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tails, Weather Map On Page 2.) Maim NEWS FLASHES Direct From Newsroom Of Advertiser-Journal By Telephone Dial 265-8246 136th Year-No. 222 Full Day. Night and Sunday Sertfct By Ttaa Asaoeiated Preaa Montgomery, Monday Morning, September 16, 1963 18 Pages Price 5 Cents 1 Tension Mounts In Birmin After Four Killed In Church Bonibin gham 1 rt i ajPiir jr-v, j-. it I 'I'l. I', Litf Shootings On Streets FatalTo2 By DON MCKEE BIRMINGHAM (AP)-Four Negro girls were blasted to death Sunday and 23 persons injured in the daylight bombing of a church, setting off more violence.

Within hours after the dynamite explosion shattered an already shaky racial calm, two Negroes were killed in shootings and three other persons were wounded. Police said two white youths fatally shot a 13-year-old Negro boy shortly after policemen shot Photo, Related Stories, Page 6 to death a 16-year-old Negro. Officers said the older boy was killed as they fired over his head when they saw him throwing rocks at cars. In another shooting, a white man was wounded by a Negro, -AP Wlrrphotoi POLICE TRY TO DISPERSE CROWD OF FRIGHTENED, ANGRY NEGROES Front Of 16th Street Baptist Church, Scene Of Tragedy, Shown In Rear FIREMEN, AMBULANCE ATTENDANTS BRING COVERED BODY OF VICTIM OUT OF CHURCH Policeman Armed With Shotgun Stands Guard Behind Rope Stretched To Cordon Off Building police said. Another white man was wounded In a robbery attempt by a Negro.

Rock-throwing by Negroes was reported in many areas of the FirstFoodGiven To Fischer Quints city. Leaders Call Death Blasts Horrifying Leaders of the 125,000 Negroes pleaded against retaliation for the bombing which brought a climax of horror to the city's first week f- y--: AAi i. fl -'I -c- H-- t-3 ting along fine," the doctor said. The four girls and a boy ap of school desegregation. The bombing, which fanned Prominent local figures have expressed universal horror in racial fires to new heat, came peared to have an increasing chance of being the first quintuplets in United States history to survive infancy.

Sunday's bombing of a Birming during Sunday school. Tho lesson was "The Love That ham Negro church that killed four little girls and injured more There has been no sign of res than 20 others. piratory ailment, said Berbos. This is one of the first signs of ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) The Fischer quintuplets got their first feeding Sunday, a tiny amount of glucose and water through a tube, and continued in good health well into their second day of life.

"They are unusually healthy for premature babies," said Dr. James Berbos, 40, who delivered them early Saturday. The quints, born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fischer, may get their first taste of regular baby formula Monday, the doctor said.

The babies, pink and wiggly, spent a good night and "are get- trouble in many premature in TRAGIC EVENT Heavy police patrols roved the city. They sealed off the bomb-shattered church. Gov. George C. Wallace rushed Attorney General Richmond Flowers dispatched investigators to the scene to assist in any way fants.

The quints were born about two months prematurely. Mrs. Fischer, 30, spent a restful; possible. "To my knowledge this is the In 300 state and alerted 500 National Guardsmen in Bir most dastardly crime ever to occur in Alabama," Flowers as A I serted. "If an arrest is made in mingham.

Numerous policemen from surrounding towns and counties were called in. A. Wallace called the bombing "a 7 4 night and walked about her room Sunday morning, the doctor said. Her 38-year-old husband haggard and weary Saturday also rested by going into seclusion at the hospital for part of the night before going home. GETS FIRST LOOK The babies' early feedings are being done through tiny tubes into their stomaches.

AttallaFire Loss Heavy ATTALLA (AP) A fire de tragic event which has saddened the hearts of all Alabamians" and said "every law enforcement agency of this state will be used to aDDrehend" the bombers. this crime, I will personally aid in the prosecution to ask the jury for the death penalty." Police Commissioner L. B. Sullivan said: "This is a deplorable thing to happen anywhere. I hope those who are responsible are caught and brought to justice.

Our (police) services and personnel here in Montgomery are available to Sheriff (Mel) Bailey and Chief (Jamie) Moore at their re Killed in the dynamite bombing Three extra nurses have been scribed as the worst in Attalla's histnrv nearlv destroyed the were Cynthia Wesley, Carol Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14, and Denice McNair, 11. downtown business district Sunday. Fire Chief C. C. Yocum esti They apparently were in a added to each shift at St.

Luke's Hospital to care for the infants. Fischer, weary with questions, said he had hired a law firm to guard his interests. Mrs. Fischer got her first look quest." NEWS MEDIA BLAMED Slaff Pholn by Paul Zukoakl ALABAMA HIGHWAY PATROLMEN GATHER OUTSIDE OF BIRMINGHAM CITY HALL Part Of Massive Force Moved Into Magic City Following Sunday Bombing Of Negro Church Reports Of Death A nd Violence Come BIRMINGHAM CITY OF TAUT NERVES, TRAGEDY, WEEPING mated damage at $250,000 and said it was the most disastrous ever suffered by the small Eto Donald A. Hallmark, head of the Montgomery White Citizens Council, placed the blame for at the babies Saturday night lounge in the basement of the old brick church.

Cynthia, hit by the full force of the blast, could be identified only by clothing and a ring. Cynthia and Carol were on the youth board of ushers. The other (See BOMBING, Page 2) wah County community. through the nursery window. She Sunday tragedy on news media Destroyed were the Kelly Dry rode a wheelchair from her own which, he says, has led people of room to the glassed-in nursery section where the babies are Alabama to believe they have no Goods Western Auto Store, Leader Store and O'Leary Furn-ture store.

alternative but to integrate their kept in isolettes individual children. Smoke and water inflicted heaw damace on the Stewart chambers in which temperature, humidity and oxygen are think it is horrible, abso lutely horrible," Hallmark said. "There is nothing that can be set ft ft ft ft 2 Big Fires Hit City In Trouble BIRMINGHAM (AP) Two Under the usual hospital rou tled in this manner. If this was tine for premature babies, the quints will remain in their iso done by those who support seg Walgreen Drug store. Yocum said the blaze started shortly before midnight.

Firemen battled the flames four hours. The Attalla fireifghters received help from the nearby Gadsden fire department. Toward dawn, the weary fire regation they should learn that action of this type will strengthen lettes for the most part until they weigh five pounds. This may take as long as two months. racial integration agitators and play into the hands of those who Fischer, a husky, smiling man major fires broke out Sunday night in two areas of town even as police were harassed by scattered outbreaks of violence.

Hall, a police wagon stopped to pick up a Negro who was obviously drunk. He yelled wildly inside the wagon. A clump of white men converged on the wagon until warned back by police. "I wish I could have gotten hold of him," muttered a young white man as the wagon pulled off. But inside the adjacent bus station whites and Negroes sat quietly side by side.

Across the street an elderly white man was commenting to a friend, "It's a helluva come-off when they start bombing churches and killing innocent people." Inside City Hall, before which stood scores of helmeted State Troopers, a weary Albert Boutwell commented to newsmen in a masterpiece of understatement: "There is considerable excitement in our city." He retired with other city officials to draw up an appeal for law and order. The phone rang. "I don't care who you vote for," the mayor's secretary, Mrs. Nell Hayes, told a caller and hung up. "This has been a sad day," she told a reporter.

"It's been a sad day for me, it's been a sad day for the city. A moment later a man came to Mrs. Hayes' side. men controlled the blaze. One truck was left on the scene to with crewcut hair, said he isn't, terribly worried about supporting the family on his $80 a week would instigate class warfare in every community of the United States.

ACCUSES NEGROES "This could very well be the keep watch and prevent a fresh outbreak. Both fires erupted in residen salary. tial areas housing Negroes, but officials made no connection between the blazes and a church bombing in which four Negro work of white or Negro commu nists or Black Muslims," Hall children were killed Sunday. mark added, it's too bad the Birmingham problem couldn't A broom factory was ablaze By ARTHUR OSGOOD Advertiser Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM All Birmingham waited with taut nerves Sunday night for a possible major eruption of racial violence. City police and state Troopers covered the city in an all out effort to hold the lid tight.

Streets were almost deserted as citizens heeded Mayor Albert Boutwell's plea, "Please stay home tonight." But at police headquarters reports of death and violence kept coming in late into the night. A 16-year-old Negro boy was reported shot and killed by a policeman after a rock-throwing incident. A white man was reported shot. Another Negro boy was reported slain while riding a bicycle. A firebomb was reported thrown at a Negro home on "Dynamite Hill," which got its name from previous racial troubles.

A larger fire was reported several minutes later on Fourth avenue south, several blocks away. A Negro was reported wildly firing a shotgun. Rocks were hurled at cars in various parts of the city. Less than block from City have been solved as it was in Tuskegee and I think it would is it ft It "Don't take any calls from any more nuts," he told her. A few feet away on a table lay a pile of pamphlets.

"It's great living in Birmingham, the pamphlets proclaimed. A few blocks away from City Hall was the ravaged church where a bomb had killed four Negro children Sunday morning. Officers guarded each end of the glass-littered street. "Nobody's going through here," a policeman told a young Negro who insistently sought to pass by. And another officer told an Advertiser photographer, "I just don't want my picture taken." He didn't mean to be disagreeable, he explained.

He was just nervous. Policemen near by worried that Negroes might call City Hall for their home adresses and retaliate on their families. On "Dynamite Hill," the porch lights were all burning brightly. Dark faces could be seen peering from several windows. Two troopers lounged in the darkness of a small tree before one house in apparent expectation of new trouble.

On almost every block it seemed a patrol car cruised, guns bristling from windows. There would be only fitful sleep for Birmingham and dawn would see the schools open again. And the threat of still more violence. have been if the people hadn't been so badly misled." with five regular fire companies and a truck company at the scene. It burned out of control for long after they were called.

The area, on the southside, was sealed off. State Sen. Walter Givhan, former president of Alabama White Citizens Council, said he felt the bombing was done by Negroes. Shock, Disbelief And Tears Mayor Boutwell's Reaction In the northwest section, a roofing company caught fire "I think it was done strictly by even as firemen fought the other blaze. Officials said a gasoline station in the area was a Negro in an attempt to further their cause.

I do not think whites (See REACTION, Page 2) i( 1 1 it 5 iKwrtM.lC4'! i'i ftifch ft-'i' 1 if "jf'if mftsi jjs I BIRMINGHAM (AP) Mayor Albert Boutwell expressed shock and disbelief Sunday night over the deadly church bombing which killed four Negro girls attending Sunday school. "I never could conceive that anyone existed with such universal malice," the distraught mayor said. States Rights Party Boss Threatened, Family Moves BIRMINGHAM Dr. Edward Fields, education director of the National States Rights Party, sent Ms wife and children out of town upholstered chair in his office, the mayor told of how he had a premonition Sunday morning when he heard a siren. "I was with a friend," he said.

"I had just told him I shouldn't be here. I need to be in touch with City Hall at all times. "A few minutes later I heard a siren. I don't know whether it was a premonition, I telephoned City Hall. "They told me what had happened and I came straight to the office.

I called Gov. George Wallace and told him I thought we would need some additional help because we anticipate a great deal of unrest in our city." Wallace told Boutwell, "We are ready to send you all we've got." By late afternoon 150 state troopers had arrived. Police Chief Jamie Moore ap-(See MAYOR, Page 2) Sunday night after receiving sev church that killed four girls and injured at least 23 others. Commenting on the bombing. Fields said: "This is the most horrible thing that could have happened at this time," and added, "it remains to be seen what effect It will have on our boycott move eral death threats.

"I've had all kinds of death Congressman Gavin Dies Of Hemorrhage WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. "It is inconceivable to me. It's just shocking." With tears welling in his eyes, Boutw 1 1 broadcast a plea for city's residents to stay home. threats over the tleephone-4 callers all sound like Negroes and ment and the establishment of are saying things like, 'we're go ADVERTISER TODAY Page Business Review 9 Class. Ads 15.17 Comics Crossword ig Editorial 4 Farm Page 14 Legal Ads Moyies 14 Obituaries 2 Sports 11.13 TV Logs Weather Map Columnists: Lyons, Davidson, Tully 4 Leon H.

Gavin, a member of Congress for 21 years, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in his apartment here Sunday night. ing to get you and 'you're going to die he told the Advertiser. private schools." "I hope they catch the culprit as soon as possible so things will ii -a BOUTWELL The militant segregationist said; return to normal. We have can- Gavin, 70, of Oil City, was he would remain at his home called a mass rally scheduled for stricken after returning from a tonight (Sunday) and, for the with a friend to protect his property. He said the threats started dinner with his wife, Susan.

His family physician was summoned "I don't want to speculate about the future," Boutwell said. "But I fear that the situation will become worse." Tiredly gripping an orange moment, cancelled all other meetings in connection with the boy- and was with him when he died coming in shortly after the 10:30 -AP WtrepbotM FIRST PORTRAITS FROM QUINTUPLETS Top, Baby A Girl; Bottom, 'D Only Boy about 30 minutes after the attack a.m., bomb blast at a Negrojcotting of integrated schools. a.