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Incentive. Gum King Philip K. Wrigley, tired of losing money on his Santa Catalina Island resort (it has showed a profit only twice in 29 years and is losing $750,000 this year), began to lease a Catalina hotel and some bungalows to employees. Said Wrigley: "A manager with a lease . . . will work a little harder . . . and doesn't need as many assistants...
Twelve-Day Search. Weak from short rations and exertion, chilled by near-freezing rain, they fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
Their quarry was a Catalina flying boat of Cathay Pacific Airways which made a regular run between Portuguese Macao and British Hong Kong...
...Catalina skimmed above the calm waters and set its course for Hong Kong. Below, off Nine Islands, a scattered fleet of fishing junks spread their lugsails against the sky. Chiu Tok moved forward, ordered Senior Pilot Cramer to surrender the controls to him. One of the passengers rose to interfere. The pirates shot him. Co-Pilot McDuff grabbed an iron flag bar and swung on Chiu Tok. In a panic, the pirates fired wildly at the two pilots. Cramer slumped dead over the controls. As screaming passengers spilled into the aisle, the plane came around in a wide circle...
Since the Catalina flew the British flag, Wong Yu will be tried in Hong Kong. Since piracy laws don't yet cover air piracy, he will probably be charged with simple murder...