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NURSE. graduate, white night duty; must
live on premises; references: very fine
position for the right party. Hebrew
Home for the Aged, 1125 Spring rd.
NURSEMAID to care for l child: refer
ences required. Apply in person after
4 20 n m 2ln Tth st n 2
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wishes room and board in exchange for
assisting in caring for child IN private
home Box 3SR-J. Star.
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WOMAN. white, middle-aged. as companion
TO elderly lady and do light housevork.
Georgia RS1o
Evening star., 1941-11-08

COMPANION. HOUSEKEEPER. experienced
in sick rooms. detitian, speaks several
LANGUAGES: references. EN-. 63l5.
GIRL. co!ored. wants hotel chambermaid
lob Phone DI SqOS
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cally inclined. painstaking and thorough,
has splendid opportunity as assistant TO
bookkeeper 10 learn bookkeeping and hotel
business. Apply in person, with letter of
application in own handwriting. TO Man
ager of Ebbitt Hotel, 10th and H SITS. NV.
LADY. refined. white. care boy Z. and apt.
live in MotherleSS home No
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| COMPANION -HOUSEKEEPER position 70
| elderly lady desired by refined mlddle-aEed
/ widow Roy 426-Y So
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SERVICE STATION MAN. with auto repair
ing experience; steady work. References.
Evening star., 1941-11-08

Paced by Miller's 144-387, Meads
Liquors mopped up Charpel Grill
with top count of 1,730 in the Ana
costa Spillway Business Mems
League Gus Places fired a 1863 as
City Baking whitewashed Certified
Bakery.
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CHAPTER VII.

Friday, August IA, 1857.
A letter from my dear son. Thank
God the rumor of the massacre OF
Col. Summers troops was an error,
Col. Sumner had joined Maj.
Sedgwick and Lindsay was made
adjutant of the whole command
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before which our last tablet was written.
Professor lothian Johnson, now of the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, discovered that this
calendar was again changed toward the end
of the first Christian century and DR.. Robert
H. Mcdowell dug up coins, minted and dated
by Parthian Kings which made it possible to
carry our table up TO the end of the year
A. d. as.
Then one day had a brain storm. After
the Jews were carried away to exile in Baby
lonia. they gave up the months which they
had borrowed from the Canaanites and took
over the Babylonian calendar from their
neighbors. These are the same months they
still use in their religious calendar. BY the
use Of our table. we ought to be able to date
the events of Jewish history up to A. D. 45
as easily as we could date the Babylonian.
There was no question as to where we should
make the test, IL was the date OF the Cruel
fixion. Back we went To the discrepancy
between the accounts OF John and the other
three and what did we find?
During all the years in question there was
no Passover which began on Thursday. there
fore Matthew, Mark and Luke were not accu-
rate But there was a Passover, beginning
with Friday, which not only confirmed John,
but fell in the year A. y. so. which seemed
most probable on other grounds
How old was Jesus at the Crucifixion?
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Most of them are dated exactly by the year.
month and day according to the Babylonian
calendar.
For this period we must painfully collect
from tablets each example Of an inserted
month, and only when we have all seven can
we safely date the years of this cycle to the
exact month and day of our
Right now my seminar of graduate STU
dents is working out this exact dating for
the years from 600 to $50 B. c. In 367 3. c.
a great astronomer named Kidinnu finally
arranged the cycles in such a manner that
thereafter the added month always came
in the same year of the nneteen-year cycle
We have now many observations and CAL
culations of eclipses movements of the plan
cts. and the like, which can be calculated to
the minute by modern astronomers that by
checking our calendar tables by them we can
prove that for each cycle we simply repeat
the correlations of Babylonian and modern
dates
This means that we can date every single
tablet written after 367 3. c. to the day. in
terms of our own calendar if only it bears
a Babylonian date Aided by former stu
dent, DR. Waldo Dubberstein prepared tables
by which the JBabylonisn dates could be
quickly turned TO the year, month, and day
before Christ.
This table han to the Christian era Just
Ar,orio.r uyao.tA 60. Il ~
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BY A. L. OLMSTEAD,
Professor Of Oriental History. University
OF Chicago.

A T last we know definitely that Christ
"A was crucified on April 7. 30 A. ..
y This would make Him only 80 years
old at the time - II our calendar begins with
His birth.
But the Saviour was not that young He
was really in His late forties because the same
new knowledge which has accurately dated
the Crucihxion reveals that the Christian
calendar supposed to begin with the birth of
Christ. starts some Is to Is years too late.
In other words. we are living not in the year
of Our Lord 1941. but somewhere around 1889
The Importance of this lies in the fact that
now. for the first time life of Christ can
he written that is historically accurate What
this means may be estimated by imagining the
difficulties of future historian. 1000 years
from now. trying to crowd the events in the
career Of a modern character into life that
was Is years too short
The more such man studied the more the
accounts of the characters life would conflict
with known historical happenings. II might
well SEEM as some scholars have thought of
the Saviour. that perhaps He never existed
The first clue came in the conflict between
John the beloved Apostle" on one side and
Matthew Luke and Mark, on the other, in
many matters Modern scholars lately have
thought Mark most accurate. But now 1t
seems that John was right, and Luke, who is
most like him, next most reliable historically.
The only hope was 10 hook up some event
in the life of Christ with one of the ancient
calendars which were in turn hooked up with
astronomical events that modern astronomers
can date to the minute according to our calen-
dar Attempts have been made to identify the
star Of the Magi," reported by Matthew.
a magnificent conjunction of three planets
which took place in the year B. c. and which
l saw repeated over quarter century ago.
But these three planets even when close
together do not make star. 1t was not the
star Of Bethlehem" as everyone who wit
messed it with me, realized. Yet there might
be and should be some happening which would
hitch our wagon of history to star and the
one most useful would be the date of the Cru
cihxion. Ali four Gospels agree that the Last
Supper took place on the night of Thursday
and that the Crucihxion occurred on Friday.
We must remember that while Babylonisn
astronomers had for centuries begun the day
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Assuming that John was right in giving the
Saviour a ministry Of only little more than
a year after His baptism, we turned to Luke
and found him dating the preaching of John
the Baptist to the fifteenth year of the Roman
emperor Tfberius, which included the last half
of A. D. 20 and the first half of A. d. 20.
Since Jesus did not begin His own preach
ing until after He had been baptized by John,
that beginning could scarcely have been before
the commencement of the year 20.
How old was Jesus when He began this
preaching? Luke says about thirty but the
about" shows that he did not actually know
Just before. Luke had told us that Jesus was
born during the census undertaken by the
Roman governor Quirinius.
This we know to have been in A. D. 6. That
would make Jesus only twenty-five at the
beginning of His ministry. But just before
that Luke has said that Jesus was born under
Herod who died in B. c. This would make
the age of Jesus thirty-two. Matthew also
tells us that Jesus was born under Herod. If
we accept any Of these conclusions taken from
Luke; Jesus would have been very young
when He taught and died.
But any one who knows the Near East will
at once realize that man aged twenty-five,
thirty, or thirty-two would never have been
recognized by Orientals as a great teacher
who taught, we are told. with authority and
not as the scribes.
The Fourth Gospel tells us that His Jewish
enemies tainted Him an being not yet fifty
and this sounds much more plausible. In that
case Jesus would have been born under Herod,
as Matthew and Luke assert, but sometime
about Is to Is B. c.
Many have been confuled by the episode
in which Jesus, as boy of twelve, frightened
His parents by disappearing, finally to be
found in the Temple. That He was discussing
with the learned men things far above the
heads of Mary and Joseph must not be misun-
derstood To listen with respect, even awe,
to what was to them an infant prodigy. was
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tury near the beginning of the Dark Ages
and it would have been strange had he guessed
right on the date of an event which had hap
pened more than five hundred years before
All modern scholars agree that he guessed
wrong and that Jesus was born earlier than
the date given for the beginning of our era
Some base their date on the statement of
Matthew and Luke that He was born under
Herod This must, as we have seen, be cor
rect. They then go on to assume that He was
born just before Herod died and so we have
the date b. c. which is found on the margin
of so many of our Bibles.
Few paid attention to that sheer at the
youth of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel which
should have been given the greatest weight
for the very reason that it was hurled by His
enemies. The fact that they did not say.
He is not yet forty or even Not yet thirty"
is strong evidence that everyone at the time
knew better Had the age been as low as
forty-five. the enemies would probably have
said hardly more than forty" Not yet fifty"
would indicate that He was close to the
eligible age. probably not more than two
years away.
Now that the exact end of the Saviour's
life is known to the very day and its begin
ming. within year two. the rest can be
filled in with historical precision by taking
John as our guide.
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one thing, but to as
sumo that this would
allow Him to preach at
a more youthful age
than custom required,
is another matter and
wrong. No amount of
wisdom would have
made this permissible.
OF course you will
ask: How could our
reckoning of the year
of our Lord be SO far
off ?" The answer is
simple.
For centuries after
Christianity had con-
quered the Roman en-
pire, everyone dated
the year by the Roman
calendar. Only after
the German barbarians
had destroyed the Ro-
man empire did an
obscure monk, Diony-
sius the Little, think
of reckoning time from
the birth of his Lord.
This was in the earlier
half of the sixth CEN
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erned the year by his annual round trip North
and South But when they made a year Of II
moon-months or about the 354 days. the sea-
sons fell later and later
The Egyptians, disregarding the moon.
made every month 80 days long giving a $50
day year. near enough so it took a couple Of
generations to see that this was not right
either They then added five more days to
the year which was so close that 1t took
centuries TO discover that the seasons were
still slipping backward.
The Babyonians kept on using the moon
for the length of the month. keeping up the
year of S54 days. by adding a thirteenth
month every now and then and so bringing
together the years of the sun and moon and
keeping the seasons about right At first they
did this by inserting the extra months at GER
tain times in cycle of eight years, later they
inserted them in seven out of nineteen years.
Every one knows of the many tablets bear
ing the cuneiform. wedge form" writing
which have been dug up all over the Near East.
At the present time there must be at least
half a million above ground. From the few
thousand already published many new chap
tiers of history have been written These tab
let's are business documents, letters from
kings, officials and ordinary people. as well as
histories. stories hymns, rituals, proverb,
omens, medical and astronomical text books.
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Professor Ohm S tie a. d,
of til e University Of
Chicago. ExpIains His
Calendar Researches
Which Show The Savi-
our Was Ne arer 48
Til q n 30 WI e n n e
Died; That John " as
More Accurate Than
the Other Gospel
Aufhors-And How a
r e ally Authentic
History Of Jesus Is
Possible at Last
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at midnig ht, 80 anticipating our
own practice, the people still be-
gan the day with sunset. According
10 them. the Last Supper and the
Crucifixion would take place on the
same day which we would count as
Friday
But our Gospels disagree on the
day OF the month. Matthew. Mark.
and Luke describe the Last Supper
as the Pasehal meal which the Jews
would celebrate after the Passover
had begun on the fourteenth of the
sacred month Nissan John however,
describes a Last Supper which has
nothing to do with the Passover and
tells us IN so many words that the
Passover was yet to come. To this
day the Greek church follows John.
the western churches the other Cos
pels II John were right. Passover.
the fourteenth of Nissan. began that
year on Friday if the others, on
Thursday Which was right?
All early civilizations strove to
make an accurate calendar and all
found it too big a job Thessun god
regulated the day and the moon god
the month. both seemingly trust
worthy deities The sun god also gov
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A T last we know definitely that Chris
"a was crucified on April 7, 80 A. [
y This would make Him only 80 year
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X Inc. Great Britain BIghts Reserved
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Sports Roundup

Temple Tex -AP- Ponderous les Cranl of the most
football coaches in Texas has taken dance teaching
He's thinking about working in OF dance step with strong
rhythm on spinner backs foowor Temple High School
next fall He thinks that might help put Temple in the state play
off again.
Orlando Fla 4P- Hasing finished acin lump of the
american League cellar last year The Washington Senator's are
undergoing great ShtHgaromd SPRING training IN rather
forloyr hope something might click aud put them up N the
running For thing the great Cuban experiment. o1er and
outside of lonesome Venecuau the club that Manager Bky
Harris puts the field 5V be american as the capital dome
Detroit ms After scoring to victory the Chicago
Backhawk last night the Detroit Red Wings today assured
of third place the National Professional League Hockey pen
chase
Nev York-INS-hen Uncle Sam collecting his taxes
he's going be painfully surprised find that Of
his more famous and daughters of the sports rod aren't
paying him half they did e7V years ago. Nineteen
forty banner sports year many respects but no bon
for most of the athletes.
New York -INS-The Boston Bruins held their third
sve National Hockey League Championship today the result
their So3 win the apace New York Americans Mad-
son Square Garden Thursday night.
Kansas City, No. Up San Diego and Santa Barbara State
of California; Murray (KyJ State and Vest Texas State of
Canyon fight tonight determine the fudSts the fifth
National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament Barbara
and Murray matched in the finals tonight San Diego
plays Vest Texas.
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A. E. Smith Five
Has Easy Victory

In the lone Glass d contest ~
Thursday night. the A. +. Smith
FIVE ran away with its game with
Petersburg as it rang up a total
OF 80 points to more than double
the opponents total of Is. Never
in danger of defeat the Smith team
had little difficulty in subduing its
opponents and by its victory be-
came eligible for the final game n
the' ID division Saturday night
against Clinton at Gas.
At the end of the opening quar-
ter Petersburg was trailing by six
points the score being 10 to 4 for
Smith, and the half saw them still
farther to the rear withr,Smith
now holding a 1910 lead. Unable
to score a single basket or free
throw throughout the eight min.
utes of the third quarter, the
Petersburg cause was now virtual
ly hopeless with Smith leading by
II points.
The Petersburg five was finally
able to break its scoreless streak
when Wahl sunk a long shot after
a minute and a half OF the final
quarter. Kemhart then dropped IN
a pair of field goals in the final
80 seconds of play to give his team
a total OF Is points TO the Smith
80.
Gorham, of a. +. Smith, sank four
baskets and the same number Il
free shots to lead in the scoring
8 Smith
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Blissfield's Powerhouse Quintet
c. alks up 18th Consecutive Win

With the unstoppable Don Mulder
swishing nineteen points through
the mesh. Blissfield's powerhouse
quintet chalked up its eighteenth
consecutive victory of the 40-'41
season Thursday night in the open
ing round OF play in the Regional
Tournament as it defeated a we'll
balanced Tecumseh five AZ to 3S.
Playing the kind of basketball the
fans like, fast and high-scoring, the
two teams really put on an exhibit
ton for the huge crowd jammed
into the Ypsilanti High School gym,
but the individual brilliance Of Null
der was what really caught the
fans fancy.
A dead shot with either hand,
extremely fast and shifty. a ball
handler par excellence, an unex.
celled passer, dribbler and team
player Is Don Mulder whose ideal
temperament and exceptional abil-
tiles make him the kind of player
coaches dream about. Without him
the Blissfield five would still be a
team to be feared. but with him in
the lineup there are very few
teams that can defeat It.
Twice during the first quarter
Tecumseh was in the lead. once at
20 and again at SO but when the
second period opened they were
trailing by three points 1873. In that
quarter after three minutes Tecum.
sch once more tied the score but
thereafter for the remainder of the
game they never again drew even
with the flying Blissfield five which
led 1921 at the half. $3.50 at the
three.quarter mark, and finally A.
SS when the horn blew signifying
the end Of the game.
Mulder of course was high man
while Squeak" Horizons eleven
tallies for Blissfield earned him
second honors. The Tecumseh
teams scoring record shows an
almost perfectly balanced squad
with the highest score being eight
and the lowest five points In be
tween the two, three players tailed
six and the remaining one got seven
points.
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APPOINTED COACH

Hillsdale, Mar. 14-AP-John f.
Smith, one Of the best hurlers pro
duced by Michigan collegiate base
ball. has been appointed coach Of
the Hillsdale College nine as sue
cessor to Clifford l.. Weatherwax.
Smith, who in 1929 pitched Hills
dale to a Michigan intercollegiate
Athletic Association title, was IN
organized baseball several years
as property Of the Cincinnati Reds,
He retired in 1887 after completing
the season with Seattle of the PACT
fc Coast League.
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St. Stanislaus Wins Nip And Tuck Regional Game
Ricardo Cortez
Defeats Montana

Ricardo Cortez again showed his
superiority with the boxing gloves
over Bull Montana as he knocked
him out IN the eighth round OF
scheduled ten round fight. After
himself taking a nine count IN the
fourth session. Cortez came back
to floor Montana twice IN the
sixth. three times in the seventh
(the bell saving HIND, and just
the once in the eighth round
This was the second time the
two have appeared in the Ruise
OF boxers and both times Cortez
has managed To decisiyely defeat
the Bull The first one was staged
two weeks ago after the two had
signified their willingness to set
lie their long standing grudgo in
that manner II is doubtful II the
grudge has been settled satistac-
torily, however.
There We're three other matches
Thursday. an thirty miuutc-one
round affairs.
In the first Of these Gorilla
Macia trumphed over Jack steele
I'm $3.50. Mike London pinned the
popular Walter RoNlo ia 1900
flat. and Tony Falletti defeated
Jack League In l7.01
TO ENTER RELAYS
Kalamazoo Mar HAP West
ern State Teachers win enter quar-.
tots In the college mile and medley
relay events at the Butler Relay z
Saturday at Indianapolis. Gcrrlt
Sukkie. state intercollegiate dash
champion. viii enter the G0Sard
| dn h.
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Petersburg
Had Not to Run
in Butler Relay

Whitley Had. Michigan Normal
hurdler, will not run in the Butler
Relays at indianapolis Saturday
after all. --.
Coach Lloyd W. Odds said Thurs
day that he feared Had might
further injure the strained arch in
his left foot should he enter the
Hoosier meet.
Had. Roy Cochran. OF Indiana,
and Dick Olsen, OF Illinois, had been
established as pre.meet favorites
in the 60-yard high and low hurdles.
AWARDED LETTERS
Ann Arbor, Mich, Mar. TAP
Seven University OF Michigan
wrestlers were awarded varsity le..
tiers here Thursday They were.
Jim GALES. Chicago. Tom Weidig.
Monroe. Ray Deane Cresco. Ia.
Herb Barnett Washington, ID g.;
John Paup Ann Arbor. Arthur
Paddy Benton Harbor, and Bill
Courtright. Ann Arbor Numerals
were awarded to Emil Lockwood.
Beaverton GALES was elected
captain Of next years team.
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To ASH TONIGHT

Detroit, Mar. 14-AP-The De-
troit Holzbaughs will clash tonight
with the Windsor Spitflres at the
Windsor Arena in the third game
OF the final playoff series in the
Michigan-Ontario Hockey League
series. The series is now tied at
one game apiece
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Detroit, Mar. 14-AP - Thirty
racing drivers will pilot midget au-
tomobiles over the State Fair Coli
scum track Saturday night in bid
for the seasons 100-lap indoor
racing. championship and $500
prize money. Favorites In the
event are Art Hartsfield. Detroit,
Wally Yale, Chicago. and Ray Rich
ards, Highland Park, Ill.
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Bowling Scores
CITY BODY shee

Makowski 49, sutton ass,
Wyese 444 Klebba 35s Blnner iO4.
handicap 1913. totals 795. 80, ISL
2305.
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FINED FOR ASSAULT

Coldwater. Mar. 14-UP- Lyle
Norman, "a, an inspector for the
Armys quartermaster division.
was free today after paying a $50
fine on an assault charge. He was
charged with striking James Moore.
%, on the head with a beer bottle
in a local tavern.
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TO LIMIT POWERS

Detroit, Mar. LAP Boxing
commissioner John J. Hettche yes
terday agreed to limit the authority
OF the ringside physician in the
heavyweight championship bout
March 81 between Joe Louis and
Abe Simon at Olympia Acting on
a request by John Roxborough,
Louis manager. the boxing com
missioner said authority for stop
ping the bout in event OF injuries
to either fighter would rest with
the chief seconds.
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Totals ........ IS II 10 At
Score at half-Blissfield 2S, TIE
cumseh 81.
Technical Mohr.
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Central Speciality
Husse 1872, 4. Bake- 3s5. -Blake-
more 533. Lonskey 5O4. Allen >&i2
totals. 1855. 10. 769 1896 "
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TONIGHT
Regional Basketball tournament
Class
Sacred Heart VS. Blissfeld, 6 As
y. III,
University High vs.. ST. STAINS
laus, 9:l5 p. m.
Class 3
Ypsilantl High School VS.. De
troit Redford p. m.
= SATURDAY
Regional Basketball Tournament
Finals
Glass D
A. E. Smith W. Clinton, GAS p.
m.
Class 3
Winner Detroit BEDFORD Npsilan'i
VS.. Davidson S p. IN.
Class c
Winner u. High-St. Stanislaus vs..
winner BlissfeldSacred Heart
9:15 p. m.