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Would other Embassies follow the British and go Dry? It seemed unlikely, though guests recalled that Jose de Horta Machado da Franca, Visconde d'Alte, the Portuguese Minister, was no server of "intoxicating beverages" at his entertainments, and that Chilean Ambassador Carlos Davila, after giving a dry dinner to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, recently had queried his Government on the wisdom of cutting off its embassy's liquor supply, not to accord with U. S. Prohibition, but with a new temperance movement in Chile...
Frank T. Courtney, British trans-Atlantic flight aspirant, had enough cause for perturbation; must have felt bedeviled. His 1,500-foot forced dive occurred at about 2:15 a. m., 750 miles northwest of Horta, happy starting point in the Azores. He and his companions waited during 15 minutes of flames for an explosion that never came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position...
...Horta, island harbor of the Azores, pilots Elder & Haldeman were welcomed by the entire population (about 3,000). Mrs. George W. Mackey, wife of Western Union Traffic Manager Mackey, lent Miss Elder an evening gown for a reception in her honor. Said the guest: "I have nothing to wear but the clothes on my back but I hope some kind friend will rig me out." Later, she replied "indeed not" when asked if she were too tired to dance. She declined, however, to accompany Friederich Loose, Karl Loewe & Fraulein Dillenz (Viennese actress) on their flight by easy stages from...
Jutting out in the Atlantic about a third of the way from Lisbon to Philadelphia, are the Azores Islands. Chief of them is Fayal, where the little stone houses of Horta-toy houses of pure pink, blue, yellow and white-rim the smooth-curved harbor. . . . One day last week the volcanic crust of the earth subsided under Fayal. Some 1,500 of the little stone houses of Horta trembled, crumbled, fell down. A tidal wave washed in to paw their ruins...
Confused despatches put the death toll between 10 and 50. Some 400 were injured. Bubonic plague appeared, killing two. The balance of Horta's 8000 inhabitants moved to the country or set up tents on their tennis courts. "Earthquake love" spread everywhere-the human sympathy and mercy that is always stirred up by great disaster. Portugal, whose possessions the Azores are, rushed portable houses and more tents to the scene. None of the various trans-Atlantic cables for which the Azores are a station were broken...