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Show 23,000,000lli Ford Enroule to Fair Opening j ' :' "'VI- ' -J .1 i.e. ' ' -j r , -."V5 f ,-u c ' Is2- Jar , - for car No. 28,000,000 is now enroule to Treasure Island from Udgewater, N.J., via Mexico. The symbolic car was built at the New Jersey Ford plant on April 8 and immediately began a 10,000 mile international good will tour. Its arrival at the Golden Gate International Inter-national Exposition on May 2Jth will be a highlight of opening day. Top view shows Edsel Ford, pointing at right in group, when the car rolled off assembly line. With Mr. Ford are, left to right, Governor Moore of New Jersey; Senor Santiago Suarez, Mexican consul; Wallace R. Campbell, president of Ford Motor Company Com-pany of Canada, Ltd.; and Douglas Doug-las S. Cole, Canadian Trade Commissioner. Com-missioner. At bottom is the big Ford Building on Court of Pa-cifica Pa-cifica on Treasure Island, where will "ambassador." ' welcoming ceremonies will be held for. the distinguished good The index of prices paid by farmers was one point higher on April 15 than a month earlier. At 123 per cent of the 1910-14 average, it was also three points higher thaD on April 15, 1939. Prices of corn, wheat, and wheat feed advanced during the past i .aoiith and the index of feed i pricey rose two points, to 105 per cent of pre-war. In general, farm prices in the United States increased from 6 5 per cent of the pre-World War I level in 1932 to 9 5 per cent in I 1938. r Despite wartime demands( the world has about 1,400,000 bushels bush-els of wheat more than it will consume during the marketing year 1939-1940. I |