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ne oe a + said . 0-19 {Hev. 5-27-63) be A ca ee tee A-FIEND AT LARGE By William G, Wing i Oj The Herald Tribune Stag | i BIRMINGHAM, * Search for the fiend who bombed a ehurch and killed four children Sunday was being pressed yesterday in a city that shows signs of genuine shock and fear. But the chances that he will be found in | this - te-happy region “ate remote. Meanwhile, yesterday, there -were these other developments in Birmingham:- @A special session of the Federal grand Jury was convened to indict those persons who obstructed court orders to desegregate _Birmingham’s public schools. _ | _In eheeging, the jury, U.S. Didirtet-udze! Clarence W. Allgood said: “~ “Tn recent weeks, we have witnessed what amounts to mockery of our laws. . Sunday's bombing of s Negro church where ¢ the lives of four children were taken is | # Hideous example. I can think of no ‘greater heresy or a more blackening sin against humanity. 4 “And I say, with the deepest sense of ‘urgency, the courts and law. enforcement ' g@gencies will not rest—nor will the good, ! God-fearing people of Birmingham—unitil ‘tnhe insanace murderer or murderers of those children are brought to the bar of Justice. . . This court is sickened by them * ‘asa court of law and ashamed asa native —— lt -Alshemien.” “Fue pe ttt Fee @Although there were no incidents at Birmingham schools yesterday, even more students stayed away from the three de- gegregated schools—West End and Ramsay High end Graymont entery. ' “West End, with an enrollment ‘of 1 aad, hed 466 students present compared to 511 ‘Friday. Raiisay reported 776 students, 59 fewer than on Friday and 140 fewer ‘than normal. Graymont, with an enroll- ° "thent of 243, had 127 students, down from’ 03 on Friday... It was not known if ‘the decline in at- ‘tendance was owing to the boycott or to ‘parents’ fear fo further violence. » — Elsewhere in Alabamm, a boycott of | ‘Tuskegee High, where 13 Negroes enrolled - ‘under court order, remained 100 per cent ; effective. In Huntsville and Mobile, where | schools also were desegrated, the situation was normal, with attendance yp—slignély = Sturphy eat =. ry zt re a 1 TF arta atte arene High in Mobile i iiditesrnatste il * President ‘Kentedy: “lg these cruef and tragic events can only awaken” ’ that city and state—if they can only awaken this entire nation—to a ee | iin ———_ ,, alization of the folly of facial injustice and hatred and violefice...” ae ane “Ma ie, ‘@in si ibuyban, Ensley, « white mith are | into @ crowd of Negroes yesterday after- ri ? noan, hitting a-youth in the'arm, police * reported, The. youth was. identified as | Oliver Williams, 17, by Hillman Emergency ~ {Suni His eondition was seid to be “add, [fre city appeared unusually calm ‘yester=- i day. ‘There were no incidents, A dynamite’ i bomb was. reported at a school yard but ‘the report proved faise.-. - i: The tranquility of downtown streets,” - streets within sight of the blasted 16th { Street Baptist Church, is startling to a new ‘arrival. There seems less electricity in the~ Callchan onrad — #£MeLoach Pb vans — Gale Sen * Sullivan 3 Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy iro. Spend | sir than there was four months ago during ‘the demonstrations then. No paddy wagoW® are” rolling. In the Negro section, near the bombed church, two | old gentlemen stood with their arms about , wach other talking in affectionate accents, | One tian ‘was black, the other white. Few extra policemen are seen. Only by: é ithe ‘dingy yellow-brick Baptist Church, where the Negro paraces formed . last * spring, is there a show of force. * i Col. Al Tdngo, State Public Safety direc. tor, stands in the street with a line of ' biue-helmeted state troopers. Behind hem, a ‘score of investigators paw through ‘the rubble in the church for clue to the - bomber. In front of the troopers stands’ bE A trooper with a bull horn tells them to 1 , disperse, and the crowd turns and walks ' gullenly away. ._ . | A city official says the appearance of ‘ pam & 4s entirely false. - \ | peace,” he says. a.” We conthnues: “The city schools ‘were desegregated, te people who v ding on corners seine things as rr ae 1 j tas ‘a crowd of silent Negroes... tou “Let's: say there’ in The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune _f/ * New, ,York Journal-American . New ‘York Mirror New York Daily News ‘New Yo Matt ser Times The The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World ost Worker Date sq. 1028 ~(yl mah SEP i 7 1963 1 a an ed ete tad a LN NA wrate Bet’ 3G fr" ye