SUNDAY. JUNE 1. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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. He has been vice chief of
naval operations for nearly two
years.
felt, 55, replaces Adm. Felix
Stump.
aught of build and medium in
height, he has kept most of his
chestnut brown hair. He uses
glasses only (or reading fine print
ina walks with a spring in his
step.
Devoted to his career, he has
no known outside hobbies except
lor a little ushing, preferably by
tne deep sea variety.
rclt was making his way in the
Navy at about average speed un
til World War II broke out. An
aviator, he got his chance early in
the conflict as an air group com
mander, ne was on board the old
carrier Saratoga when that vet
eran of the seas took part in the
first U. S. offensive action of the
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