MORNING PRESS NEWS 
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NATIONAL NEWS (Continued) 
FLASH! l BULLETIN - NEW YORK: 
All ships are cautioned to be on the lookout today for a 
silver monoplane bearing the license number NX- 9243. The 
hJ S H P i l0ted b h y iator Douglas Corrigan and was believed 
. beaded across the Atlantic on a flight to Europe. 
orrigan left Floyd Bennet Field this morning in a 1929 
plane and headed out to sea. He has not been reported 
since, * 
w?thoS+ n +-J leW -? iS ^ C ^ rtis Robin 'monoplane across the continent 
without the aid of instruments, with the exception of a 
o lar watch for a chronometer. He used, a cheap map to plot 
his course. Corrigan turned the ancient Curtis monoplane 
eastward after he cleared the runway and the land crew waited 
i or him to turn, but Corrigan did not change his course. He 
flew straight forward, over the horizon, and out of sight. 
Later it was learned that last year Corrigan applied 'to the 
Commerce Department for permission to fly the Atlantic. The 
Department refused him a permit, saying that the flight would 
be suicidal. Officials of the Floyd Bennet Field learned that 
xie ad flown 'non-stop across the continent from Long Beach. 
He covered 2,700 miles in a little less than 28 hours. 
The young flyer’s transcontinental flight in the old plane 
startled. the aviation world. Corrigan appeared at Floyd 
Bennet Field just after midnight last night. He had his 
ip fueled with 320 gallons of gasoline and sixteen gallons 
o oil, enough for 40 hours in the air. Corrigan warmed the 
plane s single motor and prepared to take off by moonlight. 
e manager of the airport refused Corrigan permission to 
start his flight before dawn. The Californian protested 
vehemently but was kept at the field until 5:17 A M East- 
ern Summer Time, Then he headed down the runway in his 
heavily loaded ship. 
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Corrigan is flying to Europe, he will be just a few hours 
short of a week from the time that Howard Hughes and his 
companions took off from Floyd Bennet Field in their 
#6uu ,000 .00 Lockheed monoplane to crack all records for the 
globe encircling flight. 
Corrigan will face arrest and cancellation of his pilot’s 
license should he land across the Atlantic. He had permission 
iromthe Commerce Department for a round trip flight from Long 
Beach to New York and that was all. 
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Belle font, Pa«; 
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The”Good Friday Bomber”, Michael Fugman, spent his last day 
on earth. calmly as he waited in a death cell at Rockview 
Penitentiary for his turn in the electric chair. Fugman 
was convicted of the Good Friday bombings of 1936. His 
cigar box bombs were wrapped as gift packages and sent to 
six persons in the Hi Ikes Barre area. The bombs took the 
lives of three persons, a former mine union leader, his 
young son , and an elderly neighbor of Fugman* s« The former 
German soldier will die shortly after midnight unless Gov- 
ernor Earle stays the execution. 
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