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1 ; * i so's right how.’ They caused a lot of the. demonstrations. No one would dare Bay anything like that now. an “And though there has been no direct | ‘communication between Dr, King and City Hall, we Sincerely hope. the Negro leaders “understand the need to avoid any ‘Kind ,af a demonstration now,” ©...» One aspect of the bombing: " peveals :its shattering effect on the delations be= ‘tween Negro and white. : contact with the Negro leadership. The a ‘public school committee that included | Negroes. But after the exnlactan Sunda mu «BIGET of the four dead girls was Carol Robert- - 50f, 14, granddaughter of Mrs. Sally M. pAnderson, president of the Negro Parent- ‘school committee. There is small hape for , the committee now. — |, in contrast to the demands ‘by ‘Negro ; leaders for Federal troops, Mayor Boutwell to preserve order. Besides the 300 state troopers sent in by Gov. Wallace at Mayor Boutwell’s request, ‘300 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 ts Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney Gen- 48"; who spent the day in conference with U. &. attorneys. In addition, FBI bomb “experts have been flown in to help the tate, county and city investizators. [ie Ratti ie ae because of the 960 statute making the interstate ™ trans- port of dynamite for iltegal Purposes a Federal crime. But & 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 pee Pee E Eee aves oF MAR it. Contractors use it to dig ditches through the underlying limestone, Farmers blow stumps with it, and farm kids learn to kili 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 mines Keep magazines filled with dynamite, in fact, can x into” a hardware store and _errppetick. | . “9 oe eae CAYO ds rer “Vike, ‘Let's zo beat up those black gorand-; i | When Albert Boutwell becamé ‘Mayor § ; last spring, his most critical duty was & to clear the | atmosphere and establish § H [sont Mayor and City Coucil accomplished § ja semingly imposible feat: formation of & } t wae Skpooon ‘Sunday, one : ‘Teachers Asociation and a member of the ; certain there is ample force on hand! (oy “Inagazines that are often robbed. Anyone, . F Although bombing an inhabited pulding” e with death here, there have: been about-42 bombings sitice 1947-—ail but’ one or two ati: unsolved. 2: )02-. Panag ‘Two other Negroes were killed 8 we ‘the ‘church-bombing. One, Johnnie” , Robinson, 16, was shot by police who said ' he had refused to stop throwing zocks at. ‘cars of whites, They sald they fired ever his- head, but one of the shots hit him. f§<3 The other was Vitgil Ware, 13, who was” shot by two white boys. Sheriff Melvin | Bailey said yesterday his investigators had . some clues and were “working as hard as-. humanly possible to solve this.” He gaye these details about the slaying: ” Virgil was riding double ona bicycle with his brother James, 15, Just outside the: city's northwest limits at about 5 p. m. Sunday. The brothers met two white boys = Tiding.a red and white motor scooter on a P| narrow street. James said one of the white - t | boys fired with a black pistol. No one’ sald . & Word. Virgil was hit at point-blank range | by two bullets—one struck him in the left’ cheely-thesother in the lett chest}——— _ “Heralé Tribane—UPI tele what remains of a stained glass wil BLAST POINT—A view yesterday through ‘in the church to the rock-strewn street and the automobiles wrecked in fhe Su ‘morning explotion that killed four | Negro girls in Birmingham. ne tek Eee fl tees ea leat tale aed cere tap hee ee Tae ee, 7 wet ly ale wade ie