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SUNDAY. JUNE 1. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Page 5 B Pioneer Flier Harry Lyon Recalls Youthful Years Br GORDON A. GLOVER PAWS HILL. Maine (AP)-ln a white colonial mansion overlook ing a New England churchyard. Cap'n Harry Lyon lives amid memories oi his days as an ocean skipper, rum runner, pioneer flier, and village hell-raiser. "I am what you might call a nefarious character." he grins. At 73. Lyon can indeed look back on a career that has had its high moments and he wouldn't give one oi them back. As Lyon would say, you can pick up his life story about the way ijrou would a pup just for ward of the middle. It was 30 years ago today that Lyon helped make aviation history by navigat ing the first airplane to cross the Pacific. The plane was the famous Southern Cross, a patched up tri motor Fokker that somehow made it' from Oakland, Calif., to Bris bane, Australia, a distance of well ever 7,000 miles. The pilot was one of the greatest airmen of his day Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. The other crew members were C. P. T. Ulm, a fellow Australian as copilot, and radio operator Jim Warner, an American. Kingsford-Smith and Ulm were later killed in separate plane crashes. Lyon, a Merchant Marine skip- Radio Piil Aids Stomach WASHINGTON (AP) - A radio that can be swallowed in pill form offers a new and better aid for studying disorders of the stomach and intestines. Drs. John T. Farrar and James S. Berstein said this Saturday in a report prepared for a meeting of the American Gastroenterological Assn. The two New York doctors said the radio pill is designed to record pressures inside the gastrointes tinal tract pressures related to muscular contraction and disten tion. When there is too much con traction or distention, the normal pressure picture changes. ' In the past, study of these pres- cures required passage o long tubes through the mouth, nose or rectum. But the radio pill docs it this way: 1 A patient swallows a plastic capsule a little more than an inch long and two-fifths of an inch in diameter. . Inside the capsule is a minia ture transistor-type radio trans mitter, equipped with a pressure- sensitive diaphragm. As the pill passes down along the gastrointestinal tract, it de tects the pressures and broadcasts them to a radio receiver outside The pressures are shown on an oscilloscope something like a TV picture tuoe and recorded per manently on paper. The pill is eliminated from the body with na tural waste products. Describing its trial on 16 sub jects, the doctors said the radio Bill permits prolonged recording .of pressures "in previously al most inaccessible areas," such as the lower end of the small intes tine and the ascending portion of the large bowel. Crew Escape Said Miracle HONOLULU (AP) A Naval of ficer said Saturday it wos a miracle that any of the eight officers or 84 crewmen escaped from the submarine Stickleback before she sank Thursday after being rammed by the destroyer escort Silverstem. Capt. Paul C. Stimson, com mander of Submarine Squadron Seven, praised the crews of both ships for saving all hands with out, injury or loss of life. "We are just lucky that we are not consoling any widows," he said. The last man from below decks. Chief Electricians Mate Larry- Hughes. Norton. Kan., was up to his shoulder in water as he started ud the conning tower. The 10 million-dollar Stickleback sank in water two miles deep 19 miles southwest of here. She was on maneuvers with the destroyer escort. Lt. Comdr. R. S c h u I z. Racine, Wis., said his sub had lost power just before the escort rammed her. The Silverstein's skipper, Cmdr. C. S. Swift ot San Leandro, Calif. said the sub's tower was sighted by a lookout only 100 yards off. The impact came about 10 sec onds after he gave the command to reverse engines. He moored alongside and took off the submarine s crew. Damage to the Silverstein was minor. BOOM LOWERED LONG VIEW, Tex. il'PD An employe went too far when he re turned $120 he had stolen to restaurant manager who had of fered to forget the robbery for the return of the money. I he man lost his job when he demanded a re ceipt from Skyway Restaurant manager Larry Loper. "D you leave me a receipt when you robbed me?" Loper asked. RELIGIOUS SECT The Dotikhobors started off in Russia as an obscure religious sect, with firm convictions against military service and against obey ing laws that conflict with their faith. In 1K40. they cot permission per, had never flown in his life when he was asked to navieate the Southern Cross. He was "on the beach" and thinkine vaeuelv oi retiring irom the sea when Kingsford-Smith entered his life in San Francisco. The son of an admiral. Lyon was expelled from Hebron Acade my for general hell-raising. I lasted about a year," he says, "and then the headmaster suggested that I not return the following year. I was an awful prankster usually leading a lot of other pranksters on a merry chase around the village." Later he went to Annapolis for a year, "bilged out because he paid more attention to sports than studies, and then went to Dart mouth. In 1912 he left college and went to sea under sail, for several years commanding a square-rigger. He was a lieutenant com mander in the Navy during World War I. He skippered freighters during the 1920s and also had a brief whirl running rum along the Cali fornia coast. Had anyone troubled to figure the odds on that morning of May 31, 1928, tney probably would have been 100 to 1 against the Southern Cross ever reaching Aus tralia. Loaded with gas, the plane thundered down the runway at Oakland Airport, lifted ponderous ly into a misty blue ' sky, and picked up a course for Hawaii. Lyon made the first official log entry: "Were happy as hell We cruised at 4,000 feet at 90 miles an hour," he recalls. "It was drafty in there and so noisy we could communicate only by writing notes I navigated the way I would on a ship only taster. The 27-hour hop to Hawaii was an achievement, but it had been done before. It was the second leg that put the crew of the Southern Cross to a test particularly Lyon The object was to hit the island of Suva, a coral chip 3,100 miles away in the Fill group. We hit U right on the nose, but it was a close call, Lyon says. 'We had maybe 20 minutes of fuel left in our tanks. The landing should go down in history, too. Kingsford-Smith needed weight in the tan so he could set the ship down hard on a field that was. only about 1,000 feet long. Lyon and Warner, clad only In trunks, crawled to the tail. To avoid hitting a crowd of specta tors, Mngalord-Smith ground- looped after landing, sending the Southern Cross into a bog. The wheels sank in the muck. the tail shot violently Into, the air, and Warner hurtled through the fabric losing his trunks en route. The last icg of the night 1,900 miles from Suva to Australia would have been easy had not the patched-up Southern Cross hit the worst storm Lyon had ever seen. But they weathered it, crossed the Australian coast, and later were mobbed by 300,000 people at reception in Sydney, where the Southern Cross now reposes in a museum. Lyon returned to Paris Hill and was hailed as the village cut-up who had made good. Still ahead were more years of flying (until he suffered a back injury in an automobile wreck) and a stint as transport skipper in World War II. Today, Lyon lives the life of a country squire with his wife Thelma at the family home, Lyonsden. He is crier in Superior Court, a deputy sheriff, a member of the South Paris water commis sion, and a member of the local draft board. The Southern Cross is now a pleasant memory, and the $2,500 he received as his share of the purse has long since -gone, too. 1 spent every flime of it on riotous living," Lyon winked. "Merry Widow' Escapes Gallows LONDON (UPI) The "Merry Widow of Windy Nook" escaped the gallows Saturday. .Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wilson sentenced to death for the mur der of two of her three husbands by cockroach poison, was granted reprieve by the Home Secre tary. The first woman to be sen tenced to hang under Britain's new Homicide Act, Mrs. Wilson had already had one appeal turned down by the court of crim inal appeal. I he reprieve meant that Mrs. Wilson would serve a life sentence, it was understood. Merry-Go-Round Tame Says Girl NEW YORK (AP) - Eleven- year-old Carol Anderson didn't wai)t to go on the merry-go-round or anyimng nxe mat. loo Baby ish, she said. So she settled for an aerial ride yesterday on the Coney Island 250-foot paracnute Jump. Carol and her father, John An derson, 47, had floated half-way down when the parachute snagged on a guide cable. Thousands of visitors watched as a park em ploye was lowered from above to free the cable. A safety net was stretched below. When they finally got down, An derson said, "Thank God." Said Caroi: "lt was fun." "MOVING EYE" The baby flounder starts life with eyes on opposite sides of its head, just as any other fish. As it matures and flattens, one eve ? lowly grows toward the other un to "Yes, I'm all right just dizzy! You'll never know what 'homespun' means till you have three children and it rains a solid week!" Brown Blasts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican Sen. William Know- land is "without understanding or sympathy for working people," says his Democratic opponent, Atty. Gen. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown. Both are seeking the nomination for governor. Friday Brown took his Re publican opponent's voting record to task before a convention of the Post Office Workers Union in Long Beach. He called Knowland's record in the Senate on pay increase pro posals for federal employes "hard ana negative. He added: If you will examine the sen ator's voting record, you will find it is without understanding or sympathy for working people. lie has opposed the great pre ponderance of health and welfare measures and almost any other humanitarian progress. The sen ator's approach to government is lone-wolf operation and he FURNITURE STORAGE the PALLET VAULT WAY msmi nv. "' j-t-j.i 1 1 1 EF0RE It is in keeping with our policy to give the people of the MIDLAND EMPIRE the VERY BEST in Moving and Storage Service that we have added this Modern PALLET VAULT Method of Furni ture Storing. We invite you to come in and inspect our Storage facilities and this Modern Method of handling your possessions. We also wish to express our ttaahs U eur Many friends and customers in Klamath for tWsr p4roa age thru the years "Since 1918.". Sincerely, PEOPLE'S WAREHOUSE Warren Bcnnet, Owner ,9,8 PHIPH Bill Knowland the only one whom it seems to provide for." Knowland, back in the state for the windup of his campaign, Sat urday attended services at San Francisco's St. Mary's Square as guest of the American Legion He made no talk. QUITS CRIME LA PUENTE, Calif. (UPI) -A young "bubble gum bandit," his soul filled with remorse, has de termined to "go straight" for the rest of his life. The 11-year-old "bandit" was seized as he strolled out of a market Friday with five cents worth ot bubble gum. "Something just came over me," he said. ADVERTISING PLUM JACKSON, Wyo. Ifl A Jackson plumbing shop's advertisment in the Jackson Hole Guide read: "Sink Backed Up? Toilet Clogged? Call us. We'll gladly sit with you while your husband fixes it." Li 4 fj L " 1 "f ' ? wit , JLfiX M Awiii 1 1 Jn lama YOU STORE... Pomp, Pageantry End; War Heroes Laid To Rest ARLINGTON, Va. (AP)-With pomp and pageantry ended, the Unknown warriors of World War II and Korea were at rest today on a hill overlooking the capital of the nation for which they died. Under yesterdav's warm sun. the two Unknowns representing all the nameless dead of the most recent wars were brought to the tomb where for almost 37 years the Unknown Soldier of World War I has slept alone. There were marching troops. the subdued music of bands, artil lery salutes and a fly-over of lets. Prayers were said and the Presi dent of the United States be stowed Medals of Honor on the two nameless Americans. An estimated 115,000 persons lined the route of the funeral pro cession. Thousands more packed the amphitheater at the Arlington National Cemetery and stood in tribute as the twin bronze caskets were placed above open crypts. But at dusk Friday night there was the final, lonely act of the dra ma that opened weeks ago when se lection ot the Unknowns began across the seas In the gloaming, the two were buried. Only a few remained of the thousands who had thronged the cemetery during , the formal services. As the lights of Washington twinkled on across the Potomac, the nine body bearers filed onto the plaza and drew to attention Behind them 'stood perhaps half a hundred spectators. The superintendent of the na tional cemetery and his assistant stepped forward. Each unfastened chains restraining the caskets. In the dying light, the two bronze coffins sank slowly into the crypts. In silence, the uniformed body bearers stood at hand salute, the two civilian officials each placed his hand over his heart. At a low spoken command, the file of bearers turned. Their heels clacked in unison on the stone floor. The few onlookers drifted away down the darkened drives A few hours earlier, the day long ceremonies reached their cli max when President Eisenhower conferred Medals of Honor on the dead. Eisenhower made the awards in a few simple but meaningful words: MOVING LOCAL . . . LONG DISTANCE ' STORING o PACKING o CRATING AGENTS NATION-WIDE Phone TU 4-7425 or 4-7496 1425 So. 6th Street . V J . .4 t ZJ' ! - t i Y "fiA fjt ; T' I' ?jl On behalf of a grateful people I now present Medals of Honor to these two Unknowns who gave their lives for the United States of America.' He turned to face the two cas kets. First on one, then on the other, he placed pillows bearing the medals with star-flecked rib bons of blue. Seated belore the dais, among the almost 4.000 in the amphi theater,' were 216 men who them selves had won the coveted medal. Among the invited guests, too were the mothers of men who had died in the three wars. Among them were mothers whose sons like these men lost their lives and their identities. For these mothers, as for the Medal of Honor winners, there was poignancy in this day. Also there to pay tribute to these men and the thousands they represented were high government officials, members of Congress and the Supreme Court. diplomats and many average Americans. The cortege started in early aft ernoon from the Capitol, where the Unknowns had lain in state for two days. The two coffins rode on caissons draped in black vel vet, bach caisson was drawn by team of six matched gray horses. Along the 44 mile route to the cemetery, the cortege moved past spectators and an honor cordon of 2,000 members of all the armed services. The honor cordon was spaced five paces apart from the Capitol to Arlington. In line of march were 1,500 troops? From the grounds of the Washington Monument, artillery roared at one minute intervals. As the procession approached the cemetery gates, 20 jet fighters and bombers screamed overhead in salute. All the services shared in the ceremonies because the Unknowns could have died1 in the uniform of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps or the Coast Guard. At the amphitheater, military chaplains of the Catholic, Protest ant and Jewish- faiths offered prayers for the peaceful' repose ot tnese Honored dead. And when it was all over, only the guard remained to keep his solitary vigil. mi H SEE WHERE YOU STORE vn (imiinintit "She's a smart just when to Profile Of Admiral Picked To Command WASHINGTON (AP)-A serious and thorough officer, a stickler for detail, a hard taskmaster over himself as well as his subordi natesthat is Adm. Harry D. Felt as his associates sco him. He is the officer picked by President Eisenhower this week to take over Aug. 1 as command er in chief of U. S. forces in the Pacific. 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