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Washington News   The Evening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION  Society and General
WASHINGTON D. C. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1935. PAGE B-1

BOTH SIDES HURL CHARGE OF FRAUD IN TRIAL OF BEARD
Government Says Witness "fixed"-Defense Claims Evidence "Planted."
JURORS SEEM WEARY FROM CONFINEMENT 

Defense Attorney Accuses Prosecutor of Taking "Unfair Advantage."

Charge and counter-charge of witness tampering and evidence-planting were hurled in the closing arguments today as the Government's gambling case against Sam Beard and a dozen co-defendants approached the jury at District Supreme Court.
The jurors came before Justice Joseph W. Cox at 9 a.m. looking a little weary after their week-long confinement. They were locked up over the week end, due to what the court described as "wide public interest and curiosity in the trial."

Charges of witness-tampering were laid before the jury shortly before noon by Assistant United States Attorney Roger Robb. 

"Have you any doubt that some one had approached the two paper company employes, who gave affidavits as to purchases of gambling forms by Beard and then became vague when they got on the stand?" Robb asked.

Sirica Hints Evidence Planted

Defense Counsel John J. Sirica retaliated by implying that some one had "planted" the loaded dice which the prosecution showed to the jury as having been taken from a safe in Beard's establishment on the fifth floor of the Mather Building, 900 block of G street.
"I asked the Government prosecutor to demonstrate the dice were crooked when he first produced them before the jury" Sirica said. "This was not done. I don't believe those dice were crooked, but if they were some one planted them in that safe." 

Sirica declared Assistant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly took an unfair advantage when he announced to the jury Saturday the Government would waive closing arguments in the interest of a speedy termination of the trial.  Sirica said this was done with the sole purpose of prejudicing the jury, the members of which did not look forward to a week end under confinement with particular pleasure.

Sirica characterized the Government's case as based on "sweeping and flimsy charges" not supported by the evidence.

Wire-tapping Criticized.
"The prosecution has asked you to send these 13 men to the penitentiary on a lot of guesswork," Sirica said.  "The Government is out to get Sam Beard and railroad him."

Sirica maintained the place raided by police October 5 was a legitimate service for discriminating race track information.  He challanged the Government's wire-tapping evidence as "vicious, unfair and dangerous to the liberties of all citizens."

The defense counsel said there was no evidence to show who made, signed or bet on the quantity of alleged racing slips seized in the Beard establishment.  He said the Government should have brought fingerprint and handwriting testimony if it sincerely wished to identify the slips.

Robb told the jury the Government had established that Beard operated a giant gambling syndicate which transacted an enormous volume of business and took a great profit.  Robb insisted the conspiracy count in the indictment was sustained by evidence linking "Beard headquarters" with 17 or more "branch gambling joints in operation throughout Washington October 5."

Says Harwood "Lied."
"Why do you think George Harwood, one of the men named in the indictment, went to the telephone company and paid for installation of 60 telephones?" Robb asked.  "He intended setting up a gambling establishment and he lied about the nature of the business, saying he was selling base ball slot machines."

Robb explained evidence found on a slip of 17 telephone numbers as linking Beard's place and the branch agencies, through code numbers later found on racing slips and overheard by Federal wire-tappers.

The prosecutor read to the jury from a number of racing slips.  The orders for these seized slips were telephoned in while a stenographer listened to the conversation from a room occupied by police in the Mather Building.  Robb checked the seized slips with the stenographer's transcript of the bets.

The indictment charges Beard and his associates on three counts - setting up and keeping a gaming table, setting up and keeping a place for gambling and conspiracy to set up and keep tables and places for gambling.


Fall Into Grave In Cemetery Wins $3,500 on Appeal
The right of Mrs. Susie K. Ball to recover $3,000 for injuries sustained when she fell into an open grave at the Cedar Hill Cemetery was affirmed today by the District Court of Appeals.  The court also decided her husband, John Lewis Ball, is entitled to $500 as compensation for expenses and losses incurred as a result of the accident.

Testimony at the trial in District Supreme Court showed a grave had been dug close to a walk and covered with a piece of canvas.  Mrs. Ball, while going to place flowers on the grave of a grandchild, slipped and fell into the excavation.

The cemetery association contended she was guilty of contributory negligence, but the trial jury rejected this defense and decided the association had failed to provide reasonable safeguards to protect visitors from injury [[?]] falling into the grave.  Mr. and Mrs. Ball were represented by Attor[[n]]eys Austin F. Canfield and Nita S. [[?]]nman. 

Thrills Air Meet Spectators
[[newsprint photograph]] [[caption]] Johnny Crowell, former flying circus star, is shown having his hands tied to the top wing of his plane by Edward Steele, a spectator, just before his take-off from College Park Airport yesterday afternoon in a "hands-off" acrobatic flight demonstration, which was a part of the Langley day air meet. - Star Staff Photo.

LOCAL FLYERS WIN LANGLEY EVENTS
5,000 See Spectacular Aviation Show - Pilots Fight Cold Winds.
Fighting high winds and cold, Washington amateur pilots yesterday afternoon ran away with a lion's share of victories in the third annual Langley day air meet at College Park Airport, College Park, Md., under the auspices of the Washington Air Derby Association.

Heavy rain yesterday morning prevented a number of out-of-town contestants from reaching Washington for the meet and the bad weather also reduced the attendance, which, however, was regarded as highly satisfactory in spite of the handicaps.

Before more than 5,000 specators, 35 contestants engaged without accident in 11 competitive flying events.  The program also included several spectacular flying demonstrations new to Washington air crowds.

The day opened with a victory for Miss Johanna Busse, chief of the thermometer section at the Bureau of Standards, in a 10-mile race for light airplanes after her chief opponent, Dick Schall, son of Senator Schall of Minnesota, had been disqualified for exceeding by more than 5 per cent the maximum allowable engine speed assigned his ship. Miss Busse also took first place in the 25-mile free-for-all handicap for women pilots.  Paul Hanlon, forced out of the running at the end of the first lap, dropped out of the opening race.

Robert G. Herring of Philadelphia ran away from a field of local flyers to finish first in the second race, a 25-mile handicap for airplanes in the 1,265 to 2,500 pound weight class.  Herring later took first place in the free-for-all sportsman pilots' trophy race.

Miss Gardner Second.
Miss Edna M. Gardner, Navel Hospital nurse, although she averaged 120.546 miles per hour for the 25-mile course, as against the slow time of 89.587 for Herring, had to be content with second place in the second race.  Jimmy Foote finished third.

Two local pilots were disqualified in the third race, a 25-mile handicap for airplanes weighing more than 2,500 pounds, and first place went to Chester H. Warrington, president of the Aero Club of Washington and former president of the Air Derby group, with a speed of 129.328 miles per hour. Harrison "Buddy" Somerville, president of the Derby Association, and George Brinckerhoff, manager of the College Park Airport, were ruled out for exceeding their engine speed ratings.

"Chet" Warrington also ran a close second to Herring in the fourth race, the sportsman pilots' free-for-all.  Mrs. Genevieve M. Savage, wife of Capt. Charles M. Savage, adjutant of Bolling Field, finished third in this event.

Miss Busse, Miss Gardner and Mrs. Savage finished one-two-three in the women's free-for-all, with Miss Helen Frigo, also of Washington, finishing close behind Mrs. Savage.  Miss Frigo missed her chance for third place when she cut a pylon on the next to the last lap and had to go back.  The start of the last lap of this race furnished one of the most exciting moments of the meet, when Miss Gardiner and Mrs. Savage, after fighting a neck-an-neck race through the straightaway, entered the pylon turn in front of the grandstand together, and Miss Gardner, forcing Mrs. Savage to the outside of the turn, nosed past her.  All the women except Mrs. Savage lost count of laps and made an extra trip around the course.  Mrs. Savage, finishing her race with a steep climb, noticed with surprise that the others were going on for another lap and decided to rejoin them, which she did in a long, roaring dive.

Johnny Crowell, Charlotte, N. C. former Gates Flying Circus star, gave the crowd a thrill with a demonstration of "hands off" acrobattic flying.  His hands were roped to the upper wing of his plane and he took off, controlling his plane with feet and knees alone.

Parachute Jump.
A scheduled 10,000-foot delayed parachute jump by George de Grange of Bolling Field had to be whittled down to about 3,000 feet when the plane began to pull into heavy clouds.
De Grange dropped more than 800 feet before pulling the rip-cord and made a standing-up landing near the airport circle in a stiff wind.

Dick Birchard, noted Pennsylvania amateur acrobatic flyer, took a handy first place in the acrobatic contest with a very smooth exhibition.  Second place was awarded Dick Schall.  During the afternoon a number of demonstration glider flights, with automobile tow launchings, were made by local glider pilots under direction of Don Hamilton.  

Clifford Ziegler came from Warrenton, Va., to take first place in the bomb-dropping contest, the judges announcing that his two shots struck 13 and 14 feet from the bull's-eye.

A 15-mile airplane relay race was won by a team composed of Jimmy Foote, Mrs. Genevieve M. Savage and Dick Schall.

The races were electrically timed by experts from the Bureau of Standards and the National Aeronautic Association under direction of William R. Enyart, chief timer.

BETHESDA PLANS DRIVE ON GULLEY
C. of C. Committee to Discuss Legislation With
Prescott.
By Jack Allen.
By a Staff Correspondent of the Star.
BETHESDA, Md., May 6.- Leaders of the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce were girding today for a determined drive toward elimination of the highly dangerous gully being created along Wisconsin avenue, by raising the grade of teh thoroughfare and paving the dual traffic lanes on either side of the Washington-Rockville-Electric Railway.

A special committee was to confer with State Senator Stedman Prescott at Rockville this afternoon and discuss with him the bill enacted by the State Legislature to compel railways operating along Wisconsin avenue, the Georgetown and Rockville pikes to bear the cost of any improvements deemed necessary along their rights-of way.

Another Committee.
Another committee was to be appointed by the chamber at its meeting tonight to call upon Gov. Harry W. Nice and present the executive with copies of resolutions appealing to him to sign the measure and thus make it a law.  The bill has been before the Governor since the State Assembly adjourned a month ago.

Still a third group was to be chosen at tonight's session to meet with the Board of Montgomery County Commissioners and urge the members of that body to exert their efforts toward convincing Gov. Nice that the law is needed to force the railroad to corrected the traffic menace that is being created by the improvement work.

Paving of the two lanes and the raising of the grade of the street will leave the unimproved right-of-way of the traction firm lying in a gulley ranging upward to 3 feet deep from the
District line to the Old Georgetown road, the entire stretch of more than an mile of roadway that is being improved by the State Roads Commission.

Vigorous Fight Decided.
Leaders of the Chamber of Commerce called a special meeting of the Board of Directors Saturday night and decided to open a vigorous fight to eliminate the unsightly and dangerous condition that now is taking form along the avenue, which is one of the principal traffic arteries leading into the Capital.

John A. Overholt, secretary; A. R. Townshend, jr.; Samuel E. Stonebraker, former president; B. W. Parker and George P. Sacks were appointed to the committee that will confer with Senator Prescott today.  

The members of the other committees that will figure in the drive are to be chosen at tonight's meeting, scheduled for 8 o'clock in the county building.

BLOSSOMS IN PARKS DECLARED BEAUTIFUL
Assistant Supt. Gartside Calls Attention to Dogwood and Other Shrubs.

Frank T. Gartside, assistant superintendent of the National Capital parks, today invited the attention of the public to the beautiful floral displays now in the park system.

C. Marshall Finnan, the parks chief, described the dogwood blooms along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway as "perfectly magnificent."  His assistant asserted that the display of redbud and dogwood, particularly in Rock Creek Park, gives a sense of perspective in the woods that cannot be secured at any other season of the year.

In flower now, Mr. Gartside said, are mock orange, spirea, weigelia rose, lilacs and crab apple trees, these latter being in Anacostia Park.

The Japanese cherry trees and magnolia are no longer in bloom.

Tulips and pansies are also adding color to the park system at this season.

WEEK END DEATHS IN D.C. AND NEARBY TRAFFIC TOTAL 4 
Colored Man Killed by Street Car and Another Dies in Crash.
MOTOR CYCLE COLLISION WITH FENCE IS FATAL
Robert B. Eisinger, 645 Park Road, and Girl, 6, Victims in County - Nearly Score Hurt.

Two colored men were killed in traffic accidents here yesterday, while accidents in nearby Maryland accounted for two other deaths over the week end- as plans were announced for launching a Washington traffic safety education campaign today.  Nearly a score of others were injured in the District, nearby Maryland and Virginia.

One of the dead colored men is Frank Stroman, 23 of the 500 block of Fifty-seventh street northeast, hit by a street car on the right of way near Fifty-sixth street northeaset.  Raymond Henson, 24, colored, of the 1500 block of Twelfth street, was killed earlier yesterday when an automobile, reported stolen, crashed into a tree and an electric light pole at Twenty-seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast.

David Doggett, 59, of 1222 I street notheast was operating the street car which struck Stroman.  He will be summoned to an inquest, the date of which is to be announce later.

Body Found at Scene.
Henson was found under the electric light pole, which had been knocked over, and was identified later by a friend.  Police say two men jumped out of the machine and ran.  A search is being made for them.  It was not known  definitely whether Henson had been riding in the machine.

The nearby Maryland fatalities were Robert B. Eisinger, 20, of 645 Park road, killed Saturday night when his motor cycle left the road and crashed into a fence at Takoma Park, Md., and a 6-year-old colored girl, Mary Frances Tyler, who died in Freedmen's Hospital late Saturday from injuries received Friday at Hyattsville, Md., when hit by an automobile.

John Lang, 82, a resident of Soldiers' Home, was in a serious condition today in Casualty Hospital, suffering from head and chest injuries sustained last night when he was hit by a street car at Eleventh and I streets southeast.  It was feared he was injured internally.  X-rays were to be taken today to determine whether he has a skull fracture.

Raymond A. Dixon, 19 of 228 Tenth street northeast, was seriously injured last night in a collision between two automobiles at Savage, MD. He was taken to Casualty Hospital where his condition was said to be serious.  He was hurt about the head and may have been injured internally.  His wife, Lorraine, and another woman, were treated in a Baltimore hospital, but not admitted, police said.  Young Dixon was brought here from the scene of the accident in a taxicab.

Howard Selby, 18, of Gaithersburg, Md., was seriously hurt and three other young Marylanders injured when the automobile in which they were riding was in collision with another machine near Gaithersburg.  Young Selby is under observation at Georgetown Hospital for possible internal injuries.

The youth's brother, Howard Selby, 20, of Gaithersburg, who was driving; Catherine Etchison, 15, of Boyds, Md., and Flora Pope, 19, of Monrovia, Md., were treated at the hospital for numerous cuts and bruises.  The other automobile was driven by Edward P. Roberts, 5523 Kansas avenue, county authorities said.

Three persons were treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts and bruises received in a collision at Bladensburg, Md. They were Andrew Clark, 70, of 454 M street southwest; Frederick Salzer, 26, of Naval Air Station, and Helen Poore, 24, of 207 Pennsylvania avenue southeast.

California Couple Hurt.
Frank H. Nelson, 32, of Riverside, Calif., sustained a nose fracture, cuts and bruises, and his wife, Mrs. Orva Nelson, 26, head injuries and cuts when their automobile ran into the concrete center of the Q Street Bridge last night.  They were taken to Emergency Hospital, where X-rays were to be taken to determine whether Mrs. Nelson suffered a skull fracture.

Rubin Dobson, 49, of 818 Ninth street, is in Emergency Hospital suffering from head injuries sustained  when struck by an automobile on Ninth street between F and G streets Friday.  He was under observation to determine whether he has a skull fracture.

Rufus Smart, 19, 456 M street southwest, was cut and bruised early Sunday when a parked automobile in which he was seated with Winnie I. Pigdon, also of the M street address, was overturned by another automobile in the 3900 block of Alabama avenue southeast. Eugene M. Peake, 22, of the 500 block of Seward Square southeast, who police say was driving the striking vehicle, was arrested on a charge of reckless driving.  

Several other persons, a number of them colored, sustained minor injuries in traffic accidents in the District.

Thomas Stokes, 48, colored, of Waterfall, Va., was in a serious condition in Emergency Hospital suffering from a lung puncture, rib fractures and other injuries sustained when an automobile in which he was riding overturned in the vicinity of Fairfax, Va.

Five Fairfax Licenses to Wed.
FAIRFAX, Va., May 6 (Special).-
Marriage licenses have been issues in the office of the local clerk of the Circuit Court as follows: Frank Blackwell, 47, and Helen Johnson, 32, both of Merrifield, Va.; Raymond Andrew Kerns, 22, and Irene Constance Manvell, 18, both of Vienna, Va.; Robert Werntz Ogle, 23, and Laura Katherine Jacobsen, 22, both of Annapolis, Md.; Jesse A. Aird, jr., 26, Fairfax, Va., and Carrie Marie Akers, 23, R. F. D., Fairfax, Va., and David M. Jameson, 21, Washington, and Willie E. Powers, 24, Great Falls, S. C.


BURDEN OF WAR BLAMED IN RISE OF NAZI POWER
Anti-Semitism Seen Due to Persons Seeking Personal Gains.

B'NAI B'RITH SPEAKER ASKS EXEMPLARY ACTION

25 New Lodges Reported to Convention - Byrns to Be at Banquet Tonight.

Naziism would never have prevailed in Germany had it not been for the destructive World War, which burdened down the German people economically and spiritually to desperation, Sigmund Livingston, chairman of the anti-Defamation Committee of the B'nai B'rith, declared today at a session of the fourteenth quinquennial convention at the Willard Hotel.

Spurred on by the success of the Nazi movement in Germany, he declared, individuals were encouraged to sponsor the doctrines of anti-Semitism in this country with the hope of achieving either financial profit or the glory of power or notoriety.

In their efforts toward this end, Livingston told the conventionists, attempts were made to poison the public mind of America by calumny and false accusations.  Many of the alleged accusations were disproved by Livingston in a quotation of figures.

Anatogonism Explained.
The speaker set forth eight contributing causes for the antagonism today, the first of which, he said, was "lack of knowledge by the general public of the Jew make the Jew a mystic character, which causes the suspicion in which he is held."

"America has never permitted injustice to prevail," he declared, however, adding that "all faiths have erected here their altars and worship in accordance with the dictates of their conscience."

In urging continuation of the flight to clear the good name of Jewry, Livingston pointed out that "one Jew can do more harm to our cause than hundreds of others can correct." To carry on the work will require the moral and financial support of every Jew who believes "a good name is better than precious oil and rather to be sought than gold."

Dr. L. M. Rubinow, secretary of B'nai B'rith, gave a full report of the activities of the group during the five-year period without a convention. 

25 New Lodges.
During the five-year period 25 more lodges have been formed, he told the delegates. There was also an increase of from 83 to 103 women's auxiliary lodges. Dr. Rubinow gave a financial report covering all phases of the organization's work. Due to the recent strike in Germany, there was a decrease of 1,884 in membership, he declared. 

Tonight the convention banquet will have as the guest of honor Speaker Joseph W. Byrns, whose address on "The Jew's Contribution to the United States" will be broadcast over a national hook-up from 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. The president of the Grand Lodge will act as toastmaster and Judge I. M. Golden of San Francisco will deliver an address. The heads of all the national Jewish organizations have been invited to attend the banquet, at which more than 600 guests are expected. Edward Rosenblum of Washington is chairman of the Banquet Committee. 

RENT LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
House D. C. Committee to Debate Two Bills on Wednesday.
With the continued postponement of a proposed joint conference between the Senate and House District Committees for consideration of rent-control legislation, the House group made arrangements today to consider two bills at its regular meeting Wednesday, both of which are designed to protect Washington residents against exorbitant rentals. 

One of the measures, sponsored by Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, would freeze rentals as of January 1, 1934. The other, introduced by Representative Ellenbogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, would create a commission to fix and control rentals similar to the one that existed during the World War. 

Reports to the House Committee from the Senate Committee indicate it will be impossible for the contemplated rent conference before the end of the week. Chairman Norton, who has been swamped with complaints of alleged "rent gouging" from members of Congress as well as Government employes, believes that rent-control legislation should be enacted without delay. For that reason she hopes to have her committee take some action on the two rent bills Wednesday. 

TWO DUCKED IN RIVER AS SAILBOAT CAPSIZES
Accident Off Hains Point Mars Race Entry of Malcomb Lamborne and Clyde Cruit. 
The initial effort this year at sailboat racing resulted in a chilly bath in the Potomac River for Malcom D. Lamborne, jr., 20, of 425 Farragut street, and Clyde Cruit, 48, of 6921 Fairfax road, Edgemoor, Md., when their boat capsized yesterday as they were rounding Hains Point. 

The two were entered in a race under auspices of the Potomac River Sailing Association when a gust turned over the boat. They straddled the boat for about 15 minutes, until rescued by two policemen from the harbor precinct. 

Neither was hurt by the accident. 

Aviatrix Who Flew Here in '18 Finds City Changed for Better
Former Miss Ruth Law Misses War-Time Landmarks. 
Piloted Pusher Ship Down Avenue at Elevation of 35 Feet.
On April 25, 1918, a pusher biplane flew the length of Pennsylvania avenue  only 35 feet above the pavement, below the tops of most buildings. So low did the machine fly that, according to the account in The Star of the next day, hats were blown from the heads of spectators by the propeller blast. 

At the controls of the low-flying ship was Miss Ruth Law, daring red-haired aviatrix, then 25 years old, a Government volunteer assigned to Liberty Loan promotion campaign work. 

Today Mrs. Charles Oliver of Beverly Hills, Calif., mildly stirred over the pleasure of renewing old acquaintances and exploring a city which has wholly changed in the past 17 years, is a guest at the Capitol Park Hotel. She was Miss Ruth Law before she gave up her flying career to settle down as a housewife. 

"I find Washington utterly changed," she said. "The old landmarks are gone and I see almost nothing left of the wartime avenue down which I flew. Washington is beginning to look finished. It always was a rather raw, incomplete looking place. 

Mrs. Oliver said that she planned today to visit friends, among them Col. J. Carroll Cone, assistant director of air commerce, and Mrs. Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, now a specialist for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 

"Mrs. Omlie was just a kid starting to fly when I first knew her," Mrs. Oliver said. "Now she is pretty well up toward the top in the aviation world." 

Mrs. Oliver is making a "pleasure trip" with her husband, she said, and probably will leave Washington tomorrow for New York and Boston.

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MRS. CHARLES OLIVER.

She said that Col. Cone wanted to fly her over Washington during her visit so she could really see the differences in the city, but she had been forced to decline for lack of time. 

NEW AIR RECORDS TOMLINSON'S GOAL
Former Navy Pilot to Race Big Plane on Course Charted From D. C.
An attempt to break eight world airplane records and to establish 11 new American records is to be made over Washington this week as a part of the National Aeronautic Association campaign to restore American leadership in the air. 

The record attempt, the first to be made in response to the appeal of Senator William G. McAdoo of California, N. A. A. president, will be made by D.W. "Tommy" Tomlinson, former Navy air veteran, in the big twin-engined high-speed monoplane which last week established a new transcontinental record of 11 hours 5 minutes and 45 seconds from Los Angeles to New York. 

Tomlinson will fly the ship over a 1,000-kilometer closed course, with its corners at Bolling Field, Langley Field, Va., and Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. The sides of this triangle, which has been officially measured and certified by the N. A. A., measure exactly 1,000 kilometers, are 621 miles. 

U.S. to Rival France.
The new records, all of which are to be sought in a single flight, are various records for speed and distance with loads. Should the flight be successful the United States will be brought almost to a parity with France in the total of international air records held. The total then would be 40 for France and 38 for the United States, the N. A. A. announced. 

Other record attempts will be made within the next few weeks by aircraft manufacturers and air transport operators under N. A. A. guidance, it was announced, to give this country an undisputed leadership. The drive is being made to increase the prestige of American aviation in the eyes of the world and to enlarge the foreign market for the aircraft of this country. 

Tomlinson, for the first time in the history of international speed trials, will fly this week at high altitude. He plans to maintain an altitude of approximately 14,000 feet and his flight will be recorded by the new theodolyte method sanctioned by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale recently. 

To Contact Official Observers.
Official timers will be stationed at the three corners of the great triangle and as the pilot approaches each turning point he will establish radio contact with the pylon observers. The plane then will be picked up by theodolyte and followed during the course of its turn. To establish a permanent record it is planned to photograph the recording scale of the theodolyte and a synchronized stop watch with a 16-mm. camera. 

The plane to be used in this attempt is one of the fastest multi-engined transports in the world and is the same airplane used by the Bureau of Air Commerce in its recent radio-compass tests off the California coast. It has a maximum cruising speed of 205 miles per hour at 14,000 feet and a top speed of 215 miles per hour. 

No definite date has been set for the start of the light, but Tomlinson hopes, if the weather is favorable, to take off Thursday or Friday from Floyd Bennett Field, New York. 

Senator McAdoo in a radio address last night called upon the American aviation industry and the public to support the N. A. A. campaign for records. He pointed out that the campaign is designed as a means of "expanding our foreign commerce and in preparing a most vital element in our national defense."

Legion Auxiliary Dance Tonight.
The Italian Legion Auxiliary Post, No. 7, will hold its anniversary reception and dance this evening at the Y. W. C. A., 614 E street. 

CORCORAN EXHIBIT ATTRACTS 60,000
Notables Among Throng That Tripled Attendance at Last Biennial Show.
The Corcoran Art Gallery's Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings closed yesterday evening with a total attendance for the six-week show of approximately 60,000 persons-nearly three times the attendance at the last exhibition. 

Numbered among the visitors were President and Mrs. Roosevelt, members of the Supreme Court, Cabinet officers, members of both houses of Congress, foreign Diplomats, art directors from both the United States and from abroad, collectors, artists, critics and other notables. Mrs. Roosevelt attended the show several times. 

C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the gallery said today the exhibition was larger and received more favorable comment than any ever held by the gallery. There were 428 paintings in the show and seven of them will remain at the Corcoran Gallery as part of its permanent collection. 

Mr. Minnigerode remarked that the spectators represented a cross-section of American life and came from all parts of the country. this was the first biennial exhibition held in the Spring since the World War and it drew thousands of students and other sightseers here for the cherry blossoms and Easter season attractions of the Capital. Heretofore the exhibitions have been held in mid-winter. 

The show was being rapidly dismantled today and many of the pictures are being shipped to other cities in preparation for art shows being arranged there.

CIRCUS TO APPEAR HERE MAY 20-21
Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Will Feature Many New Foreign Acts. 
The Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus will make its 1935 appearance in Washington Monday and Tuesday, May 20 and 21, and press statements say it is "the grandest ever."

To bear this out, officials of the big show point to the scores of foreign features new to America this year. These include a Saharan caravan of acrobatic camels and touregs, a 60-horse liberty act; the largest aerial ballet ever produced, headed by Annetta and Nelleta, revolving flyers; Jennie and the Lydias, fresh from Europe, they say, are the Walkmirs, the Antaleks, the Buemrangs, the Romoes, the Maschinos, the Demenatis, the Willos, the Lauries and the Rooneys, all aerial novelty sensations. 

The animals, of course, won't be missing. The rhino colony has one new addition-Mary, the famed rhinoceros of the Tarzan motion picture.

The big top, seating 16,000 persons, will include seven rings and stages and a huge hippodrome track. This season in one of the large tents will be seen Col. Tim McCoy's Indian village, where Sioux, Crow, Shawnee and Araphoe warriors will be encamped. 

CONVENTION BILL PASSES
The House today adopted a resolution appropriating $54,000 out of the revenues of the District to enable the Commissioners to defray certain expenses in connection with the Shrine convention next month

The resolution was called up by Chairman Buchanan of the Appropriations Committee and approved without debate. It now goes to the Senate for action there. 

BYRD AND MATES TO BE FETED ON ARRIVAL IN CITY
National Tributes Planned for Expedition Heroes Here on Friday. 
MEN WILL BE GUESTS ON PRESIDENT"S YACHT
Dinner With Geographic Society Officials and Reception Are Other High Lights. 
National tributes to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and members of his second expedition to the Antarctic were being planned today by official Washington in anticipation of the arrival of the expedition, aboard the veteran flagship, Bear of Oakland, at the Washington Navy Yard late Friday afternoon. 

Byrd and the members of the expedition will be welcomed by President Roosevelt at the Navy Yard wharf when the Bear ties up, probably at about 5 p.m. Friday. The members of the expedition will be given a homecoming reception by the National Geographic Society Friday night at Constitution Hall. Admiral Byrd himself will receive the honors of the society for the third time Friday night. 

To Go Aboard the Sequoia.
According to latest advices received at the White House and Geographic headquarters, Byrd will remain with the members of his expedition and will land with them at the Navy Yard to be welcomed by the President. The members of the expedition then will board the U. S. S Sequoia to be the guests of President Roosevelt at tea. The President then plans to leave on a week end cruise aboard the Sequoia while Byrd and the members of his expedition will be taken to the Willard Hotel, which will be expedition headquarters during their stay in Washington. 

The Geographic Society officers and trustees will act as hosts to Admiral Byrd and his men at a dinner in the Willard Hotel Friday evening. Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and Thomas Byrd of Winchester, Va., brothers of the admirals, will be guests at this dinner. 

The reception at Constitution Hall will come as the climax of the Washington homecoming. Byrd and his men will be officially honored at this reception in recognition of their scientific and geographic achievements in the Antarctic. 

Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the society, will welcome Byrd and the personnel of the second expedition. In tribute to the admiral as the only man who has crossed both the North and South Poles by air, Dr. Grosvenor will present him an engrossed scroll on behalf of the society in appreciation of his contribution to science and geographic knowledge. 

To Be Presented Individually.
The occasion will mark the tenth anniversary f Byrd's association with the National Geographic Society. The officers, staff and members of the expedition will be presented to the audience individually. The program is to be broadcast over Nation-wide hook-ups of both Columbia and National broadcasting systems. 

Twice before Byrd has received official recognition of the National Geographic Society. In 1926 he received from President Coolidge the Hubbard gold medal of the society for his flight across the North Pole. In 1930 he received from President Hoover the special gold medal of the society for his work in Antarctica with the first expedition. 

Admiral Byrd began his decade of association with the society in 1925 when he assumed command of three Navy airplanes assigned to the MacMillan Polar Expedition, which drew world attention to the possibility of polar exploration by air and gave Byrd his first experience in this field. During the next year, in May. 1926, he and the late Floyd Bennett flew across the North Pole. 

Byrd and the Geographic Society again co-operated in 1927 when he flew the Atlantic Ocean from New York to France, and once more in 1928-9 when the first Antarctic expedition reached its climax in the first flight to the South Pole. 

TRIAL IS OPENED IN ASSAULT CASE
Poindexter in Rockville Court. Girl Takes Stand to Tell of Attack.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
Rockville, Md., May 6.-James Poindexter, colored, 28, went on trial in the Circuit Court today on a charge of criminally assaulting the 16-year-old daughter of a United States Bureau of Standards official six months ago. 

Only a few spectators were present when the trial was opened, and they were excluded from the court room temporarily when the victim of the attack was called to the stand to tell her story. 

One of the witnesses against Poindexter is to be William Harold, alias Alexander Jones, who was sentenced to hang on April 26 for the same offense, but was granted a 30-day stay by Gov. Harry W. Nice so that he might testify for the State. 

The full bench of the sixth judicial circuit-composed of Chief Judge Hammand Urner and Associate Judges Arthur D. Willard and Charles W. Woodward-is hearing the case against Poindexter, who formerly lives at Covington, Va. 

Poindexter was apprehended recently in Pittsburgh and brought back to Rockville. The attack occurred on the night on September 30 near Chevy Chase Circle. 

F. Barnard Welsh and Kenneth Lyddane are representing the defendant, while State's Attorney James H. Pugh is conducting the prosecution. He is being assisted by State Senator Stedman Prescott, former State's attorney.