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aver the bombing deat HHe“said he hoped the incident with, grief and praye ken the nation to “the bells tolled at noon ly of racial injustice and hatred walling a juld aw: “ viglence.” Be ‘Gen. Robert Kennedy’ “Feled a scheduled speech in sham. ined hi ves riday ‘The group - also -Broes There, “ee sa a mediate removal of state troop: eset ata tia. tay, Sig- city-wide minute of rayer. Members of the First Methodist Church, nearest white church to felphia to stay in his office and in'the bombed house of worship, € S e touch with his aides in Bir- Went as theic pastor announced the news of the bombing. Five one by police and the. other. a Portedly by two white ‘boys Who eee | Co fiding motorbike. ‘Oificers ‘said James Robin- ton,” 16, 32 28th St, North, was struck hy buckshot when police fired at the feet of young } Negroes in au attempt to halt fhem.” 2 Thirteen-year-o ve jandusky was shot and kille« two young white boys, ding to’ witnesses. ‘er {cent Street church oper th ‘Birmingham police and: the good, God-fearing people of mbing. Most_ _ werd trary ‘enfore ; = at ‘Rivic’ eae fe The Win ie i vali was ving re Sed See YOUNG. NEGROES wero otind 8, hes a ete shot to death’ after the bombing,4¥ outs-a iurestigating reports ‘ 8¢ rock ; throwing and Negro. service, station While & ley’ “Avenue ‘fire. Rifle "shots me oi were reported in the ‘vicinity “of the church where integrationist leader Fred L Shuttlesworth ee served as 3 violence. “hundred members of the West; Twenty-three Negroes were ar} Two of the girls "aled in’ the ‘OL. AL LINGO beaded a 399. End Methodist Church streamed) Fésted, in the area of the Sixlexptosion were on ‘the . Youth ‘ian force of state troopers who to the altar and knelt in pra Board of Ushers. Addie Mae and, Denice were to have sung ia the, Sheriff's deputies in patrolling and{ Birmingham—untit the Insane teither with being drunk or re-fyouth choir at the worship servieé.| murderer or murderers of those—ttsimg"to obey an officer. ¢ in mainta order at three for- Merly ali-while schools were integrated last week. "They ere invited here by Mayor, Al- bert Boutwelf'=-4—~0 Three hundred federalized Na- tional Guardsmen remained on the alert at two local armories, where they have been stationed since las ‘More pictures, stories 0. si om Pages 6-7 | ‘President Kennedy. in Washing- ton to intervene more forcefully “in Alabama, he Rev. Martin Luther’ ‘King,| whio came here from Atlanta Sun- day, and other Negro ieaders| urged the President to take some! action to restore Negro confidence| ‘as King put it—and to prevent| the worst racial hatocaut the na fion has ever seen.” mmr” ; shall, ;| general. for civil: rights, and_in- Which] children are brought to the bar | The of justice.” ALLGOOD WENT ON TO SAY: “Such action, in the opinion of: Jong considered self-evident, mir-; at the invitation of their pastor, Dr. 0. S. Gambte. A task force head assistant U. S. i by Burke Mar-, attorney iarge mimber ‘of FBI agents arrived in. Birmingham after the bombing: ~ They acted under a 1960 civil rights act which makes it a fed-, eral offense to transport explos- ives across. state lines for il-y legal purposes. The law permits federal agents ‘to take part in! investigations under the presump- tion that explosives used were transported across state lines. If| it is determined this was not the| case, the federal authorities: with- draw from the case, turning over| information they have gathered to local agencies, The FBI already’ was’ par- ticipating in the investigations of the earlier bombings of the homes of the ‘Rey. A. D. King . Arthur” R_Shross, ‘to nearby, service. statio bombing victims were! iCynthia Wesley, 14, hit by the itl force of the blast and iden- tified by clothing and a ring; this court, threatens to overthrow,Caroj Robertson and Addie Mae! 89 were in the basement, “the principle of law and order, \Cottins, {Nair, MM. They appzrently were in tue} church lounge in the basement 14, and Denice Me- a stair outside the building on tits eastern side. A NIGHT of sporadic viotence, with gunfire cracking in various sections and fires, breaking out, followed the explosion.~- “ The first major fire came short- ly after nightfall when a building blazed on Aveniie Q and” 22nd Street in Ensley. blaze reportedly”. wi caused by a thrown bottle of gasoline, as was another fire at a store at Eighth Avenue and Fifth Street, North. A guard i side the second store exti Buished the flames. Another big blaze was reported Teac Reon. ase Ney “Ave. fire under control before. il mH A fire bomb made out‘of @ wi ibottle with: gasoline and a "patie P jing cloth wick ‘set fire fo the. and the Gaston Motel. ese of Eugene Patters ien it landed on the roof | d ledged. “the éntire-fo | The explosion ripped a gap-_ ‘ing hole in the wall of the church. About 200 worshippers were in the building aud abeut carga patked. ouside and, bass ildings“aéross* the street fwere either wreeked or Temaged ‘Chunks of concrete, twisted metal JUSTICE DEPARTMENT when the bomb. exploded underJand shattered glass littered the street and sidewalk, Police roped off the are “to hold back. the growing crowd of stwined, angry Negroes. Knee ‘A Negro bystander: former’ ‘pto- fessional boxer Andrew Anderson, commented: “It’s just making. hate. This town is gone‘now . T know it's gone.” MAYOR: BOUTWELL wept when he Jearned of the bombing. “I. mever could conceive, “that! fanyone existed with “such “fi-* Si ireward for arrest the “orriber “cr tate will * Greater. Birminghai mass. prayer’ for: