Evening star., 1935-05-06
National Tributes Planned
for Expedition Heroes Here
on Friday.
MEN WILL BE GUESTS
ON PRESIDENTS 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 ofncial
Washington in anticipation of the ar
rival Of the expedition, aboard the
veteran flagship, Bear Of Oakland, at
the Washington Navy Yard late FRI
day afternoon.
Byrd and the members Of the ex-
pedition will be welcomed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the Navy Yard
wharf when the Bear ties up, probably
at about pm. Friday. The members
of the expedition win be given
Homecoming reception by the National
Geographic Society Friday night at
Constitution Hall. Admiral Byrd him
self will receive the honors Of the So
ciety 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
week end cruise aboard the Sequoia
while Byrd and the members Of his
expedition will be taken to the Will
lard 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. Sena.
tor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and
Thomas Byrd of Winchester, Va,
brothers of the admiral, will be guests
at this dinner.
The reception at Constitution Hall
| will come as the climax Of the WASH
mgton Homecoming. Byrd and his
men will be officially honored at this
reception in recognition of their
scientific and geographic achieve
ments in the Antarctic.
DR.. Gilbert GroSvenor, president Of
the society, will welcome Byrd and
the personnel Of the second expedi-
ton. 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 en-
crossed 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 of Byrd's association with
the National Geographic Society. The
officers, staff and members Of the ex-
pedition will be presented to the
audience individually. The program
is to be broadcast over Nationwide
hook-upS of both Columbia and Ma
tional broadcasting systems.
Twice before Byrd has received ON
cial recognition of the National Geo.
graphic Society. In 1925 he received
from President Coolidge the Hubbard
gold medal of the society for his flight
dCIOoS tllc INOI Ill 1Olc. LII 4SoU uS re-
ceived 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 Mac
MILAN Polar Expedition, which drew
world attention to the possibility Of
polar exploration by air and gave Byrd
his first experience in this field. Dur
ing the next year, in May, 1926. he
and the late Floyd Bennett few 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
l928-9 when the first Antarctic ex-
pedition reached its climax in the first
fight to the South Pole.