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When Dick went down to his motor this morning he found that the side car had been opened, and several things taken. His machete, Coleman Lamp, flashlight, knife, dark glasses and goggles. Mr Bailey, the garage man [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] who was doing his repairs, told him to report to the police and they would put a detective on the trail. The plain clothes man came out and talked to us, and so far that is all that has taken place

When we arrived in San Juan our watches were put 35 minutes ahead of Santo Domingo. In checking with the radio, on Eastern Standard time, it seems we are an hour ahead of N.Y. time (e.g. 9 there 10 here)

This summer [[strikethrough]] while down here [[/strikethrough]] there have been two hurricanes which did considerable damage. The first, when we were in Haiti swept up the Florida Keys and completely wiped out a vetran's camp - killing (mostly by drowning) some 200 or more men. This was 

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the most severe. The second, passed to the south of Puerto Rico on Sept 23-25 travelling N.N.W. It did most of its damage on Great Abaco island in the Bahama Group. [[insertion]] also passed over Cuba and Jamaica [[/insertion]] This time 20 people were killed and 60% of all the buildings were demolished. It did some minor damage as far south as Jamaica where the banana crop was hurt - not seriously. When a hurricane is even several hundred miles away the surrounding islands are deluged with torrential rains. In the last hurricane we had several days of unusual rains.  The people in these parts have a saying about hurricanes 
"June - too soon
July - stand bye 
August - Come it must
September - remember
October - all over" 
This dating of hurricane season isn't exactly correct, but it gives a faint idea of what to expect.