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Births Reported

Paul and Cecile Akin, boy.
Howard and Mary Armel, boy.
Francis and Lillian Beal, girl.
Reuben and Mildred Bonnet, boy.
Curtis and Catharine DEM, girl.
John and Mary Dunn, girl.
Adrian and Mary Farrell, girl.
BENJAMIN and Amanda Fields, girl.
Robert and Nina Foster, girl.
Herbert and Helen Gardner. girl.
George and Valda Cay, girl.
Robert and Beverly Gingles. girl.
Blucher and Emma GreenWald, girl
Joe and Frances Haller, girl,
Kenneth and Jane Harding, boy
Roland and, Frances Horton, boy,
William and Madeline Johnston, girl.
Joseph and Mary Leebrick. girl
James and Virginia Miller, girl
George and Gertrude Milliken, girl.
Denis and Honore McHugh. girl.
John and Annie Rick, girl.
Redford and Josephine Robinson, girl
William and Betty Rogers, girl.
Robert and Dorothy Silverman, girl.
Oyerton and Anna Smith, boy.
Clarence and Louise Splitter, boy.
Francis and Victoria Taylor, boy.
Hugh and Geraldine Travis boy.
Charles and Elizabeth Wagner, girl.
Ralph and Kathryn Wanless, girl.
James and Julia Woodhead, boy.
James and Catherine Anderson, girl.
Charles and FLORENCE Barnes; girl,
Charles and Justine Cofer, boy.
Philip and Hazel Creel girl.
Lewis and Ruthe Dever, boy.
Preston and Irene Enfield, boy.
James and Iris Fletcher. girl.
Leonard and Merriam Freinkel, boy.
Harry and Bertha GauzZa, girl
Leonard and Angie Gibson, boy.
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Deaths Reported

Gertrude s. Crane, Ss, -49o1 43rd st. NV
Kate Fillebrown, 81, 1896 Lanier pl. NV
Emma DeVris, 81. 4811 Bladgen ave. NV
William pouden, Is, 1870 Biltmore st. NV
Alvin T. Prettyman. .75, 311 F. St ne.
James Donohue, "a. 1906 Ingleside ter. w
John l.. Terrell, 10, sos E. Capitol st
Joseph Lewis, So, 1914 Eye st. NV.
Charles NJ. Pifer. 50. 1852 Mintwood pl. W
John P. LANYARD "a, 360S Nichols ave. Sc
Edward ]. Manahan, 35, ST. Louis, Mo.
Nolan R, Perry, "a. Baltimore, Md.
Infant Thomas E. Speake Sd, Arlington, Va
Infant Tous, 3572 11th st. NV.
Infant viglione, 3713 4th st. s.e.
Infant Pearce,. 40 Independence, ave. s.w
William A. Roberts, n. 1923 9th st. NV
William c. Jones. rs, 1915 W st. NV.
Robert II. Weaver. "A. 1880 Kramer st. n. e
Thomas R: Edwards, 73. 1410 10th st. NV
Henry Smith, So. 7SS Irving st. NV.
Isiah T. Shepherd. 81, 1880 Church st. NV
Rufus J; Dinkins, 50, Savannah. Ga.
Phillip Turner 80. Takoma Park. Md.
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SIZE 18
! Black Wool Tunic Coot with
black Silver Fox border and
cuffs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
] Red Wool Boxy Coot with pIo-
tino-dyed White Fox ----
| Green Wool Fitted Dressmoker
Coot with bIoek-dyed Persion
| on,b
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I'd and Charlotte Gose, boy.
Arthur and Harriet Hatcher, boy.
Thomas and Matilda Hammett, boy.
Charles and Constance Harley, girl.
William and Bonnie Hesterberg, boy.
Wilber and Lulu Humphrey, boy.
Mark and Frances Keefe, boy.
Heber and Audrey MacWilliams, boy.
Edgar anod Eva Miller, girl.
Stanley and Grace Moss, girl.
Samuel and Margaret Nash, boy.
Frederick and Helen Rawlings, girl
Marvin and katheryn Robertson, girl.
1sadore and Lillian Rods, girl
John and Phyllis Sapienza, boy.
George and Juletta Sloan, girl.
Sidney and Edith Spalding, girl
Hugo and Elizabeth Starck, boy,
Samuel and Maisie Thorn, girl
Daniel and Beverly Vaughn, boy.
Lindsay and Mary Walker, boy.
Jess and MarysWilliams, girl
Walter and Rosa Bell Alexander, boy.
Wesley and Leatha Baxter, girl.
Francis and Lucy Cleckley, boy,
James and Mary Ewell, boy.
Mike and Lula Jones, girl.
Curtis and Rebecca Kelly, boy.
Duncan and Rose Prince, boy.
Robert and Della Robinson, girl.
Lanier and Gladys Thompson. boy.
Robert and Virginia Wong, girl.
John and Anna Anderson, boy
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Red Cross Unit Reports

The Annie M. Wilson branch,
Montgomery County Chapter Ameri-
can Red Cross, announced at its
quarterly meeting yesterday that it
had collected $2,5S335 In the recent
drive for funds, or over 200 per cent
of its quota.
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WOMEN'S SIZES

3 Brown wool boxy coats with
Beover-dyed Mouton Lamb
tuxedo and cuffs, size 38--
| Green wool coot with Beover-
dyed Mouton lamb tuxedo and
cuffs, size 40
z Black Wool Boxy Coots with
black Persion-dyed Lamb cuffs
and yoke. Sizes 36 and 4O---
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.omas and Mary Burrell, girl
Herman and Mildred Dover boy.
Herman and Beatrice Feazell. boy.
Bernard and Alberta Kenny, boy.
Booker and Ila Nesmith, girl.
George and Margaret Rice, boy.
Charles and Edna Slader, boy.
James and Thelma Timer, boy.
The war is over but the fight for
the four freedoms goes on. First Of
the freedoms for the average man is
freedom from want. Best insur-
ance for that is to buy and hold
United States Savings Bonds.
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SPORTSWEAR VALUES
ECONOMY SHOP FASHIONS

Were Now
% California Bell Hop BoIero
Suits in oil wool. Shepherd
checks; misses sizes ] O to l6 2l.OO I640
| 5 Misses AlI-wool Suits in
stripes, checks and solid pastel S24 to
eoIors NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $500 1000
so Toored and Dressy Type
Dresses in prints, solid coIors.
Spun royon, royon jersey and 7.7Oto
royon crepe 1895 $50
80 Women's Holf-size Dresses in
royon jersey prints. Sizes 1874 7o5 to
to 895 $40
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Shop-Second Floor
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8.85 to l4.95 JR. DRESSES

One and two piece styles in wool ond royon*, and
spun royons. Stripes and solid coIors. = 90
Jr. Miss sizes 9 to ! S. Just 30 y.
Properly labeled to material content
LANSBURGHS-Jr. Miss Dresses-Second Floor
The southern news., 1946-05-25
ANNOUNCED
TEACHERS FOR
new YEAR '46-'47

RALEIGH Names of teachers
and principals who have been up-
proved TO serve as faculty members
Of the Raleigh public schools dur
ing the l946-47 school year were
announced by Supt. of Schools
Jessie O. Sanderson here Monday.
Retirtments and designations will
become effective at the end of the
current school year, bit only three
persons - j. L. Levister, Mrs. Her
man Senter and Mrs. Ronald W.
Wilson will retire.
Teachers and principals contin-
ued by the school board to serve III
the various. schools are:
Washington High School - M. w
Atkins, principal, j. H. Brown, Jr.
Margaret B. Bugg, Mrs Ethel l..
Clark, Eta E. Duren, Mrs. Min
eta B. Eaton. Melzie E. Elliott
Mrs. Gertrude Harris. Jeanette
Hicks. M. c. Hill. H. T. Johnson.
Continued on back page)
The southern news., 1946-05-25
NAACP Launches Campaign
Against Jim-Crow Education

stitution, statutes and board.
for the reason that under the
public policy of this State an
noLnced in the constitutional
and statutory provisions herein.
after cited and reviewed para
graphs IA to 2D, colored per-
sons are not eligible for ad-
mission to State schools estab-
lished for white persons, such
as the School of Law of the
University CT Oklahoma"
1t is expected that this case will
be tried during the week of May
9th. Miss Sipuel will be represent
ed by the NAACP through ThLr-
good Marshall, Special Counsel;
and Almost T. Hall of Tulsa, Okla.
Today the case of Heman Mar
ion Sweat against the Board of
Regents of the University of Texas
was filed in the local district court
of Travis County, Austin, Texas.
The case was an application fer
a writ of mandamus 70 compel the
admission of Sweat to the Law
School of the University of Texas
The petition alleges that Sweat
meets all of the necessary require
ments for admission to the Univer-
sity of Texas Law School and has
been arbitrarily denied admission
solely because of his race or color.
The filing of this case is the ans
wer to the longstanding refusal of
Continued on back page
The southern news., 1946-05-25

below the national average.
From the standpoint of recrea-
ton, facilities throughout North
Carolina are woefully inadequate at
the present time. There are far
too many juke joints and amuse-
ment places of i'll repLte. Recreation
has profound influence on the
personality and character Of indiv-
iduals"
Larkins then named some of the
services provided by the state and
the counties in putting the human
resources in the proper place in the
scheme of living.
Never in the history of man has
so much emphasis been placed on
the welfare of all the people. We
have developed programs to meet
every problem of our population but
many of these programs need ex-
panding, strengthening and GER
tainly they need more public sup
port" he stated.
'All of our people must be con-
cerned with deep feeling for 9TH
er people. They must realize and
accept the fact that people are the
foundation that make Up the dream
of democracy 1t is important how
people feel about other people and
there can be no exceptions"
The southern news., 1946-05-25
PRESIDENT SIGNS
BILL TO INCREASE
POST OFFICE PAY

WASHINGTON-President Harry
Truman, Tuesday, signed the Sal
airy Increase Bill which provides
for a flat increase of $4,000 per
year for postal workers. The in
crease is the second for postal
workers within year.
The l945 salary increase provid-
ed $4,000 increase, with lon
gevity clause of $4,000 for those
serving 25 years or more. The max
imum salary before the l945 in
crease was $4,000 for five year
men.
Economic Gain For Negroes
In Raleigh. where seven Negro
carriers and janitors are employ
ed the economic gains for the race
will be $600000, for the recent in
crease of $4,000 for the l945 and
1916 increases. This does not take
into consideration the longevity in
crease. Of the seven Negroes in
the Raleigh Post Office. all except
Charles L, Williams, il was report
ed. are eligible for longevity pay.
Negroes May Retire
A companiate bill was presented
10 the Congress with the salary
Increase Bill, providing for the
voluntarily retirement of all en-
ployees, who have rs years serv-
ice. This bill was introduced to
give employment to the returning
veterans and to relief the unem-
ployment situation that usually fol-
lows wars.
The new bill was considered Mon
day by the Post Office Sub-Com-
mittee and is expected TO get speedy
consideration, and passage. If it
does pass. as it is expected, five of
the Raleigh Negro carriers will be
eligible for immediate retirement,
and Frank Watson, who was ap-
pointed in 1928, with more than
one years military service will be
Continued on back page)
The southern news., 1946-05-25

NEW YORK - The National N.
A. A. c. P. announced today mat
the all-oIt campaign against dis
in educational facilities
is well under way with the cases at
tackng the segregated school system
in parts of Ohio already prepared
for filing. In Oklahoma Attorney
General Mac Q. Williamson filed
his answer to the case of Ada Los
Sipuel praying for a writ of mali
damus to compel the Board of Re
gents of the University of Oklaho-
ma to admit her to the law school.
The answer admit:
THAT the plaintiff, Ada Lois
Sipuel, a colored or Negro cit
izen and resident of the United
States of America and the State
Of Oklahoma, duly and timely
apply on January IA, 1916, for
admission to the firstyear class
of The Schoal of Law of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma for the Sc
mester beginning January Is.
1916, and that she then possess
ed and still possesses all the
scholastic and moral qualifica-
tions required for such admis-
sion by the constitution and
statutes of this State and by the
Board of Regents of the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma, but deny
that she was then possessed and
still possesses all other quail
fications' required by said con-
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Klans RiS
Nation s Cdp9

WASHINGTON CAMP Re.
ports that persons residing in
nearby Arlington, Va. had applied
to the headquarters of the Ku Klux
KIan for permission to organize a
chapter within hailing distance of
the capital, caused quite stir To-
cally
Arlington has been criticized for
its lack of educational and recrea-
tional and health facilities for Ne
gro residents of the state where i'm
crow floLrishes and it is felt that
the application for charter 20
operate the hooded group in that
section is a slap at the critics who
demand action.
This would not be the first time
the Klan has been active in this
area for during the summer of 1925.
thousands of sheeted and hooded
whites paraded the main thorough
fare of Washington down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue along the route of the
Presidents from the White House
to the Capital
Negroes are not alarmed over the
revelation, but they are determined
to fight the prospective organiza-
ton in and out of courts regard
less of the platitudes issued by high
ranking officials in the organization.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
robson KILLER
GIVEN PARDON

RALEIGH - Booker T. Williams
of Robson County, saved from the
electric chair by executive inter-
vention in 1927 after he was convict
ed of first degree murder, received
his freedom here Saturday aftrd
20 years of "hoGor-erade eonduct
Williams who was paroled by
CIV r. Gregg Cherry was sentenc-
ed to death in the electric chair for
the murder Of M. B. ROBBERS, Robe
son Co, white man in the January,
1926, term of the Robson County
Superior Court. The sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment in
March, 1927, and in December, 1910
lower to 30 to 40 years.
The parole has the approval of
Robertson County authorities, ac-
cording to parole officials here.
offense feels the prisoner should
now be allowed an opportunity to
re establish himself in society"
Did you know that green cell
cry is more nutritious than blan-
ched celery2
The southern news., 1946-05-25

sent controlling Congress.
Fred Aliens Senator Clagholn.
with his pre-Civil War ideas. has
captured the votes if not the minds
of majority of Congress, Republi-
cans as well as Democrats.
Equal opportunity for Ameri-
can citizens to get jobs and promo
tions according to their ability and
training regardless of their race or
color is clearly a part of our Ameri-
CO.. ''e' r. Sass ,sed IN TIE
p inoIple set forth in the Declara-
dor of Independence that all men
are created free and equal"
Mr. Baker continued,
The Southern Democrats who
hated the New Deal all along and
who hate organized labor, Negroes
and Jews as we'll, as anyone who
listens to the rantings of Rankin
and Bilbo knows. were able to win
Continued on back page)
The southern news., 1946-05-25
PROPOSE HIGH
SCHOOLS FOR
!s COLLEGES

* ksIGHs state dtt4troIie,s Ne.
gro Ngolleges are overetowded, run
ming double shifts and unable to
receive any more students, veterans
or otherwise, the five presidents
from these institutions told Cover
nor R. Gregg Cherry Monday at a
conference in his office. called to
provide additional advantages for
returning veterans under the C. 1.
Educational Bill.
The conference met at 2:3o with
approximately so presidents in at
tendance. Besides the five presi-
dents from the state controlled Ne
gro colleges, Shaw University was
represented. Dean R. A. Payne rep
resented Shaw.
DIR. Shepard Reports
The North Carolina College at
Durham. DR.. James E. Shepard.
president, reported that a normal
capacity of $50 and an enrolment
- ~ - LIZ oeiiN4J 4OOIIlS Unsigned lOf
one and two had been assigned foL:
and five and that every teaching
space was being utilized During
the year DR.. Shepard. said, that
4O7 veterans had applied and 1e-
fused for lack of housing space.
additional applications are COM
ing in every daily" he declared.
and we can't do thing"
DR.. Shepard looked with disfav-
or upon the trailer proposition as
a temporary housing relief. He
said, that to secure them required
too much red tape" and beside
the restriction on location were of
such he could not meet them. A
mong the requisites DR.. Shepard
said that they must be located on
pave streets, which he did not have
and that the bookkeeping system
required more detail than he would
Continued on back page)
The southern news., 1946-05-25

lace, national chairman of the
drive, announced last week.
Bishop j. A. Gregg of Kansas
City, Presiding Bishop OF the At
rlcan Methodist Episcopal Church,
and Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune
OF Washington, d. c., president Of
the National Council of Negro
Women, whole-heartedly endorsed
the humanitarian appeal and
pledged their personal and Off
clal support.
The Emergency Food Collection
now under way throughout the
nation, is on behalf of UNRRA OF
which F. H. LaGuardia is director
general. 1t is an appeal to the
American people to give money
10 buy food, or gifts of food can
ned in tin, for shipment to fam
Inc swept Europe and Asia.
Mr.. Wallace explained that the
Food Collection is set up in close
cooperation with the Presidents
Famine Emergency Committee
which is asking Americans to eat
less berad, wheat cereals, cakes
and pies, to use less cooking oils
and fats and SO leave more of
these essential food stocks for
shipment to famine areas.
Collection depots to receive both
types OF gifts are already in op-
Grafton in more than 1000 cities,
towns and villages. Contributes
are asked to turn in their gifts
at these local depots. Checks OF
money Orders lnayQalso be mailed
to Lee Marshall, executive di-
rector, Emergency Food Collec-
ton, 100 Maiden Lane, New York
Z, N. Y.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Lynch SPIRIT
Still IN Tenn.

NEW YORK = Addressing a
Freedom House audience at the
Wendell Willkie Memorial this
week, T. Alexander LOBBY and
Maurice Weaver, attorneys repre-
senting the NAACP in the defense
of 81 Negroes indicted for attempt
ed murder in the Columbia, Tenn,
pogrom of last February, warned
that Fascist storm trooper terror
still hovers over Columbia, Tenn"
The audience, representing leaders
of church, labor and fraternal or
ganizations, had been invited to
hear the reports of the two investi-
gators by the Committe for Justice
in Columbia, Tenn. which is head
Continued on back page)
The southern news., 1946-05-25
NAACP Board Hits
Capital Claghorns

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The an
nouncement from Washington of
the ending OF the FEPC. which had
been set up by President Roosr-
welt to prevent discrimination on
account of race, creed, or color in
the hiring policy OF the govern
ment or Of companies holding gov
ernment contracts, was the occasion
for blast by Alfred Baker Lewis
of Greenwich. Coma. NAACP board
member and chairman ii .4o L~n-
necticut Citizens Political Action
Committee. at what he described
as the combination of reactionary
Southern Democrats and reaction
airy Northern Republicans that pre-
The southern news., 1946-05-25
26-Y -Year-Old Vet G
With Rape by all-W
BY HARRY RAYMOND

HAMLET. N. C.-Major Ben
ton. 26 year old Negro war VET
eran from this busy little rail-
load town. is languishing today in
the death house in the Central
State Prison in Raleigh.
He is awaiting execution in the
gas chamber. for a crime he did
not commit.
He was convicted April Is by an
ali-White Richmond County jury
on charge OF raping a white wo-
man on Christmas Eve, 1945 and
sentenced to death by County
Judge Donald Phillips.
Major Benton did not receive
a fair trial. If he had been a
white man ne would be free and
his accusors would be hiding their
faces in shame.
That is my opinion after care
full on the spot investigation of
ell the facts of the case, legal and
otherwise.
That is the opinion of local
defense committe of Negro citi-
zens, headed by the Rev. L. WI
Wertz, Baptist minister.
That is the opinion of Emanuel
H. Bloch, attorney for the Con-
gress on Civil Rights and former|
counsel for the U. S, Fair En-
.plcyment, Practice Committee.
Bloch. who arrived here after
my appeal tor legal a1d to &aye
the condemned Negro, has taken
steps to protect the legal rights
OF Benton and to rally the full
force of the Congress on Civil
Rights for new trial of the case.
Sentenced to die May 81, execu-
ton of the Negro veteran has au-
tomatically been stayed until fall
through notice of appeal to the
North Carolina Supreme Cour1,
filed by Edgar w. Jones and w
r. Jones, local attorneys for the
defense.
My investigation of the case,
combined with careful study of
the record of the three-day trial
of Benton in Rockingham. six
The southern news., 1946-05-25
NAACP STILL
FIGHTS CASE

NEW ORLEANS - The National
Beard of Directors of the NAACP
meeting May 18th adopted a resolu>
ton calling upon Governor Davis
If Louisiana to commute the SEN
tence of Willie Francis from death
to life Imprisonment on grounds
of cruel and inhuman punishment
and a violation of Smiths federal
rights. The resolution climaxed ex-
haustive attempts by NAACP at
torneys A. P. Tureaud and Joseph
Thornton to save the life Of the
youth who was "electrocuted once"
only to step from the death chair
after the chair was discovered TO
be faulty
The Supreme Court denied tnat
there was any evidence Of cruel
Confined on back page)
The southern news., 1946-05-25

Congressman Graham A. Barden OF
North Carolina, author of the vo.
cational bill and chairman of the
education committee, said in recon-.
mending him for the award that
Prot. Anderson "is making cne OF
the finest contributions towards the
solution of our social and economic
problems of any living human being
it has ever been my privilege TO
know
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Child Struck
By Auto

RALEIGH-Betty Jane Ev-
ans, three-year-old child of
sol9 South BloodWorth Street,
was injured shortly before
200 p. m. Sunday night when
she was struck in front of her
nome by car driven by Lacy
Warren, white farmer of Dunn,
Route l.
According to officers, the
child ran from the sidewalk di-
rectly in front of the automo-
bile, sustaining minor bruises
and scratches. She was treated
at the st. Agnes hospital. No
charges were preferred against
Warren.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
ROCKY POINT EDUCA FOR TO APPEAR
BEFORE CONGRESS AS A KEY WITNESS

WASHINGTON-Prof. S. C. An
derson. director of the Rocky Point
T., Will be key witness when the
Negro school in Pender county, N. C.
House education committee re-op-
ems hearings May % on the Barden
bill to provide $78,O00,O0O annually
in federal aid to vocational educa-
tion.
Prof. Anderson has been nomi-
mated for the 1916 alumni award
of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va
The southern news., 1946-05-25


uROLoGICAl. SPECIALIsT:
DIR. Robert. E. Fulliloper, a men,
ber OF the staff OF Flint G odridge
Hospital and practicing physi-
clan in New Orleans. is one of
the three or four Negro ur0lo-
sicai specialists in the country.
He is a Diplomatic of The Ameri-
can Boar. of UrOlogy having
passed the examination in Feb.
DIR. FullilOve was bern in Tup.
10, Mississippi and graduated from
The Howard University Medical
School. He interned at PrOvident
Hospital in Chicago, The Genef-
II Hospital, Kansas City, Mo-, and
Flint -GOOdridge Hospital in New
Orleans. He specialized in uro-
logy at Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston for a year and
FFeedman's Hospital in Wash
ingtOn. ID. c., for six months oil
4 ROsenwald Fellowship.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Four Being Considered
For Probation Job

Four candidates are being con-
Eidered for the position of proba-
ton officer here, the JOURNAL
learned this week.
The job became vacant when
James Holmes resigned some time
this month.
An investigation into the quail
tications and character of the four
men Is underway, and an appoint
ment shnnld ha made shortly.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
VET RAILRO OADED TO DEATH +
Food CounciLHas
2Negro Members

NEW YORK-Two Negro lead
ers are among the prominent
Americans serving on the national
committee Of the Emergency Food
Collection for the hungry and
starving millions overseas, Secre.
tary of Commerce Henry A. Wal
The southern news., 1946-05-25
lLLED, 40 HURT, AS TORNADO ST

KlNSTON - Two killed, than 40 others
injured and 38 homes damaged destroyed tornado which
struck three sections Leno County Vicinity
about $3.50 Monday night
The southern news., 1946-05-25

An aged white couple who lived miles north Of town
the snow Hill highway killed instantly and l8 wer
hopItalzed and injuries 25 others
the sudden storm struck without warning