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...Porto Rico. The storm's first major victim was Porto Rico, which it left torn and disrupted. The island has a population of 1,400,000. It was estimated that at least half of this number were left homeless. Chaos prevented a complete count of the dead, but early reports from nine towns indicated that 263 were known to have perished. In San Juan, the principal city, 300 chattering consumptives were forced into the open. Seventy lepers, the roofs of their colony blown away, were gingerly herded into an administration building...
...timorous. They sought shelter. The gale struck 80 miles of Florida coast between Jupiter Inlet and Miami, a region which includes Palm Beach. Reports from this area were fragmentary, telephone and telegraph service was interrupted. But it seemed that the hurricane had diminished in violence during its passage from Porto Rico. Nineteen, at last report, were dead on the East coast of Florida. President Coolidge, alarmed, called on nation and Red Cross for help...
Relief. The Red Cross concentrated its national organization. Henry M. Baker, National Director of Disaster Relief, hurried to Porto Rico on a destroyer. Public subscriptions were begged from the nation by radio, press and pulpit. Preparations were made to purchase tons of supplies for shipment to the Caribbean. In Florida, Nominee Robinson of the Democracy interrupted his campaigning to aid in relief...
More and more turbulent grew Philadelphia's liquor ring investigation (TIME, Sept. 17). The city's bootleggers, finding the local distilling plants padlocked were not downhearted. They ordered shipments of alcohol from Porto Rico via New York. These goods were seized, however...
...sure TIME isn't prejudiced against Porto Rico. TIME is too open-minded to be biased against any nationality. "Viva Puerto Rico y los portoriquenos...