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Tan a ‘said ne “and his Ncard oa “yvroom’” “Va rushed to the soe? lc sald. © vanitng down and flames “ane flames towcred above the bizz- AL 2:20 the z .. Half an hour ate ot, Jroct ‘wall collapsed, 4 . Tas onte a hook a - iruck. Enocacd wi a Jadder by the topsimng Tiron Siegfried New- vc. .aken to Harlem ms where he Was listed au.ln. condition. Four -2nien suffered minor Pen rene “t1.a newstand at the in- to tbicn, Melvin Shelton, mE. of 249 WL RSth St. was . VINE a hewspape> wien B en “hiek woor cr hood eadio: sbout him agaist eo... tved him from seri- was under control o. “2. but firemien were . psutiocy Water into the We of the bullding .. Jlaci? aliternoon. ? Waller cascading into Vo Gall su.iion at Lenox and « th fecad closing of the .tatier rox much of the day. Pull service was not restored Jat 3:40 p.m, Even while the flames voated if became clear that this was no accident but the very retaliatory violence that polian_ hal feared. Police found a paper bag “We saw - (Ave. ‘ silencing cf Malcolm after the Reng“ e with traces of “some oily substance” on the roof of the building at 113 Lenox Ave. next door to the mosque. . Then in mitd-morzing, while fec crusted the gutted mosque ¢ buiiding and made a slithery sheet out of the busy inter- section, police searchers found an empty five-gailon tin that - had contained gasoline or - kerosene on the 113 ienox | roof. The mosqtte building Itself, smoky, shaky, choked with jee and rubble, defied early search efforts, A police team inciuding a bomb squad Mmeni- ber could not get above the first floor during a morning , inspection. . This had been Malcolm's headquarters in the days” WHILE, AS Elijah Muhammad's representative, he headed the Bi.ck Muslim movement in New York. Tne fourth floor was "used for meetings, the third as #@ Teen mL, alo eae ee thle Tuc. 4aaic SECT aha kL Wao Vacant, the firs. occupied by five storefront: on 116th St. and tnree on Lenox Ave. One’ of the Lenox Ave. svocres, housed the clean and quiet Uttle luncheonette where Muslins gathered. The wide sidewalk in front of the lunchconette was tha Serne of the last public clash: betveen tho Muslims and the dissidents who followed Mal- : Colm X after he broke with the organization in early 1964, - , The break was ostensibly caused by Elijah Muhammad's fiery New York leader made his “chickens coming home to Toosl” camment after the as- gassination of President Ken- hedy. But it was seen by some fe an attenini to curb Malcolm, whose publ.c cloquence and personal charm and availabil- ity had earned him the public attention iB rat escaped the elu- sive and +ard-to-meet jah Mafiammad, cert ene Ee one Outside the Muslim : rant last June there had peen & gunpoint confrontation be- tween Malcolm's dissidents and the New York Muslims then headed by Minister James 2. Malcolm claimed then that his fe was in danger. It Was a claim he made re- peatedly and on Sunday, as he stood to address some 400 per- sons in the Audubon Ballroom, "166th St. and Broadway, it was ‘borne out. In what police called a “well planned maneuver,” there was a diversionary scuffie and then _ bullets from at least two pis- tols and pellets from both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun were Bred at the tall, bearded man on the two-foot-high stage. He toppled backward, His resonant voice, wilich mo~ ments before had uttered the Arabic words of greeting, “A salaam. aleikcm,’” was stilled force. er, Only a week before the cet Einshurst home where he lived vi ith his wife and their fouc small children was purncd by fre bombs. Maleolm said repeatedly that the Muslims wanted him dead before their convention this coming weekend. There: were rumors that he intended ‘to read at the meeting where “whe was murdered the names of those he ‘said planned to kiN him. His lawyer, State Assembiy= man Percy Sutton, sald later _ that he knew of the list. “T know who was on the list,” saif_ Myr. Sutton, “and so do the police.” me oe restaue |