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wee ee 0-19 (Rev. 12-14-64) pic MALCOLM’S’SLAYER IS“HUNTED B rice C. Carroll Of The Herald Tribune pratt The man who heads the massive investigation into the murder of Maicoim A said yesterday pollee Were “on the yight track” toward solving the case. Assistant Chief Inspector Joseph L. Coyle said there was “no break imminent” but he added, “I hope to have a break in the very near fu- ture.” _ There were ors that po- ‘ lice knew the names of five * men who murdered the dis- sident Black Muslim leader at : @ Harlem meeting Sunday. - Inspector Coyle would not ! comment on the stories. There were rumors that plie- _ tures had been taken outside the meeting, pictures perhaps i of the assassins. : Coyle again declined com- Inspector - ment. A brief anxious flurry be- gan in Chicago when a truck drove up with a large crate addressed to Muslim leader Elijan Muhammad. ‘The driver said it was a grand- father’s clock. The police bomb squad investigated. They found the crate con- tained a grandfather's clock. In New York it was an- nounced that Muslim rites would be held for Malcolm X at 9:30 a. m. Saturday in the Faith Temple Church of | Christ, 1764 Amsterdam Ave., conducted by the pastor, } Bishop Alvin A. Childs, and there was soan another of the threats that have come to seem inevitable in the angry days Stmee-the murder. Some- ~~" Herald Tribune photo oF NAT FEIN EMBITTERED MOURNER leaves funeral home where Malcolm X_yas on view in Harlem yesterday. ITTLE ‘ one telephoned the rith the crowd, funeral is held there we will bomb the place.” Police were stationed to forestall escalation ef the vlo- lence in the world of Negro fringe groups that began with the murder and was followed by the burning of Black Mus-~ lim Mosque No, 7 at 102 W. 116th St., set afire Tuesday in apparent reprisal. t Fearful that the next blow [iss and said, “If Malcolm's pmight be struck against Mal-. :colm’s Mourners, police posted ra heavy guard around the ; Unity Puneral Home, 2352 ’Eighth Ave., where his body jy on pubfie view beneath glass shield in a bronze coffin. Sharpshooters were stationed on rooftops, plainciothes law- barricades were set up cross the street as well as in front of the two-story building. Walkie-talkie communication linked the security forces. This was the most obvious police concentration in a Har- lem area that was flooded with police, and will remain 50 at least until the funeral on Saturday. The mourners who filed past the casket in «a second-floor Toom were silent, The body - Was clad in a charcoal gray wuit, White shirt, red tinted brown tie. White cotton gloves eovered the hands. The dark- rimmed glasses that Maicolm had worn in recent years were absent, ~The first of the dfrspomb } [gio Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter bit- A BA, ~i/ $7 31g Fe pe The wont Pos Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star ——_>— New York Herald Tribune _ A New York Journagl-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 Obsetver People’s World Dote we FEB 25 1959