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That cruise started in March 1937 when the Bakers christened their American-designed, Chinese-built schooner So Fong (which they were told meant "everything beautiful in woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...
...Juan, Puerto Rico, his first U. S. port of call. Skipper Baker found that he had to register his Oriental So Fong, pay $2,200 duty before continuing on the last leg of his dream-come-true voyage...
...press in Paris for forging automobile licenses. They operated a number of fences for stolen goods. They were embroiled in white slavery and drug peddling. Then came the first suspicion of murder. One of Mariani's dope peddlers was a mysterious Chinese known to the citizens of Lille as Fong Wang Dong. He died, apparently of tuberculosis, a few days before Mariani's arrest, blurting out at the end: "Mariani got me, but I shall be avenged...
Hardly had the French public finished reading resumes of this strange document when the Case of Paul Mariani, "the second Stavisky," and the mysterious death of Fong Wang Dong burst all over the nation's headlines...
Over Brooklyn. Longtime partners in a Manhattan chop-suey restaurant were Edmund On Wong and Fong Tru Shek. Inseparable, they prospered together, became air-minded, bought a joint interest in an Avro Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back...