Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1931, Page 25

EXPLORERS RADIO Ancient City of Herat De- scribed by Haardt Ex- pedition. Afghanistan, the Transasia Exnedition led by Georges Marie-Haardt, with is co-operatin: entored that outside the age-old walls of Herat, in the heart of Asia Radio messages were received in | Washington today telling the progress | the expedition is making across Asia with seven tractcr cars along a route mecde famous by Marco Polo. The mes- sages were relayed by the expedition’s station. mounted on a track-type car, through Station FXC at Beyrouth, Syria, and picked up direct by amateur Station WSBWT, operated by Eppa Darne, 132 Tennessee avenuc north- east. River Fallowed. The cressing into Afghanistan was made over the mountain river, the Hari Rud, and thence the special cars threaded through a valley of tiny walled villages with “white turban crenelations above brown battlements.” The message continues: “We had a blistering ride to the dream city of at, guerded by four huge minarets h tile d ay of old copper. ssed, within the city, through | & covered bazaar a mile long “Thy sturds Aighans, who have lived -+ suug in isolation, are respectful and Tesponsive to friendliness. Our wiole party was thrilled by the sights and Scenes of the historic city.” 2,200 Years Old. Herat dates back at least 2,200 years. Alexander the Great is credited with building walls there during one of his conquests of the East. 1In the thir- teenth century the city had more than half a million inhabitantS. Genghis Khan, with his horde of Mongols razed it and left only half a hundred of its citizens alive. These survived because they feigned death. All day long, the message says, hun- dreds of curious men and boys sur- rcunded the tra —for any visitor in an Afghan city is a curlosity. No railroad runs to Herat, the click of a telegraph key has never been heard within its walls. The officials and peo- ple of the city showed the expedi- tion every courtesy, allowing them to make color photographs of sights and scenes never before recorded for geo- graphic study. DRIVES 145 MILES WITH CORPSE IN CAR Wife, Claiming Husband Was Killed Accidentally, Faces First Degree Murder Charge. By the Associated Press. | GAINESVILLE, Fia., May 23.—A first degree murder charge was filed here to- day against Mrs. Nellie Pierce, who told | lice he placed th= body of her hus- nd in an automobile and drove 145 miles to the home of relatives in Lake- land, after he was killed by an acci- dental shot during a family quarrel. She was arrested in Lakeland yester- day by officers she called to the home of her sister. They found the body of her husband, James F. Plerce, an elec- trician, hidden under a mattress in the automobile. She was héld in prison at Bartow, near Lakelend, until authorities brought her to jail here. Mrs. Plerce said the gun was fired as ther husband struck at her in their home here early Thursday. She wrapped the body in a blanket, lugged it to the car, she contended, and drove with her 14- Year-old son by another marricge to Lakeland. The boy told police he was not aware his stepfather had beerr killed or that his body was in the car. State Attorney J. C. Adkins an-| Tounced Mrs. Plerce had becn charged With murder. He s2id he was investi- | gating a theory that another person involved in the killing helped her carry the body to the automobile. PR BANKERS SENTENCED Former Head of Georgia Institu- tion and Son Convicted. MACON, Ga., May 23 (#).—Lake B. Holt, former president of the defunct First | National Bank of Sandersville, and his gon and assistant, Floy L. 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