Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1926, Page 3

PALESTINE RUINS BEING EXCAVATED Work Conducted at Megiddo, Commanding Great Plain of Armageddon. BY JOIIN GUNTHER. to The Star and Chicago Daily News. IDDO, Palestine, June 25 > first time in 2 permanent structure has been built and inhabited on the mound at iddo, commanding the great plain Armageddon. It Is s the University yeady highly inte have been made | ure working straight hot Sum under the dire Dr. Clarence Iigsher of yhia ted by several Chi inc Dr. D. H. Higgins and Dr. DeLoc| One discovery is es unearthed on the east slope the mound, one of which contained the remains of a heathen temple with headst and plilars, as well as the victims of human sacrifices. Woman's Skeleton Found. The skeleton of & woman was found 1 with two chil- tiny graves, and ar supposed to ilistine period. about tind of illuminat- section of 1 huge on which Sheshonk, the tenth excavators who through the tion of Philadel Tdward of a serie ons_in iz importance Stela.” a n 1< inscribed e Egyptian pha century B.C. This is a valuable cor- yohoration of the truth of the Bible. alled Shishak in Kings i is mentioned as a 1don at that period, esent _discoveries prove that the Hebrew their names and the visitor to =0 that the mount of important 1 so far been dug out 38 rack tombs which Dr. Fisher v has ated on the east vet t < to date is only a weliminary ¢ into the top crust. Mhie erial ranges in date from 3 ithic are to the Byzan lussware age and may be said whole range of history estimated at any- 0,000 years. Much ¢ reach as ine authorities take their lawful shave for the Jerusalem National Museum. Dr. Fisher guided the writer across the mound through tombs. “We to he swamped . he said. “We have an enor- yious amount of stuff now after less than three months’ work closely restricted to one section of one slope. Tt v a flea bite far. Our method is to e tran e slice the mound. ex ing as we ocead so that successively we may ch 10 or a d¢ 1 distinet strata compose the mound, working ndependently without ruining is a ticklish and Y enormous er a ca he from 1 are t process. How long will the work take?” he was asked e about reply. Its Historical Significance. The slgnal importance of the Armageddon excavations lfes in the ¥act that the Megiddo mound com mands the plain which is a great 1y between Africa_and Armageddon thus has been the site of battles from the time of the Neanderthalers to that of Napo- jeon and Megiddo has successive series of times down 15 years,” was the ING TO BI would Jike nees. 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Since the property in question already has been converted into “Harding Townsite” and sold as lots by the Interior Department for some- thing like $400,000, the Government ses the alternative of either paying the homesteader a handsome price for the property, or returning it to him intact, or carrying the case to the United States Supreme Court. A decision to appeal has not vet been reached at the Interior Department. “Squatted” on 40 Acre The property in question lies in one of the richest sections of Florida. Facing on the Atlantic Ocean, it had been set aside by the Government for Coast Guard purposes. When it was deemed unsuited for this use it returned to the public domain by sidential proclamation and, appar- ently, was automatically available for homestes Norton built a shanty ther squatted” on the whole 10 ous to thix intrusion and to Norton's repeated appeals for home- stead papers, the Interior Department proceeded to divide the area up into 133 choice lots and, amid much ad- vertising and eclat, climbed on the Florida real estate wagon. A single! THE EVENING STAR, WASHI SPECULATOR lot brought $13,000 at the big sale in January, 1924, and people came from all over the country to buy. The tract netted $400,000 profit. Norton, however, appealed to the United States District Court at Jack- sonville. The trial began before Judge Lake Jones last February. Nortcn was represented by Charles R. Plerce, formerly of Washington, who pleaded that the presidential proclamation opened the property up to homestead. ing the minute it returned it to the public domain, and that Norton was within his legal right in settling on it. Ordered to Return Property. The Interior Department contested this view, claiming that in making the property a “townsite” the procla- mation has automatically withheld the land from home: The court, however, days ago that the entire 40 acres was his legal property by virtue of the Federal homesteading law. The Interior Department there. upon was ordered to return the prop erty to him. Under this ruling, the Government guilty of having given the pur sers of the lots illegal titles to their property. If the case is appealed again, officials at the Interior Depart. ment declared, Norton can realize anywhere from $600,000 to $1.000,000 on the property, the value having al most doubled since the Government sold it. It is possible the Government | would pay him that much for it so| it can transfer legal titles to the| purchasers. istine, Israelite, Babylonian, Perslan, Greek and Byzantine empires. There is no telling what profound tions of most of these epochs. example, on display in the permanent field house are paleolithic stone, neo- lithic chipped flints and early bronze weapons, middle bronze ju Egyp- tian scarabs, Philistin pottery Greek terra cotta down to Roman amphora and beautiful Byzantine glassware after Christ in a series of exhibits on one spot ranging the whole march of human history. The Rockefeller-financed camp the last word in such things, with a fine, permanent house equipped with everything from electric lights to adding machines. Megiddo is a re. mote and inaccessible spot and great difficulty was encountered in buying a camp site from itinerant Arabs. 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