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Post #712927 by arriano on Thu, Apr 3, 2014 8:43 AM

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On 2014-03-07 20:02, TikiTacky wrote:
Donn claimed when he was 19 he found himself with $40,000 in his pocket from his dad's oil business and his mom's boarding house (where he worked). He says he sailed around the world twice with that money. He worked as a supercargo on his dad's cousin's 120 ft yacht, where he went to Fiji, PNG, Tahiti, Hawaii, Australia, etc.

Thanks for that info. So the timeline would be:

1928 - Has $40,000 and travels around the world (twice), including tours of South Pacific
1930 - Working as a farmhand in Henderson County, Texas
1934 - Opens a bar in Hollywood, California

Not impossible, but seems suspicious to me.