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bic 2 5-272 a) ‘Leader Is Silenced After Slurs on Kennedy ae By BR. W. APPLE Jr. Malcolm X, a leader of the * Black Muslim movement, was! £ * Suspended yesterday because of! f : a speech in which he mocked the, # assassination of President Ken-l * ASS AQIOn ot Presi £en: bia dh abe de nn dee he te e : The action was taken by the “# group's ruler, Elijah Mu- ~ hammad. who said Malcolm's! _* remarks were an inaccurate re- + flection of Muslim attitudes. " “With the rest of the world," -he declared, “we are very . car . shocked at the assassination qf! mG an Zoe. wT President.” ' wa Bp In @ speech last Sunday The Kew vorits WR. Manthattan Center, Malcolm , DISCIPLINED: Malcolm X, 7 said that Mr, Kennedy's death| = leader of Black” Suse Ff. - was a case of “the chickens: Jims. He was suspended for ‘au. coming home to roost." Amid! fleriding President Kennedy. "2 iaeM: laughter and applause from his 3=—= - followers in the audience, he ynown as the Fruit of Islam, » added: ‘Both men, it is said, are eager » “Being an old farm boy my- jto succeed the ruler. r yt . self, chickens coming home to j Reached by telephone at his’ - roost never did make me sad:i winter home in Phoenix, Ariz., ca Mr. Muhammad declined to dis- of UG ant Ha they've always made me glad." cuss the possibility of dissen- y| vesterday, he seemed con-; sion within the movement. " s|trite. “I shouldn't have said, ‘Malcolm is still a minister.” ; zlwhat I said,” he conceded. “any.| Said the man who calls himself the Messenger of Allah, “but; 4 qithing that Mr. Muhammad does| he will not be permitted to ¥ Ps ois all right with me, I believ ‘ speak in public. Thave rebuked -jabsolutely in his wisdom andj him because he has not followed <*/his authority.” ; the way of Islam.” +| Malcolm said he had learned} Asked when the suspension 4 tot the suspension in Chicago’ Might be lifted, Mr. Muhammad eon Monday in # conversation replied, somewhat hesitantly: “I +/with Mr. Muhammad. “I will Would not say. T will decide.” ticontinue ta administer the af-,| The Black Muslims are dedi, {fairs of my mosque,” he went! cated to the establishment of 4 €jon, “which is enough to occupy: Negro nation {n America ] +jme.” No one knows how man +| He was critical of an article} there are. The organization it? -'about his speech in The New| Self has never published mem- “York Times. “It ook all the| bership figures, and the esti- -2 salt out of the bread and pre-| Mates of outsiders have varied <=. sented only the sale," he saig,| from 25,000 to 250,000. dyigt 5 “but the salt should never have Almost ail Muslim affairs are “8. F been there.” conducted in secret, but it is ame-EMatcotm, the New York and| Known that they have large ar &| Washington leader of the move-| Teal estate holdings in New “a %§{Ment, has been generally rei York, Chicago, Detroit and *! garded as its second most pow- Philadelphia. This, some re *:erful figure. It is he who is! Ports say, has intensified the ‘most often quoted in accounts Struggle for the right te suc- .[of Muslim activities. ceed Mr. Muhammad. ‘| Many of his disciples have Malcolm X has won a reputa- ‘been saying recently, in fact, {tion for shrewdness and elo- [that Malcolm is exerting more |@uence curing his 15-year career linfluence than Mr. Muhammad (19 the movement. An ex-convic ‘himself. This has led to ten- ["~he was a Harlem racketee ‘sion between the Eastern and! fete still in his teens—-he one There have also been reports! id: jof a rivalty between fl “I am not ashamed of this ;, Mjoncr| Secause it was all done when I and Mr. Muhammad: ‘law, virpet ola fhe was part of the white man‘s ‘cominaphe ithe ° se Yammy; Christian world. As a Muslim, grip” == I would never have done thes awful things that caused me to £0 to prsen.” ——— —. \ The Toison Belmont Mohr Casper Cailahan Conrad DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy IGF JIOAPT/- 2- F CMC eh nT “a ington Post and Times Herald The Washington Dally News —.. The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American ——. New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post —._______._-_— The New York Times 25 2a n- The Worker ‘ The New Leader The Wall Street Journal —__._.__. The National Observer fot - 39933/-9- a :