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MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938

EXTRA SESSION Death WILL PONDER 3 p= MAJOR POINTS ARE

Governor to Ask $850.000 For Universities, $500.000 For 4-H Building.

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AIDED ALLIES

Dowager Ruler of Rumania

Visited U. S. in Futile Quest for Loan.

KING CAROL AT BEDSIDE

(Entire Cabinet Summoned; |

Won Subjects’ Affection | During War,

@® Corrigan, 31-Year-Old Westerner, Lands in Dublin 28 Hours Out From N. Y., Says He

Thought He Was California Bound.

8-DAY MEETING LIKELY ———— ee SHIP NINE YEARS OLD, COST HIM $900

Democrats to Decide on New Presiding Officer for Upper House.

Craft Not Even as Powerful as Lindbergh's: Two Chocolate Bars His Only Food: ‘Remarkable,’ Hughes’ Comment

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DUBLIN, July 18 (U. P.).—Douglas Corrigan, 31-years old Los Angeles airplane mechanic, flew alone across the Atlantic today in a little old 175-horse power monoplane— and maintained that all the time he thought he was flying to | California instead of Ireland. That was the story he had told when he took the 1929 model up from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York at dawn yesterday. Otherwise they wouldn't have let him start, with no navigating instruments, no emergency equipment, ' no permission for a trans-Atlantic flight, no passport. | And that was the story that he stuck to when he put the old crate down on Baldonnell Airport, just outside Dublin,

Queen Marie mn BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 18 | (U. P).—Dowager Queen Marie of |

DEDICATE CITY Rumania, mother of King Carol II. { died late today after long illness

with what was described as a liver ailment. She was 62 The Queen died at the Sinaia Officials Mark Finish of Prothat final gram. ‘Built for Future,’ could be se 1 nin IN ‘he Gove r rep ted that his Chase Says.

royal palace where she arrived Sun- | day night from a sanitarium near Dresdén, Germany, Marie had had a relapse on the way back from Germany and she | began to sink rapidly shortly after program inciuded hese points 1. Appropriati 000 State In te match an anticipated PWA gt tution building progra

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{ her arrival, Patriarch Miron Cristea, highest dignitary of the Orthodox Church and Premier of Rumania under | King Carol, arrived at Sinaia Palace | during the afternoon and it was un- | derstood that the entire Cabinet was

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de included In 1S to the Legis his message {to both Houses at 1 { tomorrow includes £3500.000 for new 4-H Club Build Ng at the State Fair Grounds £850.000 buildings at the State univer colleges As Indi architects urged that a improvement plan which provided for a mall if Sti office buile 18 acted

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Project ‘Not Dead’

There ares ris ce tiv L1eYe are rumors

IS not dead L. L. Needler, Indiana Farm Bureau legislative director said If the county and township Farm Bureau tax committees are as alert as we think they are, it will be mighty tough going for candidates for the Legislature, at least in rural districts, to make a maneuver during the special session of the Legislature to substitute the State office build ing for property tax relief.” Remaining as a threat to a limited” session was the sentiment of some legislators, both Republican and Democratic, to amend the State Alcoholic Beverag Act now eliminate the “port of entry

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welfare costs are to be appropriated from the $25.000.000 surplus in the State General Fund If the State provides $6,000,000 in | funds, the total building program. including the Federal grants. is expected to amount to $11,000,000. In all cases but the school improvement, 55 per cent of funds are to be provided by the State and 45 per cent by the Federal Government. In the new school building program, which part of a general £2.500,000 expansion plan, division is to be 45 per cent hy Federal Government. 30 hy State and 25 through funds collected schools Resignation of Thurman Gottschalk, Berne, to become State Welfare irector, caused the Senate president pro tem. vacancv. At a! caucus tonight, Democratic Senators are to name a successor. Mentioned prominently for the post are Senator E. Curtis White, Indianapolis, Indiana Board of Agriculture president and caucus chairman during the 1937 session, and Senator Frederick E. Eichorn, Gary.

House Caucus Set

Speaker Edward Stein, Bloomfield. announced that the Democratic House members would caucus at 7:30 p. m. It was reported that Edward Bushman, Ft. Wayne, probably would be named principal door- | keeper of the House to succeed Hallie Myers, State Highway Commis- | sion employee. An assistant clerk also mav be named tonight to succeed John Noonan, Indianapolis, an employee of the State Alcoholic Beverages Commission. A new reading clerk also may be named for the Senale. Harry Templeton, Fairground manager, served in the post at the last session. There are two vacancies caused by (Continued on Page Three)

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ture and will keep nt rank of transit the come Chase Pp told 0 company, City and officials at a dedication mcheon afternoon I'he luncheon was held in the new maintenance building on W. Washmgton St. major link in an $8.000,000 modernization program that was begun in the depth of the depression Officials companies

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municipal many ciies atand after the luncheon inwhat has been called the surface transit system to be {found anywhere. “We have an abiding f he continued growth of IndianapMr. Chase “We have to take care of future growth municipal transit business we say that the population growth a city is but the lengthening shadow of its transit facilities. We'll part to help Indianapolis

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Praises Leadership

C. D. Alexander, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president, told the audience that Indianapolis | business has fared better than most in the recession and praised the Indianapolis Railways Inc. officers and directors for having successfully completed the project “It the leadership that | some of fellow citizens have shown in this remarkable program of rebuil & a city’s transprotation system during a depression—an unheard of undertaking—that the rest of u 1s have special reason today Mr. Alex-

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as citizel or gratinecation ander said. Others who spoke were Governor Fownsend, H. Nathan Swaim, city controller, and Charles Gordon New York City, American Transit Association managing director, Passenger Totals Boom

When Mr. Chase, who had rehabilitated the Gary system, was drafted in 1929 by security holders protective committees, there were about 500 antiquated pieces of rolling stock and miles on end of track and trolley wire needing repair. An all-year average of 166,000 passengers was being carvied daily at the same fare now in force. The speed was about nine miles an hour. Today some 400 new units can'y an all-year average of 212,000 passengers daily at an average speed of from 11 to 13 miles an hour from terminal to terminal In the interim, wages of company employees have been increased. and

| the company now pavs all its oper- | ating

expenses and debts from earnings

is retiring

ciated It was estimated at the beginning |

that the rehbailitation program would cost $9,000,000 and require 10 vears. It was completed in six vears at a cost of $8,000,000. Mr. Chase's first step was to reorganize the company, and to write down the capitalization from $19.000,000 to $8,000,000, reducing the (Continued on Page Three)

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being summoned. King Carol, Crown Prince Michael and her eldest daughter, Queen Elizabeth of Greece, were at the Queen's bedside.

United Dynasties

As daughter of the second son of Queen Victoria of England. the

Prince of Coburg, and a daughter of |

Czar Alexander IT of Russia, she

united symbolically the two might- |

lest dynasties of the Europe which she was horn. This symbolism incidentally. she herself realized; hence her heroic

into

and successful efforts years later to |

swing Rumania to the side of the British and Russian Crowns in the World War Her youth, as was customary with European princesses, Marie spent

{ proached 60. Beauty Was Famous

From the majority of royal! and imperial princesses she differed in | tWo respects; she was exceedingly beautiful and highly intelligent, Her

| one rival in beauty was Empress Eli- |

zabeth of Austria, and ligence probably none. Her early successes. unfortunately,

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went to her head and so moulded |

her character that she strove in later years to seize too much power, this to her misfortune. When hardly 17 she was married to Prince (later King) Ferdinand of Rumania, the nuptial ceremony being celebrated at Sigmaringen on Jan, 10, 1893. The outbreak of the World War gave the young queen opportunity to cement the affections of her subjects so strongly that nothing thereafter could blast them. As the war drums began to roll Marie threw herself into the thick of things. She was born in England, She was determined that Rumania should join the Allies instead of the Central Powers; and she gave the politicians in whose hands the fate of Rumania rested, much {rouble until Rumania had Jointed hands with Britain and Russia. Though good for Rumania in the long run, this decision was costly during the war vears. In the hospitais Q ween Marie labored with almost sacrificial fanaticism. She performed more menial tasks probably then any other queen. From these months of labor and sacrifice she emerged as a worldfamous figure.

Controlled Cabinet

The war won, Marie turned her energies to affairs of government, Ferdinand, never a dominant personality, had grown old. Queen | Marie more or less took the reins of authority into her own hands. She determined that the Bratianu brothers should run the Rumanian Government; and run it they did (Continued on Page Three)

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Plan Urged by F.D. R.

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.) —) President Roosevelt informed the National Health Conference that the nation must evolve a ‘‘coordinated national tion” for the millions of citizens who

lack the means to pay for adequate |

medical care.

In a message read by former As- |

sistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, chairman of the President's Interdepartmental Committee to Co-ordinate Health and Welfare Activities, Mr. Roosevelt said, “nothing is more important to a nation than the health of its people.” He pointed out that remarkable strides have been made in medical science, adding: “But when we see what we know how to do, yet have not done, it is clear there is need for a co-ordinated national program of action. “Such a program necessarily must take account of the fact that mil- | lions of citizens lack the individual | means to pay for adequate medical | care. ... The conference, attended by 200

today |

program of ac-|

| prominent physicians, social scientists and representatives of labor, industry and agriculture, expected to draw a long-range public health program. Miss Roche, in opening the conference, estimated the total cost of

illness and premature death in the 10 billion dollars |

United States annually. “We cannot attack with small change a 10 billion dollar { problem,” she said.

ward a long-time program of health

{services and medical care commen-

surate with need will cost the Government millions, but save the nation billions.”

According to the committee's esti- |

mates, she said, the cost to Federal. | state and local governments for a reasonably adequate program to care for the lowest income groups

| would “reach up to 850 million dol- |

lars a year.” Dr, Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, expressed belief the | conference opened a new era in| pubkiic halth,

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“To carry for- |

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

TVA hearings to open in Knoxi ville today. | LA FOLLETTE to begin “little | steel” strike hearings. COLLECTIVE bargaining periled, NLRB counsel says, REP. LUDLOW demands lynching probe,

‘Personal Issues’

First in Probe

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Julv 18 (U,

IS SUMMONED

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P.) —Harcourt A. Morgan, who suc- |

ceeded Dr Tennessee Valley man will testify this afternoon as the first witness in Congressional investigation of dissension among the TVA directorate, Harcourt Morgan was designated as the first witness when the Committee, with seven of its 10 mems bers present in executive session, voted to approve procedure outlined by Frances Biddle, general counsel of the investigating group. This procedure calls for H. A. Morgan to testify first with an outline of TVA's objectives. Then Dr. Arthur Morgan, who was dismissed | by President Roosevelt after he refused to substantiate charges against his codirectors, will present his case. David E. Lilienthal, “left-wing” member of the original TVA board. will follow Arthur Morgan to stand and reply to his charges. The investigation with all administrative and policy matters of the gigantic Federal power and flood control project. But Mr, Biddle said: “We want to get the personal charges out of the way first.”

Arthur A. Morgan as Authority chair-

Documents Asked

Dr. Morgan had been advised that he would be expected to present documentary evidence of the charges he made against his two codirectors. He had refused to reveal such evi{dence to Mr, Roosevelt even when | the President summoned him to the | White House and demanded it nointblank. Dr. Morgan had accused his codirectors of conducting a campaign of “deceit and misrepresentation.” Dr. Morgan filed a suit in Chan- | cery Court here July 6 challenging | President Roosevelt's authority

[ment at TVA chairman with back pay. | The Congressional Committee, headed by Senator Donahey (D. 0), chairman, had given Dr. Morgan access to TVA records to prepare himself to testify. Six of the 10 committeemen were | present for the first session. ‘hey | were Senator Donahey; Senator | Frazier R. N. D)), Rep. James Mead, | (D. N. Y.) and Rep. Ewing Thomason (D, Tex.). The others were detained at home by political campaigns. | The Committee viewed TVA dams and rural co-operatives using the | Authority's electrical power Saturday, in preparation for the technical phases of the investigation. The TVA, one of the most disputed enterprises of the New Deal, was de- | signed to provide a “yard-stick” {| POwer program for areas accessible | to sources of water power. The Fed- { eral Government constructed dams as part of a flood-control work, and was sustained in the courts in its program of selling power generated

at the dams to communities that |

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‘WARM WEATHER DUE TO CHASE COOL SNAP

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Fair and warmer weather is scheduled to return to Indianapolis tonight or tomorrow after a weekend of showers and moderate temperatures. Yesterday's showers failed to halt family reunions and other outings at city parks, but forced several thousand picnickers to take shelfer in community houses and concession stands, The Weather Bureau reported that a total of .20 inch of rain fell. Yesterday's high temperature was 78, the week-end low being 64, registered early today, =

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to | (fire him and demanding reinstate. |

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Douglas Corrigan

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Kindly Clergyman to Send | Necessary Funds to | Flying Nephew.

LOS ANGELES, July 18 (U. P) ( The Kindly clergyman uncle who | taught Douglas Groce Corrigan about | navigation that led him true to his jcourse to Ireland began worrying { today about how to get money to | his adventurous nephew, “The Lord be blessed,” exclaimed | the Rev. S. Fraser Langford, at news [ of Corrigan's successful solo flight

across the Atlantic in his nine-year-

{old plane. “I had a sneaking hunch all night he was heading for Ireland instead of California. He didn't say a word about it before he left home though, not a word. “And now I'll have to get some money to him somehow, I doubt if he has a dollar on him. He spent all of his money for gasoline appreciate it if Douglas could be told that we'll send him some money." Parents Died in Boyhood

The 31-year-old aviator, whose parents died in his boyhood, had made his home for many years with the Baptist clergyman. It was the Rev. Mr. Langford, flying with his nephew in the ancient plane that cost $900 at a bargain sale seven years ago, who taught the flier the elements of great circle navigation. Corrigan, having only a compass and no radio, apparently relied upon | this to steer him across the ocean to Ireland. | Corrigan, a close-mouthed, tena- | cious fellow who loved to get his hands into greasy machinery, caught the flying bug in his high school davs. He saved his and took flying lessons. In 1927 he worked at the Ryan Aircraft factory at San Diego and helped build the

which Col. Lindbergh flew the Atlantie. Lindbergh undoubtedly doesn't remember the serious-faced youngster who watched the ace inspecting his ship, but Corrigan virtually worshipped Lindbergh. Seven years ago Corrigan accumulated $900 and bought the plane he piloted across the ocean today. Tt was only two years old then, a light | monoplane somewhat similar to Lindbergh's. | He even kept the original paint | design. A few years ago he installed | & new motor—a Wright Whirlwind. DON AMECHE IMPROVED | UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 18 (U. P.).—Don Ameche, American radio and motion picture actor, was recovering at St. Antonius Hospital today from an emergency operation for appendicitis. He was stricken while traveling from London to Berlin and was taken to the hospital. His condition was satisfactory,

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Discipline’ Him —Uncle

‘It's a Great Day for the Irish!" Exclaims U. S. Aviation Director.

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.). Amazed officials of the Air Commerce Bureau said today that Douglas Corrigan, who flew the Atlantic without radio, navigation instruments or permission, may be

put under “gentle discipline” when he returns to the United States. Denis Mulligan, director of the Air Commerce Bureau, startled by Corrigan’s feat in spanning the Atlantic in a dilapidated plane, indicated, however, that the Bureau's

punishment won't be (oo stringent.

“It's a great day in the history of the Irish people and we don't want

to spoil their fun right now by talk- |

ing about punishments,” Mulligan said in his soft Irish brogue.

“Our pat answer for the present |

is that we are taking the case under advisement.”

“Is He All Right?”

Informed that Corrigan had landed safely in Ireland, Mulligan's first question was: “Is he all right?” Informed that he was safe, Mulligan exclaimed: “Fine!” Mulligan said that Corrigan's flight was not authorized and that he had not made formal application

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famous plane “Spirit of St. Louis” in |

for a permit, “knowing if he asked { for it he wouldn't have gotten it.” A few years ago, he said, Corrigan made “certain overtures” concern- | ing permission to fly the Atlantic

but Air Commerce Bureau officials |

discouraged him, “Our problem now is to keep other | youngsters from starting off on the same kind of junkets,” Mulligan said, { The Bureau, he sald, would make | every effort to keep Corrigan from | flying back, Mulligan added, “be- | cause you never can tell what an Irishman will do next.”

Flew Without Passport

Although Corrigan flew to Ireland without the formality of a passport or a visa from the Irish | legation, no difficulties were antiei-

pated for him on this score, of - |

| ficials of the State Department and | the Irish legation said. The matter of his landing in Ireland without a passport, permis- | sion to land or permission to fly a plane over Irish territory, is one for the Irish Free State government to | consider, State Department officials said. The State Department proposes to do nothing about the matter unless the Irish Government | protests, and such action did not

appear likely,

28 hours and 18 minutes later.

SHIP HAS ONLY 2 INSTRUMENTS

Compass and Turn Indicator On Craft; Flier Works for Aircraft Firm.

“I left New York to return to Los Angeles, hut hy an unfortunate mistake 1 set my compass wrong,” he said with a straight face while airport officials and newspapermen crowded around to congratue late him and laugh at his joke, He it now, this nonchalant young Californian, for he had fulfilled a secret ambition to

could jest about

| Ay across the Atlantic and had fin-

| for authorization of the Bureau or | | without notifying Bureau officials. Corrigan, the Bureau said, possesses a regular pilot's license and | | an experimental license, permitting | him to make aviation experiments | within the United States. | Corrigan, 31 years old and an | employee of a Los Angeles aircraft | company, had to make the flight secretly. The Government insist ing that up-to-the minute equipment be used and all precautions | taken on hazardous flights, had refused him permission to fly the Atlantic last year and would have refused again, | Flew From Long Beach But neither the Government nor anyone lese knew what Corrigan was up to. He flew casually to New York | from Long Beach, Cal, on July 10, The New York airport was buzzing with the excitement of preparations | for Howard Hughes’ departure | {around the world. All eyes were on | [ Hughes’ giant new metal mono- | plane, its two 1000 horsepower | motors, and its cabin jam-packed | with the latest navigating and ra- | dio equpement. | Corrigan remarked casually om) (he had just flown in from Cali- | fornia on a vacation jaunt, Still | no interest. Then, equally casually, | he said he had done it in 27 hours | | 50 minutes, without a stop. f People around the airport pricked | | up their ears then Manufacturers asked him to endcrse their products. He said it was nothing; he | just had wanted to have a look at | [New York on his vacation, Last Saturday afternoon Corrigan | | went back to the New York Airport, and loaded his plane with 320 gallons of gasoline. He had extra tanks built so high in the cabin that he couldn't see out of the plane except by banking it. The only instruments were a compass and a turn-and-bank indicator. His provisions were a couple of chocolate bars.

Flies Into Rising Sun

He took a nap on a cot in a hangar, got up at midnight and announced he intended to take off for California at 2 a. m, Sunday. The manager made him wait until dawn, asserting that the little plane was too heavily loaded to take off in the dark. | As soon as the first streaks of | dawn lightened the eastern sky, | Corrigan taxied the old ship out on | Floyd Bennett Field's 4200-foot | (runway. It took him nearly 3000 feet to get it off the ground. | "He flew straight northeastward— | | toward the rising sun and Europe. | Watchers at the airport waited | for him to make a slow circle to- | | ward the west. But he kept on going northeastward. No one heard or saw anything | more of him for 27 hours, until he landed in Ireland. |

| | ‘Made Up Mind in Air, |

| ps . Friend Believes

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HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., July 18 (U.| | P.)—~Douglas Corrigan may have | decided to fly the Atlantic after his |

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| had a couple of chocolate bars.

one of the most amazing flights in the history of aviation He did it in that old ship and motor on which he had lavished hours of attention. He had 320 gal lons of gasoline that cost him just about all the money he had. He And he had a burning desire to follow the trail blazed across the Atlantic by his hero—Lindbergh.

Plane Smaller Than Lindbergh's

His plane wasn’t even as powerful as the one Lindbergh flew alone to Paris 11 years ago. It looked like a baby carriage beside the sleek big 1938 machine in which Howard

Hughes roared across the same Ate lantic just a week ago and then on

| around the world.

None of that bothered the young man from Los Angeles. The only thing that worried him was to get, away from New York without the Government stopping what it would have considered a crazy, suicidal venture. So when he flew away from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York at dawn Sunday he told them that he was just going to fly back to California,

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N, Y., July “18 (U, P.).—~Howard Hughes said today that Douglas Corrie gan's flight was ‘very remarke able.” The Texas millionaire, who flew around the world in little more than three times the number of hours it took Corrigan to pilot his nine-year-old “crate” to Ireland, learned of the Californian’s feat when he came here to inspect an airplane. The flier, dressed in his shirt sleeves, plucked off the now famous brown hat which accome panied him around the world, scratched his head and gazed at the sky for almost half a minute before commenting. “It’s very remarkable,” he said, speaking slowly and accenting the “very.”

It was 3:47 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) Sunday when he lifted the old crate off the ground in New York and, instead’ of turning west, pointed her straight northeastward and kept going.

‘Just Flown From New York’

Airport attendants in New York thought at first that they merely had lost him in the easterly haze and that he would make a wide turn to the west. As the hours passed and no word came, they be= gan to suspect the truth—and to worry. Then this afternoon, the Royal British Air force reported that a monoplane apparently marked with American registration numbers had flown over Newtonards, nine miles east of Belfast, Ireland, a little after 1 p. m, (6 a. m. Indianapolis Time). He landed at Baldonell Airdrome, just outside Dublin, climbed out of the cramped cabin of the old Curtiss Robin plane, and announced casually: “I've just flown from New York.”

Officials Doubtful at First

The airport officials wouldn't bee= lieve it at first, But they soon checked the registration and were convinced that they had been the reception committee for perhaps

| airplane was in the air, his close | the most amazing jaunt in the Lise | aviator friend, Steve Reich, said | tory of ocean flying. today. | Lindbergh and Wiley Post and | “Nobody knew about the ocean | Amelia Earhart had flown the North | hop,” Reich said. “I don’t think he Atlantic on solo flights before him. did himself. It's my idea that he | But even thought they did it years decided to do it as he took off.” before him, they had better planes, Corrigan dined at the Reich home | better equipment than Corrigan had Saturday and, according to Reich, | today. They had ships notified and “said nothing about going across | on the alert to help them if need be. the Atlantic.” (Continued on Page Three)