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I SUNDAY NEWS, 14, 133? fwt mm mm ViT tM 4 By WILLIAM FEDERICI Dr.Melvin Nimer was able to make statements to police as he lay dyin in the kitchen of his Staten Island home Sept. 2, a source very close to the mur der investigation dis- 7 4 closed last night. Previously, the authorities had admitted only that his 31-year-old wife, Lou Jean, had been strong enough to talk before death, and the hush-up on Nimer was because his words are vitally important to the investigation, it was said. However, as with Mrs. Nimer's statement which has never been officially released.

The News source refused to give any indication of what the government surgeon said. Silent on Aid's Identity Significantly, both police and the district attorney's office refused to disclose the identity of the ambulance surgeon re- IAiilll PreM Wiirlnlol W. Hill (carrying brief case). NAACP attorney, talks to reporters after Front high school was clouted in order to keep Negro students from enrolling 'More Schools A Closing Stage Richmond, Sept. 13 (AF).

Charlottesville came to the brink of school closing toda3' when a U. S. judge ordered the city" to admit 12 Negro pupils to two white schools. 4f 1 4 i J. a -1 ri The Lit Tailor portrait Eddie Fi-her bought from ('.

same Loses a Dehhie Miami Beach, Sept. 13 (Special). Artist Ralph Co a a 1 reported a new development today in the Debbie-EJ lie-Li'. love triangle. He said Debbie now didn't want a portrait she had commissioned him to paint of her as a birth 5 present for Eddie.

And Eddie has bought a portrait of Lh as a gift for Mike Todd's merry widow. INEH'S lolo br Jim Romano James O'Connell at DA's office in Staten Island yesterday. sponded to the Nimer home an I is said to have overheard the statements made by the couple. While 50 detectives continued to check out leads all over Staten Both are Lfe-size. Judge John Paul denied the request of city school officials for a stay pending an appeal.

He noted that the two schools affected Lane High and Venable Elementary do not open until Sept 22. which he said would allow ample time for an appeal. Immediate Appeal Planned Henry Wickham, special assistant to the state attorney general, said Chief Judge Simon E. Sobe-loff of the 4th U. S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in Baltimore would be asked Tuesday to grant the stay. Earlier Judge Paul had refused sa stay after ordering the adntis-sion of 22 Negroes to Warren County's only' high schooL Sobe-loff also denied the request. As a result, the state closed the Warren County school under its massive resistance laws. The order Paul signed today wa3 a foregone conclusion, since earlier in the week he had an-' nounced what action he would take. Paul order that 10 Negroes be admitted to Venable and two to Lane, the city's only white high school.

Front Royal Negroes Barred In Front Royal today, 17 Negro pupils appeared foi enrollment at the Warren County High School, but were turned dowrn. NAACP attorney Oliver W. Hill of Richmond said he would take legal action to force the enrollments. The Front Royal high school was the first school in Virginia to be closed under the state's program of massive resistance to race-mixing. Gov.

J. Lindsay Almond Jr. invoked his powers under state anti-integration laws last night and took over control of the 1.000- pupil high school, effective Monday. The 17 Negro pupils were among 22 ordered admitted at Front Royal. They and their par- ents, appeared with Hill at the office of the school superintendent this morning.

In Richmond, the state prepared to file suit in the Virginia Supreme Court for a ruling upholding its law denying state funds to integrated schools. The law was one of several anti-in-, tegration measures passed at a special session of the legislature in 1956. Faubus: U.S. Can't Ring Our School Bells By ROBERT McCARTHY Little Rock, Sept. 13 (Special).

Both sides inspected their positions and held strategy huddles today in the school integration crisis. Gov. Orval Faubus. who countered yesterday's U. S.

Supreme Court's order to integrate Central High School with an order closing Little Rock's senior high schools, issued this statement by telephone: "I don't think the federal authorities have any legal right to stop me from closing the Little Rock high schools." But he added, "The next move is up to the federals." Faubus Is Unconcerned Federal officials packed the Federal Building where continued briefing sessions were held during the morning. This morning a communique was issued from Gov. Faubus mansion, reporting the Governor was unconcerned over rumors that the Justice Department had issued orders for his arrest. In Washington, the Justice Department called the report "complete nonsense." The Governor was also quoted as saying, "I don't think there is any law under, which they can cause my arrest for taking action I consider necessary as a head of a sovereign state. I would not want to hide from federal authorities if I could.

I have simply taken my action and there is nothing more to be done this weekend. I want to get away and rest." "Won't Do Dirty Work-He declared that he was "not going to do the dirty work of the federal government or the NAACP." The Little Rock City Council stated tonight that the federal (Continued on page 4, cot. J) Island, the small figure who may or may not hold the key to the solution was in his second day in Bellevue HospitaL The inters freckle-faced son, Melvin 8, has confessed the double stabbing of his parents, but authorities don't know whether to buy his story or not, pending psychiatric examination. Eye-Saving Who flu ni is Pan. Spt.

12 Reijtef. A French recorJirz tin toiaj- came to the r-cu i--tective story a i iii 'v worn o-jt thir ey-s r-s whol It's a di-k. The -ri pjts the record on hi pr -graph an 1 settle fiack -r a rlue-packeJ, crm; drama. When the record" iver. decide on the c-j'rrii ari i then I j1.

at a soI-tJ-T the other i-Je cf the rfjrl to ee well he pickel. ine one 01 uennie is still on Cowan's easel. He said had called him and said: "I don't want it now." Liz Delivered The Liz portrait has already been delivered to Fisher in Holly-woo Cowan said. Debliie ha seen it, too. It was in his studio when the Fishers called on him some weeks back to order Debbie's portrait.

"Debbie," Cowan said. Liz the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. and descriied her as a 'wonderful person. Cowan did not reveal who had ordered the portrait of Liz. but whoever it vas "never finished the payments.

So he wa happy to seil it to Fisher, he said. Debbie announced through attorney last night that she will file for divorce next week. Earlier. Fisher had concede that their marriage breakup had in evitable, with or without Liz Taylor's influence. (In California DebSie tJay canceled an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl scheduled for tonight.

Eddie, aiso schedule 1 to appear, backed out two days ago. Both were reported as to ill to go on). (Other picture on pace 1) Family Supports the Boy "The family feels that Deany (the boy's nickname) could not possibly have done it," the boy's uncle. Dr. Harold Nimer, insisted again yesterday.

"We hope the perpetrator is caught." Dr. Nimer said oung Melvin's relatives hai not objected to his long questioning because all wanted the real story to be established. Asked for more information the physician said: "My family and myself would not want to impede the investiga Arfist Is Killed N. S.it 15 tion by the Police Department or i AP. Harry Enfield, Si.

il- lustrator, as killed in an accident toiay while driving 1 1 1 i- By a heavy coincidence, a minor character in the investigation who, police said, had fed Viem a number of valueless tips was (Continued on page 41, col. 1) home in this C-ouTity community. Police said esr swerved Eock City -al i struck a tree..