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Phe announcement cans-cs Phe “ONT -HOTE ‘White House fer accompanying a announced that! reward contribution made through President Kennedy wil! discussia clergyman said, “You're to be ithe Birmingham racial situation|commended for your cause jwith six Negro leaders in Wash. let's ington Thursday. In another development, a resolution before Congress today asks the President to declare Sunday a national day of mourn- ing for four Negro children who died in the bombing of their charch last Sunday. ALMOST $14,000 has bee's jledged to the reward sum sine? i; was announced last Friday that’ £57,437 had been raised. -An all-out campaign by Bir- smingham religious organizations bas been instrumental in the funds's surpassing the $50,000 re- ward target proposed by City Council. Although leaders of all faiths who helped put the fund ‘over the top’ have officially com: Pleied thefr task, a2 spokesrnan said. “We hope citisens of the cond ity will voluntarily keep giving’ until the reward fund reaches $100,000 as a sign to the whole world that we are noi let- ting these insane bombers con- Hinne ta ianane, Ae Sheet i2.2m ar. was) hihiz ai nd all hope that these harri le} ing acts can be stopped.” . A pledge sent to City Council was signed, ‘God bless you.’ PERSONS WISHING to swell the fund should telephone 323-5431, Extension 266,.or write to ‘Re- ward Fund,’ City Hall, IN BALTIMORE, Mayor Theo- dore R. McKeldin ordered all city {lags flown at half-staff and urged residents of the Maryland city tu observe the day as one ¢f cummemuoration of the four che’; t deen. ‘We cannot bring back the little girls who were blasted from their young lives because of their color but we can and , must dedicate ourselves to the | ratty wer?” fhey met pwoegro' ° parley And 16. ee search for, clues in the bomb- and & US. District Court’ grant jury “investigated possible ganized: interference with cQurt- dered schéol desegregation here. oT girls were among atx subg Negrees killed” Sunday. olice shot a Negro youth while rat pursuing rockthrovwers, and two white youths are charged an shooting a 13-year-old . Negro boy. _ A JEFFERSON COUNTY Crim. nal Court hearing on first degree’ urder charges is seheduled at pm, Friday. for Michael Lee he ey 6 2 task of assuring that they did brothers an a bicycle and Virgil! not die tn vain,’’ said, NEGRO LEADERS who will! confer with the President are the! the mayor Rev. Martin Luther King, the! Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, his’ deputy; A. G. Gaston, Birming- ham businessman who has been a bomb target. Dr. Lucius Pitts ‘president of Miles College, Bishop : iH th. I. Murchison and the Rev. J. _Ware. ASSISTANT SENATE Majority that “this is not ln” intergration beece Hubert H HTumpiea ari fund. it is a fund to stop lawless. ness.’ Three homes, a church, a de-| partment ae and motel been bém récént mot Four Negro children were tie and other persons injured in latest bombing Sunday at Six-- teentn Street Baptist Church. Today x breekdown on reward sub-criptions showed that $37,500 has ten pledged through religious urganizations, $23,717 through City Hali. $10.900 by Gov. George C. Wuhace ($5,000 in the May bomb-. ing of the A. D. King home and $5.00) in Sunday's church bomb- ing- and.$5,000 by A. G. Gaston earmarked for conviction of per- ‘sho bembed his hame!. A minisler said all pledges were made aver "the signatures suit } the | yee other senators otfered the resolution cailing far oa halional day of mourning Funeral services lor three af; ts were at 3:30. this: afternoon, * Last rites for Carole, Rusamond Robertson, the fourth: curt ta die. were held Tuesday National Negro leaders, includ- ing Ray Wiking, execulive sec- retary of the National Association of Advancement of Colored Pen- ple, attended the funeral. The Rev. John H. Cross, pas- ter of the hombed Sixteenth Streel Baptist Church, spoke at the funeral of the Robertson child, HE SAID THE ruthless mour- erer who killed her bomb the Sixteenth Street Baptist ; I Jovely innocent girls, Church. did not only dill these, ww the whole world wa: People everywhere died” “did not anty; bul Sone - shaken. 4 Ware was killed. Sims, accused of: ishooting him twice with a pistol, jsaid he thought one of the broth-. ers was holding a rock Crowds demonstrated oulside the U.S Embassy in Kampala. Uganda and sympathy pratests were held throughoul Uns coun trv Union sales clerks in | metropoljlan New York | gchedulo® brief meniorial 3085, 1 \ RESULUTION submitted tl Congress asked President Ken nedy te setoaeade next Sunday the Ws! anniversary of | thd ‘Emancipation Proclamation an-’ nouncement, ao day af mourn- ing for the four girls | assistant U.S. Afty. Gen, | Burk Marshall Gew back to! Washington to report to UL s. : Adly. Cen. Robert F. Kennedy | on progress of the FRI investi-— gation. ; DEBRIS AND GTHER mate. ‘rials collected at the chureh are being packed and sent to the FBI saboratery in Washington for jexaminaltion. The FBI elturt is called its ‘most intense since the pursuit of bank robber Jonn Dillinger inj ithe 1430s As the first funeral was held, hundreds of ieitters grains of sympathy, along with | sane cash donations, poured In io the wrecked churcke-—?~ 2. Que stores serve Ths and tate ang) It