CAPTAIN HARRY LYON HAS LITTLE MONEY AS RESULT FLIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18543, 17 August 1928, Page 4

CAPTAIN HARRY LYON HAS LITTLE MONEY AS RESULT FLIGHT.

AMERICAN GIFT OF 6000 DOLLARS ATTACHED IN CIVIL ACTION.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

PARIS HILL (Maine), August 15. Captain Harry Lyon, who assisted Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant Ulm in their flight across the Pacific in the Southern Cross, will return to his home here wrth only the money that he made from the trans-Pacific flight, 6000 dollars which-was given him bv friends m Oakland, and is attached in a civil

" I could not bear to see the name of my father, Admiral Lyon, on the billboards,” Captain Lyon declared, explaining his refusal of a twenty-week vaudeville contract at 2500 dollars a week.

While the Southern Cross was in flight, Mr Ordway sent him many messages proposing cinema and other contracts on his return. Captain Lvon " irelessed his assent, and accepted his passage money from Ordwav because he was penniless at the completion of the flight. 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 James Warner at Honolulu and presented the former with a bill for expenses for 1700 dollars, and unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade him to accept a vaudeville contract.—Australian Press Association.