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O-19 (Rey. 12-14-64) prc egg Fighting Black Muslim Eviction Molotov:Bombs Fire ire een, - eR ee Re -- The home of Malcolm X, the black na- tidtanEt feader, was seriously early yesterday by a fire that apparently ' was started by two Molotov cocktails. Makolm, his wife and his four young daughters al] were in the house at the tims - of the fire but escaped uninjured. The | house is at 23-11 $7th St in East Mim- hurst, Queens. i Police and Fire Department investiga- tors thought that the fire was started in the living room by Molotov cocktalls— bottles of burning gasocline—that were thrown through a front window. Along : with other glass fragments, they found | an intact bottle neck containing # rag: and bearing drops of a liquid thought to. » be gasoline. AWAKENED Malcolm told the police he was awak-: - ened by a noise, probably shattering glass,” at about 2:30 a.m. He awakened his wife: and children and led them to safety, out. the back of the house, he sald. ' j Neither Malcolm nor the police would speculate yesterday about who threw the fire bombs, but Malcolm said: “I intend) to point out to the people of New York. who I think is behind this and what will’ develop from it, if something 4s not done about it," he agid, Malcolm ia a defector from the Black Muslims, and has been at odds with them for months. Aside from their doctrinal differences, the Muslims claim that they bd —- | /00- foo7 Oe, At =- 0 a S65 NOT PFCORDED " geer-tirethouse in which hh Malcolm n-tvtmy" and they want him to get out of it. He has refused to move, so far. When the Muslims secured a court evic- fitions order, Malcolm claimed that the , House had been given to him, and began ‘ ' tigation that postponed the carrying out H of, the order. “Joseph xX, who described himself as a ,; business roanager for the Muslims, ap- ! peared at the house after the fire yester- day and told reporters: | "We own this place, man. He was going to be evicted tomorrow. We have money tied up here. We have to hear about it on the radio. He didn’t even give us the cour- " of a phone call.” THE DAMAGE - The house is a one-story brick. The *’ damage to the exterior of the buiiding ap- peared to be slight, but several rooms were eharred inside, and there was extensive fre, smoke and water damage to the fur- Tshings. The flre was thought to have .started about 2:30 a. m. It was out by 3:05, “The alarm was turned in at 2:46 by a cab ihe who noticed the fames as he passed -, The house is located in a middle-cless | neighborhood that has both white and | Negro residents, t ! Maicolm had returned from a trip to "England just Hours before the fire, end he cleft again yesterday morning for.» spesk-— "ing engagement in Detroit. He was to Tee : * turn te New ‘York Jest night, —_ Home of Malcolm X ttl Callahan Conrad Felt Gale ave] — Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gopdy V Pal The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star ——____ New York Herald Tribune ty New York Journal-American New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Date