left), works progress administrator, and Henry Morgenthau, secretary of the treasury, leaving White House with Josephine Roche, assistant secretary, after discussing discuss-ing new National Youth administration which she will head. YOUTH in Need of Jobs and Education Will Be " SERVED President Roosevelt named Miss Josephine Roche, assistant secretary of the treasury, as chairman of the executive committee, and Aubrey Williams, Wil-liams, assistant to Harry L. Hopkins, as executive director of his new National Na-tional Youth administration. The NYA will spend $50,000,000 of the works-relief works-relief fund in Its first year to find jobs for unemployed youths and to train other youths for trades and jobs. The NYA's four-fold purpose is (1) to find employment for youth in private Industry; (2) train and retrain for industrial, in-dustrial, technical and professional employment opportunities; (3) provide for continuing attendance at high school and college; and (4) provide works-relief projects for youth. i |