Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 16, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday August 16, 1963 archaeological expedition letter from Paris Herod s Palace is object of Israel treasure Hunt great Rush to Seaside now in full swing by quake. Immediately after the Paris great news of the Skopje disaster Rush to Seaside Riverside reached Here the French authorities sent off a number of Masada has always been a coveted prize but until now the physical difficulties have daunted explorers London special owns the first phase of preparations has been completed in Israel for the most spectacular Arch ecological expedition Ever made in the Middle East. Excavation will begin in october at Mas Ada the Rock fort near the dead sea where jews made a last stand against the romans from and 70. Herod the great built on the Crest of Masada a Palace and fort and when the Temple was destroyed by Titus a Core of about 900 diehards from the de fenders of Jerusalem took re Fuge at Masada and withstood roman assaults for three years. When at last the romans took the fort by storm they found the defenders had committed mass suicide. Masada has always been a coveted prize for archaeologists because it is confidently supposed that the defenders would have been no More will ing to give up their people s scrolls and documents than they were to surrender their and they had ample time to hide. Them. But the physical difficulties of treasure Hunting at Masada Are formidable and until now have daunted explorers. The soaring Rock with a sheer drop Seaward of feet cannot be climbed by mules with sup plies let alone by vehicles. New resources the Leader of the present expedition professor Yigael a Din commands resources which no earlier one could have possessed. Ladin now professor of archaeology at the hebrew University at Jerusalem is an sex Soldier one of the heroes of the israeli War of Independence. Israel s defence forces have come to his Aid. Living quarters for the expedition will be built West of the Cliff and with satisfying historical piquancy for the Young jewish nation near a roman siege Rampart adjoining the ancient Camp of the roman the port of Caesarea founded by Herod in 27 b.c., is one of Israel s most interesting archaeological Sites. Now Are planning to excavate the ancient King s Palace in Masada. Commander of the besieging forces years ago. Israeli engineers Are to build a special linking the expedition base with the Beersheba Arad Sodom Road. Food cooked at Arad will be transported daily to the explorers. Tanker Lor Ries will keep them supplied with water. The Forward Camp on top of Masada will have water pumped and stored in plastic reservoirs. The expedition staff will climb a fire escape style staircase to be built. Helicopters will also be used. Hanging palate first objective will be her of s hanging Palace a won Drous feat of architecture built on a terraced precipice. For this another fire escape Stair Case will be built and a path Cut into the vertical Cliff. Simultaneously work be Gin on the clearance of fallen stones from the ancient Arsen Al and on their restoration by a group of professional masons. These cleared buildings Are expected to be ready for excava Tion when the excavation of Herod s Palace is finished. The exploration team num Bers about 200, most of them volunteers and including Mem Bers of youth movements and kibbutzim As Well As volunteers from Europe and the United states. Anyone wishing to join Between october and next March for a minimum two week period and at his own expense except for food and lodging which the expedition will provide May apply writ ing to to Box 7041, Jer sulem Israel. The expedition is sponsored by the Wolfson foundation or. And mrs Harry Sacher and or. And mrs. Terrence Ken Nedy with the co operation of the observer. Its Progress will be reported in the free press in exclusive despatches from the observer. Copyright 1963 observer foreign news service est Mountain and Plain is now in full swing since most of the Twenty million or so French men women and children who do not stay at Home do their holidaying in August. Many of those concerned have no the matter either because they have children of school age or be cause the concern for which they work decides when to shut Down. The result of course is massive overcrowd ing of the most popular re sorts leaving shopkeepers and Many hotel keepers Rich but exhausted in body and mind at the end of the season. There has been some at tempt at staggering holidays notably among the big motor car manufacturing concerns but nothing general has been done nor is any real change Likely for a Long time to come. From Paris alone nearly three and a Quarter million took part in the great Holiday migration Between july 27 and August 5. Of these substantially More than half took off by car. In 1961, roughly the same number of people travelled by Road and rail last year the Road forged ahead and will undoubtedly continue to do so until that Happy Day when the kills itself by Shear Over Breeding. Meanwhile with the zealous help of its Drivers the car is responsible for a steady in crease in the number of French people who go to an Early grave or Are maimed in varying degrees. From what i have heard both italians and germans Are in a highly competitive Posi Tion As regards bad driving manners but from my ohm observations i will make bold to say that it would be unfair to dismiss the French As Seri Ous competitors particularly if one takes into account the Rich variety of insulting Lan Guage so often used usually by the guilty party. On the brighter Side is the news that French ingenuity has recently helped to attenuate the effects of that major natural Accident the Earth a teams armed with a remark Able device worked out by a number of Brilliant technicians. This is nothing More or less than a very special kind of giant Stethoscope attached to a steel Rod which is driven into the ground or a Heap of rubble where some injured victim May lie. Attached to the Rod is. An amplifier leading to a couple of earphones. Sounds of move ment coming from As far away As 50 feet can be picked up even breathing or More fantastic still a heartbeat in favourable conditions. To encourage buried people to give some sign of their pre sence the device is supplemented by a kind of Metal plunger which gives a clinking noise when moved up and Down making it Clear to any one with enough perception left that Rescue is at hand. At least three of these Stethe scope devices Are used to Gether so that the position of the buried person can. Be fixed by triangulation. T a really Brilliant version of that age old institution the Confidence trick has just been enacted in Paris Brilliant the victim herself can at least be acquitted of the Blind stupidity which the Pigeon usually brings to the plucking. It May have been the heat or need of Money for the holi Days presumably at some expensive showcase like St. Tro Pez or that led the countess of x to advertise that she had for Sale a Mink Bolero in perfect condition. Whatever the reason she announced that she would let it go at the very reasonable Price of a Day or two later an ele Gantly dressed Man arrived at the Countesse Flat and after declaring that he had come about the Bolero was received by the countess. He was shown the Bolero fingered it respectfully agreed that it seemed in Good condition and that the Price was not exorbitant. Bui. He added very reasonably that his wife must of course have the last word. His car was outside and he would like to take it Ana show it to her at once but of course since Madame la comtesse did not know him it would be Only fair for her to go with him to his place. He should naturally drive her bought the Bolero or not. With three thousand pounds virtually in the bag the countess agreed with Ala Crity. They set off with Monsieur chatting amiably. Then Sud Denly his face changed and slapping his pocket he brought out a heavily stamped envelope marked airmail urgent and said hesitatingly i. Hope you will forgive me Madame but i have j list remembered that i promised my wife to Post this and she will be furious with me if i Haven t done it. So furious in fact that she might be in to mood to talk to strangers about buying there s a Post office Box a Little ahead. As i m on the wrong Side of the car for getting out in All this traffic and i la get a ticket if its left double parked with no Driver could i ask you to get out and Post it for me it will Only be a matter of seconds for you to Cross the pavement and put it in the Box but please it s very urgent so do put in the air mail the countess agreed to this very human Little request the elegant Monsieur duly stopped in front of the Post office Madame comte Iise tripped across the pavement to the collecting boxes put the letter in the right tripped to the curb and the whole thing was Over. The whole thing. Unfortunately Madame la comtesse had not dreamed of taking the car number and in any event it May Well have been stolen. So unless the police have any Luck Madame is Likely to have a Nice hot summer in Paris and a Nice cold Winter too. And i should imagine that anyone who whistles a few bars Ravel s Bolero in her presence May provoke her into the use of language far below her Sta Tion. I recently noted that owing to the severe housing shortage in France one pre War institution had virtually disappear i de namely the Garcon Niere that is premises i Small Flat rented by errant husbands or wives for Nicori 1 spi Culous that some left has i been shown by a verdict just i Given by the French courts f Over Case in wife i sued her husband in Marseil i Les. He had rented a studio for himself and someone else i and having discovered this the wife started proceedings s against him on the ground that he was keeping a Concu Bine in the conjugal domicile 1 a serious aggravation of i marital infidelity in the eyes 1 of the French Law. S the husband contested this i arguing that the studio was anything but part of the con i Jugal domicile since he had 1 taken it for the express Pur i pose of getting away from i his wife occasionally. At first i sight this looks logical enough i especially to sympathisers. I but the lower court found for i the wife accepting her argument that since she and her i husband held everything in i common the studio was i theirs not just his. The husband appealed 1 and now wishes that he had i not for the higher court not i Only maintained the original 1 Fine inflicted on the husband and the damages awarded to 1 the wife it also fined the band anti Ier for appealing on unreasonable 1 grounds. There s a lesson to i doubt but it i May Well be a different one 1 for different people. I h although French gangsters i Are getting steadily More num 1 Erous More brutal and More 1 daring some of them at least retain a Small degree of decency. A Day or two ago a car full of them opened fire on two men in another car up 1 in dear old Montmartre kill ing one and badly wounding the other. But with consideration and foresight they had i carefully chosen for the attack i a place which made the Best i of both worlds so to speak i since it Lay approximately mid Way Between an ambulance station and an undertaker s establishment. ? i civil rights Biu. Segregation in Public places is residue of us slavery the . View is that the substance of the program is bound to be enacted in the near future i by Walter Lippmann Washington special tons although the civil rights Bill is moving slowly through Congress it is no longer the burning Issue it appeared to be when it was first introduced. The prevailing . View which the Gallup poll says is held by some four fifths of the people even in the South is that the substance of the Bill is bound to be enacted in the near future. It is becoming impossible to uphold the disfranchisement of negro citizens or to uphold disobedience of the desegregation ruling of the supreme court As for the Section forbidding discrimination against negroes in hotels stores Public restaurants and places of amusement it is hard to argue publicly the right to Dis Criminate. There is ample evidence that the blatant discrimination in Public accommodations is an indefensible trespass on the rights of . Citizens. We must remember How fiver that the current civil rights Bill deals with the re dress of old grievances. The Public accommodations Sec Tion which is being Denoun ced As communist and whatnot re enacts the civil rights act which was passed by Congress on March 1, 1875, nearly 90 year ago. Dissenter All says the act within the jurisdiction of the United states shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoy ment of the accommodations advantages facilities and privileges of inns Public convey ances on land or water theatres and other places of Public amusement subject Only to the conditions and limitations established by Law and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color regardless of any previous condition of in 1883 this act was declared unconstitutional. But there was one Lone dissenter jus Tice Harlan of Kentucky the Grandfather of the present jus Tice of the same name. This dissenting opinion contains it seems to me the fundamental argument for re enacting the Law of 1875. The argument of Justice Harlan against it begins with the 13th amendment which abolishes . What did it mean to abolish slavery something said the Justice than to for bid one Man from owning an other As soon after the amendment had been pro claimed As ratified in Decem Ber 1865, Congress passed the civil rights act of 1866 which was directed at the burdens and. Disabilities which constitute the e badges of slavery and 14th amendment to make sure that this legislation would stand up the same Congress proposed the 14th amendment which declared that All persons born or naturalized in the United states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof Are citizens of the United states and of the state wherein they re the fact that negroes be came citizens of the United states is the foundation of their right not jus Tice Harlan said deprived because of their race of any civil right granted to other persons in the United to realize the revolutionary significance of this Declara Tion that negroes Are . Cit i2iens, we need to be reminded of the Legal status of negroes before the civil War. Not included this is the declaration of chief Justice Taney Groes do not compose a por Tion of the . People were not included and were not intended to be included under the word citizens in the con that therefore they could claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United that on the contrary they were at the time considered As a subordinate and inferior class of be Ings who had been subjugated by the dominant race and whether emancipated or not yet remained subject to their authority and had no rights or privileges but such As those i who held the Power and the government might. Choose to i Grant i segregation in Public places i is a badge of slavery and ser i Vitrude and the obligation and i the Power of Congress to i erase the badge derives from the decision to abolish . I because the . 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