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FD-350 (Rev. 7-18-63) (Movat Clipping in Space Below) “a Fer i 500 in reward money! ir the arrest and conviction of those responsible for killing mur Negro girls in bombing ye 16th Street Baptist Church Semember 1943 has been re-' ed. TAlmost $84,000 was given or} pledged as a reward for infor- Beton. In addition to the $1,- actually collected, there was 8,052 listed as “firm pledges} ‘over responsible signatures.” Pope BOARD OF TRUSTEES) fer the reward fund met last ednesday and voted to return the money. Terms of a resolu- tion by the City Couneil dic- fated the money must be_re- turned if not paid ait by Dee. SL, 1964 “Spokesmen for the four-man \board of trustees was James Raley, former president of the) Birmingham Bar Association. Other members were RE. Farr.| District 36 director of the United Steel Workers, Dr. .lohn Buch- anan. retired pastar of S Side Baptist Chu and Amos Kirby. public relations director at Carraway Methodist Hospital. * Haley said the board of (rus: tee$ was also authorized to pay any amount of the $1,527 tha) in their discretion was meescore. for inter: ji leading to the ‘arrest and con vielion of anyone bombing a residence or other building in Birmingham. None was ever paid. : All but $6 of the money col- lected was returned. Coming from an unknown contributor, the $6 was used for postage to mail the 57 checks necesasry to, return the money. After the board of trustees! voted to return the money a letter was necessary from Bir-| mingham Police Chief Jamie, Moore stating that no one had! been arrested in connection with the two-year-old bombings Haley said there will probably be some wrong addresses among, ithe 57 checks, for some people have moved since donating the money, One $5 check has al- ready been returned The money was kept in a bank Jaceount at no interest for two years. Haley said the board iyears. Haley said had the hoard known it would have been for {two years, they might have set up some sort of interastaccount (indicate page, name of ly and state.) BIRMINGHAM NEWS 12) BIRMINGHAM, AIA, pate: 3423-65 Eanes: LATE PINAL authors UNKNOWN caro: JOHN W. BLOOMER joa GREENBOMBS ; LARGO Oe or [SPS 2 Classiticoson: BY 17 ga6% siting Office: BY MAR 2 3. 1965 FBI— BIRMINGHAM