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* partmentads trying to opver up any clues to the crime | that at may Gamage the Negro ontbeee rumors are elmilar ' to others under way even be- fore Sundsy's bombing. They gained strength from « fe- mark Gov. George C. Wallace made last week to the effect [that the Justice Department et not be trusted to make public anything about previ- . ous bombings that might em- - barrass civil-righters. ' The spread of the rumors indicates no mistrust in the FBI, Instead, jt indicates monumental mistrust of the chief of the Justice Depart- ent, Robert F. Kennedy, Whose name is anatheme in much of Alabama. -- However, Mr. Kennedy’s statements on Birmingham, which ‘were carried here on television Thursday morning, were 60 tempered that they were joyfully received by the icity administration. Mr. Ken- foety said he didn’t think fay troops were neces- sary here. He added that he _ Goubted anything could be accomplished by saying, “Everyone's gcim- tn get “along or we'll prick you with 8 bayonet.” . inn tana “Af rt < remarks madeé it tasier for Mayor Al- bert Boutwell later in the day fro ask the Attorney General's brother, the President, to re- celve an official white delega- tion from Birmingham. In { Birmingham, it is an act of political daring to seek direct communication with a Ken- , hedy. ! The Mayor’s delegation will tell the President on Monday . the olty administration's aide ‘ of the story in an effort to ' balance some of the views expressed to the President Thursday by seven Negro leaders headed by the Rev. Dr,-Martln, Luther King jr. _Meenwhile, leaders of both annear BrEER. EM rar operate th the two-man task force being sent here by Presidemt Kennedy-—Kenneth - C. Royal and Earl “Red” Blatk. They voiced the opinion that ihe two will have a concern themselves with willing ba o- - Birmingham's economic prob- - lems, not just the outward signs of racial confilet. The basis of the diacontent of Negroes “ig thetr lack of participation in the main- ‘atreem of the city’s economy," said Arthur Shores, Negro at- torney whose home has been bombed twice. W. C. Hamilton, executive secretary to the Mayor, agreed that the basis is economic, but discounted the implication of discrimination. He put it thig way: “There is a wide lack of opportunity . for both Negroes and whites, particu- larly in unskilled fobs." Also ¢iting the economic ksapect of the conflict was the Most. Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, Archbishop of the Mobile- Birmingham Diocese. In a pastoral letter that will be r-ad tomorrow from all Cath- olic pulpits in Alabame «nd northwest Florida, he anid: “We see the falr ctty of Rirmingham slowly being de- stroyed. For neither business nor industry will come into a city in which there is ao much hatred and_ destruc- tion,” As for the churech-bombing, he said: “it is difficult to un- derstand how a clvilired hu- man belng could have in his heart euch hatred.” Attendance at the three Cseegregated schouls contin- ued to rise yesterday, but Mrs. Ray McFall, a leader of the private school movement, said this “does not mean we're pimitting defeat.” Bhe add- ed: “This is a temporary Pane uslil we get our private _ school set up.” 7 *