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pl a EE ET oe ee (ONLY FOR PAPERS PURCHASING LEWIS COLUMN. OTHERS MUST NOT /GsE.) fs a (CAUTION: ADVANCE } IS COLUMN FOR RELEASE MON. f, FEBRUARY 24,| us canter — » Callahan .M. AND P.M, PAPERS, MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED BEFORE THAT DATE.) | hry crud WASHINGTON REPORT pit sik Eth BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.# hy COPYRIGRT, 1964, KING FEATURES SYJDICATE, INC, Mr. Taveh WASHINGTON, FEB. 23 ~- A bitter struggle for control of thece Boom Miss Hoimes. fanatic Black Muslim movement hes broken out, The protagonists: Malcom X, a fiery, Self-admitted recove narcotica addict who has been the Muslims! leading spokesman in recent years; and Elijah Muhammad, a self-styled Messenger of Allah who ha been ‘the country's Muslim-in-Chief for three decades. / 5: aN t. thre Ae Malcolm was suspended by Muhammad for an indefinite period months ago “for making wisecracks about the assassination of Presi Kennedy." bic The remarks were but an excuse to muzzle Malcolm, Muhammad! ly rival, “A confidential government report reveals that Malcolm “has not taken this disciplinary action gracefully end he has attempted to develop support among other leaders of the Black Muslims in other sections of the country.” pit Malcolm has reportedly won to his side the influentiel New Yo faction. Chicago leaders -- many of whom are sons and daughters of Muhammad -- have stuck by their leader, £1 HY There have been efforts to characterize the Muslim rift as a contest between moderates and extremists with Malcolm leading the redical contingent. Such an observation is folly. In June, 1962, a plane carrying 130 Americans crashed in Paris, -- killing all aboard. Malcolm then laid down Muhammad's line in & Los Angeles speech: "Y would like to announce a very beautiful thing that happened, As you know, we have been praying to Allah, We have been praying that. He would in some way let us know that He has the power to executive Justice upon the heads of those who are responsible for the lynching of Ronald Stokes (killed by police in a Black Muslin riot). "And I got @ wire from God today,” At this point Malcolm waa interrupted by wild laughter, "Wait! Wait! Well, somebody came and told me that He really answered gur prayers over in France, He dropped an airplane cut of : the sky with over a hundred and twenty white people on it, because | Muslins believe in an eye for an eye and «a tooth for a tooth." I Frenzied cheering then broke out. { g Site gets_ ‘rid of them in one whoop...But thanks to God, or ~ promis or Allen, we will continue to pray and we hope that every day | { AR baskag Je out of the sic.” Muhammad, ‘the alleged moderate, proclaims "the devil is the white man =< the white man is a doomed race." Muhammadts teaching holds that white men were "by nathre. created ax liars and murderers; they are the enemies of truth and righteousness, and the-enemies of those who seek the tryuth...the human beast --= the ‘Serpent, the dragon, the devil, and Satan == All mean one and the same: the people or race known 48 the white or Caucasian race, «, <i Yaa -3 LINER. & a ~~