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owed “YOUNG NEGROES . were to death’ after the hombing, [one by. police and the , other..re- its. basement, -ag-. 1 roo! classes were ending. whether the”: he Negro. in’ WASHINGTON, President | ennedy expressed ‘‘outrage and. ier over the bombing deaths. [acted to the news of tev ~ Uilicers. sald “games Ro are WHe“said he hoped the incident with. grief and prayegs. Church! Bon," 16, 2 28th St., North, oo uteinite a gould awaken the nation to “the Dells Edlied at noen Ted3y—Sig- was struck by buckshot when Polly of racial injustice and hatred Halling a city-wide minute of police fired.at the feet of young cao es rayer. Negroes in an attempt bo halt lhe church leader Fred La | formerly’ Served as tty.-Gen. Robert ‘Kennedy ‘can Mernbers of the First Methodist | them. oo led a scheduled speech in Phila-'Church, nearest white church to > ® “Thirteen-year- old Virgil” om elphia to stay in his office and‘in'the bombed house of worship, a Sandusky was shot and kille hours. ours. juvestigating _ repor ° gsé touch with his aides in Bir- wept as their pastor arinounced, by two young white boys, acirock throwing an ; gham. "the news of the bombing. Five| €ording to’ witnesses. en “n-""" hundred members of the West( 7 Twenty- three Negroes were ar Pwo of the gir ‘int in the OL. AL LINGO beaded a 3o9- End Methodist Church Streamed| résted in the area of the Six- explosion were on “the Youth "Mian force of state troopers who to the altar and knelt in praseh, Seen Street’ church after the)poard of Ushers. Addie Mae, ang, piped: ‘Birmingham police and. the good, God-fearing people of IMDS. Mast were Cie’ Denice were to have sung ia the. (sheriff's. deputies in patrolling and} Birmingham—until the insane either. with being drunk or re-fvouth cheir at the worship service. al in maintaining order at three for. Murderer or murderers of thosetrgine"to abey an officer. ¢ > { erly aliwwhile schools which] children are brought to the bar | The bombing victims were’! The explosion ripped a gap- ard 7 ing hole in the wall of the were ‘integrated last week. They] of justice.” jCynthia Wesley, M4, hit by the ere invited here by Mayor. AL| ALLGOOD WENT ON TO SAY: full force of the blast and iden-{ Church. About 200 worshippers. bert Boutwelf=#=~e | “Such action, in the opinion of'tified by clothing and a ring;; Werte’ in the’ building and absut ..Three hundred federalized Na-j ‘this court, threatens to overthrow Carol Robertson and Addie Meet 89 were in the basement. tional Guardsmen remained on the, ‘the principle of law and order Collins, 14, and Denice Me-]. Cars. parked.,outside and busi-. alert at-two local armories, where} long considered self-evident, mir-|Nair, 11. * ness “buildings “adross® “the street they have heen stationed since last; lat the invitation of their pastor, They apparently were in the]were either wreeked or damaged. Tuesday. ;Dr. 0. S. Gamble. church lounge in the basement!Chunks of concrete, twisted metal “But ciyit rights organizations | A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT) when the bomb exptoded underjand shattered glass littered the “applied mounting pressure on ‘task force headed by Burke Mar-| a stair outside the building on|street and sidewalk, ar EG a ;shali, assistant U. 5. attorney its eastern side. Potice roped off the area’ te: : rm general for civil rights, and in-l a angi of sporadic violence, |hoid back. the ¢ d f i 3 0 e growing crowd 9 nside . ing-a large number ‘of FBI with gunfire cracking in various oth styinéd, Bhery, Negroe A Negro bystander: fe pio. fessional boxer Andrew Anderson, commented: “It’s just ‘making: hate. This town is gone” now . I know it’s gone.* M AYO R. BOUTWELL wept when he learned of the bombing. “y. never could ith Sach “that . | | agents arrived in, Birmingham sections and fires, breaking out, : More pictures, after the bombing: © i, ~ followed the explosion. «- They acted under a 1960 civil The first major fire came short- stories |. <4) [Tights act which makes it a fed-)1, after nightfall when a building ; om" “lleral offense to ‘transport explos- blazed on Avenue ‘Q and” ‘20nd Pages 6-7. ives across. state lines for i-|cirpet ‘in Enstey. legal purposes. The law per “blaze reportedly .. wa federal agents ‘to take part in caused by a thrown bottle of investigations under the presump- : : : gasoline, as was another fire at tion that explosives used were a store at Eighth Avenue and . Ran “President Kennedy. in Washing- ston | ie intervene more forcefully “fn Alabama, "The Rev. Martin Luther King, transported across state Hines, If Filth Street, North. A guard in- + arming sae not thas it ‘is deter mined this WaS 0H ene case, the federal authorities: with- draw from the case, turning over information they. have gathered to side the second store extin- vee tee : the situation sii hed the fl 7, =f! guished the flames. ed Gov: Wallace” 2 Beer a‘ eward for arrest and 5 ‘Gonyicti ‘Who came here from Atlanta Sun- day, and other Negra ieaders| urged the President to take some! action to restore Negro confidence tat. Ensley Roofj ng.,Go:2 “as King put it—and to prevént toca 2 BS cad was. ‘par. ley “Ave. = eempen b “the worst racial helocaut the na- ticipating in thé: investigations | fire under ‘contra belo Lion © has ev ne : er seen.” Smmmmnen” | of the earlier bombings of the | homes of the Rev. A. D. King . vaniAtty. Arthur” R._Shrogs, - the’ and the Gaston Motel. . ce "oe to the. Greater ‘Birmingham, calle fr ‘en it landed on the roof. mass’ pee ee Spiral he ad pledged’ “the e c tate’ will be,