EVENING- PRESS NEWS 
18 JULY 1938 
CORRIGAN 
Mitchell Yield 
Howard Hughes had little to say today about the sonsatiojal 
Trans- Atlantic flight made oy young Douglas ^oirxgan. Hugh . 
was asked what he thought of the Corrigan flight. d r °iowly 
tho world flyer gazed at the sky a moment and then said slowly, . 
'•Well it certainly was very renarxable. 
Dublin 
wilde st^Trans- Atlantic flights on record. ^rigan's 4 ® 0 h ° Ur “ 4 
i : aidonnci e iirport° r Eubl in, 1 eclipsed all existing records in 
™“rsf IS entire flight was something to make experienced 
qiated- piano with only 320 gallons of gas ^ d s ^®® n i | a ^mself 
m nil % vron torn from an atlas ana unbounded faith m himsoii 
c almly ' taking ff^fJorn Now York and flying to Dublin, as matter 
of fact, as tho average pilot maxces a 100 mile r ip . 
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p.™..- ~ nT1 however insists the whole flight was a mistake. The 
red headed flier may have -a twinkle in his eye and his tongue m 
if, Shoe? when he says it, but it's his story and he's sticking 
his cheek l adjusted my compass wrong. Hero 
fthoughf 7 ! was 'flying to Los Angeles and I lan^up in Ireland. 
I flew above the clouds all the way. Aon , h x c ^e 
I said to myself, ’I must be over Los -ng^leo. Then I 
down and I found myself ovor water. Then I ^ the coas. an 
I picked out the largest city I oould iind. ^ 
was surprised ;,when I found out I was in ^ ‘ , s ^ Dahiin. 
was surprised, he had nothing on airp - '■* 
to arrest for having entered 
flying permits. Actually, 
young California over to the 
Technically, Corrigan was liaole 
tho country without passports or 
tho Irish authorities turned tho u n , u .a. j- n 
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immediate plans are unoortain. On thing was made certain 
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Corrigan proraiscS not to try to fly tee a b ° 
Hollywood 
Tf . . 0 ,. 011 vp-rr old Rolls Gourvitch does any parachute Tt 
wfn S ove? tk collectiwo bodies of tho Department of Commerce 
and the Warner Brothers, tired o„ tu.i , a ° tnko-a 
told her, little Miss Gourvitch announced sue would n 
parachute jump at Union Air Terroina o c '^* p rGS g agent! They 
and Ruth Gourvitch were willing. So w ^s her pro & 
mnHp arrangements v^ith Jog Lewis, stunt fli^i , t L -1 ^ 
But when R^lla arrived the airport management the Department^ 
of Commerce , and Warner pothers tu io hcfd o p. • Secondly 
of all Lewis had no pormt to f^Lio JeSescntative said, 
Rolla had no permit to jump. h. siuaio repi + u rjV , v0 cot 
they think Rolla Is going to make the . jurap they va go ^ 
another think coming.” Rolla is playing in 'Devil Island 
with Boris Karloff. 
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