"Honolulu, Feb. 19.
Although thousands of American boys dream of traveling to the Orient, Shanghai apparently holds no attraction for 16-year-old John Kenneth Rummel, Jr, son of a Shanghai Power Company engineer, for the youth was found today working on a sugar plantation instead of being in Shanghar.
The youth left the President Coolidge secretly on October 25, 1939, at Honolulu. At that time he was en route to Shanghai with his parents. He was discovered today working as a stable boy on the Waimanalo Sugar Plantation, He told the police that "I have been to the Orient before and I do not like it."
His father left a ticket for him to proceed to Shanghai at the Presi dent Lines' office here, but the youth gave no indication that he intends to use it immediately.
Police officials said that they would dispose with the boy according to his father's wishes. They said, however, that they believed Mr. J. K. Rummel had been previously advised by his son that he apparently desired to make his way in the world on his own.
"The son of the Shanghai resident was found to be working under the name of Duncan McCrea. He cares for mules and earns about U.S$2 daily plus his keep.—United Press,
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