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AMERICAN TEARS Tears stream down the cheeks of Mrs. Claudia A. Wesley as she leaves funaral services for her 14 year old daughter, Cynthia, who was killed during the bombing of a church in Birmingham, along itfi three other childrenT tit 1 i jr. 1 i Us DEATH CHAMBER The Rev. John H.

Croiuptor of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, points to the spot where four Negro girls lost their lives when a bomb, believed to be dynamite, was hurled at the church, ripping a large hole. in a basement wall and throwing the girls' bodies against this wall. Young Negroes Lack Training DesireTo Get Says Young Negroes lack the i rvnted. The "most disturbing" teaming and qualifications tor Negro" colleges, he AAnA Ma tliA las miner num. vrailahie jobs in governments of who can not aid private industry, Lui E.

Lomax, a prominent Negro writer and forrwr collrge professor, said in the Saturday Evening peat "Even worse. Negro students often fii show even a desire eh'fwi," he com 1 1 I jBrnmfii I SKSSaeBaWBaaiBaaaaaTBI thirut eariy, speak, proppriy or work effectively In the field they were alleged to have mastered." "Our students, on the wliole, are unready for competition in the general American he emphasi7ed. Yew con'f lose with tha ad's you vsa on fhe Courier's Mail Order ogat For Rates, Write: J.W.J. BOX IKS PITTSBURGH 3, PA expressions received by The Courier a ince the terrible tragedy In Birmingham are as follows: J. MARTYRS Innocent victims of race hatred ware these four girls who were killed during tha Sunday morning bombing of a Birmingham, church.

Loft to right: eminent to defead them they rmu inuiiuiii, i uuiiuu win lk fa wffl take KuchH Jacob K. Javits, Rob ert H. Humphrej', and Philip A. Hart introduced a resolution proposing that Sunday, Sept 22, be set aside for a national observance in memory of the children Wiled in the Birmingham church bombing: In letter, to the President asking that last Sunday be proclaimed a national day of mounting the Senator wrote: "Dear Mr. President: "We share your grief and outrage over the killing of young Americans in Birmingham last Sunday.

This day will always be remembered with shame, remorse and "You have expressed steps to defend tbem seKe." The telegram to the President was signed by Mathew Ahmann, Dr. Eugene Carsen Blake, James Farmer, Dr. Martin Luther King. John Lewis. Rabbi Joachim Pnnx, A.

Philip Randolph. Walter Reulher. Roy Wtiklns and Htilhuw VminO. elare Sept. 22 "A Ey' ef Mourning" for the slain children of Birmingham.

hope that these cruel and Birmingham bombing: tragic events will awaken the "Words slot cannot tWee of tha four girts in a church bombing. A Negro man esked tha crowd tot to demonstrate, and they dispersed. Carol Denite McNair, II; Carole Robinson, 14; Addia Mao CoBins. 14, and Cynthia Diana Wesley, 14. this atrocious and indefensible crime.

Having attended an international meeting representing the strongest nation on earth the richest power the world has ever known I was struck by the irony of our inability to keep red the lives of four small hil dren in Birmingham while profess world leadership in Belgrade GOV. JOHN DEM PS FY. Connecticut: "Ail Connecticut is sho ked an sickened by the Birr ng ham bombings. On of the people of this state vho believe in equal rights for all citizens and the solution of problems through legal and orderly methods without violence directed toward Lnnoent children, I strongly urge whatever fcmnedizte action is necessary to end this sorrowful Might on our nation." TRANSPORT WORKERS Union of America. AFLCIO.

under signatures of International President MtchaW J. Quill, secretary. Maf hew Guinan, and vice president. The March Cbntmiitee aJteJ Itornun Gray, called on the President to de Jew Orleans: Local 206. "While arrUudms yyJ ef forts to maintain at leat me srmhlJifw.

of deroo. rsAV far away Vietnam, we ai how SEX. ABRAHAM RIN 'ever. romwHled bv rr," out COKF ID. delegate to, rages in our own state Ala the interpmrllam ntary Union i bftnia to urje yoa to s.

yi Fed meeting In Belgrade Yugo jersl troops immedianl slavia, cabled the Ptx sident. Blrmineham for the i "tee the 'after receiving word of the lion of its detent c.iiw against uch atrctatio de Sund2 eusssct it Ust four nv m. ev IN MEMORIUM Flowers cover the caskets of three young Negro girls, as funaral services were held at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. They BIRMINGHAM, Ala. As conscience of every Amer the four young Negro victims Iran to the folly and evil of of the wanton bombing of the this racial injusticp.

hatred 16th Street Baptist Church Sunday. Sept 15. were being wora among four children who were killed during the Sunday morning bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Lawmakers, Unions, Clergy Outspoken on Crime Reaction to Murders IWorld Wide' burted last weex, repercussions of the atrocity were echoed throughout the world and drew reaction here and around the nation ranging from shock frustrations, grief, sympathy and pleas for tolerance by Negro lwuiers. Lawmakers, labor leaders.

National Women's Organizations and other groups and individuals throughout the nation have expressed their indignation over the bombings and have railed for an end to tyranny in Alabama. and violence. In this same spirit, we respectfully urge you to issue a Presidential proclamation designating next Sunday, Sept 22. 1963. as a day of national mourning and remembrance for the young children who were so wantonly taken frm is particularly appropriate since next Sunday will also be the 101st anniversary of President Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation." THE CHAIRMEN of the March on Washington for job sod freedom called on Presi Am If hk runnnlMi Among the statements andlFd.

rJUior. for the in dtixens of Atebarita, efl mjc the PreAideat, "wlsea peo ple eannot look to tnotr gor scribe the feeling of shame nd i teen age Negro girls attending humiliation I felt as I stood church Sunday school classes." on foreign soO and read oft NATIONAL WOMEN'S Srt. It. I US irmingham Pays Homage to Its Four Young Martyrs v. 7, eCSftY AUIYES Threa top inTaratkt.

dart arrive at tha Sixth Avenue lap tiit Church, in Birmingham, to and the funeral services for thrao young i girls killed in tfia bomb Waifc Left to right: The Rav. Fred Shuttlatworth, ithe tha Rav. Ralph Abertathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. AFTBUATH A hand clapping group tings freedom tongs In tha street Birmingham, affar a funeral service for TOO MUCH TO IEAI Th Rev.

John T. Portar carried Mrs. J. McNair from tha graveside of har daughter, Denise, after tha woman fainted during final ritet. The Rev.

Mr. Portar is pastor of Sixth A.entt Baptist Church, where services were held for Denite and three other vie tims of the Birmingham church bombing. REP. JOHN Ior rugnis: iniand sympathy (ui vpc irnt I UK WOT of Birmingham "It not only you gneve tnat your strong ft 4 i fix DEATH STRUCK This iargt crater was dwo by an avolosivc thrown ino a baiemtpi rooin of Ihe Sixteenih Street Baptist Church, killing four Negro girls. 'v 1Z (R.N.Y.): "1 call upon the Congress to act on leg and to stop fiddling while the country burns.

I call upon the United States Department of Justice to multiply, its efforts one hundred fold' to uncover the facts surrounding this crime and to bring to justice the persons who committed it." CALIFORNIA ATTY. GEN. STANLEY MOSK, San Francisco: "Californians are deeply shocked over the malicious I murder of four little girls in Birmingham. by some race craztd individuals of that city, The slaughter of the innocent is a horror which not even the maiority of segregationists of Alabama can condone." SEN. KENNETH B.

KEAT ING (R. N.Y.t: The tragedy in Birming ham has stirred the conscience also i VD J) WJXO OONI BUT NOT FORGOTTEN and M. Chri, X'g; PfiC'i r't McNair hold picture of thair daughtar 1 1 on. gJ i I i I 1 1 V1 fur Youn9 Negro girls who died when Birmingham j. 4rjHl Sixteenth Stret Baptist Church was bombed during the aMF Jft J' Sunday school hour.

M.r. McNair operates a commercial I i f.Vkif 's' 2 less are rowied by your di other Negro and white v' i tress." and spokesmen laid the leader blame for the icurters directly on Wallace ar.d called for his imprisonment. Tr.py called 'the segrvcation 1st S5jV0 rrtvard for information It a.ng to the com lotion of the bomber a sham a faroc hartos NAACP Jackson secre taiy ar.d brother of the mar tTed Toigar Exer. blamed the Keocrui Gwernment failing to curtail te tk fianoe of Governors Wallaie and Ro Barnctt of Mississippi and his iieutentant governor. Paul Johnson inrw govfrnor eiect'.

In a telegram to Presi cent Kennedy, Evers said: "We ure you to use your office to invesnjate and prose cut? the olfifiers." Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director 'of the National Council oi Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, called for the passage of "a really effective civil rights bill in Cor.gr?ss as "a mcmcnal to the murdered children. He blamed Wallace for the of the 'nation. However, it is tragedy, not enough to express concern Rabbi Ernest M.

Lorge. for the victims, president of the Board of women, Up must resoh to do all Rahhis nf Oiirapn i rota. within our power not only to gram to the bereaved parents who apprehend and punish those of the victims saving "We city responsible for this crime, that these i.iidrer. shall was besmirched with blood of also to. purify the poisonous not have died in vain, but will innocent young girls and boys, i atmosphere whirl; engenders i serve as an inspiration for the From East to West and North such acts of depravity." ultimate victory of man over to South the women of Amer Dr.

King and Wilkins, and 'all eviL" 1 i Kcr 'i 'V ''J VV r. All windows ware blown out of the building, just in bacit of policemen and ambu lice attendants..