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...Macao teahouse, Wong Yu, a babyfaced, 24-year-old farmer and a few of his friends decided to sell their rice paddies and take up piracy. They had $3,000 for expenses, and one of them, Mexican-born Chiu Tok, had learned to fly planes in Manila. Last week, Wong Yu confessed that they had committed the first recorded act of air piracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Pilots & Pirates | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...sultry afternoon last month, the four bought tickets for Hong Kong. Wong sat in the rear of the plane. Chiu Tok chose a seat near the compartment where two pilots, Dale Cramer, an American, and K. S. McDuff, sat at the controls. The pirates looked hungrily at four of their fellow passengers. They were Chinese millionaires who would bring fat ransoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Pilots & Pirates | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Enid, Okla.. H. Young found five of his hens gone, a letter addressed to Lewis Burdick lying in the poultry-pen. He tok! officers that one of the missing hens would fall over in a fit if someone said "Shoo!" The officers went to Lewis Burdick's poultry-pen, said "Shoo!"' A hen fell over in a fit. Burdick was arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 26, 1933 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

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