NO MONEY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 19, 17 August 1928, Page 5

NO MONEY

TRANS-PACIFIC FLIER. VAUDEVILLE CONTRACT DE- - CLINED. NEW YORK, August 15. The Associated Press to-night carries the following! dispatch from Paris: Captain Hill Maine Lyon will return home from here with the only money he made from the trans-Paci-fic flight, 6000 dollars given him by his Oakland friends, attached iu a civil suit“l could not dare to see my father’s name, Admiral Lyon, on billboards,” Captain Lyon declared, ex. plaining his refusal of a twentyweek vaudeville contract at 2500 dollars per week. Mr Ordway sent Captain Lyon many messages while the Southern Cross was in flight proposing cinema and other contracts on his return. Captain Lyon wirelessed his assent. He accepted his passage money from Mr Ordway because he was penniless at the completion of the flight as he had refused to accept a share of the purse presented! to the Australian members of the crew. Mr Ordway met Captain Lyon and Mr Warner at Honolulu and presented the former with an expense bill of 1700 dollars and unsuccessfully endeavoured b persuade him to accept a vaudeville contract.