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....
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