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4 hue ionra 74, No. 112 mmbr an I'l NYACX N. YN MONDAY. SEFTIWE mi lt td frice seven cents Btrminaham Seefies I f.V I 0tm ii hurc Hate-1 nggered Blast Gins itt F.B.I. Sent In, Guard Put On Alert, Mayor Asks State Troops Kills 4 I h'A ,0 1 truck ih ldth uni-l r-qtist Cliuuh in Hit-minglum.

Ala Votetil.iy, killing mi. I injui- CIVIL MTLNSi: r.ni-s a nn-c-ijihi'M' a he and fiit int Walk Ihinii'i lie bits lifin an wlmh A Broken Heart Speaks: 'She Was Such a Happy Child" "Cynthia wore a white dress "We just haven't accepted her this morning because she was to death yet." Lewis said. "She was have been an usher in the church Uuih a happv child. She never service I complained, never pouted." ALABAMA AT GLANCeT By I'nitrd Press International I BIRMINGHAM Three public BIRMINGHAM Hundreds of schools begin their second week rvJ.re and state trooners natrol of integrated classs today in a r.IRMlNGHAM. Ala.

filial ti rti ioid.ii.tiy tcp li.y to bead tiff any new ta cial violeme in bomb Khaken Htrnungham after a dnamite Wast kjlled finr N'epxi girls. rauMvl houra of tenur and hrtHight outraged protesti fnm national Negro IcaikTs. Tlie U. S. Justice iVpRrtmcnt sent in thire top official, and a force uf agents with bomb rxi'i1s.

City officlali Joineil church leader In a pe. rial trliH-astn urging citl.rn to he calm. Dr. Martin I.uther King Jr. flew Into town to urge Negroes to lie nonviolent Just as he did tn May when the Immbing of a Negro motel touched iff rioting by Negrrws.

National Guanlsmen were placed on aleit. Gov. torge C. Wallace sent state ti-oovis cial telecast, urging rltims to Mayor Albert Iloutwell. The blast yesterday morning at the K.th Stiwt ItaptUt chuirh ocrurred during a youth day program.

Numerous desergrega- lion meetings have been held at the church. Deaths, Injuries Spread It killed the four young girls and injured 2J others. In afew houm two Negro hoys were ity aim uinT un j-imii wTe wounded, UNIDENTIFIED Negro wo-man is comforted by friends on the scene after a rhurtii was bomtx-d, killing four chil dren In Hirmingham. yesterday. The woman had Just lcn told tliat her daughter was a victim of the blast.

doorway at riirht is where at fn'-r i "i Nlicv-rd tn have AI Wne-photo. city chargd with racial tension. White student attendance was otf last week and a number of white students tried to whip up support lor a mass boycott of schools. Montgomery Gov. George Wallace posted a $5,000 reward for the persons who bombed the Negro church and said he would "utilize the entire forces of the state to maintain law and order in Birmingham and throughout Alabama." WASHINGTON-Prcsidcnt Ken nedy was kept informed of devel opments in the Birmingham ra cial crisis and Atty.

Gen. Robert Kennedy FBI agents and bomb experts to the Alabama city. BIRMINGHAM Negro lead er Martin Luther King Jr. arrived Sunday night to urge Negroes to "remain nonviolent," but he warned that unless "immediate federal steps are taken. worst racial holocaust this nation ever has seen" could occur in Alabama 2 Drivers Held On Tipsy Charges Two Orangetown men were arrested over the weekend on charges of driving while intoxi cated.

Orangetown police said Wesley William Hardy. 20, of 48 Ferdon Sparkill, was picked up early Saturday morning and held during the day in $100 bail. Arraigned before Judge Theodore A. Kellv, he finally man- Rocky Here Today To Give Us Transit Gov. Rockefeller will cut the ribbon this afternoon at 3.

.10 at the County Office Huilding, New City, marking the opening of the Ti1 State Transmutation Commit-tee'a demonstration pitjject lo provide Improve! bus srrv Ice from Rockland into Manhattan. Th juuJecL to run for 1U muntba, wili bm 11.10.000 subsidy lo the Itocklaml Lines, to piovlde express and local service between Tarrytown and the Nan-uet New City area. The first bus will leave for Nanuet and Tarry town at 6:01 a.m. tomorrow from the County Olficc Huilding. Service will continue until after midnight.

Rockland litis Lines has ronti acted with the State Department of Public Works under a giant of matching funds from the Federal Housing and Home Finance Not since Integration leader! I llfta VfjJlAniV King Asks For Federal Intervention WASHINGTON UT1) Presi dent Ki-nm-dv kcn in ilosr tom Wih dorlfn)-m tmiay II I he rploMf Birmingham racial crisis, one of the gravest in I he nation's recent history. Among the first massage to leach hi desk In early morning hixirs were demand from in-IrgiatumUt Ic-adiT, Ilex. Martin I uther King Jr. and the National Association for the Advane men! Colored People (NAACP) for feoWal intervention in Alabama. wired the Chief Fxecutivr that he would "sincerely plead with mv peotJe to remain mm viijent in the face of this ter rible provocation.

However, I'm convinced that unless some im mediate steps are taken by the federal government to restore a M-nse of coinfirti nee tn the protection of life, limb and prop' erty, my pleas will fall on deaf ears and we haii sec in jiir- niincham and Alahama lh worst racial holocaust this nation has ever wi-n." State Teachers Offer Suggestions ALBANY (UPI)-The New York State Teachers Association is recommending 10 measures for pas sage by the New York Legislature ranging from slate support for schools to health insurance for Iracherw The 94,000 member education organization's proposals included, Increased state and local financial support for public elementary small school districts. An expanded statewide sick leave plan. An extension of the 5 per cent take home pav plan to all teachers of New York State. Guaranteed health insurance made available for all school dis trict employees in the state. Final action on the 14 legi tive program will be a item of biufiness for the ciation's 1.100 member delegate assembly in November at Rochester.

Sewer Agency Meets Tonight The Rockland County Sewer Agency will meet tonight at the County Office Ruilding, New-City at 8 o'clock. No formal agenda has been prepared for the meeting, but it is expected the discussion will concern itself with setting a date for a new county trunk program referendum. The Weather? Umbrella weather. the Harvest House, Congers. Henry Mock, looks on.

Staff photo, Taplin. of ronfidi-nif in the pmtcctlon ot lite, limh and shall M-e In Hirmingham anj Alrflwn.a the wmst lacutl holo caust the nation has ever uvn." Tie executive sicretary of th National Association fr the Ad- vamvment of Colon-d Pi-tiple, Roy Wdkins, wired the Ili-sl-dent from New Yoik that unless the fisVial government often more thaa "picayune and piece meal anl against this type i.f Nstiality," NVgi'nc will "eriv ploy such methods, as our de- Iteration may dictate in d'fensa of the lives of our peoplp. 'The shock, outrage and an ger of American rltiens of both races at this callous and delib erate mass murder will make anything less than a strongly elnfoived civil rirhts bill a confession that the federal gov ernment Is willing to occupy a spectator role in the life and death struggle a belcagurcd mi nority waging." TOO In Oturi Police rstlmatl that 10 stick of dynamite went Into the bomb, apparently placed In a stairwell almut four feet below ground level outside the building. The blast occurred whiln about 200 person i wen- In the church, including about 60 in basement tUssrooms, i i tml UUUJ iJIUUUir Rally In City Starts Brawl NEW YORK (fl A brawl involving 80 iei-sons, egg throwing and scuffles with police developed fmm a rally held near Times Square yesterday by students who recently violated tha State Ivpartmcnt ban on trav el lo Cuba. The students held the Town Hall rally to discuss conditions they found In They con tended they were not allowed to descrilie (hem at violence mark ed hearings before the House Committee on Un American Ac tivities in Washington last wiek.

About 1.4D0 persons filtered into the hall on West 41rd Street and at one point 80 persons engaged In a ftee for-all that dis rupted the meeting for 20 min utes. An antl Castro demonstrator was knocked unconscious and required hospital treatment. His alleged assailant was one of three persons charged with fe lonious assault. The other five arrested were charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct. About anti Castro demon strators sang the Cuban nation al anthem and occasionally tried to break through the wall of police who numbered more than 2M.

Several policemen and dem onstrators suffered minor injur ies. The Weather Cloudy end windy with occasional ruin today, high temperature 55 te 60. Continued cloudy and windy with rain tapering off tonight, low in the low 50t. Cloudy and continued cool tomorrow. Entended outlook: Fair and warmer Wedneiday.

Weather ttatittict for the last 24 hours at reported at the La-mont Geological Observatory in Palnadet. Temperature HiKh: 651 at 12 30 m. Vow. 50 3 at 9:15 a.m. 4 p.m.

I p.m. Mid. 4 a.m. a.m. 64 63 58 85 S2 62 Barometer 30 40 30.35 30.34 30 33 30.27 30.27 Humidity 62 64 9 100 1C0 Precipitation 03 Inches.

Tides Today: hig-li 10:21 low at 4:21 p.m. Tomorrow: hich at 10:4. am. and 11:01 pin, low it 4:46 a.m. and 5:06 p.m.

Second Class Postage Paid At Kyack. nTt. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (LTD -The words time quietly, haltingly, from a bitten heart. "'Her place will nexcr be filled In this home." said A.

Wesley, referring almost with reverence to his l4carold daughter, k.lled With three other girls Sunday in a church explosion triggered by bale. "She was our adopted daughter," said Wesley, principal of lewis riementary School, who has no other children. "Cynthia came to us when she was six years old." "We played with her dog Toots' before we left for church," Lewis laid. "She loved that dog. He' a cocker spaniel.

He hasn't begun to miss her yet. "But he will." Lewis added With infinite sadness. "We washed the dishes together this morning." he went on, speaking in almost a whisper. "That's when we always talked. She wanted to go to a football game tomorrow at her high school.

I was concerned about the danger but I had told her she could go if her mother agreed. This made her happy and she went to look up the schedule. Fire Destroys Barn at Ranch In Stony Point Stony Point firemen fought for over an hour early this morning a fire which completely destroyed a barn and an apartment over it at the Fisherman's Dude Ranch west of Stony Point on Rtc. 210. The alarm was turned in at 4:05 a.m.

and, when Stony Point firemen arrived, the building was far gone. Over 1,500 feet of two and one inch hose was used in fighting the fire and another 800 feet in inch and one half and booster lines. The fire had gained so much headway that there was no chance of saving the building. Sixty firemen under Chief George Johnson battled the blaze and by five o'clock had it under control. The firefighters remained until nearly seven o'clock, wetting down what remained of the building, owned by Michael Diedrich.

Those in the apartment got out safely but were able to save littie. The main Door of the barn is used for storage of feed but did not have any animals in It. S. W. Johnson Fire Department of West Haverstraw was called in to cover for Stony Point, sending a truck to the firehouse.

The Stony Point equipment was back in quarters at seven o'clock. "IT WAS JUST AMAZING! IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE!" "The first caller made the purchase but I could have sold the house ten times!" exclaimed the happy classified advertiser after his power-packed "For Sale" want ad was published recently in The Journal News: PEARL IVE: 7-txxn Tt-oor on vi ocr. lofot location. 2t' hvina room (firep'ocet a new wo'l-to wall censing. Formal dining roon.

kitchen. 2-co- oorooe. S19.50O. PE 0-0000 "The Inquiries were so, so numerous! It was just an amazing response! It was unbelievable! Journal-News coverage is great," the happy want ad user said. Why don't you, too, contact this matchless marketplace to sell now? Phone ELmwood 8 6500 ELmwood 6-7800 HAverstraw 94904 Rocky To Give Goals by '64; Nods at Barry NEW YORK (LTD- Governor Rockefeller said Sunday he will announce by the end of the year, perhaps in November, whether he will run for the 14 Republican presidential nomination.

Rockefeller also said he would rather see Sen. Barry Goldwatcr, in the White House than President Kennedy. Goldwatcr is seen by many as Rockefeller's chief rival for the nomination. The New York governor, interviewed on a nationwide television program The Press," on NBC), specifically praisi-d Gold-water's competence in the field of fiscal integrity. On the other hand, Rockefeller said he thought that Kennedy doe? not have a proper undcrsanding of the private enterprise system and its relation to government.

He skired a query about wheth foraged to get up the bail and was tension packed city lo guard against recurrence of iolcnre that claimed six lives Sunday. Four Negro girls were killed in the bombing of a church and two Negro youths were shot to death on the streets. Carlino Says He Will Back Education Aid Speaker of the Assembly Jo' seph F. Carlino, in an address Saturday night at the Harvest House, Congers, promised to do everything possible to secure more state aid for public education. The guest speaker at the Clarkstown Republican Committee's first annual harvest dinner-dance, Carlino noted the continually increasing costs of public education.

Saying he is fully aware of the problems of a rapidly-growing community, he declared that he, with the help of Assemblyman Joseph F. X. No- wicki, would "do his utmost" to get enough funds for educa tion. Supporting the concept of lo cal government under the di rect control of the Board of Supervisors, Carlino said it is "the best kind." Carlino commented on the similarities between Rockland and his county, Nassau, in terms of rapid growth and increasing costs. The Republicans, he said, have the best instrument government, which is home rule.

He decried what he termed the tendency to centralize, which he said seems to be the penchant of the Democrats. Toastmastcr of the event was Sheriff J. Henry Mock. Clarkstown Chairman Anthony D'An-ton! introduced the Republican town candidates and County Chairman John Rcilly introduced the county candidates. APPLAUSE State Assembly Speaker Joseph F.

Carlino receives the applause of darks-town Rep. Chairman An L- i W. Ilvwv mm aa death at his home In Jackson, in June has the nation's Necro community reacted strongly to racial violence. Necio leaders calii-d for strong federal action. The blast was the worst of numerous bombings and other violence since Negroes began campaigning In earnest last April for desegregation here, They achieved public school integration.

Its beginning last week brought some student boycotts and nrotests. (Jov. Wal lace earlier had sought to block the Integration nut was stymied by fedeial intervention. This ritys pent a long, fearful day and night after yesterday's blast. Several fires broke out, rocks were thrown by Negroes in various sections and some gunfire was reported.

'Ixive. That ForjIvrV Topic Sunday School classes at the church weia Just ending a lesson on "The Iive That Forgives" when the explosion tore out concrete, metal and glass. The four girls aparently were in the basement of the old brick church. One, Cynthia Wesleyn 14, was hit by the full force of the blast. She could be Identified only by clothing and a ring.

The others were Carol Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Denice McNair, 11. Even as officers were roping off a two-block area around the church civic and church leaders were crying for peace. Hut there was no peace. Two white youths fatally shot a 1.1-year-old Negro hoy, policemen shot to death a Ifi year old Negro and two white men were wounded by Negroes, one In a robbery attempt. King Ik-mandn I'.

S. Slepj King. president of the Southern Christian leadership Con-fei-ence, telegraphed President Kennedy: "Unless some immediate steps are taken by the federal government to restore a sense POLICE CAR I)MGEI One of the Suffern police cars was damaged last night when it was involved in an accident with a car operated by Richard Cumo of Stage Hill Rd. Mahwah. Patrolman Robert Nash had been in pursuit of a speeding car on Orange Suffern when a car pulled from a gas station.

The officer pulled the car away from the one coming on to Orange Ave. but the police car slid into the Cumo auto causing damage to the rear sections of both autos. There w-cre no injuries reported. Today's Chuckle A square is a guy who has never been around. Wilson Speaks As Republicans Meet Tonight little of any opposition.

The only position for which a contest is expected is treasurer to the county committee. Clarkstown has endorsed Nat Halpern of Nanuet with Ramapo endorsing Jerome Kornfeld of Suffern and Orangetown supporting David j. Col well of CJrandview. WORKS Kri-OMON West Haverstraw firemen were called arjout midnight last night when a small explosion occurred at the Dye Woiks in the Garnerville Terminal. However, firemen gave the area a thorough check and no fire was discovered.

The place was empty at the time. Several windows were blown out and seveial overhead beams were shattered as a result. Exact cause of the explosion was not determined. I T. GOV.

WILSON er he would support Goldwatcr as! Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson will the nominee next year by saying, keynote tonight's Rockland "1 have every confidence tne County Republican Committee Republican Partv at its conven- reorganization at Spiing Valley tion would adopt a platform Junior High School, realistic and forward looking." Incumbent County Chairman If the nominee barked such aj()hn jlf.illy is CXpocted to be platform, Rockcrfllcr said a rc (c.t,ld t0 the nVum with released. He must reappear however on Sept. 23, when his case comes up.

Yesterday afternoon, Daly Ambrose Le Blanc, 44, of 454 Pier-mont Piermont, was arrested and arraigned before Judge John A. Gallucci, who set bail at $500. He pleaded guilty, was fined $100 on the spot and released. thony D'Antoni, left, at the Clarkstown committee's harvest dinner-dance Saturday at -r candidate would "have my sup- port. Where To Find It Today (It Pot, 1 Strtiwn) ltn Seen iWnMnfiwil Almomx The Tiochtr Bridq CHomMrloin, Jtn (Clwmn( CHmi( Adrliini Cwic 1 Comine tntt Crntwor4 Pu Fdttvriol Cemmlf Forta.

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