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Lise ferrets ne eunmy—fo halt after theypicked up two white. tmetr; caught him stoning cars, A 13-|Questioned them about the yearold Negro boy was shot/Dombing and released them. and killed ‘as he’ rode his bicycle in a suburban area north of the city.” Police Battle Crowd Downtown streets were de- serted after dark end police urged white and Negro par. ents to keep their children off! the streets. Thousands of hysterical Ne- groes poured into the area’ around the church this morn: ing and police fought for two: hours, firing rifles into the air, to control them. ‘When the crowd broke up, scattered shootings and ston- ings erupted through the city during the afternoon and to- night. The Negro youth killed by: police was Johnny Robinson, 16. They said he fled down an alley when they caught him stoning cars. They shot him when he refused to halt. The 13-year-old boy killed outside the city was Virgil Ware. He was shot at about the same time as Robinson, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., wired President Ken- nedy from Atlanta that he was going to Birmingham to plead with Negroes to “remain non- lolent.” © ~ But he said that unless “im- mediate Federal steps are taken” there will be “in Bir- mingham and Alabama the: worst racial holocaust this Na- tion has ever seen.” Dozens of survivors, their faces dripping blood from the glass that flew out of the church’s stained glass win- dows, staggered around the’ building in # cloud of white dust raised by the explosion. iThe blast erushed two nearby, cars like toys and blew out windows blocks away. Negroes stoned cars In other sections of Birmingham and police exchanged shots with a Negro firing wild shotgun blasts two blocks from the church. It took officers two} hours to disperse the scream-| ing, surging crowd of 2000 Ne- groes who ran to the church, Shortly after the bombing! police broke up a rally of white students protesting theiplast to be treated at hos- desegregation of three Bir-|nitals. Many more, cut and mingham schools last week.|pruised by flying A motorcade of militant adult}treated privately. segregationists apparently e: route to the student rally wasjthat among the injured in disbanded. “Pottce” patrols, augumented] white man injured by a Negro. by 300 State troopers sent into}Another white man was the city by Gov. George Cj wounded by a Negro who at- Wallace, quickly broke up all] tempted to rob him, according gatherings of white and Ne- groes, Wallace sent the troopers and ordered 500 Na-| tional Guardsmen to stand by at Birmingham armories. King arrived in the city. to- night and went into a confer:| ence with the Rev. Fred Shut- tlesworth, a leader in the civil] rights fight in Birmingham. The City Council held an emergency meeting to discuss safely measures for the city, but rejected proposals for a’ curfew, : Dozens of persons were in- jured when the bomb went off: in the church, which held: 400 Negroes at the time, in- cluding 80 children. It was Youth Day at the church. at the sound of the blast. At least 20 perso! hurt badly enough by the debris, were [Associated Press reported subsequent shooting were & to police.) Mayor Albert Boutwell, tears streaming down his cheeks, announced the city had asked for help. “It is a tragic event,” Bout-| well said. “It is just sickening that a few individuals could commit such a_ horrible atrocity. The occurrence of such a thing has so gravely lconcerned the public...” His voice broke and he could not go on. Boutwell and Police Chief| Jamie Moore requested the| State assistance in a telegram to Wallace. : “While the situation appears| 5 Jd er trouble exists,” Bout- well and Moore said in their egram. | - ~ President Kennedy, yachting off Newport, R. I., was notified by radio-telephone and At- itorney General Robert F. Ken- dy ordered his chief civil ton, were being rushed in. City Police Inspector W. J. Haley said as many as 15 sticks of dynamite must have been used. “We have talked to witnesses’ who say they saw a car drive by and then speed away just before the bomb hit,” he said. In Montgomery, Wallace id he had.a similar, report and said the descriptions of the car's occupants did not make clear their race. But, he served notice “on those responsible that every law enforcement agency of this State will be used to appre- hend them.” The bombing was the 2ist in Birmingham in eight years, and the first to kill, None of: the bombings have been solved. ~ As police struggled to hold back the crowd, the blasted church’s pastor, the Rev. John H. Cross, grabbed a mega- phone and wajked back and forth, telling the crowd, “The police are doing everything they can. Please go home.” “The Lord is our shepherd,” he sobbed. “We shall not want.” } The only stained glass| window in the church that re-| mained in its frame showed Christ leading a group of little children. The face of Christ was blown out.” . After the police dispersed the hysterical crowds, work-| men with pickaxes went into: the wrecked basement of the church. Parts of _ brightly painted children’s furniture were strewn about in one Sun-| day School room, and blood| stained the floors. Chunks of concrete the size of footballs littered the basement. The bomb apparently went| off in an unoccupied basement Toom and blew down the wail, sending stone and debris fly- lowing Sunday SchootBistez and song books lay shredded and scattered through the church, an In the main sanctuary up-: stairs, which holds about 500) persons, the pulpit and Bible lwere covered with pieces of, stained glass. . One of the dead girls was decapitated. The coroner's of-! fice identified the dead as’ Denise McNair, 11; Carol Rob- ertson, 14; Cynthia Wesley, 14, _ and Addie Mae Collins, 10. As the crowd outside watched the victims - being} carried out, one youth broke away and tried to touch one of the blanket-covered forms. “This is my sister,” he cried. “My God, she’s dead.” Police took the hysterical boy away. Mamie Grier, superintend- ent of the Sunday School, said when the bonib went off “people began screaming, al- most stampeding” to get out- side. The wounded walked around in a daze, she said. One of the injured taken to ‘a hospital was a white man.' Many others cut by flying glass and other debris were not treated at hospitals, . Fourth in Four Weet?——< It was the fourth bombing in! four weeks tn Birmingham, and the third since the current| school desegregation crisis’ came to 2 boil Sept. 4. Desegregation of schools in, Birmingham, Mobile and Tus- kegee was finally brought about last Wednesday when President Kennedy federalized the National Guard. Some of the Guardsmen in Birmingham are still under Federal orders, Wallace said the ones he alerted today were units of the Guard “not now feder- alized.” The City of Birmingham has offered a $52,000 reward for the arrest of the bombers, and Wallace today offered an- other $5000. ‘Dr. King Berates Wallace But Dr. King wired Wallace that “the blood of four little children . .. is on your hands.’ [Your irresponsible and mis- guided actions have created in Birmingham and Alabama to be well under control ofjing like shrapnel into a room|the atmosphere that his in- local law enforcement officers|where children were re-assem-|duced continued violence and JA few hours later, pofice jat this time, the possibility of|bling for closing prayers fol-'now murder.”