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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping In Space Below) w 6Cuonanl ASSET? y oneak Attack By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY The fire, termed “definitely Street on both sides of the ave- “Tt was @ vicious sneak at-|SUSpicious,” came a day and ajnue. Buses were rerouted and ‘tack,” said Joseph X. half after Malcolm X, who had'the 116th Street IRT subway “That's right,” said the left the Black Muslim move-|station was closed until 3:40 ‘dozen Black Muslims eclustered|"1¢"t to form his own black na-|P.M. There were about 60 po- ‘around him. tionalist movement, was shot tollicemen in the area directing + “The worst thing a man can/J¢ath in the Audubon Batiroom,|truffic and the smail crowds ‘do is tamper with your reli- @ Upper Manhattan. jthat gathered at the barricades. ‘gious sanctuary,” said Joseph. I would say we expected’ Eyewitnesses differed about the “That's right,” said the men Something like this,” a Harlem fire's beginning. Some, includ- in the hot, crowded storefrontit@5!dent said yesterday as he/ing several policemen guarding mer: leaned on 2 police barrier andthe mosque entranre caid they fice. | oon & poiee SCOrricr anG tle MGsque Snirante, Saia wiey i We I met looked with little interest atihad heard an explosion or ex-. ar | : D go sometime. We just wantinese cats are going to bejington, who lives on the top go like Muslims.” scratching until there's not but'floor at 111 Lenox Avenue, one “That's right.” lone of them left.” jdoor down from the mosque, Two blocks farther down! Joseph X, a Black Muslim'said she had heard nothing. . Lenox Avenue. at 116th Street ‘spokesman, said that the follow-' She said she and her husban a hose fixed to a fire truck's!" of Elijah Muhammad, leader,did not know there was a fir aerial ladder was throwin of the Black Muslims, had aJ-'until a policaman knocked on water on the smokin ice ternative meeting places in'their door. festooned ruin of Mahanimage mosques at 120 Madison Street, A man in a bar, who did not Mosque No. 7, the Black Mus. |Brooklyn, Out 105-05 Northern|wish to be identified, gave this — an ‘ ulevard, Queens. account: Te ade ANE este ak AS Joseph was talking in the; ‘Man, I've seen some fires but AU 2:10 A.M. yester vey ="* O1nicé of Muhammad Speaks,ithis one was like no fire I ever. had raced through the fourth- ‘the movement's newspaper, atisaw. First there's this little t ane inane hall, destroying.153 Lenox Avenue, the news crash, you know, but real quiet. its interior and that of thelcame over the radio of a bomb/Then it say VOOOOM! The Gethsemane Church of God in!threat at the Unity Funeral/flames came straight up in the Christ on the floor below. Police'Home, where Malcolm's body|air and straight out ever the later found a five-gallon gaso-jis on view. “Now they'll be ac-/street. Then the smoke—like line can, a brown shopping bag: cusing us of that, too,” Joseph | this oil smoke, you dig ?7—it rolls stained with gasoline and some'said. jout slow and then drops down ‘Oily rags on the roof of an ad-' Throughout the day barri-!slow, like it was falling. Man. i jJgcent building. ‘cades were sét up at I25thiI just stood there hypnobizeg.” | 100-3717 231-4 NOT R®CORDED 176 MAR 4 1965 {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) _31 NEW YORK TIMES Date: 2/24/65 Edition: LATE CITY Author: PAUL L.MONTGOME RY Editor: CLIFTOSDANIaL tAAT AAT I Tmmnt we Tithe: FIA GVO + pes a Character: SM- HO I ClasaificationnU 100- 39 93 21 Submitting Office: NYO [XkBeing Inyestigated