Stowaway

In 1929, Arthur Schreiber got across the Atlantic as a stowaway on a French stunt flight from Old Orchard, Me. to Spain. But on commercial airlines the close watch kept on planes at airports makes unauthorized free rides next to impossible. One night last week in Indianapolis, 23-year-old John Henry Hagaman, after bumming his way by hitchhiking and rod-riding over most of North America, thought he would try his luck by air. His mother was in flood-stricken Van Nuys, Calif, and he wanted to get home in a hurry. Slipping aboard a T. W. A. transport during a routine, 20-minute halt, he locked himself in the toilet. Aloft a few minutes later, the disheveled young man appeared before 17 startled passengers. He was allowed to finish his ride in one of four unoccupied seats. At the next stopping place he was escorted off airport property and released. Only rub was that Flyer Hagaman, in the excitement of his adventure, boarded an eastbound plane, found himself in Dayton, Ohio, 150 miles farther away from home.

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