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rownout cr to J1 State SI Self cer 9 il FULTON OVRSLER The Greatest Story Ever Told Chapter VIII Simeon's Prophecy Each Little Bit Helps Hill IIHM.IW pwii it, 5 I Vt 3 '-v-c-r- i I Si I The law of their people prescribed that every little boy baby must be circumcised on the eighth day of his life. Accordingly, on the eighth day after the Nativity, Jesus and Mary and Joseph and Anna and Joachim left the stable under the inn and rode their donkeys six miles up the steep heights that led to Jerusalem and the Temple. They entered that morning through the Sheep's Gate. IX THE SHADOW OF THE archway Mary looked into the Baby's face; His eyes were open and there was a focus to their gaze an intelligence that startled her; it was as if this baby's mind understood His first entrance into Jerusalem, and that He would come here again, and more than once, and at last to tragical ends! The four grownups on their mission of devotion saw the signs of wealth and pleasure on one hand and also the want and teeming discontent, unwashed pavements slippery with mortal slime and excrement, lying at the base of the rich people's glory; there was barely enough water to drink in this Jerusalem and palaces where vice played all day and all night and lanes where hunger and leprosy crouched together. They were glad when they reached the outer gate of the Temple area and found a little knot of relatives waiting to welcome them; Zachary, joyous and very talkative beside the radiant Elizabeth, who had brought little John in her arms.

STRUTTING FORWARD AND back- they found also the mocking but very friendly and companionable Samuel. It was not the first time that Elizabeth and Mary had met since the birth of Jesus; three times in the last week Elizabeth and Zachary had made the journey over to Bethlehem. Now they all moved inside the Temple walls with happy faces and halted in the outer court to buy their ritualistic raers ing elevator Feb. 9. The verdict cleared Henry Moran, building maintenance man, of criminal liability for the gruesome death.

THE JURY gave a four-point explanation of the accident: 1 Improper instruction of elevator operators. 2 Repairing elevator while it was being operated. 3 Failure of the elevator starter to understand her re-sponsibilty for the safety of passengers. 4 Lack of a glass cover over the emergency button in the I death car. The elevator was operated by Mrs.

Marylin Kanakis, 20, of 7239 Mack. TESTIMONY AT the inquest revealed that Moran had jiggled a switch in the elevator's master control panel at about the time of the accident. Elevator experts testified that the lever in the elevator must have been out of neutral when Moran touched the switch. Mrs. Kanakis insisted the lever was in neutral when Mrs.

Pebley started to board the elevator. At that moment, the elevator zoomed out of control. Mrs. Pebley's head was severed when her body struck the second floor. The body fell into the elevator pit and the head rolled onto the elevator.

Armed Forces Day Set for Mav 20 WASHINGTON resident Truman set May 20 for observance jof the Nation's first Armed Forces SDay. This will replace individual jdiys previously set aside for va-jrious branches of the military i service. I Actor Dies HOLLYWOOD (P) Stage and screen Actor John Merrill Holmes, 60, died. EMERGENCY FUEL DOLED OUT BY SHOVELFUL Firemen of Engine Co. 4 gave first bushel to neighorhood boy he was going to decide.

According to the law they could purchase a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon for a sin offering, or Joseph could choose the less expensive course of buying two Turn to Page 16, Column 1 Fuel Crisis to Close All But 9 Fire Stations to Ration Out Coal All coal-heated public schools were ordered to close Friday and a wartime brownout was clamped on the City for the duration of the fuel crisis. The school closing was ordered late Tuesday afternoon by the Board of Education at a meeting attended by Mayor Cobo. A small portion of the parochial schools will be shut. Msgr. Carroll F.

Deady, head of the parochial school system, said he expects "a few Catholic schools to go down this week." He said he was making a survey to determine how much coal the schools had on hand. ALL BUT NINE public schools will be affected. Those remaining open include Cass Tech, Irving, Burton, Herman Gardens. Mann. Winship, Pulaski and McDowell schools and Wayne University.

Under the current brownout edict, all commercial lighting was banned. Theater marquees, show windows, signs and all other display lighting was ordered eliminated. Police were to assist in making the brownout measure effective. City officials admitted the brownout was merely a "psychological" move to make the public aware that the fuel situation was critical. They said only about 500 tons of coal a month would be saved by dimming the lights.

MEANWHILE, the City set up its 70 fire stations as centers at which suffering citizens can get two bushels of coal each to tide them over. Stocking of the fire stations started late Tuesday and was to continue on a 24-hour basis. The stations within Grand Blvd. were stocked first. The rest were to have supplies within 24 hours.

The stocks were being hauled from the Public Lighting Commission's power station at W. Jefferson and Junction. COBO ACTED after a daylong conference with the City's emergency fuel committee, headed by Many to Lose Only Good Meal Closing of Detroit schools will deprive 5,500 children of poor parents of their free, hot lunches. Lawson A. Wiles, director of the lunchroom program, said the children most affected will be pupils of the Bishop, Washington and Barstow schools.

School officials said that many of the children got no other hot nourishing food. Welfare Supt. Daniel J. Ryan. He emphasized that coal coming into the city from mines still operating is practically nil.

"We have to get by on what we have now in the city," Cobo declared. The Mayor sternly warned that no coal will be available for nonessential users, such as bars, theaters and bowling alleys. The fuel committee was explor- Turn to Page 8, Column 1 Blast Hurts 5 WHITING, Ind. (JP) Five employes were injured, one seriously, in an explosion and fire at the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana refinery here.

Milan Boosts Champ Cagers Ever live in a small town a basketball tournament time? Remember the anxiety, excitement, rooting? That's the way things are at Milan, where the boys play good ball and the townsfolk know it. See "Milan's March Madness," an exciting picture feature, in GRAPHIC of SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS Doped Meat Captures Leopard and Kills It Beast Staggers into Zoo Den; Dies 15 Hours After Gulping Bait OKLAHOMA CITY (U.R) The wild leopard which terrorized a suburban area for three days died early Tuesday night of an overdose of narcotics used to capture it. ays Shot to Death 4 LEE S. CUMMINGS Peacemaker is slain Whaf They Are Saying DAVID E. LILIENTHAL, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, commenting on reports that the hydrogen bomb might destroy all mankind: "We should have faith that our Creator did not endow man with the knowledge to unlock the atom with the idea that he would destroy himself." HOLLAND TRUMAN, Long Beach (Calif.) lawyer and a candidate for Congress who claims to be a third cousin of the President: "I feel that Cousin Harry is being held prisoner by advisers who lean to Socialistic philosophies of government.

When elected I shall utilize all my efforts to rescue the President from his abductors." (A White House aide said Mr. Truman did not know of any such cousin.) JUSTICE CROOM JOHNSON of the Nottingham (England) High Court, chiding a lawyer for using the word "That's what they have in America. Please be good enough to say 'pavement' here. There will soon be nothing left of the English language if we use such Americanisms." DIG DEEP State Called Coal Hoarder LANSING (JP) There are 125,000,000 tons of coal available in Michigan. Only trouble is, you'd have to dig for it.

The State Conservation Department made the estimate of Michigan's reserves of soft "medium grade" coal. The Department said there was little chance that the reserve would be mined to help the present or any future coal shortage. The deposits, in 30 Southern Michigan counties, are overlaid by a thick deposit of glacial sand and gravel. Costs would be prohibitive. A RAISE IN PAY You would like that, wouldn't you? you can add to the family income by renting that spare room to a good tenant.

A Free Press Want Ad will put you in touch with them and you will find it easy to insert a Free Press Want Ad. Just Dial WO 2-9400 i Elevator Death Held 'Ordinary Accident' Coroner's Jury Clears Repairman of Blame in Fatal 3Iishap A coroner's jury of three men and three women found "ordinary negligence and accident" to be the cause of the death of Mrs. Mary A. Pebley, 62, decapitated by a Transportation Build Wounds Ex-Wife in Quarrel Peacemaker's Role Fatal to Father of 5 BY DONALD F. SCIIRAM Free Press Staff Writer Peacemaker in a quarrel between a man and his former wife, Lee S.

Cummings, 52, was shot to death in front of his home at 5741 Hamlin, near Utica. His assailant, John Skurya, 39, of 3883 Dorothy, Hamtramck, fired point-blank without warning from 15 feet. Skurya then shot and seriously wounded his divorced wife, Miss Marie Kinsler, 27, of 3330 Garfield, Detroit. THEN HE RELOADED his shotgun and killed himself. Half his head was blown away by the charge.

The tragedy occurred at 5 p. m. Tuesday. Cummings, a conservation officer for 23 years, was director of the Utica-Rochester Recrea tion Area. He lived in a trailer at the rear of a house occupied by George McClure.

Late Tuesday he was in his workshop at his home with McClure and Elmer Grauerholz, of 5663 Hamlin. MRS. ELMER GRAUERHOLZ, looking out the front window of her home, saw a car driven by Skurya smash into a snowbank. It seemed to her that Skurya had driven into the snowbank deliberately to stop the car. Mrs.

Grauerholz saw Miss Kins ler run from the car. Skurya ran after her, shoutmg: "I'll take you home, if that's all you want." Miss Kinsler turned and the couple shouted angrily at each other. 3IRS. GRAUERHOLZ ran to the Cummings workshop and told the three men of the street quarrel. Cummings ran to the street and stepped between the embattled couple.

He urged them to stop quarreling. "If there is something you want to settle, come into the house and we'll talk it over," he said. For answer, Skurya went to his car and pulled out a shotgun. OTTO E. KLEINLEIN, 32, of 5665 Ladd, a near-by street, came up to watch.

He said later: "I never in my life saw a man so courageous. In spite of the gun pointed at him, Cummings didn't back up an inch. "He ordered the man with the Turn to Page 4, Column 1 Other Stories of Major Interest on Inside Pages Acheson Explains Stand on Hiss. Page 10 Reds Hike Ruble, Cut Prices. Page 21 Amusements 14 Beauty 13 Bingay 6 Bridge 26 Childs 6 Classified 23-25 Comics 26-27 Crosby 28 Crossword 28 Donovan 21 Editorials 6 Fashion 13 Financial 21-22 Food 13 Guest 6 Horoscope 27 IQ Test 16 Marriage 13 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Racing 20 Radio 27 Riley 12 Rose 26 Schram 17 Smith 18 Sports 18-20 Star Gazing 14 Theaters 20 Town Crier 28 Women's 12-13 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS I WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9408 Mayor Allen Street announced that the 175-pound beast quietly breathed its last about 5:45 p.

m. The animal had literally collapsed into captivity about 15 hours earlier, after eating a chunk of doped horsemeat. THE LEOPARD'S deep sleep had worried zoo officials throughout the day, and twice he was given injections of a heart stimulant to counteract the dope. The cat had outsmarted professional and amateur hunters, dogs, Marine reserves and police for more than 60 hours when he returned to the pit from which he leaped Saturday. Zoo officials said hunger, or possibly romantic notions, brought him home again.

The loaded meat left the leopard too groggy to snarl or scratch when he was recaptured. NO HUMAN eyes had seen the hungry cat as it padded up to the Picture on Page 3 Free Press Photo Operators and Lewis to Talk Again Contempt Case Near Completion Free Press Wire Services WASHINGTON John L. Lewis and the soft-coal operators agreed to resume their deadlocked wage-contract talks Wednesday. It will be another effort to end the coal strike and its paralyzing grip on the nation's economy. The resumption of talks was announced Tuesday as United Mine Workers attorneys returned to court.

They argued" that the union's previous contempt convictions should have no bearing on its What's at Bottom of Coal Crisis? See Page 28. present trial for defying a Federal Court order to end the walkout. LEWIS, who has been in Springfield, 111., to attend his brother's funeral, will be present when talks resume here at 11 a. m. Wednesday.

The negotiations were recessed on an Indefinite note Monday. Union spokesmen said the new meeting was arranged by "mutual consent. There was one hopeful development. A Government official, who asked that his name not be used, said that a break in the coal dispute may be near, and that the return of Lewis may be the clincher. He didn't say on what he based his optimism.

UMW attorneys offered their arguments before Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech. The Government charges that the union's 372,000 striking miners "wilfully" disobeyed Keech's Feb. Tarn to Page 8, Column 3 Italians Seize Land ROME (JP) Dispatches from Southern Italy reported that land hungry Italian peasants are on the march again. The reports said thousands of Calabrian peasants occupied acres of land in the past two days.

Youth Swims in Icy Lake to Save Nine Summons Aid for Skaters on Floe SANDUSKY, O. (P) A 17-year-old high-school athlete swam a quarter of a mile through ice-clogged Lake Erie to -get help for nine teen-aged skating companions marooned on a floe. James Moses, of near-by Huron, and the others four of them kjirls were skating in the dark when the ice broke free and began floating out on the lake. CUT AND bruised by floating chunks of ice, Moses swam to shore. An eight-man rescue party was organized and rowed out to the floe in boats.

By the time the rescuers arrived, the floe was half a mile out in the lake. Moses is a football and basketball star at Vermillion High School. Cold Bug Floors Inventor of Antihistamine BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (JP) Prof. E.

E. Campaigne of Indiana University's Chemistry department, announced Sunday the discovery of a new antihistamine drug. The drug is thenfadil. The antihistamines have been developed for treatment of the common cold. Tuesday Prof.

Campaigne, Mrs. Campaigne and their two children were sick in bed with colds. Prof. Campaigne declined to comment, except to say that their condition Indicated the need for such a drug. ALL A MISTAKE Nab Bachelor on Charge of Nonsupport Harold Hemphill, 26, of 13947 Wyoming, was haled before Judge Gerald W.

Groat charged with nonsupport. "I don't get it," Hemphill insisted. "I don't have four children. I never even had a wife." SO THEN they produced the complainant, Mrs. Doris Hemphill, of 1357 Madison.

She took one look at Harold. "I never saw that man before in my life," she said. It turned out that the warrant had been issued for a Jerry Hemphill. Bachelor Hemphill said, "I told you so," and walked out of court a free man. He mumbled something about staying single, too.

Lion Stalks irjto Detroit After reaching a high of 37 degrees Tuesday, the thermometer began skidding again as a new cold wave moved in on Detroit. The Weather Bureau forecast cloudy skies with a low of 24 early Wednesday. Snow flurries and a high of 26 were expected Wednesday. The Bureau said the cold weather will continue through Thursday, when a low of 10 is forecast. drugged horsemeat, placed a few feet from the leopard pit.

But about 2 a. m. zoo attendants missed the meat. A quick search ended in a service tunnel that leads to the pit. A flashlight beam caught the animal on a ledge inside the tunnel.

Zoo Director Julian Frazier, covered by tense riflemen, gingerly tossed a lariat at the leopard. The beast fell to the floor, its nose bloody. After three more tosses, Frazier's 30-foot rope caught one of the cat's rear paws and the zoo director began hauling him in. WHILE FRAZIER held on, three attendants approached from the other end with a strong wooden crate and caged the animal. Frazier then breathed his first deep breath in more than 60 hours.

His relief was shared by residents of this city. It had be-n a fearful two and a half days people starting at shadows mothers keeping their children indoors country school teachers holding uneasy classes police overwhelmed with anxious queries and rumors..