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Malcolm X — Part 23
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“Maleaim's
Ss. abemesis,
sect
ue
es
ae ds Fariner, na-
thf) Mince ar) 6Of 6CORE,
ee -¢ for a Fedoral
wubb sescisiv if
isiims murdered
aid Mr, Farmer.
vAcone else was in-
did not explaln
Gi Sapa.
.iy ad in mind.
Ti.clem, stunned by
a and | yesterday's
ing, poHee rein-
a ii Aeavy numbers
be: .d the funeral home
we.. the body of the flery
“eycart-old who had come to
‘present the voice of Negro
*
stremism Will He until a
tTuneral Saturday.
There was an ominous
spread co” the trouble and the
fae New York Times
treccive 2 bomb threat be-
‘srcu. a wlephone caller said,
f “piv hac written “a bad
vac” about Maleolm. A
vatl Wes arrested at Lenox
and 125in St. with a
« deof rifle; police did nat
oy whet he was doing there.
Two younz men were seized
: funcral Bera ene
: prying a rifle | in a
Toa 5
gare. oa,
was < littie mrdcé pute?
the investigations
“15 Taurder av the
sn othe mosque. A”
4m @rrested as one
1. 8SSESSInS remained
ter v.cavy guard in Belle-
¥ie Hospital. Late in the day
police. said testa confism: 2
2 in van and a pape.
_ cag found on a
er. cas the mosque had
:in setting the fire.
aed ~: ° fear that the
wes? “WOuld spread fur-
. a€nd tere was apecu-
‘la. about the burnin, of
oe. MOSQUE.
Wei cont know who did
wi.” sand Joseph 2. an official
“oy we Gurned-oub mosque,
ow it was set off.”
.. “There are those
.5 be With us and
ways of getting
aiding.” ‘
.». talked with re-
5 . che office of the
Mio: ~ SPADET, Mubat= -
whe smoking. .
“vik of the T.
Ja. 7, 202 W. i.5th
wh kre? the uv-
seid, coulis L
vurough an aiiey on
tye
pat
) was only & small hook on the
wun, he sald: fire rules
ited locking he *
"ou must remember, he
Fa id, “we ste dealing with
second-story mon.”
But he did not say directly
Liat he theurat foleacrs of
Malcolm X% were responsible
for the fier bombing, which
occurred despite hundreds of
police reinforcements that
had pourtd inte serie
Me did say. as hi leader
L..iah Mukamniad had said in
Thin. 9 bbe day Eviore, that
the E ced slirns had woth'ng
io ds with the public exect..on
of thelr most famous dissident.
“Our hands are clean,” sald
Joseph X.
Bat hundreds of poiice, in-
cluding more than 100 brawny
Fes
members of the Tactical Force,.
- stood by In Harlem, and hune
dreds of olhers were poised to
join them. Within minutes
after yesterday morning's five
glarm 320 cxtra ‘police from
Brookiyn. Qucens
Bronx were spe:
hattan’s Neerc
One focal po. Ke of
and
to cyan-
cyeie wor=
ties was i.> “Unity Puneral s
Home, nen Un Av, ob 1Ddth :
St. » whe. Lisle Air's body * ut”
lie un’ far soaturday. “pt
falc, board : istec
Led : are.
= eoGen | sgisise ec
hey searched
“all persons entering there, they
CARD PET eE Gas see ye Deel a
4
“possible devices and they in-
“vestigated a serles of bomb
_threats. yesterday.
One caller gave what he said
5, ieru d inte
Madcolm 7
Ainspected all floral wreaths for-
J
was his name—funeral director
Joseph E. Hall saic rer r
izec. Le merc as thins oh
he had buriec some me “ape
and seid tit “Bo TfOln Wore
be burrica . 24 Pall ce ore-
mated.”
No end was in sight, it
seemed clear, to the violence
and retaliatory violence
among Negro extremis:
groups thet began Sunday
with the gangiand-style exe-
cution of Malcolm X.
. There was @ pale echo in
San Francisco of the furious
fire that destroyed the méin
Black 3fuslim mosque in New
York. Someone threw kero-
sene on the door of the Mus-
tim meeting place in San
ancisco and lit it, bub two
patrolling policemen spotted’ -
the blaze quicklyand damage
Was slight. .
| In Boston a man who broke
dwith t> e Muslim movement
‘said tint heavsweight cham-
\plor: oe sis Ciry who was re=-
., Muslims by
é. mained after
was in danger
‘ wico.m's followers.
i try to get back at
in some way to
vo ae Pe ral ofM a
4 ais! SOME TMTET I Oo," BS
vnetic. ‘Clay has that
In Chicags nolice maintained
@ massive guard around the
19-room mansion of Muslim
leader Elijah Muhammad.
Alerted by reports that some
of Maicolm's followers were
eheend convent
Elijah is to spcak.
New York uniformed
poe: and detectives waiched
potential trouble spots incluc-
ing other Muslim nicsques at
165-05 Northern 3:
ona, and 119-09 Sutphi
Jamaica, both Qucens.
Authorities braced to lait
an escalation, in gangis os
Tong War styie, of
taliatory violence apparent’
signaled by the mosque fre.
There had been a meeting in
the mosque Monday but it
ended before midnisht and
the four-story building stood
dark and padiocked when the
four-member police guard
changed at 2 4. m. The mosque
was one of the places where
police stood by in fear that the
murder of Maleolm X would °
ctort « hhaales era dati seen
start a bloody vendetta among
Negro fringe groups.
“We came on at 2 a.m, and
we checked all the doors,” said
Patrolman John L. Waterman
of the 123d St. station. “At
about 2:15 a.m. I heard a mul-
vee explosion followed by
s8 falling on me. About 16
Piinates later the Hames broke
out from the roof.”
The corner of Lenox and
116th never really quiets and
even in the icy early morning
Floese H6e8 eb Seay alii slalig
cold spectators poured out
from the nearby tenements
and bars and restaurants. _..
The manager of the Holly-
ee eS Se
Er EH a SE nie suena nap EL OEY
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