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Lath Serr FP PE re VIGLENCE ... Blasi symbols on map show were Maicolm X was assassinated, at 166th si, and Broadway, and where the Black Muslim Mosque was blown up, at [16th et. and Lenox ave. a? Ms Mr. Lawson also criticized po- ‘ice in the protection of Mal- feotm . btating: “The , rotection should not have beer . das an excuse by police. The eri police den’, fust—tetdhine By the time firemen reached the scene, the fire was beyond control, quickly destroying the fourth-floor. It tumbled through into the vacant third floor, and finally the whole thing crashed to the ground. The second floor was also vacant, and there wag a store on the ground ficer. A Black Muslim mepsting-qwes held fm the mosque last night, yab broke yp at midnight. After, shat, said police, no one was seen entering or leaving the ouilding. . _ But Chief McKearney sald | i it was possible for some one tos enter unseen from the building next door on Lenox ave., where the kerosene-staked rags were found. None of the eight men being _questioned were labeled “su- i] spects” as such. “Everybody fs to be ques- tioned,” declared Chief Mc- Kearney. RAGING INFERNO More than 100 = firemen battled the raging inferno in 15-degree weather, becoming gradually coated with ice. Two firemen were aloft in an aerial basket, pouring water down in- to the shell of the building. There were no indications ' whether anyone was strapped inside since there was no ‘chance to search it before the are roared out of control, ra. 11. ae | thon The binge aliiacted & Wirong lr spectators who heard the iblast or sa wthe flames. But . hhey didn't stay long in the frigid night slr. one elderly Negro woman. ‘T thought, ‘Oh, my God, this ts fact is @ man can express inten’ . act Malcolm refused|to commit suicide in oer At? and I threw myself down on ithe , | | ! | “7 heard the explosion,” said « . wAnothes | the Muhammed Temple 6 4 man, a amembes, of lam, the officlal name of the mosque, said the headquarters had been jammed earlier for the meeting and scores would have been killed if a bomb had exploded then. “Man, the place was packed,” said, : |» e mosque was established ' hey by Malcolm X upon orders from Elijah Muhammad, the self-anointed “prophet” of the ;Nation of Islam. Malcolm broke with Elijah ig year and a half ago end estamlished the Muslim Mos- que, Inc., in the Hotel Theresa. He had long predicted that | he would be murdered by the, Black Muslims because of the’ defection, The bloody killing of Mal- colm and the fire-bombing of Mosque No. J compeunded fears of bloody internecine lstrife among Negro national- iists here and in Chicago, home base for Eljah Muhammad. | MOSQUES GUARDED Immediately after the ex- plosion, two Clijah Muhammed osques in Queens were put, under heavy police surveillance. Uniformed police on foot pa-! trol covered the mosque at 105-_ 05 Northern bivd., Corona, and’ another at 119-09 Sutphin blvd., lin Jamaica. A radio alert also was broad- | cast, ordering cruising police “to be on the alert for possible acts of vandalism.” The mosque in Corona is near the former home of Malcolm at 23-11 97th Bt. ere? - HEAD INJURIES The most seriously injured in the Harlem explosion was Fireman Ziegfried Newmann, 27, of Hook and Ladder Co. 43, who suffered severe head in- juries when he wes caught in the rain of briks when the wall collapsed. He was admitted to Harlem Hospital in serious condition. A civilian, Melvin fhelton, 34,0r Ste -W, SSE Ft aiso Was