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g-iet Ney. 5<27-63) Poison Mohr Casper Caljahan rad Loach ih Blast Kill | 4. Children; RiotsFollow: Two Youths Slain; State Reinforces + Birmingham Police ; BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 15 ' (UPI) — A bomb hurled ' from a passing car blasted . a crowded Negro church to- , day, killing four girls in: their Sunday school classes : and triggering outbreaks of | 7 i violence thal wo more } : persons dead in the streets. Two Negro youths were killed in outbreaks of shooting 4 Three Justice Depart. | ment officials sent to Birminghoh to probe bombing. Page A6. seven hours after the 16th“ Street Baptist Church was bombed, and a third was , wounded. As darkness closed over the city hours later, shots crackled sporadically in the Negro sec- tions. Stones smashed - into ' ces-driven by whiteg——+> \ i | ve Fires Reported =» ) Police reported at least five fires in Negro business estab- lishments tonight. An official said “Some are being set,” in- cluding one at a mop factory touched off by gasoline ‘thrown on the building. The fires were brought under con- ;trol and there were no in- Juries. (Meanwhile, NAACP Execu- tive Secretary Roy Wilkins wired President Kennedy that unless the Federal Govern- ment offers more than “pica- [yune and piecemeal aid against this type of bestiality” \Negroes will “employ such methods as our desperation may dictate in defense of the jtives of our people..”] | Reinforced police units pa- jtrolled the city and 500 battle- idressed National Guardsmen ‘stood by at an armory. ow wore Police shot a 16-year- oja-Negry to death when he jrefused to heed their com- oats ‘Evans Gale Rosen; Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy bing The Washington Post and Al Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Stor —_—____ New York Herald Tribune —_—_ New York Joumal-American New York Mirror — New York Datly News New York Post ‘The New York Times ‘The Worker ———__ The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Journal —_____ ‘The National Observer —____— People's World —_—_____— Date ——_________—_ SEP 14 1953 I