WITHOUT MONEY.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19391, 17 August 1928, Page 11

WITHOUT MONEY.

CAPTAIN LYON'S RETURN. DISLIKED VAUDEVILLE. (WITH) PBISS ASSOCIATION —BY K.SCTRIO TXUSOBAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 16th, 7.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 15. The Associated Press to-night carries the following dispatch from Parishill, Maine: —"Captain Lyon will return home here with the only money ho made from the trans-Pacific flight, 6000 dollars given him by his Oakland friends, attached in a civil suit. "I could not bear to see my father's name. Admiral Lyon, on the billboards," Captain Lyon declared, explaining his refusal of a 20-week vaudeville contract at 2500 dollars per week. Mr Ordway sent Lyon, while the Southern Cross was in flight, many messages proposing cinema and other contracts on nis return, and Lyon wirelessed his assent. He accepted his passage money from Mr Ordway because ho was penniless at the completion of the flight. He had refused to accept his share of the purse presented to the Australian members of the crew.

Mr Ordway met Captain Lyon and Mr James Warner at Honolulu and presented the former with an expense bill for 1700 dollars," unsuccessfully endeavouring to persuade Lyon to accept a vaudeville contract.—Australian Press Association.