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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 40
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‘ke, Let's go beat up those bl and-; © Aithough Bombing en Teater Salcing:
sos right how.’ They caused a lot of the 18 1 fe with death heré, there rat
demonstrations, No one would dare say been about-42 bombings sitice 1947-—all but.
anything like that now., -.. -{ {one OF two still unsolved. {2 oma 5 nay
; “And though there has been no direct jtwo other Negroes. were, iced, Bun
‘communication between Dr. King and City| efter the ‘church-bombing. Nee’ whe acta
“Hall, we sincerely hope the Negro leaders Robinson, 16, was shot by pol
‘understand the need to avoid any ‘he had refused to stop throwing rocks at -
af a demonstration now,” . =! cars of whites, They said they fired ever his:
iO one ect of the bombing reveals head, but one of the shots hit Rim. <4
te shattering ‘effect on the delations be= ‘The other was Virgil Ware, 13, who wag
1S ena tering effect on the deletions be shot by two white boys. Sherif? Melvin ,
When Albert Boutwell becashé Mayor f| [Bailey sald yesterday his ircatigatore had :
jest spring, Tis most critical duty was § | some clues and were “working se hard 95
jt clear the atmosphere and establish § [humanly possible to eo ‘Waying:
contact with the Negro leadership, The r ble ona bicycle
new Mayor and City Coucil accomplished Virgil was riding double on a bleycle
® wemingly imposible feat: formation of & [with Bis ere eer Same, 1s Just outside the
'S no! . ma.
tN Dublic school committee that included Sunday, The brothers ‘met two white boys
3 bie ter Josion ‘Sunday, one’ ‘Tiding.a red and white motor scooter on &
fot the four dead girls was Carol ‘Robert: narrow street. James Said one a the Fite
yon, 14, granddaughter of Mrs. Sally M.f | boys fired with a black pistol. No one
fAnderson, president of the Nogro Parent € word. Vireil was hit at point-blank range
V Teachers ‘Asociation and a member of the y two bulle! f ——e
{school committee, There is small hape for{ ° Sheeltr-Haevother in the left ches! :
| the committee now. - .
in contrast to the demands by Negro
; leaders for Federal troops, Mayor Boutwell)
py certain there 1s ample force on hand! |
to fe order. . &
Besides the 300 State troopers sent in by
bre Wallace at Mayor Boutwell’s request,
00 Federalized National Guard troops
stand ready at two armories, In addition,
there are non-Federalized National Guard.
troops on the alert in the city, ~
>) “The ranking Federal officer on hand 1s
Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral, who spent the day in conference with
to S. attorneys. In addition, FBI bomb
experts have been flown in to help the
te, county and city investizators.
The FBI is in the case because of the
960 statute making the interstate trans-
port of dynamite for illegal purposes a
Federal crime. But 9 Federal man yesterday
said, “Slim chance anybody bothered to
bring dynamite in from somewhere else.
-There’s enough dynamite already in Aia-
, bama to blow Birmingham off the map.”
Using dynamite may be a rare skill else-
where. Here. it is said, everybody and his
brother knows how to dynamite, Miners use
it. Contractors use it to dig ditches through
the underlying limestone. Farmers blow
stumps with it, and farm kids learn to
kil fish in the creeks with dynamite when
+ they are about 13, ~
| The huge producers of dynamite—
Du Pont and Hercules Power—have plants
‘within’ ten miles of the bombing. Coal fA F 3
mines keep magazines filled with dynamite, be " ; a
“magazines that are often robbed. Anyone, *
in fact, can wajk Into a hardware store IRLAST POINT—A view yesterday through’ of a'stained glass wis
ea dea ce in the church to the rock-strewn street and the attomobiles wrecked in the Su
‘morning explosion that killed four Negro girls ia Birmingham.”
ke. . ~ = ‘
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